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I bet you didnt know that

Cartouche · 2017-01-14 15:28:48

As people here work in various jobs / professions they might know things from work or study no one here knows yet. this is what this topic is about. what do you know that we have never heard of? Eg: you don't need to be great at maths to be an architect this is obvious to me but everyone says to me "i wanted to be an…

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#9992 25-01-2019 10:39pm
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Jimi Hendrix was a paratrooper. BBC4 music docs are great.

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#9993 25-01-2019 10:56pm
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I didn't know that

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#9994 25-01-2019 10:58pm
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Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Jimi Hendrix was a paratrooper. BBC4 music docs are great.

So were Frank Carson and Billy Connolly.

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#9995 25-01-2019 11:05pm
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Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Jimi Hendrix was a paratrooper. BBC4 music docs are great.

Did he jump or does it matter, one find guitar player he was really :cool:

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#9996 25-01-2019 11:07pm
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Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

So were Frank Carson and Billy Connolly.

Billy was a welder in a shipyard

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#9997 26-01-2019 12:00am
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During his lifetime Van Gogh was never famous as a painter and struggled to make a living as an artist. The Red Vineyard was the only paining he sold during his lifetime. It sold in Brussels for 400 Francs only a few months before his death.

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#9998 26-01-2019 12:20am
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This post is the 10,000th post

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#9999 26-01-2019 9:14am
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BaZmO* wrote: »

This post is the 10,000th post

And on that note, new thread is over here.

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