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Post a fun fact whether if be true or prefabricated.
A dog will sometimes fake an illness to get attention.
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e366/spoonfuloblues/sick-as-a-dog.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/spoonfuloblues/media/sick-as-a-dog.jpg.html)
(http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj172/AlsoKnownAs7/ATT15107105.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/AlsoKnownAs7/media/ATT15107105.jpg.html)
True or False? What say you?
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Post a fun fact whether if be true or prefabricated.
A dog will sometimes fake an illness to get attention.
([url]http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e366/spoonfuloblues/sick-as-a-dog.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://media.photobucket.com/user/spoonfuloblues/media/sick-as-a-dog.jpg.html[/url])
([url]http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj172/AlsoKnownAs7/ATT15107105.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://media.photobucket.com/user/AlsoKnownAs7/media/ATT15107105.jpg.html[/url])
True or False? What say you?
Our church mothers call that second picture purging. This is what the swine should have done with legion. :D
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Water at a certain temperature is more dense than Ice
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Fun fact: You can hold an alligator's mouth closed with two fingers. (trick is getting him to close it)
(http://thenewsherald.com/content/articles/2011/04/02/news/doc4d963603217d44932352771.jpg)
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Post a fun fact whether if be true or prefabricated.
A dog will sometimes fake an illness to get attention.
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True or False? What say you?
I TOTALLY believe this. I believe I have fallen victim to this.
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Did you know that when a country dog moves to the city, all the city dogs get upset. When the country dog faces them, they bark at him, and if he tries to rum, the bite him in the
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I TOTALLY believe this. I believe I have fallen victim to this.
I can see nemo doing it ... i remember a picture of nemo and yep nemo would so do that
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Fun fact: You can hold an alligator's mouth closed with two fingers. (trick is getting him to close it)
I heard something along these lines before or maybe I've seen one of those crazy guys attempting to show everyone on TV.
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I heard something along these lines before or maybe I've seen one of those crazy guys attempting to show everyone on TV.
The picture I linked was originally of an alligator on the hood of a police car with a woman holding its mouth shut with one hand. They must have changed the file location.....don't know WHAT that new picture is....
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The Bible, the world’s best-selling book, is also the world’s most shoplifted book. :o :o
Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere because of its surface tension.
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At the end WWI and WWII, all things German were so unpopular in the United States and Great Britain that a popular dog breed was renamed. The dogs we call German Sheperds were reclassified by the American Kennel Club as Alsatians. That name comes from the Alsace-Lorraine region along the French German border. An area that has changed hands numerous times following wars where the French and the Germans are on opposite sides. Explains why a town with the German sounding name, Strasbourg, is in France.
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today isn't friday ... but one day it will be
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In a survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy; 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.
Ty Cobb was baseball's first millionaire.
In the early drafts of Back to the Future, Doc Brown had a pet chimpanzee.
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LOL Interesting. :)
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The Toledo War of 1835-36.
The state of Michigan and the state of Ohio almost entered into armed conflict over the ownership of Toledo. The US Government settled the dispute by giving Toledo to Ohio and the Upper Peninsula to Michigan.
(http://www.thesportsbank.net/core/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/toledowarphillipswar3.jpg)
Leaving Wisconsin to say "What the what? We weren't even in this mess!". The Upper Peninsula is connected by land to northern Wisconsin, but is only reachable from mainland Michigan by boat or driving over the Mackinac Bridge.
(https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=U4aSnIyhBFNIJ3A8fCzUmaVIwyWq6RtIfB4QKiGq_w,PlZ-CqrsQMcD2w0v8h2CT2rJBeb7hvOAl1G9kio0297lS6vMuXCK0oNqzGliJ3LfR6X9ItdpV9gLSs3gIKEq_cdRnnW6AVea3B0bf9cQ0iS3RdnbDvsnXCIm1ulEFuTnB7rrG9sH6yCGhWCgKo1_2sY0WYEHSAFneA-Cw9rek-5l8nEtqw2tmmRC4_WiDpF1icx5tAqCZKUVVATw0A)
Of course Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin all have football teams in the Big 10. And Michigan / Ohio State is one of the most fierce rivalries in college sports. Coincidence?
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The Toledo War of 1835-36.
