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Title: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: u2205 on May 09, 2007, 05:24:06 pm
So... being me I thought that I'd start this thread!

Rules:
1) List random facts you know
2) Only one fact per post
3) Wait untill others have posted before posting a new one!

My Random Fact: The Mario Brothers are Arabian and not Italian.
Title: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on May 09, 2007, 06:24:08 pm
Left handed people are in their right minds!
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Post by: GotHentai on May 09, 2007, 07:57:07 pm
Egyptians used water to make the pyramids stay level. I use the same method while leveling foundations.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on May 09, 2007, 08:16:43 pm
room temperature rice is bad for you ^^
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 09, 2007, 08:49:03 pm
There are roughly 14 bloody GIRs hidden throughout Invader Zim ep.s after "bad, bad rubber piggie"
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 09, 2007, 10:04:35 pm
Golf is actually a shortened form of the original title meaning "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden".
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Post by: jaybug on May 09, 2007, 10:31:58 pm
That the US Navy only had 4 ships in the entire fleet that it own every bit of, and not leased in the 1980s. This was because the US kept 4 Destroyers that were sold to the Shah of Iran, but were not delivered in time before the students took our embassy personnel hostage for 444 days. So we kept the ships the Shah bought, as part of the package of payback.

Most ships have their reduction gears, the things that take the high speed of the engine down to the much slower speed of the propeller, on 99 year leases from companies such as Westinghouse.
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Post by: superjaz on May 09, 2007, 10:35:38 pm
fran dresher introduced dan aykroyd to his wife
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Post by: Kimiski on May 09, 2007, 11:07:44 pm
Little tiny insects live at the roots of all human eyelashes, scientists have no idea why they're there.
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Post by: babysugarbear28 on May 09, 2007, 11:28:30 pm
The brain is more active when you are asleep than when you are watching a movie or tv
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 09, 2007, 11:42:08 pm
It takes more muscles to frown than to smile.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 10, 2007, 06:18:08 am
the red dye in red suckers (and lots of other red eatables) is made out of dead bugs
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 10, 2007, 08:23:11 am
Chocolate often includes spiders and other small insects, due to the open vat procedure.
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Post by: Runa on May 10, 2007, 08:27:13 am
Vinegar can be used to permanently set pleats, or permanently remove unwanted creases (use iron on high steam and hold it on vinegar-coated fabric until all vinegar has evaporated. Wash afterward unless you like smelling like vinegar).

Vinegar will also help set dyes, so if you purchase a deep indigo colored outfit, soak it in a bucket of vinegar overnight and the color will not wear away as quickly...  (handy also for colors that tend to run....)  :D
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 10, 2007, 11:07:33 am
Honey is actually bee vomit. Yum!
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Post by: superjaz on May 10, 2007, 01:06:50 pm
ANNE RICE'S FIRST NAME IS REALLY HOWARD oops for got caplocks
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 10, 2007, 01:34:57 pm
As a child, H.P. Lovecraft's mother raised him like a girl.
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Post by: jaybug on May 10, 2007, 03:21:13 pm
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is

700,000.

(B) Accident al deaths caused by Physicians

per year are

120,000.

 (C) Accidental deaths per physician

 is

0.171.

Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of

Health Human Services.
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Post by: GotHentai on May 10, 2007, 04:44:14 pm
Oregon is the least religous state out of all 50 American states. It also has the most strip clubs for its population. Thank you Marconi!
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 10, 2007, 04:45:44 pm
Absinthe is made with a small dosage of poison.
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Post by: BoredHorror on May 10, 2007, 04:59:24 pm
here's one everybody should make sure to learn:

WALKING THE PLANK IS A MYTH!!

*gasp* it's true
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 10, 2007, 05:09:25 pm
Pirates were the Vikings of the equatorial continents.
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Post by: BoredHorror on May 10, 2007, 05:15:01 pm
Blackbeard's real name is Edward Teach
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Post by: Chek on May 10, 2007, 05:16:26 pm
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on May 10, 2007, 05:26:19 pm
Mel Brookes' "Dracula Dead and Loving" It is more accurate the original Dracula novel by Bram Stoker, than the movie "Bram Stoker's Dracula".
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on May 10, 2007, 05:58:43 pm
On that note,

Return of the Jedi would have been "Wrath of the Jedi" had it not been for Wrath of Khan.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 10, 2007, 08:29:20 pm
baby chickens on factory farms have thier beaks cut of with a hot blade and no pain killer
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Post by: Chek on May 10, 2007, 09:00:50 pm
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
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Post by: the_wind_the_sea on May 10, 2007, 09:01:15 pm
The longest running musical on Broadway is Cats.
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Post by: Chek on May 10, 2007, 09:02:38 pm
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 10, 2007, 09:03:51 pm
the hormones in milk can lead to man boobs
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Post by: Chek on May 10, 2007, 09:04:56 pm
The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
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Post by: Vondan on May 10, 2007, 09:43:28 pm
Human Fat is Yellow



Von "Ewwwww it was on my shoes" Dan
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 10, 2007, 09:46:29 pm
english bulldogs can't give birth naturaly (stupid breaders)
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Post by: jaybug on May 10, 2007, 09:48:18 pm
corn cannot reproduce without human intervention. again, stupid breeders
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Post by: Vondan on May 10, 2007, 09:49:42 pm
nerds cannot reproduce without human intervention. again, stupid breeders
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 10, 2007, 09:49:54 pm
the milk you buy at the grocery store is full of puss and blood (no kidding it's gross)
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Post by: Chek on May 10, 2007, 10:07:05 pm
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 10, 2007, 10:09:12 pm
meat rots in your belly
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Post by: Chek on May 10, 2007, 10:09:38 pm
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 07:30:34 am
A sneeze has the power to eject the eyballs out of the sockets, but the natural reflex of a sneeze is to close your eyes, so as to prevent that.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 09:24:16 am
Tiffany Grant loves granola
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 09:55:02 am
In certain areas of Spain, cheese is grown and eaten with maggots inside of it, for it is considered a high delicacy.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 09:56:16 am
people in Mongolia drink horse milk
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 09:59:43 am
Black Pudding is actually animal blood congealed into a gelatinous form, then sometimes made into sausage (Blood Sausage in NA).
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 10:01:46 am
the fifth string on a  5 string banjo is much shorter than the rest
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 10:03:09 am
Only female mosquitos drink blood.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 10:06:59 am
same with ticks
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 10:09:49 am
Female Praying Mantises decapitate and devour their male counterparts. (Females are brutal in the natural world, no?)
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 10:10:52 am
much of Zorak's high school baseball team was devoured
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 10:13:14 am
Brak is actually an evil genius, until Space Ghost shot him with a stupefying ray.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 10:14:47 am
The Brak Show was originaly a variety show
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 11, 2007, 10:14:47 am
You know when you wear a ring for a long time and then you stop wearing it and it feels like you're still wearing it? That's called muscle memory. Your muscles are still adjusting to not having constant pressure on them so they try to simulate the feeling until they adapt to not having the ring. It takes about two weeks for this to go away.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 11, 2007, 10:17:33 am
Quote from: "GotHentai"
Oregon is the least religous state out of all 50 American states. It also has the most strip clubs for its population. Thank you Marconi!


SWEET!!
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 10:18:18 am
The Statue of Liberty was actually originally bronze, the green coating is called Petina, and came from the constant sea salts and mist of the harbor.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 10:19:02 am
it takes 3 mos. to get rid of a wedding ring indentation
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 11, 2007, 10:24:50 am
The duck-billed platypus is actually venomous. It's venom is strong enough to put a grown man in the hospital for about two days and kills smaller animals.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 10:27:29 am
Quote from: "kurosakiichigo666"
Quote from: "GotHentai"
Oregon is the least religous state out of all 50 American states. It also has the most strip clubs for its population. Thank you Marconi!


SWEET!!


That's nothing to be proud of, in this one's opinion.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 10:29:21 am
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
Quote from: "kurosakiichigo666"
Quote from: "GotHentai"
Oregon is the least religous state out of all 50 American states. It also has the most strip clubs for its population. Thank you Marconi!


SWEET!!


That's nothing to be proud of, in this one's opinion.

I agree with EoA
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 11, 2007, 10:31:22 am
Another thing about the Platypus. When it goes underwater it closes its ears, eyes, and nostrils and senses its prey (they eat small animals sometimes) through electrolocation, which menas that the Platypus can sense electrical impulses from muscle contractions. Studies have shown that it is so sensitive that a Platypus could pick up impulses from shrimp.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 10:36:42 am
Sharks have unlimited tooth replacements.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 10:39:57 am
the shark won in Shark v. Croc when the Croc had to go up for air
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 11, 2007, 10:40:51 am
The band Green Jelly was originally called Green Jello, but Jello got mad and sued them and they were forced to change their name to Green Jelly.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 10:43:24 am
Jello is made from the cartlidge and tendons of cows and other animals
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 10:45:30 am
More specifically gelatin, which is in almost all candies and gooey treats.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 10:46:45 am
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
More specifically gelatin, which is in almost all candies and gooey treats.


Is why I rarely eat candy *shakes fist*
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 11, 2007, 10:47:32 am
Glue is made of horse hooves.
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Post by: Kimiski on May 11, 2007, 11:47:05 am
My name is Kimi, WOAH YEAH\


I WIN
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Post by: TheInsanePuck on May 11, 2007, 01:09:37 pm
The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley
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Post by: Pie Row Maniac on May 11, 2007, 01:40:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCayq56wHSA

The Surinam Toad has babies through the skin of it's back.
Cool as all hell but downright twisted all at once.
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Post by: Antares on May 11, 2007, 04:20:50 pm
Moore's Law says that electronics get about 1/2 as big and 2X as powerful about every 18 months (that's why a "cellphone" in the 80s was huge and got terrible reception whereas now-a-days, a cellphone has more technology in it than a car.)
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 05:03:03 pm
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
Glue is made of horse hooves.


not anymore, these days most glue is made from synthetic apoxies, although there are exeptions like many wood glues are made with animal "hide"
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Post by: ~gaara-Kun~ on May 11, 2007, 05:29:30 pm
Dolphins have sex for pleasure.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 06:27:30 pm
Quote from: "~gaara-Kun~"
Dolphins have sex for pleasure.


so do gibbons
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Post by: GotHentai on May 11, 2007, 06:42:24 pm
Round doorknobs are illegal in all commercial establishments in the United States. This is because people without hands have trouble turning round doorknobs.
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Post by: babysugarbear28 on May 11, 2007, 09:15:19 pm
People who stop drinking soda for a year lose about an average of 10 pounds
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Post by: Chek on May 11, 2007, 09:39:36 pm
Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.
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Post by: Lit_of_Fey on May 11, 2007, 10:51:34 pm
The peoples of the Indus valley actually used aquaducts before the Romans did, and they came 5,000 years before them!!! ^.^
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on May 11, 2007, 11:05:10 pm
It's comon for people with forms of ADHD to experience a reversal in the efects of stimulents and sedatives

(is why I can relax with a nice frosty Bawls or a hot capachino after a long hard day of... whatever it is that I do all day)
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 12, 2007, 12:04:33 am
The Human Brain itself does not feel pain, but only instructs the body on when to feel pain and where.
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Post by: Kimiski on May 12, 2007, 04:38:14 pm
Elephants are the only mamal that cant jump
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Post by: superjaz on May 12, 2007, 09:21:58 pm
stephen kings daughter is a married lesbian minister
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Post by: jaybug on May 13, 2007, 03:16:10 pm
Oregon City has more bars, and churches per capita in the state of Oregon. But last I knew, no strip clubs.
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Post by: GotHentai on May 13, 2007, 06:58:27 pm
Quote
Oregon City has more bars, and churches per capita in the state of Oregon. But last I knew, no strip clubs.


0_0 omg you know how much money we would make if we started a strip club in oregon city??!?!

oh, and
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 13, 2007, 08:45:43 pm
The Simpsons are one episode away from 400!
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Post by: Vondan on May 13, 2007, 11:50:41 pm
Quote from: "babysugarbear28"
People who stop drinking soda for a year lose about an average of 10 pounds


What are you trying to say about me
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Post by: Antares on May 14, 2007, 06:36:55 am
These are real animals:
screaming hairy armadillo
pink fairy armadillo
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 14, 2007, 09:32:16 am
Acid is traceable through human hair.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 14, 2007, 09:51:09 am
- The San Francisco 49ers are the only team to have won 5 Super Bowl titles while never losing a Super Bowl.  (Dallas lost 3 & Pittsburgh lost one).

- The correct weight of a hard shelled taco @ Taco Bell is 2.9 oz.

- My shoe size is 11 Wide.

- Pie tastes good.

- The first commercial anime came out in 1917.  I forgot its name, but it was so bad, that all traces of it were destroyed.  Nobody even knows what technique was used for the animation, but a popular belief is taking many pictures of a chalkboard (kinda like South Park).
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Post by: shadow_shrine on May 14, 2007, 04:10:21 pm
press ctrl+w and something cool happens ;)
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Post by: Vondan on May 14, 2007, 05:24:47 pm
Quote from: "Washougal_Otaku"


- The first commercial anime came out in 1917.  I forgot its name, but it was so bad, that all traces of it were destroyed.  Nobody even knows what technique was used for the animation, but a popular belief is taking many pictures of a chalkboard (kinda like South Park).


Might you be talking about Gertie the Dinosaur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_Dinosaur
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 15, 2007, 07:56:48 am
Quote from: "Mr_Mustash"
Quote from: "shadow_shrine"
press ctrl+w and something cool happens ;)


Dont do it! Its a trap!


GAH! Tricked like the Trix Rabbit! *shakes fist*

Fact: margarine, if left in a garage, has been proven to turn into plastic.....or oil or something.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 15, 2007, 08:31:53 am
Margarine is only one molecule away from plastic
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Post by: GotHentai on May 15, 2007, 09:30:07 am
Quote

Fact: margarine, if left in a garage, has been proven to turn into plastic.....or oil or something.


It was first developed as an oil/grease. They found it it tasted like butter though.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 15, 2007, 10:11:05 am
Hydrogen peroxide is only one molecule away from water
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Post by: jaybug on May 15, 2007, 04:30:21 pm
the difference between chlorophyll and hemoglobin is one molecule. Chlorophyll has a magnesium molecule at its center, while hemoglobin has an iron molecule at its center. The difference means that chlorophyll gathers energy from light, while hemoglobin exchanges gases
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 16, 2007, 07:37:13 am
Dollars were once rumored to have a significant amount of cocaine in them, but that was put to rest as it is not enough to do anything with, even if harnessed.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 16, 2007, 09:30:32 am
Quote from: "Vondan"
Quote from: "Washougal_Otaku"


- The first commercial anime came out in 1917.  I forgot its name, but it was so bad, that all traces of it were destroyed.  Nobody even knows what technique was used for the animation, but a popular belief is taking many pictures of a chalkboard (kinda like South Park).


Might you be talking about Gertie the Dinosaur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_Dinosaur


No, that's not it.  I'll try to find it & post it up here.

- There are 66 books in the Bible, 39 in the Old, 27 in the New.

- Hugh Laurie, the guy who plays Dr. House, was Jasper in the live action movie 101 Dalmations.

- The name of the tail bone is coccyx.
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on May 16, 2007, 10:05:06 am
67% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 16, 2007, 10:06:32 am
At the moment of death, the human body loses 42 grams of weight, what it actually is has never been explained.
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on May 16, 2007, 10:10:31 am
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
At the moment of death, the human body loses 42 grams of weight, what it actually is has never been explained.


It seems that the soles of your feet are actually heavier than your soul.
(also, insert random mass-to-energy theories)
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Post by: totemo_oishii on May 16, 2007, 06:59:02 pm
The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept."
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 16, 2007, 07:14:24 pm
The longest Psalm in the Bible is Psalm 119, over 100 verses long.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 16, 2007, 07:15:47 pm
Quote from: "Mr_Mustash"
Quote from: "totemo_oishii"
The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept."


Wrong! The shortest verse in the bible is "He said" its in Job somewhere... but i can't rember right now...


Well, technically they are both two words long, unless you're going by some translations which make the verse actually say "AND Jesus wept." Small differences.
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Post by: totemo_oishii on May 16, 2007, 07:37:11 pm
lol. I just saw it on Wiki when I looked up "crying". X3
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Post by: jaybug on May 16, 2007, 08:16:26 pm
there are bacteria on your skin that if they were inside you, they would kill you. staphlococcus Aureus to name one. But they actually help to keep even worse bacteria away.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 16, 2007, 08:41:14 pm
Quote from: "totemo_oishii"
lol. I just saw it on Wiki when I looked up "crying". X3


You're a winner, Oishi, a Winner, I say! Don't cry 0_0
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Post by: totemo_oishii on May 16, 2007, 08:42:12 pm
XD I mean I was searching for the page on "crying" when I found that little fact.  :P
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 16, 2007, 08:46:22 pm
gah, gotcha. Well, I will just take back my consolations then, hehe
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Post by: GotHentai on May 16, 2007, 08:49:52 pm
A half-pound bag of potato chips costs over 100 times more than one pound of potatoes.
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Post by: jaybug on May 16, 2007, 08:59:23 pm
At 3,200 psi, there is no difference between water and the steam in a hyper-fluid boiler.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 17, 2007, 08:38:11 am
The shortest proper sentence in the entire english language is "I am."
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Post by: valliegirl on May 17, 2007, 08:45:24 am
7-11 was originally named because it was open from 7 am - 11 pm, and was the first convenience store.
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Post by: jaybug on May 17, 2007, 03:07:54 pm
All mammals have the same basic skeletal structure, vertebra, with 5 appendages. Each limb coming off the spine begins with one bone, and then at the articulation, there are two bones.
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Post by: valliegirl on May 17, 2007, 06:09:06 pm
As of 2005, Detroit has the second highest crime rate of any city with a population over 250,000.  Baltimore was #1.
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Post by: Kotoumi on May 17, 2007, 09:07:43 pm
Nozomi Tsuji, a former fourth-generation member of Morning Musume, is at least two months pregnant and will be marrying the guy who plays Ultraman.

The doctor she went to diagnosed it as gastroenteritis.

(I only know this because I Wikistalk Aibon and Nono.  ><)
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Post by: jaybug on May 17, 2007, 09:08:50 pm
You have little worms that live in your eyelashes!
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Post by: Kotoumi on May 17, 2007, 09:13:09 pm
I read an article about people wanting to petition against the new gay rights bills earlier...

...And it made me angry.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 18, 2007, 09:02:22 am
Quote from: "Mr_Mustash"
Quote from: "totemo_oishii"
The shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept."


Wrong! The shortest verse in the bible is "He said" its in Job somewhere... but i can't rember right now...


Actually, totemo is right.  It's John 11:35.  I'll have to look in Job for that verse, but I'm pretty sure that it's one of those that changes from version to version.
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Post by: superjaz on May 18, 2007, 09:56:33 am
i've never been to the zoo
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 18, 2007, 10:14:13 am
Fact: You're not missing much.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on May 18, 2007, 10:18:41 am
people constantly compliment my art, yet they always scold me for having such bad handwriting... T~T
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 18, 2007, 10:26:41 am
The Sunflower Starfish can grow up to 24 arms. It will continually grow them until it gets to 24, then it stops making them.
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Post by: valliegirl on May 18, 2007, 11:24:05 am
Steve McQueen encouraged his son's karate coach to take up acting.  That karate coach was Chuck Norris.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 18, 2007, 11:32:09 am
Quote from: "superjaz3p"
i've never been to the zoo


I have, & it's not much, just like kurosaki said.

- In the state of Alaska, it is illegal to push a moose out of an airplane.

- Cockfighting is legal in Louisiana.

Some stupid Washington state laws:
- X-rays may not be used to fit shoes.
- All lollipops are banned.
- It is illegal to paint polka dots on the American flag (would Canada be okay?).
- People may not buy a mattress on Sundays.
- It is illegal to pretend one's parents are rich.
- You are not allowed to breastfeed in public (but I think that's gonna change soon).
- One may not spit on a bus.
- In the city of Bremerton, you may not shuck peanuts on the street.
- In the city of Lynden, dancing & drinking may not occur at the same establishment (I bet their proms are boring).
- In the city of Seattle, you may not carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.

Some stupid Oregon state laws:
- Drivers must yield to pedestrians who are standing on the sidewalk (Ha, they don't even yield to pedestrians using crosswalks!).
- One may not test one's physical endurance driving a car on a highway.
- It is illegal to place a container filled with human fecal matter on the side of any highway.
- Dishes must drip dry.
- A door on a car may not be left open longer than is necessary.
- Ice cream may not be eaten on Sundays (Good thing I'm a Washingtonian).
- It is illegal to whisper "dirty" things in your lover's ear during sex.
- One may not bathe without wearing "suitable clothing."
- Canned corn is not to be used as bait for fishing.
- In the city of Eugene, it is illegal to show movies or attend a car race on Sundays
- In the city of Beaverton, you must buy a $10 permit to be allowed to install a burglar alarm.
- In the city of Hood River, juggling is strictly prohibited without a license.
- In the city of Marion, you cannot eat a doughnut and walk backwards on a city street.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 18, 2007, 12:04:05 pm
Mongoose McQueen, the vocalist of Fozzy, is also Chris Jericho, the professional wrestler.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 18, 2007, 12:09:02 pm
- Chris Jericho was the first celebrity eliminated from the show that had celebrities not "famous" for their singing, sing.

- In Japan, there is no age of consent.

- In Alabama, putting salt on a railroad track may be punishable by death.
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Post by: valliegirl on May 18, 2007, 01:25:28 pm
Alfred Hitchcock had a phobia of eggs.
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Post by: Kimiski on May 18, 2007, 11:28:53 pm
I will have never gone out of state tell Kumoricon xD
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Post by: Negima on May 18, 2007, 11:40:43 pm
Mosquitos are more likely to bite you soon after you have eatten a banana.
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Post by: TheInsanePuck on May 19, 2007, 12:51:56 am
fact women in tokyo think all white males look the same.... (heard it straight out of a womans mouth while in tokyo)
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 19, 2007, 10:43:20 am
Fact: Mustash did not type all of that.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 19, 2007, 11:51:14 am
Here's a couple of links for pi that're awesome!

http://pi.ytmnd.com/
http://www.facade.com/legacy/amiinpi/
http://www.123greetings.com/events/pi_day/
http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/pi.html
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Post by: Negima on May 19, 2007, 12:10:54 pm
Wait, I thought Pi couldn't have the same numbers next to each other....

Oh right, random fact.... um....

4 out of 5 doctors think the fifth doctor should really relax.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 19, 2007, 12:22:27 pm
- Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
- There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
- In Iceland, tipping your waiter is considered an insult.
- You know about Popeye's four nephews?  Their names are: Peepeye, Pipeye, Poopeye, & Pupeye.
- The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders.
- Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- In St. Louis, Missouri, it is illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while sitting on a curb.
- There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
- A 'jiffy' is unit of time, lasting for 1/100th of a second.
- Porcupines can float.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist, but I can't remember his name.
- Before 1796, the state of Tennessee was named "Franklin."
- If you decapitate a cockroach, it dies a few weeks later from starvation.
- In Natoma, Kansas, it is illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 19, 2007, 12:57:18 pm
Quote from: "Vondan"
Quote from: "Washougal_Otaku"


- The first commercial anime came out in 1917.  I forgot its name, but it was so bad, that all traces of it were destroyed.  Nobody even knows what technique was used for the animation, but a popular belief is taking many pictures of a chalkboard (kinda like South Park).


Might you be talking about Gertie the Dinosaur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertie_the_Dinosaur


I found the name of the anime I was looking for.  Here's the link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imokawa_Mukuzo_Genkanban_no_Maki
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Post by: guspasho on May 21, 2007, 02:23:27 pm
(https://www.kumoricon.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.packagingdigest.com%2FNews%2FImages%2F0304np002.jpg&hash=6b41603b45a844a02f59641aa1af3956d4b6031b)

Wrigley's Eclipse Mints - You can comfortably fit 10 DS games into this can of mints (after you empty it of mints).
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Post by: pieisexactlythree on May 21, 2007, 02:24:40 pm
Mustash wins one internet!
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Post by: jaybug on May 21, 2007, 04:09:53 pm
Al Gore invented the Internet!
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Post by: superjaz on May 21, 2007, 06:02:05 pm
i'm a pretty pretty princess and a lady
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Post by: guspasho on May 22, 2007, 08:07:19 am
Quote from: "jaybug"
Al Gore invented the Internet!


Al Gore did not invent the Internet. He also never claimed to.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Facts only, please  :P
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Post by: Kimiski on May 22, 2007, 10:09:57 am
Pollar bear skin is black and their fur is actually just made up of hallow tubes.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 22, 2007, 10:10:39 am
Fact: people are starting to post stuf on this thread just to post something
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 22, 2007, 10:45:35 am
Fact: The creature dubbed the Pack Rat does not need to drink water.
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Post by: Vondan on May 22, 2007, 11:01:22 am
FACT:  A jar on my workshop shelf looks like is has a Human brain inside
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Post by: Kimiski on May 22, 2007, 03:07:28 pm
UofO is the only college in the world with a disney mascot.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 22, 2007, 06:00:53 pm
- The land of Oz got its name when creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet & saw the "A-N" & "O-Z".
- Bill Gates lives in the town of Medina, WA.
- The mosquito is responsible for more human deaths than any other animal.
- The average bra size is 36C.
- Oregon has more ghost town than any other state, even more than Nevada.
- The first football player to be on a Wheaties box was Walter Payton.
- Cattle are the only mammals that pee backwards.
- If you toss a penny in the air 10,000, chances are you'll get heads 4,950 times, because it weighs slightly more than tails.
- Although crimerates tend to rise during full moons, murder is only crime that doesn't.
- In Connorsville, Wisconsin, it is against the law for a man to shoot off a gun while his female partner is having a sexual orgasm.
- Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.
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Post by: GotHentai on May 22, 2007, 06:03:57 pm
If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but
 more like 4950.  The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 22, 2007, 06:10:56 pm
Fear list:
Tapinophobia - The fear of being contagious
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - The fear of the number 666
Plutophobia - the fear of wealth
Monophobia - The fear of being alone
Bromidrosiphobia - The fear of bodily smells
Nomatophobia - The fear of names
Japanophobia - The fear of the Japanese (I feel sorry for them)
Defecaloesiophobia - The fear of painful bowel movements
Xanthophobia - The fear of yellow
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Post by: Kimiski on May 22, 2007, 10:04:36 pm
I'm 5'6" :D
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Post by: Keenon Williams on May 22, 2007, 10:14:16 pm
Stealing avatars from internet trolls is a fun way to piss them off. =3
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Post by: manekineko on May 23, 2007, 12:23:35 am
Dolphins are the only other mammals besides humans to have intercourse for pleasure (I couldn't help it).
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 23, 2007, 08:59:46 am
Fact: Back when John Kerry was running for president, he was once asked why he should lead the country instead of Bush, and his reply was "I have better hair."
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Post by: superjaz on May 23, 2007, 11:26:00 am
one of the guys who claimed to invented earth day is a convicted murder
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Post by: guspasho on May 23, 2007, 02:23:04 pm
This is me repeating myself.

Quote from: "guspasho"
Al Gore did not invent the Internet. He also never claimed to.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Facts only, please  :P
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Post by: Kimiski on May 23, 2007, 03:04:07 pm
That im running out of random facts
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Post by: jaybug on May 23, 2007, 04:13:23 pm
Al Gore never said makaka. But he can dance the Macarena!
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 23, 2007, 05:54:27 pm
The twin towers were originally shown in the background of the poster for Spider-man, but due to the socially weakened state of the country, the filmmakers had to remove them from the shot.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 23, 2007, 09:01:26 pm
- Today is Pentacost!
- Saturday was named after the Roman god Saturn.
- I hate the Dallas Cowboys.
- 26 x 26 = 676.
- Military time starts at 000 hours, not 2400 hours.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 23, 2007, 09:02:28 pm
Shabuoth is Hebrew for Pentecost.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 23, 2007, 09:16:11 pm
- Another way to write it is Shavu'ot, & is also known as the Feast of Seven Weeks.
- In most wrestling organizations, the full nelson is an illegal move.
- Most little kids are cute.
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Post by: jaybug on May 23, 2007, 09:19:16 pm
Forks were not used in the American or British navies until the 1800s. They were considered to be too effeminate.

Also, the meal trays of the British were made of square pieces of wood, hence the term square meal.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 23, 2007, 09:36:14 pm
- There use to be a website called www.jarjarbinksmustdie.com
- Taylor Hicks has gray-ish hair.
- May is National Asian Heritage Month.
- The newspaper comic "Hi & Loius" is over 75 years old.
- Will Ferrell is over-rated.
- The ancient Egyptians made beer.  Their key ingrediant was barley.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 23, 2007, 09:38:33 pm
Johnny Depp prolonged the filming of the final scene of Pirates 3, due to his love for the character Jack Sparrow, and his reluctance to let it go. A great quality to see in an actor!
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 23, 2007, 09:45:31 pm
Johnny Depp's first movie was Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 23, 2007, 10:04:37 pm
This year's American Idol is Jordin Sparks!!!
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Post by: Kimiski on May 24, 2007, 10:10:25 am
I hate American Idol... *runs away* xD
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Post by: Evaldas on May 24, 2007, 11:39:36 am
"Cottage cheese" is a legit term used in Geology for some grey sediment found in a wetland environment.
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Post by: MEDIC!!! on May 24, 2007, 11:56:57 am
Retalin, the drug given to children who have ADD or ADHD , is used to for its calming effect on the nervous system.

