Useless (but interesting) trivia

[shogun32]

was there really a problem with German spy cats getting onboard? Then again Japanese Ninja cats are a foe of great power and were to be feared. I heard that the Italian cats just stared into the water and licked themselves.

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[Dadillac]

Well let's see. I am 55 years and 77 days old today. So that old. Funny thing is I have had those exact Craftsman screwdrivers my whole life until recently. Never knew that

Don

 

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[JimC]

Tough way to send a "d!ck pic"

 

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[lacanteen]

racecar backwards is still racecar

 

[Sivi70980]

racecar backwards is still racecar

Both ways awesome!

 

[HoosierDaddy]

racecar backwards is still racecar

So is "a toyota". Ergo Corolla = racecar.

 

[martinjlm]

racecar backwards is still racecar

So is "a toyota". Ergo Corolla = racecar.

Ergo Prius = track monster. Pass the joint.

 

[lacanteen]

Cowboys did not play poker in the 1800s but a game called Faro. Faro was invented outside the United States and after being imported, gained popularity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faro_(card_game)

Faro (/ˈfɛəroʊ/ FAIR-oh), Pharaoh, Pharao, or Farobank is a late 17th-century French gambling card game. It is descended from Basset, and belongs to the Lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games due to the use of a banker and several players. Winning or losing occurs when cards turned up by the banker match those already exposed.

It is not a direct relative of poker, but Faro was often just as popular due to its fast action, easy-to-learn rules, and better odds[1] than most games of chance. The game of Faro is played with only one deck of cards and admits any number of players.

Popular in North America during the 1800s,[2] Faro was eventually overtaken by poker as the preferred card game of gamblers in the early 1900s.[

 

[lacanteen]

The word silent contains the word listen. In order to listen, you must be silent.

 

[1emglenn]

Paul Revere was a dentist.
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Thought he was a metalsmith.

 

[1emglenn]

Cowboys did not play poker in the 1800s but a game called Faro. Faro was invented outside the United States and after being imported, gained popularity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faro_(card_game)

Faro (/ˈfɛəroʊ/ FAIR-oh), Pharaoh, Pharao, or Farobank is a late 17th-century French gambling card game. It is descended from Basset, and belongs to the Lansquenet and Monte Bank family of games due to the use of a banker and several players. Winning or losing occurs when cards turned up by the banker match those already exposed.

It is not a direct relative of poker, but Faro was often just as popular due to its fast action, easy-to-learn rules, and better odds[1] than most games of chance. The game of Faro is played with only one deck of cards and admits any number of players.

Popular in North America during the 1800s,[2] Faro was eventually overtaken by poker as the preferred card game of gamblers in the early 1900s.[

If they didn't play poker, how then do you explain Wild Bill Hickok's death hand of aces and eights?

 

[1emglenn]

Less than three hundred years ago in rural Idaho a group of explorers discovered a flock of wild Clydesdales living on a radish farm after the owners had mysteriously disappeared. Several days later never-before-seen plants started sprouting from the large mounds of horse feces that later were shown to contain a bitter root, which the new owners of the farm named horseradishes.

C'mon, horseradish is a cruciferous vegetable and originated in eastern Europe way more than 300 years ago.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

C'mon, horseradish is a cruciferous vegetable and originated in eastern Europe way more than 300 years ago.

Clydesdale Pegasi brought horseradish from Europe held under their dorsal guiding feathers.

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