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In an age where we have electric everything, we forget that things were not always so easy. This Oregon woman thought that pedalling her sewing machine was not an efficient use of her energy, so she "devised a plan whereby her sewing machine pedal could be made to do the work of several things at once.

One length of wood was fastened to the machine pedal, for the driving piston. Another length extending over a frame work fulcrum operated the two lengths of wood which served as connecting rods.

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• The universe itself is infinite in size. If you wanted to walk from one end to the other, it would take you nearly two years.
• It is impossible to start a hole in the United States and dig straight through to China because they keep an eye out for that sort of thing. Before you can emerge from your hole you'll be sent scurrying back the way you came with a few smacks on your head from a rolled-up newspaper.
• A flea jumps at 20 times the acceleration rate of a space shuttle during launch, but it cannot survive in space and it lacks any protective shielding to keep it from burning up during re-entry. This is why fleas have a life expectancy of less than two weeks.
• The largest mammal on Earth is the Blue Whale. The most overlooked mammal on Earth is his larger cousin, Eric.

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This guy really knows what he says:



Marvelous :)