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Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

moparwacko said:
Pennsylvania is famous for:
Scrapple
Marshmallow Peeps
Potato chips
Hershey chocolate
Cheese steak (only w/whiz)
Zippo lighters
2nd highest fuel tax
Highest turnpike tolls
The largest Mopar show in the world
And of course Tastykake

And we grow our own blueberries.......,but not cranberries because nobody wants them anyway.
:poke:
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Just adding Lebanon bologna :D
 
T2R9 said:
The first email was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, a young engineer at the firm of Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Electronic mail looked different fifty-two years ago, although one feature would still be recognizable to today's users – the now ubiquitous @ symbol, whose use is also credited to Tomlinson.
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I've saved a lot of emails over the years. My oldest (on tractor feed printer paper) is from 1989.
 
Detective D said:
It is said Teddy Roosevelt had fond words when he was able to view the mount about the mascot he had heard about as a child.
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Which is a little odd, since Teddy Roosevelt said that he would have preferred the Grizzly bear as the national symbolic animal. As he said to a reporter:

"The American grizzly embodies the spirit of America. He should be our symbol! Not that ridiculous eagle - he's nothing more than a dandified vulture."
 
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The Pentastar logo was placed on the lower passenger-side fender of all Chrysler products, including non-US brands, from 1963 into the 1972 model year. It was placed on the passenger
side fender so it could be viewed by passers-by, a subtle method of getting the symbol ingrained in the public's mind: a nameplate has to be read, but a symbol is quickly recognizable without reading. Thus left-hand drive cars had the Pentastar on the right fender, while right-hand drive cars had it on the left.
Starting in the 1980's, hood ornaments on Chrysler-brand vehicles used a gem-like version of the Pentastar to signify the brand's upscale status.

The Pentastar's final badging appearance was on special editions of the 1996-2000 Plymouth Voyager. It was also applied to the steering wheel, keys, and fenders of the Voyager and the other Chrysler NS minivans.
 
Fran Blacker said:
What's the point of telling a police officer you sneezed, he'd say following to close. Then hand you a ticket for following to close and wish you a good day! :rofl:
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Yes, but the point is that a ticket for "Failing to stop short, or following too close" is a lesser evil than "Reckless driving - or careless use" :)
 
Here's a fact you may not know. If you offer to sell parts on a non-parts wanted thread your post will be deleted if we find it.
 
speakerguy88 said:
The Pentastar logo was placed on the lower passenger-side fender of all Chrysler products, including non-US brands, from 1963 into the 1972 model year. It was placed on the passenger
side fender so it could be viewed by passers-by, a subtle method of getting the symbol ingrained in the public's mind: a nameplate has to be read, but a symbol is quickly recognizable without reading. Thus left-hand drive cars had the Pentastar on the right fender, while right-hand drive cars had it on the left.
Starting in the 1980's, hood ornaments on Chrysler-brand vehicles used a gem-like version of the Pentastar to signify the brand's upscale status.

The Pentastar's final badging appearance was on special editions of the 1996-2000 Plymouth Voyager. It was also applied to the steering wheel, keys, and fenders of the Voyager and the other Chrysler NS minivans.
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Don't forget the CD changer in the 2000 Plymouth Prowler. :)
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Photon440 said:
I've saved a lot of emails over the years. My oldest (on tractor feed printer paper) is from 1989.
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I have a printout of one of mine somewhere from 1992. It was internal 'email' at an IBM facility in the UK called 'NOSS'

Node Operating System Software ...or something like that. It was a new thing to me at the time - everyone had their own 6-digit Node (address) and sending messages between IBM facilities was instant.

I'm fairly certain it was also on tractor feed paper at the time.
 
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen, designed and built by Karl Benz in 1885, is widely regarded as the first internal combustion engine mass-produced vehicle. This three-wheeled, gasoline-powered automobile was the culmination of Benz’s innovative work on the internal combustion engine and its application to motorized transportation.

The very first EV recognised
as "mass produced":
General Motors EV1 (1996-1999) is widely recognized as the first mass-produced electric car. This pioneering vehicle was purpose-built by General Motors (GM) in response to California’s Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) mandate, which required automakers to have zero-emissions vehicles ready for market by 1998.
 
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Pops1967GTX said:
If your Television went off air every-night with the Star Spangled Banner, you grew up in a great era.
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And also the pilots poem!

High Flight
John Gillespie Magee, Jr

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
 
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PlymCrazy said:
Fun fact: The bald eagle scream heard in most movies and television shows is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk.
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We've got tons of hawks here on these ridges, as well as nesting pairs of eagles....
and yeah, you can hear the difference when they're at work.
I've only seen one actually come swooping down at me (whilst on the tractor, no less) though -
and it was an eagle.
My first thought was "dude's gotta be nearsighted - and starving", but it then occurred to me that
it was probably more of a protective dive. Sure enough, I was working close to an old barn next
door - and they had a nest working in there.
My bad...:)
 
moparedtn said:
We've got tons of hawks here on these ridges, as well as nesting pairs of eagles....
and yeah, you can hear the difference when they're at work.
I've only seen one actually come swooping down at me (whilst on the tractor, no less) though -
and it was an eagle.
My first thought was "dude's gotta be nearsighted - and starving", but it then occurred to me that
it was probably more of a protective dive. Sure enough, I was working close to an old barn next
door - and they had a nest working in there.
My bad...:)
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Same response from
Mocking Birds when
coming into close
proximity of their nests.
They're not in least afraid
of the lawn mower either.
 
1STMP said:
Same response from
Mocking Birds when
coming into close
proximity of their nests.
They're not in least afraid
of the lawn mower either.
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I like the larks that do synchronized flight patterns when they come swooping down -
they literally look like they're having fun, flying in formation, then singling off and following each
other in synchronized flight.
Although their nests are in the tree line surrounding the open fields I'm in, they'll get to swooping
long after I've moved on to another part, swooping across my path and getting real close to the tractor.
It's kinda cool to watch, least for me.
Freaks the wife out a little though... :lol:
 
Photon440 said:
Which is a little odd, since Teddy Roosevelt said that he would have preferred the Grizzly bear as the national symbolic animal. As he said to a reporter:

"The American grizzly embodies the spirit of America. He should be our symbol! Not that ridiculous eagle - he's nothing more than a dandified vulture."
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I would think he may have been swayed about this particular eagle that had participated in civil war battles.
 
1STMP said:
And also the pilots poem!

High Flight
John Gillespie Magee, Jr

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air…
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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Replaced by Learning to Fly by Pink Floyd.
 
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