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"Amazing Facts Thread" You better believe it......!

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#1 smallieFanatic

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 12:19 PM

Okay guys (and gals) this is the "Amazing Facts Thread." Is how it works is:

Someone posts an amazing fact, and below that they write a subject that the next person has to base his fact on. Example:

The largest fish in the World is the Whale Shark. (not so amazing but it is just a example).

Next subject: Buildings

Okay so the next person comes along and looks up a cool fact about buildings and posts it along with a new subject.

I think it will be fun (and informative), if everyone pitches in

The only catch is that they have to be Facts

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 12:22 PM

I'll kick this off.

On average, sharks kill 10 humans every year. Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows.

Next subject: Trains (

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 12:44 PM

Everybody knows the railroads in the game Monopoly are the Pennsylvania, B&O, Reading, and Short Line. But how many people realize that three of the four were real railroads?

The Pennsylvania Railroad, The B&O "Baltimore and Ohio Railroad" and the Reading Railroad were actually railroads in the US. The Short Line isn't named for a real-life railroad.

Also, on this date in 1830, the first regular steam train passenger service starts.

Next topic: Famous writer

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 12:44 PM

The first steam engine arrives in the colonies from England in 1753.

Next Subject: Barber Shops

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 12:58 PM

Awesome guys! Thanks for posting

Famous Writer:

The famous writer Edger Allan Poe was addicted to Opium and was an alcoholic. It is speculated that this influenced his often morbid writings to some extent.

Barber shops:

That barbershop smell is a mixture of Barbicide, shaving cream, musky smelling hair, and cheap (and free) coffee.

Hope that last one is interesting enough.

Next Subject: Criminology

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 02:11 PM

Criminology:
In 1950 in England, Tim Evans, who was mentally challenged, was executed for the murder of his wife and small child. It was later proven that his neighbor had committed the murders and that Evans was innocent. The subsequent outcry led to the abolishment of capital punishment in England.

Ewan Macoll later wrote a great song about it - Go Down Ye Murderers (The Ballad of Tim Evans).

Next Subject: Cars

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 02:45 PM

Subject: Cars

"The first car manufacturers in the world were French: Panhard & Levassor (1889) and Peugeot (1891)."..................we in the US like to think of Mr. Ford, who was also handy at understanding and making mass assembly work efficiently. Mr. Ford was also a Freemason.

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Galapagos Islands

camoham

“You didn’t find a padlock on my door (maybe I should have put one on) for I feel that a cabin in the wilderness should be open to those who need shelter. My charge for the use of it is reasonable, I think, although some no doubt will be unable to afford what I ask, and that is- take care of it as if you had carved it out with hand tools as I did. If when you leave your conscience is clear, then you have paid the full amount.”

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 04:25 PM

QUOTE (camoham @ May 3 2010, 02:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I would have gone with Carl Benz and his Patent Motor Car (1886)

There is three times as much water on Earth as there is land. Any fool can see, God intended man to fish three times as much as he works.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 04:48 PM

Galapagos Islands:

In order to be able to feed underwater the Galapagos marine iguana is equipped with a pair of salt glands. These glands are located on both sides of the head, under the skin between the nostril and the eye. While eating the iguana will eject a fine spray of highly saline secretion from these glands, to rid itself of the salt.

Next Subject: BC History

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 05:04 PM

QUOTE (smallieFanatic @ May 3 2010, 03:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

British Columbia History... I saw Bigfoot in BC. Either that or it was a girl I went out with there, cant' quite remember. Anyhow, it's a fact.

Next Subject: Motorcycle Oil.

(BTW ALL iguanas, including common greenies, have those salt glands. Makes a mess on the glass front cages.)

If I was an "expert" people would be paying me to do this stuff. I just like to do what works.

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 05:18 PM

JSzymczyk,

What does you dating big hairy women have to do with BC History?

Somebody just back of you while you are flyfishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. Ernest Hemingway

#12 JSzymczyk

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 05:22 PM

It happened in BC!!

If I was an "expert" people would be paying me to do this stuff. I just like to do what works.

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Posted 03 May 2010 - 05:32 PM

QUOTE (JSzymczyk @ May 3 2010, 03:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It happened in BC!!

You are killing me!

can't breathe

Somebody just back of you while you are flyfishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. Ernest Hemingway