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#1



SeraRelm

Just a thread where people can post... fun facts! I'll start it off.


Shepherd's Pie is not really a pie... and it isn't really made from shepherds!


#2

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

SeraRelm said:
Shepherd's Pie is not really a pie... and it isn't really made from shepherds!
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Damn, guess I'm doing it wrong.... :eek:rly:

Fun Fact:
Hitler wanted to paint before deciding on World Domination.

Godwin'd!


#3

Dave

Dave

Girl Scout cookies aren't made from Girl Scouts.

And eating brownies can get you jailed.


#4



ThatNickGuy

Friday spelled backwards is Yadirf, which is just fun to say.


#5



quandofloo

Cheesecake is actually a pie.


#6



SeraRelm

Dave said:
Girl Scout cookies aren't made from Girl Scouts.

And eating brownies can get you jailed.
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Or kicked out.


#7

Hylian

Hylian

1+1=2


#8

Thread Necromancer

Thread Necromancer

hylian said:
1+1=2
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except in the case of reproduction where 1+1 begets a third.


#9

CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

Thread Necromancer;265063][quote=hylian said:
1+1=2
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except in the case of reproduction where 1+1 begets a third.[/QUOTE]

or Binary in which 1 + 1 = 10


#10

Rob King

Rob King

Bowling pins are made to fall. If they gained sentience, they would probably be very depressed by that fact.


#11



Andromache



#12

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Rob King said:
Bowling pins are made to fall. If they gained sentience, they would probably be very depressed by that fact.
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#13

General Specific

General Specific

CrimsonSoul;265086][quote=Thread Necromancer;265063][quote=hylian said:
1+1=2
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except in the case of reproduction where 1+1 begets a third.[/QUOTE]

or Binary in which 1 + 1 = 10[/QUOTE]

Also: 2 + 2 = 5, for sufficiently large values of 2


#14

Rob King

Rob King

Hypothetical question time:

You stumble upon a thread started by someone else that is similar in nature to about a hundred threads you've started before. The thread you found, however, is more open-ended and has no immediate promise of egotistical bullshit.

What do you do?

Crone said:
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#15

Fun Size

Fun Size

In doing research for a post on dinosaur junk, I discovered that many birds and reptiles bump the cloaca into each other, the cloaca being the portal for all things excreted from the body, in an act referred to by scientists as a "cloacal kiss".

The fascinating fact: wondering about dinosaur junk can lead to weird places.


#16



SeraRelm

Fun Fact!: I didn't start this thread for people to flame each other.

Now bring on the trivial trivia of your travels.


#17

Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

In spanish, there's a fish called "Rape".


#18



Odie

Spanish Flu - Orginated in kansas, It was given the name spainsh flu because during WWI Spain remaind neutral and was one of the few countries giving reliable news about the disease. thus all informtion look to seem like it came from Spain. Its estimated that the Spanish flu killed 3-6% of the world population at that time.

If the swine flu epidemic caused simliar numbers (3%) we see over 201 million deaths.

201 million people would be equal to 2 out of every 3 people in America.


#19

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Why do people park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?

Thank you Gallagher.


#20



Chazwozel

Rob King said:
Hypothetical question time:

You stumble upon a thread started by someone else that is similar in nature to about a hundred threads you've started before. The thread you found, however, is more open-ended and has no immediate promise of egotistical bullshit.

What do you do?

Crone said:
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#21

General Specific

General Specific

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Knowledge = power.

God knows everything.

If God is all-knowing, then He/She/It also must be all-powerful. If He/She/It has absolute power, then He/She/It must also be absolutely corrupt.

Therefore, God is the ultimate evil.


#22



Chazwozel

Ales are made from top fermenting yeast at room temperature.

Lagers are made from bottom fermenting yeast at cooler temperatures.


#23

Fun Size

Fun Size

General Specific said:
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Knowledge = power.

God knows everything.

If God is all-knowing, then He/She/It also must be all-powerful. If He/She/It has absolute power, then He/She/It must also be absolutely corrupt.

Therefore, God is the ultimate evil.
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God is love.

Love is blind.

