You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

When I was a kid growing up in some apartments there was a guy with a CJ7 that mentored us. His pretty wife(and she was a cutie) bought a brand new Trans Am('74 or '75, not an SD) that looked exactly like that one. I've had many a T/A and Jeep since then. I have a CJ8 at the moment.

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We owe a debt of gratitude to Washington Irving, the author more widely remembered for giving the world “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” for concocting a better way for Santa to deliver presents than slipping through a window. It was in Irving’s satirical short story from 1812, called “Knickerbocker’s History of New York,” where Saint Nick is first described as “rattl[ing] down the chimney” to “bring his yearly presents to children.”

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Santa gets billions of letters every year from children all over the world, but if you thought most of them were coming from the United States, you would be wrong. The country sending the most paper mail to Santa every holiday season, according to statistical data, is none other than France. That’s right, French boys and girls are sending a staggering 1.7 million letters to Jolly Old Saint Nick, compared to 1.35 million from Canada and just over a million letters from the United States.

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Before you get sad that Iceland never gets a visit from St. Nick, they actually may have it better than the rest of us. Instead of Santa Claus, they have 13 “Yule Lads,” who are like mischievous mini-versions of Santa, with names like Bowl Licker, Sausage Swiper, Pot Scraper, and Spoon Licker. One of them visits Icelandic children every day between Dec. 11 and Jan. 6, leaving gifts in their shoes (assuming they’ve been well behaved).

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Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

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Semuc Champey, Guatemala

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The original B-2 aircraft cost was projected to be $737 million per aircraft, but when coupled with maintenance and support, each aircraft was valued at $2.1 billion.

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Because of creeping costs, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the original plan of producing 132 B2 bombers was reduced to 21.

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It's the only acknowledged stealth bomber in the world, and it will continue to be seen (or not) in the skies for decades to come.

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