Retalin has the exact same chemical makup has the  illegal drug speed

there are some people w/ ADHD who get the opposite when drinking caffine

I am ones of those w/ ADHD who will fall promptly asleep after drinking one cup of coffee
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Post by: jaybug on May 24, 2007, 03:27:02 pm
"Cottage cheese" and "Bacon" can be found in caves, Oregon caves has both variety of mineral formations. Note: cottage cheese is very soft, just like the real thing.
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Post by: Negima on May 24, 2007, 05:31:13 pm
If you are ever caught and buried in an avalanche, spit.  That will tell you which way is up as you'll probably be a little disoriented.
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Post by: superjaz on May 24, 2007, 08:55:32 pm
I have the mythical 7 stars!!!
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 24, 2007, 10:09:31 pm
Gir likes tacos.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 25, 2007, 12:05:57 pm
Naked mole rats are actually blind.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 25, 2007, 12:56:14 pm
- Sandwiches got their name from the Earl of Sandwich.  He ordered that some food be slapped between two slices of bread so he could eat it all while he kept on gambling.
- Latitude lines run horizontal with the Earth while longitude lines run vertical.
- The first recorded Olympic Games occurred in 776 B.C., and had one event, a foot race of about 200 yards held on a plain by the Alpheus River(now the Ruphia) just outside the town of Olympia in Greece.
- Kami is a Japanese word meaning “above” or “superior” & is the name used to designate a great host of supernatural beings or deities.
- The Egyptian god Taurt had the head of a hippopotamus, the back and tail of a crocodile, and the claws of a lion.
- One of Virginia's nicknames is the Mother of Presidents, because no state has as many presidential birthplaces.
- In order to find out what time it is in Japan, add 17 hours to the current time (except when it's daylight's saving time, then add 16).
- MCCCXXXVIII is the Roman way to write 1338.
- etc. spelled out is "et cetera."
- Rounded to the nearest thousanth, the square root of 26 is 5.099.
- Levi Eshkol was the Prime Minister of Israel during the Six-Day War.
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Post by: Evaldas on May 25, 2007, 03:04:31 pm
Goats can anything except Tansy. Tansy will kill them.
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Post by: pieisexactlythree on May 25, 2007, 03:48:28 pm
Evaldas cannot form a coherent sentence.
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Post by: totemo_oishii on May 25, 2007, 04:14:09 pm
English is the official language of Nigeria.
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Post by: Pie Row Maniac on May 25, 2007, 04:50:08 pm
Hot dogs come in packs of eight

Buns come in packs of ten

What the hell
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Post by: pieisexactlythree on May 25, 2007, 05:00:44 pm
Ironing a newspaper will set the ink so it doesn't get on your fingers.  - I learned this from the Historical Notes included in the fansub of Emma.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 26, 2007, 07:00:09 am
Today is the Bun Festival in Hong Kong, China, a festival to bring good luck.
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Post by: GotHentai on May 26, 2007, 08:47:53 am
You have two different types of muscles. One that pulls and one that pushes. Some people have overdeveloped one type of muscle and not the other. This is why skinny people can often do limitless pull ups but cannot bench there own weight once.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 26, 2007, 01:42:58 pm
Quote from: "Pie Row Maniac"
Hot dogs come in packs of eight

Buns come in packs of ten

What the hell


I've seen more 8 pax of buns than 10.
Smoking is bad for you.
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Post by: Kimiski on May 26, 2007, 04:39:47 pm
They changed the prophecy in the HP 5 movie.  :shock:
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Post by: guspasho on May 26, 2007, 07:31:31 pm
Quote from: "Pie Row Maniac"
Hot dogs come in packs of eight

Buns come in packs of ten

What the hell


You mean hot dogs come in packs of ten and buns in packs of eight?
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Post by: Kimiski on May 26, 2007, 08:34:12 pm
Daddy long legs are actually the moist poisnious but they cant bite you causue their bitter thinges are to small xD I forgot the name, im tired.
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Post by: TheInsanePuck on May 26, 2007, 10:34:15 pm
A Prince albert used to called a dressing ring in the 19th century that is why to this day if you get tailored for something they ask "Which side are you dressed on"
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Post by: Kimiski on May 27, 2007, 12:20:21 am
Is now posting "rum"?  :shock:
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 27, 2007, 07:48:16 am
The rum is never gone, not for these forums.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 29, 2007, 08:48:26 am
- Uzis were developed in Israel.
- Rum is nasty.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 29, 2007, 10:13:10 am
Quote from: "Washougal_Otaku"
-  Kami is a Japanese word meaning “above” or “superior” & is the name used to designate a great host of supernatural beings or deities.


It also means paper  :wink:
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 29, 2007, 10:19:16 am
Quote from: "kimiski"
Daddy long legs are actually the moist poisnious but they cant bite you causue their bitter thinges are to small xD I forgot the name, im tired.


That's not true, they actually proved in Mythbusters that they can bite you, but their venom isn't as powerful as it was once thought.
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Post by: jaybug on May 29, 2007, 05:38:07 pm
The heaviest molecule is that of Black Widow spider venom, it has a molecular weight of 238,000. For comparison a molecule of water has a molecular weight of 10.

The size of a CD was made to fit exactly one playing of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
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Post by: GotHentai on May 29, 2007, 05:43:34 pm
The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.

Thats chicken power baby!
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Post by: jaybug on May 29, 2007, 07:43:05 pm
The machine that was making light bulbs in 1922, is still making light bulbs today.

The General Electric motors used to open and close the locks at the Panama canal, are still being used.

The General Electric motors used in the elevators of the Empire State building, are still being used.

A consumer rated chain saw's motor is designed to last only 5 working hours.

That's progress!
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Post by: Kotoumi on May 29, 2007, 08:25:54 pm
Quote from: "kurosakiichigo666"
Quote from: "Washougal_Otaku"
-  Kami is a Japanese word meaning “above” or “superior” & is the name used to designate a great host of supernatural beings or deities.


It also means paper  :wink:
And hair.  =3

I cried a the last episode of Minimoni de Bremen no Ongakutai.
D:
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Post by: Kimiski on May 30, 2007, 12:39:00 am
Quote from: "Kotoumi"
Quote from: "kurosakiichigo666"
Quote from: "Washougal_Otaku"
-  Kami is a Japanese word meaning “above” or “superior” & is the name used to designate a great host of supernatural beings or deities.


It also means paper  :wink:
And hair.  =3

I cried a the last episode of Minimoni de Bremen no Ongakutai.
D:


Yeah we learned in class it depends on how you say it. Like if you emphazise which part first and what not. It took us a while to hear the differnce, it was odd.

@KurosakiiIchigo

Oh yeah huh... I even watched that episode. Opps... been a long long time.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 30, 2007, 08:25:41 am
Captain Barbosa's first name is Hector.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 30, 2007, 09:12:35 am
- Orlando Bloom is actually a good singer.
- The Taco Bell delicacy known as "Chalupa" is named after a type of boat (at least this is what I was told by a Mexican that worked with me).
- Men's lacrosse has ten players & is a contact sport, whereas women's lacrosse has twelve players & is not a contact sport.
- Elizabeth Hasselbeck became "famous" by being a contestant on Survivor: The Australian Outback.
- On a sidenote: she is married to Tim Hasselbeck, backup QB for the New York Giants (under Eli Manning) & brother to Matt Hasselbeck (Yeah Seahawks!).
- Quice is a fruit similar to pears.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on May 30, 2007, 09:15:13 am
Johnny Depp's next film (already in post-production) will be Sweeney Todd, a dark comedy/musical. Johnny Depp will be playing Sweeney Todd, and singing. We haven't been able to hear him sing (well) since Crybaby! Excited much?
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 30, 2007, 09:23:58 am
Quote from: "kurosakiichigo666"
Quote from: "kimiski"
Daddy long legs are actually the moist poisnious but they cant bite you causue their bitter thinges are to small xD I forgot the name, im tired.


That's not true, they actually proved in Mythbusters that they can bite you, but their venom isn't as powerful as it was once thought.


Mythbusters is not always correct, but I can believe that statement up above me.
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Post by: manekineko on May 30, 2007, 12:09:51 pm
Final Fantasy was given it's name because it was meant to be Squaresoft's final game. They we're going out of business but FF pulled in enough revenue to keep the company going.
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Post by: GotHentai on May 30, 2007, 02:00:33 pm
Quote
Final Fantasy was given it's name because it was meant to be Squaresoft's final game. They we're going out of business but FF pulled in enough revenue to keep the company going.


Best fact ever!!

To stay with the thread:

Pigs are carnivorous, so when posed the question "Why would you eat that poor defenseless animal?!" Remember that they would do the same to you.
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Post by: Kimiski on May 30, 2007, 02:01:34 pm
From your wrist to your elbow is how long ur foot is HAHA big foot
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Post by: superjaz on May 30, 2007, 02:53:42 pm
from finger to finger is how tall you are
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Post by: Antares on May 30, 2007, 02:59:20 pm
A tree's root system is about the same size as its branches, only underground.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on May 30, 2007, 11:22:01 pm
The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime
(i think mine is double that.... )
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Post by: Keenon Williams on May 31, 2007, 11:57:39 am
Rumiko Takahashi's characters have poofy hair. =3
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Post by: shadow_shrine on May 31, 2007, 09:40:50 pm
no word in the english dictionary rhymes with month, purple, or orange
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Post by: jaybug on May 31, 2007, 10:18:57 pm
or silver

there are only 4 words in the English language that end in "ous" I'll let you work on that a bit.
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Post by: Pie Row Maniac on June 01, 2007, 12:54:41 am
Clint Mansell, the score composer for the film's Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Smoking Aces, The Fountain, also created the music for, of all things, the Doom movie.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 01, 2007, 01:01:29 am
Quote from: "jaybug"
or silver

there are only 4 words in the English language that end in "ous" I'll let you work on that a bit.


There's more than that, unless you are talking about original roots in the old english language or something. So far, I've come up with: Dangerous, Venemous, Devious, Scandelous and Humongous.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 01, 2007, 08:05:45 am
Quote from: "GotHentai"
Pigs are carnivorous, so when posed the question "Why would you eat that poor defenseless animal?!" Remember that they would do the same to you.


- Actually, pigs are omnivorous, since they eat both meat & plants.
- They are also not kosher.
- Bacon is yummy.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on June 01, 2007, 10:16:01 am
"Tsiology" is anything written about tea
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Post by: Kimiski on June 01, 2007, 01:26:24 pm
porky pines arent porky or piney
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Post by: Mei Long on June 01, 2007, 01:29:45 pm
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
Quote from: "jaybug"
or silver

there are only 4 words in the English language that end in "ous" I'll let you work on that a bit.


There's more than that, unless you are talking about original roots in the old english language or something. So far, I've come up with: Dangerous, Venemous, Devious, Scandelous and Humongous.


Delicious ^_^ And, ummmm... *tries to think of more*
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 01, 2007, 02:39:37 pm
Quote from: "Mei Long"
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
Quote from: "jaybug"
or silver

there are only 4 words in the English language that end in "ous" I'll let you work on that a bit.


There's more than that, unless you are talking about original roots in the old english language or something. So far, I've come up with: Dangerous, Venemous, Devious, Scandelous and Humongous.


Delicious ^_^ And, ummmm... *tries to think of more*


Carnivorous, Omnivorous, Voracious, Pretentious, Ostentatious...*could go on and on*
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Post by: Kimiski on June 01, 2007, 06:41:14 pm
this forum use to be spam, not rum
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Post by: Kimiski on June 02, 2007, 03:49:53 pm
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
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Post by: Pie Row Maniac on June 02, 2007, 06:35:51 pm
A message being heard in a song thats played backwards can be categorized as one of two things in regards to its creation: Backmasking, in which the message was intentionally placed, or phonetic reversal, as being unintentional.
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Post by: jaybug on June 03, 2007, 04:37:00 pm
Must have been uos, not ous. That has 4 words. Try that!

And you wonder why I got it wrong at trivia night?
Title: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: EveofAbyss on June 03, 2007, 11:08:33 pm
Quote from: "jaybug"
Must have been uos, not ous. That has 4 words. Try that!

And you wonder why I got it wrong at trivia night?


Yah, that makes more sense.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 04, 2007, 09:06:33 am
- The TV show "House" takes place in New Jersey.
- When Tomb Raider was first being created, there was a debate on whether or not Lara should have been a guy; it almost led to the game not being produced at all.
- Lara was originally going to be named Lara Cruz.
- The rumor that "orange" rhymes with no other word is incorrect. Orange rhymes with Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a sac where spores are made). "Silver" has the same rumor going for it, but it actually rhymes with Wilver (a nickname) and chilver (a ewe lamb).
- "Set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language, with 464 different definitions.
- "Cwm" and "crwth" are the only two words in the English language that have no "vowels;" the "w" makes an "oo" sound, as in "doom."
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on June 04, 2007, 10:17:13 am
Quote from: "Washougal_Otaku"

- The rumor that "orange" rhymes with no other word is incorrect. Orange rhymes with Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a sac where spores are made). "Silver" has the same rumor going for it, but it actually rhymes with Wilver (a nickname) and chilver (a ewe lamb).
- "Cwm" and "crwth" are the only two words in the English language that have no "vowels;" the "w" makes an "oo" sound, as in "doom."


I believe they said no word in the English dictionary. And I think Cxm and Crwth are Galic, not english. Sorry if I come off as rude, I don't mean to. :P
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Post by: superjaz on June 04, 2007, 10:17:56 am
i am watching kindom hospital
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Post by: TheInsanePuck on June 04, 2007, 01:04:55 pm
a pistol shrimp when closing its claw makes a bubble and when the bubble colapses on itself it reaches a temperature about the same as you would find on the surface of the sun
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on June 04, 2007, 01:11:37 pm
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
Quote from: "Mei Long"
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
Quote from: "jaybug"
or silver

there are only 4 words in the English language that end in "ous" I'll let you work on that a bit.


There's more than that, unless you are talking about original roots in the old english language or something. So far, I've come up with: Dangerous, Venemous, Devious, Scandelous and Humongous.


Delicious ^_^ And, ummmm... *tries to think of more*


Carnivorous, Omnivorous, Voracious, Pretentious, Ostentatious...*could go on and on*


don't forget my fave.:  "Herbivorous" (like me) ^-^
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 04, 2007, 06:48:06 pm
Jack Davenport (Commodore Norrington of Pirates) was actually in a 3-season sitcom on the BBC before said movies were made, called Coupling. (Hilarious, very much so.)
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 04, 2007, 07:47:40 pm
Quote from: "kurosakiichigo666"

I believe they said no word in the English dictionary. And I think Cxm and Crwth are Galic, not english. Sorry if I come off as rude, I don't mean to. :P


Sporange is an English word, & as for the mountain in Wales, a name is a name, (plus Wales is a part of the U. K., so it works).

As for the Gaelic, that may be where the roots are from, but they are recognized as English words, too.  It's not the first time languages have taken words from each other.

- South paw is a term for left handed people.
- South Park is a real city in Colorado.
- South America has 12 independent nations on it.
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Post by: jaybug on June 04, 2007, 09:20:56 pm
Whan that Aprille
wythe a shoures a soute
bathed everye veyne
wythe swytche liqueure
perced to the route

That's middle English, more or less, you can't expect me to get the spelling right. Especially as it was written before dictionaries, and thus no spelling mistakes possible!

Lighters were invented before matches.
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Post by: Kimiski on June 04, 2007, 09:23:40 pm
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.
Title: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on June 04, 2007, 09:36:04 pm
The Greek god Bacchus is a cousin of the Hindu god Krishna. Literally cousins.
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Post by: TheInsanePuck on June 05, 2007, 02:07:35 am
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
Title: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: EveofAbyss on June 05, 2007, 07:29:38 am
Oxygen is highly flammable. The percent of oxygen in the air is only about 3%.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on June 05, 2007, 11:37:15 am
Quote from: "TheInsanePuck"
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.


 :shock:  She's all used up

if you throw a baby that is a couple weeks old into a pool it will be able to swim on its own.
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Post by: superjaz on June 05, 2007, 01:10:33 pm
anne rice author of interview with a vampires, her first name is howard and she once sent me a e-mail :)
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Post by: Kimiski on June 05, 2007, 08:44:57 pm
Rapper Ice Cube’s real name is O’Shea Jackson.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 06, 2007, 09:09:41 am
Quote from: "superjaz3p"
anne rice ... once sent me a e-mail :)


That's awesome!

Sumo wrestlers throw salt onto the ring before matches to ward off evil spirits.
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Post by: Zetsu4200 on June 06, 2007, 03:31:59 pm
In Oregon or Washinton (can't remember) a man's car got struck by lightning and his insurance wouldn't cover it because it was an act of God.  The man tried to sue God.
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Post by: jaybug on June 06, 2007, 04:27:40 pm
Kapok the fluffy stuff inside older life preservers, still used by the US Navy, is cottonwood cotton.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on June 08, 2007, 10:20:30 am
Strawberries contain more Vitamin C then oranges..... i love strawberries~
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 08, 2007, 06:02:54 pm
^ I can believe that.

- The Hungarian capital of Budapest use to be two seperate cities, Buda & Pest; the border was the Danube River.
- Burrito means little donkey.
- Gordita means fat little girl.
- My neck hurts, probably because of my back pack.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 08, 2007, 07:56:53 pm
The process of a cow "chewing its cud" is called ruminating, the digesting, then chewing, then digesting, again and again.
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Post by: superjaz on June 08, 2007, 11:40:44 pm
Quote from: Washougal_Otaku
Quote from: "superjaz3p"
anne rice ... once sent me a e-mail :)
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she was really nice i had e-mailed her saying i was glad to see her writing after her husband died (thery were married like 40 years or so)

hans christan anderson (wrote little mermaid) was from denmark
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 09, 2007, 12:14:37 am
The bagpipe was originally of Hebrew descent.
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Post by: Kimiski on June 09, 2007, 04:40:51 pm
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Post by: Geirr on June 09, 2007, 05:18:53 pm
Stainless steel needs to contain at least 11% chromium by weight, in order to resist oxidation enough to be called 'stainless.' Which is also why it's also called 'expensive.'
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on June 10, 2007, 02:11:49 pm
Stainless Steel makes bad swords. (Only if you like to use them that is :wink: )
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Post by: shadow_shrine on June 11, 2007, 11:07:40 am
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.
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Post by: Kimiski on June 12, 2007, 12:28:53 am
The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald’s.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on June 12, 2007, 10:46:12 am
Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 12, 2007, 02:48:13 pm
Seattle has a higher suicide rate than Houston, Texas does.
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Post by: The Night Bringer on June 12, 2007, 09:43:30 pm
The human body has an estimated average of two pounds of bacteria inside of it. So if your just a few pounds over weight, blame the bacteria.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 13, 2007, 07:25:10 am
The average heart is the size of a balled-up fist.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 13, 2007, 08:45:57 am
It is possible to make a diamond out of peanut butter.
In professional wreslting, it is "illegal" to do high flying moves; that's why the "ref" counts when wrestlers  climb up the turnbuckle.
Rolex watches have their second hands sweep, rather than tick.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 14, 2007, 09:38:41 am
The opossum is the only marsupial to have a name beginning with a vowel.
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Post by: Kotoumi on June 14, 2007, 01:19:06 pm
Kumoricon's helping me pass my Mixed Media class.

Seriously. (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a182/kotoumichan/kumoricopper.png)

Woo, bad picture.
Title: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: EveofAbyss on June 15, 2007, 08:41:41 am
Pineapple is the only fruit that grows underground.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 20, 2007, 03:21:26 pm
I am alive!
Title: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: superjaz on June 20, 2007, 03:28:11 pm
my feet hurt
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 20, 2007, 03:30:22 pm
- Foot massages are good.
- Bill Cosby & Richard Prior had a major rivalry back in the 80's.
- I have to go; I love you all!
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Post by: superjaz on June 20, 2007, 03:37:29 pm
stephen king is funny and even tho he is massivly popular does not mean he shouldn't be considerd a litary master
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Post by: jaybug on June 20, 2007, 03:44:06 pm
Left-handed people are in their right minds.
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Post by: manekineko on June 20, 2007, 05:01:53 pm
I am apparently in my left mind.
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Post by: jaybug on June 20, 2007, 05:36:44 pm
Naw, just left-out!
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Post by: totemo_oishii on June 20, 2007, 06:37:56 pm
Ken Jennings carries a little stuffed Totoro in his pocket for good luck. RLY!
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Post by: Kimiski on June 20, 2007, 08:04:04 pm
the human body produces its own supply of alcohol naturally on a continous basis, 24 hours a day, seven days a week?
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Post by: manekineko on June 20, 2007, 08:11:00 pm
The vast majority of headaches are benign and self-limiting.
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Post by: jaybug on June 20, 2007, 08:39:40 pm
soda pop contributes to global warming
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Post by: manekineko on June 21, 2007, 02:20:03 am
I have nothing to do while I look for a job except be a spamwhore.

I feel so ashamed  :lol:
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 21, 2007, 10:18:32 am
It is physically impossible for a person to swing 360 degrees on a swingset (unaided by rockets).
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 21, 2007, 01:12:11 pm
Mustashe knows television syndication well. ^_^
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Post by: manekineko on June 21, 2007, 03:48:09 pm
Quote from: "Mr_Mustash"
Quote from: "manekineko"
I have nothing to do while I look for a job except be a spamwhore.

I feel so ashamed  :lol:


If you don't mind having a job in Fast Food I may be able to get you one in downtown Portland at Burgerville near the convention center


I'd totally do it, bu I will never ever ever again work in fast food.

EVAR!

But thanks for the offer.
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Post by: jaybug on June 21, 2007, 05:49:04 pm
baking powder is 1/2 baking soda, and 1/2 cream of tartar. The cream of tartar is why baking powder gets old, and why you put old baking soda in your fridge for another few months.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 21, 2007, 09:01:27 pm
Predatory creatures can be defined by the placement of their eyes. Predators have their eyes in the front of their faces, as opposed to on the side of the heads, like horses and deer.
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Post by: jaybug on June 21, 2007, 09:12:00 pm
Bears can go faster uphill, than they can go downhill. So if in trouble with a bear run downhill! It has to do with their anatomy.
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Post by: jaybug on June 21, 2007, 09:41:48 pm
The piece of flesh that dangles over the male turkeys beak is called a snood.
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Post by: jaybug on June 21, 2007, 10:23:03 pm
From Star Trek IV, transparent aluminum. We already have this, but we call it sapphire. WE use it as the lenses of missiles that are laser guided. The sapphire is coloered red, so it would then be a ruby, but it can withstand desert sand at 600 mph, and not get a scratch.
We also use it in the manufacture of circuit boards, as it is also radiatoin resistant, good for use in space.
I just think we haven't gotten down the price of manufacturing enough to mass market large applications to the point where it is competitive with lexan and the like.
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Post by: Kimiski on June 22, 2007, 01:31:07 am
I have 2 eyeballs
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 22, 2007, 09:30:19 am
Sushi is very easy to make. (if you know how to make it)
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Post by: shadow_shrine on June 28, 2007, 02:59:38 pm
i can sleep over 16 hours and still be sleepy.... thus the reason i havent been on in a while....
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 28, 2007, 03:10:17 pm
A recent study led scientists to place the blame of being tired after a full night's sleep on "sleep sex", people apparently do that and are still asleep enough to not be aware of it or remember it the next morning. Odd....but believable? Maybe.
Title: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: shadow_shrine on June 28, 2007, 03:16:56 pm
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
A recent study led scientists to place the blame of being tired after a full night's sleep on "sleep sex", people apparently do that and are still asleep enough to not be aware of it or remember it the next morning. Odd....but believable? Maybe.


im still trying to figure out how thats possible....

the base color for black sharpies is red, while crayola's black is green
(gets very annoying when coloring....)
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on July 07, 2007, 03:38:10 pm
- I am still alive.
- Today is Tanabata, the Star Festival.
- I look like Spike Spencer.
- Coca-Cola once had cocaine in it.
- Remember the episode in Slayers, season 2, when Lina is freaking out about the slugs?  They did that because Megumi Hayashibara is afraid of slugs.
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Post by: totemo_oishii on July 07, 2007, 05:13:56 pm
Crossing your legs while you sit restricts blood flow.
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Post by: Greyman on July 07, 2007, 05:28:40 pm
Quote from: "shadow_shrine"
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
A recent study led scientists to place the blame of being tired after a full night's sleep on "sleep sex", people apparently do that and are still asleep enough to not be aware of it or remember it the next morning. Odd....but believable? Maybe.


im still trying to figure out how thats possible....

the base color for black sharpies is red, while crayola's black is green
(gets very annoying when coloring....)


o_O Thats kind of horrifying! What if you're asleep selves aren't smart enough for contraceptives!
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Post by: totemo_oishii on July 07, 2007, 05:30:52 pm
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
A recent study led scientists to place the blame of being tired after a full night's sleep on "sleep sex", people apparently do that and are still asleep enough to not be aware of it or remember it the next morning. Odd....but believable? Maybe.


I've read something about that in a magazine before, and I think it's true. •___•
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Post by: Greyman on July 07, 2007, 05:32:10 pm
It may be, I could totally see it happening. But that's so friggin scary! Going to bed fine, and waking up pregnant and neither person knowing what the heck happened.

O_o!!! Egads!
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Post by: totemo_oishii on July 07, 2007, 05:32:57 pm
That's why you gotta wear metal underwear when you sleep.
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Post by: Greyman on July 07, 2007, 05:36:00 pm
"We'll just have to get used to the cold metal and sharp edges! Trust me honey!"
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Post by: laurifer on July 07, 2007, 10:13:40 pm
Quote from: "EveofAbyss"
A recent study led scientists to place the blame of being tired after a full night's sleep on "sleep sex", people apparently do that and are still asleep enough to not be aware of it or remember it the next morning. Odd....but believable? Maybe.


It's true. We talked about it in psychology.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on July 07, 2007, 10:40:03 pm
Yeah, it's quite interesting. The subconscious knows no bounds, it'd seem, lol
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on July 09, 2007, 10:31:39 am
Couldn't it have been all the booze from the night before? :D

Just kidding.

- Some parts of Japan celebrate Tanabata on August 8, because that's closer to the original date of Tanabata before Japan adopted the Gregorian calendar system.
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Post by: Lit_of_Fey on July 19, 2007, 09:54:06 am
The country Fair is just like the con! But with drugs. people don't bathe, there's some that are a little "too" into it, and there's people with rainbow hair in full costume walking around and nobody seems to notice X3

it IS a fact and it's random so it counts HaHA!
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on August 17, 2007, 04:28:54 pm
Fact: Nobody seems to be posting anything relevant anymore on this thread....
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Post by: EveofAbyss on August 17, 2007, 05:07:53 pm
Fact: The exclusion of spam posts from the total amount has severely lowered the amount of activity in the Spam category.
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Post by: majinekochan on August 17, 2007, 10:16:37 pm
Fact: Spam isn't really mystery meat, it's the shoulder, pork, and something else I can't remember right now.
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Post by: QElderHell on August 17, 2007, 10:45:21 pm
Fact: The blonde in the Jenny Craig commercials was paid a million dollare to shave her head for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on August 18, 2007, 12:27:15 pm
I got paid today and only a tiny fraction of that money will be spent on Pocky.
It's true! I may not buy any at all! Amazing isn't it!?
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Post by: Evaldas on August 18, 2007, 02:37:37 pm
You find some really frickin' huge spiders your house if like in a wooded area.
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Post by: jaybug on August 19, 2007, 05:24:11 pm
I moved 10 miles further away from Portland, and it now takes me an hour longer to get there from here. I don't get it, but that is what happens now.
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Post by: Evaldas on August 19, 2007, 08:08:48 pm
Did you realize that they are repaving I-5 with asphalt? The freeway is originally concrete.

Is it me, or does that seem like a cheap fix?
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Post by: jaybug on August 19, 2007, 08:19:03 pm
Thanks to snow tires, asphalt is a better deal than concrete. You don't have to tear up the whole freeway to do a re-pave job. Because if you are going to have to do it every 5 years, better to use cheaper stuff.
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Post by: Evaldas on August 19, 2007, 11:39:40 pm
I 'spose.

Did you know that there are wild white gerbils running around in the Yamhill country side? My friend and my mother have hit one on two separate occasions.
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Post by: SageBell on August 19, 2007, 11:45:12 pm
in north clackamus christian school's back soccer field ( i dont go to schoo there) and at ridgefield wildlife area/park theres tons on nutrea
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Post by: totemo_oishii on August 20, 2007, 02:58:28 pm
Japan has freaking NOODLES IN A CAN (http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070816p2a00m0na023000c.html)  :o
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Post by: jaybug on August 20, 2007, 03:41:28 pm
Did that say Chef Boyardee in Japanese?
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Post by: majinekochan on August 20, 2007, 09:25:49 pm
Amtrak's site is a pain in the ass
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Post by: Lit_of_Fey on August 21, 2007, 09:58:14 am
haha totemo that's hilarious! XD Ooo I can make the words all glowey now.
Aaaaand a random fact that I know!:

I need to brush my teeth really bad D:

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Post by: Evaldas on August 21, 2007, 10:22:17 am
Nutria were introduced during the 1950s as a form of a home business (aka, raise the animals and sell to companies to make pelts). However the nutria fur market became so saturated, the animals couldn't even be given away. So many escaped and others were released into the wild.

Nutria by the way, are native to South America. When you have Nutria....you will not have Beavers in the NW.


Sorry, I guess that was more then just one random fact.
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Post by: SageBell on August 21, 2007, 07:14:55 pm
canadians pronounce
llama wrong:
canada: lamb-uh
U.S.A.: lom-uh
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Post by: SageBell on August 21, 2007, 07:16:07 pm
Nutria were introduced during the 1950s as a form of a home business (aka, raise the animals and sell to companies to make pelts). However the nutria fur market became so saturated, the animals couldn't even be given away. So many escaped and others were released into the wild.

Nutria by the way, are native to South America. When you have Nutria....you will not have Beavers in the NW.


