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#98584 - 07/23/03 08:37 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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Did you know that a sneeze releases the same endorphins (sp) into your body as an orgasim!!!!




I must be doing one or the other incorrectly......................
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#98585 - 07/23/03 08:45 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you know..
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Did you know....

...that Afghanistan is the only country whose name (in English) begins with "A" and doesn't end with "a"?
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#98586 - 07/23/03 08:50 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you know..
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Did you know...

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, said "640K of RAM ought to be enough for anybody" (ok, ok he said that in 1981).
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#98587 - 07/23/03 10:04 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you know..
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I rmember him being quoted as saying this, but I thought it was 64k not 640k. In 1981, I'm not sure if they had more than 64k.
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#98588 - 07/24/03 02:51 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you know..
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Well I check my printed source and it has 640K as the quote. Did a very limited Internet search and found this…

http://physinfo.ulb.ac.be/cit_courseware/msdos/default.htm
MSDOS Introduction

IBM Personal Computer (PC)
The IBM PC was produced in 1981, and featured 64K of RAM, a cassette interface and the BASIC language in ROM. Based on the 8088 microprocessor, the memory range was limited to 1Mbyte, 640K of which could be RAM, whilst the other 640K was reserved for hardware devices like video cards, ROM BASIC and expander cards.

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#98589 - 07/24/03 02:55 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you know..
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Did you know I have spent 15 minutes of my life on my own stupid “Did you know….” I’ve got really important work to do like re-reading the 2004 HMDA changes…
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#98590 - 07/24/03 04:35 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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Did anybody know that Sargeant Schultz knows the only American word that ends in "mt"?
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#98591 - 07/24/03 04:45 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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Didn't know that. I only know what the word is.
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#98592 - 07/24/03 04:48 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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I know it too.
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#98593 - 07/24/03 04:54 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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I had to leave the last forum, because as the office know-it-all, the fact that I DONT know the word is killing me I'll be thinking about this now for the rest of the day
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#98594 - 07/24/03 05:13 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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What five-letter English word, if you remove four of the letters, is still pronounced the same?
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#98595 - 07/24/03 05:19 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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What five-letter English word, if you remove four of the letters, is still pronounced the same?


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#98596 - 07/24/03 05:29 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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Did anybody know that Sargeant Schultz knows the only American word that ends in "mt"?




Hey! I knew that already!

PS... I don't want to drive Ellen crazy for the rest of the day. It's "dreamt".

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#98597 - 07/24/03 05:33 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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Thank you... didn't want to be an idiot but i couldn't think of it either!
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#98598 - 07/24/03 05:34 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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Thank you... didn't want to be an idiot but i couldn't think of it either!




I actually looked it up. Boy did I feel silly.
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#98599 - 07/24/03 05:38 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.


Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.


The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.


Some lions mate over 50 times a day.


The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.


Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people.


Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.


A cat's urine glows under a black light.


An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish have no brains.


Polar bears are left-handed.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.









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#98600 - 07/24/03 06:06 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.




So I'm actually losing weight as I try to write a CIP that everyone will agree to?
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#98601 - 07/24/03 06:42 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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Did you know that:
There are 42 dots on a pair of dice!
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#98602 - 07/24/03 07:04 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.






Compliance Officers should be the skinniest people on earth
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#98603 - 07/24/03 08:13 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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EllenA - you gave me one of the best laughs this week!
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#98604 - 07/25/03 05:34 AM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you kno
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Colorado and Hawaii are the only states with no rivers running into them.
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#98605 - 07/25/03 05:56 AM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you know..
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...Heat "travels" to cold.
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#98606 - 07/25/03 02:56 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you know..
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The shortest chapter in the Bible is Psalms 117;

The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalms 119;

The chapter in the center of the Bible is Psalms 118;

Fact: There are 594 chapters before Psalms 118

Fact: There are 594 chapters after Psalms 118

Add these numbers up and you get 1188

The center verse in the Bible is Psalms 118:8

This verse says something significant about God's perfect will for our lives.

Psalms 118:8 (NKJV) "It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man."

I always thought that was pretty kewl!
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#98607 - 07/25/03 03:46 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you know..
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that your gallbladder may "die" if you lose a drastic amount of weight in a very short period of time!
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#98608 - 07/25/03 03:52 PM Re: How about a "Did you Know" Trivia? Did you know..
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that your gallbladder may "die" if you lose a drastic amount of weight in a very short period of time!




So I can say that my staying overweight is saving my gallbladder. Yippee bring on the Brownie Sundaes!!!!
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