please post random facts that some might not know.

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An easy way to tell if an egg is fully hard boiled is to spin it on the countertop and then stop it and let go. If it moves after you let go, it's not done, if it remains stopped, it's done.

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you can shine your shoe with a banana peel. just polish off the wax, and bingo! shiney shoe!

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Male giraffes are inherently gay. ex girlfriend told me about it.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe#Necking[/url]

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Oysters are both male and female. They change sex. If you told an oyster to go fuck itself, it already has.

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God loves you!!

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here's a really obscure fact if that one misses you:

oxygen is the most abundant element in the human body per mass.

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Nitrogen is the most abundant element in the air we breathe. Only 21% of air is oxygen.

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[QUOTE=Jenks;560818]Oysters are both male and female. They change sex. If you told an oyster to go fuck itself, it already has.

[img]http://re3.mm-a11.yimg.com/image/138081447[/img][/QUOTE] snails too, but they can't fuck themselves.

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oxygen isn't an element

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[quote=Jenks;560797]Did you know-

you can shine your shoe with a banana peel. just polish off the wax, and bingo! shiney shoe![/quote]

don't try this one. I did and indeed it does leave you with shiny shoes until the banana peel stuff dries on your shoes (no matter how hard you try to remove access banana gunk and it's impossible to remove all of it) it leaves white crusty stuff on your shoes, ruined a very expensive pair of dress shoes doing this.

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the reason there are 18 holes in golf:

During a discussion among the club's membership board at St. Andrews in 1858, a senior member pointed out that it takes exactly 18 shots to polish off a fifth of scotch. By limiting themselves to only one shot per hole, they determined that a round of golf was finished when the scotch ran out.

also, the word golf was derived from an acronym of - Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden as the game of golf was only to be played by men.

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mushroom clouds and drops of water into water are the same physical phenomena

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[QUOTE=picklemonkey;560828]oxygen isn't an element

[img]http://re3.mm-a11.yimg.com/image/138081447[/img][/QUOTE] Incorrect my friend, oxygen is indeed an element as it sits at number 8 on the elements table. ;)

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[QUOTE=rainman;560832]During a discussion among the club's membership board at St. Andrews in 1858, a senior member pointed out that it takes exactly 18 shots to polish off a fifth of scotch. By limiting themselves to only one shot per hole, they determined that a round of golf was finished when the scotch ran out.[/QUOTE]

25.6oz/1.5oz=17.06 shots. anybody who's staying on a golf course to drink .06 of a shotglass must be irish

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in the 1800's there was a law stating that you could not beat your wife with a stick wider than your thumb...thus "rule of thumb"

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[quote=picklemonkey;560839]25.6oz/1.5oz=17.06 shots. anybody who's staying on a golf course to drink .06 of a shotglass must be irish[/quote]

or English

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[QUOTE=rubyraks;560838]Incorrect my friend, oxygen is indeed an element as it sits at number 8 on the elements table. ;)[/QUOTE]

I'm an idiot. I was thinking of air :lol:

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[quote=picklemonkey;560828]oxygen isn't an element

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:Hmmm: yes it is

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Dolfins like humans also like to have sex because its fun.

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I have a small penis.

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it's supposed to be things we don't know

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You're right....Back to topic...

Every person has a unique tongue print, ad every square inch of a human tongue has an average of 32 million bacteria on it..

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When the earth was formed, a day was 14 hours long, 350 million years ago a day was 22 hours long

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Polar bears are left-handed.

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sick work on not knowing your elements Pickle. :lol:

NASCAR was invented by and because of bootleggers. The first race was against notorious moonshine runners. Because of prohibition, alcohol was made in the woods, and delivered at night in fast cars with no lights under the light of the moon (hence moonshine) outrunning the law in the process. Several runners made names for themselves through out counties, and eventually the first race was held between them. The race was so popular, it became a sport. Ta DA!! NASCAR.

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We got "god bless you" when someone sneezed they were immediately blessed in the hope that they would not develop the plague

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absolute zero is -273.15 degrees centigrade (or 0 K).

in 2005, researchers at CERN in Finland cooled helium to 100 piko kelvin (or one tenth of one billionth of a degree above absolute zero). It is not possible to actually cool something all the way to absolute zero, as it would require an infinite time horizon and an infinitely large machine.

when liquids are cooled to very close to absolute zero, one of the strange properties they exhibit is called superfluidity. among other things, superfluids will only rotate at certain speeds....so if you put a superfluid into a container and start to spin the container, the superfluid will stay stationary until a critical speed is reached, at which point the superfluid will start to spin. thus the superfluid is quantized in terms of rotational velocity. <-think about that!

another strange property of some superfluids (Bose-Einstein condensates) is that they can slow light down to unimaginably slow speeds relative to the speed of light. in an experiment, they passed a beam of light through a B-E condensate and slowed it from its usual speed of 299,792,458 meters per second down to a crawling 17 meters per second (the speed of a road bicycle).

yes i'm a big nerd...but i love reading about shit like this.

