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[QUOTE=DancingQueen;560998]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![/QUOTE]
someone must do this. i gotta see that.
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the more you know
152 durable postsStarted 2008-01-17Latest 2008-02-01
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when your poop floats, you should have farted more. that turd is full of gas, and not as compacted/solid as a sinker. has nothing to do with iron, which is a common misconception.
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Did you know that the Bighorn Sheeps horns weigh more than the combined weight of the animals bones?
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Semen, blood and urine has been found on escalator black hand rail during random tests, remember that the next time you touch one at the mall!
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[quote=rainman;560841]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"[/quote]
Opening scene to Boondock Saints:D
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wild boars and farm pigs are alike. take a farm pig and dump it in the middle of the forest, and it will grow tusks, hair, and turn wild and aggressive just like a boar in a very short amount of time.
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[QUOTE=Jenks;561120]wild boars and farm pigs are alike. take a farm pig and dump it in the middle of the forest, and it will grow tusks, hair, and turn wild and aggressive just like a boar in a very short amount of time.[/QUOTE]
That doesnt sound right.
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there is no way of disproving the statement "the universe and evertything in it was created 5 minutes ago"
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[QUOTE=miketpoto;561148]That doesnt sound right.[/QUOTE]
some of my terminology may be a bit off, but that general idea is indeed correct.
[quote]Wild or Feral - The difference between the wild and domestic animals is largely a matter of perception. Both are usually described as Sus scrofa, and domestic pigs quite readily become feral.[/quote]
maybe not a full blown wild boar, but take little wilbur from charlotte's web and put him in the wild and he'll change his attitude real fucking quick.
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Thanks to the jibster who pointed this thread out to me. I write a newsletter for work and at the end of it, I post funny one liners, odd questions and useless Trivia. Have a ton of these, so I'm gettin busy
[LIST] []In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes! []Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second! []There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos! []Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult! []Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia! []When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second! []A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel! []A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface! []It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times! []Most lipstick contains fish scales! [/LIST]
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[LIST] []A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. []Butterflies taste with their feet. []Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. []Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. []The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache. []Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. []Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. []Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US President whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.' The second was William Jefferson Clinton. [*]Turtles can breathe through their butts. [/LIST]
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[LIST] []On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. []Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. []The electric chair was invented by a dentist. []Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day. []If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Doesn’t seem worth it) []If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. []A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (How'd they figure this out, and why?). []Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. [/LIST]
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[LIST] []Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. []Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. []Walter Disney was afraid of mice (ironic considering he invented Mickey Mouse). []Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. []A shrimp's heart is in its head. []It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. [*]Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. [/LIST]
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[LIST] []Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest. []Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! []The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries. []Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit will damage it. []You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television. []Apples are more efficient than caffeine in waking you up in the morning. [*]The little plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. (Did you imagine someone actually named them). [/LIST]
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[LIST] []A rat can last longer without water than a camel. []The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. []A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. []The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino. []315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. []John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son. Irony. []The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. []If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and look like it is stinging itself to death. It spasms a lot. [/LIST]
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[LIST] []Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! []There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building! []If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion! []Porcupines float in water! [*]The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! [/LIST]
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:lol: the idea is to just spout of something random you know, the stuff that's packed in your brain that sits there and collects dust, little bits of info....not copy and paste a bunch of stuff.
in your own words man, your own words! lol.
some of those are good tho.
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oh .... :oops:
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[quote=Kamal;561325][LIST] [*]Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.[/LIST][/quote]
got any proof of that? linkie linkie?
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[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=2]The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher. btw
and[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=2][COLOR=Black]Kikkoman soy sauce was originated in 1630 in Japan.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]
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In Spanish, "el ñino" means..... the ñino.
In the hit TV series Gilligan’s Island, Gilligan actually had a first name: Willy.
