Sentences with phrase «curious fact»

One curious fact of trading is that most traders do very well on demo accounts, but then when they start trading real money they do horribly.
One other curious fact about Sallie Mae is that it's also a provider of financial services for universities and governments.
The guide also tell you about the area, history and other curious facts about Costa Rica.
London writer Mark Bryant, however, has compiled all sorts of entertaining facts about 200 well - known figures in Private Lives: Curious Facts About the Famous and Infamous (Cassell / Sterling Publications, $ 29.95, 0304343153).
As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.
Biblical scholar F. F. Bruce has said «the evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of cla ssical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning... It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians.»
The curious fact, in verse 11, that the disciples did not believe may be contradicted by verse 24.
The curious fact is that with the possible exception of literature, the arts occupy a secondary place in the college curriculum.
Yet there is still that curious fact which we noted at the outset.
It is a curious fact that while the general culture of contemporary theologians is still markedly literary, rather than scientific, they seem to forget the many lessons concerning the human situation to be learnt from tragedy, whether ancient or modern.
But from a «breakdown» point of view, the curious fact is that many of these men who were not broken down at all would have, however unconsciously, welcomed a «breakdown» diagnosis.
Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worlds by philippe paquet translated by julie rose la trobe, 720 pages, $ 59.99 It is a curious fact that Communist dictatorships were at their most popular among Western intellectuals while they still had the courage of their brutality.
And then there's the curious fact that «acceptance of theargument for limiting family size might actually weaken the environmental movement».
The famous phrase «wall of separation of church and state» today enjoys the status of legal precedent, but here's a curious fact.
It is a curious fact that sports become culturally important only when struggle is far detached from daily life.
We learned a curious fact about cruise people; they need 4 towels at a minimum to lie out, so we had to bribe the staff to get a couple before they were all gone.
A new study published in the January 24 edition of Science Advances explores what this curious fact might mean for alien - hunting astronomers.
Our work shows that this curious fact may be more than just coincidence», according to Marten Scheffer.
Skin biopsies revealed a curious fact: The levels of MMP - 1 mRNA in the controls were not normally distributed, but fell into two distinct groups.
Developed by physicists at the University of Bath, working with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and University College London, the technique relies on the curious fact that many biological and pharmaceutical molecules can be either «left - handed» or «right - handed».
The GPS stations have tracked the movement of the Whillans Ice Stream and confirmed a curious fact: The Whillans sits still most of the time.
There he learned a curious fact: Dolphins shed the entire outer layer of their skin every two hours.
It's a curious fact that while part of the charm of wine is that we expect each vintage to be different, we also expect that a bottle of our favourite beer will taste the same every time.
This curious fact also inspired the name of the new species to be «oblitum», which means «forgotten'translated from Latin.
A collector of curious facts and an avid puzzle solver, Elizabeth is happiest when cooking for her family and friends.
The comment was somewhat facetious, but it underlined a curious fact: not only are most film - lovers unaware of Freed's huge influence on Band Wagon, Silk Stockings, Singin «in the Rain, and the 40 - odd other films produced by his unit, but the very roles of producer and production unit have been little studied by film historians, much less commented on by theorists and critics.
Not to mention that the auto makes the Insignia almost one second quicker from 0 - 100 km / h (8.9 seconds compared to 9.7 seconds)-- despite the curious fact that you can't have it with AWD on this engine (you need to step up to the 210 - hp biturbo diesel for that).
Curious Fact: Not everyone is in the market for making a profit.
It's long been a curious fact about the Mileage Plan program that BusinessElite redemptions on Delta to Europe cost just 90,000 Mileage Plan miles, while the same ticket would cost 100,000 Skymiles.
A curious fact of history: at the same time that Lenin, living in exile in Zurich, was preparing plans for a revolutionary Russia, just down the street, Dadaists were leading a nightly art revolt at the Cabaret Voltaire.
The curious fact is that when you do look, what you see is not only sculpture but a kind of painting as well.
The curious fact is that this is exactly what has been happening for ALL our impacts, all along, and is what got us into this dead end trap we now find ourselves in.
Climate scientists have been wrestling with a curious fact lately: the rise in global temperature has been flat over the past decade or more even as we pump ever - increasing rates of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
This could explain the curious fact that precipitation in the western Amazon is higher than it is upwind, despite leakage in run - off at every revolution of the local water cycle.
And, curious fact, if we were deaf we'd sneeze with no sound at all, revealing that the loud part of this reflex is not reflexive at all but learned.
A curious fact revealed by Android Police is that the charger has a built - in fan below the charging surface, a neat solution for solving one of the no - cord charging problems.
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