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Baron Grim Posted Sep 17, 2015
They didn't. It was noticed later that the 321 area code wasn't taken. Originally all area codes had either a 1 or a 0 as its middle digit. (According to the discussion on Reddit today about this, I believe theirs was originally 407). When they had an opportunity to add a new area code due to population growht, they picked the obvious 321.
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ITIWBS Posted Sep 17, 2015
"Officer Joe Friday's" badge number from Jack Webb's "Dragnet" TV serial was "714", at the time, the area code for the greater Los Angeles area.
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You can call me TC Posted Sep 22, 2015
Wasn't Alice Cooper's dad a church minister (of some reformed church I think)? He's quite orn'ry really.
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Baron Grim Posted Sep 22, 2015
I wouldn't be surprised. One of my favorite little facts about Alice Cooper is that The Amazing Randi designed his early stage stunts and performed on stage with him.
http://youtu.be/M32t8j-cyuU
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swl Posted Oct 1, 2015
WWI German gas masks were made from dog skins. Dogs don't sweat so their skin isn't porous.
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Baron Grim Posted Oct 1, 2015
Awww!
I didn't want to know this.
I follow Snopes on Boofcake and Twatter and they've recently featured a preposterous internet rumor that Microsoft uses dog noses for the thumb sticks on their Game Cube controllers (image shows a Sony Playstation controller).
http://m.snopes.com/gamecube-dog-nose-controllers/
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Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly) Posted Oct 1, 2015
Being Canadian and ex-military - most folks here associate the wedge cap with badge as Royal Canadian Air Force attire. But as with many aspects of military uniform, it originated in the Royal Canadian Army.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 1, 2015
Not only is the above factoid amazingly useless, but it is a classic example of that genre of information known as 'fascinates Canadians, bores the life out of the rest of the planet.'
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swl Posted Oct 1, 2015
The fuse used in British artillery shells during WWI was actually a German design. After the war, the British Government had to pay Krupps a fee for every shell used to cover the licensing rights.
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Rev Nick - dead man walking (mostly) Posted Oct 1, 2015
And there was an example of 95% of this site - applying to British interests, and boring the hell out of everyone else.
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Oct 2, 2015
All right, just to bore everybody, an equal-opportunity useless factoid:
In the US, cornhole tournaments (a kind of bean-bag toss) are growing in popularity at regional festivals.
They are often held to benefit psychiatric clinics and addiction-recovery centres.
The connection between trying to get a bagful of dried maize into the hole in a board and the promotion of mental health is not entirely clear...
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ITIWBS Posted Oct 3, 2015
Catatonic schizophrenic* mental patients often can reflexively catch objects like bean bags tossed to them, a point developed in one of Robin Williams films on a mental health theme, though they're incapable of social responsiveness in most other ways.
*One of the most gravely pathetic and debilitating mental diseases.
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Baron Grim Posted Oct 5, 2015
Cornhole is very similar to a popular game in Texas called Washers. Instead of small sacks of corn kernals, washers uses, 2.5 inch washers and instead of a box to throw them into, two 3 inch pipe "cups" set in the ground 21 feet apart are the targets. Points are awarded for washers that fall in the cups, nearest washer to the cup, "leaners" and "see through leaners".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washer_pitching#Texas
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Baron Grim Posted Oct 27, 2015
Jupiter is so massive that it and the Sun mutually orbit each other around a point outside the Sun itself.
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Baron Grim Posted Nov 3, 2015
The actors who have played James Bond are contractually prohibited from appearing in any other films in a tuxedo. Pierce Brosnan stretched this rule in his remake of _The Thomas Crown Affair_ by unbuttoning his shirt and draping a white bow tie around his neck.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Pierce-Brosnan-Wears-Ugliest-Suit-Ever-Thomas-Crown-Affair-68301.html
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 5, 2015
When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, the local natives greeted them in English.
(They had learned from fishermen who had been fishing for cod.)
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