Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Dead hair and Nixon's psychic
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., May 13, 2005
Richard Nixon had at least one documented Oval Office meeting with psychic Jeanne Dixon – a 36-minute taped session on May 4, 1971. Nixon apparently took her predictions concerning terrorism seriously enough to act on them.
There are eight different scales used to measure temperature: Celsius (Centigrade), Fahrenheit, Rankine, Reaumur, Newton, Rømer, Kelvin, and Deslisle.Joshua Kinberg invented the first wireless, bike-mounted dot-matrix printer.
If you were in Spain trying to speak like a wiseguy, you might say, "Cuando las ranas crien pelos" (when frogs grow hair). A close English equivalent is "When pigs fly."
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