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[Dave]

Fact: Biden is the first POTUS to have a scented candle with his name available for sale.

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Martin Smith wrote:

Arjan Dirkse wrote:

I learned today that horses like drinking beer (and it isn’t bad for them.)

Did a horse tell you that?

A horse walks into a pub and sits at the bar. The bartender looks at him and says “Why the long face?”

Thank you, please hold your applause…

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Martin Smith wrote:

Did a horse tell you that?

No just a random website. Could be a website run by a horse though…

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Sean Robinson

Could be a web site run by a smart brewery owner in an area with a lot of horses.

 

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Arjan Dirkse

It may be an apocryphal story, but near the end of WW2, editor of Astounding Stories magazine John W Campbell published a story he commissioned about a team of scientists inventing an atomic bomb that was so close to the actual top secret Manhattan project that he was visited by the FBI.

Campbell then went point by point through the story to show them how any reasonable person could put the information together with no access to secret information. Then he told them that if such a secret project did exist, then it would likely be at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

At this, the agents were sure he must have gotten hold of classified information. However, he explained that it was a guess because an unusual number of his subscribers from around the nation – a lot of scientists and engineers – had recently changed their subscription addresses to Los Alamos.

 

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I’ve heard the story before and I believe it is true. I hadn’t heard the Los Alamos though, that’s pretty funny.

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Back on topic please:

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Todd

Some prehistoric dude loved his dog and gave him/her a mammoth bone to carry into the afterlife.

 

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Todd

The word humility comes from the Latin humus, meaning earth or soil. Meaning a humble man is close to the Earth. The word is also related to homo meaning man.

Palm trees are botanically monocots, meaning they are more closely related to grass and corn than to trees like pines and oaks.

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njerry

Koala bears are not actually bears; they are marsupials. They would like to be considered bears, but they don’t have the right koalafications.

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Much of life on Brazil’s Marajó Island centers on the water buffalo, which slightly outnumber the human population there. Police use them as mounts because, as their name suggests, they are adept at navigating the island’s many flooded areas.

Boney M. member Bobby Farrell died in the same city (St. Petersburg) and on the same date as Rasputin.

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Todd

Although their bladders vary greatly in size, all mammals larger than 7 pounds take roughly 21 seconds to urinate.

Todd wrote:

Although their bladders vary greatly in size, all mammals larger than 7 pounds take roughly 21 seconds to urinate.

Unless you’re talking about an elephant with an enlarged prostate.

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Sean Robinson

Arjan Dirkse wrote:

Boney M. member Bobby Farrell died in the same city (St. Petersburg) and on the same date as Rasputin.

Rubbish, they lived decades apart.

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There are several species of birds that get drunk of fermented fruits.

Arjan Dirkse wrote:

There are several species of birds that get drunk of fermented fruits.

Typically it’s those birds that are in loveless marriages or have a crummy job.

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