Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.
Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.
Alfred Hitchcock's film ROPE was shot in 10-minute takes. Actors had to be perfect throughout or start the segment over.
Plato is said to have rewritten the opening sentence of THE REPUBLIC at least fifty times.
Re: Writing is hard work...............
Sean said:
Plato is said to have rewritten the opening sentence of THE REPUBLIC at least fifty times.
Just figure if every Optiboard posting is re-written 50 times, but I dont think we'r all Platos
Well i for for one am not. Just trying to have some fun here. Hopefully make some OB members smile and give them something to think about for the rest of the the day........besides work.Chris Ryser said:
Just figure if every Optiboard posting is re-written 50 times, but I dont think we'r all Platos
The odd fact that Ostriches eyes are bigger than there brains was repeated 3 times in this thread. Hmmm...what does that say about the brain of the optiboarder?
Night Train said:
The odd fact that Ostriches eyes are bigger than there brains was repeated 3 times in this thread. Hmmm...what does that say about the brain of the optiboarder?
Boxer Jersey Joe Walcott's real name was Arnold Raymond Cream.
Dartmouth was the last Ivy League university to go co-ed, in 1972.
In World War II , US Marines used a code based on the Navajo language in every Pacific battle from 1942 to 1945.
The English word with the most consecutive vowels is ....................queueing, which means .........in the act of lining up.
In ancient Egypt, citizens could pay their taxes in honey.
Our skin is constantly dying and flaking off. Over an average
lifetime,a person sheds 45 pounds of skin.
During World War II, the Oscar award for achievement in
moviemaking was made of plaster.
The African goliath frog is the largest frog in the world. Just it's
body,not including the legs,can be up to a foot long.
Frog.........................................
Sean said:
The African goliath frog is the largest frog in the world. Just it's
body,not including the legs,can be up to a foot long.
Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning.........................
nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
:hammer:
Lahnaphobia.........................is the fear of vegetables.
Antofagasta, Chile is the driest place on earth, with annual rainfall ranging from zero to one-tenth of a millimeter.
The most common element in the earth's soil is aluminum.
Thomas Watson,one-time chairman of IBM,said in 1943........." I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
:drop:
There is actually a Crayola crayon called
Macaroni & Cheese. ;)
Ferdinand Porsche designed the original Volkswagen in 1936. He later went on to make his own cars.
Kathleen Lindsay (1903-1973) wrote 904 novels under six different pen names.
James Crichton (1560-1582) could speak 22 different languages by the time he was 15 years old.
Milton Hershey,the founder of Hershey's Chocolate,only had a fouth grade education.
Due to a paper shortage,Latvia once printed postage stamps on the backs of german war maps.
A newborn baby reindeer at one day of age can out run the fastest person on earth.
~Cindy
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Catherine Aird-
Lightning has a temperature of about 50,000 degrees F, while the surface of the sun is only 10,000 degrees F.
The world-famous Barbie (R) doll has a full name.........
Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Boris Karloff narrated the 1966 animated TV special HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS.:)
English has the largest vocabulary of any language,with over 800,000 words available for use.
The average bottle of champagne has 56,000,000 bubbles!
Happy (hic) New Year (hic) to everyone!
Jim G said:
The average bottle of champagne has 56,000,000 bubbles!
Happy (hic) New Year (hic) to everyone!
:D :cheers: :D
A "Jiffy" is a scientific term for 1/100 of a second. It has also been used to describe one AC cycle,or 1/60 of a second.
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
On Feb. 23, 1935, the New York Herald-Tribune reported on page 3:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis succeeded electrophotomicrographically as the longest word in the English language recognized by the National Puzzlers' League at the opening session of the organization's 103d semi-annual meeting held yesterday at the Hotel New Yorker.
The puzzlers explained that the forty-five-letter word is the name of a special form of silicosis caused by ultra-microscopic particles of siliceous volcanic dust.
Spell check anyone?
The third Star Wars movie was originally titled Revenge of the Jedi
It was changed before the movie came out, because revenge was not a Jedi trait.
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