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If an infinite number of rednecks riding in an infinite number of
pickup trucks fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an
infinite number of highway signs, they will eventually produce
all the world's great literary works in Braille.


Why Yawning Is Contagious:  You yawn to equalize the pressure on
your eardrums.  This pressure change outside your eardrums
unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to
even it out.


Communist China is technologically underdeveloped because they
have no alphabet and therefore cannot use acronyms to communicate
ideas at a faster rate.


The earth may spin faster on its axis due to deforestation.

Just as a figure skater's rate of spin increases when the arms
are brought in close to the body, the cutting of tall trees may
cause our planet to spin dangerously fast.


Birds take off at sunrise.  On the opposite side of the world,
they are landing at sunset.  This causes the earth to spin on its
axis.


The reason hot-rod owners raise the backs of their cars is that
it's easier to go faster when you're always going downhill.


The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant.
If omitted in one place, they turn up in another.  When a
Bostonian "pahks" his "cah," the lost r's migrate southwest,
causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl wells."




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