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Until 1913, children in America could legally be sent by parcel post.
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China is the world’s largest supplier of Bibles: one factory in Nanjing prints a million a month.
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Roy Kinnear
On 19 September 1988, Kinnear fell from a horse during the making of The Return of the Musketeers in Toledo, Spain, and sustained a broken pelvis. He was taken to hospital in Madrid but died from a heart attack the next day. He was 54 years old. He is buried in East Sheen Cemetery. After his death, Kinnear's family demanded an official investigation into the level of medical care he had received in Spain. Director Richard Lester decided to quit the film business as a direct result of Kinnear's death I didn't know that until today, although I did know he died from a heart attack. Great actor and son Rory is doing well |
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Ants can survive in a microwave: they are small enough to dodge the rays.
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John Lewis was born in Shepton Mallet, Somerset in 1836. At age 14 was apprenticed to a linen draper in Wells and came to London in 1856.
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Heroin was originally marketed as cough medicine.
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The Nazis made it illegal on pain of death for apes to give the Heil Hitler salute.
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When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, one of the suspects was Picasso.
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The Dyslexia Research Centre is in Reading.
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...just up the road from the Tourettes Research Centre I believe.
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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was originally written for Norman Wisdom but he turned it down.
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The United States of America maintains a military presence in 148 of the 192 United Nations countries.
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If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you exactly 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.
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^^^ Earth is elliptical shirley. Arctic to Antarctic is a shorter distance than drilling anywhere on the equator to the other side. |
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Surely, you wouldn't REACH the other side. Once past halfway, you'd would be trying to fall against Gravity. You would finally come to rest at the centre after a few 'ups and downs'. Or 'downs and ups' if you like!
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A quick way to get to Australia
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Film: The Adjustment Bureau.
Romance meets sci-fi as forces (sometimes known as angels) conspire under order from 'The Chairman'(god) to keep two lovers apart. The final scene of the film was to show the first appearance of 'The Chairman' meeting with Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. 'The Chairman' was to be female and played by Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo. The studio discovered that she was born a muslim, but they weren't ready for a muslim to portray 'god' The part was scrapped and the script was changed. |
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The three chief 'angels' were named Thompson, Richardson and Harry. Any Tom, D1ck or Harry can become an angel. |
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Beyonce Knowles is an 8th cousin, four times removed, of Gustav Mahler.
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All but one of the ravens at the Tower of London died from stress during the Blitz.
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Zugunruhe is the restlessness of caged birds in the migration season.
Urban birds have learned to line their nests with cigarette ends. Nicotine is a powerful insecticide that wards off mites, lice and fleas. The nectar of citrus plants contains caffeine to attract birds. David Cameron, used to be President of the Oxfordshire Bee Keepers Association. Probably did a better job of that then being PM. |
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In the 2010 archives there are no threads dated May 5th.
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George W Bush and Saddam Hussein had their shoes hand-made by the same Italian cobbler.
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cobblers
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Looked a shoe-in or shoo-in to me.
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In his first year at Harrow, Winston Churchill was bottom of the whole school.
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The Irish poet Brendan Behan became an alcoholic at the age of eight.
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For God sake, can we keep this from Heston !
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Scientists say that an Earth day had around 20 hours a few million years ago and that a million years from now it will have 27 hours.
Benjamin Franklin invented flippers for swimming in the year 1717 and was inducted into the international swimming hall of fame for the invention |