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11-07-21, 01:24 PM | #1306 |
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The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.
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11-10-21, 12:51 PM | #1307 |
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Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.
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11-10-21, 03:09 PM | #1308 |
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In 1917, 911 recipients of the Medal of Honor had their award rescinded. Only six of them had them reinstated.
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11-10-21, 03:37 PM | #1309 |
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Billy Dixon, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Mary Walker...wouldn't send hers back anyway were among the six!!?? Poor Tom Custer, who died alongside George at the
Battle of Greasy Grass,(winners get to name the battlefield) had gotten two for capturing the enemy's colors in the Civil War...at least he died with his boots on! But looked good doing it! Reportedly George was always a little jealous of his sibling!
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11-10-21, 04:56 PM | #1310 |
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Mary Walker was one of the six that got the award reinstated. Still making her the only woman to receive the MOH.
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11-10-21, 11:14 PM | #1311 |
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That's hardly a useless fact in the age of MeToo Movement!
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11-11-21, 06:59 AM | #1312 |
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Mary Walker had an "interesting" relationship with the US government.
She volunteered to be a spy for the United States during the Civil way. Her request was refused. Aka NOT a Spy She was a certified physician, but when she volunteered to be a doctor, the government would only accept her as a nurse. She was captured by the Confederates under suspicion of being a spy and imprisoned for four months. Through correspondence between the two governments, it was realized that she was not a spy and was released as part of a prisoner exchange. Aka NOT a spy After the way, she applied for a medical pension for injuries she suffered as part of her imprisonment. Her request was denied because now the US government thought she had deliberately gotten her self captured to act as a spy for the US government. Aka IS a spy.
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11-11-21, 09:25 AM | #1313 |
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There are 336 dimples on a regulation US golf ball. In the UK its 330.
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11-13-21, 11:23 AM | #1314 |
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The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
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11-14-21, 11:17 AM | #1315 |
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At the height of its power in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
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11-14-21, 01:24 PM | #1316 |
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Surely your not including serf-like helots with outright captive slaves!! That would be an insult to any peasant! Although every Autumn, the Spartan army's Crypteia units would freely murder any helot they wished to w/o reprisal...generally in neighboring conquered Messinia. Helots, at 7 to 1 ratio to the elite Spartans, did most of the farming(hence the takeover of fertile Messinia??!) and as every hoplite knows: "an army travels on its stomach!"
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11-15-21, 02:34 PM | #1317 |
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In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.
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11-15-21, 02:50 PM | #1318 | |
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Quote:
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11-16-21, 02:59 AM | #1319 |
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One horse has about fifteen horsepower.
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11-16-21, 07:35 AM | #1320 |
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A shrimp’s heart is in its head.
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