Of the 620,000+ casualties in the US Civil War, approximately 415,000 died from disease or illness.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Macaroni Recipe:
6 eggs. yolks & whites.
2 wine glasses of milk
2 lb of flour
a little salt
work them together without water, and very well.
roll it then with a roller to a paper thickness
cut it into small peices which roll again with the hand into long slips, & then cut them to a proper length.
put them into warm water a quarter of an hour.
drain them.
dress them as maccaroni.
but if they are intended for soups they are to be put in the soup & not into warm water.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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The hum that is present in the delivery of electricity can be used in forensic analysis when authenticating audio recordings.
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A Swedish woman named Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, married the Berlin Wall in 1979. She was very distraught when the wall was torn down in the early 1990’s.
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If you are traveling to England with your horse, donkey or other related animal, make sure you have a Horse Passport for it.
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The longest sniper kill ever recorded was in 2,475 3, 540 meters. It took six ten seconds for the bullet to reach its target.
Update: Thanks to my most excellent readers TOLF and Juiceman, I have updated the post.
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