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furry games and gaming discussions => word games => Topic started by: Corbenik on March 03, 2009, 09:24:34 pm
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Now, I'm not too good at word games and such, but I thought a thread of interesting and completely random and sometimes pointless facts would prove rather interesting.
Basically, you just post a random fact about anything. Like so:
Men are struck by lightning four times more than by women.
And now it begins.
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world class speedsolvers can solve a rubiks cube in under 10 seconds.
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Real rain doesn't look like rain on camera and so has to be poured from sprinklers on set.
Similarly, real gems shine more subtly than fake ones do, and so if a movie used real gems on camera they would look fake.
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Rats can chew through steel. Also any hole they fit their nose through, they can widen to accomodate their body size.
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Penguins were once able to both fly and swim. They lost the ability to fly because their bones evolved to a lifestyle of swimming and thus became denser over time.
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Inuit natives have over 100 words for 'ice' but no words for 'Hello'
*sees an Inuit* "Hey there."
*no response*
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The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
Makes me wonder what the average total for being stuck in traffic is >.>
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If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
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male facial hair is rughly as strong as copper wire of the same thickness,
no wonder razors go dull so fast
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A shrimps heart is in it's head.
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The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
There's no such animal as a panther (yes really!)
There is no mention of an apple in the Garden of Eden in the Bible
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There's no such animal as a panther (yes really!)
Care to explain?
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There's no such animal as a panther (yes really!)
Care to explain?
The name Panther describes a (usually) black variant of a jaguar, leopard or cougar, so its not really a species on its own.
wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther
I only discovered this recently as well, when i tried to find some information on 'panthers'.
Ok some more (cat related) facts then :D :
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
Cats purr at the same frequency as an idling diesel engine, about 26 cycles per second. (really useful that one (: )
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There's no such animal as a panther (yes really!)
Care to explain?
The name Panther describes a (usually) black variant of a jaguar, leopard or cougar, so its not really a species on its own.
wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther
I only discovered this recently as well, when i tried to find some information on 'panthers'.
Ok some more (cat related) facts then :D :
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
Cats purr at the same frequency as an idling diesel engine, about 26 cycles per second. (really useful that one (: )
I really wish I had known this a long time ago. My fursona used to be a black jaguar. Everyone kept saying panther. So I switched. x.x
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Before more advanced programming languages such as C and Basic were developed, every computer instruction was always followed by the address of the next instruction (the equivalent of a GOTO statement).
In addition, disk access only occurred in one direction, which meant that a programmer could code in a pause in the program by creating a block of "statements" that would do nothing but reference the previous block of disk space as the next command. After each null command, the computer would have to search the entire disk, go back to the beginning, and continue searching the first half of the disk before it got to the previous command. Though not the least bit elegant, it did create a controlled pause in programs without the use of a computer clock.
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In the African nation of Gabon, scientists have found 15 natural fission reactors.
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QI to the rescue!
1. the largest animal in the sea is the lions mane jelly fish, NOT the blue whale
2. the french have no word for custard or fluffy
3. the very first television consisted mainly of a hat box some knitting needles and a coffin lid (there are other parts but those are the most memerable)
4. the royal family open their christmas presents on christmas eve
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Gasoline contains a mixture of distillation by-products known as BTX, or Benzene-Toluene-Xylene. This mixture comprises usually around 10% of total volume, and is about 10% benzene. So, if you put one hundred gallons of gasoline in your car over a course of months, you will put a gallon or more of a proven chronic carcinogen in your gas tank.
Take home-message: don't drink gasoline.
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only two brown owls can go "tawit tawo" not one
the female goes "tawit" and the male goes "tawo"
contrary to popular belief there are in fact six states of matter not 3 or 4
1:solid
2:liquid
3:gas
4:plasma
5:fermionic condensate
6:Bose Einstein condensate
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Coca Cola used to have cocaine in it (up until 1929) hence the name.
The earth is not perfectly round, its a oblate spheroid (the diameter is greater at the equator than pole to pole)
London underground employs people to collect the human hair that accumulates in the tunnels "Fluffers" yep really
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I know you'r from scotland ratchet so don't take this to heart (i am scotish too soo I'm not trying to offend in any way)
In the UK it is still leagal to shoot a scotsman with a bow and arrow or crossbow if they pass wind on a sunday in public place (no I'm not making this up!) ot has been canceled out by the fact it is illeagle to carry such a wepeon in a public place
In California Jumping off of a building is punishable by death!
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Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
when there's no school, I sleep 15-16 hours per day O.o I didn't know that about cats...
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
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I know you're from Scotland Ratchet so don't take this to heart (i am Scotish too soo I'm not trying to offend in any way)
In the UK it is still legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow or crossbow if they pass wind on a Sunday in public place (no I'm not making this up!) it has been canceled out by the fact it is illeagal to carry such a weapon in a public place
:D heard of one like that before, iirc its just in Yorkshire though, and there's a similar one for Welshmen as well :o
It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament. x_x (what would they do, arrest you? :D )
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Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
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one DNA strand in a single cell of you body is about 2m long if unwound from it's more reconisable chromasome shape but it would be so thin that not even an electron micoscope could detect it because DNA is about 20 atoms thick!
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one DNA strand in a single cell of you body is about 2m long if unwound from it's more reconisable chromasome shape but it would be so thin that not even an electron micoscope could detect it because DNA is about 20 atoms thick!
Misinformation!
Electron microscopy is definitely not the ideal method for imaging DNA helices or nucleotide chains. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) instruments are able to detect single-stranded DNA affixed to an immobile surface, although a much more practical application is to use fluorescence spectroscopy to perform single-molecule studies. In fact, AFM is often used in the sub-field of DNA nanodevices to check that the structure of the assembled constructs conforms to what is expected.
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River otters can travel 10 miles to reach a body of water.
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The Soloviev D-30 engine, used in the MiG-31, only has use otherwise in transport aircraft and airliners - as it is too big and overly powerful for most airframes - only the toughest can hold it. The only other use in a jet fighter was the prototype Su-47 Berkut.
Ultimate Interceptor needed the ultimate engines.
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There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
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Branwell Brontë died standing up and leaning on a mantelpiece, just to prove it could be done.
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Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
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chocolate is leathel! in the right doses
one DNA strand in a single cell of you body is about 2m long if unwound from it's more reconisable chromasome shape but it would be so thin that not even an electron micoscope could detect it because DNA is about 20 atoms thick!
Misinformation!
Electron microscopy is definitely not the ideal method for imaging DNA helices or nucleotide chains. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) instruments are able to detect single-stranded DNA affixed to an immobile surface, although a much more practical application is to use fluorescence spectroscopy to perform single-molecule studies. In fact, AFM is often used in the sub-field of DNA nanodevices to check that the structure of the assembled constructs conforms to what is expected.
i has been out-smarted, that truley is facinating
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chocolate is leathel! in the right doses
I am never eating chocolate again... x_x
When the five elements combine, i am CAPTAIN PLANET!
now for the real fact: the only non-hackable psp is a psp slim with a Ta 88 v3 motherboard, all of the others are badly protected.
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chocolate is leathel! in the right doses
I am never eating chocolate again... x_x
i think the dose is something like 200 kg or something like that (your stomache would burst before the chocolate poiesned you)
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chocolate is leathel! in the right doses
I am never eating chocolate again... x_x
i think the dose is something like 200 kg or something like that (your stomache would burst before the chocolate poiesned you)
so that means it's still safe to eat 2 kilograms of chocolate in one day? YAY!
random fact: my real name starts with a K...just like my fursona!
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apparently if an average person consumes two large bars of pure coco chocolate in the space of about an hour they may start to halucinate or be sick :D
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hdkljzm6eo (---the thruth
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more people are killed by falling coconuts every year than sharks
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I find it creepy that the last 7 posts are by me and FurFoxart alone :o
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I find excessive humour in stupid little things that just crack me up.
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I like swimming.
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Almost one hundred per-cent of all vanillin (the essential flavour compound of vanilla beans) is artificially synthesized, rather than extracted from vanilla bean pods.
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the most likely shape of a the universe is thought to be a four dimentional douhnut which then makes it theoretically possible to look into the past of the earth because light travels round the douhnut and so we could theoreticaly see the earth in the depts of space as it was millenia ago (you probably would'nt even see the very early sun because of how long it would take the light to reach us but you get the general idea)
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As of July 2005, the smallest country in terms of population was Pitcairn Islands with 45 inhabitants!
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Certain species of snake are known to repel predators by farting audibly.
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It is better to make songs without headphones, because headphones disturb (or rather, they DON'T disturb) some of the sound, which is normally disturbed when playing songs.
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The Il-2 Sturmovik, probably the most important Aircraft of WW2, could have been made with a Radial engine as well due to engine shortages, this was proposed. But all the radial engines needed were used in the La-5 Fighter, so the Il-2 never flew with a radial engine.
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the isle of wight is the smallest county in the U.K for only half of the year; it's the smallest at high-tide and the second smallest at low-tide
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you can run furtopia using the nintendo DSi's opera based browser, and it's fast!
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They see me rollin'. They hatin'. Patrollin'. Tryin' to catch me ridin' dirty.
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The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver."
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If you piled all the Wiis in the world on top of each other, they would reach the moon!
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The song Kickstart my heart by motley crue was written about nikki sixx's heroin overdose, in which he was declared dead. However, the paramedic at the scene was a motley crue fan, and revived him with 2 adrenaline shots to the heart. Why don't they do that with other people who OD?
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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Martha Stewart has been struck by lightning three times.
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You are statistically more likely to be executed than struck by lightning.
I wonder if Martha Stewart will be executed at some point.
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Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
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Water is capable of flowing upward through thin tubes without the assistance of artificial devices or other outside assistance. The phenomenon is known as capillary action (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_action), and this is the reason why plants are able to get water from the soil.
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Unlike most other species, both genders of wolves produce substantial quantities of the hormone prolactin which stimulates their extreme love and patience and fascination with puppies and raising them (not to mention the puppy is simply cute!).
(http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee216/C_Lupus/fuzzypup.jpg)
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hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the phobia of long words!
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Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the phobia of long words and is terribly IRONIC
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language as well as the name of a volcanic lung disease
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Electronic Bunnies will take over the world in 10 hours.
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The word with the most letters is a name of protein, as a name, it technically does not qualify as a word, but at 1913 characters, we just had to include it. Theoretically these names can contain an infinite amount of characters, but this one qualifies as it has actually been used in a medical journal.
methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucyl phenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyl lysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenyl alanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisol eucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartyl threonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartyl alanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenyl alanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylprolyl threonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucyl arginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonyl prolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamyl methionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysyl histidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucyl leucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalylphenyl alanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenyl alanyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalyl glycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalyl prolylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanyl arginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginyl valylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinyl prolylprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucyl leucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycyl arginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginyl alanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginyl arginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidyl leucylvalylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginyl alanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenylalanyl glycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysyl alanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycyl alanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisol eucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucyl glutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyl lysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysyl alanylalanylthreonylarginylserine
>.< omg
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The new world's first mule skinner (breeder of mules) was George Washington.
He is often depicted on a white horse, but President Washington far preferred his brown riding mule.
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The new world's first mule skinner (breeder of mules) was George Washington.
He is often depicted on a white horse, but President Washington far preferred his brown riding mule.
(Seriously? I never heard of that in history class.) :o
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In Washington state the WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning) is so bad that half the teachers couldn't pass it
(this is true, all my teachers even agree ^^)
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Things not invented in Scotland but long assumed to have been:
Whisky (proper spelling), Bagpipes, Haggis, Black Pudding, The kilt, tartan, the television (but to be fair John Logie Baird made the first working one)
And things that are:
Tarmac, Penicillin, The Decimal Point, The U.S. Navy, Golf, Microwaves, fax machines, radar and the Telephone.
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Tarmac, Penicillin, The Decimal Point, The U.S. Navy, Golf, Microwaves, fax machines, radar and the Telephone.
(The telephone was invented in the US.
US Navy? :o Care to explain that one?)
