That the very first conclave lasted over two years...finally the frustrated villagers cut the food intake of the cardinals and eventually tore the roof off of the building in order to expose them to the elements. They thought this would speed up the process by making them uncomfortable. This happened in the year 1213 or 1230 or something like that..........
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sharon
The Hundred Year War lasted-----------
116 years
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Wacky Funster
Did you know...
We exhale air at 15mph... ?
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Raf
The sweet Irish lady who kisses her children and tells them a lovely story in Titanic, and the gruff macho Marine lady in Aliens...
are the same person.
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oldiesman
Which end?
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Wacky Funster
olds...I think you just sputter...
Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age?
T'is true, t'is true...
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WeWereScammed
Just can't get VP off your mind can you?
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Linda Z
Despite the fact that Wisconsin is known as the big cheese state, 2.5 times more Swiss cheese is made in Ohio than in Wisconsin.
Take that, cheese heads!
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dmiller
Minnesota (the land of 10,000 lakes) actually has closer to 15,000 lakes -- with 11,842 of them being 10 acres or larger in size.
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oh -- and the sport of water-skiing was invented in Minnesota as well, on July 2, 1922. It was done by RALPH SAMUELSON on Lake Pepin, in Lake City Mn.
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outofdafog
Yes but if the black box is always intact, why don't they make the whole airplane out of that material??
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Steve!
William Shakespeare coined something like 144 words and phrases that are still used to this day - including "assassin" (or maybe assassinate).
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waterbuffalo
...no, Steve!, I didn't know that!
but please post on everyone. this is a fun thread to read and it's nice having such intelligent friends who know much more than i do.
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GrouchoMarxJr
That if you chose 23 people at random, the odds are that two of them have the same birthday.
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coolchef1248 @adelphia.net
how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop{no sucking]the average is 142
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GeorgeStGeorge
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day, July 4 (1826).
George
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pawtucket
George,
More Presidents have died on the 4th of July than any other day. James Monroe died on the 4th in 1831
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johniam
There are 170 prime numbers between 0 and 1000.
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pawtucket
and 170 is divisible by 3 prime numbers
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Lifted Up
Then which of you is our PRIME minister?
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outofdafog
That the very first conclave lasted over two years...finally the frustrated villagers cut the food intake of the cardinals and eventually tore the roof off of the building in order to expose them to the elements. They thought this would speed up the process by making them uncomfortable. This happened in the year 1213 or 1230 or something like that..........
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outofdafog
I am sorry, not the very first, but one of the longest. Oops
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Jim
A modern locomotive weighs 200,000 lbs and costs upwards of $2,000,000.
Light travels about a foot in 1 nanosecond.
Decafe coffee doesn't cost any more than regular because the removed caffeine is sold for a profit to soft drink makers.
Maxwell predicted and modeled radio waves about a century before they were "discovered"
A male parakeet wraps it's wings around the female while mating.
Martin Luther suffered greatly from constipation.
J.S. Bach had a total of 20 children from 2 wives. Only ten survived early childhood.
Pope John Paul I was only a Pope for 33 days before he died.
There is the remains of a naturally occuring nuclear reactor in Gabon, Africa. It ran out of fuel 2 billion years ago.
Bill Gates' first company was Traf-O-Data and built equipment to count cars. His second company was Micro-Soft, later changed to Microsoft.
IBM spend 100 man-years developing an operating system and then threw it away.
Bach's greatest work, the Mass in B minor, was never performed in it's entirety during his lifetime.
Japan celebrates the Emperor's Birthday and Constitution Day in the same week.
Boeing test pilot Tex Johnson did a 360 degree barrel roll in the prototype 707 over a crowd of 200,000 people.
That's it for now. I'll probably have more for tomorrow.
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GrouchoMarxJr
Keep em coming...
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...That if everyone in the state of Ohio gave me a quarter, I could retire tomorrow.
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outofdafog
That the daddy long leg spider is the deadliest spider.....
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