The state of Michigan and the state of Ohio almost entered into armed conflict over the ownership of Toledo. The US Government settled the dispute by giving Toledo to Ohio and the Upper Peninsula to Michigan.
([url]http://www.thesportsbank.net/core/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/toledowarphillipswar3.jpg[/url])
Leaving Wisconsin to say "What the what? We weren't even in this mess!". The Upper Peninsula is connected by land to northern Wisconsin, but is only reachable from mainland Michigan by boat or driving over the Mackinac Bridge.
([url]https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=U4aSnIyhBFNIJ3A8fCzUmaVIwyWq6RtIfB4QKiGq_w,PlZ-CqrsQMcD2w0v8h2CT2rJBeb7hvOAl1G9kio0297lS6vMuXCK0oNqzGliJ3LfR6X9ItdpV9gLSs3gIKEq_cdRnnW6AVea3B0bf9cQ0iS3RdnbDvsnXCIm1ulEFuTnB7rrG9sH6yCGhWCgKo1_2sY0WYEHSAFneA-Cw9rek-5l8nEtqw2tmmRC4_WiDpF1icx5tAqCZKUVVATw0A[/url])
Of course Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin all have football teams in the Big 10. And Michigan / Ohio State is one of the most fierce rivalries in college sports. Coincidence?
My Father-In-Law, who is from Detroit, told me about the genesis of that rivalry. Every time I pass through Toledo on the way to Mo-Town I be like it doesn't look like much to me. Dayton looks much better from what I can see from the interstate.
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One of Louis Vitton's former residences on the Champs-Elysse in Paris is now a Marriott hotel and is practically across the street from the Louis Vitton store, also on the Champs-Élysées.
I'll disclose soon exactly why I know this particular nugget of trivia.
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One of Louis Vitton's former residences on the Champs-Elysse in Paris is now a Marriott hotel and is practically across the street from the Louis Vitton store, also on the Champs-Élysées.
I'll disclose soon exactly why I know this particular nugget of trivia.
YES!!! I can't wait!
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One of Louis Vitton's former residences on the Champs-Elysse in Paris is now a Marriott hotel and is practically across the street from the Louis Vitton store, also on the Champs-Élysées.
I'll disclose soon exactly why I know this particular nugget of trivia.
Since it's ALMOST Friday where I am, I will start this week's Fun Fact Friday as wifey and I pack to head home from Paris. We were going to stay at the aforementioned Marriott on the Champs-Élysées, but our neighbor / travel agent thought we might like the Marriott owned Renaissaince at the Arch de Triomphe a bit better. I think she was right. In any event, we had a blast.....now the 6-hour plane ride.....
Now today's Friday Fun Fact.....
Been to a department store lately? Thank Emporer Napoleon III. He was that other Napolean guy's nephew. In one of his efforts to spur the French economy after taking over as the first elected President of France, he supported the development of Le Bon Marchè in Paris in 1862. Printemp followed in 1865. We visited Printemp earlier today. Oh, a bonus fact....the architect of the store for Le Bon Marchè was Gustave Eiffel. Most department stores from that time forward copied his basic architecture. We visited another of his projects.
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The French have always been fashion forward. My wife might find that fun fact interesting. (shoppaholic)
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The human eye can distinguish more shades oF GREEN than any other color.
Although oxygen gas is colorless, the solid and liquid forms of oxygen are blue.
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Didn't know either of those facts. I is smerter now...
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There are two possible sources for police being called "cops"....
In NYC, the first patrolmen wore civilian clothes and badges made of copper. They were called coppers, which was colloquialized to cop.
At the same time, in London, England, there were patrolmen called "Constables On Patrol"
Both are true. Pick the one you like best.
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But... it's not Friday... :D
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But... it's not Friday... :D
I was procrastinating.
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There are two possible sources for police being called "cops"....
In NYC, the first patrolmen wore civilian clothes and badges made of copper. They were called coppers, which was colloquialized to cop.
At the same time, in London, England, there were patrolmen called "Constables On Patrol"
Both are true. Pick the one you like best.
I'll take the American version cause we keep it one hundead.
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I was procrastinating.
or maybe you were just early?!
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The lion used in the original MGM movie logo killed its trainer and two assistants the day after the logo was filmed.
