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« Reply #30 on: October 02, 2022, 07:36:22 AM »
Yes, maybe we'll never know the truth because he scared the $hit out of people so much they stayed away from him.  :rofl2

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« Reply #32 on: October 02, 2022, 09:05:43 AM »
Interesting facts indeed!
Two B-Days for the Queen was a surprise, but it sounds like something that a royal family would do.  :)
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« Reply #33 on: October 03, 2022, 09:25:24 AM »

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« Reply #34 on: October 04, 2022, 03:12:26 PM »

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« Reply #35 on: October 04, 2022, 04:03:05 PM »
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erectile tissue found in the nose
Ummm, well, OK... that sounds kind of naughty to me.  laughing7
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« Reply #36 on: October 05, 2022, 04:25:48 AM »
Yes, I noticed that. LMAO That made me go back and click the "affect your sex life" link.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-sinus-problems-can-affect-your-sex-life-and-what-to-do-about-it/

Hmmm, I need more sinus treatments...

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« Reply #37 on: October 05, 2022, 08:21:11 AM »
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” was partly based on a true story.

I loved his shows and movies.  :thumbup:

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6333a94e76bfd0000943408a?liu=bfb99dadf51e2d85f3443cda78c57e07#63339f906c661b0009de4a60

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« Reply #38 on: October 05, 2022, 03:42:42 PM »
The man made some great movies, some of which were pretty scary!
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« Reply #39 on: October 11, 2022, 08:53:45 AM »
Babies are born with almost 100 more bones than adults.

The human body has 206 bones — unless you’re talking about babies, in which case the number is closer to 300. Many of a newborn’s bones are actually made of cartilage, which is much more malleable and allows fetuses to curl inside the womb as they develop. As children grow, cartilage turns into bone in a process called ossification, and the excess bones fuse together. (If you’ve ever wondered how those “soft spots” on an infant’s head — technically known as fontanelles — become stronger, bone fusion is the answer.) This is also a big part of why calcium is so important for babies: New bone tissue can’t grow without it.

Ossification doesn’t happen overnight, however — it continues until a person reaches their mid-20s, which is around when humans reach their peak bone mass. In much the same way that we’re constantly shedding our skin, our bones are constantly changing as well, with old bone gradually destroyed and new bone material formed. The process is called remodeling, and it helps keep the skeletal system healthy long after we’ve settled down at 206 bones.

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« Reply #40 on: October 11, 2022, 08:55:11 AM »
Humans and giraffes have the same number of neck bones.

Despite having the longest necks in the animal kingdom — they can reach a length of eight feet, twice as long as the neck of any other creature — giraffes have the same number of cervical vertebrae as humans: seven. The key difference is that giraffes’ vertebrae are much longer, with each of them measuring close to 10 inches in length; in humans, the entire vertebral column is around 28 inches for men and 24 inches for women. We have the same number of neck bones as our tall, spotted friends for the simple reason that we’re both mammals — sloths and manatees are the only members of this particular class that don’t have seven.

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« Reply #41 on: October 12, 2022, 10:22:36 AM »
Interesting information.  :thumbup:
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« Reply #42 on: October 17, 2022, 08:43:22 AM »
A volcanic explosion caused a “year without a summer” in 1816 — and inspired “Frankenstein.”

Difficult times can lead to great art. Case in point: the volcanic explosion that caused a “year without a summer” in 1816 — and inspired the novel Frankenstein. The eruption took place at Indonesia’s Mount Tambora, many thousands of miles away from author Mary Shelley’s home in England. In addition to a harrowing death toll, the April 1815 explosion ejected mass amounts of sulphur dioxide, ash, and dust into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and plunging the global temperature several degrees lower, resulting in the coldest year in well over two centuries. In part because of the volcano, Europe and North America were subjected to unusually cold, wet conditions the following summer, including a “killing frost” in New England and heavy rainfall that may have contributed to Napoleon’s infamous defeat at Waterloo.

So what does that have to do with Shelley’s masterpiece? Then 18 and still going by her maiden name of Godwin, she and her lover/future husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, traveled to Lake Geneva in April 1816, a time of extremely gloomy weather. One fateful night that July, the two were with their friend Lord Byron, the infamous poet, when he suggested, “We will each write a ghost story.” Shelley completed hers in just a few days, writing in the introduction to Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus that “a wet, ungenial summer, and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.” Who knows: If it had been bright and sunny that week, we might never have gotten the endlessly influential 1818 book, which later spawned an assortment of movies, TV shows, plays — and of course, iconic Halloween costumes.

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« Reply #43 on: October 17, 2022, 11:12:05 AM »
Through the years I've watched several filmed versions of her story, but never read the book that she wrote and was unaware of the story of how she came to write the story. Maybe I should read it now.
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« Reply #44 on: October 21, 2022, 12:05:15 PM »
More about the fanged ones...

In European folklore, vampires were thought to have a compulsion to count — which inspired the Count on “Sesame Street.”

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