Thursday, January 31, 2008

Weird Facts: The $400-A-Bottle Beer

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- It will take more than a few bucks to buy this bottle of brew.Carlsberg ASA officials said the brewery's new Vintage No. 1 beer is probably the world's best and most expensive.

The Danish brewer is charging about $400 for a single bottle of less than a pint. Brewmaster Jens Eiken said only 600 bottles of the beer will be made and most will be sold through three of Copenhagen's most exclusive restaurants. He said more than 50 have already been purchased.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Funny Weird Facts

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1. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
2. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
3. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
4. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
5. A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
6. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
7. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
8. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
9. There wasn’t a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
10. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

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Weird Facts: Marijuana Vending Machines to Begin Operating in California

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Vending machines distributing the drug marijuana are to begin operating in the US state of California.

The machines can only be used by people who have been prescribed the drug for health reasons.

Patients will have to provide a prescription, and be fingerprinted and photographed before being allowed to use the facilities.

Eleven US states allow the medicinal use of marijuana, primarily for pain relief, but it remains controversial.

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