(http://[url=http://www.factropolis.com/uploaded_images/lion-766727.png]http://www.factropolis.com/uploaded_images/lion-766727.png[/url])
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Walter P. Chrysler was employed at Buick Motor Division from 1911 - 1916. He took over leadership of Buick from Charles Nash.
Nash went on to found Nash Motors (eventually renamed American Motors)
Chrysler went on to found.....you guessed it...Chrysler Motors in 1925. Chrysler (the company) eventually absorbed American Motors in 1987.
Bonus Fun Fact....
The same man that founded Cadillac also founded Lincoln. Henry M. Leland founded Cadillac in 1902 and sold it to General Motors in 1909. He continued to run it until 1917. He left and founded Lincoln. Before founding Cadillac, he designed engines for Oldsmobile.
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Walter P. Chrysler was employed at Buick Motor Division from 1911 - 1916. He took over leadership of Buick from Charles Nash.
Nash went on to found Nash Motors (eventually renamed American Motors)
Chrysler went on to found.....you guessed it...Chrysler Motors in 1925. Chrysler (the company) eventually absorbed American Motors in 1987.
Bonus Fun Fact....
The same man that founded Cadillac also founded Lincoln. Henry M. Leland founded Cadillac in 1902 and sold it to General Motors in 1909. He continued to run it until 1917. He left and founded Lincoln. Before founding Cadillac, he designed engines for Oldsmobile.
Meanwhile in Japan; Honda was the supplier of piston rings for Toyota during the 40's.
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Gustave Eiffel, the architect responsible for the tower that bears his name, was also the architect for the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty. There is a scaled down replica of the SoL on a small island on the Seine in Paris.
One last fun fact.....during construction of the Eiffel Tower, Eiffel had an apartment in the structure.
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
In the same fashion as the the finger print, everyone has a unique tongue print.
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A herd of bison (incorrectly called buffalo by us 'Muricans) lives on the front lawn of Domino's Pizza Headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(http://www.annarbor.com/assets_c/2011/04/bison-thumb-590x344-74460.jpg)
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Do you like Italian food? Especially pasta with tomato-based sauces? Then you have Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus to thank. Marco Polo brought pasta to Europe from China. Columbus brought the first tomato plants to Europe from the Americas.
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From 1973 to 1999 the most common birthday was Sept 16
(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Fx_Ky3lT--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_320/17mtdlpwlsy4tjpg.jpg)
Sept. is a pretty popular month ... excellent Christmas presents
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LOL Interesting. :)
FALSE! LOL!
One of Louis Vitton's former residences on the Champs-Elysse in Paris is now a Marriott hotel and is practically across the street from the Louis Vitton store, also on the Champs-Élysées.
I'll disclose soon exactly why I know this particular nugget of trivia.
You never did disclose...
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You never did disclose...
I was in Paris when I was posting all the French trivia stuff. We were originally going to stay in the Marriott that used to be Louis Vitton's Paris Residence.
(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/martinjlm/Family%20Stuff/40460b5cf9862bad12aec8a0cbf6ea2e_zps4a2f604d.jpg)
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Ever hear the term "Jumping the shark"? Do you know what it means or where it comes from?
It started out meaning that moment when an idea is so far beyond it's moment that it has to result in a gimmick to try to hang on a little longer.
Where it came from was an episode of "Happy Days". The series was getting long in the tooth and had started leaning to being all about Fonzy. Fonzy was originally supposed to be a minor character but soon came to dominate the story writing (Steve Urkel?).
As the writing team was running out of ideas for Fonzy's character, they actually had him jump over a shark on water skis. What the heck does that have to do with a tough biker dude living in Milwaukee in the '50s?
(http://www.mullerover.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Fonzie-jump-shark.jpg)
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Ever hear the term "Jumping the shark"? Do you know what it means or where it comes from?
It started out meaning that moment when an idea is so far beyond it's moment that it has to result in a gimmick to try to hang on a little longer.
Where it came from was an episode of "Happy Days". The series was getting long in the tooth and had started leaning to being all about Fonzy. Fonzy was originally supposed to be a minor character but soon came to dominate the story writing (Steve Urkel?).
As the writing team was running out of ideas for Fonzy's character, they actually had him jump over a shark on water skis. What the heck does that have to do with a tough biker dude living in Milwaukee in the '50s?
