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left handed people can type faster than right handed people. This is because when the qwerty keyboard was designed to slow down people the majority of whom are right handed, all the most frequently used keys are hit by the left hand!

Finally, after so many years of smudging pages of work written in fountain pen, my left-handedness has a use! :D

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When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red

Similarly, when a woman blushes te inside of her, er, lady garden also reddens.

Also, In Britain it is illegal to refuse to let a pregnant woman relieve herself anywhere she wishes; even in a policeman's hat!

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When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red

Similarly, when a woman blushes te inside of her, er, lady garden also reddens.

Also, In Britain it is illegal to refuse to let a pregnant woman relieve herself anywhere she wishes; even in a policeman's hat!

:lol:

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When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red

Similarly, when a woman blushes te inside of her, er, lady garden also reddens.

Also, In Britain it is illegal to refuse to let a pregnant woman relieve herself anywhere she wishes; even in a policeman's hat!

:lol:

:lol:

I've heard about that, pregnant women peeing wherever they want LOL.

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the world's most powerful jet airliner is the boeing 777-200LR, with each engine being the size of of a typical apartment and generating 55 tonnes of trust (120,000 horsepower) for a total takeoff thrust of 240,000 horsepower.

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More entertainment facts (and all 100% useless :lol:)

The Sound of Music

"Sixteen Going On Seventeen" was shot in the gazebo, one of the last to be done. On the first take, Charmian Carr (Liesl) slipped while leaping across a bench, and fell through a pane of glass. Although she was not badly injured, her ankle was hurt and the scene was later shot with her leg wrapped and makeup covering the bandages

The real Maria von Trapp makes a cameo apperance, she was the elder of the two women in Austrian peasant garb who are in the background as Maria walks through a brick archway during "I Have Confidence"

During the scene with Maria and the Captain at the gazebo, Julie Andrews couldn't stop laughing due to a lighting device that was making, in her words, a "raspberry" every time she leaned in to kiss Plummer. After more than 20 takes, the scene was altered to silhouette the two and to hide Andrews' giggles

Six burly Austrians were hired to pull the heavy car by two ropes while the actors push from behind when the von Trapps are escaping their home in Salzburg

Kym Karath (Gretl) couldn't swim, so the original idea was to get Julie Andrews to catch her when the boat tips up and they all fall in the water. However, during the second take the boat toppled over so that Andrews fell to one side and Karath fell to the other. Heather Menzies had to save her instead. Andrews stated later she felt guilty about this for years

Peggy Wood (Mother Abbess)'s singing was dubbed, as she herself declared that she was too old to handle the vocals

Christopher Plummer intensely disliked working on the film. He's been known to refer to it as "The Sound of Mucus" and likened working with Julie Andrews to "being hit over the head with a big Valentine's Day card, every day." Nontheless, he and Andrews have remained close friends ever since

The movie featured a rare onscreen performance by Marni Nixon, who plays Sister Sophia. The producers weren't sure how Julie Andrews would react to her after Nixon dubbed Audrey Hepburn in a role made famous by Andrews, but when Andrews first met Nixon, she exclaimed, "Marni, I'm a fan of you!" and the producers were relieved

The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas

Other people that were up for Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton's roles in the film included Willie Nelson for the role of Ed Earl Dodd and Barbara Mandrell and Crystal Gayle for the role of Miss Mona

The film went over budget because of the various production problems. Several directors came and went, the script was always being rewritten and Dolly Parton wrote several more songs than were eventually included

Marvin Zindler, on which Melvin P. Thorpe is based, liked the play but didn't like the film. Zindler said that his crusade against the Chicken Ranch has been taken out of context. He wasn't trying to get it closed down because of the prostitution, but because of the Ranch's reported ties to organized crime and other shady business dealings

In terms of box-office "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas" was the most successful movie-musical of the 1980's

Steel Magnolias

Daryl Hannah was originally turned down for the role of Annelle as the director thought that she was too attractive to play the part, she asked if she could come in and read for the part anyway. She arrived at the studio the next day dressed as Annelle and was so unrecognisable that security refused to let her in

Meg Ryan was initially under contract to play Shelby, the Julia Roberts role, but the producers let her out of it to play Sally in When Harry Met Sally...

Dolly Parton and Darryl Hannah studied hair stylists so their scenes where they are doing hair would be real and authentic

After a poor take, director Herbert Ross reprimanded Dolly Parton and asked her if she could act. She replied "No, but it's your job to make me look like I can!"

When Bette Davis saw the off-Broadway play, she thought it would be a great film for her, envisioning herself as Ouiser, Katharine Hepburn as Clairee, and Elizabeth Taylor as Truvy. However, when she contacted the rights holders for the movie adaptation, she found out that they intended to cast much younger actresses

Robert Harling, the man who wrote the play Steel Magnolias in honor of his sister, plays the pastor who performs Shelby's wedding and then again her funeral

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