Sorry, I guess that was more then just one random fact.
i actually knew that
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Post by: jaybug on August 21, 2007, 08:13:59 pm
nutria taste like rabbit, which tastes like chicken. Can be found on the menu in Louisiana.
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Post by: SageBell on August 21, 2007, 09:05:47 pm
crocidile take like lobster
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Post by: babysugarbear28 on August 21, 2007, 11:49:36 pm
if you drink orange juice when you eat a calcium chew your body will obsorb more calcium
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Post by: Evaldas on August 22, 2007, 08:18:33 am
In order for your body to absorb beta-carotine, it needs to hitch a ride on some sort of fat. So eat your brocoli with a cheese sauce, butter or anything else. ^^
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Post by: jaybug on August 22, 2007, 04:40:28 pm
water soluble vitamins include the B's,C,
fat soluble vitamins include A,D,E,beta-carotene, which is why is is not a good idea to take too many of these, they do not flush out of your system so readily as the water solubles.
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Post by: Evaldas on August 23, 2007, 11:04:38 am
Which Scorpions should you be worried about:  Big pinchers and small stinger= not lethal. Pinchers are used to kill insects. Small pinchers and larger stinger= stay away.
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Post by: pieisexactlythree on August 23, 2007, 12:35:56 pm
1,170,964 people world-wide died in automobile accidents in 1998.
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Post by: Naleh on August 23, 2007, 02:23:26 pm
-If a cat falls from a 4rd story window it has a better chance of landing on their feet than a 2nd story window.
-all cat's have retractible claws except the Cheetah
-Cat's have little 'mirror things' in the back of their eyes that relfect light and allow them to see in the 'dark'...it's also why cats eyes look like they glow sometimes
-No two Ocelots look a like (like zebras or fingerprints)
-My favorite animal is the cat XD
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Post by: jaybug on August 23, 2007, 07:58:25 pm
if you drop a slug from the Empire state building, it will bounce.

if you drop a quarter from the empire state building, it will embed itself in the sidewalk. or in someone's head. probably killing them.
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Post by: Evaldas on August 25, 2007, 09:52:39 am
I thought that was disproved on Mythbusters. Or at least disproved that if you dropped a penny it wouldn't be lethal. A bowling ball however....


Fact: Soda in an unopened can will explode if left in a very hot car for too long
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Post by: Naleh on August 25, 2007, 10:13:03 pm
Fact, if you leave soda unopened in the freezer it will also explode. Yay!
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Post by: jaybug on August 26, 2007, 04:16:17 pm
Soda in Hawaii has a lower CO2 content, due to that heat and pressure thing.
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Post by: Naleh on August 26, 2007, 04:21:32 pm
Coke if left in the tolite can clean it and maybe unclog it too... imagine what it does to your teeth ^-^
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Post by: Evaldas on August 26, 2007, 10:58:09 pm
Capri sun is worse on your teeth then soda (think sugar content).
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Post by: pieisexactlythree on August 27, 2007, 10:37:35 am
if you drop a quarter from the empire state building, it will embed itself in the sidewalk. or in someone's head. probably killing them.

Wouldn't the wind resistance limit it's potential acceleration? 


Fact:  Human beings do not fart while asleep.  If you hear your partner cut one in bed, you know that he/she's awake. 
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Post by: Naleh on August 27, 2007, 12:28:33 pm
Your brain is more active when your asleep then awake! (that hasn't been used yet has it? *can't remember)
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Post by: jaybug on August 27, 2007, 04:30:20 pm
Pi, sure it does, but it is converting over one thousand feet of potential energy into kinetic energy. Plus, like a weather vane, the quarter is going to fall with the least wind resistance over such a long fall, and not fall face up or down. It's still probably doing about 200 mph, and that is more than enough to send a piece of straw clear through a telephone pole, as happens during tornadoes.

Naleh, did you sleep on that? lol
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Post by: pieisexactlythree on August 27, 2007, 04:35:24 pm
Pi, sure it does, but it is converting over one thousand feet of potential energy into kinetic energy. Plus, like a weather vane, the quarter is going to fall with the least wind resistance over such a long fall, and not fall face up or down. It's still probably doing about 200 mph, and that is more than enough to send a piece of straw clear through a telephone pole, as happens during tornadoes.

I got it!  Let's test it from the top of the Vancouver Hilton! 
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Post by: Naleh on August 27, 2007, 04:46:33 pm
how did you know jay... o.o

fact: you can't really touch people...on a molecular level. ^_^
and the other name for gold is Ag ^_^
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Post by: jaybug on August 27, 2007, 04:47:53 pm
Pi, you should stop by Blackjack Fireworks and get a large enough mortar shell that will travel more than 1,000 feet up and will dislodge the quarter from that height, that should work. 'cause I don't think that building is anywhere near high enough. Now to just track the quarter.

That mean you are going to be the slug wrangler?

Ag is silver for argentum, hence the country name, Argetina, little silver.
Au is gold for aurum. BOth I believe are the latin names for the metals.

Aw is for aw @&#* when it all goes wrong! lol
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Post by: Evaldas on August 28, 2007, 09:38:55 am
Funny, Jaybug.

You are right about Gold's name derived from the Latin "Aurum".

In latin grammar, it technically does not matter where you place your verb. Though typically you place it at the end if you are talking about one object/person.
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Post by: Naleh on August 28, 2007, 12:23:39 pm
damn I always get those two mixed up X_X

Er fact Black holes are what happens after a sun goes Nova, and Black holes suck. ^_^
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Post by: Evaldas on August 28, 2007, 01:13:31 pm
unless it is a Supermassive black hole. ;)


Fact: Wasps can bite and sting. If one was not bad enough....
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Post by: SageBell on August 30, 2007, 12:33:20 am
polar bear livers are toxic.
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Post by: Evaldas on August 30, 2007, 11:25:05 am
Ants will herd aphids so to collect the sugary residue the aphids produce.
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Post by: pieisexactlythree on August 30, 2007, 02:15:21 pm
In 1970, Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitched a perfect no-hitter while tripping on acid. 
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Post by: Wanganator on August 30, 2007, 04:54:38 pm
Coka cola is the number 1 brand in the world with Microsoft in second
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Post by: majinekochan on August 30, 2007, 05:09:40 pm
Maxwell House Coffee is named after the first place it was sold: Maxwell House hotel in Nashville
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Post by: Wanganator on August 31, 2007, 10:40:10 am
On the topic of coffee, starbucks originated in Seattle.
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Post by: pieisexactlythree on August 31, 2007, 11:29:03 am
Obvious post is OOOOOOBBBBBVVVVVIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Post by: megchan on September 09, 2007, 07:30:33 pm
Scientific names are ridiculous sometimes. Example: The green urchin's scientific name is Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.

and YES, I did know that off the top of my head along with 29 more scientific names of various sea invertebrates.
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Post by: laurifer on September 10, 2007, 09:46:29 pm
Scientific names are ridiculous sometimes. Example: The green urchin's scientific name is Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.

and YES, I did know that off the top of my head along with 29 more scientific names of various sea invertebrates.

Do you want to become a marine biologist or something? *is curious*
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Post by: megchan on September 10, 2007, 09:59:47 pm
Scientific names are ridiculous sometimes. Example: The green urchin's scientific name is Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.

and YES, I did know that off the top of my head along with 29 more scientific names of various sea invertebrates.

Do you want to become a marine biologist or something? *is curious*

I took Marine ecology in high school and I really liked it (except when we had to identify 20 different clams visually. they're so. freaking. the. same) so I toyed around with the idea of majoring in it (I'm a college sophomore right now). BUT, I just like the biology/animals part of it, not all the physics/wavemotion part so I decided not to XD. So I just obsess over sea creatures for fun!

Fact: Bears Eat Beets.
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Post by: majinekochan on September 10, 2007, 10:17:39 pm
Fact: Ducks won't eat live plants. If you want them to eat your weeds you have to pull the weed and hand it to the duck.
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 10, 2007, 10:50:40 pm
FACT: I just lost the game.
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Post by: Waffles on September 10, 2007, 10:53:17 pm
Fact: I hate you!
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 10, 2007, 11:03:39 pm
FACT: Hate isn't factual <3333
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Post by: megchan on September 12, 2007, 06:38:01 pm
Off the coast of Vancouver, BC there is a sardine spawning season that is SO HIGHLY POPULATED that the water actually turns white. GROSS.
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Post by: Winfred on September 12, 2007, 06:47:59 pm
The words "pregnant" and "pants" were banned from use on television waaay back when.
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Post by: Hawkeye on September 12, 2007, 09:29:17 pm
Shows like 'brady bunch' that had married couples in it showed the married couples sleeping in two different beds in the same room.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on September 13, 2007, 06:30:26 pm
The Columbia River is the longest river on either American continent that flows into the Pacific.
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Post by: jaybug on September 13, 2007, 06:31:25 pm
Humans only eat one kind of rock: salt.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on September 13, 2007, 06:37:24 pm
Professional wrestling was once real.  It was a lot different than how it is now in terms of techniques, strategies, & the lot.  The reason why it is now the way it is (fake) is to avoid paying a Pay Per View sports tax.
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Post by: superjaz on September 15, 2007, 08:59:04 am
when making shrimp in a buttery garlic sauce, if you add less salt and instead add a 1/4 or so (depending on size of batch) of chease, it will thicken sauce and make it outragiously delishious
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Post by: Hawkeye on September 15, 2007, 10:39:51 am
to touch on washougal otaku's factoid, the state of oregon despises pro wrestling because they think it's fake which is why we rarely get WWE events here at the rose garden
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Post by: babysugarbear28 on September 15, 2007, 10:53:41 am
If asked at the concession stand Most adults actually have to check their tickets to figure out what movie they are seeing even though they just paid for their tickets no more than ten minutes before...
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Post by: Hawkeye on September 15, 2007, 11:04:15 am
^ Most cats have a tendency to NOT land on their feet (at least mine don't)
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Post by: TanisNikana on September 15, 2007, 11:22:57 am
Photocopying your butt and stapling it to your boss' face is a good idea, but only at a specific time.
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Post by: majinekochan on September 15, 2007, 12:20:25 pm
Photocopying your butt and stapling it to your boss' face is a good idea, but only at a specific time.

...only if you don't live with your boss
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 15, 2007, 11:00:30 pm
Cancer is organic.
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Post by: Waffles on September 16, 2007, 03:39:43 am
Bad boy energy drink rocks!
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Post by: risotto on September 16, 2007, 07:33:48 pm
Your elementary school teacher lied about having to use cursive in middle school.
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Post by: majinekochan on September 16, 2007, 09:06:53 pm
A person's tolerance of BO maybe genetic.
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Post by: SageBell on September 17, 2007, 06:44:38 pm
Your elementary school teacher lied about having to use cursive in middle school.
no our middle school teacher lied about using it in highschool
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on September 19, 2007, 08:26:20 pm
to touch on washougal otaku's factoid, the state of oregon despises pro wrestling because they think it's fake which is why we rarely get WWE events here at the rose garden

- Actually, that's half right.  The main reason is because (I'm gonna say this wrong) Oregon has some state laws that makes it illegal for pro athletes to compete if they're on the 'roids.  The WWE argued that, since they're more like athletic actors, the law should not restrict them from competing in Oregon.  Thus, it was allowed for the first time in over 10 years.  They haven't been back much because of what Hawkeye said.
- This is the 26th page on this topic.
- 26 is an awesome number, because that's how many letters are in our alphabet.
- It's also awesome because that's how many briefcases you get to choose from in "Deal or No Deal?".
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Post by: majinekochan on September 19, 2007, 10:01:28 pm
Mr mustash is amazed at this thread
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 19, 2007, 11:16:02 pm
In Soviet Pocky Club, this thread is amazed at you!
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Post by: megchan on September 19, 2007, 11:39:42 pm
Although amazingly cool, a lego guitar hero controller is a little hard to use for beginers.
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 20, 2007, 11:23:35 pm
I'm about to create a thread.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on September 22, 2007, 09:43:13 am
strawberries and dr pepper help cramps @~@
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 25, 2007, 12:08:25 am
In soviet pocky club, cramps help strawberries and dr pepper.
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Post by: jaybug on September 26, 2007, 01:18:20 am
The candy "Hot Tamales" are made from the rejects of "Mike and Ike" candy.
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 26, 2007, 10:06:57 pm
Tomolleys are lobster livers.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on September 26, 2007, 10:41:56 pm
thats icky

body wash in your hair helps get rid of dandruff
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 27, 2007, 11:58:47 pm
Body wash on your body helps get rid of body.
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Post by: megchan on September 28, 2007, 06:14:59 pm
Even if the temperature on the surface of Mars rose drastically, it can never have liquid water (although there was liquid water in the past).
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 28, 2007, 11:11:17 pm
Our researchers have found substantial evidence to support the possibility that the planet Earth is capable of supporting intelligent life.  Unfortunately, substantial figures inhabiting Earth have been found to be quite dull.  Expect further updates soon.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on October 01, 2007, 04:00:56 pm
In Gainesville, Georgia, it is illegal to eat chicken with a fork.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on October 29, 2007, 03:56:47 pm
The squiggly line thing that you sometimes see over the letter "n" in the Spanish language is called a "tilde."
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Post by: jaybug on October 30, 2007, 04:41:13 pm
The dot over the letter i is a tittle.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on October 31, 2007, 08:15:57 pm
There is a search going on for the next Elvira.
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Post by: DancingTofu on November 04, 2007, 09:37:35 pm
Random Fact #400
It's not Lemonade.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on November 05, 2007, 10:00:34 am
The nose makes about about a quart of snot every day.
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Post by: jaybug on November 06, 2007, 06:34:28 pm
Airline food has so much extra spices added to make-up for the fact that your taste buds desensitize at altitude. Meaning if you ate that stuff down on the ground, you would not like it at all. Like my after game meal with my mom Saturday! Chef must have worked for airlines before!
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Post by: shadow_shrine on November 07, 2007, 09:13:14 pm
ceffiene makes you retain water and you gain weight, so if you cut out most caffiene you lose alot of weight~
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Post by: Dustin on November 07, 2007, 11:52:07 pm
Although it's currently theoretical, one of the most scientifical conclusions to all of life is that the universe is simply going to freeze, thus killing all life. This is called The Big Freeze theory.

This is a scenario in which the universe becomes too cold to sustain life due to continued expansion and the decay of free energy due to the action of entropy. It could occur if the universe's geometry is either flat or hyperbolic, as either of those would mean that the universe would expand indefinitely eventually reaching absolute zero.

If it is hyperbolic, which is usually pictured as a saddle shape, then the density must be lower than the critical density (which is approximately three hydrogen atoms per cubic meter), which means that the universe isn't heavy enough to collapse under gravity. If our Universe is flat, then the density will be exactly at the critical point, preventing the universe from collapsing as well. If the universe is heavier than the critical point, it will result in a shrinking universe, which leads to another theory, called the Big Crunch.

For the Big Crunch to occur, the shape of the Universe would have to be spherical. The problem with measuring the current density of our Universe is that we cannot see most of the matter in it, and it is theorized that most of the universe may be made up of dark matter, a hypothetical, invisible form of matter in space (Which is theorized to be why the night sky is dark).

This is only one of multiple theory's as to the ultimate fate of the universe. If it where to happen, it would probably happen around 150 billion years from now. As of note, our Universe is roughly estimated at just around 13.7 Billion years old.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on November 08, 2007, 11:54:39 am
When Street Fighter II was first made in Japan, 3 of the 4 bosses had different names than what they have here in the States.

Japan        U.S.A.
M. Bison     Balrog
Balrog        Vega
Sagat        Sagat
Vega         M. Bison

The reason for this is because of the boxer.  When the game came to the U.S., they were afraid that they would get sued by Mike Tyson.  Why?  Because they look VERY similar & their names are VERY similar.  So they switched them around so as not to get sued.

Also, noticed how Sagat is the only boss whose name never changes?  The reason for that is because he was the main boss in Street Fighter I.  Changing his name would have been illogical.
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Post by: superjaz on February 09, 2008, 09:57:57 pm
patrick is on the ball....
gackt is a big gundum fan
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Post by: EveofAbyss on February 09, 2008, 10:10:05 pm
Juka (ex-vocalist of Moi dix Mois) has retired from singing, for a while anyway, due to throat polyps.
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Post by: MichaelEvans on February 10, 2008, 10:37:42 am
I just learned something interesting.  When you make posts your post count increments. If they're removed, it remains unaltered (at least at that point).
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Post by: anime_rocker on February 11, 2008, 08:58:01 pm
 gummy bears are people too. they just can't fight back when u bite their heads off...
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Post by: Prinz Eugen on February 11, 2008, 10:05:25 pm
Fun with basic thermodynamics!

1 BTU will heat up one pound of water 1 degree F.

A refrigerator ton doesn't weigh anything - it's the rate of refrigeration (heat extraction) needed to freeze one ton of water (32deg F, liquid) into 1 ton of ice (32deg F, solid). This rate works out to be 12,000 BTU/hr, or 3024kcal/hr, or 3516W.

It's abbreviated USRT.

Oh yeah, and a watt-second is a Joule.

QUIZ: Is 1 Joule  = 1 kilogram meter per second, or 1kilogram meter per second SQUARED.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on February 11, 2008, 10:18:32 pm
Anna Tsuchiya, star of Shimotsuma Monogatari, is actually a model and a singer also (with several of her songs being used in the anime NANA).
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Post by: anime_rocker on February 11, 2008, 10:38:01 pm
 Oh! and yogurt is alive! no really i'm not kidding. it has cultures in it which are bacteria that are good for ur gut! my sister told me...
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Post by: EveofAbyss on February 11, 2008, 10:50:23 pm
My eyes are sorez and needings of the sleepies. (it is so a fact, no contest.)
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Post by: anime_rocker on February 12, 2008, 07:20:26 am
 i'l prolly sleep through the first two periods.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on February 12, 2008, 08:40:32 am
im so happy this thread was brought back to life!!! ^o^

Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado
It's illegal to slurp soup in New Jersey
Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese
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Post by: wolfy2491 on February 12, 2008, 04:33:10 pm
If a starfiss gets its arm (or leg lol) cut off, depending on how much of the limb was lost, that limb could possibly grow into a new starfish.
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Post by: risotto on February 12, 2008, 09:57:33 pm
Technically, white chocolate can't be called chocolate because it lacks cocoa solids that its darker counterparts have. Still like it nonetheless *nom*
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on March 07, 2008, 10:42:11 am
Robot Chicken got its name from an item on a menu the creators saw one day.  It had a feature called Robot Chicken.
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Post by: totemo_oishii on March 12, 2008, 08:04:10 am
Mainichi (http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/news/20080303p2g00m0dm002000c.html)

A new fetish cafe in Akihabara called Little TGV features waitresses dressed like train conductors and cocktails named after the Yamanote Line. It's based on the story of a fake rail company called the New Akiba Electric Railroad, and instead of the usual "Welcome home, master" greeting familiar to maid cafe enthusiasts, these women greet you with "Thank you for boarding our train."

Train geekdom is actually a well-established obsession in Japan. So this cafe, though seemingly random, meets a very specific demand.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on March 13, 2008, 03:19:07 pm
While refering to the NBA team in Boston, people have embraced the mispronounciation of the team mascot.  The "C" that starts it off is pronounced like a "K" instead of an "S."  (In case you have no clue as to what the mascot is, it's the Celtics).
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Post by: laurifer on March 13, 2008, 03:23:15 pm
Dark chocolate has the same amount, if not more, antioxidants as red wine :D
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Post by: jaybug on March 13, 2008, 05:32:46 pm
Icelandic is the closest modern language to Old English.
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Post by: Syd-chan on March 13, 2008, 07:52:33 pm
-In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies.

-Hitler was regularly given injections of amphetamine by his doctor. Turns out, to nobody's surprise, that Hitler was mentally unstable. He had syphilis, which in advanced stages causes insane rage.

-The country of Andorra has a zero percent unemployment rate.

-In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.

-A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

-All clams start out as males; about half decide to become females at some point in their lives.

-Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.

-An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

-In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.

-More food is thrown out each day in the United States than is needed to feed its hungry . . . by McDonalds.

-A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

"I am." and "I do." are the shortest complete sentences in the English language.

-In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

-A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

-In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.

-It's illegal to slurp soup in New Jersey.

-While in some countries the penalty for driving while intoxicated can be death (yes, death), in Uruguay intoxication is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving. "Please believe me officer, I really was drunk."

|3 Does this mean that I win?
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on March 14, 2008, 09:30:19 am
Yes, +1 internet for you, but only if you posted all those from memory.  ;)

The average person can only name a dozen smurfs from memory.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on March 14, 2008, 09:57:29 am
No.  I've made about a dozen such posts like that one.

- Kurt Vonnegut served in World War I.

- The skin is the largest organ of the human body.  (I don't remember how much skin weighs).

- Hilter's mental state is theorized to be hereditary.  He's had several family members serve time in insane asylums and metnal hospitals and, during his reigh as Fuhrer, he had a couple of his own relatives gassed.

- Taco Bell has a three cheese blend, made up of matzarella, provolone, and cheddar.  This cheese is used for: quesadillas, baja-style chalupas & gorditas, 7-layer burritos, grilled-stuffed burritoes, cheesy gordita crunches, and the cheesy beefy melt.  (There's probably something that I'm forgetting).

- There is a type of cheese called "Chihuahua," and, like almost every type of cheese out there, is named after the place it was made in, the city of Chihuahua, Mexico.

- Cinco de Mayo is NOT Mexico's Independence Day.  Rather, it marks a battle in which Mexico got its ass kicked by the French.  It's more like a time to reflect upon the bravery of the Mexican soldiers who risked their lives to fight a battle that they knew they were going to lose.

- The Japanese have a holiday on May 5 called Children's Day.  Originally called Boy's Day, some of the traditions include flying a carp kite outside of your house and taking your child, at ages 3, 5, or 7, to a temple, giving thanks for their health.

- In the novel Dracula, it is mentioned that one of the repellants against vampires is the flower "carnation."

- In every episode of Friends, the Magna Doodle on the door for Chandler & Joey's apartment would always have a different doodle or message on it.  It eventually became a point to have someone specifically responsible for that alone.

- According to Judith Lipton and David Barash, a pair of MD's who studied sex, the reason so many people commit acts of infidelity is because we "are motivated to ensure their reproductive success not only by picking the highest quality mate they can get but also by taking others on the side."  Apparantly, the only species on the planet that does stay with the same mate 100% of the time is a type of tapeworm found in fish, because they permanantly fuse together.

- In Missouri, single men between the ages of 21 and 50 must pay an annual tax of one dollar.

- In Claremont, New Hampshire, it is illegal to be drunk, picnic in, enter in at night, or be by oneself if under 10, in a cemetary.

- In Oregon, DRIVERS MUST YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS WHO ARE STANDING ON THE SIDEWALK!

- When written out properly, according to the official legal documents, Hawaii is the only state with a name that has some sort of symbol in it.  It has an apostrophe (Hawai'i).

- "Jesus wept" is the shortest verse in the Bible.  It can be located in John 11:35.

- Clark County was the first officially established county in Washington.

- The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest such railway in the world.  It stretches from Vladivostok to Moscow.  Originally, it was planned to go all the way up to St. Petersburg.

- Recently, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel "The Lost World" was reprinted, with the introduction part being written by Michael Chriton, creator of the Jurassic Park series.

- The first Japanese color animation, which is considered to be the first ANIME ever, was released in 1958 as Hakujaden.  It was released in the States in 1961 as Panda and the Magic Serpent.

- The character Lina Inverse got her name for a very specific reason.  Inverse, as most of us know, refers to a reversal in position, order, direction, or tendency.  Lina is Dutch for "Pure."  Therefore, her full name literally means "impure."  This could be a reference to her black magic, or some of her personality traits.

- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.  It is so small, that the city of Rome circles around it, like a ring.

- If the United States and Canada were to merge into one nation, it would be larger than Russia by about 2.5 million square kilometers.

- There is currently a dispute on whether or not the United States or China is the thrid largest nation.  If you were to include Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram Tract, both territories that are currently claimed by India, but not Taiwan, then China is only larger than the US by about 12,000 sq. km.  Without them, the US is larger by about 31,000 sq. km.

- I can only name a few smurfs, Papa Smurf, Baby Smurf, Smurfette, and the one that was used as a joke in an episode of Robot Chicken, Chronic Masterbater Smurf.  Does Gargamel count?
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on March 14, 2008, 11:32:18 am
Geeze guys, leave some facts for someone else... >:(

Over 500,000 people download Adobe Reader every day.
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Post by: Syd-chan on March 22, 2008, 11:46:03 pm
Washougal_Otaku and Syd-Chan have no lives! ^-^ Does that count?

Okay, Tom! I'll stop with the random fact posting and post one at a time....XD
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Post by: EveofAbyss on March 23, 2008, 07:58:56 pm
Earwax is a bug repellent.
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Post by: melchizedek on March 26, 2008, 06:17:25 am
Al Gore created the internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxtKcLSFWw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxtKcLSFWw)
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Post by: jaybug on March 26, 2008, 10:15:04 pm
Last year over 5,000 people fell off their bicycles in Oregon, and drowned.
In Oregon people don't tan, they rust.

Little known facts from the Oregon Ungreeting Cards of the 70s.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on April 01, 2008, 02:46:14 am
The intro for the song YYZ from Rush is actually morse code for YYZ. They wrote it in an airport called, you guess it, YYZ.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on April 06, 2008, 11:32:16 am
This upcoming Thursday, Taco Bell will be bringing back the Bacon Club Chalupa.  For those of you who don't remember this thing of beauty, it has chicken, bacon, a special club sauce, lettce, 3-cheese, & tomatoes.  It can also come in a meal (that's put in a box) that also contains a bean burrito, a taco, and a cinnomon twist.

It's possible that some TB's, including mine, will start selling these a day or two early.  I don't know why we do it; we're evil, or stupid, or something like that.  Anyway, just wanted to give you all a heads up in case there haven't been any commercials for these things yet.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on April 11, 2008, 07:21:43 pm
but they called it YYZ because that's the airport code for Toronto, their home town.

Yeah that's what I meant lol.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on April 14, 2008, 10:17:22 am
if you have food poisoning, eat a lemon. the acids from it kill the bad bacteria :)
if you have an upset stomach, try eating a mint... it helps alot! :D
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Post by: pieisexactlythree on April 14, 2008, 11:17:06 am
Tumeric was used as a disinfectant in ancient India.  This accounts for the red and safron colors of the robes worn by monks, who used discarded fabrics (often ones used to wrap corpses) for robes. 
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on April 14, 2008, 01:39:21 pm
if you have food poisoning, eat a lemon. the acids from it kill the bad bacteria :)


That is the coolest food thing I think I've ever heard.


- The Pearl Jam hit "Jeremy" was based off of a real story where the lead singer was still in school & a kid came to school with a gun, pulled it out in front of the class, & killed himself.  Reason - he was always picked on.  The point of the song was him declaring how much he regretted being one of the many who teased him constantly.  (Why couldn't Kip Kinkle have just done that instead of looking like a jack@$$?)
- "Jack the Ripper" was never caught.  To this day, his identity is a mystery.  In fact, there no concrete evidence that it was just one person, only logical clues that hinted at it being one man.  However, it has been proven that some of the other murders of a similar nature in the area/time were done by others, but they were all caught, & plead innocent to the other bunch.
- One person got a letter from "Jack", that included the delivery of a human kidney.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on April 17, 2008, 12:49:45 am
Milk is chemically proven to break down capsaicin, the chemical in spicy food that makes it spicy. So if you eat a hot pepper then drink some milk. Milk also helps if you get the juice in your eyes or....elsewhere. So it's not just a wives tale, it's SCIENCE!!!
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 20, 2008, 04:12:34 pm
The Caspian Sea is considered to be the largest lake in the world.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on May 20, 2008, 05:48:30 pm
- During the filming of all three 'Lord of the Rings' movies, the actors playing the Hobbits went through one pair of giant latex feet every day.

- Said feet were made hairy with hairs individually plucked from the belly of a Yak (mighta been a Llama, actually) and then placed in their proper place on the foot.

- More people died during the filming of 'The Twilight Zone' than any other TV show of that era.

- French tanks go faster backwards than forwards. This is a joke, people!
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Post by: laurifer on May 20, 2008, 08:07:46 pm
When you eat sushi, you're only suppose to eat until you're 3/4 full cos sushi expands in your tummy (from the rice) :D
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Post by: jaybug on May 21, 2008, 08:18:27 pm
the pips on a die are to be arranged so that two opposing sides will equal 7. 6-1, 2-5, 4-3.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on May 21, 2008, 08:58:14 pm
- Padme's wedding dress in Star Wars was made out of an antique Venetian lace bedspread.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 24, 2008, 01:55:16 pm
The great Megumi Hayashibara had her first voice acting role as various minor roles in the Rumiko Takahashi series Maison Ikkoku.
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Post by: Higuma on May 24, 2008, 03:08:29 pm
Frogs jump at a 45 degree angle.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 27, 2008, 12:56:49 pm
A green Maneki Neko is believed to bring academic achievement.
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Post by: Kimiski on June 02, 2008, 06:15:20 am
I r a girl
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 02, 2008, 12:49:39 pm
The capital of Madagascar is "Antananarivo."
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Post by: Kimiski on June 02, 2008, 01:28:13 pm
I gots a tv
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 02, 2008, 02:50:21 pm
Foo Fighters' video for "Big Me" was filmed in Sydney, Australia.
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Post by: garfieldelric on June 11, 2008, 12:23:31 am
No New York Met has thrown a no-hitter as of the 2008 MLB season.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on June 11, 2008, 04:24:39 pm
I'm a girl.
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Post by: jaybug on June 11, 2008, 09:48:07 pm
How can being a girl be a random thing when they are more than 1/2 the population? Seems like it is more random to be a guy! lol

Richard M. Nixon's name is on the moon! But not John F. Kennedy's.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on June 11, 2008, 10:10:26 pm
No, no, see, garfieldelric thought I was a guy, and I was miffed for about an hour. That's where that came from.