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The new world's first mule skinner (breeder of mules) was George Washington.
He is often depicted on a white horse, but President Washington far preferred his brown riding mule.
(Seriously? I never heard of that in history class.) :o
(Ya, srsly.)
(The King of Spain sent some mammoth donkeys (donkeys that are horse-sized) to George Washington as a gift to the newly-formed USA's president. Only the jack, named "Royal Gift," survived the trip over the ocean. Washington bred Royal Gift with his riding mares, and was very pleased with the result.)
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Tarmac, Penicillin, The Decimal Point, The U.S. Navy, Golf, Microwaves, fax machines, radar and the Telephone.
(The telephone was invented in the US.
US Navy? :o Care to explain that one?)
Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell- Scottish.
U.S. Navy- A Scot called John Paul Jones.
Sorry guys but we get made to learn these things in School, with a population of only 5m people in the country we blow things out of proportion when we invent, win or do something interesting.
:-[
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A smoot is a unit of measurement. It is 5 feet and 7 inches. I AM A SMOOT TALL. :D
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A dog was once the King of Norway for 3 years during the 11th century AD
Given a choice between a 10% ethyl alcohol solution and water, a hamster will choose to drink the alcohol solution about 90% of the time.
Tetrodotoxin (puffer fish poison) is one of the main ingredients in zombie voodoo spells.
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Water is theorized to have a metallic form which is possibly present in the planets Neptune and Uranus.
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Inuit natives have over 100 words for 'ice' but no words for 'Hello'
*sees an Inuit* "Hey there."
*no response*
I'm sorry to dredge up a post from so long ago, but I figured I should say this is not true. Here is one example on a website I Googled: http://www.putlearningfirst.com/language/research/eskimo.html
For my own contribution:
Light reflects off water at a 42 degree angle to create a rainbow
Jerusalem covers 42 square miles.
There were 42 generations from Abraham to Christ
Each column of The Torah contains exactly 42 lines
The Statue of Liberty's right arm is 42 feet long
Elvis died at age 42
The Next Generation's Enterprise has 42 decks
Two dice have 42 dots
There are exactly 42 Oreo cookies in a one-pound package
I guess 42 really is the answer to life, the universe, and everything! :D
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Hehehe, wow I think we have a new random winner *Hands Cookie*
Are you shure those are all "true" facts? being 42 and all ;)
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Hehehe, wow I think we have a new random winner *Hands Cookie*
Are you shure those are all "true" facts? being 42 and all ;)
Pretty sure they're all right. I admit I copied part of a list from somewhere, so I didn't check all of these, but it's still pretty cool :) I was inspired to go look for the list because I read a similar one in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader (best books EVAR for random cool trivia and history).
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Light reflects off water at a 42 degree angle to create a rainbow
This is not technically true. Rainbows are not formed because of the angle that light refracts in water (which is about 42 degrees), but because of the fact that the various wavelengths of visible light (i.e. red, orange, etc.) have different angles of refraction (see "scientific explanation in the wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow). If this wasn't the case, rainbows would simply be an arc of bright light in the sky instead of a multicolor band of light.
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((commence Anime nerd info in 3...2...1.... go))
The voice actor for Spike (Cowboy Bebop) is also the voice actor for Roger Smith (Big O)
The voice actor for Vash (Vash the Stampede) is also the voice actor for Ichigo (Bleach), Kiba (Wolf's Rain), and Lelouch (Code Geass)
Light (Death Note) has the same voice actor as Gohan (DBZ) and a pony named "Ace" in My Little Pony Tales!
(I may or may not have been up all night on IMDB, lol)
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Furry Fandom was created by Chuck Norris. As was all other good ideas.
Dont believe me? then ask him. I dare you.
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My computer apparently has a coprocessor that I never knew about, and I can't find any drivers for it to find out where it came from in the first place because I don't know where it came from and to find out I'd need to install the drivers which I don't have because...
Well, you get the idea.
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jazz musician jan garbarek's drummer, frenchman manu katche... is now appearing on the french version of x factor (or american idol) as a simon cowel style character
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My computer apparently has a coprocessor that I never knew about, and I can't find any drivers for it to find out where it came from in the first place because I don't know where it came from and to find out I'd need to install the drivers which I don't have because...
Well, you get the idea.
Maybe you have a mini GLaDOS :o
be weary about your actions
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During mid World War II (1941-1943), a eccentric inventor by the name of Geoffrey Pyke convinced Winston Churchill and the British military to design and test the possibility of building huge aircraft carriers out of a substance known as "pykrete", which is nothing more than water mixed with wood pulp, then frozen solid. The aircraft carriers would have been sorta like floating icebergs. :o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
P.S. - I'm actually building a model ship of Habbakuk for a future model contest. ;)
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At the Core of Mans Being is a fundamental incompetency. On a Primal level, Man has always been aware of the void in the recesses of his mind. The fear of this Void and the concept of none existence it brings scares man. All our efforts and achievements have been made to prove we exists. All our social efforts have been made in the hopes of gratifying one another. To fill each other and distract us from the thought of death.
The search for the Primal womb is nothing more then an effort to return to a state of beginningness. It is a return to a time when things were easier. Because no one can truly understand what we feel. We feel isolated and alone. So we must seek each other out. We must fill and gratify one another. We must prove our existence. We must fill and cover this void by melding with one another, distracting us from our harsh realities.
The Ego was formed due to this need, but is not our true selves. We formed our egos through The Thoughts, Interaction, And Experiences we share with one another. These things serve to mold us and form the patterns of our hearts and minds. We form each other, I create you as you create me.
Man can not live without others, or he would form no ego. and therefor never grow mentally.
But yet there is another. The true you, The real you behind the the Ego. It is the intangible being on the edge of our conscious minds, lurking the darkest reaches of our dreams. But you fear it. Because it does not have form. because it would mean the current you (Ego) may no longer exist. Because you will have to face your harsh reality as the true you.
No man is exempt from these things. This is the Existential truth of being. We and the universe around us is noting more then thought.
This is not referring to the higher conscious mind. This is referring to the subconscious. So please avoid the useal "I dont thinks that way!" line.
This is my Random Fact. (:
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When people wake up with a strand of hair or two in their mouth, it is not from falling off their head while asleep, but in fact it is hair that has grown through their brain and is called Mental Floss. :o
Check the facts at: www.dontevenwasteyourtime.com
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From The Book of Useless Information:
"The U.S Government spent $277,000 on "pickle reasearch" in 1993."
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From The Book of Useless Information:
"The U.S Government spent $277,000 on "pickle reasearch" in 1993."
and we wonder why we have such money issues.... :P
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).
The pancreas produces Insulin.
1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
d it!]). The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m). There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.American car horns beep in the tone of F.
i think i'm good for a month or 2 ^_^
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The commodore 64 was such a powerful computer that during its reign in the market it sold more than any other computer of its time which began during January, 1982 and ended rather sadly in April 1994 when the Commodore company filed for bankruptcy.
Why do I feel like such a nerd for that?
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The commodore 64 was such a powerful computer that during its reign in the market it sold more than any other computer of its time which began during January, 1982 and ended rather sadly in April 1994 when the Commodore company filed for bankruptcy.
Why do I feel like such a nerd for that?
Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
i think i'm good for a month or 2 ^_^
Great picks Freaken awesome.
Did you know. That thought never seeses. Although our concious minds may not concead thought. Our subconciouse mind is contantsantly at work in a propetual motion. If this cycle where to stop, the human mind would no longer have conciouseness. And the concept of existince would be lost. (This is why you can only remain dead so long, before doctors ont bring you back. Brain damage is a leading factor).
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My birthday falls on Pi Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day). I claim no correlation between this and my proficiency at math (though I cannot deny the coincidence).
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There is no food that is blue naturally. Even blueberries are actually a deep violet.
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Pineapples do NOT grow on trees, they grow out of the ground.
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There is no food that is blue naturally. Even blueberries are actually a deep violet.
Did you know, that blue is a natural warning color. Animal recognise poisonous animals and plants by the warning color Blue. This is also why the color blue can cause people to feel sick, or un-hungery! ^_^
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:jOViHUvppekB-M%3Ahttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2099/2330737504_c2bc103391.jpg) (http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:YaB0Xw4ggiqY9M%3Ahttp://www.itsnature.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/bluering2.JPG) (http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:VPfoB8qxpbLS8M%3Ahttp://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/09/18/336983_16.jpg) (http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Or3k8q9_QVIxYM:http://www.aircav.net/survival/appe/img164.jpg)
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There is a total of 228,132 (give or take a dozen) words in the Oxford English Dictionary, including 171,476 words currently in use, 47,156 obsolete words, and approx. 9,500 derivative words included in subentries. Over half of these are nouns, about a quarter are adjectives, about a seventh are verbs, and the rest are interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc.
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The Y2K bug was never "fixed"; instead of making computers able to handle a greater timespan of dates, the frame of time that computers were able to understand was shifted forward 38 years. Effectively, the Y2K bug was simply turned into the Y2K38 (year 2038) bug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem).
Before this becomes a problem, though, many computers will likely shift from 32 bit OSes to 64 bit OSes, and 64 bit OSes will not have this problem because they store dates in a larger space in memory.
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Studies show that birthdays are good for people. The more birthdays you have, the longer you'll live.
A good vacuum cleaner really sucks.
Hey, it are facts...
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Giraffes do not have vocal chords.
Deer meat tastes awesome and a bit spicy.
Rabits /really do/ taste almost exactly like chicken.
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Leaving a running refrigerator door open will *not* cool the surroundings in the long run. Refrigerators work by transferring the heat from inside the unit to the unit's exterior, but heat is also generated in this process due to inefficiency. Because of this, the refrigerator will heat the surroundings more than it will cool them down.
This concept is also the reason why air conditioners must have an exterior access (a window, for instance) in order to function.
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These forums display up to 25 replies on each page of any given thread except the first page of the thread, which contains the original post and its first 24 replies. Therefore, one can find the number of pages in any given thread by diving that thread's number of replies by 25 (discarding the fractional remainder) and then adding 1 (to account for the fact that the first posts of a thread are on page number 1).
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By scale; the Okapi have the longest tongue of all other mammals. They have the unique ability of being able to clean the inside of their own ear with their tongue. The Okapi also have a prehensile tongue which can wrap around twings and things and can be manipulated like a finger.
The Okapi avatar I'm using right now shows a shot of teh prehensile ability of their tongue. That is, its the avatar I'm using today. If in a couple weeks I change it and someone is looking at this post then, well, trust me, it was there.
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Geddy Lee's stage name came from his yiddish grandmother prouncouncing his name "Garry" with the thick yiddish accent :D
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Momentum is conserved between portals. In layman's terms; speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.
:D
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cheetahs, as is commonly known, are the fastest land animal... the can reach their top speed of something like 65m/h after just three strides. when they run at this collosal speed, their spine bends a huge amount so that their back legs can reach through and make a monumental stride forward... so, my fact is this...
cheetahs are so athletic, and their spines so flexible that they can run at 5m/p... even WITHOUT legs!
this is my new favourite animal fact... of all time
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Elephants are indeed larger than the moon.
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In calculus, it is considerably easier mathematically to use an integral to find an infinitely close approximation of an answer (i.e., the exact answer) than it is to use a summation to find a somewhat approximate answer. The theorem that allows the former is named, quite appropriately, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
Elephants are indeed larger than the moon.
Kaloth, this is the random *fact* thread.
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But, elephants are larger than the moon.
This lady says so.
(http://calvinlawson.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/elephant_larger_than_moon1.jpg)
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(*looks at picture*EEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIICCCCC FAAAAAAAAIL!!!)
The Latin word for animal is "animal".
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The Latin word for animal is "animal".
Words that are the same (or nearly the same) in multiple languages are called cognates. For example, the word "papel" in Spanish means "paper" in English; since "papel" and "paper" are highly similar words in different languages that mean the same thing, they are cognates.
However, there are also words in different languages that look the same, but do *not* mean the same thing. These are called "false cognates". For example, the word "sopa" in Spanish looks like the word "soap" in English, but it actually means "soup". Because of this, "sopa" and "soap" are false cognates.
