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I will be travelling to the US this coming March 4 and I decided to stay in New York to see this magnificent place where I used to see only in the movies or CSI:NY. I didn’t even inform my wife that I will stay for one day for she expects me to arrive in [...]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone [...]

empire state building, top of the rock, liberty island, statue of liberty, staten island ferry, central park with horse drawn carriage, ground zero, rockafella centre – ice skating, times square, big apple greeter, ellis island, bus tours, brooklyn bridge, brooklyn heights, yankee stadium, knicks game, circle line boat trip, crysler building, UN HQ, century 21, [...]

1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The “57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types [...]

yeah

a. Boris Yeltsin
b. Newt Gingrich
c. Yasir Arafat
d Nelson Mandela
e. Bill Clinton
f. Janet Reno
g. Al Gore
h. Benjamin Netanyahu
i. Bill Gates
j. Carol Moseley-Braun
k. Bob Dole
l. Yitzhak Rabin
1. Former Senate Majority Leader who ran for President in 1996
(1 point)
2. Reform-minded former president of Russia (1 point)
3. Anti-apartheid leader in [...]

I know that the 6th season is coming out in May of this year and was just curious how many there were total.

are in the Empire State building?

All of the most impressive buildings in NYC were finished in the early 1930’s (The GE Building, Chrysler, Empire State, Rockefeller..) Was this just funded by roaring 20’s $ that were still available after the crash? Ive been confused about this for a while.

How many months of taxes and home owners insurance do I have to prepay on an impound account on a home loan? The bank is charging me 4 months of prepaid taxes and an additional 6 months of prepaid taxes and 2 months of prepaid homeowners insurance and 1 year prepaid of homeowners insurance. I [...]