Random fact: RIT dye soaks into your fingernails and dyes your cuticles. It also makes your hands look like you have bruises.
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Post by: Darknight2433 on June 17, 2008, 03:47:39 pm
The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
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Post by: laurifer on June 20, 2008, 12:47:42 am
About 2/3 of cell phone owners in American use their backlight as a flashlight *is guilty of this*
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Post by: superjaz on June 20, 2008, 08:53:40 am
About 2/3 of cell phone owners in American use their backlight as a flashlight *is guilty of this*

I did this when we went to karaoke, if was too dark to read the song listing

trivia hmmm when garlic bakes it gets smooshy so soft you can spread it on bread,
it also gets mellower in flavor not as pungent as fresh garlic, and garlic that's paper skin has some purple in it is mexican or spanish garlic and has a mellower flavor, not as strong
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on June 20, 2008, 05:05:44 pm
The original name of the 'Ultimate Ninja' thing on G4 is 'Sasuke'.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on June 29, 2008, 11:59:52 pm
to get candle wax out of the carpet, use a paper towel and an iron...
coca cola removes rust [with a sponge]
to prevent screws from coming loose in your glasses, use clear nail polish. (or colored, if you wish)
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Post by: EveofAbyss on June 30, 2008, 08:25:00 am
In the Australian Bush, it is not uncommon for the natives to cook their food in the dust, literally. Mingling dust, dirt, ashes, and soil is a common culinary practice for nearly every dish.
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Post by: NightLotus on June 30, 2008, 01:49:06 pm
when you are stung by a bee, a pheromone is released that tells other bees in the area to sting you as well :D
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Post by: Darknight2433 on June 30, 2008, 01:54:02 pm
I got a kitten!  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on June 30, 2008, 09:24:25 pm
Unscramble 'Nanaki' and you get 'Anakin'.
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Post by: jaybug on June 30, 2008, 10:31:46 pm
And when you are done just throw him away, after all he's just a disposable Anakin.
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Post by: EveofAbyss on July 02, 2008, 07:19:03 am
Biggs and Wedge appear in nearly every Final Fantasy game, as a reference to Star Wars.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on July 03, 2008, 04:10:47 pm
On the posters for the epic poem/play 'Loveless' in the original FFVII, down the left side is the words 'My Bloody Valentine'. In 1991, the band 'My Bloody Valentine' came out with a CD called 'Loveless'.
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Post by: Kimiski on July 07, 2008, 12:56:41 am
I has bannana chips
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Post by: Darknight2433 on July 07, 2008, 10:34:27 am
My head hurts
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Post by: Kimiski on July 07, 2008, 10:47:12 am
This thread is full of random facts! Oh my!
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Post by: melchizedek on July 08, 2008, 12:24:34 am
The best way to tell if your date is married is if they have a tan line on their finger and if they drive a car not in their name.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on July 08, 2008, 01:19:26 am
Reading Encyclopedia Dramatica is both hilarious and bad for your mental health.
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Post by: Kimiski on July 08, 2008, 01:42:13 am
It tis now Tuesday, wheee
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Post by: EveofAbyss on July 08, 2008, 07:44:16 am
Spirulina is a protein-rich algae which can actually be taken in pill form as a substitute for all green vegetables.
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Post by: melchizedek on July 08, 2008, 12:27:32 pm
Oregon has the most hunger per capita of any state.
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Post by: Darknight2433 on July 08, 2008, 01:45:08 pm
It is the Year Of The Rat.  :D
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Post by: melchizedek on July 11, 2008, 06:41:10 am
Apparently Rush and Rollings stones first single were covers of the same song by buddy holly.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 11, 2008, 01:29:43 pm
Final Fantasy VII was based on the Koran. In the Koran, the Sephiroth is the tree of life. There are other similarities but I'm lazy so check it out for yourself :P
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on July 11, 2008, 03:55:44 pm
There is more than just that similarity in FFVII, for instance the great city being Midgar and Midgar being the land of the Norse gods.

In Hebrew, Sephiroth means 'circle path'.
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Post by: shadow_shrine on July 12, 2008, 09:35:10 pm
sora from .hack//sign is haseo from .hack//roots :o
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 14, 2008, 02:09:49 pm
Don't know if I said this already but, the voice actor for Rikku in FFX is the same voice actor for Timmy in The Fairly Oddparents, Tara Strong. She's also toe voice of Presea, Corinne, and one of the three sisters that make up the summon spirit of light in Tales of Symphonia.
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Post by: NightLotus on July 17, 2008, 04:33:23 pm
Tactics was created when someone misinterpreted one of the ideas that the creator of Bleach came up with!
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on July 17, 2008, 05:43:11 pm
Hardback copies of the Twilight series make perfect starter books for Zexion's lexicon.
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Post by: laurifer on July 24, 2008, 11:56:25 am
The Eagles charge six million dollars for one song for any private performance.

Second: the Rolling Stones (the most expensive they've charged was 7 mil for an hour-long set)

Third: Celine Dion at 6.5 mil

Fourth: Elton John at 4 mil

Fifth: Christina Aguilera at 3.6 mil

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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 25, 2008, 12:46:26 pm
The members of Dir En Grey don't like Marilyn Manson.
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Post by: tofutakeout on July 25, 2008, 01:18:22 pm
polar bear liver's are toxic.
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Post by: LittleKarasu on July 25, 2008, 01:59:13 pm
some lipsticks have fish scales in them
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Post by: ambergen87 on July 25, 2008, 02:51:23 pm
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 25, 2008, 07:36:41 pm
There is no universally agreed upon plural word for Platypus, scientists generally use "Platypuses" or simply "Platypus". But some people also say "Platypi" which is pseudo-Latin. The Greek plural would be "Platypodes".
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on July 25, 2008, 09:37:15 pm
A group of jellyfish is called a 'smack', a group of owls is called a 'parliament', and a group of crows is called a 'murder'.
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Post by: KogaRyu on July 26, 2008, 07:07:57 am
Distilled water does not conduct electricity.

Water, in its purity, does not conduct electricity. As distillation is a purifying process, the water produced from it is rather pure. As a result it does not conduct electricity.

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Post by: DancingTofu on July 28, 2008, 12:30:51 am
The term "salt" applies to all ionic compounds, not just NaCl.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 28, 2008, 12:51:50 am
Glass is not a true solid, it's somewhere between a solid and a liquid, also called an amorphous solid. If you look at windows to really old houses (100 years old or more I think) you can see that the bottom of the window is actually thicker than the top because it slowly flows downward. Assuming none of the windows have been replaced of course.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on July 28, 2008, 01:07:22 am
The turn-key apparatus in a tool used for laboratory titrations (That I cannot remember the name of for the life of me) is called a stopcock.
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Post by: DancingTofu on July 28, 2008, 01:10:25 am
They teach you most of the last 4 or 5 facts in 9th or 10th grade Chemistry.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on July 28, 2008, 01:15:25 am
If I still had my Chemistry textbook, I would start spouting college freshman-level Chemistry at you.

Disney only shades the way it does because they animate every single frame of every single movie by hand. They have no held frames whatsoever.
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Post by: DancingTofu on July 28, 2008, 01:22:42 am
Ever needed a 9V and had nothing but AA's?  That's fine.  You can actually just modify the plug and string 6 AA's together and you've got a 9 volt battery. (AA's are 1.5V)
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 28, 2008, 11:47:44 am
They teach you most of the last 4 or 5 facts in 9th or 10th grade Chemistry.
I never took Chemistry. BWAHAHAHAHA!! There is a family owned/run game store where I am. They sold me a 32 MB memory stick for my PSP for only $3.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on July 28, 2008, 05:14:40 pm
While Tomb Raider was first being created, the original name idea for Lara Croft was Lara Cruz.  They decided to go with Croft because it's a British name, and as the creation process went on, they wanted her to be as British as possible.
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Post by: megchan on July 28, 2008, 07:10:22 pm
The "tough on crime" policies that have lead to a devastating and ineffective "War on Drugs" started because conservatives saw that they could take advantage of racist southern governors that were becoming increasingly skeptical of the democratic party because they were starting to fight for civil rights.
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Post by: DancingTofu on July 28, 2008, 10:27:29 pm
They teach you most of the last 4 or 5 facts in 9th or 10th grade Chemistry.
I never took Chemistry. BWAHAHAHAHA!! There is a family owned/run game store where I am. They sold me a 32 MB memory stick for my PSP for only $3.
Random fact: UNPOSSIBLE.  The gold-plated contacts of the card are worth $4 alone.  Crazy steal.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 29, 2008, 01:38:33 pm
Random fact: These people aren't very good with pricing lol. They were once trying to sell a game that was no more than $20 new for $25 used.
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Post by: ambergen87 on July 29, 2008, 04:28:54 pm
The Little Mermaid was the last Disney movie that was hand drawn.
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Post by: Neko_Chan on July 29, 2008, 04:52:48 pm
A hemp plant produces 250% more fibers than a cotton plant of the same size.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on July 30, 2008, 08:24:51 am
The Little Mermaid was the last Disney movie that was hand drawn.

Slight word correction on that.  It was the last one that was 100% hand-drawn.  The last one that was done that had any handart was either Home On the Range or Brother Bear; I don't remember which one came last.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 30, 2008, 03:53:34 pm
The band Lynyrd Skynyrd was named after the band members' principal (or someone at their high school) named Leonard Skinner, who told them that they would never amount to anything because they had long hair.
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Post by: jaybug on July 30, 2008, 06:31:39 pm
Lynard Skynard was their P.E. teacher.

For dancing tofu, the type of valve used as a spigot is called a petcock, and fits into the bunghole of a barrel.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 30, 2008, 08:40:08 pm
A stopper for the bunghole is called a bung. Yes I realize it was obvious but I wanted to jump on the bungwagon.....oh and thanks for the clarification on the Lynyrd Skynyrd thing, I know a lot of random facts but the little details and stuff tend to get forgotten. I don't have the best memory but I usually remember the jist of everything....man I'm screwed in college lol.
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Post by: ambergen87 on July 30, 2008, 08:41:46 pm
More people die playing golf than any other sport.

90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation.

Oregon is the leading worldwide producer of hazelnuts and Christmas trees.
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Post by: xxxchihiroxxx on July 31, 2008, 11:03:29 am
oregon is actualy suposidly the home of big foot and people think the reason is because we have so many trees to hide him
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 31, 2008, 12:53:20 pm
More people die playing golf than any other sport.
I've never heard of anyone ever dying playing golf. Are you sure?

oregon is actualy suposidly the home of big foot and people think the reason is because we have so many trees to hide him
Not for long lol.

The voice actor for Bender in Futurama is the same voice actor for Wakka in FFX
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Post by: ambergen87 on July 31, 2008, 04:44:31 pm
You don't start growing knee caps until you're 2 years old.

About the golf thing, I heard it from a friend.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on July 31, 2008, 06:41:48 pm
Genesis fron Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core was modeled after Gackt, who also voiced Genesis in the Japanese version.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on August 01, 2008, 01:20:30 am
Who doesn't know that? XD

Names in Arabic can be as long as the person wants them to be, and the main repetitive points are stating family lineage. The very last part of one's name would be the name of where you came from.
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Post by: Sugarlat on August 01, 2008, 01:48:05 am
Jello is actually made with fat which can also sometimes contain meat.
JELLO IS NOT VEGETARIAN!
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on August 01, 2008, 04:00:55 am
the band Soundgarden got their name when the members saw a sculpture of that name that was on public display in Seattle when the band was forming.
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Post by: ambergen87 on August 01, 2008, 02:58:38 pm
Half of movies made in the U.S. each year are rated R.

Ironically, most the top grossing movies in the U.S. are rated G.
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Post by: megchan on August 01, 2008, 03:05:29 pm
The Little Mermaid was the last Disney movie that was hand drawn.

The Little Mermaid was the first Disney "Princess" movie since Sleeping Beauty and it was the beginning of the "Golden Age of Disney"
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 06, 2008, 08:55:45 am
Jello is actually made with fat which can also sometimes contain meat.
JELLO IS NOT VEGETARIAN!

It's also not kosher, because of the meat & fat source being pigs. (At least with some companies; there are some that are kosher that, from what I understand, don't have any meat at all, so vegetarians can eat it, too.  Again, from what I understand).
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Post by: shadow_shrine on August 06, 2008, 04:20:40 pm
[In the next five minutes]

~ 60 babies will be born in the U.S.

~ 244 babies will be born in China.

~ 351 babies will be born in India.

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10 to 14 jobs by age 38.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on August 10, 2008, 09:08:54 pm
The actual definition of an orgy is eight or more people in a group not wearing shoes.
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Post by: DemonSpawn on August 10, 2008, 09:23:00 pm
In Hawaii its legal to play on a busy freeway if you are over thirteen.
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Post by: DancingTofu on August 10, 2008, 11:57:51 pm
Jello is actually made with fat which can also sometimes contain meat.
JELLO IS NOT VEGETARIAN!

It's also not kosher, because of the meat & fat source being pigs. (At least with some companies; there are some that are kosher that, from what I understand, don't have any meat at all, so vegetarians can eat it, too.  Again, from what I understand).
Actually, Gelatin, the substantial component of most Jello products, is made by boiling bones and extracting marrow.  Traditionally, the hooves of farm animals were used for this purpose, but now, most companies use fish bones due to their growing availability in a culture that buys more and more boneless fish.

There are Gelatin-free gummy snacks, most of which use soy lecithin instead of gelatin.
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Post by: Daxe on August 13, 2008, 12:20:47 pm
A regular G36 is lighter than most replica's because the real versions body is made largely of carbon fiber.
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Post by: Kimiski on August 13, 2008, 11:16:09 pm
Narutards make up half of Kumoricon...

OMG T______T That just killed part of my soul
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Post by: Kamisan on August 14, 2008, 09:11:11 pm
The playboy mansion is going to retire after the Halloween party this year.
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Post by: Kimiski on August 15, 2008, 12:30:26 am
I could never do beading for a career even if I got payed a million a day T.T I hate it!
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Post by: Kimiski on August 15, 2008, 12:34:43 am
Hot glue hurts when it touches ur skin
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Post by: Kimiski on August 15, 2008, 12:38:25 am
 :D Those look coooool

Ha ha get it?
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Post by: Syd-chan on August 15, 2008, 12:41:00 am
XD I GOT IT. HA HA...Ha....haha....
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Post by: Kimiski on August 15, 2008, 12:41:55 am
Is correct  ;D ;D ;D tee hee
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Post by: Kimiski on August 15, 2008, 01:06:09 am
Channel 8 news is going to air a story in a few minutes after the Olympic award ceremony with the title. "Bad news for harry potter fans and the 6th movie..."
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Post by: Kamisan on August 15, 2008, 02:38:32 pm
The playboy mansion is going to retire after the Halloween party this year.

HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS?! THIS IS TERRIBLE NEWS!

I was listening to the radio station. :D
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Post by: Kimiski on August 15, 2008, 05:17:50 pm
I need food
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Post by: Satsukicosplayer on August 15, 2008, 09:57:04 pm
the delcoration of indapendince was writen on marijuana paper ^^
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Post by: Satsukicosplayer on August 16, 2008, 11:34:54 am
the delcoration of indapendince was writen on marijuana paper ^^

Or Hemp paper. It's not the marijuana drug at all. Just part of the plant.

oh my friend told me that. i didn't know for sure.
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Post by: Kotarik on August 16, 2008, 03:15:00 pm
Turkeys drown themselves.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on August 16, 2008, 04:59:02 pm
When hit by cars and still living, cats commit suicide by dragging themselves into the paths of oncoming cars.
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Post by: ambergen87 on August 17, 2008, 06:11:11 pm
Quentin Tarantino was the first person Miramax considered for the translation of the script of Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke).
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 17, 2008, 10:42:14 pm
- The "T" in Captain James T. Kirk stands for Tiberius.
- Kirk was "born" in Riverside, Iowa.
- Riverside is a small town of less than 1,000 residents (at least last I checked)that is in the Southeastern area of the Hawkeye State.
- The Buckeye State is the official nickname of Ohio.
- I answered that question while on "High Five."
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Post by: TheInsanePuck on August 20, 2008, 08:44:50 pm
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet
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Post by: ambergen87 on August 21, 2008, 09:08:02 am
Random presidential info! (election time is almost here)

Truman never went to collage.

Buchanan never married. Also Oregon became a state when he was president.

Reagan was divorced.

Nixon is the only president to resign.

Harrison was only in office 1 month. He died of pneumonia. The first president to die in office. (not of assassination) The Whig party died with him as well.

Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated and die in office.

Washington's painting of himself is the oldest object in the White House. It has survived 4 fires.

Kennedy was and still the youngest president elected into office. He was also the youngest to die.

John Adams was the first president to live in the White House. Before he left he wrote to his wife "Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof." When he died his last words were "Thomas Jefferson lives." Ironically Jefferson died that same day but a couple hours earlier.

Jefferson believed that education is the most important thing in the world, so he created The Library Of Congress.

Carter first said on his Inauguration Day "For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land." He was talking about Ford

One more, a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, "You lose."

That was a lot! I'm done for now.
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Post by: TheInsanePuck on August 21, 2008, 09:14:01 am
One more, a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, "You lose."


in point of fact it was a news reporter and yes there was a bet riding on it
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Post by: samalam on August 21, 2008, 03:18:52 pm
Koalas are not bears. They are not even placental mammals; they are marsupials. The giant panda, however, is a bear, while the red panda is closely related to raccoons.

and!

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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 28, 2008, 10:15:15 am
There will be a new Ranma 1/2 OVA coming out!  It'll be based on the short story from the manga series, "Insense of Spring Sleep."  The basic storyline is that Happosai uses an insense to put Akane to sleep, and she has weird dreams of her & Ranma while beating the snot out of people in the real world.  It's amusing.
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Post by: pieisexactlythree on August 28, 2008, 05:12:25 pm
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth, if you walk out along it you'll end up where you were. :)
Meg
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Post by: xxxchihiroxxx on August 28, 2008, 05:14:33 pm
gum balls suposedly last forever if not a very long time o.o
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Post by: Kimiski on August 29, 2008, 01:21:13 pm
There will be a new Ranma 1/2 OVA coming out!  It'll be based on the short story from the manga series, "Insense of Spring Sleep."  The basic storyline is that Happosai uses an insense to put Akane to sleep, and she has weird dreams of her & Ranma while beating the snot out of people in the real world.  It's amusing.

Begah! I still haven't finished watching the TV series T_T
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 13, 2008, 12:13:15 am
The central beam of a bolt of lightning is about as hot as the surface of the sun.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on September 29, 2008, 03:04:11 pm
A balanced prime number is a prime number that is the average of the closest prime number lower and greater than itself.  For example, the number 5.  The closest prime number lower than that is 3, and greater is 7.  3+7=10.  10/2=5.  5 is a balanced prime number.  The next one is 53.
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Post by: jaybug on October 02, 2008, 08:43:13 pm
Mackerel is the new money in prison! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122290720439096481.html?mod=yhoofront

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Post by: kurakoneko on October 06, 2008, 10:38:04 pm
It takes at least a week to make a jelly bean.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on October 06, 2008, 10:57:30 pm
The term "tinted" when applied to windows is inaccurate. To "tint" something is to add white to it to make it lighter. An accurate term would be "shaded" windows. Also, black is NOT a shade, no matter what anyone says, nor is it a color. Black is black, it's in it's own category. I heard this from my Visual Comm. teacher at the Art Institute so it's reliable ;)
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Post by: jaybug on October 07, 2008, 10:16:35 pm
In other words as my dad told me, black is the absence of all color. White the blending of all colors. Unless you are talking pigments, and brown is the blending of all colors.
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Post by: DemonSpawn on October 17, 2008, 10:41:34 pm
The longest a chicken lived with its head cut off was 12 years. It died because it choked on a corn kernel.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on October 18, 2008, 03:43:39 am
The longest a chicken lived with its head cut off was 12 years. It died because it choked on a corn kernel.
Somehow I doubt that.....I'm gonna need some proof for that one lol.

Slipknot was on Conan O'Brien, before they mellowed out :o
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Post by: MizzArianna on October 18, 2008, 11:31:03 am
I'm a nice person.
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Post by: melchizedek on December 08, 2008, 04:52:47 am
If peanuts are avoided during formative years, those children are 10x more likely to develop allergies.
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Post by: melchizedek on December 09, 2008, 05:21:09 am
Sigh, my search engine capability is still broken, so no google or yahoo because of nastyness.  Hope new drive gets here so I can re install windows.
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Post by: Tankou001 on December 09, 2008, 02:30:36 pm
Active Time Diation through space travel only occurs when traveling a aproximaely 70% the speed of like, and above ^_^
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 09, 2008, 02:37:40 pm
- Termites eat wood about twice as fast while listening to heavy metal music.
- The three starting positions in collegiate-style wrestling are Up, Down, and Neutral.
- The first video game with a secret was "Adventure" for the Atari.
- One of the Joker's fatalities in MK vs. DC was reduced in terms of its "violence" in the U. S. released version.  The original is, he shoots a toy gun with a BANG! flag, dances with laughter, then shoots the opponent in the head with a real gun.
- "Burrito" means "Little Donkey."
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Post by: jaybug on December 09, 2008, 07:44:33 pm
^^ Doesn't time dilation occur at any speed, but is only realistically noticeable upon reaching 70%C?
Alamogordo, site of the first A-bomb test means "Fat Cottonwood" in English.
Cranberries are one of the few fruits in the world that get less sweet as they ripen.
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Post by: DemonSpawn on December 09, 2008, 11:27:42 pm
Esposa = Spanish for married spouse
Esposas = spanish for hand cuffs.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 10, 2008, 04:53:14 pm
^ Barack Obama's middle Names are "Hussein Mohammed."
^ A couple of years ago, there was a WWE wrestler named Muhammed Hassan.  His career was brief, because he wanted to pursue an acting career.
^ Hassan wasn't really an Arab; he was Italian.
^ Pronouncing the word "Arab" as A Rab is considered a racial insult.
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Post by: jaybug on December 10, 2008, 05:01:22 pm
Beurre, the French word for butter, is the "verlan" of Arab. Verlan is a word backwards.

Butter in English comes from Arabic. So does Sheriff. And Algebra. Oh and so does Assassin, but that is derived from Hashish. The dope smoking hired killers of yore.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 10, 2008, 05:09:54 pm
^ Chessboards have 64 squares.
^ Voice actress Tiffany Grant has two cats; one is named Momiji and the other is Kusanagi.
^ These names are the main female and male characters in Blue Seed, the first TV series licenced by ADV.
^ Tiffany Grant didn't provide the voice for either character.
^ The person who DID provide the voice for Momiji (my avatar, by the way), was Amanda Wynn, who gave the two felines to Tiffany.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 13, 2008, 10:27:55 am
^ Some members of the Donner party continued to kill & eat people once they reached civilization.
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Post by: Prinz Eugen on December 13, 2008, 11:38:40 am
A cubic foot of steel weighs about 489 pounds.

Before computer animation, it took about 100,000 individual cels to make an average, feature-length Disney movie.

The largest breed of donkey is the Beaudette de Poitou, standing 18 hands.

Krazy Glue, Teflon, and auto safety glass were all discovered by accident while trying to create other materials.

Ivory soap ("it floats!") was created by accident when mullers took off for lunch and left the machine running 45min longer than the normal recipe.

High-pressure gas lubricants and rotation welding were discovered by accident when attempted sabotage by a worker unveiled a new principle instead. ("But you're still fired!")

Nylon was discovered during horseplay by a couple of lab technicians. ("Hey, look how LONG this goop can stretch!" "Cool! What is it, anyways?")


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Post by: Deviant Spider on December 13, 2008, 07:06:55 pm
Dogs truly do feel envy.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081209091945.htm
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Post by: GANG//GReeN on December 13, 2008, 07:35:18 pm
kelso, wa has the most stds in the country xD!
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 13, 2008, 08:11:30 pm
^ Washougal, WA holds the national records for pregnant students per student body in one student year.
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Post by: Sporty_Otaku on December 13, 2008, 08:53:25 pm
in street fighter 1 the only character that you could play as was ryu
sagat was the main villian
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Post by: Deviant Spider on December 13, 2008, 09:05:02 pm
The Exorcism of Emily Rose was baised off the true story of a german girl named Anneliese Michel who died in 1976
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 14, 2008, 12:05:55 am
A fieldgoal in football was originally worht five points.
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Post by: Sporty_Otaku on December 14, 2008, 12:13:27 am
the longest game of profootball ever took place between the dolphins and the chiefs with a final score of 27-24
the game was a full sixty minute game then a full fifteen minute overtime then seven minutes and forty seconds in a second overtime period
this was also the first playoff game that miami ever won
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 14, 2008, 12:27:52 am
- 1970 was the year the NFL merged with the AFL.
- It was then that players' names were put on the backs of the jerseys.
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Post by: Sporty_Otaku on December 14, 2008, 12:48:05 am
- 1970 was the year the NFL merged with the AFL.

its actually the other way around
afl merged with nfl
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Post by: jaybug on December 14, 2008, 03:19:13 pm
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough
sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to
create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt
blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
(Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig. )

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
(Don't try this at home,   maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the..?!)


The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the
length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people.
( If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)


A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
( I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 14, 2008, 03:25:55 pm
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

Not necessesarily.  There is a type of monkey called the bonobo that gives blowjobs.  The males will also sometimes fence with their, uh, organs.
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Post by: Coconutty93 on December 14, 2008, 03:26:43 pm
0.o

Btw, a woman's orgasm could last atleast an hour. Beats being a pig.
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Post by: jaybug on December 14, 2008, 04:02:01 pm
I cannot be held responsible for the contents of my email being 100% accurate! lol

Bonobos have sex for control. They do have sex outside of mating seasonality, but it is for the females to maintain control of the group.

Could or does, that is the question, eh? Muslim women who have been genitally mutilated don't have any. Oh, yeah, that's done for controlling too.

Sex and control, what a world.
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Post by: soundninja12 on December 14, 2008, 06:16:37 pm
In Paraguay you can duel someone legally, as long as you are both  registered as blood donors.
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Post by: Deviant Spider on December 16, 2008, 01:11:12 pm
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Bonobos have sex for control. They do have sex outside of mating seasonality, but it is for the females to maintain control of the group.

Not compleatly true. They also have sex out of boredom. (sounds kinda human there...) And not just Heterosexual sex as well. Anthropologists have linked the Bonobos sexuality with Humans more than any other species of animals. They are also helping us find a link between homosexuality and hetrosexuality in humans. And control isnt the primary gain outside of mating season as they do often partake in homosexual acts, most of the time it is to releive mild social conflicts but mostly tension. The bonobo sex drive is outrageous.

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Not necessesarily.  There is a type of monkey called the bonobo that gives blowjobs.  The males will also sometimes fence with their, uh, organs.

Ha ha ha. Im suprised that someone else knows this. Washougal, have you been taking Anthropology classes?  The female bonobos also have swolen genitals even when they arent fertile and they tend to rub up on other females as well. They are also an animal where age is not an issue. A newborn can be toyed with sexually by an adult and its normal. But a Really interesting fact on the issue is that while Chimpanzies have been observed raping their own kind durring mating season, Bonobos have NEVER been observed raping one another.

*You might be a geek if you know the complex sexual behaviours of the bonobo monkey in compairason to humans...*

*Anthropology is my passion, just out of school for a bit.*

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Post by: Blackstar on December 16, 2008, 01:20:57 pm
A snail can sleep for three years. 
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Post by: TanisNikana on December 16, 2008, 01:23:38 pm
Anti-virus programs are entirely unnecessary if you just keep your system updated and are cautious.
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Post by: NightLotus on December 16, 2008, 01:27:00 pm
Tanis is sick of all the stupid people who call up when he is working!
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Post by: Blackstar on December 16, 2008, 01:29:37 pm
I know that pocky has Rape Seed Oil in it
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Post by: Deviant Spider on December 16, 2008, 01:46:50 pm
Cave bats go into a hibernation state of tourpor in which their body temeperature is so low that Ice can form off their bodies and they can servive incased in ice for months.

*true story, My dad and I found bats in a cave when I was a kid covered in Ice and we though they had froze to death, untill the heat from our bodies, breath and flashlights caused them to start waking up and rock back and forth. We reasearched them when we got home. Yay adventure!*
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Post by: jaybug on December 16, 2008, 05:30:23 pm
Some hummingbirds do not fly south for the winter, but rely on the kindness of strangers. I saw hummingbirds today at the feeders I have out for them. I think I am feeding 3 or 4 of them, maybe more. I can't tell them apart.
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Post by: Sporty_Otaku on December 18, 2008, 06:02:05 pm
there are seventeen different types of penguins
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Post by: Bundyangel on December 21, 2008, 04:00:56 am
You blink on average 10 and a half times ber minute

Rhino's can have sex for 9 straight hours.

You cannot "smell" feces untill the molecules from it reach your taste buds.

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Post by: Sporty_Otaku on December 21, 2008, 09:37:37 am
I know that pocky has Rape Seed Oil in it

rapeseed oil is just another name for canola oil
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 21, 2008, 09:43:05 am
- It's not just spelled like the naughty sex crime, but it's also pronounced "rayp."
- (If I recall correctly) The name of the plant comes from the latin word for "turnip" because they're the rape plant is similar in appearance.
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Post by: Blackstar on December 21, 2008, 11:29:32 am
A pocky box Costume (with the nutritional content on the back) takes 12 hours to make
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Post by: StarryShay on December 21, 2008, 11:31:49 am
Personal Trainer: Cooking taught me how to make Sushi. <3
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Post by: Blackstar on December 21, 2008, 11:36:12 am
Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.
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Post by: StarryShay on December 21, 2008, 11:38:24 am
I had a dream that I didnt trick or treat on Halloween.
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Post by: Blackstar on December 21, 2008, 11:43:42 am
I did not cerebrate last halloween because I had to play in a football game against Sunset High school (we killed them) (I played for Jesuit High School)
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Post by: Deviant Spider on December 21, 2008, 12:42:55 pm
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Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.

I totally believe this! *Except for my work. We have 6 pregnant women who conceived in June or July. Odd....

Scientists may have discovered a "Hobbit-like" species of early man.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217124418.htm
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 21, 2008, 02:51:25 pm
A list of phobias:

Bald people- Peladophobia
The color yellow - Xanthophobia
Nosebleeds- Epistaxiophobia
An erect male-part - Medorthophobia
Everything- Panophobia
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Post by: jaybug on December 21, 2008, 03:30:35 pm
It takes radioactive Beta flour to cast titanium parts that do not have cracks.
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Post by: jaybug on December 22, 2008, 08:19:05 pm
Fresh from my email.

There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me.
What in the world do leaping lords, French hens,
swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won't come out
of the pear tree have to do with Christmas?


 

This week, I found out.

From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were
not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone
during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics.
It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning
plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Each
element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality
which the children could remember.


-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.


-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.



-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.

-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.

-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.

-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.

-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching,  Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.

-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.

-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness,  Faithfulness,

 Gentleness, and Self Control.

-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.

-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.

-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed.

So there is your history for today. This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas Carol...so pass it on if you wish.'