It seems that whether or not two words are cognates depends on the words' origins being the same (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognate), not on their meanings. Spanish class has failed me...
(*edit: It *really* scares me that someone of that age has confused apparent size with physical size... on a game show, no less!*)
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The longest word you can type with your left hand (with correct position and all) is "stewardess".
Only 30% of all humans can flare their nostrils.
Foxes also pollinate plants.
In a room filled with 28 people, there is a 50% chance two will share the same birthday.
The smallest snowflake ever recorded: 1/500th of an inch. Largest? 15 inches in diameter.
Estimated cost of maintaining a chimpanzee in captivity for 60 years: $300,000
English has the most amount of words in any language with nearly a million words. German has about 188,500 words and French has less than 100,000.
The letter j was not added into the alphabet until the 1600's. The quotation wasn't added until the 1700's.
More than 50% of all of the lakes in the world are in Canada.
The leading cause of death in Papua, New Guinea is falling out of trees.
The only continent to never see war is Antarctica.
Horse jockeys are the only U.S. athletes to bet on themselves.
The city with the worlds largest polish population is Warsaw, Poland. The second largest is Chicago.
If you put a slice of ham in a DVD player, it will play a short movie about pigs.
I have a lot more, but I'll stop here :)
(I bet you fell for that last one for a couple of seconds.)
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•The phrase "Dog Days of Summer" comes from an ancient Roman belief.
It was believed that the Dog star, Sirius, gave off a lot of heat and caused
higher temperatures during the months of June, July, and August.
•The old rule -- multiplying a dog's age by 7 to find the equivalent human age -- is fallacious. A dog is able to reproduce at 1 year and has reached full growth by 2 years. To calculate a dog's age in human terms, count the first year at 15, the second year as 10, and each year after that as 5
•If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? -- One thousand
•The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
•If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
•The Okapi (Okapia johnstoni; pronounced /oʊˈkɑːpɪ/) is a giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the Ituri Rainforest, located in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in central Africa. Although the okapi bears striped markings reminiscent of the zebra, it is most closely related to the giraffe. Unknown to Europeans until 1901, today there are approximately 10,000–20,000 in the wild and only 40 different worldwide institutions display them (I had to look up what Liedt was so I figured that others might not know either)
•Most of the time, a horse has "monocular" vision. This means a different image is seen by each eye so that a horse is seeing two different pictures at the same time. A horse can also have "binocular" vision. Binocular vision is when both eyes work together to see one picture (humans have binocular vision). A horse only has binocular vision when it is looking down its nose.
•A horse has a wide range of vision. A horse can see completely around its entire body except for small blind spots directly in front of its face, underneath its head, and directly behind itself. This is why it's very important not to walk up right behind a horse - you are in its blind spot and if you startle it you may get kicked.
•Most of the time, wherever a horse's ear is pointing is where the horse is looking with the eye on the same side. If the ears are pointing in different directions, the horse is looking at two different things at the same time. There are exceptions to this. For example, if a horse has its ears pinned back against its neck in anger, this does not mean it is looking backwards with both eyes.
•A horse can see better at night than a human. However, it takes a horse's eyes longer to adjust from light to dark and from dark to light than a human's.
•A mule is a cross between a male donkey (called a jack) and a female horse (called a mare). Mules are usually sterile.
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Sorry for making another one but I found too many to let them pass.
These are Laws here in Oklahoma :goldglee:
•Females are forbidden from doing their own hair without being licensed by the state.
• Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three
or more on private property.
•Oklahoma will not tolerate anyone taking a bite out of another's hamburger.
•It is against the law to read a comic book while operating a motor vehicle.
•It is illegal to have the hind legs of farm animals in your boots.
•People who make "ugly faces" at dogs may be fined and/or jailed.
• No one may spit on a sidewalk. It is illegal to wear your boots to bed.
• Fish may not be contained in fishbowls while on a public bus.
•Tissues are not to be found in the back of one's car.
• If you wear New York Jets clothing, you may be put in jail.
• If ones dog is run over by a car, the owner must pay for the dog's disposal.
•No person may own more than two adult cats.
•It is illegal to cause "annoying vibrations" in the city limits.
•Persons may not play catch on any city street.
•Molesting an automobile is illegal.
•It is unlawful to put any hypnotized person in a display window.
•You may not open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer.
•Elephants are not to be taken into the downtown area.
•One's mode of transportation must be tied up while not attended.
•Mules may not drink out of bird baths.
•Clothes may not be washed in bird baths.
•It is illegal to tie a horse in front of city hall.
•While passing another vehicle, you must honk your horn.
•It is illegal to have ANY container open while driving (Not just alcohol, anything in a container... I asked an officer about this XDDD)
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Did you know that Nintendo was originally a playing card company founded in the late 1800's?
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Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding!
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Although experiments with electric trains go as far back as 1835, the first electric railway to carry passengers operated at an exhibition in Berlin in 1879. This was just simply a way to prove that electrical propulsion on the railways would be possible. Britain saw its first electric trains when the Volks Electric Railway, in Brighton, opened in 1883. The VER survives to this day and is also the oldest operating electric railway in the world.
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There is an enzyme in sharks that is only found in the sharks and the discharge of human females.
That's why many people say that women smell like fish.
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Only 1 in 2,100,000,000 people live beyond the age of 116.
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Henry Ford received Nazi Germany's highest medal (Iron cross), and Hitler had a picture of Henry Ford in his office.
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Scotland is the only developed country in the world where Coca Cola isn't the most popular soft drink.
In 1927, a French policeman was tried for the shooting of a boy he believed was a werewolf.
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Between 1941 and 1945, just under 4,000,000 babies were born in Britain. This was because doctors recommended giving birth as a cure for wartime anxiety. Even if that was the case, this figure increased to 4,500,000 between 1946 and 1950. Here are some famous people who were born during that time:
One of 4,000,000 (1941 - 5)
Graham Chapman
Caroline Dowdeswell
Bob Dylan
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
One of 4,500,000 (1946 - 50)
George Best
Susan Majolier
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Got a bit more Tiger-related ones.
The weretiger replaces the werewolf in shapeshifting folklore, in Asia.
The tiger is the national animal of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Malaysia, North Korea, and South Korea.
On a poll by animal planet involving 50,000 viewers from 73 countries declared the tiger the favorite animal, narrowly beating the dog by 1%. (May be invalid at this time)
Male tigers make a face called the "Flehmen response" When they smell a female tiger ready to mate.
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If you thought the first film version of Alice in Wonderland was released in 1951, think again! The very first film version of this story was released in 1903, almost 50 years earlier. Take a look!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ke25rh_8veM
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NASCAR has it's origins in moonshine hauling.
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coka cola was originally made with actual coke in it
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The original M1 Abrams was not equipped with a 120mm smoothbore cannon, but with the M68A1 Rifled cannon.
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At the moment of staging (S1 to S2), an enormous fireball travels up the length of the Saturn V rocket and ahead of it for a moment. Then the second stage ignites and the Saturn V flies through the fireball.
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The Talyllyn Railway became the first railway in the world to be preserved when it was restored by a group of volunteers led by Tom Rolt (1910 - 1974) and reopened in 1951. The Railway's other claim to fame was the link with the Thomas the Tank Engine stories as the Rev. W. Awdry (1911 - 1997) signed up as one their first volunteers and indeed, remained loyal to the TR until his death. Over that time the TR became the basis for the Skarloey Railway, one of the railways on Sodor e.g. the engines on the Skarloey Railway would have been identical to those on the Talyllyn Railway but with different names and here they are:
1. Talyllyn*/Skarloey**.
2. Dolgoch*/Rheneas**.
3. Sir Haydn*/Sir Handel**.
4. Edward Thomas*/Peter Sam**.
5. Midlander*/Rusty**.
6. Douglas*/Duncan**.
*Talyllyn Railway.
**Skarloey Railway.
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there are 13 crystal skulls in the world and they only found 7. 3 belong to museums all all over the world the other 4 belong to private collectors
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1960's pop/country star Bobby Goldsboro (Watching Scotty Grow, Honey, and Summer) produces, writes, and performs in the fursuit/puppet series Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon.
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Cheap coach fares in Britain first came about in 1919 when the railwaymen's strike took place.
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Movie Star Cowboy, Roy Rogers had a German Shepherd named Bullet.
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Ulysses S. Grant was tone-deaf. So he would say, "I only know two tunes. One is Yankee Doodle, the other isn't".
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another Ulysses S. Grant fact, he was a drunk, and when him and lee were saposed to have met for the treaty signing he showed up an hour late and you guessed it drunk off the wagon (my fith grade teacher told me that)
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The AN-94 assault rifle has over 300 moving parts.
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The Simonov carbine (SKS) is carried by the honor battalion of the Polish military in parades, yet the rifle was never produced in Poland.
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The first Disney park opened in Anaheim, California in 1955. Here's the evidence!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AuJ_RHDxNJY
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The Foo Fighters album "Wasting Light" was recorded entirely in Dave's garrage, a massive recording studio.
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April Ashley (originally George Jamieson) was the first person in Britain to have a sex change. Mr. Jamieson/Ms. Ashley was 25 years old when he/she had the operation in 1960.
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Famed prize fighter Mohammad Ali starred in an animated cartoon series.
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Adge Cutler, the founder of The Wurzels, never saw the release of Combine Harvester, The Wurzels' first No. 1 hit, as Adge was unfortunately killed in an accident in 1974, two years before Combine Harvester was released.
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Arthur Q. Bryan was the voice of Elmer Fudd in the original Warner Brothers cartoon. He was a regular cast member of the Fibber McGee & Molly radio program of the 1930s and 40s.
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In Britain, there are approximately 20,000 people over the age of 100 whereas in the USA, this figure is approximately 50,000.
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Much of the Cold War surplus ammunition of former East Germany was broken down for metal scrap with the propellant converted into fertilizer at no small expense.
The Clinton Administration banned importation of any steel-core ammunition from former East Germany claiming it to be armor-piercing.
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There's more to running a railway than just trains. For example, the London & South Western Railway would employ ferries that linked Portsmouth with the Isle of Wight.
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Cows, which survive primarily off the bacterial fermentation of fiber, are occasionally prone to becoming constipated with large quantities of methane gas which has to be released by a veterinarian puncturing the cow's side. I learned today that veterinarians are advised to ensure that the farmer who is usually standing close-by is not smoking.
Yes. It's happened.
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Ammunition for the Broomhandle Mauser and Tokarev pistols are of identical dimensions. The Mauser round will function in the Tokarev pistol, but the Tokarev round will break the Mauser pistol if fired.
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At almost 101 years old, Anthony Mancenelli is the oldest barber in the world. He started work in 1924 and still cuts hair to this day!
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The 9mm Makarov pistol is not a true 9mm as the bullet diameter of it's ammunition is .365" as opposed to .356" for 9mm NATO/Parabellum/Luger.
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Witch doctors of Haiti created the first zombies with an evil concoction. It consisted of the popular native Bufo Bufo Bufo toad skin, the poison of the deadly puffy fish known in Japan as fugo, and Datura.
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Queen Christina of Sweden had a fear of rats.
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If not sealed, a gas mask cannister will continue to filter contaminants from the air around it.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel believed that the gauge used on George Stephenson's railway system, 4ft 8.5in, was far too narrow. So Brunel settled on a much wider gauge for his railways, 7ft 0.25in! Unfortunately, this broad gauge system as it's known, ceased to exist in 1892, 33 years after Brunel's death, and so all those lines were converted to 4ft 8.5in (standard) gauge in order to make it compatible with the rest of the railway network in Britain.
The poor old broad gauge engines couldn't be converted to standard gauge so they were all cut up for scrap. Fortunately, replicas, in more recent times, had been built. For example, Firefly, a replica of an engine originally built in 1840, can now be seen in action at the Didcot Railway Centre, near Oxford.
