Did you know?

Gypsy

Robert Browing fell in love with Elizabeth Barrett before he even met her.

When he met her was basicly an invalid and a recluse.

She was six years older then him.

They met in secert because her father fobade any of his children to marry. He disinherted all that did marry.

Elizabeth health inprove because of Browning encourement and his love for her.

They enloped to Itlay and live there happly ever after.

Well until Elizabeth death, it said that she died in his arm ... When I first read that I found it romantic but then realise that it had to very hard on Robert.


I did a term paper on Robert Browing stumble across their love story and fell for it hard.

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peppercorn

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springstein's 'Born in the USA.'

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

The first product Motorola developed was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. One should carry a stout pole while travelling in quicksand country...when placed under one's back, it helps one to float out of the quicksand.

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. (Mmm, diet food.)

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ravenquill

My bowser takes me to some strange places...

There is no evidence that the knights of the Crusades ever locked their wives in chasity belts. Most historians agree that women bought and wore chasity belts to prevent rape. They kept the key all to themselves.

A common form of birth control practiced in the 1800's was a square of greased cloth which substituted for a diaphragm. After sex it was removed and the lady douched with...wait for it...Coca Cola. The "nickle" size bottle was uncapped, shaken with a finger over the mouth, and inserted.

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Gypsy

Oh my gosh what people do to not get pregnante!!!!

Here are some more interesting ways they tried not to get in the family way!

A French cave painting from 10,000 B.C. shows a man wearing a condom during intercourse.


Egyptian women inserted the tips of an acacia shrub (plus dates, cotton, and honey). Body temperature fermented it into an ingredient now found in spermicides.


A brew of alcohol and dried beaver testicle was used to prevent pregnancy during the 1700s.


During WWII, a British company made cervical caps from rubber originally destined for hotel flooring.


Women in Constantinople reportedly used a sponge dipped in lemon juice as a form of birth control.

Some of thses are just down right scary!

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peppercorn

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than one hundred years before either moon was discovered.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

The original Winnie the Pooh was a real live bear found outside of Winnipeg, Canada, hence the name Winnie.

Escalator is one of many words that were originally trademarks but have become ordinary words found in dictionaries. Some other words which were originally trademarks and have now passed into common use are aspirin, autoharp, band-aids, breathalyzer, cellophane, Coke (in some areas, at least), corn flakes, cube steak, ditto, dry ice, dumpster, formica, Frisbee, granola, gunk, jeep, kerosene, Kleenex, mace, nylon, ping-pong (also an onomatopoeia), popsicle, Q-tip, rollerblade, rolodex, Scotch tape, sheetrock, spandex, styrofoam, tabloid, thermos, trampoline, yo-yo, xerox, and zipper.

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