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16 Mar 2014, 8:18 pm

1) Napolean Bonneparte had the Mona Lisa in his bathroom

2) Leonardo Da Vinci made plans for the parachute, tank, and the helicopter but never built any of them.

3) George Washington once rode into battle and was shot at several times, witch ruined a good coat, killed 2 of his horses, and made several Indian tribes afraid of him.

4) Once Teddy Roosevelt was shot but he said a whole speech before going to the hospital



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17 Mar 2014, 7:46 pm

In the old west, the Indians developed a taste for coffee and would drop by cowboy camps to have a cup.


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17 Mar 2014, 10:02 pm

Mrrandomman wrote:
1) Napolean Bonneparte had the Mona Lisa in his bathroom

2) Leonardo Da Vinci made plans for the parachute, tank, and the helicopter but never built any of them.

3) George Washington once rode into battle and was shot at several times, witch ruined a good coat, killed 2 of his horses, and made several Indian tribes afraid of him.

4) Once Teddy Roosevelt was shot but he said a whole speech before going to the hospital


You mean the real mona lisa? I guess you do, it wouldn't be notheworthy if it wasn't. Ha, pretty weird! I wonder if she faced him while he was doing stuff. Maybe he felt like she was looking at him and it gave him a thrill.



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18 Mar 2014, 3:36 am

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18 Mar 2014, 6:41 am

Joan Crawford originally named her daughter 'Joan Junior'.


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18 Mar 2014, 9:07 am

Chainsaws were originally made to deliver babies... 8O :nerdy:


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18 Mar 2014, 9:11 am

Wind wrote:
Chainsaws were originally made to deliver babies... 8O :nerdy:


ow!


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18 Mar 2014, 3:42 pm

Sleeping on your stomach can induce weirder, scarier, and sexier dreams.


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18 Mar 2014, 8:55 pm

Wind wrote:
Chainsaws were originally made to deliver babies... 8O :nerdy:



Man they originally made a classic slasher film homicide weapon to deliver such cute littie babies



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19 Mar 2014, 2:57 am

a movie star named heddy lamarr thought of spread spectrum technology years before it was routinely used.