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The AN-94 uses a concept called Hyperburst when firing in its 2 round burst configuration. Hyperburst works on the concept of which you will have two rounds downrange before the recoil of the first round if felt. To achieve this, the AN-94 works on a pulley system, which allows its rate of fire of over 1800 rounds per minute.
When in fully automatic, the rifle fires the first two rounds at >1800 RPM, then switches down to 600RPM.
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The Albanian variant of the Simonov Carbine is shorter than those issued in the former Soviet Bloc. It features a spike bayonet as standard issue.
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In early models of the T-72, if the loader was not quick enough, he had a fair chance of his hand being taken off due to the autoloader.
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The Yugoslavian variant of the Simonov Carbine lacks a chrome-plated bore and not all parts interchange with other variants, but the M59/66 model has a grenade launcher. Teak wood stock is another feature of the Yugo SKS.
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The steepest gradient for an industrial railway in Britain is 1 in 19. This gradient can be found at the Foxfield Railway.
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The logo for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway featured the silhouette of a cat named "Chessie".
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a high school teacher got arrested in Virginia for beating a girl student
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Although steam services had finished on Britain's main railway network in 1968, steam on industrial railways, also in Britain, continued until the 1980s! :goldlaugh:
Here's the evidence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GTY0YPsLePg - Britain's very last main line steam service.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VKodYtibSTI - Bickershaw Colliery, 1976.
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Coyote Moms may bear up to a dozen pups at a time. Both parents help to raise the young.
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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't normally appear until the child is between the ages of two and six.
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You are more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than attacked by a shark.
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every two seconds someone new is born, but every five seconds someone else dies. (over population might become a serious problem)
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Janet Esteves has the largest collection of Mickey Mouse-related items in the world. She has been collecting them since 1960 when her father would make business trips to California and so he would bring back anything that was Mickey Mouse-related.
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American WW2 ace, Richard Bong was killed while flight testing the F-80 Shooting Star jet fighter. The early jets were notorious for flameouts and Bong had to bailout of such an F-80 when it was too close to the ground. A state recreation area is named for Bong in his native Wisconsin.
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American WW2 ace, Richard Bong was killed while flight testing the F-80 Shooting Star jet fighter. The early jets were notorious for flameouts and Bong had to bailout of such an F-80 when it was too close to the ground. A state recreation area is named for Bong in his native Wisconsin.
There's also the IPMS Richard I. Bong Chapter Modeling Club in Milwaukee. :)
(Unfortuneately, I'm not a member.)
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Edward Mannock was Britain's air ace of WW1 with 73 kills.
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You can hypnotize a chicken by drawing a line from it's beak across the ground in front of it. The chicken will keep staring at this line until snapped out of hypnosis.
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In real life, Rowan Atkinson would suffer from a stammer. That's why he would hesitate on any word with a 'b' and/or 'p' in it. Hence the way he would say 'Bob' in Blackadder, for example.
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The medium-range air-to-air missile, AIM-120 "Slammer" has been ground launched from Humvees modified by US Marines.
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The reason gramophone/phonograph recordings in the Victorian/Edwardian era sounded so shouty was because there were no microphones. So the singer would have to project their voice into the recording horn! See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FL33_3lXQkzwnvcGMG7hRJTw&feature=player_detailpage&v=vSoNFfpHA74
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The wolverine is the largest member of the weasel family. One roamed the thumb area of Michigan until a few years ago.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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Wolves howl in the octave key of G.
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John Glenn's historic Friendship 7 mission was cleared for 7 orbits, but reduced to 3 because of a faulty lamp indicating a deployed landing bag/loose heat shield.
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In 1972, the Rev. Awdry was accused of racism because of the way he described the soot-covered boys in Henry's Sneeze, a story in one of his Railway Series books (particularly Henry the Green Engine, Volume 6). Although the book itself was originally published in 1951, 21 years earlier, it had to be rewritten obviously to eliminate the racist qualities.
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The first computers weren't only as big as a classroom and cost more than most exotic cars today :o, they also had less computing power than the modern calculator. and I'm not talking about the graphing calculators here... 8)
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Neil Diamond and Carole King wrote songs for The Monkees.
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The Type 99 rifle of Imperial Japan of 7.7mm was developed in response to the British Commonwealth .303 Enfield rifles.
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During Queen Victoria's reign, the poorest people couldn't afford to send their children to school. So it wasn't until 1876 that anybody went to school but in those days, the maximum age was eight. And it wasn't until 1899 that everybody went to school although just eight years earlier, 1891, some children were still working in the mines and the factories. In other words, no child, from 1899, ever had to work in the mines or the factories again!
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Now to get out my book of random facts... "June Foray, the voice of Rocky, the flying squirrel, was also the voice of the Chatty Cathy doll." (I actually do have a book of random facts.)
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In the music video for Rick Astley's Never gonna give you up was shot in one day, at a west London athletic club, it was also Rick's first music video, director was hired the day before shooting, record producers didnt believe it was Rick singing at first thinking he was a front for a black singer, the dancer on the right didnt know the steps and director did try to hide/not let her in shots, the bartender showed up with a hang over, the director and Rick's manager got into an argument over whether or not Rick's sleeves should be rollled or not. [what the heck on that one XD petty really] it lasted 2 hours, when the bartender did his wall backflip first attempt he landed on his head
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To prove that AC current was dangerous and to make people use the "safer" DC current for their electrical needs, Thomas Edison used AC current to electrify and elephant to death. It scared people out of there minds and AC was barely used for the next five or so years. (:
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Antarctica's Mt. Erebus and Mt. Terror are both named after British ships.
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Until 1863, there were no rules for football*. Everybody made up their own. Even to this day, Eton College still plays their 'wall game' which is incredibly painful to play and generally unpopular with the spectators as they could hardly see the ball (!). The following link will 'explain': http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RSdlWtk1grI**
So 1863 had seen the birth of the type of football* game as we know it today, association football (alternatively known as 'soccer').
*The British term for 'soccer'
**Eton Wall Game filmed in 1921.
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Actor Bruce Campbell hails from Royal Oak, Michigan.
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Song of the South was banned on VHS in the USA and on DVD throughout the whole world due to accusations of racism.
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John Carter of Mars is now Disney's biggest box office flop to date.
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Men in the 1700's used to have prostate warmers. I'm not lying! EEEEEEEEEEW! :P
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Tomatoes are members of the Nightshade family of plants.
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The first computer virus was written by Microsoft. It was made by a man who worked in an office and sent to another man's computer in the same office. The virus would simply disable the keyboard from working. This virus was actually so ancient compared to today's viruses that in order to rid the computer of the virus, all that needed to be done was shut down the computer. The virus was never connected to the memory in the computer, so it died when the computer was reset. The first virus was just a childish prank developed by some Microsoft employee. Lolz! :D
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"Permission to speak, sir!", Lance Corporal Jones' catchphrase in Dad's Army, actually came from the Victorian (19th Century) Army. So if you were in the ranks in those days and you wanted to speak, you would have to say that first.
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Tomatoes are members of the Nightshade family of plants.
Tomatoes, peppers(capsicum), eggplants, potatoes, pepinoes and tobacco are all members of the nightshade family
The nasturtium plant (also nightshade family) is completely edible(roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and seed pods)
Figs are flowers encased in a 'synconium'. They later contain fruit, but are not fruit
Daisies are so named because they only open with exposure to the sun
(Day's eye)
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The cake is not a lie! In the video game, Portal, it is assumed that the cake you receive at the end of the program is a lie, as you do not physically get a cake when you complete what you assume is the last level. If anyone watched the credits, it is obvious as the camera pans around the area, that there is one more level and at the end of said level lies a delicious, fully edible cake! :) There, argument over. :P
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The main reason for the recent TV adverts in Britain that concentrate on level crossing safety is as follows: Britain still relies on a typically Victorian (19th Century) railway system. Consequently, the majority of the railways can't be rebuilt in a way that they would avoid the roads altogether.
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Australia is the only other country to operate the General Dynamics F-111 Swinger. The Royal Australian Air Force purchased 24 F-111Cs (F-111A airframe, F-111B wings, and FB-111 undercarriage) designated A8 Kangaroo.
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Foreign Accent Syndrome is a condition in which a person suffers a stroke, blow to the head, etc. and ends up speaking with a different accent. Here are two cases:
In 1941, a Norwegian woman was hit on the head by a shrapnel during an air raid. When she woke up, she spoke with a thick German accent and so she was ostracized by her neighbours.
Tiffany Roberts of Florida once suffered a stroke and ended up speaking with an English accent. She even adopted such anglicisms as 'bloody' and 'loo'. But Ms. Roberts had never been to Great Britain and she wasn't even a fan of British TV shows.
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It is now possible to win a full suit of armor from Full Metal Jousting.
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Sundaes are now off the Dollar Menu at McDonald's. They are now $1.35. :(
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Sundaes are now off the Dollar Menu at McDonald's. They are now $1.35. :(
Drinks use to be on the dollar menu, too! Now they are $1.59 for a medium. :(
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Both Britain and the USA have seen a high level of inappropriate 'emergency' (911* or 999**) calls e.g. a lady in Texas, among many inappropriate 'emergency' calls, dialed 911 because her husband wouldn't eat his dinner. As a result, she was arrested obviously for 911 abuse. In Britain, these cases include a person in Glasgow who dialed 999 because they bought a rabbit from their local pet shop and they weren't satisfied with its ears.
Despite such cases as these, Police Forces in both Britain and the USA have, quite recently, introduced a non-emergency number.
*as of USA.
**as of Britain.
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Members of the British Home Guard were issued only small quantities of ammunition since it was felt that they would not last very long during an invasion.
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When the Talyllyn Railway received its very first locomotive in 1865, the men who worked there weren't used to engines at all. So until they contacted Fletcher Jennings, the company that built the engine, to send over an engineer, they had no idea how to get it working!
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Despite thermonic valves being superseded by transistors in the vast majority of electronics in the 1950s and now being considered outdated, lots of high end audio gear still relies on them for their pleasing tonal characterstics.
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In Victorian (19th Century) times, a scoop of ice cream would've looked delicious :) but it contained hidden horrors! :o So in 1881, a sample of ice cream was examined to find that it contained lice, fleas, bed bugs, cat hair, and human hair! :o
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Ammonia kills the common cold.
tried and tested by me and fellow workmates (kinda unavoidable when they are bleeding the freezer lines). Don't try this at home!
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The woman who played rose in titanic flashed leo dicaprio when she first met him knowing there woulde be a sex scene.
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In WW1, British officers had to furnish their own pistols and ammunition.
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The song "A Boy Named Sue" by Johnny Cash was actually written by Shel Silverstein who also wrote "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "The Giving Tree" children's books. The song was recorded at San Quentin Prison in California and became Cash's biggest hit.
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Since Mickey Mouse was introduced in 1928, his voice was provided by four different men. So the first man to provide Mickey's voice was, believe it or not, Walt Disney. He provided his voice until 1947 when Jimmy McDonald took over. Then, Wayne Allwine took over from McDonald in 1977 and continued to provide Mickey's voice until his death in 2009 at which time, Brett Iwan took over. Iwan still provides Mickey's voice to this day.
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Adam West, best known for his role as television's Batman in the 1960s, also played a young physician in the long-running Petticoat Junction television series. He was also the voice of Dog Zero in the Spy Dogs cartoon series.
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Meals are served 5 times a day on a British Man O' War.
Source: Victory At Sea
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In Victorian times (19th Century Britain), the youngest chimney sweeps were actually four years old! In those days, chimney sweeps weren't supposed to be any younger than nine years of age but their employers weren't honest about it at all.
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in america, not china
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The McDonnell Douglas/Northrop YF-23, though not the winner in the USAF air superiority fighter competition, is actually faster, simpler, and has more spacious weapons bays than the Lockheed Martin F-22.
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The average person swallows 8 spiders in their sleep a year.
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People have more taste-buds when they are younger, but the receptors die out as you age;
remember THAT next time you force a kid to eat something it doesn't want! :D
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Babies arn't dishwasher safe
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Temperature is a measure of how much a molecule moves.
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Easter was originally a Pagan holiday, women and homosexual men would paint themselves up and hide, and whoever found them could do whatever "things" to them they wanted.
