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Discussion in 'Non-Vegas Chat' started by Breeze147, Jul 8, 2017.

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    In 2012, eBay banned the sale of paranormal items in an effort to protect its users, forfeiting millions of dollars in potential revenue. Sometimes, people claim to have captured the essence of a spirit on film – as in the “Brown Lady” photo from the 1930s, above – but these apparitions can usually be explained by camera flashes or double exposures, among other factors. Interestingly, most of the spirits inhabiting the Robinson estate are found in that one cabinet between the kitchen and dining room and, similar to the photo, are described as 'brown' as well. 'cept for the Mexican & Russian spirits...they're clear. :licklips:
     
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    Howard Cosell was an attorney before becoming a sports announcer.
     
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    The only United States city which name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii.
     
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    U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
     
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    It is pure myth that US Interstate Highways are designed with straight stretches every 5 miles in order to accommodate the landing of aircraft in an emergency.
     
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    When it opened in 1930, the iconic Hotel New Yorker advertised that it was the first full-service hotel to include a radio in each room, with a choice of four stations!

    Bonus FOTD: During the 1970s and 1980s, the New Yorker was owned by the Moonies and was used as housing for retreats and special events.

    Extra Bonus FOTD: For years, the New Yorker generated its own electrical power, and guests had continuous lights and appliances during the great 1965 blackout.
     
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    "Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?", starring Doris Day, Robert Morse & Terry Thomas, is the only major-studio (MGM) film about a power outage.
     
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    Honey is the only food that will never spoil.
     
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    In human-style fashion, robots are learning to be deceitful. In one experiment, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta developed an algorithm that allowed robots to decide whether or not to deceive other humans or robots. If the robots decided to take the route of deceit, the researchers included an algorithm to allow the robot decide how to deceive the people and robots while reducing the likelihood that the person or robot being deceived will ever find out. In the experiment, a robot was given some resources to guard. It frequently checked on the resources but started visiting false locations whenever it detected the presence of another robot in the area. This experiment was sponsored by the United States Office for Naval Research, which means it might have military applications. Robots guarding military supplies could change their patrol routes if they noticed they were being watched by enemy forces.
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    Camping was once an almost-universal family pastime, that is until the house was invented.
     
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    Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude,the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude.
     
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    How did Juneau that? :ssst:

    Thanks, Breeze! :D

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    Last night's World Series game was the longest in WS history. :popcorn:
    Seven hours and 20 minutes! :faint:

    That's impressive.
    I can't spit and scratch for more than four hours at a time...:eek:

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    My neighbor's family and my family once tried to go camping together, but we cut the trip short because it was just two tents. :D

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    In related Florida news... :hmmm:

    It looks like robotic deception is worse than we thought.

    After a thorough, CSI: Miami-style investigation,
    I've recently discovered the real pic of @deansrobinson and @Gino! :eek: :faint:

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    I won't be fooled again!
    May the Force be with You! :D

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    The Cuban boa, hunts in packsssss, and through teamwork improve their chances of catching prey. It's the first time that reptiles have been observed to have been involved in "coordinated hunting," where individual animals take into account the location of others of the same species to maximize their hunting successes. The study's author, Vladimir Dinets, observed the snakes hunting fruit bats in Cuba. Taking up positions across a cave mouth at dawn and dusk, the individual snakes would position themselves in a way as to improve the odds of the pack making a kill.

    Improving on that efficiency, they build a "snake curtain"...the snakes do it by hanging upside down from the roofs of caves. "After sunset and before dawn, some of the boas entered the passage that connected the roosting chamber with the entrance chamber, and hunted by suspending themselves from the ceiling and grabbing passing bats." Dinets, an Assistant Research Professor in the university's Department of Psychology, observed the positions that each boa took up each morning and evening when they arrived at the hunting site and ascertained that they would pick places that would help block the bats' path in and out of the cave, improving the hunt's effectivenesssss.
     
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    The Lick Observatory, operated by the University of California and just east of San Jose, is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory.
     
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    My man cave is going to be awesome now!

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    Three Mile Island actually is only 2 1/2 miles long.
     
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    I've seen the woodchucks - who burrow next to/ in my house foundation -
    climb a tree and pick the fruit hanging on the end of the limb.
    My neighbor's Peach tree !
     
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