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Re: True facts

Postby Steve M » Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:46 pm

However, sound will travel at different speeds depending on the medium it is passing through. Due to this, the "Mach" number is based on the speed of sound in a vacuum.
So, you're saying sound has a spiritual air about it and an empty-headed medium is a sound trap? :-?


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Off topic but I just had a call on my cell phone. He said "Hello is 'H' there" So I said 'yes, H is there because he is not here'. It was a very odd wrong number..  :o

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Re: True facts

Postby Webb » Sat Nov 10, 2012 5:58 pm

Mr. Rodgers was a sniper in Vietnam, his arms are covered in tattoos which is why he always wears cardigans on the show.
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Re: True facts

Postby H » Sun Nov 11, 2012 2:46 am

Off topic but I just had a call on my cell phone. He said "Hello is 'H' there" So I said 'yes, H is there because he is not here'. It was a very odd wrong number...
(It's true, not a joke.)
Strange, if not weird. I haven't been in Canada since the last century, once for a pew delivery/installation in Toronto and once or twice passing through Ontario from Michigan to NewYork.


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Re: True facts

Postby Webb » Sun Nov 11, 2012 8:53 pm

JFK and Marilyn Monroe were not in fact having an affair, They were simply fellow time travel enthusiasts, which is why both were secretly assassinated.
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Re: True facts

Postby Webb » Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:52 pm

No one knows what the actual lyrics to the songs Louie, Louie and Wooly Bully are.
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Re: True facts

Postby Webb » Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:50 pm

If a bee drinks from a water source, it's safe for humans too.
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Re: True facts

Postby Fozzer » Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:05 pm

If a bee drinks from a water source, it's safe for humans too.


..its bee(n) there before, and survived... ;)..!

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Re: True facts

Postby Webb » Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:22 pm

The Eastern rail on North-South train routes is lower in order to counteract the pull of rotation of the Earth.
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Re: True facts

Postby Webb » Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:42 pm

It is a well-known fact that cars driven on even-numbered highways are newer and better maintained than those driven on odd-numbered highways.
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Re: True facts

Postby Webb » Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:33 pm

The office supply store, Staples, is actually named for C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis.

C.S. Lewis died on November 22, 1963, the same day as Aldous Huxley and John Kennedy.
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Re: True facts

Postby Webb » Sat Nov 17, 2012 6:37 pm

The personal computer was invented in 1921 by Clarence Wingard. He abandoned it because the monitor was prone to breakage by fast typists.
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Re: True facts

Postby Webb » Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:41 pm

It is not true that the bra was invented by Otto Titzling, the flush toilet by John Crapper, or the guillotine by Doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin. However it is true that the first commercially successful vulcanized rubber condom was invented by Dick Sheather.
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Re: True facts

Postby Webb » Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:32 pm

I'm sure many of you cooks out there have preserved fruit in a Mason Jar. Common sense would dictate that the process should be called Masoning or perhaps bottling. But it isn't. It's called canning. This is because it is named after Sir George Canning, who invented this method while being the Ambassador to Portugal. He used it to preserve lemons.
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Re: True facts

Postby H » Sat Nov 24, 2012 1:38 am

I'm sure many of you cooks out there have preserved fruit in a Mason Jar. Common sense would dictate that the process should be called Masoning or perhaps bottling. But it isn't. It's called canning. This is because it is named after Sir George Canning, who invented this method while being the Ambassador to Portugal. He used it to preserve lemons.
Hmmn... that's some jarring information...


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Re: True facts

Postby Ang2dogs » Sat Nov 24, 2012 2:58 pm

Hmmn... that's some jarring information...


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