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Post by fallenangel on Feb 17, 2007 9:57:19 GMT -6
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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Post by Gabbin on Feb 17, 2007 22:35:41 GMT -6
There are some really interesting, jaw-dropping info here.
Some are real useful. If'n I ever decide I am done, I can just reach for the nutmeg and a...um..syringe. Maybe I should add a pinch of a few other spices, too. Maybe mix it with a little paste of something palatable...like apple juice.
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Post by Siren on Feb 19, 2007 1:32:37 GMT -6
Before they hit it big...
Martina McBride sold t-shirts at Garth Brooks concerts.
Faith Hill worked in the shipping department for Reba McEntire's fan club.
Alan Jackson worked in the mailroom at CMT (Country Music Television).
Chris LeDoux was a world-champion bareback bronc rider.
John Conley was a mortician.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 25, 2007 8:10:27 GMT -6
Most women have approximately 2 to 3 rows of eye-lashes; 130 lashes per eye.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Feb 25, 2007 10:00:30 GMT -6
Einstein flunked math in school.
Pi calculated to 50 places looks like this:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
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Post by Siren on Feb 26, 2007 0:42:52 GMT -6
1940s film siren Hedy Lamarr and a partner invented the idea behind radio frequency hopping that proved invaluable in torpedo guidance, and later played a role in the development of today's cell phones. She never received a dime for this idea, contributing it to the war effort.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 3, 2007 19:09:20 GMT -6
Ewwww....Peeps.
Every Easter Americans buy more than 700 million peeps - those gooey marshmallow icks. In order of popularity, peep colors rate as follows:
Yellow, pink, lavender, baby-blue, and white.
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Post by Gabbin on Mar 3, 2007 22:05:56 GMT -6
Peeps! I have been enjoying Winter so much that I forgot about the perks of Peeps.
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Post by Siren on Mar 3, 2007 22:08:55 GMT -6
What is the proper term for a group of Peeps? A peck? A flock? A gaggle?
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Post by Gabbin on Mar 3, 2007 22:29:27 GMT -6
Hey, don't be getting too close to my name. I believe that would be a stomach ache or a pound of sugar.
Seriously, though. This is an important question..hmm, a large gathering of Peeps.....chick clique.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 4, 2007 23:42:23 GMT -6
Peeps on parade....a peep show? On the street corner....cheep peeps? What a spectacle; jeepers peepers.
During Tulipomania in the Netherlands during the seventeenth century, one tulip bulb sold for two loads of wheat, four loads of rye, four fat oxen, eight fat pigs, twelve sheeps, two barrels of butter, a thousand pounds of cheese, two hogsheads of wine, four barrels of special beer, a silver beaker, a suit of clothes, a complete bed - all at a value of 2,500 florins.
What, no partridge in a pear tree. They got gypped.
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Post by fallenangel on Mar 5, 2007 13:38:45 GMT -6
Bulls are color blind.
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Post by Siren on Mar 11, 2007 9:19:27 GMT -6
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 11, 2007 23:00:34 GMT -6
A female ass is called a Jenny.
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Post by fallenangel on Mar 12, 2007 19:03:17 GMT -6
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 13, 2007 9:32:41 GMT -6
No kidding, Yinyang. That's just nuts.
I saw my first robin of spring this morning, slashing in the pubbles in the ravine, (I like that typo - it's fun to say).
A baby robin can eat up to 14 feet of worms a day.
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Post by Siren on Mar 14, 2007 20:25:38 GMT -6
"14 feet"?? *gulp*
Country comedian Minnie Pearl was actually a well-educated woman, Sarah Colley Cannon, the daughter of a wealthy lumberman.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Mar 14, 2007 22:46:19 GMT -6
In honor of some big golf tournament that was held here a few weeks ago...
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
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Post by Siren on Mar 19, 2007 6:51:42 GMT -6
A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
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Post by katina2nd on Mar 20, 2007 18:56:12 GMT -6
On average women use three times as many words in a day as men.
Alright don't look at me like that, I'm just reporting what I heard. ;D
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Post by Siren on Mar 20, 2007 20:09:57 GMT -6
Lol! But really, kat, it doesn't mean that men talk any less than women - it's just that we have better vocabularies.
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Post by Siren on Mar 22, 2007 18:57:17 GMT -6
Spiders have blue blood.
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Post by Siren on Mar 26, 2007 20:30:01 GMT -6
Humans shed about 1.5 pounds of skin per year. By age 70, that's about 105 pounds of skin.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 27, 2007 5:54:51 GMT -6
More than 3.5 billion wire hangers are used by dry cleaners each year.
And I swear they multiply like rabbits when left alone; get a couple and suddenly you've got a tangled mess of twenty, hooked to each other and refusing to let go if you dare to try to pull one of their kin from the pile.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 7, 2007 20:24:18 GMT -6
The largest chocolate Easter egg was made by Belgian chocolatier, Gylian in 2005 - it was 27 feet high and 9,000 pounds.
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Post by vox on Apr 8, 2007 12:25:32 GMT -6
In 1989, the space shuttle Discovery carried 32 fertilized chicken eggs into orbit!
What I wanna know is, why?
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Post by Phalon on Apr 8, 2007 21:30:09 GMT -6
So we can eat free-range space-egg chickens with our mashed potatoes and anti-gravyty?
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Post by fallenangel on Apr 10, 2007 8:19:04 GMT -6
The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Apr 10, 2007 13:09:58 GMT -6
An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.
A Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Post by Phalon on Apr 25, 2007 21:34:42 GMT -6
Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough electricity to run a television set for three hours.
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