Yeah, I've seen quite a few shows over the years that strayed away from the course. You can tell the writers are reaching when they "jump the shark". ;D
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So you have a male mule and a female mule and you've decided to go into the mule breeding business. Too bad. You'll probably lose your ***. You will not be seeing any baby mules because mules cannot reproduce (except for a handful of documented exceptions).
A mule is the product of a male donkey and a female horse. But since donkeys and horses have different numbers of chromosomes, the offspring mule has an odd number of chromosomes. For whatever reason, that makes them incapable of reproducing.
And for the record, the product of a male horse and a female donkey is called a hinny. They are typically smaller than mules and also incapable of direct breeding.
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So you have a male mule and a female mule and you've decided to go into the mule breeding business. Too bad. You'll probably lose your ***. You will not be seeing any baby mules because mules cannot reproduce (except for a handful of documented exceptions).
A mule is the product of a male donkey and a female horse. But since donkeys and horses have different numbers of chromosomes, the offspring mule has an odd number of chromosomes. For whatever reason, that makes them incapable of reproducing.
And for the record, the product of a male horse and a female donkey is called a hinny. They are typically smaller than mules and also incapable of direct breeding.
My daughter is an equestrian lover (she got upset at me when I told her that horse is eaten in certain parts of Italy) and she told me this a couple years back. In fact, I may have even heard this before then.
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Ever hear of the legend of John Henry? Turns out that the story is based on a real man whose job it was to drive steel rods into mountainsides so that dynamite could be inserted to blast away rock to make tunnels. He was a slave who worked for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (which is now part of CSX Transportation) and it is generally believed that he died after winning a race against a mechanical rod-driver during the construction of Big Bend Tunnel.............however...........so me accounts say that he died at Lewis Tunnel and others say at Coosa Mountain Tunnel on a line that became part of todays Norfolk Southern.
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so is that where the phrase
get your hinney over here
comes from? they want me to bring my male donkey/ female horse cross breed over?
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The word SALary dates back several hundred years to a time when people were often paid for labor, goods, and services in salt. There was no refrigeration back then, and salt was the best known preservative. As such it was a very valuable commodity, and even used as a trading staple, even currency.
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Get rid of salt, sugar, corn, and wheat and you control the country.
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Business owners may get an idea now on how to cut expenses by the way of salaries (salt).
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Pick a number. However many digits you want. Now add all the digits together. If the sum of all the digits is equal to or evenly divisible by 9, the number you have chosen is also divisible by 9. Try it.
Example: 49509 will be divisible by 9. 4+9+5+0+9 = 27. 27/9 = 3, so 49509 is divisible by 9.
49509/9 = 5,501. Rearranging the digits would still result in numbers divisible by 9.
99504/9= 11,056
94509/9= 10,051
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the number I chose is i
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the number I chose is i
I am going to find out where you live and then show up on your doorstep with a shaving cream pie.
;D
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LOL!
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Henry Ford used to work for Thomas Edison.
He was an engineer, and eventually chief engineer, at Edison Illuminating Company before being involved in three different car companies ( Ford Motor Company was the third, Henry Ford Automobiles, which eventually became Cadillac, was the second).
Now Thomas Edison's laboratory from Menlo Park, New Jersey is preserved intact at Greenfield Village, a Ford family owned attraction in Dearborn, Michigan. George Washington Carver's house and the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop are also now located, intact, in Greenfield Village.
Wright Brothers Bicycle Shop
(http://www.wrenscottage.com/gvm/images/invention/wrightcycleshop3.jpg)
George Washington Carver's House
(http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/bb/01/93/the-henry-ford.jpg)
Edison's Lab
(http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/cd/eb/ea/greenfield-village.jpg)
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Pick a number. However many digits you want. Now add all the digits together. If the sum of all the digits is equal to or evenly divisible by 9, the number you have chosen is also divisible by 9. Try it.
Example: 49509 will be divisible by 9. 4+9+5+0+9 = 27. 27/9 = 3, so 49509 is divisible by 9.
49509/9 = 5,501. Rearranging the digits would still result in numbers divisible by 9.
99504/9= 11,056
94509/9= 10,051
That same trick works for numbers to be divisible by 3. I got a whole list of divisibility rules I could post.
