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18-09-08, 10:01 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card
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19-09-08, 11:29 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
we drive on the left side of the road because, in the days of old when knights rode horses, they would approach an oncoming rider on the left, so that their right hand could draw their sword and defend if needs be.
When Napoleon became the emprorer of europe, he reversed this tradition because he was left handed and as a sign of power.
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19-09-08, 03:49 PM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
Giraffes have exactly the same amount of vertebrae in their spine as mice.
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03-10-08, 10:46 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
Following the attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, and because of the similarity between the buildings' nickname, "The Twin Towers", and the movie's title, "The Two Towers", the director and producers briefly considered renaming the second movie in the trilogy. They eventually decided against it, Peter Jackson's main reason being that, "fans would kill me".
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03-10-08, 11:45 PM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
Die Hard 3 was originally a Lethal Weapon screenplay. That's why there is a white guy and a black guy.
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09-10-08, 08:43 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
on this day, ok yesterday, in history, the first microwave was patented. it was 5ft 6" tall and weighed 750 pounds.
spooky, they happen to be the very same vital statistics scoobs holds.... |
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16-10-08, 07:26 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
there is no such animal called a panther. A panther as you might know it is actually a black leopard. Panther is greek meaning all animals
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16-10-08, 07:36 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
the saying "Let the cat out of the bag" has its origins in the days of old where commerce would take place at market. In order to stop livestock running away, traders would keep their animals (such as baby pigs or lambs) in bags. There were some unscrupulous traders who would substitute livestock for domestic pets such as cats, thus when a buyer had parted with their money and got home, they would 'let the cat out of the bag' only only to find they had been shafted by the seller.
The 'Trading Standards Institute' wasn't founded until 1956.
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16-10-08, 07:40 AM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
The term 'wharf' is an abbreviation of "Warehouse at the river front" - hence "Canary Wharf". Canary wharf takes its name from subsiduary company of Fred Olsen Lines which had it's main line of business in importing fruit from the canary islands (and mediteranean)...
I want to work for aqa lol... 
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16-10-08, 01:38 PM
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Re: INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY
Nah, that one's not right, the word predates the use of acronyms (they only really came into fashion in the 1600s)
Apparently it's from the old english hwearf, meaning bank or shore. My google fu is superior  But I did know the thing about acronyms- basically before then, written english was so approximate and phoneticised that no two people would have made the same acronym anyway
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