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The Shopping cart was invented in 1937 by Sylvan Goldman, owner of the Pigly Wigly supermarket.

It costs 2 cents to produce a penny, and 10 cents to produce a nickel.
There are 150 Billion pennys in circulation, stacked one on top of an other it would reach 60% to the moon.

The hair on average adult scalp grows 115 feet a day.

The active ingredient in most toothpastes is sodium fluoride, which can be lethal.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by removing 1 olive from each salad served in first class.

Scientists discovered that a side effect to having a high IQ is being a night owl, Which is associated with emotional instability, in addition, night owl's are 3 times more likely to suffer from depression.

Israel is only a sixth of 1% of the landmass of the Middle East.

Around the world there are 10,000 credit card transactions done every second.

The first credit card company was Diners Club and initially it was only accepted at 14 restauraunts.
Diners Club was started in 1950 after the founder Frank X. McNamara came up with the idea when one evening after dining at a restaurant he realized he had forgotten his wallet. Within 1 year Diners Club had more than 20,000 cardmembers.

For principled reasons, Hertz Israel does not have in it's fleet any German made cars.

Israeli stamps are certified Kosher.

Under the current numbering system for Interstate highways, odd numbers generally indicate a north-south route, and even numbers mean an east-west route.

The average annual salary for a lead pastor in a megachurch (2,000+ members) is about $155,000, and can sometimes reach $400,000.

Hitler's mother contemplated abortion, But her doctor convinced her out of it.
Adolph Hitler was named Time magazine's person of the year in 1938
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #540 on: April 29, 2015, 04:11:15 PM »
every year?

Some years it's January 6th...

a month after switching from ותן ברכה

Ding ding ding
More specifically, it's the first day that if you are not sure if you said ותן טל you don't have to go back for it.


also, http://www.historyorb.com/events/january/5
I asked for Halachic significance not historic :P

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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #541 on: April 29, 2015, 04:13:17 PM »
This thread is not for riddles.  >:(
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #542 on: April 29, 2015, 04:15:50 PM »
Never seen a thread go OT before? :P
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #543 on: April 29, 2015, 04:27:36 PM »
Ok have it your way. You are meeting henche and CM at a DO. How would you know who is who?
Check for a yarmulka?
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #544 on: April 29, 2015, 04:31:38 PM »
Next riddle:
What is the shortest Weekday Shachris possible.
The one at the shul I davened in, in NY this past pesach bein hazmanim.

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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #545 on: April 29, 2015, 04:32:38 PM »
The one at the shul I davened in, in NY this past pesach bein hazmanim.
the question was: what, not where.
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #546 on: April 29, 2015, 04:37:50 PM »
Ok have it your way. You are meeting henche and CM at a DO. How would you know who is who?
The one who bills me for the time is the lawyer?

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« Reply #547 on: April 29, 2015, 04:39:23 PM »
Ok have it your way. You are meeting henche and CM at a DO. How would you know who is who?
Check for a yarmulka?
The one who bills me for the time is the lawyer?
CM will be the one who actually shows up.  ;)
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« Reply #548 on: April 29, 2015, 04:52:45 PM »
CM will be the one who actually shows up.  ;)
lol, was actually thinking of that
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #549 on: May 12, 2015, 09:18:52 AM »
For background on this story see here:

Gerson Goldhaber, a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, was talking on the phone with another physicist at SLAC near Stanford University near the end of the day on Tuesday, October 17, 1989. The SLAC physicist suddenly interrupted with, “Gerson, I have to go! There’s a very big earthquake happening!” and then hung up. So Gerson stepped out into a group of people in the hall, made a big show of yawning and checking his watch, then said, “Aren’t we about due for an earthquake?” Before anyone could respond, the Loma Prieta earthquake reached Berkeley, and he became a legend.

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« Reply #550 on: May 12, 2015, 10:17:35 AM »
For background on this story see here:

Gerson Goldhaber, a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, was talking on the phone with another physicist at SLAC near Stanford University near the end of the day on Tuesday, October 17, 1989. The SLAC physicist suddenly interrupted with, “Gerson, I have to go! There’s a very big earthquake happening!” and then hung up. So Gerson stepped out into a group of people in the hall, made a big show of yawning and checking his watch, then said, “Aren’t we about due for an earthquake?” Before anyone could respond, the Loma Prieta earthquake reached Berkeley, and he became a legend.
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #551 on: May 12, 2015, 10:29:18 AM »
I think you're posting too much. I'm starting to be able to tell when you're the OP just by looking at the post.
Says the guy who spends so much time on DDF he can recognize individual posters just by their posts... :P

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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #552 on: May 12, 2015, 10:57:37 AM »
Says the guy who spends so much time on DDF he can recognize individual posters just by their posts... :P

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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #553 on: May 12, 2015, 01:52:41 PM »
The "bed intruder" was never found.
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« Reply #554 on: May 12, 2015, 02:14:24 PM »
The "bed intruder" was never found.
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« Reply #555 on: May 12, 2015, 02:40:32 PM »
Known as NFPA 291, it says fire hydrants using public water supply systems should be painted chrome yellow, and their tops and caps should indicate the available GPM. Below 500GPM should be red, 500-999 GPM should be orange, 1000-1499 GPM should be green, and 1500 GPM or more should be blue.
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #556 on: June 08, 2015, 11:11:16 AM »
The flag planted by by Aldrin and Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission was toppled over by the exhaust from the rockets when they left?

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« Reply #557 on: June 08, 2015, 11:16:45 AM »
Why can't we vote on this thread's poll anymore?

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« Reply #558 on: June 08, 2015, 11:17:59 AM »
Known as NFPA 291, it says fire hydrants using public water supply systems should be painted chrome yellow, and their tops and caps should indicate the available GPM. Below 500GPM should be red, 500-999 GPM should be orange, 1000-1499 GPM should be green, and 1500 GPM or more should be blue.
So that's why they painted the fire hydrant down the block from red to blue.

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« Reply #559 on: June 08, 2015, 11:52:01 AM »
So that's why they painted the fire hydrant down the block from red to blue.
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