Reasons

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The Vikings believed that the Northern lights which are seen from time to time in the north sky were caused by the flashing armor and spears of Odin's handmaidens as they rode out to collect warriors slain in battle.

 

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One gift-giving taboo in China is the giving of straw sandals, which are associated with funerals, and therefore considered bad luck.

 

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Crossing one's fingers is a way of secretly making the sign of the Cross. It was started by early Christians to ask for divine assistance without attracting the attention of pagans.

 

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One sign of rain that farmers once searched for was for their pigs to pick up sticks and walk around with them in their mouths.

 

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During the Civil War, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant believed that onions would prevent dysentery and other physical ailments. He reportedly sent the following message via wire to the War Department: "I will not move my army without onions." Within a day, the U.S. government sent three trainloads of onions to the front.

 

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Contrary to popular belief, there are almost no Buddhists in India, nor have there been for about a thousand years.

 

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On the stone temples of Madura in southern India, there are more than 30 million carved images of gods and goddesses.

 

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One superstition says that if a girl leaves her house early on Valentine's Day and the first person she meets is a man, then she will be married within three months.

 

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Less romantic was the old historical opinion that Valentine's Day is a good day to prepare eels for the purposes of magic. Eating an eel's heart was once believed to enable a person to see into the future.

 

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The reason one wears a wedding ring on the third finger is that (tradition says) there is supposed to be a vein which goes directly from that finger to the heart???i.e., the seat of love. Also, not everyone wears that wedding ring on the third finger of the LEFT hand. In some traditions, such as the Jewish one, it is worn on the right hand. Also, I'm given to understand that nuns ("brides of Christ") wear a wedding ring, again on the right hand.

 

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To prevent evil spirits from entering the bodies of their male children, parents dressed them in blue. Blue was chosen because it's the color of the sky and was therefore associated with heavenly spirits.

 

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Girls weren't dressed in blue, apparently because people didn't think that evil spirits would bother with them. Eventually, however, girls did get their own color: pink. Pink was chosen because of an old English legend which said that girls were born inside of pink roses.

 

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The famous Citgo sign near Fenway Park in Boston is maintained not by Citgo, but by Boston's historical society.

 

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What happened o the Whore of babylon?

 

[adrien_j9]

I'm so confused

 

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Crossing one's fingers is a way of secretly making the sign of the Cross. It was started by early Christians to ask for divine assistance without attracting the attention of pagans.

Uh-oh Tier!!! You haven't done this before, have you? That'd make you an unknown Christian!!!

 

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What happened o the Whore of babylon?

BigDyl fu-ked it up by posting 1,000,000 of these...now it's so slow....must be eating up my pathetic 127 Ram

 

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The Average American/Canadian eats about 11.9lbs of cereal per year.

 

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The Average American/Canadian drinks about 600 soda???s per year.

 

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More People use blue toothbrushes then red ones.

 

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mine is blue

 

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According to a 1995 survey, 7 out of 10 British dogs get Christmas gifts from their doting owners.

 

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The average American family views television six hours each day.

 

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About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.

 

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Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in January, February, and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.

 

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Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.

 

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I have been murdered twice

 

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If you earn twenty thousand dollars a year, one minute of your time is worth a little more than seventeen cents.

 

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The US Office of Consumer Affairs estimates 25 percent of ALL purchases result in some customer dissatisfaction. Yet two out of three people never complain because they don't think it'll help. Ironically, most businesses DO try to make good and value the feedback, especially from someone who doesn't make a habit of complaining.

 

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One poll says one American in four has yet to ride in an airplane. As for the three out of four who have, most have flown several times. Incidentally, fewer than two percent have been "bumped" from a commercial flight. And for every person who prefers an aisle seat, there are three who prefer windows.