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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2011 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | |
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Press Junketeer  Posts: 368 Joined: 2 Mar 2008 | I got a lot of useless info... I'll only post one or two (for now). Here's one. Canes that cast a Shadow Outline of Napolean's Features were carried by his supporters after the Bourbons outlawed all portraits of him. That's enough for now (go Ripley's!) |
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Paperboy Posts: 14 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 | It was physically posible for Dodo's to have flown, but they seemed to not realise this... |
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Muckraker  Posts: 339 Joined: 21 Feb 2008 | Hmmmmmm so many....Superbad was a terrible movie. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1913 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 |
Not exactly. |
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Paperboy Posts: 35 Joined: 6 Apr 2008 | After the allies liberated the Nazi concentration camps, all the homosexuals were sent straight to jail. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2016 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 | The Cake is a Lie |
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PROBATION  Posts: 2449 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | Duke Nukem Forever is a lie User was put on probation for: HowTo: Talk to Girls. (3 days) |
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Anonymous Source Posts: 5 Joined: 21 Apr 2008 | If you get an ant drunk it will always fall over on it's left side. (Man I love being a scientist.) |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 127 Joined: 8 May 2008 | A loincloth hides your fun bits right? Then why would you eat pork loin after thinking about this? |
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Press Junketeer Posts: 368 Joined: 2 Mar 2008 |
...Wow... I never knew that... Here's another one. This is from a Ripley's Calender. "Daniel M'Mburugu, a 73 year-old Kenyan farmer, was attacked by a Leopard. He fought back by tearing out the animals tongue and then killing it using only his bare hands." My only response to that is "Holy crap." |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 62 Joined: 8 May 2008 | I knew that ant thing. NOw I'm not sure about this one, but I'm almost positive it's true. It is impossible for a person to draw a Perfect circle. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1269 Joined: 1 Feb 2008 | The ratio of rats to humans in any city is approximately 1:1. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2016 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 |
PWND! There are zero rats in my province. Now if only I could get the number of people that low... But how? But Hhhhooooowwwwww? |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2228 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 |
There is no such thing as a perfect circle. Think about it. On an atomic level, its not going to be rounded. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 64 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 |
Well, they don't tend to teach children (at least in America) the Nazis rounded up homosexuals and sent them to the concentration camps right along with the Jews in the first place. Most of the people I know are very shocked to learn where the pink triangle came from. I'll add a bit to this, though. The man who cracked the Nazi's Enigma code, the breaking of which ultimately allowed the Allies to win World War II, was himself arrested and convicted for being homosexual. There's irony for you. Keeping with that theme in a very loose-linked logic chain sort of way, I'll throw this in the pot for obscure facts: The last words of Socrates were "Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Do pay it. Don't forget." |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 116 Joined: 21 Nov 2007 |
lol homonym The Principality of Andorra never took part in the Versailles Peace Treaty, signing a seperate peace with the Kaiser's government in 1957. The city-states of Athens and Sparta didn't sign a peace treaty until 1994. |
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Copy Clerk Posts: 116 Joined: 21 Nov 2007 |
Eh, lot of freed Russian and Polish soldiers quickly found themselves in gulags. |
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Paperboy  Posts: 35 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 |
Not quite. And anyway, it's not exactly hard to make one even shorter; someone probably did. |
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Muckraker  Posts: 320 Joined: 22 Mar 2008 | If Half-Life became a movie, Hugh Laurie would be a perfect Gordon Freeman. :D |
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Copy Clerk Posts: 64 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 | How about this one? Up until the year 2005, it was illegal for Native Americans to enter the city of Boston. (No, seriously. It's only been legal for three years.) |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2016 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 |
My response is "Poor Leopard". I mean c'mon, if you aren't gonna treat your pets right, they'll fight back and its not their fault. |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 206 Joined: 12 Sep 2007 | Whenever a country defaults on its national debt, the result is almost always a sustained period of prosperity. This began in ancient debt-crippled Athens, where a new mayor came into office on a platform of "shrugging off of the burdens" of debt. The resulting prosperity led to the rise of the city that is still considered the primariy inspiration for all western civilization. |
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Muckraker  Posts: 303 Joined: 23 Mar 2008 | Some people may have heard this one before, but... It's impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than seven times. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2011 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 |
 AhHa HA! I know where you live! |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 102 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 |
There sure are a lot of mice though. When I'm working, I always seem the scurrying around the rails. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1716 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 |
Nope, Mythbusters where able to fold a piece of paper as big as a football field 11 times. Boy do I need to get out more. |
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Press Junketeer  Posts: 409 Joined: 29 Mar 2008 | the only way to detonate petrol with a mobile phone is to light the mobile phone on fire first |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2228 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 | Elephants actually are frightened of Mice. I saw it on Mythbusters, man. The Nazi's invented Badminton. The original recipe for Fritos was changed after it was discovered it inadvertently created and contained Crystal Meth. In 1933, the most popular name both for men and women was Milt. the first is true, the last 3 are fake, but where are they from? |
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Paperboy  Posts: 18 Joined: 6 May 2008 | Glass is a liquid, not a solid - you can see this when you see windows on centuries old houses, the glass is thicker on the bottom of the pane. Every glass of water from your tap has been drunk by at least nine other people before you. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1913 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 | In Washington State, it wasn't illegal to commit beastiality until, somwhere around, 2004, this change came about when a man died. He blead to death from the horse literally ripping him a new one. |
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Paperboy Posts: 17 Joined: 25 Feb 2008 | In the states, no one has died of old age since 1974. That was when they eliminated it as a valid cause of death. |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 128 Joined: 6 Feb 2008 |
Your first point is not exactly true; they used to line glass with lead (that is of course very dense), and there is also evidence that the glass makers, because it's very difficult to get a perfectly flat piece of glass, would put the thicker end at the bottom (because the pane is more structurally stable that way). The second quote should technically be "It is very statistically probable that each glass of water you drink has passed through at least nine other people... |
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Copy Clerk Posts: 73 Joined: 22 Feb 2008 | Sake is technically a beer. |
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Paperboy  Posts: 37 Joined: 24 Apr 2008 | the average person has approximately 10^13 cells in their body and |
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Post your random pieces of trivia no one else would know because you somehow managed to find it.
The shortest peice of music known is by Walking Concert titled Run to Be Born. The track is 8 seconds long.
Woot! thousandth post!
Excellent. My thread is working! (Malevolence)
And before anyone gets any ideas, No Chuck Norris Facts, because frankly, no one cares, and Girlysprite buried the hatchet with her little fact, so no more sex-related facts. We all have imaginations and I think that suffices.