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Why is a tank called a tank? I'm talking about the military vehicle. The first tanks appeared in World War I. The British didn't want German spies to figure out what they were working on so they claimed to be constructing water tanks.
(http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/ATC/ATC-FrenchWWI-1.jpg)
While we're at it, where did the name Jeep come from? They were first supplied to the U.S. Military by a company called Willy's as General Purpose Vehicles. General Purpose became GP. GP Became Jeep and a brand was born. The company (Willy's) was located in Toledo , Ohio. It eventually was absorbed by Nash Motors which became absorbed by American Motors which was absorbed into Chrysler Corporation which is now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Jeep is FCA's most profitable brand. The main plants are in Toledo.
1940s Jeep
(http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/1940-1941-jeep-1.jpg)
2011 Jeep Wrangler
(http://files.conceptcarz.com/img/Jeep/Jeep-Wrangler-Renegade-SUV_Image-01-1024.jpg)
Ok...last one. Since we are talking military vehicles, where did Hummer come from? In 1979, the U.S. Military held competitive bids for a company to design and build specialized in-field personal carriers. A subsidiary of American Motors, AM General, won the bid with their concept for the "High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle", or HMMWV. It quickly came to be known as the Humvee, and later Hummer.
Here's a military spec Humvee
(http://olive-drab.com/images/id_m998_700_01.jpg)
And the publicly available street legal version (this one belongs to Arnold Shwartzenegger)
(http://www.carsonelove.com/uploads/2014/02/cars-of-arnold-schwarzenegger-h1-3.jpg)
And one of the last production Hummers from GM's ownership of the brand
(https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/JvwcIoqnmOougdQK.standard)
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The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they use a human skull.
A flock of crows is known as a murder.
An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
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B.B. King is currently in hospice care, so let's pray for the comfort and good keeping of this American icon.
Which brings us to the subject of today's Friday Fun Fact.....
Why does B.B. King name all of his guitars "Lucille"?
Seems he was playing in a hall in Arkansas in 1949. A fight broke out in the hall and in the course of the fight, a kerosene heater was knocked over., causing a fire. King evacuated the hall with the rest of the crowd, but realized he had left his guitar. He went back in and was able to retrieve it. Later on he found out two things about the incident.
- Two men died in the blaze. He was lucky he wasn't the third, given his poor decision to go back in to get the guitar
- The fight that started the fire was the result of two men arguing over a woman named Lucille.
So he named that guitar, and every one after it "Lucille", as a reminder to not do anything foolish like get into a fight over a woman or run into a fire after mere possessions.
(http://www.bbking.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/141/files/main-gallery/b-b-king-lucille-2008.jpg)
(http://www.usedgibsonguitars.co.uk/images/D/bb_king_lucille-4.jpg)
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B.B. King is currently in hospice care, so let's pray for the comfort and good keeping of this American icon.
Which brings us to the subject of today's Friday Fun Fact.....
Why does B.B. King name all of his guitars "Lucille"?
Seems he was playing in a hall in Arkansas in 1949. A fight broke out in the hall and in the course of the fight, a kerosene heater was knocked over., causing a fire. King evacuated the hall with the rest of the crowd, but realized he had left his guitar. He went back in and was able to retrieve it. Later on he found out two things about the incident.
- Two men died in the blaze. He was lucky he wasn't the third, given his poor decision to go back in to get the guitar
- The fight that started the fire was the result of two men arguing over a woman named Lucille.
So he named that guitar, and every one after it "Lucille", as a reminder to not do anything foolish like get into a fight over a woman or run into a fire after mere possessions.
([url]http://www.bbking.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/141/files/main-gallery/b-b-king-lucille-2008.jpg[/url])
([url]http://www.usedgibsonguitars.co.uk/images/D/bb_king_lucille-4.jpg[/url])
T'was good.
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The lady on the weather channel mentioned Fun Fact Friday in conjunction with this entry.
The pyrocumulonimbus cloud (pyroCb) is a type of cumulonimbus cloud that forms above a source of heat, such as a wildfire, and may sometimes even extinguish the fire that formed it. It is the most extreme manifestation of a pyrocumulus cloud. According to the American Meteorological Society’s Glossary of Meteorology, a pyrocumulus is "a cumulus cloud formed by a rising thermal from a fire, or enhanced by buoyant plume emissions from an industrial combustion process
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
Did you know that approx. 180 million people in the world still need a Bible in their own language?
