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July '09: 1 - 4
July 1;
 | TV Show: Mythbusters Episode: 1.07 - Stinky Car, Raccoon Rocket Goal: 165/400 (41.25% Complete) About: Mythbusters, Jamie and Adam put their noses to the test to find out if that nasty smell in your car is there to stay. Is the myth of the stinky car true? Then follow the gasoline trail as they try to flush out the truth in the raccoon in the drain myth. Quote: "If my baby's poo smelled like that, I'd take him to the hospital immediately." -Adam |
 | TV Show: The Big Bang Theory Episode: 2.21 - The Vegas Renormalization Goal: 166/400 (41.5% Complete) About: Leonard and Raj take Wolowitz to Las Vegas to help him get over his break-up with Leslie. Sheldon, home alone and looking forward to it, locks himself out and has only one other place to stay—Penny's. Quote: "We should have a plan in case one of us gets lucky." -Raj "Okay, if I get lucky, I'll take her to my stately manor outside Gotham City, and if you get lucky, I'll sleep on the moon." -Leonard |
A kiss for one minute can burn 26 calories.
 | TV Show: Mythbusters Episode: 1.08 - Escape From Alcatraz, Duck Quack, Stud Finder Goal: 167/400 (41.75% Complete) About: Jamie and Adam retrace the steps of the infamous prisoners who escaped from Alcatraz without a trace in 1962. Although presumed drowned, they'll find out if it was possible to survive the tides of the San Francisco Bay in a homemade raft. As for other myth, Jamie and Adam test whether quacks from ducks echo. They examine the urban legend about whether a stud finder can tell whether you have something implanted in your body. Quote: "Don't mess with me, duck. When I say "quack", you're gonna quack, right? I'm the boss here. Don't give me any beak." -Jamie |
 | TV Show: Mythbusters Episode: 1.09 - Chicken Gun, Octopus Egg Pregnancy, Killer Washing Machine Goal: 168/400 (42% Complete) About: Can a cooked and raw chicken flying toward an airplane interfere with its flight or will the jet engine just blow it away? The team makes a huge pressurized cannon and shoots a chicken at a jet's windshield. Did a woman give birth to an octopus after swallowing an octopus egg? Can your washing machine kill you? Quote: "That can't be necessary. I don't recognize it." -Adam |
The world record for the number of body piercings on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.
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Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998.
July 4;
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A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
