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Old February 24th, 2005, 05:46 AM
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Interesting facts
Following on from the recent thread about myths and legends, a thread about interesting and little know facts...

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The cover of Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" only has 6 Samurai on it. Check out the cover here:

http://www.senseofview.de/gfx/cover/seven_samurai.jpg
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If I've posted some code above, you might think it looks a bit simplistic. It might be. I'd rather people tried the next step themselves rather than getting a full solution on a plate. That way they learn more!
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Old February 24th, 2005, 05:50 AM
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One for all you Firefox fans:

Open Firefox and put this as the address:
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about:mozilla
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Neat thread...
Here's one I didn't know and would never have thought to
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On April 25, 1866, women in Columbus decorated the
graves of Confederate and Union soldiers in Friendship Cemetery.
This gesture became known as Decoration Day, the beginning of
what we observe as Memorial Day.
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The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.


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The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic Church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.


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In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.


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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.


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The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
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It's a little know fact that in it's original, ancient form, the carrot was purple - not orange
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How about trying to do this:
If you are right handed use right arm and leg, if left handed use left arm and leg.
While sitting down, raise your foot and start doing circles in the air clockwise, once you have done this for a little while, try and draw a circle in the air with your hand counter clockwise.
Can you do it?
The foot you were moving clock wise will now start moving counter clockwise.
Weird how your body parts try to do what your mind is focusing on.
I've always thought this was pretty cool
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The symbol on the 'pound' or 'hash' key (#) on your keyboard is called an octothorpe
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the person in the middle in The Last Supper painting:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/aut...last-supper.jpg
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Iguanas have two penises...
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the ADA programming language is named after Augusta Ada Byron:
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Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer
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Iguanas have two penises...

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LOL - or an adult giraffe whose tongue, incidentally, is up to 18 inches long

Ooooh errr!