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      Default Uncommonly known Facts

      Here is a chance for you to list facts very few people may know. For instance...



      A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

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      Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.


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      Sean! That is a way awesome photo - I love it!

      Lord - He has a beautiful face and his beard is amazing and looks to be about 30 feet long, and that chair he's sitting in - WOW!
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      Mr. Roger's Neighbourhood.



      Film set studios WQED the sister station to WGBH Boston, are located in the neighbourhood I grew up in of Shadyside in Pittsburgh PA.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Sphinx View Post
      Sean! That is a way awesome photo - I love it!

      Lord - He has a beautiful face and his beard is amazing and looks to be about 30 feet long, and that chair he's sitting in - WOW!
      I as well. I might give my left thumb to have that chair.

      Polly, speaking of Mr. Rogers...did you know that Fred Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister?

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      Wow guys, great thread. I can't think of nothing immediately...yet, Polly reminded me of something. I actually went to the camp were they filmed the first 'Friday the 13th'...so, in other words, I went to the camp were Jason died (drowned) in the lake. I need to figure out exactly where that is again. Somewhere upstate NY perhaps?

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      I love this thread, the usless information we can learn

      Strange British Facts

      In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That’s where the phrase, “goodnight, sleep tight” came from.

      Dying is illegal in the Houses of Parliaments

      Berwick-upon-Tweed (a small town on the border of England and Scotland) was officially at war with Russia for 110 years until 1967

      Rudolf Hess was the last prisoner to be kept in the Tower of London.

      No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple

      A law passed in 1585, making it illegal for women to “cause a nuisance with abusive or argumentative language”. A woman guilty of scolding had to wear a scold’s bridle, or metal cage, enclosing her head. The Criminal Law Act of 1967 finally abolished the punishment, and women may now scold freely.

      The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

      In York it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a crossbow upon seeing one, except for on Sundays. However any Scotsman caught drunk or with a weapon can still be shot on a Sunday, except with a bow and arrow. Similarly in Chester it is legal to shoot a Welsh person with a crossbow, as long as it is within the city walls and is done after midnight.

      In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.

      you have got to love that last one, whats all that about, the only thing I can think of is the man who brought in the law also run a tropical fish store

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      Quote Originally Posted by Logio View Post
      Polly, speaking of Mr. Rogers...did you know that Fred Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister?
      Yep - I do remember seeing him around town in his minister outfit - always made me do a double take when that happened.
      Last edited by Narnia; October 12th, 2009 at 11:33 PM. Reason: totally missed a word there!
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      Cant resist........

      Any of you remember these?

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      my father was the creator of these controversial gems

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      lol thats so cool Chad, I dont remember it but I love the idea

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      Australians will eat Peanut butter sandwiches or Jam sandwiches, but generally find peanut butter & Jelly sandwiches unappetizing.

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      I love these obscure facts ... some of them are quite funny!
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      Quote Originally Posted by Logio View Post

      Australians will eat Peanut butter sandwiches or Jam sandwiches, but generally find peanut butter & Jelly sandwiches unappetizing.

      Nathan
      I dont blame them, I know its popular but its not something I could eat, it just looks disgusting

      Anyway back on topic

      Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.

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      Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

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      I shaved my head the night before last.
      Alright, alright. LOLLLOL. None of you knew that one.
      Hehehehehehe.


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      Chimpanzees also engage in politics.
      Hmmmm. I wonder what that might indicate.


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      Psyche Chimpanzees also engage in politics.
      Hmmmm. I wonder what that might indicate.
      That they are also descended from silver backs?
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      The Planet Neptune has 3 main rings.
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      Cool

      Speaking of planetary rings, they recently discovered Saturn has another huge ring. It's mass is such that it can hold 1,000,000 Earths. [LOL. I'm sure that count is approximate.]


      note; Silver backs, no, no. We ruled them out a several years ago, remember? (hehehehehe. I love it.)


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      The universe is beige

      Cosmic Latte is the color of the universe, according to a team of astronomers from Johns Hopkins University. In 2001, Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry determined that the color of the universe was a greenish white, but they soon corrected their analysis in "The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: constraints on cosmic star-formation history from the cosmic spectrum", published in 2002. In this paper, they reported that their survey of the color of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beige white. The survey included more than 200,000 galaxies, and measured the spectral range of the light from a large volume of the universe. The hexadecimal RGB value for Cosmic Latte is #FFF8E7.

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