Ray Charles was God.


#24

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Fun Size just may be on to something.


#25

Vagabond

V.Bond



Same voice actor.


#26

General Specific

General Specific

Vagabond said:


Same voice actor.
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Also Wilt from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends



#27

Shakey

Shakey

On a daily average you will inhale 1 liter of others anal gasses.


#28

Rob King

Rob King

We know about shit all. Look at some mold growing in the cracks of a rock somewhere. That is what humanity is to the universe. Some weird growth inhabiting a weird dimple in spacetime that is Earth.

We can't figure out if light is a particle or a wave, a failure which I think has a lot to do with our own limited capabilities of understanding (remember the mold). We still haven't figured gravity out completely.

Not saying we'll never understand better. But shit, man. The more you know, the stupider you feel.


#29

Fun Size

Fun Size

Rob King said:
We know about shit all. Look at some mold growing in the cracks of a rock somewhere. That is what humanity is to the universe. Some weird growth inhabiting a weird dimple in spacetime that is Earth.

We can't figure out if light is a particle or a wave, a failure which I think has a lot to do with our own limited capabilities of understanding (remember the mold). We still haven't figured gravity out completely.

Not saying we'll never understand better. But shit, man. The more you know, the stupider you feel.
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How can you say such things after the wisdom of the anal gasses has been presented to you?


#30



Mr_Chaz

Rob King said:
We know about shit all. Look at some mold growing in the cracks of a rock somewhere. That is what humanity is to the universe. Some weird growth inhabiting a weird dimple in spacetime that is Earth.

We can't figure out if light is a particle or a wave, a failure which I think has a lot to do with our own limited capabilities of understanding (remember the mold). We still haven't figured gravity out completely.

Not saying we'll never understand better. But shit, man. The more you know, the stupider you feel.
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Well, not strictly true. We know exactly whether it is a particle or a wave. It's both. And neither.

Yeah, Physics doesn't make sense, but don't confuse that with not knowing the answer to the question ;)


#31

Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Silver Jelly said:
In spanish, there's a fish called "Rape".
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I had some rape last night...with bacon.


#32

Rob King

Rob King

Mr_Chaz said:
Well, not strictly true. We know exactly whether it is a particle or a wave. It's both. And neither.

Yeah, Physics doesn't make sense, but don't confuse that with not knowing the answer to the question ;)
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Point is: it doesn't quite fit into anything we understand. It can't be 'both and neither.' It has to be something else that we as a race have no experience with. But we can only understand it as 'both and neither.'

Same thing with the atom. We have a way of representing it, with the nucleus in the center and the valence electrons orbiting ... because it's useful and easy for us to imagine it that way. But we know that's not exactly how it works.


#33



Mr_Chaz

Rob King;265223][quote=Mr_Chaz said:
Well, not strictly true. We know exactly whether it is a particle or a wave. It's both. And neither.

Yeah, Physics doesn't make sense, but don't confuse that with not knowing the answer to the question ;)
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Point is: it doesn't quite fit into anything we understand. It can't be 'both and neither.' It has to be something else that we as a race have no experience with. But we can only understand it as 'both and neither.'

Same thing with the atom. We have a way of representing it, with the nucleus in the center and the valence electrons orbiting ... because it's useful and easy for us to imagine it that way. But we know that's not exactly how it works.[/QUOTE]

But past a certain level of simplification no one describes light as a wave of a particle, so it's not like anyone's really getting it wrong. Sure it has some of the properties of a particle, but so does a beach ball, they're not the same, but that wouldn't stop you using a ball to describe a photon. Ya see? It's not so much that we don't know, just that we simplify for the ease of all.


#34

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

The most expensive coffee in the world is made from beans that have been passed through the digestive system of a tropical, bean-eating weasel.

In the 19th century, female hysteria was treated by directing a high-power water spout at the genitalia, causing orgasms.


#35



Pojodan

Fun fact: You cannot park on a parkway, and do not drive on a driveway


#36



Singularity.EXE

Our national debt is larger then the number of stars in the galaxy.

Goats have rectangular pupils.


