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RE: Not many people know that! - 1/12/2006 3:00:31 PM   
Happy Shrapnel


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RE: Not many people know that! - 5/12/2006 9:55:53 PM   
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 On average, people are a quarter of an inch taller at night than they are during the day.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 6/12/2006 9:10:00 AM   
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RE: Not many people know that! - 7/12/2006 12:11:21 PM   
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RE: Not many people know that! - 7/12/2006 1:43:56 PM   
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 Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.

315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were mispelled.

Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.

Britain has only had seven official White Christmasses in the whole of the twentieth century and none in the twenty-first






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RE: Not many people know that! - 7/12/2006 1:54:40 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Funkyrae

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.

315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were mispelled.

Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.

Britain has only had seven official White Christmasses in the whole of the twentieth century and none in the twenty-first



And Jeff Buckley


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RE: Not many people know that! - 7/12/2006 2:19:00 PM   
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 Director Albert Brooks real name is Albert Einstein.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 7/12/2006 2:53:27 PM   
steffols


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ORIGINAL: Happy Shrapnel

Director Albert Brooks real name is Albert Einstein.


Albert Brooks, or AI Brooks was the name of a fictional director in Dawsons Creek season 4


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RE: Not many people know that! - 7/12/2006 3:02:39 PM   
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 Did he look anything like the real Albert Brooks ?



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RE: Not many people know that! - 7/12/2006 4:31:03 PM   
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Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.




Women blink nearly twice as often as men do too.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 7/12/2006 4:37:35 PM   
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RE: Not many people know that! - 7/12/2006 4:38:00 PM   
Happy Shrapnel


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ORIGINAL: Funkyrae


Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.




Women blink nearly twice as often as men do too.


Hmmmm isn't that a ' tell ' when someone is lying ?

If it is, that is soooooo true ! 

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RE: Not many people know that! - 7/12/2006 10:05:20 PM   
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 Earls Court in London is the only place in Britain where driving on the right hand side of the road is legal.

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The state sport of Maryland is jousting.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 8/12/2006 9:19:51 AM   
Happy Shrapnel


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 Charlie Brown's father was a Barber.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 8/12/2006 1:45:34 PM   
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 Devon is the only county in Britain with 2 coasts.

Cornwall is the poorest county.

The town of Hay-on-Wye on the England/Wales border declared itself independent in 1977.

Francis Drake claimed California as a territory of England in 1579, calling it New Albion.

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RE: The Interesting Facts Thread - 9/12/2006 5:46:43 PM   
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 There are over one hundred million light sensitive cells in the retina of the human eye.

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RE: The Interesting Facts Thread - 27/12/2006 6:58:04 PM   
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  • Pretty Woman was originally called Three Thousand and was set to star Al Pacino at one point. 

 
  • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was due to star Mel Gibson but he turned it down because he had already done a medieval set drama - Hamlet.  Maid Marion was to be played by Robin Wright Penn but she had to pull out because of pregancy.

 
  • Stephen Dorff turned down the role of Jack Dawson in Titanic.

 
  • Natalie Portman turned down the role of Juliet in Baz Luhmanns version, because she thought that the age gap between her and LeoDiCaprio was too big.

 
  • Shirley Temple was set to star in The Wizard of Oz.

 
  • Doris Day turned down a role in Dallas.

 
  • Tom Selleck had to pull out of playing Indiana Jones because of filming commitments for his tv show - Magnum.

 
  • Pierce Brosnan had to turn down an offer to play in Bond in the early or mid eighties due to his contract on a tv show = Remington Steele.



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RE: The Interesting Facts Thread - 17/1/2007 8:30:22 PM   
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259,200 people die every day.
 
A bibliophile is a collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
 
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.

A group of crows is called a murder.

A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.

Alfred Hitchcock directed the first talking film ever made in England. It was called Blackmail and was made in 1931.

All mammals have tongues.

Anne Boleyn had three breasts.



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RE: Not many people know that! - 17/1/2007 8:32:01 PM   
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quote:

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Devon is the only county in Britain with 2 coasts.


I never realised that!

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RE: Not many people know that! - 18/1/2007 9:24:31 AM   
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Shaggy's real name is Norville Rogers.


Actually it's Orville Burrell.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 10/3/2007 1:51:55 PM   
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This thread needs some love!

50% of all the casulaties in World War II were civilians.

Russia (or the Soviet Union) in WWII lost more people than every other nation put together.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 17/3/2007 5:15:17 PM   
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 One-third of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 27/3/2007 10:32:30 PM   
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 The wizard of Oz was released in England with an X certificate.

Dogs can't look up.
Someones probably already said that tho.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 10/4/2007 5:18:14 PM   
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 Some of the Xmen are in fact women .

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RE: Not many people know that! - 19/4/2007 5:45:23 PM   
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 A group of cats is called a clouter.
A group of crows is called a murder.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 19/4/2007 6:07:01 PM   
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ORIGINAL: steffols

quote:

ORIGINAL: Funkyrae

Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.

315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were mispelled.

Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.

Britain has only had seven official White Christmasses in the whole of the twentieth century and none in the twenty-first



And Jeff Buckley



and Kurt Cobain

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RE: Not many people know that! - 25/4/2007 1:33:00 PM   
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The UK was the first country to offer its citizens a postal savings system.

The tallest structure in Arizona is a chimney.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 27/4/2007 8:00:55 PM   
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RE: Not many people know that! - 3/5/2007 11:27:13 PM   
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 In Iceland tipping is considered an insult to the restaurant.

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RE: Not many people know that! - 4/5/2007 9:52:48 AM   
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