Sentences with phrase «odd fact»

The site also includes assorted odd facts about each president.

A walking book of odd facts and knowledge seems to be my calling.

That's a very odd fact to insert into the text.

I think it is good to point out a few odd facts from time - to - time.

After Osborne spoke in an interview about his own ability to recall odd facts, a host suggested to him that he may have been «faintly autistic»; he responded by saying that «We're not getting onto Gordon Brown yet».

The reason for this seldom known and almost odd fact is that bananas contain «mucilaginous bulking substances».

Buttressing the belief that Reading was skating on fiscal thin ice that had very little to do with the temperature of NCLB was a very odd fact about the district: it happened to own a world - class art museum.

Even the elevator is a major part of the decor, plastered with the signature white script also found in the rooms and relating all kinds of odd facts and anecdotes.

It is an odd fact that subjective certainty is inversely proportional to objective certainty.

I recently came across the odd fact that one of the leading researchers on the brain in the twentieth century was — wait for it: Lord Brain.

In those days when heads were somewhat commonly smashed, the Hebrews must have been familiar with the strange jellylike matter that fills the skull; but the odd fact is that they never ascribed any function to it or even considered it deserving of a name.

When it comes to Congress, polls show an odd fact: Congress as a whole has a very low approval rating, and yet people in congressional districts across the country approve of their own representative.

It is an odd fact that small dogs have more dreams than big dogs do.

Sure, people might say there is science behind it, but what they refuse to tell you is that either what was found is marginal at best, or they pull some odd fact out of somewhere and try to associate it and attach it to their diet.

While talking to the police, Katja recalls an odd fact — as she was leaving, a young woman left a bicycle untethered outside the building, and when she tried to warn her, the woman walked away insisting she was coming right back.

Nitpickers might notice the odd fact that the Touchstone Pictures logo at the end has been lost.

The explanation for this odd fact: since 1981 Chile has had a more comprehensive school choice system than any other country in the world, as well as a system of publicly available information on student test performance.

If that odd fact perked your interest, just wait: Marrin spikes his prose with keep - you - reading bits of esoterica (Depression - era mothers abandoning babies at animal shelters, German dogs taught to bark, «Mein Führer»).

He's been watching as she gradually becomes a recluse herself — plus there's the odd fact that she's taken up the habit of night gardening.

The second thing that struck me about the Kindle Paperwhite is the odd fact that the light can't be completely turned off.

Here are 10 odd facts about Labrador Retrievers, our country's favorite water dog and most popular breed.

Another odd fact about Chow's is that they were also bred for human consumption (and if that doesn't make you want to ignore people's commands I don't know what would.)

I'd suggest following the old inverted pyramid rule of journalism: tell the most important bits first, save the odd facts toward the end.

Odd fact: Sado Island used to be a prison.

Nintendo have given us yet another odd fact about Mario - he might not be a plumber anymore.

But the character and expressiveness of the vase is, in her hands, vast in range, comic, seductive, solemn, witty with the odd fact that it always remains only and always a vase.

Peter Coffin, whose practice includes photography, assemblage, performance, time - based media, installations, sound art, and sculpture in many forms, often uses art history, odd facts or obscure theories as a departure point for his surreal reinventions.

The fact that there are very good scientists who are skeptics is one of those odd facts.

The fact that lefty / greens / artsies are active in the AGW camp is another of those odd facts.

Might be an odd fact, but the state of Kansas is home to a lot of those, and a great population of people as well.

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