5/29/07 – Deer ticks can fit on the head of a pin and need to bite you for 24 hours before they can transmit Lyme disease.
6/1/07 – The Taj Mahal was originally going to have a mirroring building of black marble on the opposite bank of the river.
6/4/07 – In 2000, Colombian police found a half built submarine near the capitol of Bogota, at 8000 feet in the Andes Mountains. Guerillas were going to use the sub for drug running.
6/6/07 – Combining rust with aluminum and igniting it with magnesium will generate thermite.
6/8/07 – If the Hoover Dam had been poured as one solid piece, it would still be giving off heat today from the curing of the concrete.
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Random fact:
8/11/07–One J.E.Smidgin has not posted for exactly two months. Impudent rivals have insinuated that the eerily silent Mr. Smidgin has run out of random facts in his most capacious brain; however, friends of the cause protest that the facts and other multifarious tales produced upon his return will be all the more brilliant for the extended hiatus.