#37

phil

phil

Fun fact: The parkway driveway thing has been done before in this thread twice now.


#38

Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

phil said:
Fun fact: The parkway driveway thing has been done before in this thread twice now.
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If you smoke in a smoking jacket, and you eat in a dinner jacket, why are windbreakers so popular?


#39

bigcountry23

bigcountry23

Jim Henson was alergic to fleece.


#40

Cajungal

Cajungal

Gullible is not in the dictionary.


#41

phil

phil

fact:

You can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind. Because your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine.


#42

Cajungal

Cajungal

dun dun DUNDUN dundundun DUNDUN


#43

HCGLNS

HCGLNS

A herring is a unit of volume.

A pound of gold does not weigh the same as a pound of feathers.

One of the stars in the Big Dipper is actually made up of 5 stars.

The Ceasar Salad was invented in Mexico.


#44

General Specific

General Specific

If "pro-" is the opposite of "con-," what's the opposite of "progress"?

Why is it called a "Tugboat" when most of its job is pushing?

Why are the people who catch crooks called "The Police" when the people who put out fires are called the "Fire Department"? Shouldn't they either rename the Police to the "Crime Department" or the Fire Department to "The Extinguishers"?

Why is there braille on drive-up ATMs?

Were the people who named Oranges just being lazy?

These are the things that keep me awake at night.


#45

drawn_inward

drawn_inward

It is estimated that less than 1% of all bacteria have been grown in the lab. That leaves ~99% of all bacteria that could be used for antibiotics and industrial applications.

The # of bacteria in/on you outnumber your own cells.

Bacteria make up about 2 lbs of your body weight.


#46



Andromache

fag break means something entirely different to my UK friends, as I found out this AM.


#47

HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Your eyelashes are home to hundreds of mites.


#48

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

King Charles II of Spain (1661-1700) was a disastrously crazy ruler, mostly because of heavy in-breeding among his Habsburg ancestors: he was both mentally and physically disabled, disfigured and did not learn to talk until the age of four or to walk until the age of eight - and being a frail young man with the power of a Habsburg monarch, his whims - such as unwillingness to bathe - were indulged without question. In his later life, he demanded that his dead family be exhumed so he could look at the corpses.


#49

CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Pojodan said:
Fun fact: You cannot park on a parkway, and do not drive on a driveway
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Fun fact: Pojo doesn't read the thread before he posts. :cool:


#50

Cajungal

Cajungal

HCGLNS said:
Your eyelashes are home to hundreds of mites.
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I named all of mine. Harold is my favorite.

---------- Post added at 08:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:11 PM ----------

http://www.greatfacts.com/


#51

Bubble181

Bubble181

Cajungal;265395][quote=HCGLNS said:
Your eyelashes are home to hundreds of mites.
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I named all of mine. Harold is my favorite.
[/QUOTE]


After what he did to Stacy?! I can't believe you're that cold-hearted. I mean, I thought you cared for her! How can you even let that mite live in your lashes anymore, I just can't understand - and now you name him your favourite?! I...I just feel like I don't know you anymore. You've changed.


#52

Hylian

Hylian

the furthest you can get from a McDonald's in the US is a 107 miles.


#53

Bubble181

Bubble181

hylian said:
the furthest you can get from a McDonald's in the US is a 107 miles.
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Including Alaska? That's insane.


#54

Hylian

Hylian

Bubble181;265508][quote=hylian said:
the furthest you can get from a McDonald's in the US is a 107 miles.
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Including Alaska? That's insane.[/quote]


Actually I just reread the article and they didn't count Alaska or Hawaii in their article.


http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/413-the-mcfarthest-place-145-mi-to-the-nearest-big-mac/


#55

Rob King

Rob King

It's probably just the continental US.

More fun facts! The Newfoundland edition:

St. John's, Newfoundlandis also the oldest European settlement in North America.
George St. in the downtown core has the highest number of bars per square foot in the world (outside of Ireland)


#56



BoringMetaphor

During the last 6 months of 1941, the Red Army lost 7 million men yet still existed as an effective force.


