#1365~Lightning strikes the Empire State Building more than 50 times a year.

#1366~Cleopatra was also known as the Serpent of the Nile.

#1367~The Soviet Union suffered the most combat deaths in WWII.

#1368~British spy novelist Ian Fleming wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

#1369~Wilt Chamberlain played professional volleyball after professional basketball.

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Just back from the beach and I have one smelly dog with me!

Housework be damned! We're going to watch movies instead!

#1371~Remove any queen from the card deck to play Old Maid.

#1372~Speaking of the Empire State Building, it stands on the site of New York's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

#1373~Each player in a game of checkers starts with twelve men. (Why can't that be true for real life?) :D

Checkers is 12 "men" and Chess is 15 (not counting the queen, of course).
Hmm. Queen surrounded by 15 guys.
I'll leave that to your imaginations.

#1374

I'd already left that to my imagination, dadaist. Hence my post, above. :D :p :D

#1375

Except there's no queen in Checkers, only Chess.

#1376

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that is why I added a disclaimer at post 1194 :)

"OK... done with the "facts"... more likely factoids."

#1378~Yes, dadaist, but when *I* play checkers, there's one woman and 12 men. :D

1379

Waiting for the Simpsons to end so we can watch a movie. Tyler likes the Simpsons more than anyone I know. I also know we say this episode not long ago but he denies it. Oh well, a bit more time to surf before the movie.