1) Sunspot 960 was larger than the earth.
2) The "Max" setting on your car air conditioner does not make the AC work any faster. All it does is turn the fan up higher and recirculate the air in the car, rather than let in the hot, outside air. So don't use it until the interior of your car is cooler than the outside air.
3) Lincoln didn't free the slaves until the middle of the civil war, when it looked like the north might lose. And then he only freed the slaves in the rebel states.
4) If you adjust for inflation, we should abolish the penny and nickel, and have not just a dollar coin but a five dollar coin to approximate the coinage of the 1960's.
5) The songs you buy from iTunes have information about you imbedded in the files.
6) Video compression has improved so much since the DVD was introduced that you can now store nearly 7 hours of reasonably high definition video on one disk, if you know how and if your player has the right CoDec.
7) If you plant cilantro nearby, you won't have tomato worms. And when they bloom, they attract pretty white butterflies.
8) Midland tap water will turn crape myrtle leaves black. You have to water them carefully so you don't splash any above the ground. That's why they're not popular here.
9) Snakes have a subtle but distinct odor, and if you commit that odor to memory, you will know when one is nearby.
10) 45 rpm records were designed for use in juke boxes. Their gyrations (vibrations in the grooves) were wider and louder, and required a long, flexible stylus to be played accurately, but this meant that they didn't wear out as soon. This is why it took US single records longer to be issued in stereo - the vibrations were not side to side in stereo, but moved in a v-shape with a fixed width, and therefore had less potential for volume, and were less suitable for juke boxes.
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