#57

Cajungal

Cajungal

Bubble181;265498][quote=Cajungal;265395][quote=HCGLNS said:
Your eyelashes are home to hundreds of mites.
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I named all of mine. Harold is my favorite.
[/QUOTE]


After what he did to Stacy?! I can't believe you're that cold-hearted. I mean, I thought you cared for her! How can you even let that mite live in your lashes anymore, I just can't understand - and now you name him your favourite?! I...I just feel like I don't know you anymore. You've changed.[/QUOTE]

She shouldn't have dresses so provocatively.


#58



rabbitgod

Rob King said:
It's probably just the continental US.

More fun facts! The Newfoundland edition:

St. John's, Newfoundlandis also the oldest European settlement in North America.
George St. in the downtown core has the highest number of bars per square foot in the world (outside of Ireland)
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Oldest English settlement. Saint Augustine Florida, San Juan Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo Dominican Republic are all older.




Hops are in the same family as Cannabis. They grow on bines and not vines. They climb clockwise. They are female, proving once again that lady parts are the greatest things on the planet.


#59



Dusty668

The life cycle of a blow fly usually lasts 9-21 days from egg to adult.


#60

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

In the 17th century, a one-way voyage from England to the North American colonies cost a year's wages for a labourer.


#61

Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

more word stuff: In catalan, "fart" means "full" (in the sense of "I ate so much, I'm full" and "I've had enough of this attitude of yours"). The word that means the same in catalan as fart in english is "Pet".


#62

Rob King

Rob King

rabbitgod;265590][quote=Rob King said:
More fun facts! The Newfoundland edition:

St. John's, Newfoundlandis also the oldest European settlement in North America.
George St. in the downtown core has the highest number of bars per square foot in the world (outside of Ireland)
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Oldest English settlement. Saint Augustine Florida, San Juan Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo Dominican Republic are all older.[/QUOTE]

San Juan and Santo Domingo are both older, but I wouldn't really call them North American. I'm also ignoring a few settlements in Mexico. Perhaps I'm being a little selective. :p

As far as the other goes ...
St. Augustine: 1565
St. John's 1541

But, we also have the oldest European settlement in any of the Americas, but it wasn't continuously inhabited. L'Anse aux Meadows, aka 'Vinland.' Circa 1000 A.D.


#63



rabbitgod

Rob King said:
San Juan and Santo Domingo are both older, but I wouldn't really call them North American. I'm also ignoring a few settlements in Mexico. Perhaps I'm being a little selective. :p

As far as the other goes ...
St. Augustine: 1565
St. John's 1541

But, we also have the oldest European settlement in any of the Americas, but it wasn't continuously inhabited. L'Anse aux Meadows, aka 'Vinland.' Circa 1000 A.D.
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Let me start by saying that I'm not trying to bash St. John's. I'm all for the acknowledgement of Newfoundlands significant history. It tears me when a history channel documentary labels Jamestown as the oldest settlement.

This is my map of North America.

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I tried to fix that damn Wiki link, but it won't let me edit it. So yeah, here's another fun fact about hops!

Germany produces the most by tonnes. Followed by good ol' America

Arnold (Arnoul) of Soissons or Arnold or Arnulf of Oudenburg is the patron saint of hops pickers.


#64

Rob King

Rob King

rabbitgod said:
Let me start by saying that I'm not trying to bash St. John's. I'm all for the acknowledgement of Newfoundlands significant history. It tears me when a history channel documentary labels Jamestown as the oldest settlement.

This is my map of North America.
I'll be happy to disard PR and DR if you want. Also we can cut out virtually all cities everywhere else. The Spanish tended to settle in places that were already inhabited. Mexico City became a municipality of Spain in 1524, but it was an established city. My city also has no founding date. It was incorporated (wherein a city charter was written) in 1775, however Spaniards had been living there since at least the 1540s and possibly the 1520s and natives for quite a long time (off and on for 12k and potentially upwards of 3500 years prior of continuous habitation). I think you'll agree that they don't count in this context.

