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  1. 1. Limba vorbita in Statele Unite ale Americi este engleza, dar (daca va vine sa credeti) America nu are o limba oficiala, iar in acest caz toate autoritatile au fost obligate sa vorbeasca limba engleza.

    2. O lege din Nebraska spune ca nu este permis sa scuipi in vant – este probabil una dintre cele mai ciudate legi.

    3. Guvernul federal al Americii este proprietarul a 32% din pamanul Americii.

    4. Daca va vine sa credeti, in Pennsylvania, barbatul trebuie sa aibe consimtamantul scris al femeii pentru a putea cumpara alcool. Nu-i asa ca e cool? :D

    5. Voua va place pizza? Se pare ca americanilor foarte mult – in medie, americanii consuma 350 de pizza pe secunda.

    6. O alta medie facuta la nivelul Americii ne informeaza ca fiecare american detine 9 carduri de debit/credit, incluzand cardurile de la banca, utilitati, farmacii etc.

    7. New Jersey este cel mai populat stat din America, cu o densitate de 459 pe kilometrul patrat. Statuia libertati este situata in statul New Jersey.

    8. Temperatura maxima atinsa in America a fost de 57 grade Celsius. Aceasta temperatura a fost inregistrata in “Death Valley, California” pe data de 10 iulie 1913. Ma intreb de ce oare ii zice “Death Valley”.

    9. Pe de alta parte, cea mai mica temperatura a fost atinsa in Prospect Creek (Alaska) si a fost de -62 grade Celsius.

    10. Cel mai mare numar de miliardari sunt prezenti in Los Alamos, unde 9.7% dintre rezidenti sunt milionari. Nu va hazardati, sunt sigura ca au sisteme de securitate la case.

  2. Events 

    1131 – Canute Lavard was murdered at Haraldsted, Denmark by his cousin Magnus, which led to the civil war in Denmark (1131–34).

    1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.

    1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.

    1566 – Pope Pius V is elected.

    1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.

    1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.

    1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.

    1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.

    1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.

    1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.

    1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.

    1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".

    1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.

    1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.

    1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote.

    1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London.

    1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.

    1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.

    1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stop and completely destroy the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.

    1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.

    1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.

    1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.

    1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.

    1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.

    1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

    1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.

    1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.

    1979 – Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

    1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.

    1984 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

    1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.

    1991 – Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.

    1992 – The Jeep Grand Cherokee is introduced at the Detroit Auto Show.

    1993 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.

    1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.

    1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.

    2010 – Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.

    2012 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.

    2015 – Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.

    2015 – A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.

  3. Did you knowthere are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo

    Did you knowthe movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor's salaries

    Did you knowthe movie 'Wayne's World' was filmed in two weeks

    Did you knowthe film 'Mary Poppins' was filmed entirely indoors

    Did you knowall of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20

    Did you know55% of all movies are rated R

    Did you know'Babe' was played by over 50 pigs

    Did you knowthe first James Bond movie was called 'Dr. No'

    Did you knowbefore beginning his movie career Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto Canada

    Did you knowthe 1st full length animated film was released by Disney Studios in 1937 (it was Snow White and the seven dwarfs)

  4. În filme:
    – “Dă-mi drumul, altfel o să murim amândoi!”
    – “Cum să-ţi dau drumul? Te iubesc!”
    În viaţa reală:
    – “Lasă-mi, fă, mâna, că mi-o rupi!”
    – “Trage-mă sus, nenorocitule!”

  5. Doctore, sunt extrem de deprimat, nu mai am nici poftă de viaţă. Ce mă sfătuieşti: să mă sinucid ori să-mi înec disperarea în băutură. Cum e mai bine ?
    - Depinde cum stai cu ficatul…

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