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Old 27-July-2006, 02:32 PM
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Now we're one fact down. Someone needs to post two.
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Old 27-July-2006, 03:10 PM
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That was three facts...non-random, no less.

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Yes, three facts, but one post............



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Old 27-July-2006, 03:11 PM
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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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Old 27-July-2006, 04:31 PM
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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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Old 27-July-2006, 04:44 PM
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Hey, this is the "Post a fact"-thread, not the "Post a legend" thread.
Yeah, I new it was probably not true, I got it from here......



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Old 27-July-2006, 06:39 PM
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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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Old 27-July-2006, 08:05 PM
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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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Old 27-July-2006, 08:33 PM
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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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Old 27-July-2006, 10:29 PM
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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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Old 28-July-2006, 12:42 AM
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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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Old 28-July-2006, 03:41 AM
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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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Old 28-July-2006, 02:30 PM
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Old 28-July-2006, 09:23 PM
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Underneath my clothes, I'm completely naked.
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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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Old 28-July-2006, 09:52 PM
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We don't have to lick stamps anymore in the UK
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