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'For the love of God, beam me up Scotty!'
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., Jan. 2, 2004
George Takei (who played Sulu in the original Star Trek series) was 4 when he and his family were ordered from their Los Angeles home and taken by railroad under armed guard to an interment camp in Arkansas after Pearl Harbor.
Americans spend as much on illegal drugs as they do on soft drinks.
Though Ulysses drank to Achilles in Homer's Odyssey nearly 3,000 years ago, the first known toast in English was recorded in A.D. 450. The term "toast" itself comes from the 17th-century custom of placing a crouton in the drinking vessel to absorb impurities.
Harvard University physicists brought light to a complete halt for a fraction of a second and then sent it on its way.
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