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The tradition of Easter Eggs also came from paganism. Ostara (Christians know it as Easter) is a fertility based holiday, and during the main ritual, one of the main alter peices would be decorated eggs. After the ritual, these eggs are broken, and the yolks and whites are mixed in with soil (there are specifics as to how long the soil is to sit after this depending on weather or not it is in a pot or not). After a specific amount of time, a flower is planted in said soil. (If I do remember correctly, it can't be just any flower, but I'd have to check if that was true.
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The majority of Russian Roulette victims are men under the age of 30.
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The tradition of Easter Eggs also came from paganism. Ostara (Christians know it as Easter) is a fertility based holiday, and during the main ritual, one of the main alter peices would be decorated eggs. After the ritual, these eggs are broken, and the yolks and whites are mixed in with soil (there are specifics as to how long the soil is to sit after this depending on weather or not it is in a pot or not). After a specific amount of time, a flower is planted in said soil. (If I do remember correctly, it can't be just any flower, but I'd have to check if that was true.
While that is true, I am also right :P
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The Japanese don't even think that Thomas the Tank Engine is a British product!
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Cheerios are not donut seeds.
Cowboy movie legend Roy Rogers was known for his horse, Trigger, but he also had a canine sidekick billed as Bullet the wonder dog--a German Shepherd.
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Halloween is a pagan holiday too, called Samhain by Druidism. They believed that Samhain was the day the fairy realm was closest, and that creatures roamed that night. Originally not 'celebrated,' Roman Empire came along and assimilated it.
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The artificial heart was invented by weiner Dastardly. No, really.
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Another Pagan holiday is yule! That's where Christians get the whole "decorating the Christmas Tree" thing from.
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My mother is in posession of unique photo negatives of Winston Churchill that are neither in the Smithsonian or the London War Museum - these were unbelievably located in a cheap box of foreign staples; that is the writing on the box was in another language.
Scratched onto the PHOTO NEGATIVE itself in mandarin(old Chinese) are the words "His words are not of the common peoples opinion".
There is more to this story as well, but that'll do for now.
Also! While outdated, this is an interesting little watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
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When I was 10 I was doing gymnastics in grade school. I was attempting to do the monkey bars (7ft. up) by my feet.
I screwed up right near the end, I fell down right on the top of my head and it broke my neck.
However..... I got right back up and heard (and felt) my neck snap. By some miracle I had a broken (yet it's unnoticeable that it is) my neck and I'm not a vegetable. However my neck will feel strange very often... I actually have the ability to snap my own neck, and it makes me feel more comfortable..... Maybe I'm a genetic marvel like Ozzy! :P
I had a good conclusion to this post... But I forgot it.... Sorry! >__<
Well, my neck is unbreakable! :P
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Psycho is a superhero.
Also! All polar bears are left handed(pawed?), that is they swipe with their left paw primarily.
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Rob Paulsen's (GOA AC07) first public voice characterization was an Elvis impersonation.
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The term "Badlands," while originating from the U.S. (the Natives and the French agreed that it wasn't good land to travel across), is a term professionally used to describe the topography of any land similar to the American Badlands.
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The Polish-made Predom Lucznik pellet pistol is a copy of the Walther LP-53 used by Sean Connery in an early James Bond movie.
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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
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It is impossible to block a bullet as a 'ninja' does [by chopping it].
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Although Donald Duck had existed since 1934, he was voiced by only two men. Clarence Nash provided his voice until his death in 1985 when Tony Anselmo took over from him. Anselmo provides Donald's voice to this day.
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A black hole is technically invisible. The light doesn't reflect, so you can only see it when set against something not black.
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Lorax rhymes with Thorax and Borax. :goldthpt:
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It is possible to get the back of your knees tan, no where else on your body. :P
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Well, I couldn't find a suitable thread to post this info in, but I guess I can do it here.
Have you ever heard of the Silverwing series by Kenneth Opel?
I was just reminded of it because there are so many bats around here, the series is basically like animals are actually quite smart and can talk, but they still are much like animals. It focuses on the life of a bat named Shade, the book series is actually very good... I just don't remember most of it because that was from when I was in grade school, I want to get a library card and read them again.
There's a TV show too, which got canceled, I assume because it was always on so late at night, but I did enjoy watching it. As far as I can remember the TV series covers the first few chapters of the first book.
Since the TV series was canceled, and cannot be bought, as far as I know, you can watch the series on youtube, which I'm about to do for the first episode before I do my homeworkz.
Oh, did you know bats are not blind? They just can't see well at night time and rely on echo-vision.
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ8Xi3fn8us
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moWOUEFkELs
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4umDSlFIKo&NR
I just finished watching all 13 episodes, the 12th episode concludes the first book, but unlike the book they tie up the story with the 13th episode, but not completely because the 13th's ending had Shade and Marina talking about finding Shade's father. I think they were planning to continue the series but never did. It could of had at least 3 seasons.
If you're interested in the books the first is Silverwing, then Sunwing, Lastly Firewing... Which I never actually finished, I just skipped to the end of Firewing, so I want to read all three now.
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Rankin Bass cartoons are early anime.
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The banana tree is actually an herbaceous plant - not a real tree.
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The organic structure of Tapioca makes it a giggling bowl of death! The plant it's extracted from is the Monihot Esculenta, and due to high concentrations of cyanide, it is poisonous in its raw form and lethal if prepared improperly. :3
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a thirteen-ounce tub of Purity Farm Organic Ghee, Clarified Butter costs 8.08 USD.
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In the early '70s, there would have been some typically violent films around but The Railway Children (which was released in 1970) changed all that. After all, there was nothing offensive about a film like that at all!
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Waking up to your dad screaming explicit cursses is a foreshadowing of a bad day- Now a fact!
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It's not discriminating if you hate everyone equally. Then it's just morally corrupt.
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Though McDonald's removed the Sundae from the dollar menu, it's new price varies from store to store. From $1.15 on up.
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If insulation gets too waterlogged, then it will get heavy and cave in ceilings. If you're sibling's ceiling caves in, your going to have to be a good sport and let him share a room with you. (:
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The oldest man to divorce his wife was 108. His wife (at the time of their divorce) was 80.
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Sunshine Hydrox cookies got their name from the elements that make water--Hydrogen and Oxygen.
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Disneyland's King Arthur Carrousel was actually built by William Dentzel in 1875. Before coming to Disneyland (Anaheim) in 1954, it operated at Sunnyside Beach Park, Toronto from 1922.
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Orson welles did not have a belly button. It was closed up after a surgery when he was young.
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Neil Armstrong's nickname among family members is "Trolley."
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APUSH is the acronym for AP United States History.
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When tested with a German Shepherd and a Rottweiler the Pit Bull had the lowest bite fores.
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Mortal Kombat was the game that forced all future games to be age rated (guess the general public didn't see the funny side of decapitation ;))
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Veteran and Edwardian cars (cars registered before 1919) require constant tinkering and can be a liability in modern traffic. Is it any wonder they don't have the popularity of boomer classics from the '50s and '60s?
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Because water is most dense at 4oC, the temperature at the bottom of any freshwater lake will always be 4oC.
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Star Trek TOS celebrates it's 45th anniversary.
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Star Trek TOS celebrates it's 45th anniversary.
Actually, the 46th anniversary of Star Trek is this year, not the 45th. Sept. 8, 1966 is the original air date of Star Trek. Star Trek celebrates it's 50th anniversary in 2016.
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians has a distinctive angular and scratchy style, one that deviated from the more rounded and clean lines before it, because the animators used a new money-saving technique that, using Xerox photography, transferred the animator's original drawings directly onto cels. This eliminated the inking / clean-up process used in previous films, but if you look closely, you can see some of the guidelines in the characters, such as the circle for a dog's head or the line used to divide the head down the middle.
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HB's Quickdraw McGraw was based on Red Skelton's Clem Kadiddlehopper character.
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The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
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SQUEAMISH FURS, LOOK AWAY NOW!
When you vomit, extra saliva is produced to prevent the teeth from eroding (vomit contains stomach acid).
The orange chunks in vomit aren't sliced carrots. That's actually part of the stomach lining.
People who are scared of vomit suffer from emetophobia whereas people who are 'sexually' aroused by it are known as emetophiles.
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The VW beetle holds the record for the longest production run of any car of one shape type. from 1948 till 2003 the shape was very close and the technology used very close, unlike the second runner up; the toyota corolla.
The world record for most water skiers towed behind one boat is 145. I know because I was number L43 :D
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Obama's Secret Service codename is Renegade.
Romney's is Javelin.
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The VW beetle holds the record for the longest production run of any car of one shape type. from 1948 till 2003 the shape was very close and the technology used very close, unlike the second runner up; the toyota corolla.
The world record for most water skiers towed behind one boat is 145. I know because I was number L43 :D
I'll have to correct you: The VW Bug actually entered production in 1947.
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Libya's Colonel Khadafy had a brigade of female virgin bodyguards.
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There are about 3 trillion atoms in one of your cells.
Estimates put the number of cells in the adult human body at 10-100 trillion.
Thus, the number of atoms in a adult human body lies between 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's 3-30 septillion atoms.
Anti-bacterial soap, in comparison to normal soap, has absolutely no extra benefits. In fact, bacteria on your hands can gain resistance to the anti-bacterial agents in the soap. Also, the vast majority of infections that you can get from not washing your hands are viral, and anti-bacterial soaps and sanitizers do nothing to them.
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Also, the average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it.
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Also, the average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it.
:o WHAT?! You're joking, right?
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After expending all their weapons, F-101 interceptor crews were to ram their aircraft into an attacking Russian bomber, ejecting just prior to impact.
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Tokyo is bidding to host the 2020 Olympics (http://tokyo2020.jp/jp/whybid/). If they get it, then it will be a coincidence with the movie Akira; the Olympics are hosted in 2020 in Neo-Tokyo. (http://akira.wikia.com/wiki/Neo_Tokyo) :o
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The famous Rolling Stones cover shot of a naked John Lennon curled against Yoko Ono was taken by Annie Leibovitz at the same apartment complex and on the same day Lennon was fatally shot.
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George Harrison was the only ex-Beatle to appear in the Saturday Night Live spoof on the Beatles: All You Need Is Cash in which the band was named The Rutles.
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Also, the average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it.
:o WHAT?! You're joking, right?
Unfortunately not. ^^
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A cat named Tuxedo Stan is running for mayor in Halifax, Canada
(His Twitter and Facebook are both TuxedoParty)
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Attempts to televise The Railway Series go back to 1953 when two of these stories were made into episodes for Watch With Mother. At the time, OO gauge (4mm:1ft scale) models were used in the making of these episodes. Unfortunately, this was not a success as derailments to the trains were likely to occur and no footage survives to this day. Despite this, 1970 saw the late Ted Ray reading five Railway Series stories while wearing a stationmaster's uniform as well as relevantly 'dressed up' surroundings as part of another TV show, Jackanory. While Britt Allcroft was making a documentary concentrating on Britain's steam railways in 1979, she took her inspiration from that to create the TV series we all recognize to this day, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends (now Thomas & Friends). And the first episode was aired in 1984. Unlike the way it was over 30 years earlier, Gauge 1 (10mm:1ft scale) models based on the Marklin mechanism were used in the making of each episode (CGI animation is now used).
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Comedian Don Adams who was the voice of Inspector Gadget, also was the voice of a cartoon penguin: Tennessee Tuxedo.
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The Jim Henson Studio made a muppet version of George Orwell's Animal Farm. PROOF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxb1j041s3A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxb1j041s3A)
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These are some strange coincidences between the Lincoln assassination and the assassination of John F. Kenedy.
1) Lincoln was elected in 1860, Kennedy in 1960, 100 years apart
2) Both men were deeply involved in civil rights for African Americans.
3) Both men were assassinated on a Friday, in the presence of their wives.
4) Each wife had lost a child while living at the White House.
5) Both men were killed by a bullet that entered the head from behind.
6) Lincoln was killed in Ford's Theater. Kennedy met his death while riding in a Lincoln convertible made by the Ford Motor Company.