Did you know the Budweiser Clydesdales dates back to 1933 celebrating the end of Prohibition?
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The site where the Parthenon was built had to be cleared of hundreds of dinosaur bones (then called giants' bones) before construction could begin.
Did you know that approx. 180 million people in the world still need a Bible in their own language?
Did you know the Budweiser Clydesdales dates back to 1933 celebrating the end of Prohibition?
That reminds me
Before Prohibition.....
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/234/3263577699_fe0a20d63f.jpg) (http://cf.collectorsweekly.com/stories/xhn7mDPEcfvxCfiGw7Gp9w-small.jpg)
During Prohibition....
(http://static.caloriecount.about.com/images/medium/strohs-ice-cream-premium-137446.jpg)
After Prohibition....
(http://cdn.beeradvocate.com/im/beers/1330.jpg) (http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/73/82/48/00/0073824800022_180X180.jpg)
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While we're at it, where did the name Jeep come from? They were first supplied to the U.S. Military by a company called Willy's as General Purpose Vehicles. General Purpose became GP. GP Became Jeep and a brand was born. The company (Willy's) was located in Toledo , Ohio. It eventually was absorbed by Nash Motors which became absorbed by American Motors which was absorbed into Chrysler Corporation which is now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Jeep is FCA's most profitable brand. The main plants are in Toledo.
1940s Jeep
([url]http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/1940-1941-jeep-1.jpg[/url])
2011 Jeep Wrangler
([url]http://files.conceptcarz.com/img/Jeep/Jeep-Wrangler-Renegade-SUV_Image-01-1024.jpg[/url])
Ok...last one. Since we are talking military vehicles, where did Hummer come from? In 1979, the U.S. Military held competitive bids for a company to design and build specialized in-field personal carriers. A subsidiary of American Motors, AM General, won the bid with their concept for the "High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle", or HMMWV. It quickly came to be known as the Humvee, and later Hummer.
Here's a military spec Humvee
([url]http://olive-drab.com/images/id_m998_700_01.jpg[/url])
And the publicly available street legal version (this one belongs to Arnold Shwartzenegger)
([url]http://www.carsonelove.com/uploads/2014/02/cars-of-arnold-schwarzenegger-h1-3.jpg[/url])
And one of the last production Hummers from GM's ownership of the brand
([url]https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/JvwcIoqnmOougdQK.standard[/url])
...and speaking of General Purpose vehicles, General Motors has it's own version, but you're not going to find these driving down your street. Through its Electro-Motive Division, GM offered a series of 4-axle, 'general purpose' or 'GP' road switcher type locomotives starting in 1949 with the GP-7 to the GP-60M which ended production in 1994. Advances in the design of 6-axle locomotives allowing them to negotiate sharp curves spelled the end of the line for high-speed, 4-axle locomotives. Hence, the GP60M was the last of the Geeps (note the difference in spelling).
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3870/14376216577_7d9e024c25_z.jpg)
GP7
(http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/8/6/2/1862.1380977745.jpg)
GP60M
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Lol, you and your trains... :)
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...and speaking of General Purpose vehicles, General Motors has it's own version, but you're not going to find these driving down your street. Through its Electro-Motive Division, GM offered a series of 4-axle, 'general purpose' or 'GP' road switcher type locomotives starting in 1949 with the GP-7 to the GP-60M which ended production in 1994. Advances in the design of 6-axle locomotives allowing them to negotiate sharp curves spelled the end of the line for high-speed, 4-axle locomotives. Hence, the GP60M was the last of the Geeps (note the difference in spelling)
Here's another fun fact. In addition to once owning train manufacturer Electro-Motive, GM also owned a household appliance company called Frigidaire. Sold it in 1978. Must have been good products, because up until about 7-8 years ago there were 3 working Frigidaire by GM window air conditioners in my house. They had to have been built before 1978.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Frigidaire_fridge_Hallwylska_museet.jpg)
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Did you know that wireless carrier Sprint's name is an acronym? The letters in its name stand for:
Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telephony