Longest Posting Streak - Get Your Rainbow On

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An average professional football game lasts 3 hours and 12 minutes, but if you tally up the time when the ball is actually in play, the action amounts to a mere 11 minutes.

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Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide. A block of dry ice has a surface temperature of -109.3 degrees Fahrenheit (-78.5 degrees C). Dry ice also has the very nice feature of sublimation -- as it breaks down, it turns directly into carbon dioxide gas rather than a liquid.

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It all started in 1958 in Wichita USA, when brothers Dan and Frank Carney opened the world's first Pizza Hut restaurant by borrowing $600 from their mum. It was the start of the biggest pizza name in the world, and in 1973, that fantastic pizza came to the UK.

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Unlike the company's Xerography process, however, Xerox had to share the laser printer market. IBM and Canon soon developed competing products. Xerox PARC Scanning Laser Output Terminal (SLOT) Gary Starkweather prototyped the first laser printer by modifying a standard Xerox office copier.

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The name Texas, based on the Caddo word tejas meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas.

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You should use fluoride containing mouthwash AFTER you brush and do not rinse with water afterward. I can see using non-fluoride mouthwash before brushing but the ones that contain fluoride you should do afterwards. If you do use one with fluoride, do not rinse, eat or drink for 30 minutes after swishing.

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And Misao Okawa is the oldest Japanese person ever, having celebrated her 116th birthday in March. (At 122, Jeanne Calment of France, who died in 1997, was by far the oldest person to have ever lived, at least among those with verified credentials.)

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Apollo 11 blasted off on July 16, 1969. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. They landed on the moon in the Lunar Module.

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Dwight Eisenhower later served as US Army Chief of Staff and was elected President of the United States in 1952. Lt. Gen. James Gavin was a noted American airborne commander during World War II.

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The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title "The A.B.C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte".