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No Such Thing As A Semen Chest
The person who was supposed to give what they were calling the Gettysburg Address at the time was this great orator and politician, pastor, who was called Edward Everett, and his was two hours long.
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It was 1853 — because he was a lawyer, some people who were setting up a new town brought him in to kind of sign the deeds. They said, would you mind if we named this town after you? That's Lincoln, Illinois, which is…
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Lots of artificial islands in the world. I didn't know about the ones in Bolivia and Peru on Lake Titicaca. They're amazing. I've stayed on them. The reed islands — these are islands made of weeds woven together and…
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It also was gathered by George Washington's troops, supposedly, and boiled into soup at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777. That's a pretty bad winter as well when you're having to persuade yourself that what you're…
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During the sneaker wars of the 1990s, you had Nike versus Reebok — and Reebok had the pump: shoes you could inflate yourself.
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