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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Dec 8, 2008
I don't know if this has already been said or not, but Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals because he hated having two pairs of glasses.
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van-smeiter Posted Dec 9, 2008
Benjamin Franklin had a purse made of asbestos. I don't know if this was to stop his money burning a hole in his pocket 
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Runescribe Posted Dec 9, 2008
Cyanide is horribly poisonous; chromium hexacyanate (a chromium atom with six cyanides attached to it) is used as an anti-packing agent in table salt.
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Oops the Destroyer - not actually evil just very clumsy Posted Dec 9, 2008
The bolt through the neck of Frankenstein's monster was there for the lightning to strike, not to hold his head on.
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You can call me TC Posted Dec 9, 2008
Jimmy Tarbuck?
- sorry - that's referring to post 5475
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fords - number 1 all over heaven Posted Dec 9, 2008
Blur are reforming! 
Well it was only a matter of time, really.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Dec 10, 2008
Speaking of Frankenstein (I've probably already said this too), Igor doesn't appear in the book or in any movie until "The Son of Frankenstein", and then /not/ as a hunchbacked assistant.
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Oops the Destroyer - not actually evil just very clumsy Posted Dec 11, 2008
The book of Around The World In Eighty Days has no mention of travel by Hot Air Balloon, that bit was invented for the 1956 film and reused in the 2004 remake.
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 11, 2008
Goldfish were originally green before they were bred for different colors by the Chinese. Gold just happened to be the most popular hue.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Dec 11, 2008
Throughout the entire course of Star Trek: Enterprise, T'pol never once said the vulcan goodbye of "Live long, and prosper." With the exception of the Mirror Universe episode, she never made the Vulcan Salute either.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Dec 14, 2008
The State Muffin of Massachussetts is the Corn Muffin.
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Dec 14, 2008
I'm not sure that CHROMIUM hexacyanoferrate is used. Magnesium carbonate is what's usually used as an anti-caking flow agent in table salt but, in recent years
SODIUM hexacyanoferrate has also been used in table salt.
(However, the same principle applied; the cyanide ion which is normally condsidered to be highly poisonous is being used in foodstuffs.
Salt for de-icing roads in the UK typically contains sodium hexacyanoferrate for the same purpose.
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 17, 2008
As many here know, Thomas Crapper(1837-1910) did NOT invent the toilet (Sir John Harrington did in 1596). He was a plumber and sold them, but didn't invent them.
The four letter word that everyone associates with his name was first recorded in English in 1846 while Thomas was still a young boy.
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Dec 17, 2008
I usede to teach a 
called Anna Crapper.
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InfiniteImp Posted Dec 17, 2008
His careers teacher said, "Crapper, I know just the right job for a boy with a name like yours!"
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Dec 18, 2008
and the teacher, scanning homework scripts, looks up and says, 'Burke! You are well-named'
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van-smeiter Posted Dec 18, 2008
Harington was Elizabeth I's godson and an accomplished poet.
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SD HA Posted Jan 1, 2009
It took 214 crates to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to New York in 1885.
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Jan 4, 2009
If said statue were to be cleaned, it would be a copper-bronze color, instead of the bluish-green it is now.
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- 5481: Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" (Dec 8, 2008)
- 5482: van-smeiter (Dec 9, 2008)
- 5483: Runescribe (Dec 9, 2008)
- 5484: Oops the Destroyer - not actually evil just very clumsy (Dec 9, 2008)
- 5485: You can call me TC (Dec 9, 2008)
- 5486: fords - number 1 all over heaven (Dec 9, 2008)
- 5487: Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" (Dec 10, 2008)
- 5488: Baron Grim (Dec 10, 2008)
- 5489: Oops the Destroyer - not actually evil just very clumsy (Dec 11, 2008)
- 5490: Baron Grim (Dec 11, 2008)
- 5491: Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" (Dec 11, 2008)
- 5492: Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" (Dec 14, 2008)
- 5493: BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows (Dec 14, 2008)
- 5494: Baron Grim (Dec 17, 2008)
- 5495: BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows (Dec 17, 2008)
- 5496: InfiniteImp (Dec 17, 2008)
- 5497: BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows (Dec 18, 2008)
- 5498: van-smeiter (Dec 18, 2008)
- 5499: SD HA (Jan 1, 2009)
- 5500: Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" (Jan 4, 2009)
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