Useless Facts

[statsman]

I stand corrected.

 

[Ron_dK]

I stand corrected.

Don't bother, they're useless facts after all

 

[FoFa]

Inventor Walter Hunt designed the first safety pin in 1849. Could have made millions off what became a common household aid. But he was $15 in debt at the time, needed cash, and sold the rights to the safety pin for $400.

 

[shades]

I had my tonsils taken out in 1957. Two days stay in hospital, meals, operating room, doctor charges - total bill $44.00. I was supposed to stay another day, but my father couldn't afford another meal and overnight stay.
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[Rich]

I had my tonsils taken out in 1957. Two days stay in hospital, meals, operating room, doctor charges - total bill $44.00. I was supposed to stay another day, but my father couldn't afford another meal and overnight stay.

I had mine taken out a 7yrs old, I stayed in for a week, my parents didn't have to pay anything

 

[shades]

I had mine taken out a 7yrs old, I stayed in for a week, my parents didn't have to pay anything

Methinks there is more to your end of it than mine.
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[FoFa]

Jon Peters was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood and ran Columbia Studios. All business he had his driver phone aheadeach morning to the studio so a guard could open the front door as his limo pulled up. A second employee had an even more important job, to push the button on Peter's private elevator.

 

[statsman]

Jon Peters was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood and ran Columbia Studios. All business he had his driver phone aheadeach morning to the studio so a guard could open the front door as his limo pulled up. A second employee had an even more important job, to push the button on Peter's private elevator.

The late Harold Ballard who owned the Toronto Maple Leafs had to do an 8 month stretch in a "Club Med" prison for fraud. While he was gone, his limo continued to receive its daily wash and wax, his personal box at the Gardens continued to be cleaned (even though no one was using it) and all of his other perqs continues as though he was still there.
The difference between the Captains of Industry and the rest of us plebians is not just the size of their paycheques, its also the size of their egos.

 

[Rich]

Under a 1962 law, in Georgia children of any age can get married if the bride to be is pregnant.

 

[Ron_dK]

The Haarlemmermeer was originally an immense lake in the North west of the Netherlands . On 5 May 1840 the first shovel was put in the ground to build an approx 60 kilometres long dike around the lake. Thousands of workers have worked with shovel and wheelbarrow for this immense venture. Eight years later the ring dike could be closed. The steam driven pumps Leeghwater, and the Cruquius were commisioned to empty the lake’s waterlevel. In 1852 on July 12, the Haarlemmermeer was announced to be empty and completely dry. As of that date numerous cities were build there, some of which are still a couple of meters below sea level.

 

[FoFa]

Ah, the New Orleans of the Netherlands. Better be glad they don't get Hurricanes there

 

[FoFa]

Alfred du Pont scandalized his wealthy family by marrying his second cousin in 1907. Miffed by their criticism, he built a nine foot wall around his 300 acre estate in Delaware so he could "keep out intruders", he explained, "mainly of the name du Pont".

 

[Ron_dK]

Ah, the New Orleans of the Netherlands. Better be glad they don't get Hurricanes there

Yah, the only difference is that we do not have a Bourbon or Canal Street there and..... hurricanes is an unknown phenomenon here.

 

[Rich]

Yah, the only difference is that we do not have a Bourbon or Canal Street there and..... hurricanes is an unknown phenomenon here.

Well we've had them here and you're not that far away

 

[Ron_dK]

A hurricane originates from a tropic depression, which will never hit the netherlands. We call it "storm" , windforce 12 ( beaufort) or above .
The only real hurricane in Europe was supposed to be Debby (1961) , who hit the coast of Ireland.

 

[Rich]

Strictly speaking hurricanes do not occur over the British Isles. However, we are sometimes affected by deep depressions that are the remnants of hurricanes. The most widely publicised such depression occurred on 16th October 1987.

 

[FoFa]

We are sometimes affected by deep depressions that are the remnants of hurricanes. The most widely publicised such depression occurred on 16th October 1987.

I think the depressing part was that the temp. actully went up high enough that they had their first good taste of warm beer!
Celebration occured all over the UK the next day when their temps. dropped back down to normal and all the "room temp" beer was cold once again.

 

[Ron_dK]

The basilisk lizard is the only animal who can walk on water. As a consequence they are sometimes referred to as Christ Lizard or Jezus Lizard. They run over water on their limbs and can reach some 105 km /hour for a couple of seconds. During these seconds they are able to “walk” some 5 meters over water.
They move their feet in three phases, first move foot vertically backward, second move
horizontally backward and third move lift foot and start next step. If done at high speed , the lizard sort of propels himself forward.

 

[Rich]

I think the depressing part was that the temp. actully went up high enough that they had their first good taste of warm beer!
Celebration occured all over the UK the next day when their temps. dropped back down to normal and all the "room temp" beer was cold once again.

we don't need to disguise the flavour by freezing the taste buds

 

[Ron_dK]

we don't need to disguise the flavour by freezing the taste buds

No , that's why you're busy with this :

A parliamentary liaison officer at the Campaign for Real Ale is campaigning to reduce the amount of foam on beer sold in British pubs to 5% or less.
He says that British beer drinkers paid more the $400 million for froth alone in 1998.