However, even by the pages that you listed St John's appears on a map in 1541, but it wasn't established until 1583. Lots of places appear on maps years before they're settled, that's usually how people find it after their drunk ass cousin comes back and jokingly tells them how awesome it is. That includes St Augustine which has an establishment date of 1565. I think it's interesting that St Aggies is the county seat of St. John's county. Talk about lazy landmark naming.

As far as L'Anse aux Meadows. You won't find argument here. That's a bad ass place. And to this silly little archaeologist is probably one of the coolest sites in the new world.
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Cool, cool. It's mostly just half-foolish dickwaving on my part anyhow.

I had a conversation a few months back about continents and how we define them. The link you provided is what I was taught, but I've since seen maps that exclude everything south of the US-Mexico border. I'm not sure I like that, but it's a lot easier to wave my dick without Latin America getting in the way.

Truthfully, I had to look up the date for St. John's. I didn't know it off the top of my head. I was sure I learned that there was a definite foundation date, where the king signed a charter or somesuch, but my google-fu (or wiki-fu as the case may be) was pretty weak while trying to look it up.

[EDIT] Derp! "On August 5 [1583], Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed the area as England's first overseas colony under Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I." (From Wikipedia)[/EDIT]

And honestly, I'm glad to be arguing with someone other then Quebecois about the whole 'who's city is older' bit. Quebec has a 'We're 400 years old!' party for Quebec City the other year, and all of us here in St. John's just rolled our eyes at the damn foolish youngsters.

Also, what it is it with you and Hops?


#65



Andromache

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch
every year because when it was built, engineers failed to
take into account the weight of all the
books that would occupy the building.

It takes 8.3 minutes for the sun's light-traveling at 186,282 miles per second-to reach the Earth.

Hippos can run faster than humans.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them

Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Evian (the bottled water) spelled backwards is "naive."

Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.


#66

bigcountry23

bigcountry23

Hyenas live in a matriarchal society and female hyenas are born with a pseudo penis that the use to practice mating.


#67



rabbitgod

Rob King said:
Cool, cool. It's mostly just half-foolish dickwaving on my part anyhow.

I had a conversation a few months back about continents and how we define them. The link you provided is what I was taught, but I've since seen maps that exclude everything south of the US-Mexico border. I'm not sure I like that, but it's a lot easier to wave my dick without Latin America getting in the way.

Truthfully, I had to look up the date for St. John's. I didn't know it off the top of my head. I was sure I learned that there was a definite foundation date, where the king signed a charter or somesuch, but my google-fu (or wiki-fu as the case may be) was pretty weak while trying to look it up.

[EDIT] Derp! "On August 5 [1583], Sir Humphrey Gilbert claimed the area as England's first overseas colony under Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I." (From Wikipedia)[/EDIT]

And honestly, I'm glad to be arguing with someone other then Quebecois about the whole 'who's city is older' bit. Quebec has a 'We're 400 years old!' party for Quebec City the other year, and all of us here in St. John's just rolled our eyes at the damn foolish youngsters.

Also, what it is it with you and Hops?
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I hear you. You've plenty reason to dick wave. According to that one link you do have the oldest street on the continent. That's actually kind of cool. I was never into 'monumental' archaeology/history. Sure big pyramids are cool and all, but I like the mundane things you find or read about.

And Quebecois can suck it. My maternal lineage is French speaking US. They can't stand Quebecois. But I say give them that one thing, it'll shut them up.

I make my own beer so I read a lot about all the ingredients. Hops just happen to be on my mind. I've been thinking of growing some.

Latest hop facts. Hops were once banned in England. The alpha acids found in hops (what makes beer bitter) has been used in deoderant, Julmust (a Swedish drink), and Malta (a latin american drink)


#68

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

Contrary to popular belief...

... Hitler was not vegan.
... Napoleon was not short. In fact, at 5ft 7in he was considered tall by the standards of the era.
... the Great Wall of China cannot be seen from space.
... Caesar was not born by a Caesarean.
... Nero did not fiddle when Rome was burning. First of all, he would have likely been playing a harp. Second, he was said to have taken part in containing the fire and evacuating the populace.
... feminists didn't burn their bras in the 1960s.


