Cool - I’ll see if I can find that.
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I do have several albums with the comments in the groove. Joe Walsh had them on his solo albums. One was “Y? Because we like you.”
TIL about the…
Does David A. have a brother named Sakkhar?
Interesting theory of the French mild oath Sacre bleu:
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Dec '12
True or not, I heard that originally King Louis IX (later Saint Louis) disapproved of people being profane, and so courtiers started saying Sacre Bleu, Bleu being the king’s dog’s name.
From these boards.
It’s just one theory 
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Another one that’s been there for years… Hidden Message on Montreal Headstone | Snopes.com
They could have made the puzzle more difficult.
Additional tidbit for today: this Paris cemetery covers 110 acres. That’s approximately the area of 83 American football fields. It includes the grave of Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, and many more.
In France there are giant catfish that hunt pigeons. The pigeons gather on the bank of the river to splash around, and the catfish pick them off, looking orcas hunting penguins.
Reminds me of the pigeon-eating gulls in Hyde Park.
How does citing a theory make it a fact?
an English notion of a stereotypical French oath, 1869, from French sacré bleu, literally “holy blue,” a euphemism for sacré Dieu (1768), “holy God.” From Old French sacrer, from Latin sacrare “to make or declare sacred” (see sacred).
Louis IX lived from 1214-1270, BTW.
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According to this – in French – the term replaced sacredieu either during the reign of Louis XIV or XV. Why the replacement doesn’t seem to be addressed.
I love all of the zoo shows on Animal Planet and was watching the San Diego Zoo one this weekend. A baby pygmy hippo was born and it showed it nursing from its mother underwater! Apparently, they can close their nose and ears to block out the water.
And BTW - a baby pygmy hippo is adorable!
The had one at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston a few years ago. It is.
TIL that Cloudflare has a wall of lava lamps that it uses to generate random cryptographic keys.
The world record sniper kill is from a distance of…
A) 2430m
B) 2475m
C) 2815m
D) 3540m
I listed them from #4 to #1. 3540m, or nearly 2.2 miles, is the record, followed by the others. Wikipedia source
At last it’s settled!
What is this, the thread for facts that nobody wants to know about? 
Was just reading that the number of blades on a fan is usually a prime number (e.g. 3, 5). Has something to do with reducing vibration. Same goes for the number of spokes on a car wheel.
Mattel’s television division is trying to create a game show based on the carnival game “Whac-a-Mole”.