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[QUOTE=Huggie Smiles;561343]got any proof of that? linkie linkie?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://extension.osu.edu/~news/story.php?id=2356[/url]
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[quote=Kamal;561350][URL="http://extension.osu.edu/%7Enews/story.php?id=2356"]http://extension.osu.edu/~news/story.php?id=2356[/URL][/quote]
yea - but this says that its not fact at all! :[url]http://www.dcmsoft.com/rumor/story/stuff2.htm[/url]
[B] The [URL="http://www.michigan.gov/mda"]Michigan Department of Agriculture[/URL] used to say on its web site, “Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning. The sugar in apples, and the act of chewing, works better than a cup of coffee for keeping people alert.” But in late November 2006 their Website Administrator contacted Rumor Mill to say they quit saying that. And this was not to say apples contain caffeine. A page on the Ohio State University Extension [URL="http://extension.osu.edu/%7Enews/story.php?id=2356"]Web site[/URL] goes into more detail.
either way Im still having coffee :)
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[QUOTE=Huggie Smiles;561354]yea - but this says that its not fact at all! :[url]http://www.dcmsoft.com/rumor/story/stuff2.htm[/url]
[B] The [URL="http://www.michigan.gov/mda"]Michigan Department of Agriculture[/URL] used to say on its web site, “Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning. The sugar in apples, and the act of chewing, works better than a cup of coffee for keeping people alert.” But in late November 2006 their Website Administrator contacted Rumor Mill to say they quit saying that. And this was not to say apples contain caffeine. A page on the Ohio State University Extension [URL="http://extension.osu.edu/%7Enews/story.php?id=2356"]Web site[/URL] goes into more detail.
either way Im still having coffee :)
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no, I think the link I posted simply say's that while Apples dont have caffeine to compete with coffee, they help you get up / alert differently than what caffeine does
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My favorite so far: [LIST] [*]The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.[/LIST]
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you can not lick your elbow
don't tell me your trying it.
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[QUOTE]Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people![/QUOTE]Hahahaha quality Kamal! I'm a southpaw... should I run for cover now? :D
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Approximately 10ilbs of you body weight is made up of bacteria.
This one is disturbing... This is from one of my small group leaders at school. At the medical school I currently attend, up until a few years ago, students were taught how to do female pelvic exams on anestitized women awaiting surgery. They would line up 10 students and all have a feel about of her naughty bits. She would not be asked for permission.
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Finally another med student on the board! Me too threehills. I'm a third year on my surgery rotation and MS is helping to keep me sane.
Some medical trivia:
For children with Hirschprung's disease (babies are born without ganglion in their colon thus they cannot evacuate their bowels) the treatment of choice is called a "pull through" procedure where the distal colon, rectum, and anus are removed and bowel with ganglia present is pulled through anal perforation, thus giving the child a new anus and (hopefully) a fully functioning GI tract.
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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... [/quote]
:lol::lol::lol:
I've always heard the plague explanation, but your view on it comes from one of my favourite Simpsons episodes...
[quote] [B]Bart: [/B]Well, if your soul is real, where is it? [B]Milhouse: [/B][[I]motions to his chest[/I]] It's kind of in here. And when you sneeze, that's your soul trying to escape. Saying "God bless you" crams it back in! [[I]gestures up his nose[/I]] And when you die, it squirms out and flies away. [B]Bart: [/B]Uh huh. What if you die in a submarine at the bottom of the ocean? [B]Milhouse: [/B]Oh, it can swim. It's even got wheels in case you die in the desert and it has to drive to the cemetery.[/quote]
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If everybody in China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
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I've always heard the plague explanation, but your view on it comes from one of my favourite Simpsons episodes...[/quote]
haha I forgot about that episide...was definitely a good one :)
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Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to assassinate the President.
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the stuff of your fingernails called keratin is the same stuff as hair.
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when seahorses mate, the males actually give birth.
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1 in 2,227,000 ecstasy tablets will contribute to a users death.
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^^ more people die every year from horse riding and fishing related incidents (individually) than from using ecstasy
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The creature responsible for the most deaths around the world is the mosquito.
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[quote=Morgan;562270]1 in 2,227,000 ecstasy tablets will contribute to a users death.[/quote]
:shock:
by those numbers, i calculate that i have cheated death at least twice.
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[quote=Kamal;562275]^^ more people die every year from horse riding and fishing related incidents (individually) than from using ecstasy[/quote]
...but going fishing every weekend doesn't give you brain damage.