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Did you know ..... Strange facts.

blackburn_stevie — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:01:44 GMT

Feel free to add your own gems.

There are seven classifications of snowflakes: plates, stellar crystals, columns, needles, spatical dendrites, capped columns and irregular forms.

You didn't know that, did you?

Cheers,

Steve

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ronnybabes — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:57:46 GMT

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." through the pen of Conan Doyle.

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blackburn_stevie — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 08:58:37 GMT

The third version of the Oxford English Dictionary was written beginning with the letter M.

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the-geezer — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:09:52 GMT

In space, no one can hear you fart.

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mepixin12 — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:41:44 GMT

I just thought they were white!

Did you know that: 'The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog' uses every letter in the alphabet?

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clifford2031 — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:30:34 GMT

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/class/snowtypes4.jpg

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merehazle — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 12:40:43 GMT

Want to bet ?!

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rose2008-2008 — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:48:09 GMT

When its a Full Moon people do strange things ha ha LOl??????

We all once had a TAIL????????. OOOeerrrrrrrr.

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*.*..lola..*.* — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:43:43 GMT

Did you know that Garfield the cartoon cat once offered a free email service? Nope me neither.

It was called gmail.com, later acquired by Google.

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rose2008-2008 — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:47:17 GMT

Aren"t people with three nipples supposed to be Wolf Babies or something??,,, i hope not as i have one!!!!.

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spawnjohnuk — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:56:31 GMT

male seahorses give birth

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ronnybabes — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:15:27 GMT

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

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10phizz — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:41:33 GMT

Snow isn`t white, if it was it would leave a white residue after it melted. Its frozen water so is clear.

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10phizz — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:42:40 GMT

Witches were reputed to have a third nipple

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spawnjohnuk — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 02:23:46 GMT

Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world

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blackburn_stevie — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 05:06:48 GMT

rose2008 wrote ...... "Aren"t people with three nipples supposed to be Wolf Babies or something??,,, i hope not as i have one!!!!."

Think yourself lucky that you don't have three.

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geo1pat1 — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:13:14 GMT

Bacteria cannot survive on silver, which accounts for the fact that once it was discovered that bacteria caused infection in surgical wounds, and pre dating "Autoclave" sterilisation, surgeons used solid silver, and later, silver plated instuments (not including saws, and knives)

Manchester United and no doubt some other Premiership clubs, take more money from the sale of programmes at a single home game than my beloved Brentford take in total gate receipts for the entire season.

Henry VIII never said......."Pay alimony ??????????????...........................Sod that !......I will think of another way !"

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tommy.irene — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 09:47:47 GMT

@mepixin12 wrote:
I just thought they were white!

Did you know that: 'The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog' uses every letter in the alphabet?
Thats a good one..

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blackburn_stevie — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:03:08 GMT

Lee Harvey Oswald still has an overdue library book from Dallas public library.

Wayne Rooney's voicemail password was Stella Artois.

"Huh?" means the same thing in every language.

A man can outrun a cheetah over a distance of four miles (6.4km) during the hottest time of the day.

Russian officials can no longer say "Your thank you does not butter my bread" in case it's taken as a request for a bribe.

There's only one sneeze mentioned in the bible.

The Volkswagen Golf has been Germany's best-selling car for 32 years in a row.

The most popular US college degree earned by millionaires is engineering.

The oldest piece of string dates back 90,000 years.

There were 10 facts in this list but the 10th wasn't up to snuff.

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blackburn_stevie — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 10:42:51 GMT

Here's a strange factoid re sums.
Think of any number.
For the sake of argument we will use 243
Is it divisible by 9?
Yes. Just add the numbers up and if the total is divisible by 9 then so is the original number. As far as I know, this works with any number no matter how large.