Now we're one fact down. Someone needs to post two.
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Now we're one fact down. Someone needs to post two.
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Originally Posted by Peter Wilson
Yes, three facts, but one post............
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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Hey, this is the "Post a fact"-thread, not the "Post a legend" thread.
The two rivers to the up and right of my avatar are the Allegheny (up-right) and Monongahela (bottom right). They combine to form the Ohio River (to bottom left)
This is either three or four facts, which may or not bring us up to equilibrium. (By saying "may or may not", I prevent that sentance from being a fact and throwing us into dis-equilibrium.......maybe)
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Yeah, I new it was probably not true, I got it from here......
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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The precurser to "Coast to Coast AM" started in 1989 as a political call-in show before morphing into the realm of Planet X, paranormal activities, Moon Hoax and other unskeptical tripe.
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Believe it or not, there is no "Planet X"/Niburu the size of Neptune careening around the inner solar system and about to cause - really, any day now - the Earth to shift its poles.
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But pole shift has happened a lot in the past, what causes it? And other than magnetic navigation, what else will it change?
Sorry, as this is the 'leave a random fact' thread...my friend the 9yr old says the facts indicate, no changes.
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What causes the Magnetic Pole to shift by miles on a weekly basis? our Earth's molten, moving, iron rich, core. Which is why we need a ship to burrow down and...
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Well, Nancy's talking about the Earth's geographic poles inverting, not just the magnetic poles (though she lets the ambiguity work in her favor whenever possible). It has been pointed out that the amount of energy required to do that would melt the planet, but it doesn't faze her.
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National Pi Day is March 14, at 1:59. (3/14 1:59)
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National Mole Day is October 23, from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m. (a mole is 6.02 x 10^23 units of whatever you are measuring, such as atoms - which is called Avogadro's Number).
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Jeanne Calment, who died at the young age of 122, quit smoking ... when she was 117.
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Today is national milk chocolate day.
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(Ahem)
The category, if you will? Random facts, no scary ones
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For years, the Grant Building in Pittsburgh would flash a giant red beacon on and off from the top of the building. It was Morse code for P-I-T-T-S-B-U-R-G-H.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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ToSeek has posted well over 100 posts today.
Forming opinions as we speak
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Nope, only 78 since midnight. But I haven't stopped yet....
antoniseb posted 130 times on Independence Day.
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ToSeek will soon break 20k posts, the only poster on any forum to which I belong to do so.
Edited: he now has 20k posts
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We don't have to lick stamps anymore in the UK
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Wreck Likely That of Nazi Aircraft CarrierWARSAW, Poland (July 27) - Poland's Navy said Thursday that it has identified a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea as almost certainly being Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin - a find that promises to shed light on a 59-year-old mystery surrounding the ship's fate.
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You don't have to in the U.S. either. Self-stick stamps are common, though lick-and-stick stamps are still available.We don't have to lick stamps anymore in the UK
I say there is an invisible elf in my backyard. How do you prove that I am wrong?
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The average human brain weighs in at about 3 pounds. However, Lord Byron's brain was well over 4 pounds (I've seen estimates of 5-6 pounds, and some have even said 10 pounds, but that's nonsense). On the other hand, French Writer Anatole France's brain weighed in at mere 2 1/4 pounds.
I always thought a good B-movie title would be "The Man with the Five Pound Brain!"
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a single thunder storm cloud weighs as much as all the elefants alive on earth today, all the clouds added together could weigh as much as all the elefants that have ever lived, added together
(discovery channel)
P.S i dont know how to spell elefant
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Not-so-random-fact: Elephant is spelt E-l-e-p-h-a-n-t. :P
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You almost have it: "Elephant."P.S i dont know how to spell elefant
(darn, timing . . .)
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The US military knew about GRBs long before the astrophysics community did (they were looking for 'secret' bomb tests, and discovered a very different kind of explosion instead).
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