#69



Koko

You can make a tripple stacked cheeseburger with bacon & all condiments for $2.


Go-->Wendys-->Order double stack + jr bacon cheeseburger

Combine and enjoy the savings


#70



Iaculus

Crone said:
fag break means something entirely different to my UK friends, as I found out this AM.
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Only if you can't multitask. :unibrow:


#71



Pojodan

phil said:
Fun fact: The parkway driveway thing has been done before in this thread twice now.
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Fun Fact: I don't care!


#72



Dusty668

Tug of War was an Olympic event until 1924.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was the first novel to be written on a typewriter.
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is the world's only naturally purple mammal.


#73

phil

phil

Koko said:
You can make a tripple stacked cheeseburger with bacon & all condiments for $2.


Go-->Wendys-->Order double stack + jr bacon cheeseburger

Combine and enjoy the savings
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I...I never considered that. I wonder what else you can combine like that.


#74



Iaculus

phil;266625][quote=Koko said:
You can make a tripple stacked cheeseburger with bacon & all condiments for $2.


Go-->Wendys-->Order double stack + jr bacon cheeseburger

Combine and enjoy the savings
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I...I never considered that. I wonder what else you can combine like that.[/QUOTE]

Be wary - you play with great and terrible forces here.


#75

phil

phil

Iaculus;266628][quote=phil;266625][quote=Koko said:
You can make a tripple stacked cheeseburger with bacon & all condiments for $2.


Go-->Wendys-->Order double stack + jr bacon cheeseburger

Combine and enjoy the savings
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I...I never considered that. I wonder what else you can combine like that.[/quote]

Be wary - you play with great and terrible forces here.[/quote]


Pfffft, what's the worst that can happen?

edit:

AAAAAAAAAH! OH MY GOD


#76

Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Crone said:
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them
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This doesn't make any sense.
Even without beans, the average person farts 10-20 times per day.


#77

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

It stinks to be above average.


#78



Andromache

Tinwhistler;266654][quote=Crone said:
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them
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This doesn't make any sense.
Even without beans, the average person farts 10-20 times per day.[/QUOTE]

i copied lines from a fun facts site. I didnt put much thought into the veracity of any of them. I didnt think anyone cared. Until I met you.

*farts in Tin's Direction*


#79

Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

I don't care..it was just an easy way to sneak one of my own fun facts in :)


#80

Rob King

Rob King

I love etymologies.

'Ambulance' used to refer to field hospitals. It came from the French '(hôpital) ambulant' for 'walking hospital.' During the Crimean War, 'Ambulance' began to refer to the wagons that moved the wounded off the field of battle. That is where we get our modern definition.


#81



SeraRelm

And so fitting with your avatar!

Males cats usually become aroused when their bellies are rubbed.


#82

Bonhomme Richard

Bonhomme Richard

Speaking of sweat; here's a little known fact: Women have fewer sweat glands than men, but they're larger and more active...
...consequently they sweat more.


(I miss Cliff)


#83

Vytamindi

Vytamindi

I read somewhere that a hyena's clitoris becomes so engorged that it could crush its offspring during birth.

The first trombone was known as the sacbutt.


#84

Rob King

Rob King

Vytamindi said:
The first trombone was known as the sacbutt.
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I wouldn't know where to confirm this, but here's another Trombone fact a music student once informed me of:

The Germans loved the Trombone so much, that in the original translation of the bible into German, what was translated to 'Trumpet' in English was rendered 'Trombone' in German.

On the topic of biblical translation, if you went to Galilee at the beginning of the first millennium, asking about Jesus, people would be confused. We get the name 'Jesus' as a result of it's translation from Hebrew into Greek, Greek to Latin, and Latin into English. A direct translation from Hebrew to English would be 'Joshua.'

This is not unique. Another example would be Confucius, which is also a latinization. If you were to ask for Confucius by name, you would look for Kongzi.

And finally, another bible name. I am unable to confirm this, but I have been told that the name 'James' in the New Testament is a result of politics. The name should have been rendered 'Jacob,' but they fudged it in order to appease the king (essentially writing him into the bible). I really hope this one is true, because that would mean 'Jesus' should have been 'Joshua' (my name), and his brother 'James' should have been 'Jacob' (which is my brother's).


