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Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Howard on 10/01/11 at 6:54 am
Did you know that more than 36 million children are expected to go trick-or-treating this Halloween?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/11 at 6:57 am
Did you know that more than 36 million children are expected to go trick-or-treating this Halloween?
Hopefully less if parental control was stricter?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Howard on 10/01/11 at 6:58 am
Hopefully less if parental control was stricter?
and more cops to be out patrolling.
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: King Tut on 10/01/11 at 4:19 pm
Did you know that more than 36 million children are expected to go trick-or-treating this Halloween?
I'm ready for all of them (bought lots of candy) ;D
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: whistledog on 10/01/11 at 4:40 pm
Did you know that Jim Belushi looks like Steven Seagal?
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/11/9/abde2250-b9e7-418d-83c7-56d8498a958d.jpg
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Howard on 10/01/11 at 7:55 pm
Did you know that Jim Belushi looks like Steven Seagal?
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/11/9/abde2250-b9e7-418d-83c7-56d8498a958d.jpg
I don't see the resemblance. ???
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/02/11 at 5:49 am
Did you know that Jim Belushi looks like Steven Seagal?
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/11/9/abde2250-b9e7-418d-83c7-56d8498a958d.jpg
According to Jim?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Howard on 10/02/11 at 7:01 am
Did you know?...The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/08/11 at 3:51 am
... that Thomas Edison hoped to make furniture, refrigerators, and pianos using the concrete he developed but it was instead used to make the Yankee Stadium?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/11 at 2:00 pm
... that in 1933, a mostly Jewish boarding school escaped Nazi Germany and re-opened as Bunce Court School in Kent, England, ultimately saving the lives of hundreds of children and several teachers?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/11 at 1:34 am
... that the world's highest webcam is capable of streaming live HD video of the summit of Mount Everest?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: karen on 10/11/11 at 11:13 am
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
In the US
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/11 at 2:41 pm
... that the tubers of the Potato Orchid taste of beetroot?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/11 at 5:37 am
... that Max Bell went from making $35 per week at a Calgary newspaper during the Great Depression to owning Canada's largest newspaper syndicate in 1965?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/11 at 1:38 pm
... that physicists running the OPERA experiment detected neutrino particles apparently moving faster than light?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/23/11 at 9:55 am
...the natural resource of Helium will run out within the next 20 years.
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 5:08 am
... that professional baseball pitcher Oscar Graham, who won 276 games in his career, worked as a rabbit hunter during the winter?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Howard on 10/29/11 at 6:58 am
id you know there’s a man who weighed 561 kilograms?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/11 at 1:14 pm
id you know there’s a man who weighed 561 kilograms?
Do you know his name?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Howard on 10/29/11 at 8:03 pm
Do you know his name?
I'll have to look it up.
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/11 at 2:22 am
... that, after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bassetki statue, which is more than 4,200 years old, was found in a cesspool?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/01/11 at 2:23 am
... that Paul McCartney's song "Call Me Back Again" has been interpreted as his response to calls for a Beatles' reunion during the 1970s?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Howard on 11/01/11 at 7:05 am
Did you know that more than 36 million children are expected to go trick-or-treating this Halloween?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/02/11 at 2:28 am
... that the Port an Eilean Mhòir ship burial, excavated in 2011, is the first confirmed Viking ship burial to be discovered in mainland Scotland since 1935?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/11 at 4:14 pm
... that Jack Rothfuss contracted dysentery during his first season in Major League Baseball and spent the rest of his career in the minor leagues?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/11 at 4:46 pm
... that Google keeps giant dessert items on its lawn?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Google_lawn.jpg
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Howard on 11/10/11 at 8:40 pm
... that Google keeps giant dessert items on its lawn?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Google_lawn.jpg
:o
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/11 at 3:55 pm
Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/26/11 at 8:45 am
Did you know Perth is Australia's windiest city?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 11/30/11 at 3:42 am
... that trying to escape Hurricane Katrina, award-winning writer Jesmyn Ward and her family got stranded in a field full of tractors?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/03/11 at 1:26 pm
Did you know that no chalice can be seen in The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/DaVinci_LastSupper_high_res_2_nowatmrk.jpg/800px-DaVinci_LastSupper_high_res_2_nowatmrk.jpg
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/11 at 3:44 pm
...that since you forgot to save, you have to start all over again?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/11 at 3:30 am
... that the giant plumose anemone (pictured) can grow to a height of one metre (39 inches)?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/Oc%C3%A9anopolis_-_les_aquariums_008.JPG/100px-Oc%C3%A9anopolis_-_les_aquariums_008.JPG
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/10/11 at 4:56 pm
... that a 2004 glitch in TriTech emergency-response software rendered Austin, Texas dispatchers unable to locate their patrol cars on the street?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/11 at 1:30 am
... that Yongjia Xuanjue is believed to have written the 8th-century Song of Enlightenment, a text still popular with Zen practitioners nowadays?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/11 at 4:22 am
... that Swedish hip hop artist Roffe Ruff has kept his identity secret to make listeners concentrate more on his music than his personality?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/11 at 3:01 am
... that the Westminster Psalter contains what may be the earliest representation of Saint Christopher in English art, from about 1250?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/27/11 at 5:16 am
... that Swampy, the lead character in the game Where's My Water?, is the first original character created by Disney for a mobile video game?
Subject: Re: Did You Know?
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/29/11 at 3:00 pm
...the due to perceived similarities between "Last Christmas" and the song "Can't Smile Without You" as popularised by Barry Manilow, an out-of-court settlement was reached in which the first year's royalties were donated to the one-year-old "Band Aid" charity.