Google Images is now rubbish(for me anyway), it doesn't work, so I use the retro google images option...
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Google Images is now rubbish(for me anyway), it doesn't work, so I use the retro google images option...
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City work crews have started repaving this block of the street where I reside.
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The archangel Gabriel is the patron saint of telecommunications.
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An umbrella is the only thing which can go up a chimney, down.
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Waiting takes up two years of the average human lifespan.
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sharks are older than insects.
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On my desk is an orange candle in a clear round plastic holder. It's a scent candle: Mango peach.
Nice ambience.
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The city has finished repaving the street, with asphalt, on my block.
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Haibulllah, an early 20th century ruler of Afghanistan, was so obsessed with the works of Jules Verne he hired a local intellectual to translate them into Persian.
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The name "Dana" means "Woman of Denmark."
Or so I've read.
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Clicking on the "Find all started threads" link in my profile returns more results than clicking on the "Find all posts" link.
I wish I knew all those years ago that simply joining this board and proclaiming myself to be rational would magically transform my uninformed opinions into science; it would have saved me a lot of time and effort.
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This I arose early enough to attend to my full daily computer routine; so, here I am.
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Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of "space junk" (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of them have hit the Earth's surface.
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You can find myriads of true facts on the internet, if you take the time to sift them from the junk.
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Osama bin Laden's favourite drink was raisins soaked in water. His favourite food was courgettes stuffed with bone marrow.
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Sea salt has a higher radiation count than regular table salt.
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It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.
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Australia's agricultural industry consumes 60% of its land area and 80% of its utilised water, yet contributes only 3% to its GNP
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We have a drought all over Texas but Hurricane Don brought rain to Brownsville, earlier.
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We (myself and those in my office) are preparing for a major emergency response this weekend and over the next week due to the incoming, Hurricane Irene.
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My cat jumped, from a sitting position, measuring at the bottom most foot, roughly 5'8".
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Diet Dr. Pepper is not s significant source of calories from fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, dietary fiber, sugars, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, or iron.
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Lesbianism has never been illegal in the UK, reportedly because Queen Victoria considered it impossible.
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The 1999 extension to the London Underground Jubilee Line required the relocation of the graves of 683 monks
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Capybaras are called capivaras in Portuguese.
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The partridge is named after the ancient Greek word for the sound it made. What that sound was can be found by applying Grimm's Law ('p' in Greek/Latin becomes 'v' in German and 'f' in English)
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Because of gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less, when the moon is directly overhead.
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"There is no racism in China because we don't have any black people."
Unnamed student, Beijing University
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There is racism in China, because they have non-Chinese oriental minorities.
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Today my default browser crashed and it took most of the day, with help from support online, to connect with Internet Explorer.
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