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09-12-23, 01:36 PM | #2836 |
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In 1917, a woman in New York sued her husband after he had put her over his knee and spanked her.
He defended himself by saying that it was because she smoked four packs of cigarettes a day. The judge acquitted the man as he believed that "spanking is the best cure for smoking". Markus
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09-12-23, 03:52 PM | #2837 |
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The RMS Titanic was big...really big
When she was launched, over 20 tons of lubricant were applied to the slipway to ease the ship’s transition into the water.
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09-13-23, 03:49 PM | #2838 |
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The RMS Titanic was big...really big
Just the rivets used in her construction weighed 2,400,000 pounds!
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09-14-23, 05:06 PM | #2839 |
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The RMS Titanic was big...really big
The boilers were 15 feet 9 inches in diameter and varied in length from 11 feet 9 inches and 20 feet long, each weighing 91.5 tons and capable of holding 48.5 tons of water. Oh, and there were 29 of them. It took 159 separate furnaces to fire them all.
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09-15-23, 05:26 PM | #2840 |
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The first US warship to enter Tokyo Bay for the surrender was the USS Cogswell DD-651
On board was Lt Jg Alan Shepard.... future astronaut.
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09-17-23, 11:42 AM | #2841 |
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The RMS Titanic was big...really big
At standard cruising power, almost 250,000 pounds of ash from the 159 furnaces was dumped overboard per day!
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09-18-23, 03:55 PM | #2842 |
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Using computer simulations, from the time the lookout on the RMS Titanic first saw the iceberg to the moment of impact was 37 seconds
It has been determined that 15 seconds could have saved the Titanic Sighting the iceberg 15 seconds earlier would have allowed the Titanic to avoid the iceberg Sighting the iceberg 15 seconds later would have caused the Titanic to hit the iceberg head on damaging the bow compartments but would have stayed afloat.
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09-20-23, 03:42 PM | #2843 |
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The first movie about the sinking of the Titanic was made and shown 29 days after the sinking
Saved from the Titanic starred Dorothy Gibson, an actress who was on board the actual Titanic and lived to—well, act about it.
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09-21-23, 11:24 AM | #2844 |
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Cats can be right pawed or left pawed.
Male cats are more likely to be left pawed and female cats are more likely to be right clawed.
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09-22-23, 07:25 PM | #2845 |
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Charles Richter, of the Richter scale was an avid nudist.
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09-23-23, 07:00 PM | #2846 |
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The average cumulus cloud weighs roughly 1.1 million pounds.
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09-24-23, 08:12 AM | #2847 |
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King Edward II of England declared in 1324 that the inch was the length of three grains of barley arranged end to end.
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09-24-23, 03:06 PM | #2848 |
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The original Batman was not a superhero but a unit of mass that originated in the ancient city of Babylon that is equivalent to 7.7 kilograms or 16.7 pounds. The batman was used for trade well into the Middle Ages.
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09-25-23, 06:24 AM | #2849 |
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The English word "dollar", among others the name of the US American currency, is derived from the low German "daler" (also spelled "dahler"), which itself is a variant of the high German "Taler" (alternative spellings "Thaler", "Thaller", "Toler"), which was a common silver coin in the states of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE).
"Daler" was adopted into English in the middle of the 16th century, and by the end of the century had changed to "dollar". |
09-25-23, 12:23 PM | #2850 |
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Earthquakes cause about 8 thousands deaths a year.
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