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1. Coffee is more popular than tea (except internationallity in India, the Netherlands, the UK, and Italy)
2. Football is by far the most popular of the four major sports (football, baseball, basketball, and hockey), except in Boston and St. Louis
3. The Nationals are more popular than the Orioles
4. Yahoo is more popular than Google

Thought this might be interesting…because I love Guinness.

Guinness started brewing porters and ales, initially in Leixlip, but at the St. James’s Gate Brewery, Dublin, Ireland since 1759, when Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum for the unused brewery. Ten years later in 1769 Guinness exported their product for the first time, when six and a half barrels were shipped to England.

Although commonly believed to have originated the stout style of beer, the first use of the word stout in relation to beer was in a letter in the Egerton Manuscript dated 1677, almost 50 years before Arthur Guinness was born. The first use of the word stout in the context of a Guinness beer was their Stout-Porter of 1820.

Guinness brewed their last porter in 1974.

Guinness Stout is also brewed under licence internationally.

The Guinness brewery in Park Royal, London closed in 2005.

Did you know that when Andrew Jackson was running for President, he was so disliked by his opponents that they publicly called him a jackass. Jackson was such a fan of this image that he adopted it as his own, which is how the Democrats came to take the donkey as their mascot.

The average person probably has no clue who the hell is on the Senate Judiciary committee, so here’s the list of senators, where they’re from (and where they went to college)

I found out a few interesting things while wasting time browsing the US Senate’s website.