Merry (Twelve Days of) Christmas Everyone 
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 22, 2008, 09:41:43 pm
- Of the seven teams that have currently clinched a spot in this year's playoffs, four of them have never won a Super Bowl title (Tennessee Titans, Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers).
- Out of these four, only one of them has never been in the Super Bowl (Panthers lost SB38 to Patriots, Titans lost SB34 to Rams, Falcons lost SB33 to Broncos).
- Of the three previous SB winners, the Pittsburgh Steelers have won the most, 5 (9, 10, 13, 14, 40), followed by the New York Giants, 3 (21, 25, 42), then the Indianapolis Colts, 2 (5 as Baltimore Colts, 41).
- Each of these three teams have lost the SB once (PIT (30), NYG (35), IND as BAL (3)).
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Post by: YouDontKnowMe on December 22, 2008, 09:43:44 pm
Hair dryer method

    * locate the general area of the fruit flies and the nearest plug. Get a hair dryer.
    * Plug in the hair dryer, turn it on (preferably to full heat) and put the back end of the dryer near a hovering fly. It will be sucked in and fried by the hair dryer. This is fun and highly effective! Trying to blow at them with the hot air doesn't work well, but sucking them in like this does.

Lol I love this. The ridding of fruit flies.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on December 22, 2008, 09:49:59 pm
Fresh from my email.

There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me.
What in the world do leaping lords, French hens,
swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won't come out
of the pear tree have to do with Christmas?


 

This week, I found out.

From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were
not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone
during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics.
It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning
plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Each
element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality
which the children could remember.


-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.


-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.



-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.

-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.

-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.

-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.

-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching,  Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.

-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.

-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness,  Faithfulness,

 Gentleness, and Self Control.

-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.

-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.

-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed.

So there is your history for today. This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas Carol...so pass it on if you wish.'

Merry (Twelve Days of) Christmas Everyone 

Something to tie into that is a part of the Christmas tradition that primarily (and from what I understand only) applies to Catholics.

The twelve days of Christmas refers to the Catholic holiday of Epiphany, which is 12 days after Christmas.  According to Catholic tradition, it was twelve days after Jesus' birth that the Three Wise Men found him.

Another tie-in to that bit of info.
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Post by: jaybug on December 22, 2008, 10:18:57 pm
Quote
Something to tie into that is a part of the Christmas tradition that primarily (and from what I understand only) applies to Catholics.

The twelve days of Christmas refers to the Catholic holiday of Epiphany, which is 12 days after Christmas.  According to Catholic tradition, it was twelve days after Jesus' birth that the Three Wise Men found him.

Another tie-in to that bit of info.

The Eastern Orthodox church still holds Chrsitmas on the date of the Epiphany, Jan. 6. Or so I hope, as I don't take down my lights until then. Okay, okay I like the lights, especially when I get home. They are so much more cheerier, and don't we need cheeriness at this time of year?
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Post by: TanisNikana on December 22, 2008, 10:29:13 pm
Quote
Something to tie into that is a part of the Christmas tradition that primarily (and from what I understand only) applies to Catholics.

The twelve days of Christmas refers to the Catholic holiday of Epiphany, which is 12 days after Christmas.  According to Catholic tradition, it was twelve days after Jesus' birth that the Three Wise Men found him.

Another tie-in to that bit of info.

The Eastern Orthodox church still holds Chrsitmas on the date of the Epiphany, Jan. 6. Or so I hope, as I don't take down my lights until then. Okay, okay I like the lights, especially when I get home. They are so much more cheerier, and don't we need cheeriness at this time of year?
You take down your lights?
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Post by: Sporty_Otaku on December 23, 2008, 06:43:07 am
the word seppuku litterally means stomach cutting
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Post by: jaybug on December 24, 2008, 06:16:13 pm
A neighbor down the street has been doing that for a couple of years now. But mostly it looks like bars all over the roof. No sense of design, or art I guess.
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Post by: NightLotus on December 29, 2008, 08:08:44 pm
Fact: In five days I will stop being so depressed! ^^
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Post by: Blackstar on January 02, 2009, 01:42:05 am
Fact Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S.
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Post by: melchizedek on January 02, 2009, 07:30:31 am
Fact: In five days I will stop being so depressed! ^^
why for?
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Post by: Syd-chan on January 02, 2009, 07:59:20 am
Returning home, perhaps?
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Post by: jaybug on January 02, 2009, 09:03:24 am
She gets a Spam King, the naughty girl. She deserves a good spamking for what she did. Bad girl! lol

Fudge, I heard a good one on C-Span, but can I remember it before I give up? Nope.

Cal Tech made a name for itself at the Rose Bowl, even though it has never played there. They messed with one of the teams flip cards, and instead of that teams name being shown, they read "Cal Tech."
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Post by: Syd-chan on January 02, 2009, 09:05:00 am
XD Jaybug, you say the most awesome things. Seriously.
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Post by: Sporty_Otaku on January 02, 2009, 10:34:20 am
the work karaoke means empty orchestra

rhose island is the smallest state geographically but its official name is the longest name used on all state documents. its proper name is rhode island and providence plantations

isaac asimov is the only author to have a book in every dewey-decimal category

war and peace was written by leo tolstoy and took six years to write

super mario bros character mario first appeared in the originaly donkey kong. his original name was jumpman (very creative). his name was changed to honor mario segali the landlord of nintendo of america

antarctica has an area code which is 672

mary stuart became queen of scotland at the age of six days

wrigleys gum was the first product to have a barcode

nerd was first coined from the dr seuss book if i ran the zoo

in paraguay it is legal to duel but only if both duelists are registered blood donors

america has never losta war in which mules were used

the candy bar baby ruth was named after grover clevelands baby daughter ruth

-40 degrees c = -40 degrees f
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on January 02, 2009, 11:05:10 am
American car horns are in the tone of F.
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Post by: Sporty_Otaku on January 02, 2009, 11:26:10 am
the eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in the event of an emergency so that they can be used as airstrips

the first known contraceptive is dated back to around 2000 bc in which the egyptians used crocodile poop

1 in 5000 north atlantic lobsters are born bright blue
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Post by: jaybug on January 02, 2009, 12:20:07 pm
Eisenhower, the only president with a style of jacket named after him. And he did that when he was only a general! Yes, it was to show off his tight pants!, from the rear. Don't ask, don't tell. lol
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on January 04, 2009, 11:15:32 pm
On average men speak about 10,000 words a day
on average women speak about 25,000 words a day
your right hand can never touch your right elbow... unless you cut it off and do it that way
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on January 09, 2009, 11:51:08 pm
Boxing Day!

December 26th

This holiday has some good roots to it.

On the day of Christmas, churches in England would have special services, which would also have charity boxes.  Look at that.

On the next day, the churches would take that money and give it to the poor.
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Post by: jaybug on January 11, 2009, 06:38:44 pm
And here I thought it was the day to throw out all the boxes you got the day before. huh. Maybe nowadays they could parade around in their boxer shorts all day long. Kind of like the ride the subway without pants day that happened the other day. But everyone would go around in their boxers all day long, not just for the subway.
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Post by: YouDontKnowMe on January 11, 2009, 07:56:40 pm
I was born with a tail.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on January 13, 2009, 03:27:15 pm
No matter what happens in the NFL playoffs this weekend, we are guaranteed to have a team that has won it at least once (Baltimore has 1, Pittsburgh has 5) going against a team that has never won (Philadelphia failed 4 times, Arizona has never been in).
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Post by: jaybug on January 16, 2009, 12:42:22 pm
The Cardinals are technically the oldest team in the NFL.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on February 06, 2009, 08:29:41 pm
Wesley Crusher was in Star Trek: Nemesis; his name is mentioned in the credits, but the scenes with him were cut out (thank goodness).
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Post by: jaybug on February 08, 2009, 05:24:57 pm
The entire solar system is traveling at 12 miles per second towards the constellation Hercules.
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Post by: superjaz on February 08, 2009, 10:41:07 pm
I am the best cook my hunny knows yay me i rock
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Post by: soundninja12 on February 08, 2009, 10:44:15 pm
The entire solar system is traveling at 12 miles per second towards the constellation Hercules.

Poor Herc, hope we don't crush him...
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Post by: EveofAbyss on February 09, 2009, 11:44:28 pm
Repo! The Genetic Opera set a record for being the first film to feature both Paris Hilton and Sarah Brightman in the same scene, singing on the same song.
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Post by: jaybug on February 10, 2009, 07:45:05 pm
an average elephant makes enough methane in a day, to power a car 20 miles
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on February 10, 2009, 08:39:06 pm
- The people of Omaha eat more ice cream per person than any other American city.
- When the Separation of Church and State was originally created, it's purpose was to keep the State from controlling the Church.
- When President James Polk was 17, he had gall bladder surgery; his sedative was brandy.
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Post by: jaybug on February 11, 2009, 04:48:31 pm
Daniel Day Lewis won an Oscar for My Left Foot. But he hasn't done anything for My Right Foot, or for me in general in years!
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Post by: mangakaluna on February 11, 2009, 04:52:14 pm
it is possible to cut a pencil in half with a folded dollar bill (nothing added to it at all)
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Post by: Kallika on February 11, 2009, 04:56:55 pm
The cake is not a fake..
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Post by: Man of the Public on February 11, 2009, 05:09:14 pm
The man who wrote and compose the end credits to Portal (Still Alive) is Indie Folk singer Johnathan Coulten. Best known for his Thing a Week albums.
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Post by: jaybug on February 19, 2009, 09:46:56 pm
The name pickle may come from a corruption of the word Buekel, a Dutch fisherman welll known for his pickles.

Kosher means that garlic has been added, to pickles.

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Post by: TheInsanePuck on February 21, 2009, 05:43:35 pm
in some areas of australia men out number women 70 to 1

no wonder beer comes in huge cans down there O.O
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Post by: kit2kit on March 01, 2009, 08:09:56 pm
the reason railroads are the size they are is because they measured with two horses behinds and so everything that goes on the railroad is the size of 2 horses behinds
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Post by: soundninja12 on May 11, 2009, 06:04:56 pm
In the average life time a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

The number 172 can be found in the bushes, at the base of the Lincoln memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

A Neanderthals brain is bigger than yours.

That is all for now

(sorry I did so many, the thread was dead, so I was trying to re-spice it)
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Post by: Mentally Hilarious on May 11, 2009, 06:43:32 pm
This is an actual law somewhere in Oregon:
You cannot eat a doughnut and walk backwards on a city street.
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Post by: DemonSpawn on May 11, 2009, 11:13:11 pm
Its illegal in Delaware to sell people without a license.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 14, 2009, 11:32:20 am
Vending machines kill more people every year than shark attacks.
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Post by: princessmoon on May 14, 2009, 09:34:53 pm
Your brain is 80% water
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 14, 2009, 09:47:15 pm
Your entire body is 75% water. I think it's 75%...
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Post by: princessmoon on May 14, 2009, 09:53:54 pm
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.
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Post by: DancingTofu on May 16, 2009, 11:56:48 pm
The sentence, "Hey man can you pass me sum butta?" uses ever letter in the word "menopause". :O

At 60fps, a song scrolling at an adjusted speed of 392 bpm will seem to flicker sporatically on a DDR machine.
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Post by: jaybug on May 17, 2009, 05:42:39 pm
What happened to the quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog? Because when have foxes ever been brown?
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Post by: princessmoon on May 17, 2009, 11:11:57 pm
What happened to the quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog? Because when have foxes ever been brown?

in anime/manga they can be brown ^_~

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Post by: melchizedek on May 18, 2009, 02:32:45 am
12.9% of oregonians are unemployed
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Post by: princessmoon on May 18, 2009, 10:40:27 pm
An E. coli bacterium moving during chemotaxis is equivalent to a human going the speed of 40 mph. Wow, I learned this morning. I'm always asleep in that class. lol. :P

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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on May 19, 2009, 12:47:09 am
in anime/manga they can be brown ^_~
Yes but in anime/manga people can also fly and take 6+ gunshots before dying lol. Not the best comparison to RL.

Oh right....facts......early stages of the game Left 4 Dead featured a special infected called the Screamer. He was in a straightjacket and upon seeing the survivors would attempt to run off and if he escaped he would let out a loud scream, summoning the horde. His horde-summoning ability was later changed into the Boomer's vomit and bile attacks. Before that, the only thing the Boomer did was explode and do damage.
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Post by: MiriaRose on May 30, 2009, 09:08:24 pm
Emperor Caligula liked to dress up as Gods. And Godesses.
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Post by: Darknight2433 on May 30, 2009, 09:37:46 pm
People can leave your lives as abruptly as they came.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on May 30, 2009, 11:09:13 pm
Penguins can turn salt water into fresh water. I didn;t know this until just the other day, oddly enough.

In some parts of Mexico it is illegal to sell things on the street. So vendors will make tables and such that can be easily folded away and slung over the shoulder so as to run away from patrolling policemen that would otherwise catch them.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 03, 2009, 06:28:30 pm
- Most species of penguins don't live in Antarctica; the majority live in the area of the earth between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.
- The largest species of penguin is the Emperor and the smallest is the Little Blue.
- Danny DeVito played the Penguin in Batman Returns.
- While making the movie "Twins", Danny DeVito began smoking cigars because Arnold Schwarzenegger gave him a box of 'em.
- Along with "Twins", both actors were also in the movie "Junior."
- Arnold is the 38th Gov. of California.
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Post by: jaybug on June 03, 2009, 08:32:21 pm
black holes evaporate. Beats me how or where, I can only understand so much Stephen Hawking.
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Post by: Sakis01 on June 04, 2009, 08:20:46 am
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
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Post by: DancingTofu on June 07, 2009, 12:34:02 am
The original composition of the theme from Bubble Bobble is in the key of B flat major (Ionian I), although the pickups and ideal hand position for the song on a piano is that of F major.  The song might thus appear to an experienced musician to be in the key of F Major Mixolidian V, but is clearly in fact the B flat Lydian IV scale under further scrutiny.

Also, this is my new favourite emote: pῶq
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on June 07, 2009, 04:05:00 pm
The only part of that that made any sense to me was the part about the emote.....and that's a fact... :-\
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Post by: Sakis01 on June 07, 2009, 04:29:39 pm
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
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Post by: DemonSpawn on June 08, 2009, 04:41:10 pm
Every year, Kumoricon happens.
I know, crazy, right?!
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Post by: Mentally Hilarious on June 08, 2009, 09:24:47 pm
Our sun is middle aged.
Which means its having a midlife crisis.
NO MR. SUN! NOT TH CONVERTABLE!
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Post by: DemonSpawn on June 08, 2009, 11:24:52 pm
Our sun is middle aged.
Which means its having a midlife crisis.
NO MR. SUN! NOT TH CONVERTABLE!
You win, that made me lol.
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Post by: Mentally Hilarious on June 09, 2009, 04:09:50 pm
Our sun is middle aged.
Which means its having a midlife crisis.
NO MR. SUN! NOT TH CONVERTABLE!
You win, that made me lol.
Thanks. I told my Astronomy teacher that one. He lol'd in the middle of class.
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Post by: Romo on June 09, 2009, 04:40:07 pm
You can't lick your elbow.~
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Post by: DemonSpawn on June 09, 2009, 04:53:12 pm
You can't lick your elbow.~
Nope, but I tried. XP
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Post by: DancingTofu on June 09, 2009, 05:33:37 pm
You can't lick your elbow.~
I can.  You just have to be double-jointed in your shoulder and have a relatively long neck and tongue, or just dislocate your shoulder and spin it around in its socket.
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Post by: Mentally Hilarious on June 09, 2009, 09:27:16 pm
You can't lick your elbow.~
I can.  You just have to be double-jointed in your shoulder and have a relatively long neck and tongue, or just dislocate your shoulder and spin it around in its socket.
Not everyone is a freak!
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Post by: Blackstar on June 09, 2009, 11:51:39 pm
You can't lick your elbow.~
I can.  You just have to be double-jointed in your shoulder and have a relatively long neck and tongue, or just dislocate your shoulder and spin it around in its socket.
This is true. There was I girl I went to day care with like 6 years ago that could do it.
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Post by: The_Geek on June 10, 2009, 10:09:14 am
Muffins are, in fact, delicious.
DaVinci was fond of puns.
You could start cutting the forests where I live down right now, and wouldn't finish for ten years.
Einstein wasted most of his Nobel Prize money away on bad investments.
The word goth was originally Norse...? I believe....
When you bounce a basketball, scientifically, it does not touch the ground.
Death is one of the greatest fears of man.
Two times as many girls attempt suicide as guys.
Four times as many guys succeed in killing themselves.
Soy milk isn't always nasty.
There was never a "History of the World - Part two"
It is not a good idea to microwave gobstoppers.
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Post by: DemonSpawn on June 13, 2009, 11:34:22 pm
Not a good idea to microwave CDs either.
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Post by: The_Geek on June 14, 2009, 01:43:48 pm
However it is a GOOD idea to microwave poptarts in the package.
But never microwave another microwave.
Microwaving pingpong balls are ok though.
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Post by: MiriaRose on June 14, 2009, 01:54:46 pm
It's not a good idea to microwave a fork.

You might be transported back to early 20th century Germany. (if anyone gets that reference, I will doubt their sanity. Dx)
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Post by: The_Geek on June 14, 2009, 04:38:06 pm
you can eat garlic to ward off a cold.
(And I got that reference.)
Eggs explode when put on the stove for too long, same goes for a microwave.
There are people who don't have a cell phone.
4,8,15,16,23,42 added together does  not = 108, it equals a bunch of heiroglyphics that mean death. (Try getting that reference!)
Saying 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral.
cologne rhymes with alone.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on June 14, 2009, 05:05:46 pm
In Michigan it is Illegal to go whaling on a Saturday.
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Post by: jaybug on June 14, 2009, 09:34:31 pm
microwave a damp sponge, it's a good way to sterilize it.

Do not microwave a bar of soap. It may start a fire. As well as foam up the whole microwave. I saw it on Food Network.

Kool-Aid is also good for cleaning the verdigris off brass. As long as you don't mind the metal being the color of the Kool-Aid somewhat.
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Post by: soundninja12 on June 14, 2009, 09:46:24 pm
That's interesting...
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Post by: DancingTofu on June 14, 2009, 10:52:12 pm
The Avalon no longer has DanceManiaX...or any good rhythm games for that matter.
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Post by: Konan-ChanX3 on June 14, 2009, 11:03:05 pm
In Washington, beastiality[sp?] was legal untill a guy died after a drunken encounter with a horse that punctured his internal organs and bled internaly.
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Post by: DancingTofu on June 15, 2009, 12:25:03 am
Bestiality; you were close. :P

Strawberry Frooties are just Strawberry Starburst in a cylindrical form.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on June 15, 2009, 09:42:17 pm
Jared Leto, the lead singer for 30 Seconds to Mars, is also an actor. He was Vitaly Orlov in Lord of War and Hephaestius (sp?) in Alexander. He was also in Requiem for a Dream as Harry Goldfarb.
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Post by: Sakis01 on June 16, 2009, 05:37:52 pm
When pitched, the average Major League baseball rotates 15 times before being hit.
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Post by: Mentally Hilarious on June 16, 2009, 05:38:47 pm
Intelligence is not genetic.
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Post by: Blackstar on June 16, 2009, 07:18:22 pm
Jazzersizing is genetic
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Post by: Sakis01 on June 16, 2009, 07:57:09 pm
There's a quota of rat hairs in chocolate bars.
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Post by: Mentally Hilarious on June 16, 2009, 07:58:39 pm
No one is safe from flying death monkeys.
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Post by: Sakis01 on June 16, 2009, 09:41:29 pm
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.
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Post by: DancingTofu on June 17, 2009, 02:23:31 am
The Ross Island bridge is an easy place to get run over while riding a bicycle at 1am.
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Post by: dshwshr55 on June 17, 2009, 03:04:49 pm
A balsa wood "M" frame bridge can withstand the most pressure.
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Post by: Mentally Hilarious on June 17, 2009, 03:44:54 pm
Men can see shapes better than women.
Women can see color better than men.
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Post by: Konan-ChanX3 on June 17, 2009, 03:57:44 pm
All energy drinks containing Taurine is really just carbonated sugar, water and yes, as nasty as it seems, bull piss
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Post by: soundninja12 on June 17, 2009, 10:00:38 pm
I thought it was bull sperm?
hmmm....
I need to check my facts
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Post by: DancingTofu on June 18, 2009, 12:12:41 am
The drywall screws work just fine.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on June 18, 2009, 01:55:19 pm
All energy drinks containing Taurine is really just carbonated sugar, water and yes, as nasty as it seems, bull piss
It's actually an enzyme from the somach of a bull. NOBODY would ever get away with putting ANY kind of urine in a beverage.
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Post by: Mentally Hilarious on June 18, 2009, 02:03:42 pm
All energy drinks containing Taurine is really just carbonated sugar, water and yes, as nasty as it seems, bull piss
It's actually an enzyme from the somach of a bull. NOBODY would ever get away with putting ANY kind of urine in a beverage.
Thats what I was thinking but I was too lazy to look it up.
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Post by: kylite on June 18, 2009, 05:45:35 pm
Taurine is used during open heart surgery
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on June 18, 2009, 05:54:22 pm
The Nintendo 64 actually had/was going to have an attachment called the N64 Disk Drive, but as far as I know it was never released. Or at least not in America.
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Post by: jaybug on August 05, 2009, 08:19:48 pm
In "The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong" has so many facts, and correction of common misconceptions, I know a lot more random facts now! Too many to list. It's a lot of fun reading it, and I think you ought to go read it your self. See your local library for details.
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Post by: DemonSpawn on August 05, 2009, 10:12:14 pm
My random fact.
* = me.

C = loop.

*........C
Get it?
I'm outta the loop.
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Post by: soundninja12 on August 06, 2009, 08:35:33 am
Demonspawn is weird
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Post by: DemonSpawn on August 06, 2009, 11:16:05 am
Demonspawn is weird

Thank you!!!! <333
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Post by: soundninja12 on August 06, 2009, 12:42:37 pm
You're welcome :)
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Post by: The_Geek on August 06, 2009, 02:00:10 pm

Pie=Good
Homework doesn't = Pie.
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Post by: leonmasteries on August 06, 2009, 03:56:02 pm
Faeries have the capability of eating cars in less than a minute.
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Post by: sabata on August 06, 2009, 08:23:45 pm
if you blow up a balloon underwater, the pressure can come back at you and pop out your eye. there is a .00358 chance of that happening. also, the sky is blue because of unicorns. of course everyone knows that.
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Post by: leonmasteries on August 06, 2009, 08:25:47 pm
another interesting one is if you sneeze, and you hold open your eyelids, there's a chance your eyeball will pop right out of it's socket.
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Post by: DemonSpawn on August 06, 2009, 09:22:00 pm
Your eyeball is attached. O.o...
Isn't it?
Uh oh.
I sneeze too much.
Am I gunna lose my eyeball? D:
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Post by: leonmasteries on August 06, 2009, 09:54:12 pm
Your eyeball is attached. O.o...
Isn't it?
Uh oh.
I sneeze too much.
Am I gunna lose my eyeball? D:

it's attached, but with a certain amount of force of impact, and without eyelids, your eye has a decent probability of popping out. Which is why whenever you sneeze, your eyelids automatically close, because for some reason, sneezing causes a large amount of force. But if you have eyelids that can close, your fine.

Another fact, The reason pokemon can fit inside a pokeball is because the pokeball can turn the pokemon into energy, thus allowing the pokemon to reside in the pokeball without the need for air. The reason it's capable of doing this is because the pokemon has a certain cromizone that give's them these special powers and allows a large majority of them to evolve in a short amount of time. The pokeball is able to hoam in on this one cromozone, thus allowing it to be effective only to pokemon, and as it seem's, all pokemon has this same cromozone in their dna.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DancingTofu on August 06, 2009, 10:00:53 pm

Pie=Good
Homework doesn't = Pie.
YOU ARE A GENIUS. :O
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 07, 2009, 01:11:33 am
FINNALY THE TRUTH IS TOLD ABOUT THE POKEBALL. but i remember watching kids WB every saturday morning around chrishtmas, and there was a holiday sock who put ash in a pokeball. explain that!
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 07, 2009, 01:13:23 am
FINNALY THE TRUTH IS TOLD ABOUT THE POKEBALL. but i remember watching kids WB every saturday morning around chrishtmas, and there was a holiday sock who put ash in a pokeball. explain that!

it was either a dream, or an uber ball that was tweaked to include humans.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on August 07, 2009, 01:14:32 am
cool a pokeball that catches people
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: soundninja12 on August 07, 2009, 10:21:11 am
cool a pokeball that catches people
Someone must get me one of these.

I also heard somewhere that a sneeze is an 8th of an orgasm. Yeah, just had to put that out there.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 07, 2009, 04:31:42 pm
^ An 8th of an orgasm?  In what way?  Calorie usage?  I'm thinking not.

- Grizzley bears can run up to 25 mph.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 07, 2009, 05:11:20 pm
Home-bread turkey's will stare up in the sky with their mouth's open when it rains and just stare, thus drowning themselves.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 07, 2009, 06:00:28 pm
- Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey to be our national bird rather than the bald eagle.
- One of the primary reasons is because he believed that turkeys are smart (perhaps this applies to wild turkeys only).
- One of his main reasons for not liking the eagle was because he thought that they were merely scavengers.  (Apparantly, he never saw them near a river or lake).
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: dshwshr55 on August 07, 2009, 07:41:02 pm
It's illegal to walk with the flow of traffic when there's no sidewalk available.
I'm not kidding, I actually got pulled over at night one time for walking on the wrong side of the road! I thought that "law" was so absurd, I had to look it up. Cops have way too much time on their hands at night...
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 07, 2009, 08:03:01 pm
In Germany, it's illegal to deny the holocaust ever happened. (This is for the holocaust deniers out there that think it's a hoax. So pretty much, you can't say the holocaust didn't happen, otherwise you'll be thrown in prison)
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on August 08, 2009, 02:37:27 am
There is a shrimp called the Pistol Shrimp (I think that's what it's called) that can shoot a bubble from its claw at amazing speeds. It goes so fast that when it bursts, it exceeds the temperature of the sun for a (very small) fraction of a second and creates a sound somewhere in the neighborhood of 230 decibels! (you might want to read up on it to make sure exactly how it works, I forgot the details)

There is also another shrimp called the Mantis Claw Shrimp that can deliver a punch at over 120 mph! The punch travels so fast and lowers the pressure of the water surrounding the claw so much that it instantly boils the water around it. They have been known to break aquariums with their punches and really mess up peoples' carpets. Now that's what I call a FALCON PUNCH!

Shrimp are amazing.

I hit backspace at least 35 times typing this........I need to go to bed.......and I didn't make any of that up I promise.

EDIT: Added falcon punch comment, this post just didn't seem complete without it....
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 08, 2009, 05:04:10 pm
^ I've heard about that Mantis Claw Shrimp before.  I think it was when I was in school, now that I think about it...

- CYNTHIA MARTINEZ WILL BE AT KUMORICON '09!!!
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on August 08, 2009, 07:26:44 pm
3rd active ingredent in Moutain Dew is Consitraded Orange juice
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 08, 2009, 07:35:37 pm
Coke a Cola's original secret ingredient was a form of cocaine. That's why so many people liked it back then.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on August 09, 2009, 01:46:43 am
Consitraded Orange juice
Sorry, I can't help it, but it's "concentrated".

Oh right, fact time. People used to drink Dr. Pepper (and possibly other sodas) hot......eww......
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 10, 2009, 11:50:50 pm
it is inhumanly possible to eat 100 peeps in an hour. AND if you snort pepper, it looks like your high. my friend got hooked on pepper while i was camping. he stole 5 pepper shakers. and never was able to quit.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 11, 2009, 09:59:05 am
^ HAHAHAHAHA!!!

^^ Coffee was originally consumed as a stew.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DemonSpawn on August 11, 2009, 10:13:11 am
The average person only has to eat four pounds of sugar for it to kill them.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on August 11, 2009, 04:19:17 pm
nutmeg is an hallucinogen. and all mushrooms have detectable amounts of psilocybin (sic?)
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 11, 2009, 11:40:13 pm
the term "hacking" is thrown around too much these days. the true definition is along the lines of: taking less steps to achieve something.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DancingTofu on August 13, 2009, 08:29:35 am
Zack snores too loudly. :/
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 13, 2009, 09:42:13 pm
<  Ties taste delicious when consumed with your hands in such position
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on August 13, 2009, 09:46:31 pm
it takes more mucials to smile then it does to frown
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 13, 2009, 09:47:48 pm
it takes more mucials to smile then it does to frown

actually it take's less muscles to smile and more to frown... 40 some odd muscles to frown while only I think 17 to smile (I might be wrong on this)
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 13, 2009, 10:59:32 pm
it only takes 2 for smiling.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: TomtheFanboy on August 13, 2009, 11:00:10 pm
People have a very complicated explanation of frowning, most people don't use any muscles when they frown.

HOWEVER

It is a fact that if you used all of the pieces of stage that the Hilton has, we could make a 2 ft tall, 6 ft wide stage that was 304 ft long. More than twice the length of the Main Events room.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DancingTofu on August 14, 2009, 07:26:32 am
Sabata aspires to one day possess as mustache as nefarious as mine.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 14, 2009, 12:13:37 pm
ZOMG YOUR HIM?????
ALL HAIL DANCING TOFU!!!
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: princessmoon on August 14, 2009, 02:34:29 pm
It would take 41,910,000,000 stacked lego men (https://www.kumoricon.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg36.exs.cx%2Fimg36%2F7119%2Fman4zp.gif&hash=d20373a1ad4a49d0ba1acac973954f17598eeae5) to reach the moon from the earth.

