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Silver said:
3.5 million!
(People attending the Texas State Fair)
My goodness, that is a big number
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I was quite interested in this Texas State Fair, so went to check it out online
Have a look - bigtex.com

Cars, Trucks, Food, Music, Livestock...

It's almost a month long though. No wonder their attendance is high. But they get about 100k visitors per day.

Here's their "map" from 2017:

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Silver said:
I was quite interested in this Texas State Fair, so went to check it out online
Have a look - bigtex.com

Cars, Trucks, Food, Music, Livestock...

It's almost a month long though. No wonder their attendance is high. But they get about 100k visitors per day.

Here's their "map" from 2017:

View attachment 139520
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That is not a venue, it's a small town!

Regards
 
Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
 
The very first bomb dropped by the Allieds on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo....
 

The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste DENYS, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
Would like to know if he survived....?
YES -Thanks ''Wiki'' -He transfused about twelve ounces of sheep blood into a 15-year-old boy, who had been bled with leeches 20 times. The boy survived the transfusion. Denys' experiments with animal blood provoked a heated controversy in France, and in 1670 the procedure was banned. It wasn't until after Karl Landsteiner's discovery of the four blood groups in 1902 that blood transfusions became safe and reliable.
 
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The most played song on American radio during the twentieth century was You've Lost That Loving Feeling which was written by Barry Mann, Phil Spector, and Cynthia Weil. Although recorded by different artists, the song is the only one in history to be played over 8 million times on the radio. That amounts to about 45 years if the song was played back to back! Three songs were played 7 million times: Never My Love, Yesterday, and Stand By Me (in that order).
Source: The BMI Top 100 Songs (BMI)
 
A man named Angus McDonald was a lookout man for an explosives company in Johannesburg, South Africa. One April Fool's Day, he decided to pull the ultimate prank. He put on an oversized uniform and hid his head inside. To the casual passerby, it appeared that his head had been blown off. McDonald's joke blew up in his face, however. The story (and photo) was picked up by the newswires and McDonald was fired from his job.
Source: Weird Wonders and Bizarre Blunders by Brad Schreiber, 1989, Simon & Schuster, p. 43-44.
 
Two hundred and twenty six soldiers lost their lives way back in 1850 when they crossed a suspension bridge that spanned the Maine at Angers, France. It turns out that they were all marching in step and had caused an increased resonance (vibration) to the bridge. Ever since, troops are ordered to rout step (march out of step) when crossing a bridge. Source: Why Some Shoes Squeak by George W. Stimpson
 
Kilroy Was Here
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There are numerous urban myths surrounding the origin of the catch phrase: 'Kilroy was here'.

What happened was that during the 1940's a plague of graffiti appeared on walls all over Europe. If you have a Grandfather or Uncle who lived through World War 2, ask them for their version of the origin of the legendary graffiti: 'Kilroy was here'.

Perhaps the best way to research the history is to go back close to the time when Kilroy emerged. Soon after the war was won, The American Transit Association sponsored a competition to find the original Kilroy. They declared James J. Kilroy of Halifax, Massachusetts as the source of the legend. A useful corroboration comes from the New York Times of December 24th 1946. The paper reports thus:

'During the war he was employed at the Bethlehem Steel Company's Quincy shipyard, inspecting tanks, double bottoms and other parts of warships under construction. To satisfy superiors that he was performing his duties, Mr. Kilroy scribbled in yellow crayon 'Kilroy was here' on inspected work.'

¤ http://www.guy-sports.com
 
In 1771 the first accident involving a motor vehicle took place in Paris when Cugnot, the French inventor's steam tractor hit a low wall in the grounds of the Paris arsenal.
 
  1. Laziness and physical inactivity have killed the same number of people as smoking.
  2. People who sit for over 11 hours daily have a 50% chance that they will die within the next 3 years.... this is a scary one
  3. Right-handed people usually chew food on their right side
  4. The human brain is able to store 5 times as much information as Wikipedi
 
  1. There are at least 6 people who look just like you in the world, and you have a 9% chance to meet one of them in your lifetime.
  2. The Ovum egg is the largest, and the sperm is the smallest cell in the human body.
  3. People who laugh a lot have a much better health than those who don’t.
  4. Sleeping without a pillow lowers back pain and strengthens the spine.
  5. The human brain uses same amount power as 10-watt light bulb.
  6. A person’s height is determined by the father, and their weight by the mother.
 
  1. The human body releases enough heat in 30 minutes to boil 1.5 liters of water.
  2. Our brain cannot resist noticing three things, food, attractive people and danger.
  3. The stomach acid ( HCl) is so powerful that it can dissolve razor blades.
  4. Get rid of the unpleasant odor by placing dry tea bags in the gym bags or smelly shoes.
  5. Albert Einstein claimed that the humankind will be extinct within 4 years if honey bees were to disappear from Earth.
  6. Laughter is the most powerful antidepressant.
 
ARYANTO said:
  1. The human body releases enough heat in 30 minutes to boil 1.5 liters of water.
  2. Our brain cannot resist noticing three things, food, attractive people and danger.
  3. The stomach acid ( HCl) is so powerful that it can dissolve razor blades.
  4. Get rid of the unpleasant odor by placing dry tea bags in the gym bags or smelly shoes.
  5. Albert Einstein claimed that the humankind will be extinct within 4 years if honey bees were to disappear from Earth.
  6. Laughter is the most powerful antidepressant.
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Lol on the first one in that list @ARYANTO
We now need to figure out how we can harness that heat to charge our vaping batteries :cool:
 
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