If you ever thought of moving to the Nashville area, I’ve found you a house.

Try this one for elite housing! For sale for a mere $38,000,000.00

Even if you don’t like Alan Jackson’s country music you might like his “spread”.

Alan Jackson’s mansion with photos

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Oreo cookies were born in New York City in 1912 when a few bakeries combined to form the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) and opened a factory in the Chelsea Market building on 9th Avenue between 15th and 16th St -now called “Oreo Way.”

The first prototype of the cookie looked like a baseball mound or hill and the assumption is that Oreo’s got their name from the Greek word “oros” which means “mountain or hill” though it could also be from the Greek word “oraio” which means good and beautiful. Makes you think if there was a Greek ad man at Nabisco then.

Examiner

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WD-40 can be found in 4 out of 5 American households, the company claims. Its ingredients are a secret, and it has generated its share of myths and strange applications over the years.

WD-40 does not contain fish oil, contrary to a popular myth, nor does it contain silicone, kerosene, water, wax, graphite, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

And WD-40 won’t cure arthritis, despite another odd myth (Windex, however, cures everything, if you believe the Dad in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”).

It has been put to these uses, the company says: A bus driver in Asia used WD-40 to remove a python, which had coiled itself around the undercarriage of his bus; police officers used WD-40 to remove a naked burglar trapped in an air conditioning vent.

The product has never needed a Billy Mays; as the ShamWow guy might say, WD-40 sells itself.

Live Science

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1. In Bozeman, Montana, a law prohibits all sexual activity from the front yard of a home after sundown.
2. In Salt Lake County, Utah, it’s illegal to walk down the street carrying a violin in a paper bag.
3. In San Francisco, it’s illegal to pile horse manure more than six feet high on a street corner.
4. In Devon, Texas, it is against the law to make furniture while you are nude.
5. In Oklahoma, you can be arrested for making ugly faces at a dog.
6. In California it is illegal for a vehicle without a driver to exceed 60 miles per hour.
7. In Florida men seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown can be fined.
8. In South Carolina it is legal to beat your wife on the court house steps on Sundays.
9. In Tennessee, you are breaking the law if you drive while sleeping…
10. In New York, the penalty for jumping off a building is: Death.
11. In Danville, Pennsylvania, all fire hydrants must be checked one hour before all fires.
12. In Pennsylvania, it’s against the law to tie a dollar bill on a string on the ground and pull it away when someone tries to pick it up.
13. In New York City, it’s illegal for a restaurant to call a sandwich a “corned beef sandwich” if it’s made with white bread and mayonnaise.
14. In California it is illegal to set a mouse trap without a hunting license.
15. In France, it is against the law to sell an “E.T” doll. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces.
16. In Athens, Greece, a driver’s license can be taken away if the driver is thought to be either “poorly dressed” or “unbathed”
17. In Calgary Alberta, there is still a by-law that requires businesses within the city to provide rails for tying up horses.
18. In Wilbur, Washington, it is illegal to ride an ugly horse.
19. In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered “simple assault,” but biting someone with your dentures is “aggravated assault.”
20. In the state of Washington, it is illegal to have sex with a virgin under any circumstances. (Including the wedding night.)
21. In Switzerland, it is illegal for a man to relieve himself while standing up after 10pm.( even with the light on? )
22. In Florida, it is illegal to fart in a public place after 6 P.M. on Thursdays.
23. In Massachusetts, it is illegal to go to bed without first having a bath.
24. In Jidda, Saudi Arabia, women were banned from using hotel swimming pools in 1979.
25. In Samoa, it’s a crime to forget your own wife’s birthday…

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Beer lovers can drink as much as they like without having to fear developing a beer-belly, according to new research.

An eight-year study of more than 20,000 beer drinkers – 7876 men and 12,749 women – found that while heavy drinkers will put on weight, it won’t necessarily be around the beer belly region.

The heaviest drinkers – those who drank more than 6 beers a day – put on the most weight.

But when the researchers then measured hip-to-waist ratios to establish which drinkers developed a pot belly, the results were randomly spread across all drinking groups.

News.com

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