27-11-2010, 08:24 AM
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Interesting to know
Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.The city of Portland in Oregon was named after a coin toss in 1844. Heads for Portland and tails for Boston.
You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
By the time we die, most of us will have spent a quarter of a century asleep, of which six years or more will have been spent dreaming—and almost all of those dreams are forgotten upon waking.
It took seven years and the skills of hundreds of people from five countries to make the London Eye a reality
. The overall amount of water on our planet has remained the same for two billion years.
At its core, the sun’s temperature is about 15 million degrees Celsius (about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit).
DM, just surfing the net, there are all sorts of things to learn on the internet.
I always thought you were sound asleep when you did both! 
28-11-2010, 12:25 PM
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Re: Interesting to know
The snoring one puzzled me too so I tested it out on the long suffering missus, who has always been a terrific snorer. Last night her snoring woke me up (again) and when I gently rubbed her nose to ease the noise, she woke up. I asked her what she was dreaming about and she said she wasn't dreaming.|
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