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Old Aug 7, 2006 | 01:55 PM
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Fact of the Day:
Monk parakeets make nests that can weigh 400 pounds and can be 6 feet long. One nest can house up to 40 birds.

Quote of the Day:
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
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Old Aug 7, 2006 | 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by dbzerk,Aug 3 2006, 11:06 PM
When a person is struck by lightning, the metal on his body can melt and cause serious burns.
Don't worry. If the strike is good enough to melt the metal, you won't feel a thing. Nor will you care about the burns.
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Old Aug 8, 2006 | 02:00 PM
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Fact of the Day:
There can be up to 500,000 earthworms in one acre of land.

Quote of the Day:
"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."
- Titus Maccius Plautus
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Old Aug 9, 2006 | 03:21 AM
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Fact of the Day:
The Milky Way candy bar was created in 1923 and was the first candy bar with a filling.

Quote of the Day:
"In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
- Robert Greene Ingersoll
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Old Aug 10, 2006 | 02:00 PM
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Fact of the Day:
Tasmanian Devils can eat as much as 40 percent of their body weight in 30 minutes.

Quote of the Day:
"It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world: He would seem to belong to a different species."
- William Hazlitt
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Old Aug 12, 2006 | 03:26 PM
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Fact of the Day:
Adult dragonflies only live 24 hours.

Quote of the Day:
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- Oscar Wilde
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Old Aug 12, 2006 | 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by dbzerk,Aug 13 2006, 09:26 AM
Quote of the Day:
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- Oscar Wilde
Hi dbzerk, you might find some further material here ....

http://www.businessballs.com/quotes.htm#life%20quotes
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Old Aug 13, 2006 | 02:49 PM
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Fact of the Day:
There can be as many as 2 million spiders in one acre of land.

Quote of the Day:
"Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Old Aug 14, 2006 | 05:59 AM
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Fact of the Day:
Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed and wrote backwards.

Quote of the Day:
"Wherever I sit is the head of the table."
- Henry Louis Mencken
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Old Aug 14, 2006 | 03:40 PM
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todays fact:
S2000 is the most powerful 2 litre n/a ever produced

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i think johnny trans got about 100 grand under that hood
- fast and furious
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