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Post by ARENA on Dec 14, 2016 14:01:22 GMT
Rex Harrison was blind in one eye, owing to a bout of childhood measles.
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Post by honeybear on Dec 14, 2016 14:06:19 GMT
n July 1869 Van Gogh's uncle obtained a position for him at an art dealers in The Hague.After completing his training in 1873, he was transferred to the London branch at Southampton Street, and took lodgings at 87 Hackford Road, Stockwell
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Post by ARENA on Dec 15, 2016 10:35:37 GMT
The horse that Thomas Mitchell rode in 'Gone With The Wind' ,went on to star as Silver in, The Lone Ranger.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 15, 2016 11:25:24 GMT
Sorry to lower the tone, but the Nazisploitation film, Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS was filmed on the set of Hogan's Heroes. I found that fact incredibly pleasing.
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Post by anybody on Dec 16, 2016 10:59:27 GMT
Taiga, also called the Boreal Forests is considered to be the world’s largest land biome consisting of coniferous forests. The Taiga forest consists of almost one-third of all the trees in the world. This forest has the biggest impact on the carbon dioxide levels and is locate just below the tundra line and receives sunlight only for a month in a year thus it takes almost more than 50 years for the seeds to grow into just a sapling’s size. It forms 29 percent of the world’s forest cover. The soil in the Taiga forest is poor in nutrients and acidic. These forests are dominated by larch, spruce, fir and pine trees mostly along with some broadleaf trees like birch, willow, aspen, etc. These are also home for a large range of animals including Alaska Blackfish, moose, reindeer, Canada lynx, Siberian tiger, etc.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 16, 2016 12:46:34 GMT
Prior to the middle of the 20th century scientists believed the Earth’s continents were stable and did not move. This began to change in 1912 with Alfred Wegener’s formulation of the continental drift theory, and later and more properly the elucidation of plate tectonics during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Post by ARENA on Dec 19, 2016 11:32:01 GMT
Dupuytren's contracture is a condition where finger tendons contract and the finger points to the palm. It is almost certainly hereditary and tends to show you are from Viking stock. I have had it in the little finger of my left hand, since birth and my paternal grandmother had it too.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 16:13:04 GMT
The WW2 Spitfire weighed 6000 pounds, and cost £6000:00
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Post by ARENA on Dec 21, 2016 15:47:15 GMT
Nearly all of the most popular Christmas songs including ‘Winter Wonderland’, ‘Chestnuts roasting…’, and ‘I’m Dreaming of a white Christmas’ were written by Jewish people
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Post by aubrey on Apr 16, 2017 19:12:59 GMT
Leopold Stokowski played organ at Robert Graves and Nancy Nicholson's wedding during WW1. (Graves did not realise this until Stokowski told him when Graves helped to organise a benefit for Pablo Casals in 1970)
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Post by clioseward on Apr 17, 2017 9:24:19 GMT
Cockroaches can live for several weeks with their heads cut off, because their brains are located inside their body. They would eventually die from being unable to eat.
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Post by ARENA on Apr 18, 2017 7:59:46 GMT
Blue-eyed people tend to have the highest tolerance of alcohol.
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Post by anybody on Apr 19, 2017 8:24:34 GMT
Birds don’t urinate.
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Post by ARENA on Apr 20, 2017 8:03:11 GMT
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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Post by goldelox on Apr 20, 2017 9:16:47 GMT
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! Not much *fun*. Reminds me of a programme I saw explaining how a sense of smell works. Save |
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