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1. over 14 years ago on Cul de Sac

   Have you ever noticed that with a double rainbow, the second, inner rainbow is fainter and has the order of colors reversed? This is because the light bounces around inside the droplets a second time.

   Did you know that the first time a car used a rear view mirror was in the first Indy 500? Ray Harroun won since he didn’t carry a mechanic like all the other cars. You can look at the mirror in the museum at INDY. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harroun

   That first race took 6:42 since they averaged nearly 75 mph, not the > 225 mph these days.

2. almost 16 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Perfect for new year’s resolutions

3. about 16 years ago on Doonesbury

   I had it today, reading this strip. I am one of the 160,000 new claims from September, 2008, but I was also part of the dot com bubble in the 90s.