Obscure facts ya know!

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Shakespeare is the only author who has his own Dewey Decimal Number: 822.33.

Lemon Pledge has more lemons than Country Time Lemonade.

Solomon had as much to do with inventing copper metalurgy as President Obama had to do with building the Roman Colliseum.

Folks were messing around with cold hammering copper back in the stone age. Copper reached maturity as Bronze (copper with either arsenic or tin alloyed in). The Bronze age began around 3000 BC in Sumer, and in Egypt. But the traditional date of Solomon's reign is not until around 930 BC. By that time the Bronze age was giving way to the iron age. So in Solomon's time bronze (much more unalloyed copper) was old hat. Iron was the happening thing.

The sale of the Golden Menorah and other holy objects from the Jewish Temple as well as the sale of Jews themselves, as slaves, financed the building of the Roman Colosseum.

Eat one lump of sugar and you've eaten the equivalent of three feet of sugar cane.

Absinthe is traditionally served by slowly pouring the liquor over a sugar cube which sits in a special perforated spoon, resting over a glass.

First food product permitted by law to have artificial coloring: butter (it's naturally white).

Doris Day's son, Terry Melcher was the former renter of the home that Sharon Tate and her friends were killed in.

He was the actual target of Charles Manson.

Manson had wanted Melcher, a record executive, to record his music, but Melcher listened to him, and declined.

Manson was out for revenge.

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Wow, I didn't know that!!

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Australian researchers found that the brain really does experience pain when a person's heart is "breaking".

Believe it or not, Mr. Manson attended Scientology classes for awhile in prison.

Then, at one point, he said 'F___ it, man, this s___'s crazy!', and that was the end of THAT spiritual quest!

My nipples turn into hard little quivering pebbles,
whenever i dare to set foot in this thread!

in India, during flag-carrying ceremonies, the national flag flag should always be at the marching right, centre, or alone at the front. flying a flag made of anything other than khadi or hand-spun cloth is punishable by up to three years in prison.

One speck of dust contains a quadrillion atoms.

Confucius didn't write anything.
Socrates didn't write anything.
Jesus didn't write anything.

But a whole lot was written about them.

Confucius said: "He who feels the need to speak to prove his intelligence, will also prove his ignorance.

(Not you Krabo. You mentioning Confucius reminded me of this quote I've always loved.)

Mohammad did not write anything, either.

The Q'uran was dictated to his followers, who then copied and shared the pages.

After his death, one tradition is that there was such disarray and grief and disorganization that some goats got into his house and ate some un-copied pages.