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good one jeff.

when you stretch a rubber band, it gets hotter. try it. stretching it puts energy from your muscles into the band and heats it up.

thermodynamics.

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Take a sheet of paper of the ordinary variety - letter size for the Americans, A4 for the rest of the world - and fold it into half. Fold it a second time, and a third time. It's about as thick as your finger nail. Continue folding if you can. At 7 folds it is as thick as a notebook. If you would have been able to fold it 10 times, it would be as thick as the width of your hand. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to do so more than about 12 times. Try it for yourself.

At seventeen folds it would be taller than your average house.

Three more folds and that sheet of paper is a quarter way up the Sears tower.

Ten more folds and it has crossed the outer limits of the atmosphere.

Another twenty and it has reached the sun from the earth.

At sixty folds it has the diameter of the solar system.

At 100 folds it has the radius of the universe.

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paper is not an element...

(sorry pickle, i couldn't resist...)

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[quote=KinKyJ;560933]Take a sheet of paper of the ordinary variety - letter size for the Americans, A4 for the rest of the world - and fold it into half. Fold it a second time, and a third time. It's about as thick as your finger nail. Continue folding if you can. At 7 folds it is as thick as a notebook. If you would have been able to fold it 10 times, it would be as thick as the width of your hand. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to do so more than about 12 times. Try it for yourself.

At seventeen folds it would be taller than your average house.

Three more folds and that sheet of paper is a quarter way up the Sears tower.

Ten more folds and it has crossed the outer limits of the atmosphere.

Another twenty and it has reached the sun from the earth.

At sixty folds it has the diameter of the solar system.

At 100 folds it has the radius of the universe.[/quote]

I like this one. 8)

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^^^ principle of exponential growth

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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=2][COLOR=black][COLOR=White]An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.[/COLOR] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

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Pickle is a toilet.

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[B]A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

[/B][B]Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.[/B]

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you know that film you get on the inside of your car windshield? even if you don't smoke? it's given off by the plastic in your car. you'll get more film in the summer because the heat activates the vapors in plastic more rapidly. newer cars are the worst offenders, over time the plastic wears and doesn't give off as much. go find a really old car made mostly of metal with a wood dash, and you will have clean windows year round. that vapor btw, is also a big part of "that new car smell." :)

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New car smell is the best..and I'm not talking about the scent you can buy. I'm talking about a real new car smell.......I need a new car...

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[quote=rbuffetta;560919]We got "god bless you" when someone sneezed they were immediately blessed in the hope that they would not develop the plague[/quote]

that's not what I was told/heard....God Bless You originated when people sneezed as people believed at that your soul escaped from your body for a moment and saying God bless you would protect your soul from harm...

Here's a definition I found...

[quote]Another version says that people used to believe that your [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul"]soul[/URL] can be thrown from your body when you sneeze,[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_bless_you#_note-Snopes"][1][/URL], that sneezing otherwise opened your body to invasion by the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil"]Devil[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_bless_you#_note-Dope"][2][/URL] or [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_spirit"]evil spirits[/URL],[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_bless_you#_note-Wilson"][4][/URL] or that sneezing was your body's effort to force out an invading evil spirit[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_bless_you#_note-Snopes"][1][/URL]. Thus, "bless you" or "God bless you" is used as a sort of shield against evil.[/quote]

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[SIZE=3][COLOR=Silver][SIZE=2]This one always grossed me out... [B] The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.[/B][/SIZE] [/COLOR][/SIZE]

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[QUOTE=DancingQueen;560966]that's not what I was told/heard....God Bless You originated when people sneezed as people believed at that your soul escaped from your body for a moment and saying God bless you would protect your soul from harm...

Here's a definition I found...[/QUOTE]

i always heard the plague thing.

what's grosser than the humans eating 8 spiders in their lifetime is this:

scientists say just through average yearly human water consumption, we drink more than a kilo of e coli bacteria, which is found in shit. yep, we drink a kilo of poop a year. next time someone says you're full of shit, remember, you actually are. :p

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Never tried it but apparently if you keep a goldfish in the dark room it will eventually turn white.

Anyone up for trying it out? If so, take pics!