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St. Teresa
  • St. Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of chess-players

tablecloth
  • Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner

Taj Mahal
  • The Taj Mahal in India is perfectly symetrical, except for one thing. The two tombs inside are not equal in size. This is because the male tomb has to be larger than the female tomb
  • The minarets ofthe Taj Mahal in India are angled at 88 degrees outwards so that they would not collapse into the structure should an earthquake occur

tampon
  • Women products like the tampon and bikini were actually invented by men

telephone
  • An average American spends 2 years of her life talking on the phone
  • In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, “Well, are you there?”. It wasn’t until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase “number please?”
  • Half of the people in the world have never recieved or made a telephone call

telescope
  • The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles
  • NASA’s GLAST main telescope weighs 3 tons but uses less than 1/2 the power of a hair dryer

termite
  • The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1
  • A well-established termite colony ~ 60,000 members will eat only about 1/5 of an ounce of wood a day.

tetris
  • Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues

Texas
  • Texas is the only state in the US that allows its residents to vote from space
  • In Texas, you can be legally married by publicly introducing a person as your  husband or wife 3 times
  • Texas is the only state in the USA to maintain a secession clause in their agreement with the federal government.  Texas can declare its independence and become a sovereign nation simply by enacting the provision.
  • Despite what Texans want to believe, the previous fact is false, since the original treaty negotiations (which would have supported a secession clause) were ditched in favor of a more traditional annexation agreement
  • Texans still proudly insist their state is the largest in the Union, even when confronted by Alaska’s massive size.  They justify their claim using the metric, “useful parts of the place accessible by pickup truck.”
  • If you crammed the world’s population of 6.8 billion people (2011) into a single city with the density of new York, that city would roughly be the size of the entire state if Texas

Three stooges, The
  • The three stooges were made up of six men
  • Three of the men were actually brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp)


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