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Post by anybody on Aug 31, 2019 7:45:19 GMT
"Let them eat cake"
It appears in book six of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, his autobiography (whose first six books were written in 1765, when Marie Antoinette was nine years of age, and published in 1782). The context of Rousseau's account was his desire to have some bread to accompany some wine he had stolen; however, feeling he was too elegantly dressed to go into an ordinary bakery, he recalled the words of a "great princess"
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Post by ARENA on Aug 31, 2019 8:13:15 GMT
Van Gogh cut off his ear and gave it to a girl. That's untrue.
He lost part of the lobe of his ear in a drunken fight with Paul Gaugin.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2019 12:56:12 GMT
Mother
"If you don't eat your greens you hair will not curl"
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Post by ARENA on Sept 1, 2019 6:29:41 GMT
Napoleon was 'little'.
He was in fact 5ft 9inches tall.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2019 9:47:10 GMT
If you have sex whilst standing up you cannot conceive
Wrong, as so many young men found out after a quickie back of the local Palais on Saturday night
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Post by althea on Sept 1, 2019 10:58:10 GMT
In our house,it was " if you don't eat your crusts,your hair will never curl."
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Post by althea on Sept 1, 2019 11:02:33 GMT
Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone. He just got the patent in before the actual inventor. It is believed Antonio Meuchi was the first to invent the telephone.
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Post by honeybear on Nov 4, 2019 7:54:57 GMT
33. Gluten is Bad
With the gluten-free lifestyle becoming mainstream, you might get the impression that gluten is terrible for you, or at least a way to keep your weight down. Not true, it turns out.
“The gluten-free diet is only healthier for people with gluten-related disorders, such as celiac or gluten intolerance,” says Kimberly Hershenson, a New York City–based therapist who specializes in eating disorders. “Individuals who have celiac disease require a gluten-free diet because gluten causes an adverse reaction in the body which damages the intestines and can lead to serious health problems.”
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Post by althea on Nov 4, 2019 19:02:12 GMT
It always makes me laugh when perfectly healthy people look for gluten free foods because it is trendy.
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Jan 20, 2020 7:35:13 GMT
Are black cats lucky or not?
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Post by jimmy20 on Jan 20, 2020 8:38:32 GMT
Are black cats lucky or not? When we had cats we always had black ones - cant say they brought any luck
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Post by oldcuriousity on Feb 5, 2021 16:30:12 GMT
Vikings horned-helmets were created by a designer for a Wagner opera.
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Post by althea on Feb 7, 2021 9:27:21 GMT
Lemmings don't hurl themselves off cliffs en masse. That was Walt Disney's idea for one of his films.
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Post by ARENA on Feb 9, 2021 13:50:11 GMT
Eating cheese at night does not give you nightmares.
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Post by themanwhoknewnothing on Feb 15, 2021 9:09:06 GMT
Spinach is high in iron content.....untrue.
The myth began when an American scientist occidentally misplaced a 'point' in the content making it ten times more. The myth was further spread by the makers of Popeye cartoons.
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