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05/18/2008 12:24:51 AM · #26 |
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05/18/2008 12:28:43 AM · #27 |
| Blue Gatorade now = green poop later |
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05/18/2008 12:34:11 AM · #28 |
Leaves of three, good TP.
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05/18/2008 12:35:14 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by levyj413:
Leaves of three, good TP. |
You're being naughty! |
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05/18/2008 12:36:30 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by Trinch:
While on the topic of Platypi (Platypuses?), they are the only venomous mammal. |
Not true. Some shrews are venomous, too.
If you drop a raisin in champagne, it will rise and fall continuously.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open (staples notwithstanding).
Fish can drown.
The Greeks knew the earth was round- they observed its shadow on the moon during eclipses.
These are fun, but it's past my nap time. ;-) |
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05/18/2008 12:45:57 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Originally posted by Trinch:
While on the topic of Platypi (Platypuses?), they are the only venomous mammal. |
Not true. Some shrews are venomous, too.
The Greeks knew the earth was round- they observed its shadow on the moon during eclipses.
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I stand corrected. I did not know about the shrews. Thanks.
Regarding the Greeks (and hoping I am not wrong again), not only did they know it was round, Eratosthenes even estimated, in 205 BCE, the circumference to be 40,000km. (That's pretty close, by the way.) |
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05/18/2008 12:56:57 AM · #32 |
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05/18/2008 01:06:54 AM · #33 |
The blood of horseshoe crabs is blue (actually a bluish green) -- the oxygen-carrying molecule is based on an atom of copper rather than one of iron as in mammalian blood.
The typical human body contains more bacteria than human cells.
There are mites which live in the follicles of your eyelashes.
From a radio spot: unravel all your DNA and it would stretch from the Earth to the Moon. |
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05/18/2008 01:13:23 AM · #34 |
Okay, General, that is gross, now I am going to find a magnifying glass to look at my eyelashes.
GESsssshhhhh, the things you learn from a Photography Site
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05/18/2008 01:17:17 AM · #35 |
Captain Kirk's middle name is "Tiberius"...
Alexander the Great's horse was named Bucephalus...a magnificent stallion who was afraid of his own shadow
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05/18/2008 01:40:10 AM · #36 |
| The population of bedrock was 2500. |
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05/18/2008 01:58:48 AM · #37 |
| You mean Bedrock as in the Flintstones???? |
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05/18/2008 09:34:44 AM · #38 |
Originally posted by SDW:
All Continents start with the letter "A" except Europe. |
Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, yup...
Europe, North America, South America, nope...
R. |
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05/18/2008 09:42:16 AM · #39 |
Originally posted by RayEthier:
Originally posted by JulietNN:
I am so bored, well I am not, I am attempting to not clean the house.
So you can not fold a piece of paper more than 8 times
Eggs come out of chickens butts. (This I was shocked to only find out a year or so ago) |
YES... but do you know which end comes out first... the round or the tapered end?
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Isn't the eggshell flexible when it comes out and a couple of seconds after the chicken pooped it out?
Love this thread, and love useless facts :D
Therefor, I love Mythbusters. The paperfolding-myth was busted, but only with big equipment.. |
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05/18/2008 09:43:48 AM · #40 |
George Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States. He was the first President of the United States under the Constitution we follow today.
John Hanson, American Patriot and First President of the United States
(1715-1783)
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05/18/2008 09:52:36 AM · #41 |
| The human eye does NOT see in motion, but in a series of stills, that the brain converts into motion, after it makes the image upright from an upside down image! |
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05/18/2008 10:00:58 AM · #42 |
| If you throw something in water it gets wet. Tennis shoes should not be dried in an oven on broil. Most importantly the tallest blade of grass may be the first noticed but it is also the first cut by the lawnmower. |
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05/18/2008 10:11:46 AM · #43 |
| Contrary to oft-repeated biographical mythology, Einstein was at best an agnostic, most likely an atheist. |
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05/18/2008 10:12:22 AM · #44 |
When someone says that dumbass saying "how long is a piece of string?", here is the reply:
Twice as long from the middle to the end.
Gets em every time ;)
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05/18/2008 10:18:24 AM · #45 |
Originally posted by JulietNN:
The first patented condom was meant to be reused!
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Condoms were originally made from sheep's gut, and yes, they were washed out and reused.
Maxi pads were made from cloth and also washed out and reused. You've gotta love modern hygiene products.
Here's one: The clitoris has 8000 nerve endings, making it the most nerve rich area of the human body. The entire penis only has 4000 nerve endings. |
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05/18/2008 10:42:29 AM · #46 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by SDW:
All Continents start with the letter "A" except Europe. |
Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, yup...
Europe, North America, South America, nope...
R. |
Many people consider America as a single continent. Then again, some also consider Oceania as the continent which includes not only Australia, but New Zealand, Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, etc... |
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05/18/2008 10:42:58 AM · #47 |
Ooops. Double clicked.
Message edited by author 2008-05-18 10:43:16. |
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05/18/2008 10:55:24 AM · #48 |
| Wittgenstein, suffering from diarrhea, found himself outdoors having to go the bathroom. He knocked on Bertrand Russell's door, who refused to let him in. |
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05/18/2008 11:08:50 AM · #49 |
Originally posted by strangeghost:
Contrary to oft-repeated biographical mythology, Einstein was at best an agnostic, most likely an atheist. |
Einstein's musing on religion sells for $400K |
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05/18/2008 11:20:54 AM · #50 |
| Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively). |
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