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Houston screws down the Texas Two Step

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In Austin, people start the Texas Two Step dance on the quick quick. In Houston, they start it on the slow slow.

Eating your boogers can be good for you. By grabbing those morsels, you are also grabbing germs collected by your nose hair, which can help you build up resistance.

There's a big patch of garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean the size of Texas. It's composed of about 3 million tons of bottles, bottle caps, wrappers, fishing nets and lines, and other fragments; oceanographers call it the "eastern garbage patch."

If MySpace were a country (and its users citizens) it would be the 11th largest nation in the world.

Cannabis is not kosher for Passover.
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