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Post by cw on Mar 23, 2007 6:32:54 GMT -5
Pi is an irrational number. It cannot be expressed as a fraction or a finite decimal. Pi to 50 digits: 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 23, 2007 6:43:12 GMT -5
Random Fact #47
In the Hitchcock's classic Psycho the crew ran into a snag filmng the closing shot of the famous shower scene. They needed to show the girl's blood going down the drain but no matter what they tried (including real blood) they couldn't make it look right. Finally they got what they needed, by taking advantage of the fact the film was black and white and using chocolate syrup as the blood.
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Post by monkey on Mar 23, 2007 6:45:57 GMT -5
Random Fact #48
Apparantly, the meaning of life and everything is 42....
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 23, 2007 6:48:05 GMT -5
Random Fact #48
Apparently the board censors the name Hitchc o c k. Oops ;D
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 23, 2007 6:49:10 GMT -5
Random Fact #49
The second #48 is fake
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 27, 2007 8:19:22 GMT -5
Random Fact #50
The top grossing film at the box office from the 1960s is One Hundred and One Dalmatians!
Think about that, that's more than 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Graduate, Psycho, The Manchurian Candidate, Sean Connery's first 5 James Bond films, To Kill a Mockingbird, Spartacus, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Hustler, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and literally every other film from the 1960s.
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 29, 2007 17:27:04 GMT -5
Random Fact #51
In route for delivery in 1982, a train carrying a load of brand new Pontiac Trans Ams and Chevy Camaros derailed. While the some of the cars weren't wrecked the law would not allow them to be sold. The surviving Trans Ams were donated to NBC for use as extra K.I.T.T.s on Knight Rider. Per the agreement, the ones that survived filming were destroyed at the conclusion of the shows run.
and that leads into...
Random Fact #52
Pontiac was going to do a "Knight Rider" edition Trans Am until 2 things occured... 1. Pontiac got swamped with orders for black Trans Ams with a tan interior anyway (to the point where they asked the producers not to refer to K.I.T.T. as one ever again) and... 2. Apparently some idiot tried to jump his Trans Am over a train and failed. They didn't want to encourage any more would be Evel Knievels.
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Post by monkey on Mar 29, 2007 20:03:23 GMT -5
Random fact #53
Jason Lee, star of My Name is Earl, is going to be staring as the only human in an Alvin and the Chipmunks remake. (Well, that's what I read in the TV Guide anyway...)
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Post by Belchic on Mar 30, 2007 2:33:14 GMT -5
Random fact #54:
A majority of the people I personally know don't watch anime!
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Post by RaceFanX on Apr 3, 2007 18:09:16 GMT -5
Random Fact #55
The city that hosts the Olympics usually loses a ton of money. Denver actually passed on hosting 1976 Winter Olympics that had been awarded to them citing money issues. Montreal also lost a ton of money on the 1976 Summer Olympics. However, some cities did make money off the games. Los Angeles made a ton when they hosted the Summer Games in 1984.
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Post by Belchic on Apr 9, 2007 14:05:10 GMT -5
Random Fact #56
U2 released by far 11 studio albums. Only one of those albums was a flop, and another one of those albums (thought not the same one) failed to score a hit single.
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Post by RaceFanX on Apr 11, 2007 18:55:28 GMT -5
Random Fact #57
Dispite the slogan of having "57 Varities", Heitz actually makes over 1,300 different products worldwide.
Random Fact #58
The most watched TV event ever was "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen", the series finale of M*A*S*H, in 1983. Since cable has now taken a good share of the networks' audience, its record will probably never be broken.
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Post by Belchic on Apr 11, 2007 22:19:45 GMT -5
Random Fact #59
Prostate Cancer is the most common cancer that is a cause of male deaths.
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Post by ripsta on Apr 11, 2007 23:01:39 GMT -5
Random Fact #60
My granddad has the above cancer...
-_-...
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Post by Belchic on Apr 12, 2007 15:08:27 GMT -5
Random Fact #61
Gerald Ford was by far the oldest lived president of the United States. Just a couple months ago, he died from heart failure at the age of 93.
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