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Due to slight mistranslation, Revelation 13:18 is usually written as "the number of the beast ... is 666", instead of the correct "... is 6 by 6 by 6." Hence, the number of the beast is actually 216, not 666.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
May or may not be true, but the QWERTY keyboard came about because typewriter companies in the early 1800s wanted their salesmen to be able to type something quickly to show how efficient it was. They could rapidly type the word "typewriter" because all of the letters were placed in the top row on a QWERTY keyboard.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
May or may not be true, but the QWERTY keyboard came about because typewriter companies in the early 1800s wanted their salesmen to be able to type something quickly to show how efficient it was. They could rapidly type the word "typewriter" because all of the letters were placed in the top row on a QWERTY keyboard.
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Originally Posted by bumsfeld 
Only 3 athletes have ever won medals at both the Winter and Summer Olympics:
Eddie Eagan of the USA
Jacob Thams of Norway
Christa Luding-Rothenburger of Germany.
There was a 4th - Clara Hughes of Canada: Individual Road Race Cycling bronze and Individual Time Trial Cycling bronze (1996) and 5,000 m Speed Skating bronze (2002).
Christa Luding-Rothenburger of Germany was the only one to win in both Summer and Winter games of the same year (1988). Of course, now that the two games are staggered, that won't happen again.
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Originally Posted by woooee
May or may not be true, but the QWERTY keyboard came about because typewriter companies in the early 1800s wanted their salesmen to be able to type something quickly to show how efficient it was. They could rapidly type the word "typewriter" because all of the letters were placed in the top row on a QWERTY keyboard.
Don't know whether it's true or not. The story I heard is that it was developed because typists were so proficient using earlier formats, that they were jamming the machines - they could type faster than the bars could lift up to the paper and return to position. The QWERTY version was developed to slow down typists.
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Originally Posted by woooee
May or may not be true, but the QWERTY keyboard came about because typewriter companies in the early 1800s wanted their salesmen to be able to type something quickly to show how efficient it was. They could rapidly type the word "typewriter" because all of the letters were placed in the top row on a QWERTY keyboard.
Just as did kdoiron, I heard that the QWERTY setup was billed as a preventer of jammed keys. This did in effect happen because it took typists a while to adjust from the old ABC configuration. By the time they were typing fast enough to cause jams, typewriter technology had improved to stop the darned things from jamming.
Bonus: I am in possession of an old manual (non-electric) typewriter that my grampses gave me.
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Scotland is NOT North Britain, Glasgow does NOT rhyme with "cow", and Robbie Burns is...well, if you don't already know who he was, you're kinda screwed.
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Originally Posted by bumsfeld
Tomatoes were considerd fruit until WW2, then they were recategorized vegetable to obtain lucrative U.S. Army contract.
If only ignorance were painful....
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