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Post by **Twitch** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:03 pm

You got it!

Did you know that before the Smithsonian got it the machine was in a Chicago scrap yard set to be destroyed?

Post by **blindeye01** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:32 pm

Aye, and it was also a stealth plane.

Post by **Harrie** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:27 pm

Did you know that a general from my home town was one of the first people to bring Beagles to the United States circa 1860.

Post by **CaptSyf** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:55 am

Did you know that Texas is the only state in the Union that can vote to seperate from the U.S. at anytime.

Post by **Twitch** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:02 pm

Did you know that Eisenhower was responsible for the commencement of the interstate hiway system construction?

Post by **Harrie** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:01 pm

Did you know the largest city in the world by sheer population is Tokyo, Japan with 28 million.

I take back what i said earlier of Shanghai, China.

Post by **CaptSyf** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:35 pm

Did you know, that Star wars Episode III was released on DVD today.

That later this month, The forth "Harry Potter" movie hit's the theaters!
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Post by **Harrie** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:17 am

Did you know that 'cold' is often veiwed as merely being the abcence of heat.

Post by **Twitch** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:37 pm

Harrie- Mexico City already had some 23 million back in the early 1980s.

Did you know that for a hybrid Toyota Prius to pay for its extra cost over a Corolla you'd have to drive 66,500 miles annually for 5 years of gas would have to go to $10 a gallon?

Post by **Harrie** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:05 pm

Juneau is the largest capital and largest city by area in the US at 2,717 sq. miles, making it larger than Rhode Island and Delware respectively.

Twitch- Umm... no, everything I'm finding says that even in the if you take the whole Urban area into account Tokyo is larger.

Post by **Twitch** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:54 pm

Did you know that the land speed record is held by the Thrust SSC at 760.343 MPH

Post by **blindeye01** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:55 am

Did you know it was powered by the same two engines used in the F-4 Phantom fighter jet?

Post by **Harrie** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:49 pm

did you know that Devils Tower is actually not rising out of the ground, the ground around it is falling away because of erosion and consequentally making it taller. Though after a few more million years even the tower itself will be gone.

Post by **Hellkite** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:26 pm

Devils Tower Proclaimed September 24, 1906 as the nation's first national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Post by **Lt_Bradley** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:59 am

Harrie wrote:did you know that Devils Tower is actually not rising out of the ground, the ground around it is falling away because of erosion and consequentally making it taller. Though after a few more million years even the tower itself will be gone.

Really?

So your saying it was once a really big mesa and it has eroded to its current state? Facinating.

Although is it "getting taller," because to do that either the ground is lowering below its own current height, or it is just getting narrower.

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