Why did you tell me that, John? :3
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on August 14, 2009, 02:45:21 pm
There are enough nerves in the human body to reach from earth to the moon and back
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 15, 2009, 03:35:35 am
< Noms are best floating while eating a tie in such position
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on August 19, 2009, 11:26:44 pm
It takes 40ish muscles to frown, but it only takes one muscle to push "confirm" and cast Thundaga on whatever punk was talkin' trash in the first place. That's how I roll.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 12:30:36 am
you can save money on those weird plastic balloon like hat things. you know the ones with the rubber spikes. and people where them as hats? anyone? whatever. you can save money on them by buying an inflated one and popping the seal off.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on August 20, 2009, 12:33:52 am
It takes 40ish muscles to frown, but it only takes one muscle to push "confirm" and cast Thundaga on whatever punk was talkin' trash in the first place. That's how I roll.
haha thank you

on average a person will sleep a third of thier life
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 12:37:10 am
people say sharpie is hard to wash off. butt with a cool soap i made, it washes off in seconds. it just some normal hand soap, hand sanitizer, doggie soap, and some axe shower gel. mix it all up and it SHOULD be purple. if it is yellow or something it can burn your skin. lol.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on August 20, 2009, 12:39:04 am
^ did you do a lot of trial and error with this experiment???
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 12:41:08 am
yeah, it started out as shampoo with conditioner that worked as a shower gel (which is now availible. -.- stole my idea) but i had sharpie on my skin when i tried it out, and it went away quick. also, i forgot to add. you need bath salts. that made it all fun!
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DancingTofu on August 20, 2009, 07:11:15 am
It takes 40ish muscles to frown, but it only takes one muscle to push "confirm" and cast Thundaga on whatever punk was talkin' trash in the first place. That's how I roll.
Good man! :D


uh...random fact:
Terwilliger is QUITE A BIT LESS STEEP than Condor. :/
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 09:42:37 am
axe gel, spray and all that crap. in the commercials, girls swarm to guys wearing that stuff. but it really isn't true. in fact, most women HATE the smell of that god awful stuff. so fellow guys, it's gross.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Yasu Saru on August 20, 2009, 01:46:12 pm
That they found out that the crused number 6-6-6 isn't raly 6 but they read it wrong and it realy was 9. Watch out everyone LOL
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 01:53:35 pm
lol. there was this school project we had to do related to african names or something. you had to put what year, and month and day you were born in, and it would tell you what day of the week you were born on. so then i decided to enter 6 for everything, and the creepy thing was, it was the 6th day of the week.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Yasu Saru on August 20, 2009, 01:58:31 pm
LOL
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 02:01:37 pm
TIS TWUE
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 20, 2009, 02:17:56 pm
If Goku's shirt get's removed, he will automatically win.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on August 20, 2009, 02:19:56 pm
but he will still lose to chuck norris
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 20, 2009, 02:20:30 pm
and Chuck Norris Loses to Brock Samson
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 02:24:55 pm
and bruce lee
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 20, 2009, 02:26:07 pm
That is true, and both Bruce Lee and Brock Samson are even, so that's a tie.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 02:27:28 pm
unless they uncover super saiyen
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 20, 2009, 02:30:25 pm
oh god, if they become super sayan, the world end's, and so do six other universes all at once... Except Christopher Walkens is the only person in existence to know both their weaknesses.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 02:31:49 pm
here is a random fact. old godzilla was hopping around, tokyo city like a big playground. when suddenly batman burst from the shade, and hit godzilla with a bat grenade.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on August 20, 2009, 02:34:02 pm
world record for halo 3 campain was under 4 hours
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 02:37:38 pm
madgesdiq is a cool artist who i have met. and he loves my poetry...
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on August 20, 2009, 10:34:27 pm
axe gel, spray and all that crap. in the commercials, girls swarm to guys wearing that stuff. but it really isn't true. in fact, most women HATE the smell of that god awful stuff. so fellow guys, it's gross.
They only hate it if you use a whole can at once like most people do. Axe is like alcohol, use with extreme moderation.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 20, 2009, 11:14:25 pm
Axe is also a great way to start a fire... Just make sure not to throw the actual can in the fire, but if you do, run.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 20, 2009, 11:36:43 pm
axe gel, spray and all that crap. in the commercials, girls swarm to guys wearing that stuff. but it really isn't true. in fact, most women HATE the smell of that god awful stuff. so fellow guys, it's gross.
They only hate it if you use a whole can at once like most people do. Axe is like alcohol, use with extreme moderation.
axe IS alcohol. at least i think there is some in it. would explain the perfect flame thrower
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 21, 2009, 12:59:56 am
speaking of axe and other things that make you smell good, did you know they once put a warning label on underarm deodorant that warned you not to apply to eye's.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on August 21, 2009, 11:23:50 am
There is/was a ConAir blow dryer that said "Do not operate while asleep"
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 21, 2009, 12:21:17 pm
also, there are multiple contests that are on candy wrappers. a funny thing i read on one was: No purchase necessary, see inside for details. it's telling people to steal it. lol
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Blackstar on August 21, 2009, 03:24:52 pm
In Arizona it is sprinkling in OUR definition in ARIZONA they think it is pooring.
Also there is thunder 
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: TomtheFanboy on August 21, 2009, 03:47:16 pm
My Jolt has 5 out of 8 of the B vitamins.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DancingTofu on August 21, 2009, 04:00:45 pm
There is/was a ConAir blow dryer that said "Do not operate while asleep"
I have fallen asleep while blow-drying my hair before.  So relaxing...
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 21, 2009, 05:21:17 pm
my cosplay movie (if i can make it) is going to be the best. look it up in the cosplay section. and that is a random fact that I know. oh yeah, also
why purchase microsoft office, when you can get open office. it does the same thing, but 200 bucks cheaper.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DancingTofu on August 21, 2009, 05:38:45 pm
Compatibility is less universal.  That's why.  If you don't take care to save your files in .doc format (and make sure the formatting will transfer appropriate) you could wind up finding yourself royally screwed.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: PaperRoxas on August 22, 2009, 12:53:46 pm
Dunno if this one has been said (too lazy to read all the pages)

The longest word in the english language with the letter is alphabetical order is "Almost"
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Mitsukai Mizu Amaya on August 22, 2009, 12:57:48 pm
The only way to get gorilla glue off of carpet is to use acetone or thinner BEFORE it dries. Never use water!
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Animeman73 on August 22, 2009, 03:28:32 pm
Er, um...hello, this is Animeman73 putting in his 50 bits for the first time from somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Okay, a random fact hmmm? Ah I know, Did you know that blueberries have a naturally occurring chemcical in them that wards off the effects of Alzheimer's Disease. I hope this counts for something :-[.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: soundninja12 on August 23, 2009, 06:58:12 pm
Welcome ^.^ we're glad to have you.
Really? Woah, I've got to gets me some blue berries.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 23, 2009, 07:59:56 pm
zomg. i use my hands so much i get CTS (mostly typing, using a yoyo etc. etc.) i can't afford to get altimeters! but i hate blue berries. DANG IT. oh well, STOP, FACT TIME

if you find yourself to be stumbling  while walking out your door, it's your self conciousness telling you that it wants to stay inside and sleep. it has been proven due to people who stay up later then they normally do, versus people who get enough sleep. the ones who stayed up later stayed awake longer. (there is more to it, i just don't feel like telling it all....your on a computer, google it. GOSH)
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Darknight2433 on August 23, 2009, 09:03:59 pm
I farted.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: StarryShay on August 23, 2009, 09:04:58 pm
Oh, the best face I know, is that Megan is fail. :3
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Darknight2433 on August 23, 2009, 09:05:47 pm
This is not Megan. ;3 This is Jesus.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 23, 2009, 10:16:39 pm
jesus has the charectoristics of a ninja. he can walk on water, change water into wine (he switches it REALLY quickly) can heal people (ever see naruto?) and has a beard. and we all know ninja masters have beards
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Hidamari on August 23, 2009, 10:23:17 pm
A Hummingbird lays an egg th size of a pea

You can tell the difference between alligators and crocodiles by their teeth

The largest rodent is the Capibara

A centipede has 100 legs

I'm going to sleep now.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 23, 2009, 10:27:05 pm
it is recomended to get at least 7-9 hours of sleep everyday, while most of america only gets about 6-8.
also, if you take a quick 5 minute nap, you will actually wake up feeling more refreshed then a 2 hour nap
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DancingTofu on August 23, 2009, 10:27:49 pm
1 medium-sized (3lb) ostrich egg has the nutritional equivalence of about 2 dozen medium-sized chicken eggs, and the yolk is the largest single cell on earth.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: PaperRoxas on August 23, 2009, 10:31:09 pm
Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: The_Geek on August 23, 2009, 11:15:48 pm
This SHOULD have already been posted, but if it hasn't, here:
Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: PaperRoxas on August 23, 2009, 11:18:16 pm
The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald’s
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Darknight2433 on August 23, 2009, 11:23:30 pm
Fact: Shay doesn't have the IQ to tell between a post that Ari made and a post that I did.  :D
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: PaperRoxas on August 23, 2009, 11:30:55 pm
Oregon and New Jersey are the only states without self-serve gas stations
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 24, 2009, 03:45:44 pm
If you beat the Pope in a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, you are considered the Anti-Christ.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Roxas24 on August 24, 2009, 03:50:26 pm
an average octopus has 236 suckshins cups and each can hold 3lbs  :o
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Animeman73 on August 24, 2009, 09:12:15 pm
Here's one I think everyone will find useful. Did you know that brain freeze is actually caused when the nerves in the roof of the mouth are exposed to something super cold for an extended period (Like say that Slurpee, or Big Gulp you bought from 7/11 :D) The fix, rub your tongue against the roof of the mouth, this'll warm the nerves up and end that nasty headache known as brain freeze.

And with that Animeman73 will be off now see you around  ;D.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 24, 2009, 09:16:22 pm
another interesting one is if you put salt in your hand, than hold onto an icecube, it will normally cause a burning sensation... My friends like playing a game to see who can go longer without having to drop the cube.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: LtCommanderRichie on August 24, 2009, 09:23:06 pm
Ferrets attack more humans per year than grizzly bears do.

Jetfire, in the original Transformers G1 series, turned into a Valkyrie from the original Macross/Robotech.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: PaperRoxas on August 24, 2009, 11:08:37 pm
Eugene was the first city to have one-way streets
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: sabata on August 25, 2009, 02:36:01 am
you can send a text to your phone through an e-mail buy putting in 1 (or whatever country code thingy is yours) typing the phone number, and then entering the @XXXXX your carrier has. t mobile is @tmomail.net
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DancingTofu on August 25, 2009, 02:45:32 am
I was wondering what the tmobile address was.  This will be an important fact to know! :D

Matsuri Japan was the first DDR Song to use 32nd-note increments between notes.

Bag is often incorrectly cited as the slowest song on DDR Extreme.  Be In My Paradise is 2bpm slower, and Somewhere Over The Rainbow has a fairly noteworthy section that runs at 42bpm; more than 35% slower than Bag.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on August 25, 2009, 05:23:11 pm
You can drive over 2,000 miles in 30 hours. You just can't sleep much while doing it, or can you?
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 25, 2009, 05:36:20 pm
You can drive over 2,000 miles in 30 hours. You just can't sleep much while doing it, or can you?

You can sleep, you just either need to take turns, or get what truck drivers have that auto drives for them while they fall asleep (as in the simpsons)
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: soundninja12 on August 25, 2009, 05:37:02 pm
Oregon and New Jersey are the only states without self-serve gas stations

Good thing or bad thing?

You can drive over 2,000 miles in 30 hours. You just can't sleep much while doing it, or can you?
Unless you're riding, and not the driver.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Hidamari on August 25, 2009, 05:45:19 pm
Oregon and New Jersey are the only states without self-serve gas stations

Good thing or bad thing?



Very good thing! I used to live in California. we had to get out and pump our own gas >:( Now my mom and I can't stand it when we visit xD
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Xigbar on August 25, 2009, 05:55:11 pm
When you feel/are yawning/sneezing, rub your forehead. It'll stifle the yawn/sneeze. works 99% of the time
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: PaperRoxas on August 25, 2009, 08:54:39 pm
The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Xigbar on August 25, 2009, 08:55:43 pm
i thought a mosquito was a bug
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: PaperRoxas on August 25, 2009, 08:56:35 pm
That's in the animal kingdom technically

The Bible, the world’s best-selling book, is also the world’s most shoplifted book
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DancingTofu on August 25, 2009, 09:00:15 pm
I can prove to you without the use of any statistics that humans are responsible for the most human deaths worldwide.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on August 25, 2009, 10:25:58 pm
Mosquitoes kill more people than any other animal, combined.

Soylent Green is PEOPLE!
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: leonmasteries on August 25, 2009, 11:38:47 pm
Fluoride was created by Satin.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Wuntvor on August 25, 2009, 11:39:32 pm
RSVP is the acronym for "Respondez s'il vous plait".  This is French for "Respond if you please"  RSVP is a carry over from when French was the International Language.  We still use it today when we want a response from someone and we send them an invitation.  It is surprising how many people don't know what it actually means.  Another good one is SASE for Self Addressed Stamped Envelope.  So if I ask you to RSVP in a SASE. you will know what I mean now, right?   ;D

Who here knows that Goodbye is the abbreviated form of God be with ye?   :o  It's true.

The days of the week are; Sun day, Moon Day, Tyr's Day, Wodan's Day, Thor's Day, Freya Day, and Saturn Day.   :P  I believe Saturn replaced Loki when he fell out of favor.  I think it would be interesting to have a Lokiday.  Maybe it would have changed to Luckyday.  Everyone could use one of those.   ;D
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Post by: DancingTofu on August 26, 2009, 02:59:07 am
Sonday, Muesday, Tunesday, Whursday, Thriday, Fraturday, and Stunday are the terms I use to describe the periods of time after a day has passed (AKA after the end of the 24th hour) and before I have gone to sleep.  AKA right now it's Tunesday, August 25½, 2009.
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Post by: Yasu Saru on August 26, 2009, 10:57:24 pm
Shane Dawson was on TV
http://g4tv.com/videos/38221/Shane-Dawsons-Comedy-Sketches-on-YouTube/
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Post by: Animeman73 on August 27, 2009, 03:18:26 pm
Hey folks, Animeman73 here. Did you know, that mosquitos are most likely to go after someone who's just recently eaten a banana?
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Post by: DancingTofu on August 27, 2009, 05:40:49 pm
Technically, it's still Whursday.  Whursday is the Besday. :>
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Post by: StarryShay on August 27, 2009, 05:43:55 pm
Baking soda and vinegar makes splosion. C:
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Post by: Kimiski on August 27, 2009, 08:00:58 pm
Smashing your nosed on play equipment hurts.....

They really should have low clearance signs on those things! Jeez!!!  >:(
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Post by: jaybug on August 27, 2009, 08:05:57 pm
The largest Cabela's store is in Hamburg, Pa. It is over 250,000 square feet of show room.

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Post by: DancingTofu on August 28, 2009, 07:54:04 am
RARE DAY INDEED!

Today is Whriday!

It's what happens when Tofu doesn't sleep between Wednesday and Friday. :P
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Post by: Wuntvor on August 28, 2009, 10:05:10 am
Who here can tell me the origin of stat, The favorite word for all medical emergency teams everywhere.  I need a crash table, STAT!

Well, as far as I can figure, it is the abbreviated form of the latin word statim which means"immediately".  Sounds like a logical answer to me.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on August 28, 2009, 02:53:28 pm
Fluoride was created by Satin.
Like satin sheets? Or Satan?

CC, a unit of measurement in hospitals, stands for cubic centimeter. A cubic centimeter is another term for milliliter. So 50 CC's of Morphine is 50 milliliters of Morphine.
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Post by: leonmasteries on August 28, 2009, 02:55:30 pm
Fluoride was created by Satin.
Like satin sheets? Or Satan?

CC, a unit of measurement in hospitals, stands for cubic centimeter. A cubic centimeter is another term for milliliter. So 50 CC's of Morphine is 50 milliliters of Morphine.

I am really lacking on my spelling as of late, but it's Satan, thanks for correcting me.
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Post by: jaybug on August 28, 2009, 05:29:06 pm
Yeah, well, it was the Red Communists who wanted to put fluoride in our water. See the film Dr. Strangelove and see I'm right.
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Post by: Animeman73 on August 30, 2009, 10:00:58 pm
Did you know that the Big Ben is not the name of the Clocktower in London it's actually the name of the bells in the clock itself.  :)
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Post by: Romo on August 30, 2009, 10:03:42 pm
Right now we're trying to break a record. xD Yeah, that's my random fact.
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Post by: sabata on August 30, 2009, 10:04:16 pm
there is a guy on youtube who is giving away free lvl 50 mews. just have to contact him via AIM. his username is Exotahu4. and no, i won't get in trouble for posting it. it was all over a video on youtube.
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Post by: Kamisan on August 30, 2009, 10:11:24 pm
Gackt has his own vocaloid. Well based off him anyway.

Gakupo Kamui, pretty cute I think.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on August 30, 2009, 10:28:50 pm
The last two incarnations of Transformers (the Michael Bay movies and the Animated series) have had sets of Autobot twins, but they are only canonically established as twins in their own series time line. Outside of it they most certainly are not.

:'D though I do like Jetfire and Jetstorm.
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Post by: xRIxKUx on August 31, 2009, 12:53:38 am
The largest pancake had a diameter of 15 meters and approximately 2,000 calories
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Post by: leonmasteries on August 31, 2009, 03:19:48 am
As it seems, the worlds biggest egg is in washington.
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Post by: soundninja12 on August 31, 2009, 08:53:23 am
Teachers are getting students ready for jobs that do not exist yet.

Well that's fun.
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Post by: sabata on August 31, 2009, 09:50:55 am
in 3rd-5th grade. i was told that being able to write cursive was important. only to find out that typing became the new writing.

the most popular computer of all time was the commador 64. which was purchased the most ever in the history of computers. and i have an opportunity to get 2 of them for under 10 bucks now.
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Post by: leonmasteries on September 01, 2009, 07:30:06 pm
As I found out really recently, Twitards (these are worse than narutards) can get really violent. There was an incident in collage where a science teacher told a Twitard to put her twilight book away, so she through acidic chemicals in his face and said he hated Twilight, Uhm.... Now I'm scared of them.
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Post by: superjaz on September 01, 2009, 07:45:39 pm
thursday is my birthday
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Post by: sabata on September 01, 2009, 10:08:46 pm
^ happy birthday

I look FIIIIINE in red hair. HOORAY FOR HAIR DYE
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Post by: soundninja12 on September 01, 2009, 10:22:51 pm
Sabata is a narcissist. He thinks he's beautiful.

As I found out really recently, Twitards (these are worse than narutards) can get really violent. There was an incident in collage where a science teacher told a Twitard to put her twilight book away, so she through acidic chemicals in his face and said he hated Twilight, Uhm.... Now I'm scared of them.

We aren't all bad :D (Is an ex-twitard)
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Post by: leonmasteries on September 01, 2009, 10:29:21 pm
@ sound: well, I wasn't saying all of them were bad, It's just that I'm now afraid to voice my own opinion on the series do to those nut cases.

Not all Twilight fans are bad, just the insane ones that think Edward Cullens will marry them, and then get violent about it.
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Post by: sabata on September 02, 2009, 03:27:13 am
just because i'm sexy, and think that my hair is amazing, doesn't make me a..................yeah it does..........

The acer extensa 4420 was one of the more well known laptops that had a lot of hardware problems in under 4 months of it's original purchase. (i had one and it's motherboard got fried)
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Post by: pjsyndrome on September 02, 2009, 11:06:51 am
Contrary to popular belief, the Great Wall of China is not the only man made object on earth that is visible from space; in fact, the Great Wall is barely discernable, and only under perfect conditions. Low earth orbit(160-350 miles up) is the altitude that the space shuttle orbits at. At this "low" level of orbit, many man made objects are viewable to the naked eye, including airports, bridges, dams, and highways. The Wall is only 30 feet wide, and is of a similar color to its surroundings. The myth that "the Great Wall is the only man-made object visible from the moon" started in 1938 when the book "Second Book of Marvels, the Orient" was published, stating that "Astronomers say that the Great Wall is the only man-made thing on our planet visible to the human eye from the moon." Something that is almost invisible at 180 miles certainly isn't visible at 237,000 miles.
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Post by: HardstyleZombie on September 02, 2009, 11:08:02 am
this is reall a F--->B
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Post by: Animeman73 on September 02, 2009, 08:10:39 pm
At whatever workplace you have avoid toxic worker personalities like, the gossip. Because if you exchange gossip with them, next thing you know they'll be talking about you. So avoid the gossip if you want to not ruin your career.
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Post by: Darknight2433 on September 02, 2009, 08:25:57 pm
Essays = death
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Post by: jaybug on September 02, 2009, 08:28:24 pm
A chupacabra has been caught in Blanco, Texas.
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Post by: PaperRoxas on September 02, 2009, 11:56:58 pm
I know for a fact that I'm irritated 8D
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on September 03, 2009, 12:23:23 am
most of us have spent at least over 3 days on the forums lol i my self am at 5
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Post by: Dubaby on September 03, 2009, 12:25:01 am
most of us have spent at least over 3 days on the forums lol i my self am at 5

3 days 19 hours!!! =]
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on September 03, 2009, 12:27:31 am
most of us have spent at least over 3 days on the forums lol i my self am at 5

3 days 19 hours!!! =]
HAHA point proven
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Post by: PaperRoxas on September 03, 2009, 12:28:39 am
2 days, 16 hours and 7 minutes.
xP fail orz
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Post by: The_Geek on September 03, 2009, 12:29:35 am
4 days 18 hours 28 minutes
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Post by: Darknight2433 on September 03, 2009, 12:30:03 am
lol I'm not even going to post mine
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Post by: sabata on September 03, 2009, 12:30:44 am
there is this awesome store in clackamas. it is called unique imports. i got a deathnote, and a ring for my cosplay. YAYAYAYA
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Post by: PaperRoxas on September 03, 2009, 12:32:19 am
=w= Do they sell Yuna's summoning staff there?  I'm ready to give up on mine
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on September 03, 2009, 12:33:12 am
no they dont i was just there and i did not like there cosplay prop selection
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Post by: PaperRoxas on September 03, 2009, 12:36:11 am
>> really?  Is it bad?
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Post by: sabata on September 03, 2009, 12:36:28 am
SO..............it had some bleach stuff which was cool X3 and they also had an action figure of sasori! W007
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on September 03, 2009, 12:41:05 am
the store is cool just the cosplay props was not a fan of
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Post by: sabata on September 03, 2009, 12:44:16 am
yeah...............lots of sword which were cool. but not that good...........actually, i bought a ring there. very high quality. well, better then my foil and marble with sharpie on it ring
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Post by: PaperRoxas on September 03, 2009, 12:44:52 am
I'll have to check it out after the con...and after a couple weeks of working to get paychecks xD
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Post by: sabata on September 03, 2009, 12:47:21 am
it's actually really cheap there. the action figure was 3.99. and there was an ichigo action figure on sale for 10. and it's normally liike, 35
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Post by: PaperRoxas on September 03, 2009, 12:47:51 am
yea i got axel at sakuracon and it was like 35
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Post by: Animeman73 on September 03, 2009, 09:24:36 am
I found anifty little place over on NE Glisan here in Portland called Helen's Pacific Costumers where I rented a ninja costume for $50.00 for the weekend of Kumoricon.
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Post by: Wuntvor on September 03, 2009, 10:39:37 am
Here is a fact I know.  The last ten posts have been totally off topic.  If you want to talk about the stores and props, start another thread!
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Post by: NightLotus on September 03, 2009, 10:40:46 am
this is a fact and pertinent to the off topic-ness :D
The halloween warehouse (on canyon rd. I think) Is an awesome Place to get a bunch of useful con stuff ^^
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Post by: D-Chan on September 03, 2009, 11:06:18 am
Drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store for prescriptions while healthy folk can buy cigarettes up front.
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Post by: NightLotus on September 03, 2009, 11:12:00 am
In many stores Produce is on the left! ^^
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Post by: D-Chan on September 03, 2009, 11:20:07 am
Our hot dogs come in packages of 10 and hot dog buns in packages of 8
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Post by: NightLotus on September 03, 2009, 11:28:09 am
kittens like watching ceiling fans ^^
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Post by: D-Chan on September 03, 2009, 11:33:24 am
We have more plastic flamingos than real ones
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Post by: NightLotus on September 03, 2009, 11:35:32 am
When there is a super cold winter the following summer is usually hot and short
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Post by: D-Chan on September 03, 2009, 11:39:27 am
On average we eat 18 acres of pizza everyday
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Post by: NightLotus on September 03, 2009, 11:51:04 am
On average, making food costs 75% less than buying it.
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Post by: sabata on September 03, 2009, 01:04:13 pm
when your in 8th-12th grade, you can go to most art stores and get a student discount
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on September 03, 2009, 01:10:18 pm
After listening to Caramelldansen one can not be be in a bad mood... Trust me I have tried
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Post by: sabata on September 03, 2009, 01:26:28 pm
I have. i got mad cause my sister tied me up and put it on repeat

the rubix cube has over 10000 billion combonations
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on September 03, 2009, 01:28:04 pm
lies you loved it
we sleep about a third of our life away
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Post by: sabata on September 03, 2009, 01:32:32 pm
lol, that's been said already

skullcandy is actually a famous headphone company, and they are quite expensive, even though the products are horribly built
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on September 03, 2009, 01:36:43 pm
sorry haad no idea and skullcandy headphones are the ****
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Post by: Teddy_Bearxx on September 03, 2009, 02:05:17 pm
That Griff is 19 now becasue his birthday is 4(?) days before mine.
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Post by: wolfy2491 on September 03, 2009, 04:12:53 pm
After listening to Caramelldansen one can not be be in a bad mood... Trust me I have tried

Oh my god, so true. lol.


High School isn't as scary as movies make it. (no freshman fridays. lol. At least not at mine. >.>...)
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Post by: Teddy_Bearxx on September 03, 2009, 04:20:18 pm
Wolfy is my new cosplay buddy, !!!! =D
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Post by: wolfy2491 on September 03, 2009, 05:10:08 pm
XDDD Teddy is MY new cosplay buddy!!! lol.


(We should run around and "flirt" with people, like stated in the other posts)
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Post by: Teddy_Bearxx on September 03, 2009, 05:24:02 pm
Wolfy is a girl!

(Thats what Im doing, we should do It together in normal clothes!!)
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Post by: wolfy2491 on September 03, 2009, 05:33:05 pm
Teddy likes to flirt!!!


(Haha, yeah!!!)
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Post by: Teddy_Bearxx on September 03, 2009, 05:39:38 pm
Wolfy and I are going to flirt at con with eachother, random people and Catch is going to join us!

(YUSH!!!)
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Post by: sabata on September 03, 2009, 07:56:02 pm
skullcandy are the shiz, but often have wiring issue. i have 3 pairs of their headphones. (and also earbuds) and all three died of wiring. well, one of them got bitten in half by my cat. (another reason why i hate her) but yeah.
the nokia 5200 cell phone is one of the worst phones released in 2008. lots of power, signal, and sound issues have occured to people who own  them.  I had this phone and got all three occuring to it.

wow. here is another fact:
I kill electronics..............somehow. i have bad luck with them. all the bad stuff that can happen to them, happens
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Post by: wolfy2491 on September 03, 2009, 09:07:26 pm
Random fact: My 13 year old brother is almost as tall as me.>.< (Give him like...a week and he'll be there. Ya'll see him at Kcon. XP)
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on September 03, 2009, 09:21:01 pm
(no freshman fridays. lol. At least not at mine. >.>...)
Yeah that's because it's illegal. It's called hazing and every school I've ever been to will suspend you or expell you if you do it. So if anyone is just going into high school then don't worry :P
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Post by: D-Chan on September 03, 2009, 11:13:32 pm
Thank goodness for parasols for keeping us dry
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Post by: sabata on September 03, 2009, 11:33:29 pm
the coolest leaf ever, (which is freakin huge and growable in portland) is about the size of two 1st graders heads. if you take a couple of those leafs and a stick of bamboo, you can create an eco friendly umbrella, it is absolutly free, (except for getting the plants and knife to cut them with)
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Post by: Meganekko on September 11, 2009, 01:33:56 am
The reason people originally freaked out over bird flu was because it could mutate and get in pigs, which could give it to humans...

But the pigs one-upped those feathered freaks.
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Post by: Sakis01 on September 11, 2009, 03:57:44 am
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on September 14, 2009, 12:29:47 am
MSG can also be called "Hydrolyzed soy protein". In fact, any hydrolyzed protein is considered MSG. Also, if any package says "No MSG" or "No added MSG" then it's probably a lie. Look at the ingredients. If it says monosodium glutemate or has any kind of hydrolyzed protein in it, then it has MSG.

Also, Funyuns (sp?) and most, if not all flavors of Doritos have MSG. Not that I personally care, I love Funyuns and Doritos.
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Post by: Sakis01 on September 14, 2009, 06:55:35 am
Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line in The Terminator 'I'll be back' was originally scripted as 'I'll come back'.
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Post by: jaybug on September 15, 2009, 08:31:45 am
( hmmm, I thought MSG was a salt, and not a protein) Both come from soy beans.

Swine flu was supposed to have come to America back in 1974, so the US government had vaccine makers make a bunch to prepare the elderly for flu season, and the swine flu didn't show up, and the flu shots were completely useless. The flu that came that winter was completely different than predicted. oops.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Sakis01 on September 16, 2009, 02:14:13 am
Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
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Post by: soundninja12 on September 17, 2009, 10:29:22 am
And you know this how?
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Post by: Sakis01 on September 17, 2009, 05:53:09 pm
(Cause I make them eat it!!!! xD)

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
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Post by: superjaz on September 17, 2009, 07:15:39 pm
the proper way to get a nice crunch on fried somthing is dip in flour, then a beaten egg with a little water (or possibly some butter milk ) then bread crumbs  then fry away
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Post by: ChibiNinja13 on September 19, 2009, 09:28:05 pm
The flavor Bubble gum is a mix of cinnamon vanilla and mint
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Post by: PaperRoxas on September 19, 2009, 09:38:36 pm
The name for Oz in “The Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”
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Post by: sabata on September 20, 2009, 01:19:05 am
after you brush your teeth, if you rinse with a glass of water with a ton of salt in it. it will burn most of the missed plaque. but you should brush again after that. just to get rid of the salt which can corrode your teeth. it takes a lot longer, but the shine is pretty
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Post by: Blackstar on September 20, 2009, 01:52:29 pm
That buying chocolate out of Arizona vending machines is a bad idea. It is always melted
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on September 21, 2009, 03:50:15 am
If you play WoW, do not expect to get all the Brewfest achievements unless you have Wrath of the Lich King and are level 80. I was sadly disappointed when I found out I have to wait until next year to get the Brewmaster title and mounts. Unless I can manage to get a computer that can handle WotLK and get from level 65 to level 80 in a week and a half......I'm depressed.....
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Post by: sabata on September 21, 2009, 08:30:27 am
OMG, i forgot about brewfest! lemme go get my drinking cap and outfit!
there is 66 milligrams of caffeine in a 10 oz bottle of bawls.
there are (avg) 145 milligrams of caffeine in a 8 ounce cup of coffee (drip)

so in reality, the BAWLS "energy drink" actually has less then a 8 ounce cup of coffee.
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Post by: Animeman73 on September 21, 2009, 12:33:15 pm
Did you know that the early Egyptians were the ones who perfected the process by which beer is made today.
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Post by: sabata on September 21, 2009, 02:30:22 pm
bawls may be the greatest drink i have ever had. (not really. i don't like the taste. just the addictive part of it) but apparently, if you are sick, your parents won't let you drink it.....T.T
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Post by: Sakis01 on September 21, 2009, 06:00:13 pm
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
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Post by: jaybug on September 21, 2009, 07:19:39 pm
prison terms for rock cocaine are still harsher than for powder cocaine. Which just happens to be the seeming preferences of blacks and whites.

