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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1940 on: September 08, 2010, 07:49:57 PM »
John Lennon's murderer has been denied parole for the 6th time.

Good.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1941 on: September 11, 2010, 10:59:08 AM »
almonds are a member of the peach family...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1942 on: September 11, 2010, 11:49:04 AM »
Quote from: Senator on September 08, 2010, 07:49:57 PM
John Lennon's murderer has been denied parole for the 6th time.

Good.

DEATH TO HIM!!!!

RIP John!
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1943 on: September 12, 2010, 05:01:57 PM »
On a related note to the late Mr. Lennon.

The two birds topping the Liver Building in Liverpool (Known as the Liver Birds) are a cross between an Eagle and a Cormorant.

 In legend, there are no other (official) Liver Birds because the two in existance have never even seen each other, as the female is looking into the Mersey estuary, making sure Liverpool still has it's sailors; whereas the Male is looking inland, to check if the pubs are open. According to the same legend, if the birds ever fly away, Liverpool will cease to exist.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1944 on: September 18, 2010, 12:58:09 PM »
September 18, 1926 - the "Great Miami Hurricane" passed over Miami, Florida with sustained winds up to 138 mph... the city was in the eye of the storm for 45 minutes...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1945 on: September 18, 2010, 01:00:37 PM »
Quote from: majormagna on September 12, 2010, 05:01:57 PM
On a related note to the late Mr. Lennon.

The two birds topping the Liver Building in Liverpool (Known as the Liver Birds) are a cross between an Eagle and a Cormorant.

 In legend, there are no other (official) Liver Birds because the two in existance have never even seen each other, as the female is looking into the Mersey estuary, making sure Liverpool still has it's sailors; whereas the Male is looking inland, to check if the pubs are open. According to the same legend, if the birds ever fly away, Liverpool will cease to exist.

Someone's been on the Wacker Quacker WW2 "Ducks". :P
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1946 on: September 19, 2010, 01:10:29 PM »
Quote from: majormagna on September 12, 2010, 05:01:57 PM
On a related note to the late Mr. Lennon.

The two birds topping the Liver Building in Liverpool (Known as the Liver Birds) are a cross between an Eagle and a Cormorant.

 In legend, there are no other (official) Liver Birds because the two in existance have never even seen each other, as the female is looking into the Mersey estuary, making sure Liverpool still has it's sailors; whereas the Male is looking inland, to check if the pubs are open. According to the same legend, if the birds ever fly away, Liverpool will cease to exist.

Now I know what I need to do in order to rid this world of scousers :D :D :D
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1947 on: September 19, 2010, 02:41:55 PM »
Septmeber 19, 1983 - record heat covered the northeast US with a high of 92?F in New York City... that same day, the temperature fell to a chilly 30?F in Billings, Montana...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1948 on: September 19, 2010, 03:34:30 PM »
Quote from: majormagna on September 12, 2010, 05:01:57 PM
On a related note to the late Mr. Lennon.

The two birds topping the Liver Building in Liverpool (Known as the Liver Birds) are a cross between an Eagle and a Cormorant.

 In legend, there are no other (official) Liver Birds because the two in existance have never even seen each other, as the female is looking into the Mersey estuary, making sure Liverpool still has it's sailors; whereas the Male is looking inland, to check if the pubs are open. According to the same legend, if the birds ever fly away, Liverpool will cease to exist.
thats interesting, i guess if they both left liverpool would just faid away, disappear from the maps and emeories of everyone? thats pretty scarry, lets hop you and ur family is outta town when that happens XD
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1949 on: September 24, 2010, 01:39:13 PM »
September 24, 2005 - Hurricane Rita made landfall in Louisiana at about 2:30am CDT as a Category 3 storm. 112 mph winds and surge virtually destroyed the town of Cameron...


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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1950 on: September 25, 2010, 08:22:27 PM »
Cameron, LA, after Hurricane Rita.

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1951 on: September 27, 2010, 05:02:22 PM »
Los Angeles, California hit 113 degrees on today, making it their hottest temperature ever recorded since records began in 1877... 
this also beat the daily record high set in 1963 by seven degrees...

temperatures have only been 110 degrees or higher three other times in L.A.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1952 on: September 27, 2010, 05:22:05 PM »
my home town basingstoke in england, is one of the few towns/cities to experience a tornado, it was enough to knock down some trees but not much else....
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1953 on: September 28, 2010, 04:30:01 PM »
Whoa. Didn't think that was possible.
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1954 on: October 02, 2010, 07:30:25 PM »
the first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo...

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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1955 on: October 02, 2010, 07:41:25 PM »
LOL jimmy that fact just made my few days of being ill worth trudging through XD  :funny :funny :funny
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1956 on: October 02, 2010, 09:41:11 PM »
what is funny about an elephant's death??  :(
they are very emotional and smart animals...
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1957 on: October 02, 2010, 09:42:15 PM »
On Oct. 2, 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Indian nationalist leader whose philosophy of nonviolence influenced movements around the world, was born.   
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1958 on: October 03, 2010, 06:45:22 AM »
Quote from: JimmyB76 on October 02, 2010, 09:41:11 PM
what is funny about an elephant's death??  :(
they are very emotional and smart animals...
i know that but its the irony of the situation, the first bomb dropped was supposed to hit about 10m away from the elephant and the bomb was called something that relates to an elephant.....and it ends up killing one.........irony?
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RE: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #1959 on: October 13, 2010, 11:33:55 PM »
more than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia...
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