Ruben had his birthday dinner at Stuzzi this week. The dinner conversation touched on, among other things, fancy pizza fun facts. Enjoy! (or as they say in Italian, Buon Appetito!) * What is the difference between ‘pizza’ and ‘pizze’ on the menu? — In both English and Italian, ‘Pizze’ is the plural form of pizza…. read more »
Side note: Aaron always tells me that I need to separate my posts … one post for each fact. Apparently this would impact my hit count… But I say this site is not twitter… and I am not really trying to optimize anything; if I really wanted to increase my blog popularity I would post… read more »
Yeah so I had several funfax that I dutifully copied down to research but never got around to researching… and so I am going to put in a post here that is sort of like a placeholder… maybe I will update these but maybe not
Barnstorming — it was a popular sport in the 1920s
These titles are getting unweildy … Summer Fun (June/July 2010 Friends from Granada! Futball at Monument Ave! July 4th at Lake Anna!) is too long. how should I name these things? I dunno! * Marshall Brain — Marshall Brain is the author of “How Stuff Works” and apparently writes novels about the future and… read more »
In the last few weeks, I have been busy getting locally famous on Brown’s Island during Dominion Riverrock as well as relaxing in the outer banx. The following are artiFACTS from conversations that have occurred with friends in a variety of social settings. * Babbling and Phonemes… supposedly little babies are born with the ability… read more »
So last weekend there was a rash of fact research generated at our Fan Facts club meeting as well as the Facts Club field trip to Virginia wine country to see how wine is manuFACTured. Here goes: * Rampion… is is like Aurugula? Not really. Both are in the Eudicots , but Rampion (a local German form of Phyteuma) is… read more »
Some people wonder why Nottoway is such a draw for me. Well, one reason is that if you do a Google news archive search on Nottoway you are either going to get the Plantation in Louisiana (built in 1859 by a Virginia native) or you are going to get random information and fun facts. Nottoway… read more »
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Baked beans test