7) Both men were succeeded by vice-presidents named Johnson who were southern Democrats and former senators.
8) Andrew Johnson was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908, exactly one hundred years later.
9) The first name of Lincoln's private secretary was John, the last name of Kennedy's private secretary was Lincoln.
10) John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839 [according to some sources] Lee Harvey Oswald was born in 1939, one hundred years later.
11) Both assassins were Southerners who held extremist views.
12) Both assassins were murdered before they could be brought to trial.
13) Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a warehouse. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a theater.
14) LlNCOLN and KENNEDY each has 7 letters.
15) ANDREW JOHNSON and LYNDON JOHNSON each has 13 letters.
16) JOHN WlLKES BOOTH and LEE HARVEY OSWALD each has 15 letters.
17) A Licoln staffer Miss Kennedy told him not to go to the Theater. A Kennedy staffer Miss Lincoln, told him not to go to Dallas.
Source: http://theshadowlands.net/jfk.htm
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Radio personality, Rush Limbaugh's father was a USAAF P-51 fighter ace during WW2.
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Sir Edmund Hillary was a bee keeper from New Zeeland.
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The southernmost part of Ontario is further south than the northernmost part of California.
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WW2 ended before the Japanese could field their own copies of German Me-163 Komet and Me-262 Swallow interceptors.
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Clive Dunn of Dad's Army fame died yesterday at the age of 92. Post-operation complications took his life.
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Obama won the 2009 & 2012 Presidential Elections.
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In Britain, the Road Traffic Act 1930 imposed a speed limit of 30 mph for motor coaches particularly.
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Out of the 1,400 countries in the world Britain has been in Military action or Invaded 1,200 :) we may be small but were Fierce :P
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Poland celebrates it's independence on the same Armistice Day/Veteran's Day observed in the West.
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E=I x R
P=I x E
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"Ough” can be pronounced nine ways.
“A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax3B4gRQNU4 - Believe it or not, this was Florence Nightingale's voice (recorded in 1890!).
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Beyonce was born on September 4th 1981.
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When Slade recorded 'Merry Christmas, Everybody' (as seen in the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=AG4BPNvayWo&NR=1) in 1973, the recording took place in July (on a really hot day!), five months before the song was released!
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Astronaut Frank Borman became ill during the epic Apollo 8 moonshot.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created in 1939 but the song of that title didn't exist until 1948. In the beginning, Rudolph was the main character of a story written by Robert May. Mr. May's brother-in-law, Johnny Marks composed the song and Gene Autry became the first person to record it.
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Hedgehogs can swim
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Christmas was abolished for ten years from 1642 as the puritans hated people having fun.
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There are at least 54 Christmas Trees at The White House this year.
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My cousins birthday is on Christmas O.o
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The Christmas card was invented in 1843. This was to save writing lengthy letters at Christmas.
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Hedgehogs are born with spikes
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Christmas is celebrated in Holland TODAY! So if any of you Furtopians are Dutch, Merry Christmas to you!
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Fred ( Fred Patten, a world reknown furry, the most "well known" furry actually) has been a long-time member of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (whose clubhouse has often been used for collating issues of Rowrbrazzle), and was a founding member of the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization; the founders of ConFurence were also members of C/FO.
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The Islamic prophet Muhammad's full name was Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim (written as محمد بن عبد الله بن عبد المطلب in the Arabic script).
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Controversially speaking, Britain's most recent white Christmas was in 1976.
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The typical historical single handed sword weighed about 3 pounds. Even the larger two handed claymores, zweihanders, etc. rarely weighed more than 10.
A heightened sense of smell is of little use to humanoids; our heads are too far above the ground to smell anythig we couldn't already. We would hqve to either crawl or hold objects to our noses to use it effectively.
Some reptiles have independently moving eyes. Theoretically, a reptillian humanod could dual wield handguns much more effectively than a human.
Dogs can see colors, just not the color red. They have one less type of cone than humans.
The number 5 can be related directly or indirectly to everything in the known universe.
Of he 250,000 years modern humans have existed, we have had civilizations for only about 50,000.
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40 years ago this week: The Apollo 17 mission.
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The British Saunders Roe Princess flying boat was larger than Howard Hughes Spruce Goose.
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Were you ever scared of sitting on Santa Claus' lap? If you were, I can tell you that this consists of the same principle as coulrophobia, a fear of clowns. Especially in the sense of seeing unfamiliar faces.
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Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, was of Ukrainian heritage.
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The Mr. Magoo Christmas Carol turned 50 this week.
This greymuzzle watched it tonight for the first time, in color. I was 5 years old again.
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The Muppets Christmas Carol was released 20 years ago this year.
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The Spanish 9mm Largo round is based upon the 9mm Bergmann Bayard cartridge.
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Only one person in every ten billion would live to the age of 120 whereas the chances of living to 130 are, as you can imagine, are even slimmer: 1 in 10.24 trillion!
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The floor of Lake Superior is the lowest point in North America.
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Currently, the smallest man alive is a 73-year-old Nepalese man who stands at an average height of 1ft 9.5in.
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Cockroaches have teeth in their stomach.
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The following people were born in the year of the following Chinese animals:
Rat: George Relph (1888), Arthur Askey (1900), Gene Kelly (1912), Hugh Griffith (also 1912), John Le Mesurier (also 1912), George Bush (1924), Bud Powell (also 1924), Buddy Holly (1936).
Ox: Adolf Hitler (1889), Louis Armstrong (1901), Walt Disney (also 1901), Sid James (1913), Tony Benn (1925), Bill Haley (also 1925), Margaret Thatcher (also 1925), Jane Fonda (1937), Dustin Hoffman (also 1937), Barbara Windsor (also 1937), Wynton Marsalis (1961), Barack Obama (also 1961).
Tiger: Stanley Holloway (1890), Stan Laurel (also 1890), Bud Flanagan (1902), Edward Sinclair (1914), Bill Pertwee (1926), Queen Elizabeth II (also 1926), Fred Dibnah (1938), Eddie Izzard (1962).
Rabbit: Bix Beiderbecke (1903), Bing Crosby (also 1903), Pat Buttram (1915), Billie Holiday (also 1915), Arthur Lowe (also 1915), Kenneth More (also 1915), Frank Sinatra (also 1915), Kay Kendall (1927), Gerry Mulligan (also 1927), John Cleese (1939), Snoop Dogg (1987).
Dragon: Edie Martin (1880), Lily Morris (also 1880), Oliver Hardy (1892), Glenn Miller (1904), Clarence Nash (also 1904), Dr. Seuss (also 1904), Dr. B. Spock (also 1904), Charlie Christian (1916), Bernard Cribbins (1928), Bill Farmer (1952), Courtney Pine (1964), Billy Gilman (1988).
Snake: Jimmy Beck (1929), Bill White (also 1929), Graham Chapman (1941).
Horse: Billy Bletcher (1894), Josephine Baker (1906), Jimmy McDonald (also 1906), Eric Longworth (1918), Sonny Rollins (1930), Jimi Hendrix (1942), Terry Jones (also 1942), Oprah Winfrey (1954).
Sheep: Buster Keaton (1895), Bessie Smith (also 1895), John Gregson (1919), Eric Idle (1943), Cassandra Wilson (1955).
Monkey: Arnold Ridley (1896), Jacques Tati (1908), Clive Dunn (1920), Dinah Sheridan (also 1920).
Chicken: King Oliver (1885), John Laurie (1897), Benny Goodman (1909), Keith Jarrett (1945).
Dog: Sir Winston Churchill (1874), Al Jolson (1886), Baby Dodds (1898), Ian Lavender (1946), Don Byron (1958), River Phoenix (1970).
Pig: Duke Ellington (1899), Rev. W. Awdry (1911), Elvis Presley (1935), Wayne Allwine (1947), Tom Clancy (also 1947), Mark Williams (1959).
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Great Britain and France were two NATO countries not to equip their Air Forces with Lockheed F-104 Starfighters. Italy was last to retire their Starfighters, the F-104S model.
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Aleister Crowley founded the magickal order known as the A∴A∴ in 1907; three years prior to joining the Ordo Templi Orientis.
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Billionaire Howard Hughes owned a Me-262 WW2 German jet. He sought to race it against comtemporary military jets but wasn't permitted as there was concern that he might best them.
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When the original Great Western Railway (the London - Bristol main line) was under construction, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the man who built it, wanted it to be as flat as possible. So instead of going under or over the Marlborough Hills, for example, the railway would be built around them.
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The original owner of Wolf Chili actually had a pet wolf named Kaiser Bill.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wolfbrandchili.com/images/scrap-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wolfbrandchili.com/the-making-of-a-legend&usg=__slfOY5QZAlcxjKoWAD1skBDJqX0=&h=351&w=467&sz=73&hl=en&start=1&sig2=aBS4gwSTb9-D5mqZKPxcmg&zoom=1&tbnid=IRmswnzkt9pH5M:&tbnh=96&tbnw=128&ei=slYUUbmbHqeB0AH0vIHoBw&itbs=1&sa=X&ved=0CCsQrQMwAA (http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wolfbrandchili.com/images/scrap-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wolfbrandchili.com/the-making-of-a-legend&usg=__slfOY5QZAlcxjKoWAD1skBDJqX0=&h=351&w=467&sz=73&hl=en&start=1&sig2=aBS4gwSTb9-D5mqZKPxcmg&zoom=1&tbnid=IRmswnzkt9pH5M:&tbnh=96&tbnw=128&ei=slYUUbmbHqeB0AH0vIHoBw&itbs=1&sa=X&ved=0CCsQrQMwAA)
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Hand Grenades in the US style were designed with the thought of "Every American boy knows how to throw a baseball". Thus, the Baseball-sized and shaped Hand grenade was born.
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Apple seeds contain a sugar/cyanide called "amygdalin" which can be metabolized in someone's body to hydrogen cyanide. Eating a handful of apple seeds is the lethal dose apparently.
Source
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/06/10-totally-random-but-interesting-facts/
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Then apparently I've eaten 1/4 the lethal dose when I was ten... Anyways, bananas make rather poor boomerangs.
But seriously, boomerangs were hunting weapons before they became cheap plastic novelties.
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Chicago's O'Hare Airport is named for WW2 ace Butch O'Hare who was the son of Easy Eddie, former lawyer of mobster Al Capone.
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Horses have whiskers on their noses and chins, as do their distant relatives, dolphins, when dolphins are calves. (:
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Actor Jim Carey could have someone thrown off the set for uttering one of his movie character catch phrases. (Such as "All righty then!", "Re-he-healy!", or "Smokin'!")
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All of these awsome chacters I see floating about, raking in millions of dollars...
where someone's origional characters before they made money.
Our Fursonas are origional characters. Oh, the places we could go!
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you can tell how many days are in a month by counting the knuckles and gabs on your hands.
knuckles represent 31. Start with January on the Index knuckle.
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A group of foxes is called a skulk
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Actor Robert DeNiro could have someone thrown off a movie set for looking in his general direction.
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Although Auguste and Louis Lumiére introduced the moving image in the 1895, they didn't take the cinema seriously until a friend of theirs, Georges Méliés, approached them with a right to use the invention. But they said, "Save your money, Monsieur Méliés. There is no future for the cinematograph". They continued to make films until about 1897 but they soon lost interest and returned to their work supplying photographic material for the trade. In general, that was the reason the Lumiéres aren't household names.
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The RAF's first 4-engine heavy bomber of WW2, the Short Stirling, had it's wingspan constrained to permit fitting in existing hangars. This feature hampered the bomber's high altitude performance.
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The main line between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Verney Junction was a joint line shared between the Great Central Railway and the Metropolitan Railway. The reason for the this was because the GCR was the last main line to enter London. The Great Central Railway was taken over by the LNER (London & North Eastern Railway) in 1923 whereas the Metropolitan Railway was taken over by London Transport ten years later (to this day, it has become London Underground's Metropolitan line).
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The RAF's Avro Vulcan jet bomber was known affectionately as "the tin triangle."
