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Driving Me to Link -- Did You Know?
Jan. 18, 2011 2:54 pm
Did you know the first person to land an airplane on a ship was from Williamsburg, Iowa? Today is Eugene Ely Day. (Above)
The Iowa Senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on saying the Pledge of Allegiance every day. Senators found time to recite it today, even though the Senate was in session for a grand total of 17 minutes.
Did you know explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton left a bunch of Scotch in Antarctica? After 100 years chillin' on ice, some of it is coming back north for testing, but, alas, not for drinking.
Did you know South Americans want whisky in a can? Sort of makes FourLoko seem pretty tame.
Did you know aspirin and coffee are a hangover cure? That's
according to a Thomas Jefferson U. researcher who is actually paid to make rats have hangovers. That's crazier than whisky in a can. This timely scientific breakthrough comes just as
Starbucks is about to start selling a bucket of coffee.
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