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Yawning is contagious. Your brain sees the rush of oxygen that other person gets and is jealous, so makes you yawn.
 
If you removed all the empty space from the global population, what is left is roughly the size of a sugar lump (according to some bbc3 science show i watched last week)
 
If you place the ashes of a cremated person in a pan of boiling water and then simmer for ten minutes you will find the individual re-constituted in a range of flavours.
Sausages always taste better on a Sunday morning.
 
Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences

Both presidents were elected to the House of Representatives in '46.
Both presidents were elected to the presidency in '60.
Both presidents were shot on a Friday in the presence of their wives. Both Fridays preceded a major holiday observed within the week.

Both presidents were accompanied by another couple.
The male companion of the other couple was wounded by the assassin.
Both presidents had a son die during their presidency.

Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre; Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in a Lincoln automobile, made by Ford.
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who told him not to go to the theatre; Kennedy had a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln who warned him not to go to Dallas.

After shooting Lincoln, Booth ran from a theatre to a warehouse; after shooting Kennedy, Oswald ran from a warehouse to a theatre.
Both Johnsons were succeeded as President in '69 by Republicans whose mothers were named Hannah.

Both assassins died in the same month as their victim in a state adjacent to the state of their birth.
Both assassins were Southern white males born in the late '30s, who were in their mid-20s.
Both assassins were killed before being tried, by men who were reared in the North, changed their name as adults, and were bachelors.
Both assassins had 15 letters in their name
 
Mr Ed (The Stables) said:
Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences

Both presidents were elected to the House of Representatives in '46.
Both presidents were elected to the presidency in '60.
Both presidents were shot on a Friday in the presence of their wives. Both Fridays preceded a major holiday observed within the week.

Both presidents were accompanied by another couple.
The male companion of the other couple was wounded by the assassin.
Both presidents had a son die during their presidency.

Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre; Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in a Lincoln automobile, made by Ford.
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who told him not to go to the theatre; Kennedy had a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln who warned him not to go to Dallas.

After shooting Lincoln, Booth ran from a theatre to a warehouse; after shooting Kennedy, Oswald ran from a warehouse to a theatre.
Both Johnsons were succeeded as President in '69 by Republicans whose mothers were named Hannah.

Both assassins died in the same month as their victim in a state adjacent to the state of their birth.
Both assassins were Southern white males born in the late '30s, who were in their mid-20s.
Both assassins were killed before being tried, by men who were reared in the North, changed their name as adults, and were bachelors.
Both assassins had 15 letters in their name
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