December 2010
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Certifiably Useless Trivia  →
Who invented WTF (weird true facts)? Robert Ripley today in 1918 started his trivia blog celebrating the bizarre for the Times in NYC. (I will forever stand on the shadow of genius)
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Dec 17th
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12/15 Bill of Rights Day. Did you remember to send out your cards?
Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
“A boy scout troup is a room of 12 kids dressed like shmucks with a grown shmuck...”
– Anonymous.
Dec 11th
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Epic Trilogy debuting today in 2001: “The Fellowship of the Ring”. Movie I of III in the Lord of the Rings series directed by Peter Jackson. P.S. Frodo Lives
Dec 10th
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ListenMerry Christmas Charlie Brown! debuted tonight in...
Dec 9th
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Because Chuck Norris simply can't be overdone. →
Dec 9th
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Today, 1998- Supreme Court: traffic violation does not allow vehicle search (duh) The 4th amendment was ratified in 1791. It was supposed to make sure that property was not taken or searched without warrant supported by oath or affirmation. But it wasn’t until today in 1998 that the U.S. Supreme Court declared that traffic violations did not allow police to look for bodies (or other...
Dec 8th
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“@tumblr: “640k ought to be enough for anyone”
– Bill Gates? (the world may never know)
Dec 8th
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“All you need is love. A little chocolate now and then never hurts either.”
– Charles M. Schulz
Dec 4th
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A Clockwork Ticker
After 7.5 hours of surgery, Barney Clark woke up today in 1982 with an artificial heart. Talk about medical breathrough. And not to belittle this amazing combination of science, technology, and medicine, but Barney only made it a further 3 months with the battery operated pumper. I don’t know what this experiment cost, but Barney was a retired dentist in Salt Lake City, so I guess the...
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Historically good deeds
“There is nothing more dangerous than a man who has nothing to lose”. (unattributed)   However, Father Edward Flanagan knew that giving boys direction, discipline, and instruction is the best defense against this dangerous truth. Today in 1917, Father Flanagan demonstrated just what this means by starting an oprhanage and home for wayward boys. It was called Boys Town in Omaha,...
Dec 1st