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13 Feb 2007, 9:55 pm

Roger Bannister did military service in Yemen as an Army physician studying the effects of heat illness.

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13 Feb 2007, 10:04 pm

I've just finnished off my pasta dinner.

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13 Feb 2007, 10:12 pm

The optimum ramming speed of a shipmounted battering ram is 5 knots. 7 knots is too fast, and the ram may get stuck.

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13 Feb 2007, 10:32 pm

The Horten Brothers discovered radar stealth by accident. They built a flying wing, then flew it and discovered that radar wouldn't pick it up.
Something quite similar happened with the SR71.

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13 Feb 2007, 11:02 pm

The Horten brothers aircraft were also very fast

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14 Feb 2007, 12:21 am

It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach

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14 Feb 2007, 1:03 am

Cernunnos wrote:

Rasputin, the "Mad Monk" who influenced the Russian Royal Family, was poisoned with cyanide, shot 3 times (twice in the head), bludgeoned with a dumbbell, but had to be dumped under the ice in a river before he finally died from drowning

Star told me that!

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14 Feb 2007, 5:24 am

In the Middle Ages, the belief that birds chose their mates on St. Valentine's Day led to the idea that boys and girls would do the same. Up through the early 1900's, the Ozark hill people in the U.S. thought that birds and rabbits started mating on February 14, a day for them which was not only Valentine's Day but Groundhog Day as well.

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14 Feb 2007, 8:42 am

Had World War II lasted into 1946, Germany would have produced a fighter which looked a whole bunch like the MiG-15.
No coincidence. The MiG-15 is based off that German design, which was called the Ta-183.

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14 Feb 2007, 8:57 am

There were only ever 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers

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14 Feb 2007, 9:00 am

Carburetor icing can occur in ambient temperatures of up to 70 degrees F.

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14 Feb 2007, 9:36 am

If the Thompson rifle/submachine gun makes it look like the buttstock was an afterthought, that's exactly the case.
The M1921 Lightning was a pistol.

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14 Feb 2007, 12:32 pm

the psot, post relationship is as follows:

psot = -i(post)

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