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According to the PDSA (People's Dispensary for Sick Animals), the percentage of troubled dogs varies from one part of Britain to another. Wales has the lowest with just 8% whereas Northern Ireland has the highest; 24%.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. owned several guns and even applied for a concealed carry permit in 1956, but was denied.
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The Nottingham Goose Fair was originally granted by King Edward I in 1284 and continues to this day in, of course, the shape of an up-to-date travelling fair (or 'carnival' for the benefit of our US friends).
As a bonus, here is some footage of the fair over the years:
1927: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iaxjIxE-o7I
1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WidAiEbhHFM
1987: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YBXI_7EPqNI
1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7X5CewHiz4
2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KJpkOr1a_VY
2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kX7Rly_WoBs
2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1iuEVJOe2Y
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Groundhogs are capable climbing trees, but never past the first notch.
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Let's see... well, according to 'wikipedia' more than ninety percent of the night sharks caught off northeastern Brazil contain mercury concentrations higher than that considered safe by the local government
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A gazelle is capable of jumping the height of an average house. This due is due to its powerful hind legs and the fact that the average house cannot jump. :D
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the noun "sled" comes from the name of an 18th century mountaineer from Finland (schletz linden) whose body was used by his climbing partner to slide down a mountain in a storm after he (shletz) froze to death.
in the molecular level water is drier than sand.
drive by shooting numbers have gone up with gas prices.
the egg white is not the healthiest part of an egg... its the shell......
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Charles "Sparky" Schulz of Peanuts fame got his nickname in grade school. His classmates thought he resembled a horse named Ol' Sparkplug from the Barney Google comic strip.
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If you put baking soda and vinegar together they make a little volcano...
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random facts eh?
*im insane
*megalodon is said to be the great grand father of the great white shark
*foxes love trampolines
*i love trampolines X3
*Odontophobia is the fear of teeth
*The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache
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116-year-old Jiroemon Kimura is probably the only man left alive in the world who was born in the 19th Century.
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I'm wearing blue socks
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Walt Disney, of whom created Mickey Mouse, had a fear of mice.
Every year 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
The average panda spends about 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
Fire escapes, windscreen wipers, laser printers and bulletproof vests were all invented by women.
Only 55% of the America population know the Sun is a star.
By law, Swiss citizens must have some form of bomb shelter or access to one.
Despite popular belief, it seems there has not ever been many Buddhists in India.
A crocodile usually has no limit to how many times it can regrow its teeth.
Alaska once belonged to Russia, and was sold to the US for 2 cents an acre.
There is more areas of wilderness in North America than Africa.
Crystals are considered a form of life by some scientists and they even reproduce.
Mammals, including humans, start to dream before they are even born.
The word Himalayas translates in English as the home of snow.
The voice actor of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.
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Wally Cox, the original voice of Underdog, was born in Detroit and was childhood pals with Marlon Brando.
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The British Army always had a Flying Division but in 1918, the Royal Air Force was born. Speaking of which, the RAF March Past, the force's signature tune (composed by Major Henry Walford-Davies) was originally set at a tempo of 132 paces to the minute but this proved so difficult to march to that the tempo was altered to 116 paces to the minute as you'll hear in the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV3hscgyuAs
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Mel Blanc was paid $800 by Disney to perform a hiccup for Pinocchio.
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1.The tip of the shoelace is called the aglet
2.Turtles can breath trough their butts(gross)
3.The bible is the most sold book in the world
4. The 3rd most sold book is lord of the rings
5.Friggatriskaidekaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th
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The voices of Snagglepuss and The Funky Phantom are both loosely based on Bert Lahr (The Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz).
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ants never sleep camals have 3 eyebrows cheetas don't roar, they meow dalmations don't have spots when born, they get the spot in the first few weeks of life, during this time, the spot can change shape or spot elephants cant jump cigarete lighters were invented before matches popcorn has been eaten for almost 7,000 years on average dolphins raped about 14 people a year taken cold showers helps you lose weight marsh mellows help sore throats a shark pees through its skin every 60 seconds, a minute passes 50,000 people are injured by toilets per year falling cocoanut kill 150 people each year there is website that charges $13 for a reserved ticket to Heaven the oldest dog in history will turn 30 on Aug. 10th 2013 a girl in Africa was abducted, and lions saved her giraffes cannot yawn after the Holocaust, some Jews died from candy over-dose there are 97 people named "Lol" in the USA a 15 year old hacked NASA computers and cause a 21 day shutdown of their computers. he also hack the Pentagon there is a town in France called "Anus" a group of jelly fish is called a smack Selena Gomez started on Barney and friends in 2008 a married couple in the UK realized they were twins separated at birth in 2015 Disney plans to release Toy Story 4 elephants are scared of bees women are more tolerant to pain Elvis has blonde hair the back of your hand is called the opisthenar dolphins have been witnessed torturing porpoises to death for pure fun iguanas can and do commit suicide on average 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parent each day
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Rob Paulsen voiced edited versions for television and airlines of Jim Carrey's Liar Liar to replace some of the swearing in the original movie.
About 80% of the membership of the Screen Actors Guild earn less than $2000 per year.
The Flintstones was originally titles The Flagstones. It was changes to avoid any conflict with the Hi and Lois comic strip family, The Flagstons.
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In Europe, one out every two fish was caught illegally. go ahead, look it up.
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Until the Consolidated B-36 was flown in 1946, the Douglas B-19 was the largest airplane in the world.
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The oldest goldfish lived for 41 years his name was Fred. True fact :)
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"Black Bart" (Captain Bartholomew Roberts) the famous pirate did not permit alcohol, women, or fighting aboard any of his ships. The Sabbath was observed, even while at sea. Plus it was lights out at 8 bells.
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On average, 15 times more people are killed each year by falling coconuts than they are by shark attacks.
The Green Anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world, while the Reticulated Python is the longest.
My cat likes yogurt...strawberry is her favourite.
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The US Air Force eliminated Warrant Officer ranks in 1978.
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In Junior Reserve Officer Training Core (JROTC), how many years you have been with the program as a student is denoted as your Leadership Education Training level (LET level). The level you are corresponds with the current year number you hold with the program (i.e.; "I'm a LET one" translates to "This is my first year in JROTC"). As JROTC is mostly based in American 4-year highschools, the term "LET 5" is a derogatory term, as it indicates that you have been in highschool for an extra year.
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The oldest flight attendant in the world is 89-year-old Robert Reardon. He joined Delta Air Lines as a flight attendant in 1951 and still hasn't retired!
Ron Byrd Akana, on the other hand, joined United Airlines as a flight attendant in 1949 and he didn't retire until he was 83 years old!
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Over the years, McDonald's has released international products in different locations across the world, some to great success. However, in 2002, McDonald's released one of the worst menu items and marketing flops in the company's history. The sandwich, the McAfrika (consisting of beef and vegetables in a pita), was released in Norway during some of the worst famines Southern Africa has ever seen. The campaign was believed to be created in such poor taste that McDonald's took the item off its menus and agreed to continue to keep donation boxes for charities in support of the famine in Africa.
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I'm drawing a blank on an interesting fact. True fact.
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there was a plan for a spacecraft that detonated nuclear explosives behind it, riding the shock wave for propultion to send people to mars. it was called project orion
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I like ice cream. true fact, straight from the source, 100% guaranteed genuine truthful fact. yep.
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you have never actually seen your face, and never will. you have only seen images of it, but never the actual thing. so you dont know if it truely looks like how it does on a screen or a mirror.
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DARNOK THINKS YOU'RE ALL A BUNCHA SISSIES!!!
True fact!
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When Duran Duran did the shooting for the song Rio, they were told by the government not to film there. They did it in secret and were never held accountable
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Caning, a physical punishment used in schools around Britain, was banned as recently as 1986.
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you have never touch anything, and never will. when you "touch" its actually the resistance of the electrons you feel. and when you"touch" you are actually (i think) 10 to the power of negative 8 meters away from said object.
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Duran Duran is named for a character in Barbarella.
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The reason for the term 'fire engine', the British term for 'fire truck', is because in the fire service in 19th century Britain relied on horse drawn vehicles that had stationary steam engines on board. It was those steam engines that pumped water to put out fires.
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Hughes Aircraft Co. branched out into electronics in 1948, making intercept radar sets for jet interceptors of the US and Canada.
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the internet is about 5 million terabytes doubling every 5 years and weighs .2 millionths of an ounce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaUzu-iksi8
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During WW2, the Japanese experimented with a copy of the M1 Garand rifle with a 10-round capacity in 7.7mm, fed by two 5-round stripper clips.
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also in ww2 the Japanese had manned suicide torpedoes and submersible aircraft carriers.
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Barbed tape was invented in Germany during World War I. It was a solution to the shortage of wire because it was punched out of a roll of steel tape.
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During 1960's Lionel Electronic Laboratories made one of the most widely used Geiger counters in America
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there is a furry movie rendition of cinderella
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Until 1988, schools in Britain were free to choose on what to teach.
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Bull Elk may experience osteoporosis when growing antlers.
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Two slices of wedding cake had been left over from the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. They went on display in the Drawing Gallery, at Windsor Castle, for the first time in 2007, when those slices of cake were already 167 years old! (making it, of course, the oldest surviving wedding cake in the world)
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It's possible to build the floating city of Columbia from Bioshock Infinite through the use of super conductors and giant magnets. The only reason it would be impossible to live there is the never ending sense of motion sickness from the clouds moving around you while you feel no motion.
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The oldest surviving ice-cream float was built in 1924 and is currently mounted on the chassis of a 1930 Morris Cowley. The float had been fitted to that chassis since 1936. Beforehand, the chassis was that of a Rover 8.
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During WW2, Japan was experimenting with their own copies of German Me-262 jet and Me 163 rocket fighter planes.
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In an attempt to smuggle explosives into Germany in WWII they hid it in flour and used it to make exploding pancakes. Sadly the explosion could only be triggered through another blast. The pancakes themselves were entirely edible and were only reported to 'taste peculiar.'
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During WW2, Bell Aircraft Company built an experimental fighter plane from plywood in an effort to save strategic materials: the XP-77. "Designed to beat the metal shortage and the Zero."
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Though Yukon King is the most famous husky in the Sgt. Preston of The Yukon series, there was another named member of the sled dog team--Muskeg--who was "injured" during the dog sled race episode.
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i am a furry :3
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i'm nearly two weeks behind in preparing for my RP... that's why im up so late right now.
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Cyborgs are different than robots!!!!
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the teddy bear in A.I is creepy as a dingo's kidneys on a great green arklesizeure
( freaking uncanny valley of human resemblance * grumble grumble*)
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yellow is a color :3
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Q: Is it red, or purple?
A: 42
And there you have it folks, the greatest mystery of the universe has been solved.
(I didn't just make this up, this came about from a bunch of different things, some of which happened as long as 8 years ago, and smashed them all together in a grand thingamabloogin when me and some friends were up waaaay too late, and had waaaay too much root beer. I wonder how a peanut works...)
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So does this'd an you are friends with Douglas Addams?
I like babel fish is a fact
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You're all one of a kind, just like everybody else. :D
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The Douglas Skyraider, Skystreak I, and Skyknight all have the same style tail assembles.
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If you thought people gave their children wacky names these days, here are some names people in 19th Century Britain gave to their children:
Bovril
Minty Badger
Okay
Raspberry Lemon
Scary Looker
Toilet
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Soap opera star Eric Braeden was originally Hans Gudegast and played various German soldiers on the epic series Combat and also starred as the befuddled Hauptman Deitrich in Rat Patrol.
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Spoonman, the insane guy who's been causing problems in the 'Throw it Burn it' game, was actually my very first RP character.