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Post by: soundninja12 on September 21, 2009, 07:21:28 pm
Interesting... all of these facts...
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on September 22, 2009, 01:14:21 pm
The Slinky was by naval engineer Richard James. He was trying to create a spring that could support and stabilize sensitive equipment aboard ship in rough seas. He accidentally knocked a spring off a shelf and it "walked" down the shelves and recoiled itself on the floor. He then thought, "I can make a toy out of this...." And the rest, as they say, is history.
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Post by: DancingTofu on September 23, 2009, 08:05:42 pm
In early stages of the Earth's existence, plants were dangerous parasites that expelled a dangerous gas, O2, which could cause otherwise harmless minerals and mineral compounds to enter explosive chemical reactions.
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Post by: jaybug on September 24, 2009, 06:32:04 pm
the moon smells like gunpowder

and lunar dust rapidly oxidizes in earth air

it sticks to everything too
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Post by: MiriaRose on September 24, 2009, 06:33:28 pm
There was metal in the 60s.

Hard to believe, huh?
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on September 24, 2009, 08:55:14 pm
A chunk of pure calcium (sodium does this as well) will explode when placed into water. I watched a video of a guy throwing a chunk of calcium into a pond and it shot straight up and made a sound as loud as a gunshot, came back down into the pond. It kept doing that until the calcium had dissolved. In fact, any mineral that belongs to the far left column of the periodic table will do this. They are known as the alkali metals and all react explosively to water. Waaay cooler than vinegar and baking soda, but also more expensive.
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Post by: DemonSpawn on September 24, 2009, 08:56:41 pm
I saw that video too!!
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Post by: Wuntvor on September 24, 2009, 11:06:20 pm
A chunk of pure calcium (sodium does this as well) will explode when placed into water. I watched a video of a guy throwing a chunk of calcium into a pond and it shot straight up and made a sound as loud as a gunshot, came back down into the pond. It kept doing that until the calcium had dissolved. In fact, any mineral that belongs to the far left column of the periodic table will do this. They are known as the alkali metals and all react explosively to water. Waaay cooler than vinegar and baking soda, but also more expensive.

Looks at his calcium pill and glass of water...  Puts the calcium pill back in the bottle and closes the cupboard.   ;D

Makes you wonder how your bones and the water in your body get along so well.
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Post by: Sakis01 on September 24, 2009, 11:33:03 pm
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on September 26, 2009, 05:39:05 pm
A chunk of pure calcium (sodium does this as well) will explode when placed into water. I watched a video of a guy throwing a chunk of calcium into a pond and it shot straight up and made a sound as loud as a gunshot, came back down into the pond. It kept doing that until the calcium had dissolved. In fact, any mineral that belongs to the far left column of the periodic table will do this. They are known as the alkali metals and all react explosively to water. Waaay cooler than vinegar and baking soda, but also more expensive.

Looks at his calcium pill and glass of water...  Puts the calcium pill back in the bottle and closes the cupboard.   ;D

Makes you wonder how your bones and the water in your body get along so well.
It's because they're not pure calcium. They have other compounds in them that prevent the reaction. At least I'm 99% sure that's why.

EDIT: I forgot my fact lol. Einstein never knew how to drive a car.
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Post by: Sakis01 on September 27, 2009, 03:03:31 am
The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
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Post by: jaybug on September 27, 2009, 07:39:52 pm
A chunk of pure calcium (sodium does this as well) will explode when placed into water. I watched a video of a guy throwing a chunk of calcium into a pond and it shot straight up and made a sound as loud as a gunshot, came back down into the pond. It kept doing that until the calcium had dissolved. In fact, any mineral that belongs to the far left column of the periodic table will do this. They are known as the alkali metals and all react explosively to water. Waaay cooler than vinegar and baking soda, but also more expensive.

Looks at his calcium pill and glass of water...  Puts the calcium pill back in the bottle and closes the cupboard.   ;D

Makes you wonder how your bones and the water in your body get along so well.


And what about clams? Their whole shell is calcium carbonate.

Cesium is the most explosive of the alkali metals. Two grams will blow up your bathtub.
Sodium will catch fire when exposed to water, hence that's why it is stored in oil, to keep the water out.

Go left and down for reactivity, and and up and right too, on the periodic table of elements.

Flourine is the most reactive element of all.

You cannot use iron in the fusion process. Any star that tries, goes nova.
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Post by: Sakis01 on September 27, 2009, 09:52:23 pm
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
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Post by: jaybug on September 28, 2009, 05:12:35 pm
My cat Lucy, is definite proof of that. sigh. I wish her awake hours didn't include my sleep hours. Because she needs so much love and attention then. sigh.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Sakis01 on September 28, 2009, 07:44:42 pm
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.
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Post by: jaybug on September 28, 2009, 08:23:42 pm
women are more likely to use a non-violent method of suicide.
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Post by: Sakis01 on September 28, 2009, 09:01:22 pm
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
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Post by: Vassa on September 28, 2009, 09:07:22 pm
Women are more likely to attempt suicide, men are more likely to commit.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on September 28, 2009, 10:14:23 pm
A chunk of pure calcium (sodium does this as well) will explode when placed into water. I watched a video of a guy throwing a chunk of calcium into a pond and it shot straight up and made a sound as loud as a gunshot, came back down into the pond. It kept doing that until the calcium had dissolved. In fact, any mineral that belongs to the far left column of the periodic table will do this. They are known as the alkali metals and all react explosively to water. Waaay cooler than vinegar and baking soda, but also more expensive.

Looks at his calcium pill and glass of water...  Puts the calcium pill back in the bottle and closes the cupboard.   ;D

Makes you wonder how your bones and the water in your body get along so well.


And what about clams? Their whole shell is calcium carbonate.

Cesium is the most explosive of the alkali metals. Two grams will blow up your bathtub.
Sodium will catch fire when exposed to water, hence that's why it is stored in oil, to keep the water out.

Go left and down for reactivity, and and up and right too, on the periodic table of elements.

Flourine is the most reactive element of all.

You cannot use iron in the fusion process. Any star that tries, goes nova.
Calcium carbonate is not pure calcium. It's bonded with carbon, hence "carbonate"
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Post by: Sakis01 on September 28, 2009, 10:16:39 pm
Gah enough with the physics! It's hurting my brain!!!!!!!!!

The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on September 28, 2009, 10:29:46 pm
It's chemistry silly :P

Cherry Chocolate Dr. Pepper is possibly the most disgusting soda I've ever had. It's right up there with.......Diet Dr. Pepper....
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Post by: jaybug on September 28, 2009, 10:30:49 pm
A chunk of pure calcium (sodium does this as well) will explode when placed into water. I watched a video of a guy throwing a chunk of calcium into a pond and it shot straight up and made a sound as loud as a gunshot, came back down into the pond. It kept doing that until the calcium had dissolved. In fact, any mineral that belongs to the far left column of the periodic table will do this. They are known as the alkali metals and all react explosively to water. Waaay cooler than vinegar and baking soda, but also more expensive.

Looks at his calcium pill and glass of water...  Puts the calcium pill back in the bottle and closes the cupboard.   ;D

Makes you wonder how your bones and the water in your body get along so well.

I'd like to go to Waco, Texas where they make 'real' Dr. Pepper, just the way it was originally invented.

Quote
Calcium carbonate is not pure calcium. It's bonded with carbon, hence "carbonate"

Just making sure Wuntvor knows that.

Imagine taking calcium carbide pills.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Sakis01 on September 28, 2009, 10:50:01 pm
Chemistry/Physics they're in the same category when I took my 1st science class in high school. :P

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
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Post by: Moriko Aikibo on September 28, 2009, 11:47:13 pm
In the language Tagalog or Fillipino, the word for he and she are the same: Siya, I think...There is no gender differentiation.
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Post by: soundninja12 on September 29, 2009, 03:31:24 pm
Women are more likely to attempt suicide, men are more likely to commit.

That's depressing...
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Post by: Sakis01 on September 29, 2009, 03:44:44 pm
Indeed. -_-;;;

Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.
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Post by: jaybug on September 29, 2009, 06:45:56 pm
The world's first university was founded in Great Zimbabwe. About 100 years before Oxford began.
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Post by: Cassiopeia on October 10, 2009, 01:47:35 am
There's no J Street in Washington D.C.
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on October 10, 2009, 05:45:46 am
San Diego California and Forest Grove Oregon both use trees as street names, in alphabetical order. Ash, Birch, Cedar, etc.
For "P" Forest Grove uses Ponderosa while SanDiego uses Palm.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on October 14, 2009, 10:11:55 pm
Eugene, uses the names of presidents for naming streets, but in no order that I can fathom.

I live on Honkers street. If you had turned right instead of left from 1st street, you would be on Honer street. Honkers to the left, Honer to the right. Idiots.
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Post by: NARUNIK on October 16, 2009, 08:21:22 pm
The puberty rode for me..is streight with fullthrottle..

Im 12 and im almost done with puberty..

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Post by: soundninja12 on October 18, 2009, 12:08:42 pm
The puberty rode for me..is streight with fullthrottle..

Im 12 and im almost done with puberty..



I call BS...
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Post by: NARUNIK on October 18, 2009, 01:14:44 pm
WOW...You ask the locker boys at school...They ill answer "THE HAIREST **** EVER!
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Post by: jaybug on October 19, 2009, 07:22:23 pm
Vexille, from the anime, is irl, a group of Swiss Gaurd a the Vatican.
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Post by: wolfy2491 on October 20, 2009, 07:05:36 am
Bernese Mountain Dogs don't freaking care what's around you. If they knock it over, they sit there and stare at it. Then look up at you like "What? I didn't do it? XP"

My stupid dog just knocked over my glass of water.
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Post by: Cyprus on October 22, 2009, 01:08:00 pm
Samantha Bond is the actress's name that has played miss Moneypenny in the bond movies for years.
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on October 24, 2009, 02:57:46 am
^^^ Awesome.

Fact: Home is where the hearthstone is.
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Post by: wolfy2491 on December 05, 2009, 06:51:09 am
Fact: The SATs suck.
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Post by: NARUNIK on December 05, 2009, 10:29:52 am
FACT: I AM WAY TO SEXY FOR MY BOX.
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Post by: superjaz on December 05, 2009, 06:06:15 pm
Fact, I am smart.
twice co-workers have told me things that I knew to be untrue but they believe it it even when I say its wrong, case in point

coworker, thought you could get aids from a mosquito (you can't)
another told me she would never eat angus beef because she thought it came from the cows butt.

I was like "yeah...um I think its a breed of cow..." her "no its a cut"
it is totaly a breed of cow, comes from scotland originaly
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Post by: dshwshr55 on December 05, 2009, 06:43:16 pm
Fact: Jack-In-The-Box brainwashes
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Post by: NARUNIK on December 08, 2009, 04:54:35 pm
FACT- THERE IS OVE 100 TRILLION AMOUNTS OF SPERM IN ONE EJACULATION.
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Post by: TanisNikana on December 08, 2009, 05:36:26 pm
FACT- THERE IS OVE 100 TRILLION AMOUNTS OF SPERM IN ONE EJACULATION.
RELATED FACT - SEX ED IS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS IN THE SEVENTH GRADE.
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Post by: NARUNIK on December 08, 2009, 05:38:39 pm
6th for me actually.. We had a change of things at our school.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: TanisNikana on December 08, 2009, 05:40:27 pm
Well now that you know, you mustn't tell anyone. Ever.

FACT:170% of Americans support Sarah Palin. (Source: Fox News)
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on December 08, 2009, 08:51:02 pm
FACT:170% of Americans support Sarah Palin. (Source: Fox News)

ROFL
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Post by: TanisNikana on December 09, 2009, 01:00:58 pm
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nutrition+in+one+cubic+lightyear+of+butter
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Post by: Wuntvor on December 10, 2009, 01:59:27 pm
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nutrition+in+one+cubic+lightyear+of+butter

A neat site TanisNikana, thanks for introducing me to it!   :o
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Post by: MiriaRose on December 10, 2009, 04:04:16 pm
FACT- THERE IS OVE 100 TRILLION AMOUNTS OF SPERM IN ONE EJACULATION.
RELATED FACT - SEX ED IS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS IN THE SEVENTH GRADE.
Girls began that in 4th grade, but boys didn't until 6th.

And that is a fact.
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Post by: princessmoon on December 10, 2009, 04:27:06 pm
Girls began that in 4th grade, but boys didn't until 6th.

And that is a fact.

LOL. That was funny ~~

"The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket."
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Post by: KHking on December 10, 2009, 06:08:08 pm
platypus lay eggs
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Post by: NARUNIK on December 10, 2009, 10:03:30 pm
FACT- THERE IS OVE 100 TRILLION AMOUNTS OF SPERM IN ONE EJACULATION.
RELATED FACT - SEX ED IS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS IN THE SEVENTH GRADE.
Girls began that in 4th grade, but boys didn't until 6th.

And that is a fact.
Woah...First thing I ever learned about this stuff..Or the time I was supposed to learn about it was in 4th grade..But in 4th all we learned about was H.I.V. This a fact.

Oh...and  Pie is good.- FACT...
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Post by: Wuntvor on December 11, 2009, 12:57:27 pm

"The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket."


I was watching Myth Busters the other day and they were trying to cook a turkey on a radar dish.  Makes me wonder if they actually put out enough to melt chocolate.  The one expert did state that the power used was much lower than a microwave.  It is possible that after finding the melted chocolate someone was smart enough to figure out that they were being cooked as well.   ;D


Oh...and  Pie is good.- FACT...


I have a really nice mud & cow pie combo for you to try.  YUM!  I agree MOST pie is good, but not all pie is good.  - FACT.   ;D

PS. - Pi gives me headaches when doing math.  Pie aren't squared it is round!   ::)
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on December 11, 2009, 01:22:13 pm
platypus lay eggs
And on top of this one (sence i did a research paper on this animal in 4th grade)
The male platypus is the only mammal that is poisonous
it has 15cm long stingers on its back legs 
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on December 11, 2009, 02:19:06 pm
Oh...and  Pie is good.- FACT...
I have a really nice mud & cow pie combo for you to try.  YUM!  I agree MOST pie is good, but not all pie is good.  - FACT.   ;D


Ahhhh.... but he didn't say "Pie tastes good."
A cow pie is good because it is in one spot as opposed to splattered thinly across a couple square yards.
Mud pie has too many definitions to get into right now.


The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, was published in French in 1869 and eventually became a silent film that would inspire the look of The Joker.
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Post by: TanisNikana on December 15, 2009, 01:14:13 pm
"The thing that boggles my mind is that a photon was emitted from the center of a star 13.5 billion years ago, and it traveled--through some miracle--unobstructed through its own galaxy, and past an unimaginable number of galaxies, stars, dust clouds, planets, nebulae, and somehow it landed in our galaxy. In our solar system. around our planet. and somehow that photon ended up not only hitting that tiny telescope, but hitting the exact spot of the light sensor that is only a few inches in area, and that was only pointed in that direction for a few moments." -enotzen
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Post by: DancingTofu on December 15, 2009, 08:54:41 pm
Despite occupying 40 minutes of your precious time, playing through the All Cup Tour on 50cc in Mario Kart Double Dash will not unlock any new content, unless you have everything unlocked, in which case it will change the start screen background image.
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Post by: jaybug on December 15, 2009, 10:28:47 pm
The very first thing cooked in a microwave was popcorn. I don't think they gave any to Arthur Clark.

It takes millions of years for a photon to reach its' way from the center of a star to space. It's just so darn think inside those ya know.

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Post by: kylite on December 16, 2009, 12:38:09 pm
it is wet outside
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Post by: princessmoon on December 16, 2009, 07:24:25 pm
kylite is correct.
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Post by: NARUNIK on December 18, 2009, 06:17:23 pm
Afro Samurai is to be watched with CAUTION. -FACT!
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Post by: jaybug on December 18, 2009, 06:31:08 pm
we get bonus points for choosing recycled materials for our new carpeting at work. I don't know who gives us the points, or if we can cash them in for stuff, or just makes some moron in management look good on paper. Prolly the latter.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Sakis01 on December 22, 2009, 02:47:00 am
Giving grapes to a dog is bad for their kidneys.
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Post by: NARUNIK on December 22, 2009, 11:56:21 am
Albus Dumbledore is gay.
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on December 27, 2009, 05:02:08 am
Every guy here wants to be Gaston.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: NARUNIK on December 27, 2009, 02:38:24 pm
^ That no fact.

I don't know who Gaston is- FACT.
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Post by: kit2kit on December 27, 2009, 03:17:35 pm
Everybody knows that the bird is the word.
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Post by: NARUNIK on December 27, 2009, 03:43:19 pm
^TRUE...
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Post by: jaybug on December 27, 2009, 08:40:34 pm
The  monster mash is a graveyard smash.
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Post by: superjaz on December 27, 2009, 09:59:03 pm
brains are here by known as skull puddin
acording to me my word is law

brains=skull puddin
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on December 27, 2009, 10:02:49 pm
Tetris has been proven to reduce the chances of Alzheimers
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Post by: GANG//GReeN on December 27, 2009, 10:34:17 pm
at the world pie eating competition, competetors are required to be tested for steroids :o
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: NARUNIK on December 27, 2009, 10:41:55 pm
I am awesome.
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Post by: kit2kit on December 27, 2009, 10:56:51 pm
The Element "Mercury" causes:
Loss of balance,
loss of sight,
slured speech,
memory loss,
anger,
low self esteem,
unable to learn,
loss of control
and many other things :' D
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Wuntvor on December 28, 2009, 10:30:08 am
Every guy here wants to be Gaston.

NOT ME!  GASTON WAS A TOP CLASS JERK! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBqt0a8sgWM)

^ That no fact.

I don't know who Gaston is- FACT.

The bad guy from Walt Disneys' Beauty and the Beast.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: NARUNIK on December 28, 2009, 11:55:15 am
Gaston wants to be me.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: PaperRoxas on December 30, 2009, 06:50:07 pm
highway 101 between cannon beach and seaside is supposedly haunted
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: NARUNIK on December 30, 2009, 09:33:43 pm
Ramen is good for your chakra..
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Post by: kittykat1blabla on January 20, 2010, 11:54:26 am
Drinking salt water can drive you crazy.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on January 20, 2010, 05:22:15 pm
The longest stretch of straight road in Oregon is on hwy 138 between Crater Lake and hwy 97. It is about 14 miles. Can't see much as the jack pines hide everything.
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Post by: The_Geek on January 20, 2010, 09:50:30 pm
Andrew Jackson got into in-between 13 and (Well a whole lot) of duels. One time when going against someone, he OFFERED them the first shot.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Dubaby on January 20, 2010, 10:39:35 pm
highway 101 between cannon beach and seaside is supposedly haunted

TRUE FACT!!! I used to live by Seaside and had to drive through that stretch a couple times a week. Creepy stuff goes down! I broke down out there for a few hours one night and all of us in the car were convinced we were going to die. lol XD

When I was really little I used to hear the story about 'Bandage Man' a lot, it's a local urban legend that used to scare me s***less.
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Post by: NARUNIK on January 20, 2010, 11:12:58 pm
Haiti had a earthquake.

( Crazy day for them. It must have been terrible."
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Post by: The Cow on January 21, 2010, 03:59:57 am
Haiti had a earthquake.

( Crazy day for them. It must have been terrible."
Had An* earthquake...

Portland has the largest quantity of strip clubs per ca-pita of any major city in the world.
also the most lesbians per ca-pita... connection? coincidence?...
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on January 21, 2010, 06:01:49 pm
Did I mention this? Oregon City has more bars and churches, per capita, than any other city in Oregon.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: The Cow on January 21, 2010, 07:20:00 pm
The Element "Mercury" causes:
Loss of balance,
loss of sight,
slured speech,
memory loss,
anger,
low self esteem,
unable to learn,
loss of control
and many other things :' D

also causes epic dictatorship and extreme narcissism.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: NightLotus on January 21, 2010, 07:41:30 pm
skipping breakfast can make your body go into starvation mode and actually make you store the fat from your next meal, thus gaining weight.

Also: Diet soda does the same thing, your body thinks you have calories from the fake sugar, and when you don't, it freaks out and hoards the energy from the next things you eat in fat!
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Post by: plus-one on January 21, 2010, 10:11:49 pm
If you're allergic to latex you can't touch poinsettia's because they are related to the latex family.
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Post by: Wuntvor on January 22, 2010, 02:34:30 pm
The longest stretch of straight road in Oregon is on hwy 138 between Crater Lake and hwy 97. It is about 14 miles. Can't see much as the jack pines hide everything.

Does that mean that Interstate 5 has no straight stretches over 14 miles long, or that Highways and freeways don't count as roads?  ???
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Post by: The Cow on January 23, 2010, 01:26:20 am
it does randomly shift pretty often, they may be strict on "straight"
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Post by: plus-one on January 23, 2010, 12:35:01 pm
My cat really really likes string cheese.
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Post by: FynХоук on January 23, 2010, 11:22:43 pm
If you want to murder people, chose random people and constantly change you MO... you last two or more episodes if you are really random and totally CrAzY  ::)
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Post by: kittykat1blabla on January 25, 2010, 10:31:56 am
-According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
-Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
-The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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Post by: jaybug on January 26, 2010, 08:33:07 pm
It is legal for a US company to use bribes in foreign countries, provided this is the only way they are able to do business in said foreign country. Yes, they must document the transactions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyrax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyrax) is related to the elephant. It's an hyrax. My bad, I got marmots and hyraxes mixed up. Had a time remembering hyrax, all I could remember was the x. As if they are Basque, yeah right.

Aiglet, from the French word for little needle.
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Post by: StarryShay on January 27, 2010, 08:10:24 am
Random fact:
I should go to class. :3
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on January 27, 2010, 03:01:24 pm
If you want to murder people, chose random people and constantly change you MO... you last two or more episodes if you are really random and totally CrAzY  ::)
Thanks i will take this to heart

Random fact: got this from stupidlaws.com Ice cream may not be eaten on Sundays. in oregon
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Post by: NARUNIK on January 27, 2010, 03:35:57 pm
Press score for MGS for Gameboy COLOR got a 9.8 and most companies gave it a 10.

Fact- FFXIII is the most anticipated game of this time.
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Post by: kittykat1blabla on January 27, 2010, 04:26:53 pm
Oysters can change from male to female many times in their life.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: NARUNIK on January 27, 2010, 09:23:21 pm
Fact- Jacky Chan is awesome. Naruto says believe it to that!
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Post by: Griff_the_dragoon on January 27, 2010, 10:01:21 pm
Coca-Cola was originally green
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on January 27, 2010, 10:18:32 pm
The only soda pop left from the first wave of health elixirs of the 1800's is Moxie, in an unchanged formula.
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Post by: jaqua on February 01, 2010, 05:19:50 pm
350 ft underwater: Maximum diving depth of a fully grown blue whale, the largest (known) animal on earth.
After 3,280 feet, light can no longer penetrate water.
5,280 feet is one mile.
13,120 feet underwater is called the Abyssal Zone. Water pressure around this level reaches around 11,000 pounds per square inch. Creatures such as the angler fish, the fangtooth, and the flashlight fish can survive at these depths.
20,000 feet underwater is called the Hadal Zone. Pressure levels reach around 16,000 psi, over 1,100 times the pressure on the surface. Although sparse, life exists at these levels.
31,000 feet is the average cruising altitude of the average commercial plane.
36,000 feet: the deepest known part of the ocean, located in Mariana's Trench. Only about ten percent of the ocean floor in this region has been mapped, so there are likely spots that are even deeper.



And that bit of knowledge gives me super heebie-jeebies.
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Post by: jaybug on February 01, 2010, 09:04:28 pm
Boogiepop made a Youtube animation in a 20 hour non-stop production marathon.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: DancingTofu on February 02, 2010, 05:12:04 am
If you want to murder people, chose random people and constantly change you MO... you last two or more episodes if you are really random and totally CrAzY  ::)
I can quote you on that one, right?

GoodWill does not know how much things are worth.  In the last few weeks, I've encountered a $5 HDMI cable ($25), a $10 power supply ($70), a $25 Pentium III Motherboard (worthless), a $20 set of speakers ($150), and a $20 Nintendo 64 ($15).  Where do they even get their prices? :P
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Post by: oslapedo on February 02, 2010, 06:49:27 am
I think $20 for a N64 is fair, some of the games still sell for that much.

But I can't imagine playing games on an N64 that DOESN'T have Pikachu on it <3

Guten Murmelteiler Tag alles!
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on February 02, 2010, 05:20:53 pm
I need to go to Goodwill and price items, so that I am taking the most deductions I can.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: NARUNIK on February 02, 2010, 05:23:11 pm
Im going to be a mangaka. Believe it.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: KHking on February 03, 2010, 08:51:06 pm
Putting someone's hand in warm water when they are asleep does not make them pee. Ask Mythbusters.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on February 03, 2010, 10:09:17 pm
Was the tester sober when he/she went to sleep?
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Post by: The Cow on February 06, 2010, 03:40:27 pm
yep, but if the tester was drunk there's always the possibility that loss of urinary control coincided with testing and that results changed due to that variable.. personally i think if the testee wasn't aware of what test was occuring before sleeping they would not necessarily resist the subconscious urge to urinate. just my hypothesis however.
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Post by: DancingTofu on February 07, 2010, 02:57:43 am
I think $20 for a N64 is fair, some of the games still sell for that much.

But I can't imagine playing games on an N64 that DOESN'T have Pikachu on it <3

Guten Murmelteiler Tag alles!
A working nintendo 64 for is easily worth $50 to me.  The thing is that supply and demand prices it at $15 used without A/V adapter sold as-is no returns...statistically speaking and referencing the particular system in question.

Thing is, I don't have money to spend on N64 games right now, otherwise I'd just go over to Game Trader (a much more reliable and much less corporate source) and get what I need there.
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Post by: GANG//GReeN on February 09, 2010, 05:19:48 pm
Harley Quinn (from batmans)
fiance (pre-joker) was named Guy Kopski
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Post by: jaybug on February 09, 2010, 08:46:47 pm
The odd green color to the UO millrace yesterday was NON-TOXIC! lol
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Post by: jaybug on February 09, 2010, 08:52:43 pm
Were is Old English for man. So a werewolf, is a man-wolf. A female werewolf would be a wyfwolf. wyf pronounced weef, means woman, not wife, but we got there anyway eh?

Speaking of were, weregilt is the blood price paid for killing a man. Man-gold. Kill anyone you liked, as long as you paid the price in gold.
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Post by: sabata on February 16, 2010, 11:06:45 pm
making a homemade screwdriver isn't as hard as you may think. it can be done just with a hammer, a cylindrical piece of metal, and a knife sharpener.
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Post by: jaybug on February 17, 2010, 03:41:15 pm
Vanadium, and heat treating are what make screwdrivers resist being damaged from use, and what makes them last over the years.

You could probably home forge vanadium chips into the iron with a bag or so of charcoal and a bellows.

Heat treatment of metals is still more of an art than a science. You can't just read a book and get it right every time. You have to be taught by another heat treater.
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Post by: melchizedek on February 20, 2010, 08:28:31 am
apparently cows can poop 100lbs a day
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Post by: jaybug on February 23, 2010, 04:22:30 pm
They're starting a cow poop facility to generate methane for power generation over in Boardman. They expect to expand soon. There's more poop unused. S***'S piling up. Maybe soon, they'll stop taking an extra $6 per month from my gas utility bill to pay for it.
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Post by: VampireFangs103 on February 23, 2010, 04:51:24 pm
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
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Post by: jaybug on February 23, 2010, 08:07:16 pm
That sounds like way too many verses to make for a good drinking song, unlike our own national anthem.
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Post by: StarryShay on February 28, 2010, 08:20:53 pm
Harley Quinn (from batmans)
fiance (pre-joker) was named Guy Kopski
GENIOUS.
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Post by: sabata on March 03, 2010, 08:35:14 pm
did you know that when you pop the flame guard off a lighter, you can use a pair of pliers to change the amount of butane that is shot out of the lighter? thus a bigger flame. if you turn it all the way though, it will explode in a ball of fire, trust me. i'm a doctor a fireman a..........redneck
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Post by: KHking on March 03, 2010, 08:51:03 pm
Lucky Star is based on a yaoi and aired for only 24 episodes.
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Post by: jaybug on March 04, 2010, 05:30:11 pm
urea is 46% nitrogen by weight. And was the first chemical synthesized. Helping to bring in the science of chemistry.
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Post by: TomtheFanboy on March 05, 2010, 03:49:53 pm
The most popular commercial toilet fixture in America is the Sloan Royal flush valve.
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Post by: jaybug on March 10, 2010, 04:59:33 pm
You are more radioactive than Uranium. It's the Carbon 14 that you eat every day that does it.
Source, Physics for Future Presidents by Prof. Muller.
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Post by: kylite on March 10, 2010, 09:49:52 pm
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
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Post by: jaybug on March 11, 2010, 06:22:34 pm
make that 11. lol starts with an A.
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Post by: kylite on March 12, 2010, 12:51:18 pm
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
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Post by: jaybug on March 14, 2010, 05:04:53 pm
Booze is radioactive!

