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By: Milica

Milica — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:30:34 +0000

roflmao@John Brown

Random Fact #72:

I’m a descendent of John Brown…

Seriously, lol. My mother’s side of the family.

By: John Brown

John Brown — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:28:31 +0000

Random Fact: I am the 71st person to respond on this subject! Random Fact: Remember, my name is “John Brown”. Theres “John Brown’s” raid on “harpers Ferry”. The son sang by Lincolns soldiers about to go into battle, thinking thet were about to loose, “John Brown’s body lies a molding in the grave”.Random Fact: There are only 2 remaining “Liberty Ships from ww2, one is the “USS John W Brown”.Random Fact: Theres also a “General John Brown in Iraq.Random Fact: Thens theres the old nursery ryme “John Brown had 10 little indians”. Random Fact: counting this random fact, I have left 6 random facts!

By: sfs

sfs — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:53:47 +0000

Aww! If I’d read this post instead of clicking the email link, I’d have signed up for the newsletter again. Perhaps there should have been a separate survey for the newsletter types, with its own pool for a shirt (and possibly more shirts?).

Anyway, my random fact for the day:
Electric scooters (an environmentally-friendly mode of transport) use the same type of connector for their recharge ports that professional microphones use to send audio signals, called XLR. The scooters, however, reverse the polarity of the pins (pin 1 hot, 2 cold, 3 ground instead of pin 1 ground, 2 cold, 3 hot) and are soldered onto normal electrical cords instead of audio cable.
Visit the website linked to my name for more information about electric scooters.

By: Kaberi

Kaberi — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:50:46 +0000

Random Fact:

The only fruit with the seeds on the outside?

Strawberries

By: Kelli K.

Kelli K. — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:41:56 +0000

My Random Fact: The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:39:33 +0000

Random and Generally Amusing Fact:

“Pumpernickel” (you know, the bread) has its etymology in the German for “Devil’s fart.” ‘Pumpern’ being the German for, well, “fart,” and “Nickel” being a common German expression for a goblin or devil. So the next time you bite into your next Pumpernickeled sandwich (assuming you still have the courage), just remember that you’re consuming evil flatulence.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:04:12 +0000

Wow, thanks – a one-page survey is a rare thing these days.

Best fact I have is that there are 2 (two) species of brachiopod known to live in the seas today. This is interesting only because fossilized brachiopods can be found alongside fossilized trilobites, among other not-so-recently extinct critters.

By: Robert Connell

Robert Connell — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:29:47 +0000

Sir Issac Newton’s dog’s name was Diamond. Lost a game of Trivial Pursuit because I didn’t know it.

By: Kevin A

Kevin A — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:45:12 +0000

The phrase “If you can’t stand the heat, you better get out of the kitchen” was popularized by former president Harry S. Truman.

By: Milica

Milica — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:58:51 +0000

Love this site, so seriously.

Random Fact:

Many skeptics involved in commenting on the skeletons of “hobbits” on Flores say that hominids of that small of stature could never be intelligent enough to be considered human, yet they completely ignore the primordial dwarf population. Primordial dwarves are perfectly normally proportioned, just about half the size of non-dwarves, and have completely normal brain functioning. Something is lacking in these scientists’ research….