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Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Vytamindi said:
I read somewhere that a hyena's clitoris becomes so engorged that it could crush its offspring during birth.
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Heh, I actually heard this once before and looked it up. Totally true.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hyen...s-and-800-Kg-of-Pressure-on-Teeth-76961.shtml
The spotted hyena has a very big clitoris, named pseudopenis. It is by far the largest clitoris in the animal kingdom. In these hyenas, the vulva is fused, and the clitoris is used for urination, mating (it contracts for mating and the opening widens to allow the penetration by the male's penis) and giving birth. To complicate it all, the females also possess a fake scrotum made by the enlarged joined vulva and pseudo-testes filled with fatty tissue.
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rabbitgod

I've some of these hyena fact before. They are some weird ass animals. They're natures mixing bowl. I'm almost positive they can breed with the platypus and once they do they'll enslave the human race.


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figmentPez

figmentPez

Rob King said:
A direct translation from Hebrew to English would be 'Joshua.'
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Sorry, no "J" in Hebrew. Yeshua would be a closer transliteration.

Rob King said:
And finally, another bible name. I am unable to confirm this, but I have been told that the name 'James' in the New Testament is a result of politics. The name should have been rendered 'Jacob,' but they fudged it in order to appease the king (essentially writing him into the bible). I really hope this one is true, because that would mean 'Jesus' should have been 'Joshua' (my name), and his brother 'James' should have been 'Jacob' (which is my brother's).
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Hmm, I'll have to look further into this. What I can figure out is that when referring to Jacob from the Old Testament it's Iakob, and when referring to various James in the NT, it's Iakobos. So it's not the same name, though how it got transferred from ee-ak'-o-bos to James, I don't know.


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Rob King

Rob King

figmentPez;266936][quote=Rob King said:
A direct translation from Hebrew to English would be 'Joshua.'
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Sorry, no "J" in Hebrew. Yeshua would be a closer transliteration.[/quote]

Yes, right. Sorry. Perhaps I should have said 'anglicization'?

figmentPez;266936][quote=Rob King said:
And finally, another bible name. I am unable to confirm this, but I have been told that the name 'James' in the New Testament is a result of politics. The name should have been rendered 'Jacob,' but they fudged it in order to appease the king (essentially writing him into the bible). I really hope this one is true, because that would mean 'Jesus' should have been 'Joshua' (my name), and his brother 'James' should have been 'Jacob' (which is my brother's).
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Hmm, I'll have to look further into this. What I can figure out is that when referring to Jacob from the Old Testament it's Iakob, and when referring to various James in the NT, it's Iakobos. So it's not the same name, though how it got transferred from ee-ak'-o-bos to James, I don't know.[/QUOTE]

Please do. I'm very curious.


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Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

Rob King;266947][quote=figmentPez;266936][quote=Rob King said:
A direct translation from Hebrew to English would be 'Joshua.'
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Sorry, no "J" in Hebrew. Yeshua would be a closer transliteration.[/quote]

Yes, right. Sorry. Perhaps I should have said 'anglicization'?

figmentPez;266936][quote=Rob King said:
And finally, another bible name. I am unable to confirm this, but I have been told that the name 'James' in the New Testament is a result of politics. The name should have been rendered 'Jacob,' but they fudged it in order to appease the king (essentially writing him into the bible). I really hope this one is true, because that would mean 'Jesus' should have been 'Joshua' (my name), and his brother 'James' should have been 'Jacob' (which is my brother's).
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Hmm, I'll have to look further into this. What I can figure out is that when referring to Jacob from the Old Testament it's Iakob, and when referring to various James in the NT, it's Iakobos. So it's not the same name, though how it got transferred from ee-ak'-o-bos to James, I don't know.[/QUOTE]

Please do. I'm very curious.[/QUOTE]

Really? Here, in spain, all Jaime (James), Santiago, Jacobo (Iacob) and Diego celebrate their... what's the word, onomastica? The same day, because it's considered to be the same name...


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