In fact, if it isn't radioactive, it is considered to be unfit for human consumption.

You see, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms tests liquor for radioactivity. Alcohol made from petroleum and not grains, is not radioactive, but your good old "neutral grain spirits" are. It's that carbon 14 again.

If I remember right, it is 400 counts per minute that is the trigger number. Lower and the booze is bad, make you go blind kind of thing.

Yeah, don't drink it if it is over 9,000!
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Post by: jaybug on March 31, 2010, 04:38:02 pm
If you see red concrete underground, do not break into it. Red pigment is used in concrete that protects high voltage electrical power lines! We're talking thousands of volts here folks!
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Post by: Kimiski on March 31, 2010, 04:56:24 pm
They put braille on drive through bank machine thingys cause it's cheaper... O.o
Economics is werid.
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Post by: Vexenification on March 31, 2010, 06:30:55 pm
Calcium, in milk, was named after the latin word Calcis. Which means lime.
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Post by: jaybug on March 31, 2010, 10:28:29 pm
A lime tree, is not native to North America, but has been introduced. It is known here as either basswood, or linden. Gee, I have one in my yard. I hope it flowers this year, I love the smell. Yes, you do make basses with the wood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_tree
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: NARUNIK on March 31, 2010, 10:37:24 pm
1. NARUTO is awesome.

2. Everyone will believe it.
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Post by: PaperRoxas on April 04, 2010, 09:36:28 pm
Kiwis have more vitamin C then oranges
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Post by: NARUNIK on April 04, 2010, 11:12:54 pm
I AM A NINJA.
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Post by: kit2kit on April 05, 2010, 07:22:26 am
Its healthy to wear socks at night, because it regulates the temperature in your body.
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Post by: jaybug on April 05, 2010, 05:33:53 pm
Boogie Woogie music was music created to the rhythm of a train going down the tracks. Boogie Woogie was originally a slang term for the ties of the tracks. Lay down the boogie woogies.

Olives make stronger batteries than do lemons. You can get more electricity from one.
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Post by: kittykat1blabla on April 09, 2010, 12:00:06 am
NOTHING RHYMES WITH ORANGE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: jaybug on April 13, 2010, 08:46:23 pm
Nothing rhymes with silver! Or purple! And there are I think 7 words that don't rhyme.
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Post by: Wuntvor on April 14, 2010, 12:06:25 am
Nothing rhymes with silver! Or purple! And there are I think 7 words that don't rhyme.

To the best of my knowledge, there are over 70 words in the English language which do not rhyme with any other words! They are (in alphabetical order):

A - Almond, Angry, Angst, Anxious, Aspirin

B - Bachelor, Breadth, Bulb, Bulbous

C - Calumny, Cannabis, Caveat, Chaos, Chimney, Chocolate, Circus, Citrus, Citizen, Condom

D - Denizen, Depth, Diamond, Different

E - Eighth, Elbow, Else, Empty, Engine

F - Fifth, Film, Foible, Fugue

G - Galaxy, Glimpsed, Golf, Gulf

H - Hostage, Husband

I - Indubitably, Iron

J - Justice

K - ...

L - Laundry, Luggage

M - Monster, Month, Mulcts

N - Ninth, Neutron, Nostril

O - Obvious, Office, Olive, Orange

P - Pint, Pedant, Penguin, Pizza, Plankton, Plinth, Promise, Purple

Q - ...

R - Reptile

S - Sanction, Sandwich, Scalp, Shadow, Silver

T - Transfer, Twelfth

U - ...

V - Vacuum

W - Width, Wolf

X - ...

Y - ...

Z - ...


Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes) has even more of them.   ;D
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Post by: Saki-the-cat on April 14, 2010, 10:20:18 am
Nothing rhymes with silver! Or purple! And there are I think 7 words that don't rhyme.

To the best of my knowledge, there are over 70 words in the English language which do not rhyme with any other words! They are (in alphabetical order):

A - Almond, Angry, Angst, Anxious, Aspirin

B - Bachelor, Breadth, Bulb, Bulbous

C - Calumny, Cannabis, Caveat, Chaos, Chimney, Chocolate, Circus, Citrus, Citizen, Condom

D - Denizen, Depth, Diamond, Different

E - Eighth, Elbow, Else, Empty, Engine

F - Fifth, Film, Foible, Fugue

G - Galaxy, Glimpsed, Golf, Gulf

H - Hostage, Husband

I - Indubitably, Iron

J - Justice

K - ...

L - Laundry, Luggage

M - Monster, Month, Mulcts

N - Ninth, Neutron, Nostril

O - Obvious, Office, Olive, Orange

P - Pint, Pedant, Penguin, Pizza, Plankton, Plinth, Promise, Purple

Q - ...

R - Reptile

S - Sanction, Sandwich, Scalp, Shadow, Silver

T - Transfer, Twelfth

U - ...

V - Vacuum

W - Width, Wolf

X - ...

Y - ...

Z - ...


Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_without_rhymes) has even more of them.   ;D


Fifth rhymes with myth :'D



Oh, and Astro boy takes it up the *** in order to fill his tank.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on April 16, 2010, 05:08:35 am
Oh, and Astro boy takes it up the *** in order to fill his tank.

That's very inappropriate Saki.

EDIT: Censored language to avoid repeating it.
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Post by: Saki-the-cat on April 16, 2010, 01:53:19 pm
Oh, and Astro boy takes it up the *** in order to fill his tank.

That's very inappropriate Saki.

EDIT: Censored language to avoid repeating it.

Well it's true *shrug*
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on April 17, 2010, 06:32:13 am
Doesn't mean it's an appropriate thing to say in a public forum. You could have at least worded it in a less inappropriate way is all I'm saying. Kids could be on this forum.

Oh, and margarine is one molecule away from plastic. If you leave a tub of the stuff outside flies won't even give it a second glance because they can't tell the difference.
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Post by: jaybug on April 22, 2010, 09:17:52 pm
What you know as Looney Tunes theme, is named The Merry Go Round Broke Down written in 1937

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merry-Go-Round_Broke_Down
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Post by: ChibiGrace on April 23, 2010, 11:58:27 pm
Inhaling the scent of a mushroom farm too long can make you pass out.
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Post by: NARUNIK on April 24, 2010, 12:20:13 am
Kick-Ass is the best movie ever.
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Post by: cloud-9 on April 24, 2010, 12:23:56 am
water isnt poision 0-o
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Post by: ChibiGrace on April 24, 2010, 12:26:56 am
Finger nails are really just dead bone cells.
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Post by: Wuntvor on April 24, 2010, 07:13:57 pm
water isn't poison 0-o

Les poisson (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_french_word_for_fish) do swim in water though.  Hmmm... I just thought of The Little Mermaid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuuEDDyvzuE) for some reason   ;D
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Post by: LtCommanderRichie on April 25, 2010, 11:01:22 am
If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
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Post by: Killer_Tofu on April 25, 2010, 12:15:19 pm
the movies in KH Re:CoM are extractable!!!! w00t!!!!
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Post by: kurosakiichigo666 on April 29, 2010, 03:57:18 pm
Kick-Ass is the best movie ever.
Agreed, it blew my mind.
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Post by: soundninja12 on May 08, 2010, 05:50:09 pm
Bump
Because this thread mustn't die~
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Post by: KHking on May 10, 2010, 08:22:21 pm
Rolling Stone magazine has been out for over thirty years.
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Post by: Wuntvor on May 11, 2010, 12:31:38 am
The World's Columbian Exposition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exposition) — also known as The Chicago World's Fair — was a World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

The exposition covered more than 600 acres (2.4 km2), featuring nearly 200 new buildings of classical architecture, canals and lagoons, and people and cultures from around the world. Over 27 million people (equivalent to about half the U.S. population of 60 million) attended the exposition during its six-month run.

Notable firsts at the fair

Sounds like it was a pretty big deal huh?  Wonder why I never heard of it in school. (http://pinkyshow.org/archives/episodes/060330/060330_1893_columbianexpo.html)   :o
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Post by: KHking on May 11, 2010, 05:36:53 pm
Cutting hair does not influence its growth
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Post by: ChibiGrace on May 11, 2010, 06:19:31 pm
The crossbow was actually invented in Imperial China.
Despite what Mel Gibson leads us to believe. >.>
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Post by: Animeman73 on May 30, 2010, 09:02:16 am
WWE superstar John Cena is an anime fan. His favorite movie is, Fist of the North star.
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Post by: LadyYunaBraska on May 30, 2010, 06:44:19 pm
At exactly 06 minutes and 07 seconds after 5 o'clock on August 9th of this year it will be 05:06:07 08/09/10. This will not happen again until the year 3010.
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Post by: NARUNIK on May 30, 2010, 07:29:53 pm
FACT:    Blu ray FF VII AC COMPLETE is WAY BETTER then the normal one. Normal one sucks compared to the COMPLETE version.
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Post by: KHking on May 30, 2010, 08:24:51 pm
^That is an opinion, not a fact.
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Post by: NARUNIK on May 30, 2010, 08:26:06 pm
FACT: THATS THE POINT.
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Post by: KHking on May 30, 2010, 08:28:56 pm
Um...okay...

Fact: If all of China's residents stood on a chair and then jumped off, they would knock the Earth out of orbit. I am not kidding.
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Post by: LadyYunaBraska on May 30, 2010, 09:29:52 pm
Fact: The intro to "Enter Sandman" is playing in perfect time with KHking's avatar picture on my computer.
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Post by: KHking on May 30, 2010, 10:29:43 pm
^Really? Cool!
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
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Post by: Wuntvor on May 31, 2010, 08:17:20 am
At exactly 06 minutes and 07 seconds after 5 o'clock on August 9th of this year it will be 05:06:07 08/09/10. This will not happen again until the year 3010.

At exactly 07 minutes and 08 seconds after 6 o'clock on September 10th of next year it will be 06:07:08 09/10/11. This will not happen again until the year 2111.   :P 

PS: Umm.. actually it will happen again in 12 hours if you did it in the morning the first time.  You don't have to wait a thousand years either, just a hundred.   ;D

Kind of sorry I didn't know about 01:02:03 04/05/06.  I would get a screen shot of my desktop clock or something.  Suppose I could reset it.  :-\
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Post by: KHking on May 31, 2010, 11:19:29 am
The Blair Witch Project is set in a real town.
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Post by: Vysh on May 31, 2010, 11:44:41 am
FACT: 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney animated features in which both the parents are present and don't die throughout the movie.

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Post by: DemonSpawn on May 31, 2010, 11:52:16 am
Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on May 31, 2010, 12:17:45 pm
The Jerry Springer show originally started off as a respectable talk show before it became the freak show that it is now.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Wuntvor on May 31, 2010, 02:11:10 pm
FACT: 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney animated features in which both the parents are present and don't die throughout the movie.

Umm...

I am having trouble defining what you mean by "present".  Do you mean that they appear in the movie, or that the movie takes place with the main character spending all their time in the presence of their parents.  If the later than I would argue that they spent almost no time with their parents in Peter Pan, they are all in Neverland, and that the puppies are all stolen from their parents and spend weeks away before Pongo finds and rescues them in 101 Dalmations.

Sleeping Beauty - Aurora's parents are still alive at the end.  She is separated from them to protect her, but they are together in the end. 

Mulan - Mulan's  parents are still alive at the end as well.  She leaves to go to war, but then Wendy, John, and Michael all leave to go to Neverland and you say their parents are present so...

Hercules - Hercules is stolen from his parents, but returns to them at the end, and both of his adoptive parents are still alive at the end as well.

Lady and the Tramp - This would depend on if you consider Jim Dear and Darling as Lady's parents or her owners.  They do have a child and are parents at the end of the movie.   :-\
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Post by: jaybug on May 31, 2010, 08:40:53 pm
Mickey Mouse divorced Minnie Mouse on the grounds of infidelity. She's effin' Goofy.

Pinnochio didn't lose Gepeto.

And though Mowgli was orphaned, he was raised by his two fathers, Baloo and Bagheera. That oughtta be a best seller in Pakistan, Mowgli Has Two Fathers.
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Post by: Saki-the-cat on June 01, 2010, 05:37:18 pm
(Sence we're getting into Disney...)

In the haunted mantion attraction in Disneyworld, people (without any of the staff knowing) will sometimes put ashes from a dead relative on the floor of said attraction. They accually have someone who goes out there every once in a wile to clean up the ashes off the floor, not wanting anyone to get sick from them.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 06, 2010, 09:22:59 pm
Mickey Mouse divorced Minnie Mouse on the grounds of infidelity. She's effin' Goofy.

Pinnochio didn't lose Gepeto.

And though Mowgli was orphaned, he was raised by his two fathers, Baloo and Bagheera. That oughtta be a best seller in Pakistan, Mowgli Has Two Fathers.

Actually, he was raised by wolves.  Bagheera was like their next door neighbor and, in the Disney adaptation, Baloo doesn't even come into the picture until Mowgli is a kid, at least, so they're like buddies.
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Post by: jaybug on June 12, 2010, 05:49:52 pm
And that all like happens within th efirst 15 minutes of the movie. Gimme a break I haven't seen it since it first came out back in the 60s. Yeah, over 40 years ago.
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Post by: jaybug on June 24, 2010, 07:55:58 pm
That woman, Ms. Lewinsky attended Lewis and Clark college in Portland.
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Post by: KHking on June 24, 2010, 09:59:24 pm
Anothony Hopkins was in Silence of the Lambs for less than twenty minutes, and he won an oscar for his performance.
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Post by: jaybug on June 24, 2010, 10:03:30 pm
But you felt his "presence" every moment of those 20 minutes! Lousy movie to take on a first date. srsly! I thought he deserved it, for that year.

So how long was Jack Nicholson on in As Good As It Gets?
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on July 09, 2010, 08:51:37 pm
The very non-Canadian-based hockey team to participate in the Stanley Cup finals was the Portland Rosebuds, during the 1915-16 season; they lost to the Montreal Canadiens, 3 games to 2.

The following year, the Seattle Metropolitans became the first non-Canadian team to WIN the Stanley Cup, defeating the defending champs 3-1.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on July 25, 2010, 10:43:30 pm
Super Bowl XV (15) was the first Super Bowl that was won by a wild-card team.  This team, the Oakland Raiders, was tied 11-5 with the team that won the division title, the San Diego Chargers.  (btw The Seattle Seahawks were last in the division at 4-12).
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Post by: legoman60 on July 31, 2010, 02:10:45 pm
The beloved Nintendo Character Mario was named after Nintendo of America's (NoA's) landlord Mario Segale.
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Post by: thesirensings on July 31, 2010, 02:49:12 pm
The Spotted Hyena gives birth through the clitoris.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 03, 2010, 09:16:45 am
When the Republic of Kazakhstan gained independence, its capital was Almaty.  The capital relocated to Astana in 1997.
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Post by: princessmoon on August 08, 2010, 01:31:21 pm
A friend said to me: "There are only four words in the English language that end in -dous. Those include: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous."

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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 08, 2010, 04:32:10 pm
The verb "cleave" is the only word in the English langauge that means two things of opposite meaning.  It can refer to the act of clinging, adhering, or sticking.  It can also refer to the act of splitting, cutting, or separating.
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Post by: agpgirl on August 16, 2010, 03:24:59 pm
When you bite or burn your tongue it takes 3 days for it to heal.
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Post by: killblazer on August 16, 2010, 03:55:34 pm
You can burn 2-5 calories a minute by kissing
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 17, 2010, 10:14:39 am
^ That's it?  :-*

WWE Superstar The Great Khali was a former power lifter who won the Mr. India title in 1995 and 1996, and was an officer in the Punjab state police.
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Post by: Animeman73 on May 01, 2011, 03:32:00 pm
Did you know that the Siamese cat is actually Asian in origin?

It''s true! Siamese cats originated in the Kingdom of Siam now known as Thailand. Originally they could only be owned by Buddhist Monks and the country's royalty. But in the 1800's the royal family started giving them to European dignitaries. And the world soon fell in love with the magnificent and very vocal felines.
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Post by: jaybug on May 01, 2011, 04:31:16 pm
You burn more calories sleeping, than you do watching TV.
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Post by: Chibachi Nero on May 05, 2011, 10:07:08 pm
Emu eggs are dark green.
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 02, 2011, 02:49:37 pm
A 4-sided die is called a tetrahedron.  An 8-sided die is called an octahedron.  A 12-sided die is called a dodecahedron.  A 20-sided die is called an icosahedron.
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Post by: jaybug on June 05, 2011, 08:55:21 pm
The die is cast?

The United States Marine Corps is older than the United States. 10/11/1775 is their birthdate. And it is older than any other branch of service.


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Post by: flyinvee11 on June 11, 2011, 04:36:56 am
"Luigi" is Mario's brother who is 'similar' to Mario.
In Japanese, "Ruiji" means 'similar.'
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaybug on June 12, 2011, 04:31:46 pm
the retaining clips to the U-joints of a Dodge Durango are on the inside, not the outside like most normal U-joints.
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Post by: frogger on June 13, 2011, 05:37:13 pm
A Albatross wingspan has the longest-wingspan between 8.2 ft - 11.5 ft
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Post by: jaybug on June 13, 2011, 08:05:19 pm
A pint's a pound the world around. But a pounder only holds 12 ounces.
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Post by: frogger on June 13, 2011, 08:38:46 pm
a group of frogs is called an ‘army’
A group of toads is called a ‘knot’
   
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Post by: agpgirl on June 13, 2011, 11:02:30 pm
The average human will eat 30,000 cookies in one lifetime
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Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 23, 2011, 07:38:51 pm
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are from Eugene, Oregon.
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Post by: soundninja12 on June 30, 2011, 09:53:58 pm
People with higher IQs are more likely to try hard drugs than people with low IQs.
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Post by: Jacob_Blackfeather on June 30, 2011, 10:41:46 pm
people use nearly 20 gallons of water a day.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Washougal_Otaku on July 29, 2011, 01:05:33 am
- The rumor that "orange" rhymes with no other word is incorrect. Orange rhymes with Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a sac where spores are made). "Silver" has the same rumor going for it, but it actually rhymes with Wilver (a nickname) and chilver (a ewe lamb).

I just wanted to repost this one because of how awesome it is.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Eeveeification on August 12, 2011, 08:37:51 pm
1 in every 1000 lobsters are born bright blue, and retain that coloring throughout their life.

However, they are easily spotted and quickly killed.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 14, 2011, 01:04:39 pm
Cookie Monster got his debut in a commercial for a cheese cracker snack thing, similar to Cheez-Its.  The company didn't care for it, though, so it never aired.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jam112383 on August 22, 2011, 12:24:24 am
Slipknot (band) is from Iowa
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Chibachi Nero on August 22, 2011, 12:33:19 am
White horses fall much farther down the herd hierarchy than darkly colored ones do, because their coloration makes them easy for predators to spot. They are almost never at the top of the herd.

And Anza Ooyama, the first actress to play Sailor Moon in the Sera Myu musicals, is now in a metal band (Thanks Wrath!)
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: TalaRedWolf33 on August 22, 2011, 01:11:11 am
In washington, its illegal to sell porn that has the act of "fisting" in it because it is concidered inhumane; but beastiality is legal just as long as the animal appears to be enjoying it.  Also, in india, it is legal to marry your dog.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: @random on August 22, 2011, 01:15:04 pm
^ Chibachi Nero's icon says it much better than I could.

Na-Geanna, the title of the last Mahoromatic episode, is a dual reference: First, to the "Wild Geese" (Na Geanna) regiments of Irish mercenary soldiers; second, to the single-malt whiskey of that name produced by Richard Hennessy, himself a Wild Goose before he began producing the famous cognac brandy.

From the preview narration:

Quote
"Long ago, a man left his homeland behind. The man drifted to a foreign land and was enamored by the spirits made there. He built his own distillery and lived the rest of his days there. The distillery hailed the man's accomplishments and made a spirit from the man's homeland. But, it was far too gorgeous...and was unlike any of the spirits from the man's homeland. Its flavor was both sweet and awfully melancholic..."
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Washougal_Otaku on August 22, 2011, 01:25:38 pm
In washington, its illegal to sell porn that has the act of "fisting" in it because it is concidered inhumane;

This can also apply to toys, but there's a way to loophole around that.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: HalcyonFour on October 13, 2011, 12:46:01 am
Conventional produce in supermarkets is sometimes harvested up to two years before it is actually sold. Most food you buy is at least a week old. Sometimes the produce is artificially sprayed with coloring to make it look more "natural."

Yeah...go organic.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: GregAtlas on October 13, 2011, 07:07:47 am
A mind is a beautiful thing to waste. Just keep it in your head while it rots please because it is only beautiful on the inside.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: CyberIncision on October 13, 2011, 07:24:59 am
They once thought all Hyenas were hermaphrodites because the females body parts were as big as the males.... and they participate in casual sex with both genders.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: GregAtlas on October 13, 2011, 07:31:20 am
Spam takes about 1-3 months to mold in the refrigerator while sitting on a plate.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: CyberIncision on October 13, 2011, 08:37:06 am
ew...

Donkeys kill more people yearly than plane crashes
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: GregAtlas on October 13, 2011, 09:46:00 am
dogs eat cat poo not just because they're nutrient deficient, but because they like the taste.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: CyberIncision on October 13, 2011, 09:58:35 am
A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: dark4ever on October 13, 2011, 10:06:42 am
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: GregAtlas on October 13, 2011, 10:08:10 am
( :'( Too bad I'll never get to that point in my life, maybe it could clear my gluten allergy too.)

Most dirt isn't actually dirty.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: CyberIncision on October 13, 2011, 10:09:16 am
Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for Ladies Love Cool James.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: GregAtlas on October 13, 2011, 10:34:49 am
Most cats will do whatever they want even if they are "trained".
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: CyberIncision on October 13, 2011, 10:41:04 am
Strawberries have more vitamin c than Oranges.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: TalaRedWolf33 on October 13, 2011, 12:09:02 pm
Too much vitamin c will kill you
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: CyberIncision on October 13, 2011, 01:05:55 pm
In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'!
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: dark4ever on October 13, 2011, 09:02:45 pm
In Japan, you can get used panties from vending machines
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: CyberIncision on October 13, 2011, 09:05:03 pm
Streets in Japan do not have names.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: princessmoon on October 15, 2011, 10:05:14 am
1 in 6 Cell phones carries fecal matter. >_<
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: CyberIncision on October 15, 2011, 11:21:23 am
The name Wendy did not exist before Peter Pan. It was made for Peter Pan.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Wuntvor on October 15, 2011, 02:49:57 pm
The name Wendy did not exist before Peter Pan. It was made for Peter Pan.

In the case of the character from J. M. Barrie's play 'Peter Pan' (1904), it was created from the nickname fwendy "friend", given to the author by a young friend.

However, the name was used prior to the play (rarely), in which case it could be related to the Welsh name GWENDOLEN and other names beginning with the element gwen meaning "white, fair, blessed".

My sister is named Wendy, but her name was derived from the popular song of the day, by Association (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2DSeB7qL1A),  that was playing in the hospital at the time of her birth.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: GregAtlas on October 15, 2011, 04:04:39 pm
Chewing gum was originally invented by a dentist for the purpose of exercising your jaw muscles.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: jaqua on October 15, 2011, 06:37:56 pm
Chewing gum has been around for much longer than that... http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/gum.htm
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Animeman73 on October 16, 2011, 09:40:39 pm
Did you know that the Japanese Bobtail is considered good luck? It's true. In 16th centruy Japan a royal decree freed all cats in order so they could deal with the rodents who threatened the Japaneses' precious silkworms. Once the rodent populace was handled the cat became an integral part of Japanese culture. And it spawned the waving cat which promotes prosperity for Japannese entrepreneurs by inviting people to come into their business.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: CyberIncision on October 17, 2011, 11:26:52 am
There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,000 years old, and covers over 3 miles in size and is still growing O.O
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: GregAtlas on October 17, 2011, 11:59:49 am
JELLO isn't something vegans can have.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Wuntvor on October 17, 2011, 12:26:12 pm
There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,000 years old, and covers over 3 miles in size and is still growing O.O

IT'S TRUE! (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/oregons-monster-mushroom-is-worlds-biggest-living-thing-710278.html)  I wonder how I missed this one.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Romo on November 19, 2011, 01:22:27 pm
There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,000 years old, and covers over 3 miles in size and is still growing O.O

It's a...giant...mushroom. MAYBE IT'S FRIENDLY.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: @random on November 19, 2011, 03:02:55 pm
(I for one welcome our new mushroom overlords.  :D)

A 2007 murder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Murder) in Belgium referenced Death Note, with the murderers leaving two notes saying "WATASHI WA KIRA DESS" (apparently a misspelling of desu).
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Drauska on November 24, 2011, 10:56:26 am
Too much vitamin c will kill you

Drinking too much water can kill you too....

There is more Vit C in an onion than an orange

Vit C will make Barnacles start having sex

Barnacles have a ridiculous body size:penis length ratio.  It's 40 times longer then their body length.  :)  The longest ratio in the world!!

Enjoy Thanksgiving!!!!!!   
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: TalaRedWolf33 on November 24, 2011, 01:21:29 pm
Lol! I think my next boyfriend is gonna be a barnacle lol and! Fact, i can drink an entire bottle of wine in 30 mins, and an entire 6 pack of smirnoff blueberry lemonade vodka in 15 mins.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: TalaRedWolf33 on November 24, 2011, 01:22:42 pm
^ also, all without stopping or getting drunk.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Washougal_Otaku on November 27, 2011, 07:10:10 pm
"Moon Over Buffalo" is a play written by Ken Ludwig.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: @random on January 09, 2012, 12:45:40 pm
BroNYcon is an event in New York City centered around My Little Pony, as you might've guessed... and over there, the ratio of congoers is 6:1 male. Go figure. (^_^)

http://www.theawl.com/2012/01/the-bronies-take-manhattan
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: kittykat1blabla on January 12, 2012, 10:15:18 pm
Everyone is not always born the same.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: JaegerDarkness on March 24, 2014, 11:11:01 pm
P***ing off Shizuo Heiwajima can POTENTIALLY get you killed.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Prinz Eugen on March 31, 2014, 04:18:42 pm
New Post-AIA USC 35 102:
http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/FITF_card.pdf (http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/FITF_card.pdf)
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Jacob_Blackfeather on April 05, 2014, 12:07:32 am
When you hit an artery when you are giving blood the blood actually comes out green and is very dangerous to do.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Ryo~T.B on April 05, 2014, 02:13:55 pm
when cats purr, it doesn't just mean they're happy....it also means your annoying them or they're hurt, it a comfort mechanism to purr.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: kittyhumaniod on April 06, 2014, 09:39:36 pm
When male bees (also known as drones) ejaculate, it is often so powerful that it can be audible to the human ear in the sound of a pop.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Prinz Eugen on October 31, 2014, 09:35:48 pm
If, after your claims you wrote for a patent have been rejected twice (same claims)
AND you then decide to appeal within the Patent Office to the PTAB (Patent Trials and Appeals Board)
and you STILL get turned down on appeal, it USED TO BE that your only next step was an appeal
in the CAFC (Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit) and maybe the Supremes after that.


But that was when the Patent office was located in Washington DC. Now that the US Patent office
has relocated to Alexandria Virginia, (hint: a STATE) you have another avenue before trying to hit up
the CAFC. You get to sue the Patent Office in District Court - the EDVA (Eastern District Court
of Virginia.)


Cool thing about the EDVA is that unlike the CAFC which are a bunch of government gumbies who
tend to side with the Patent Office 9 times out of 10, ("They're Government - we're Government -
they know what they're doing - Back to your hovel, citizen!") in the EDVA you have a *chance* at
getting a jury of regular folks to evaluate the case.


They don't give a terminal orifice of a rodent's alimentary canal about patent law, and they might
give you and your client a fair shake...
 
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: JaegerDarkness on November 04, 2014, 08:15:03 am
1. Levi Ackerman is SO strong, he can kill titans without breaking a sweat.
2. Levi Ackerman is SO badass, he's been known to clean his weaponry, during battle, without getting hurt or killed.
3. Levi Ackerman is a clean freak.
Title: Hiram Maxim
Post by: Prinz Eugen on December 26, 2014, 03:34:17 pm
Hiram Maxim is an American inventor of the car muffler, the firearm suppressor, and his "08 Maxim Gun"
- one of the first machineguns. In 1914 this same fellow founded the ARRL - the Amateur Radio Relay League - to encourage ham radio experimentation and development of electrical inventions and appliances.
 
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: JaegerDarkness on October 12, 2016, 08:10:35 pm
1. Getting up for work, before dawn sucks.
2. Getting off of work at around 10:00am or so (11:30am on the weekend) ROCKS. (I'm a Complimentary Breakfast Host, at the Embassy Suites Hotel, out by PDX).
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Prinz Eugen on March 16, 2017, 04:33:46 pm
A cubic foot of seawater weighs about 64 lbm. Without the salt, a cubic foot of (fresh) water weighs 62.4 lbm.


To make sure you don't confuse pounds of mass versus pounds of force, you can use 'lbm' for mass and 'lbf' for force.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: JaegerDarkness on March 16, 2017, 04:46:01 pm
Mikasa Ackerman is highly protective of Eren Jäger.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 05, 2017, 09:49:32 am
The capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Prinz Eugen on June 05, 2017, 10:31:28 am
The capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa.
... and it was named by Dino from the Flintstones.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Washougal_Otaku on June 08, 2017, 11:26:20 am
The capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa.
... and it was named by Dino from the Flintstones.

 ;D

The Buffalo Bills are the only team to have lost 4 straight Super Bowl games, but did so after the Minnesota Vikings and the Denver Broncos lost 4 TOTAL games.  In fact, the Bills' streak began immediately after Denver lost their fourth.
Title: Re: Random Facts That You Know!!!
Post by: Prinz Eugen on November 22, 2023, 08:36:32 am
While it's relatively uncommon for a major league baseball team to win a World Series in only 5 games rather than playing all 7 (more ticket $$$ concession $$$, hotel $$$, etc) this year's winner, the Texas Rangers, was the ONLY major league team that did NOT host a "pride" event:


https://babylonbee.com/news/god-rewards-only-team-that-doesnt-have-a-pride-night-with-world-series-win/