He was a bit... wacky, and very inconsistent, partially due to the fact that my DM let him do basically anything he wanted, and gave him more charisma that Hitler. So anyway, he starts out the son of a miner who's father was just killed in a lynching, and gets thrown into a mine with a pickaxe and his father's flintlock. He meets Scoog and Skoog, two half-brained goblins who his a massive gold vein. They somehow become friends, then bought their way out of the mines, SPoonman ended up with Nomjaw, a massive bird thing that tore people's spines out at his command. They get to Belltower, meet the HSPS and the Tape guy, sharpens spoons to throw at people when the the town is attacked by elves, he flees and braves a kobold tunnel under the dessert with his new companions (slaves) Hoovah, and a Halfling that never even ended up with a name. They end up at the GRAND GOBLIN CITY. he speaks with the king of the goblins, kills him (without reason) and then the elves level the city (which was supposed to be invincible) then he wanders the desert and comes across an old fort, rally a rabble of fanatical followers... and from there i'm not even sure what happened... I know at one point he ended up with an army of paranoid turtle people, and then he got his skin torn off and his bones replaced so he could become a wolf-man monster so he could lead his pack of 100 some wolves into battle... he got a dragon eggs, and then there was Hector the mad inventor... it was just as complicated as it was insane.
it was actually quite a serious RP at the time, but once we looked back at it... we couldn't help but laugh at the insanity we had created. Over time he just got more and more mentally unstable and ridiculous, eventually becoming as crazy as he is now.
So yeah, i guess that's a fact with a story attached.
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Razor blades are cut from a thin ribbon of steel, then given a sharp edge and a slick polymer coat.
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Ever since the atomic bomb was invented, there has been talk and rumors of nuclear "doomsday" weapons or weapon systems that are so powerful, that they will extinguish all life on Earth. The Russians actually have (or supposedly have) such a system. :o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_%28nuclear_war%29
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there is a guy named ( dead now) "Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffvoralternwarengewissenhaftschaferswessenschafewarenwohlgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeitbeschutzenvonangreifendurchihrraubgierigfeindewelchevoralternzwolftausendjahresvorandieerscheinenwanderersteerdemenschderraumschiffgebrauchlichtalsseinursprungvonkraftgestartseinlangefahrthinzwischensternartigraumaufdersuchenachdiesternwelchegehabtbewohnbarplanetenkreisedrehensichundwohinderneurassevonverstandigmenschlichkeitkonntefortplanzenundsicherfreuenanlebenslanglichfreudeundruhemitnichteinfurchtvorangreifenvonandererintelligentgeschopfsvonhinzwischensternartigraum"
he normally went by wolfe+585 ( thts just his surname) his actual name was 746 letters long.
this is how it is pronounced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:En-Wolfe%2B585,_Senior2.ogg
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At one time, one had to apply for a license from the FCC to legally be able to operate a CB radio in the USA.
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Jane Seymour was a guest star on Battlestar Galactica TOS.
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kittens are fluffy :3
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Hummingbirds rotate their wings in a figure 8 motion, allowing them to hover, fly backwards, and fly vertically :D
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the petition to change youtube's comment system back to the way it was before (http://www.change.org/petitions/google-change-the-youtube-comment-section-back-to-its-original-form) hit 200K supporters. :goldlaugh:
i really hope youtube changes back to the way it was before....
but even if they do it would be at great costs... sadly... our great soldier... bob... has been killed by google+ but i will avenge bob!
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'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' was first recorded by Eddie Cantor in 1934. Since then, it was recorded by Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jackson, etc.
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Lewis & Clark referred to the coyote as The Prairie Wolf.
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i ran out of ideas for now....
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Mushrooms
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in the french translations of harry potter in order to spell "je suis Voldemort" they changed Tom Riddle's middle name to Elvis
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Adolf Hitler was a vegitarian.
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As Santa Claus has to call into 132,000,000 homes around the world on Christmas Eve, he can only call into each home for a thousandth of a second.
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the answer to the universe is 42
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Cone-shaped fire buckets were invented to prevent railway workers from using them as seats.
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The oldest bridegroom in the world was 103-year-old Harry Stevens. His bride, at the time of their wedding in 1984, was 84.
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pyrofact:you can make napalm by mixing equal parts of gasoline and orange juice
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The blue screen was actually used in a movie in the early 1940s, after being invented in the 30s. :o
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MODEL RAILWAY GAUGES AND SCALES
Standard gauge modelling
Z
Gauge: 6.5mm
Scale: 1.5mm : 1ft
N
Gauge: 9mm
Scale: 2mm : 1ft
HO
Gauge: 16mm
Scale: 3.5mm : 1ft
OO
Gauge: 16mm
Scale: 4mm : 1ft
O
Gauge: 32mm (1.25in)
Scale: 7mm : 1ft
1
Gauge: 45mm (1.75in)
Scale: 10mm : 1ft
3/G64
Gauge: 63.5mm (2.5in)
Scale: 13.5mm : 1ft
Narrow gauge modelling
N6.5
Gauge: 6.5mm
Scale: 2mm : 1ft
HOe
Gauge: 9mm
Scale: 3.5mm : 1ft
OO9
Gauge: 9mm
Scale: 4mm : 1ft
HOm
Gauge: 12mm
Scale: 3.5mm : 1ft
O16.5
Gauge: 16.5mm
Scale: 7mm : 1ft
SM32
Gauge: 32mm (1.25in)
Scale: 16mm : 1ft
G45
Gauge: 45mm (1.75in)
Scale: 13.5mm : 1ft
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At one time, aluminum was as valuable as gold.
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At one time, aluminum was as valuable as gold.
i find it pretty funny how back then it was so hard to extract that it was that valuable ^^
furtopia is a great web sight
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Snickers candy bars were named for a pet horse of the Mars family.
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Jellyfish are born from plant like stalks
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Skunks hibernate in Winter.
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In Majora's Mask, everyone would've been long dead before Link showed up due to the changing tides, temperatures, and the destabilized orbit of the planet.
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The longest jump by a guinea pig was 48 cm.
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Fleas jump 400 times their height
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The following men became fathers beyond the age of 60:
Clint Eastwood (66)
Anthony Quinn (81)
Saul Bellow (84)
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Sir Winston Churchill once carried a Mauser C96 pistol.
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Cashews come from fruit and chocolate comes from beans
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The woman known as Tokyo Rose was pardoned by President Gerald Ford.
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A baby's lenses (the surface on the eyes) are crystal clear (hence the crystal-clear vision) but as we age, especially from age 20, the lens gradually turns yellow. So if one reaches 90, the lens turns brown. Lenses don't just turn yellow but vision also becomes less and less clear.
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Retired CBS news anchorman, Walter Chronkite, provides the voice of Ben Franklin in the Liberty Kids animated series.
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The Walt Disney logo shown before feature films was not used until 1985.
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The word, knight, knee, knife and every other word with the silent K was actually pronounced before literacy was a common thing.
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Each of the crew of Apollo 13 was named after his father. They were all Juniors.
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The common cold is actually a virus.
68% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
If everyone in the world jumped at the same place, the earth would move less than .03 centimeters
The Sea Squirt actually digests it's brain after rooting to a surface.
If you roll any amount of 6 sided die you can calculate the values of the top and unseen bottom sides together, just multiply the number of dice by 7.
Dr. Light is the actual villan in the entire Megaman series. He built the robots to have free will and the ability to actively chose to hurt and kill humans, thus violating every one of the three laws of robotics.
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The Ice King of Adventure Time and Dr. Two Brains of Word Girl are voiced by Tom Kenny.
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The reason humans walk upright is because there is a part of the brain (located under the rear) that controls balance. If that wasn't developed properly, you would either stagger (looking as if you were drunk!) or lose your balance completely.
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Coywolf hybrids are the result of an intermingling of the Western Coyote and the Eastern Wolf. Many of them live in the Toronto area.
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The sum of every positive integer up to infinity is -1/12
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Actor John Carradine guest-starred as a villain in The Green Hornet classic television series.
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A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
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Male to Female Ratio: 1:1497
the reported male to female ratio for this site.. that's better than any college or city I've looked at.
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Water has H2O in it!
I bet nobody knew that one before! :)
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Mikhail Kalashnikov was a Life Member of the National Rifle Association and addressed their convention in 1999.
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If you compress water it can be heavier than blood.
Stars are like suns but further away so less bright (I love the sun and so do I stars!)
Jesus was actually a carpenter!
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The Great Western Railway, like any other railway company in Britain, didn't just run trains. They also employed road vehicles (including buses), ships, and even aircraft!
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do you know an eel has two jaws
that a darian fruit tree is only 5 feet tall.
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B pencils are easier to shatter than H.
Pancakes are actually made of egg.
Pencils aren't actually made from lead!
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The first space shuttle was launched last Saturday (April 12) in 1981.
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The reason The Queen's (of Great Britain) Rolls-Royces have no registration/licence plates is because, strictly speaking, they are NOT privately owned.
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In 1975 an L-29 jet trainer was used to shoot down a Polish An-2 biplane that was fleeing to the West.
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Because it's downward ejection seats gave little chance of survival in a landing or takeoff mishap, crews sometimes refused to fly the Soviet Tu-22 "Blinder" supersonic bomber aircraft.
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney turned 72 today.
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Notes on sces for music have math behind their sound. A difference between an a and an a# is .5% and so on.
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A hyena's closest relative is a mongoose.
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Wireless connections from all around the world make enough matter to weigh as much as a large strawberry.
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Relating to guns, the phrase 'weiner
the hammer' comes from Italian chicken thieves. weiner as in rooster.
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The current leader of Greenpeace commutes 250 miles to his job, according to The Schnitt Show.
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The Apollo 11 moonshot began on this date 45 years ago.
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The slow loris has a bite so poisonous that its venom can kill. Currently there is no known cure. It is still not clear for what reason the slow loris is venomous.
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July is National Ice Cream Month. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ice_Cream_Month
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July is National Ice Cream Month. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ice_Cream_Month
I guess I better eat some ice cream then
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The exact origins of balloon twisting (otherwise known as balloon animal making) are unknown. Despite this, it is assumed that it started in 1939 when a magician performed it at a magic convention in Pennsylvania.
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The Bell P-63 King Cobra fighter was never used in combat by the USAAF in WW2. Most were exported to Russia.
I the 1970s, the Testors Corporation offered a gas-powered P-63 Kingcobra as a flying control-line plastic model. It was available chromed and as a camouflaged "Jungle Fighter" with spring-loaded firing missiles and ejecting pilot figure. The models also had features common to Operation Pinball Kingcobras.
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Paintball guns were originally designed for marking cattle.
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The sentence: Police police police police police police police police. Is an actual sentence.
3 is prime
31 is too
So is 331, 3331, 33331, 333331, 3333331, and 33333331 is also prime but 333333331 is the first in this series isn't prime as it's divisible by 17.
It's theorised that there isn't an infinite amount of prime numbers, even though there's an infinite amount of numbers, because the larger the number, the more things could possibly factor into it.
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There are 10% of the population are left-handed people and they are often excluded from studies of how the brain works
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In 1946, Warner Brothers released the animated short subject Bacall To Arms, featuring the likenesses of Humphrey Bogart (Bogie Gokart) and Lauren Bacall (Laurie Becool).
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The children of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but technically siblings.
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Hugo Junkers was removed from his aviation firm for voicing disagreement with the Nazis.
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When the United States Postal Service was created, it was legal to ship childern as long as they weighed under 50 lbs.
There was one incident where a man dismantled his home brick by brick and mailed the material to a new location.
It is legal to mail bricks and pillows by writing on it's surface as long as it has the proper postage.
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The original ad campaign for Kobuk's favorite soft drink was Yahoo--Mountain Dew!
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168 years ago today in 1846: the first U.S patent for a sowing machine was awarded to Elias Howe.
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The idea of engagement rings was popularised by the (forgive my spelling.) De Beirs diamond corperation by launching a massive advertisement campaign less than 200 years ago. Who control most of the diamond flow to artificially raise prices to make much more money.
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The idea of engagement rings was popularised by the (forgive my spelling.) De Beirs diamond corperation by launching a massive advertisement campaign less than 200 years ago. Who control most of the diamond flow to artificially raise prices to make much more money.
Yep. And they are pretty common apparently. They just have a monopoly on them and had a ridiculously effective advertising campaign.
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There are generals, brigadier generals, lieutenant generals, and major generals in most armies, but East Germany's also had the rank of colonel general.