Some people think America will be turning 2015-years-old on the 4th of July

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Unfortunately this does not surprise  me, after living there for 4 years in Kentucky I saw first hand this sort of idea, its really  sad that Americans do not know their own history. Just to clarify Indepence from the British happened 239 years ago by the 13 colonial states in 1776.

Many people also use Christmas day to tweet their happy birthdays to Jesus, who, according to some, turned 2014 years old last December 25th

People think America will be turning 2015-years-old on the 4th of July – Read at Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/america-is-2015-years-old-on-july-4-2015-7?&platform=bi-androidapp

Just Rambling …No real significance to the comments

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  • Steve Jobs blatantly admitted in a 1996 interview that they do steal ideas and make money out of it. The idea of the Mac came from a Xerox machine that Jobs saw in 1979 and borrowed some interface elements from Windows; the idea of the first tablet PC came about in 1987, 23 years before the IPad was launched; Touchscreen technology is a thing of the past, dating back in 1965, yet Jobs claims Apple invented it.
  • Alan Turing did not originally conceive the idea of a fully functional home computer. Sure, he made the first commercial computer, but almost a century ago, another man had a dream, a ‘difference machine’, to be exact. Mathematics professor Charles Babbage laid out blueprints for a machine that could execute simultaneous calculations in minimal amount of time. The problem was Babbage didn’t have the money and moral support that an inventor needs. Basically Alan Turing, together with some colleagues, just continued what Babbage couldn’t finish.
  • On March 25, 1925, Baird gave the firstpublic demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge’s Department Store in London.
  • Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak belonged to a group of hackers and hobbyists called the Homebrew Computer Club.
  • In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.
  • Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings. “I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don’t understand it.”
  • Only one word in the English language has three consecutive sets of double letters and it’s “Bookkeeper” B-oo-kk-ee-per.
  • The real inventor of the electric light was Englishman Joseph Swan in 1880. He later set up a business with Thomas Edison to perfect it.
  • Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! – Audrey Hepburn
  • Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women
  • When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth.
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