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         The Lincoln/Kennedy Connection

Although this has been around for years (except the Marilyn Monroe part)
it still fascinates me. Have a history teacher explain this ---- If they can

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln.'

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker.
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

Trivia facts so bizzare, you know they're true.
You can't make this stuff up!
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Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula."

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees)

Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

Some women suffer from a condition that makes them have hundreds of orgasms every day. Researchers named this condition as persistent sexual arousal syndrome. Twelve victims of the rare condition have been documented by Boston University’s Institute of Sexual Medicine.

Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.

If the U.S. government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for US citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

When you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.

If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

In the United States alone, there is a lawsuit every 30 seconds.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

40% of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.

and last but not least…
Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbows
Animals and Insects...

There are 100.000.000 insects to each person in the world!

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the
length of a football field.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Earthworms have 5 hearts.

A hummingbird’s heart beats 615 beats in a minute.

A snail can sleep for three years.

A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Rats and horses can’t vomit.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand or attempted to do so.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

Birds do not sweat, as they do not have sweat glands.

If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die - they need gravity to swallow.

Cat’s urine glows under a black-light.

The smallest monkey in the world is more or less the size of your index finger.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Great White sharks have about 3,000 teeth.

The heart of a whale beats only 9x each minute!

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of owls is called a parliament
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of crows is called a murder.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of officers is called a mess.
Twelve or more cows are known as a flink.

The orgasm of a pig is the biggest in the world. It lasts 30 minutes!

Under Lebanese law, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is expressly forbidden.
I guess you gotta draw the line somewhere . . .
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