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I'd rather be partly brain damaged and functioning than dead
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the more you know
152 durable postsStarted 2008-01-17Latest 2008-02-01
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The whole world is in a process of being Anglicized.
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^^^ interesting "fact"....
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The first domesticated bird was a goose.
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PEZ dispensers were intentionally designed and marketed to look and operate like zippo lighters to help people quit smoking.
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London tap water has usually passed through 6 people before you drink it.
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[quote=Morgan;562632]London tap water has usually passed through 6 people before you drink it.[/quote]
Thats just wrong!!!!
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^^ why ? nothing works better than the human filter imo
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by those numbers, i calculate that i have cheated death at least twice.[/quote]
i some how doubt you have done 4,500,000 pills!
if u have i take my hat off to you and applaud the fact u can type, let alone think!
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or turn on the computer for that matter
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[quote=Dhar_2;562784]i some how doubt you have done 4,500,000 pills!
if u have i take my hat off to you and applaud the fact u can type, let alone think![/quote]
um, that was a joke. considering most pills will intoxicate you for roughly 6 to 8 hours. at the number of pills mentioned that would have put me in an inebriated state for 31,500,000 hours of my life. at 31 I've only been alive 273,720 hours. again, it was only a joke.
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yeah! yeah!
trying to be the big man!
we know your sort!
"last night i took 3 million pills. i wasnt even wasted!"
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^^too funny. not my type at all. now don't get me wrong, used to throw down back in the day, and when i did there was no way in hell i could tell anyone that i wasn't wasted, it was quite clear; but the numbers mentioned were purely exaggeration.
also
[SIZE=2]Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God. [/SIZE]
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[quote=rainman;560832] 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.[/quote]
correction- It is the internet myth that the name of the popular Scottish game Golf stands for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden." The word golf originates form medieval Scottish and Dutch dialects. Back in a day before the creation of dictionaries, there was no standardized spelling of any given word. So it is believed that word golf originates from Dutch word "kolf" or "kolve" which meant "club." Later on old Scots dialect transformed the word into "gouf" or "golve ."
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I grew up in a wine friendly region so maybe this is something not everybody knows (pretty useless info though lol):
White wine can be produced from both red and white grapes but red wine can only be made with red grapes.
Spectacular!
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^yep. It's the skin of the grape that give it the color.
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honey is the only food that doesn't expire. Honey unearthed from egyptian tombs was still edible.
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Good to Know
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You can Hypnotize Chickens
A chicken can be hypnotized, or put into a trance by holding its head down against the ground, and continuously drawing a line along the ground with a stick or a finger, starting at its beak and extending straight outward in front of the chicken.
If the chicken is hypnotized in this manner, it will remain immobile for somewhere between 15 seconds to 30 minutes, continuing to stare at the line.
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quality!
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Did you know that...If you see a driver flashing the lights in daylight, that probably means that police radar is near and you should be aware of the speed limit. Cyprus is one of the few places on earth that you will see people do that!
Im actually from Cy and i thought ppl do this everywhere haha sneaky
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^ Get shot for that in some places..
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[quote=kassios;563545]Did you know that...If you see a driver flashing the lights in daylight, that probably means that police radar is near and you should be aware of the speed limit. Cyprus is one of the few places on earth that you will see people do that!
Im actually from Cy and i thought ppl do this everywhere haha sneaky[/quote]
Yeah, we do that here in Ontario, Canada too! Thanks peeps for the flashing headlights.
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[QUOTE=threehills;562305]...but going fishing every weekend doesn't give you brain damage.[/QUOTE] What makes you think ecstasy does? The only study I am aware of [Ricaurte], that came to this conclusion has been well and truly discredited .
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[QUOTE=chanty;563563]Yeah, we do that here in Ontario, Canada too! Thanks peeps for the flashing headlights.[/QUOTE] I think this might be world wide. It happens here as well.:)
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[quote=DIDI;563584]What makes you think ecstasy does? The only study I am aware of [Ricaurte], that came to this conclusion has been well and truly discredited .[/quote]Long term memory is blanked permanently if you take enough x (study at the university of Utrecht, [URL="http://www.nu.nl/news/846704/83/Xtc_schaadt_geheugen_op_lange_termijn.html"]2006[/URL])
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There are more atoms in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the oceans.
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^Facts like that keep me awake at night. I f****** love random facts!
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[quote=kassios;563545]Did you know that...If you see a driver flashing the lights in daylight, that probably means that police radar is near and you should be aware of the speed limit. Cyprus is one of the few places on earth that you will see people do that!
Im actually from Cy and i thought ppl do this everywhere haha sneaky[/quote]
Yip we have it here too.
The big debate is whether it is "defeating the ends of justice" or "crime prevention";)
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^Drivers in Australia do that too, three flashes on the hi-beam IIRC. :D
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[quote=DIDI;563584]What makes you think ecstasy does? The only study I am aware of [Ricaurte], that came to this conclusion has been well and truly discredited .[/quote]
Damn I just read something about this last week. Some guy who's reportedly taken the most numbr of pills in his lifetime in any reported study. His long term memory is alright, but his short term memory is absolutely FUCKE*D. Almost like Alzheimer's, he doesn't even realize he's forgetting things or has a problem :shock:
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[quote=nick007;563923]Yip we have it here too.
The big debate is whether it is "defeating the ends of justice" or "crime prevention";)[/quote]
not a big deal .....:)
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[quote=lilsensa;563547]^ Get shot for that in some places..[/quote]
yup!! :shock:
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God is one of US, just a stranger on the bus/
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^lol. you're having trouble with the idea of this thread aren't ya? :lol:
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saw this on Nova this past weekend.... INCREDIBLE INCREDIBLE show.....
Fascinating this Bose-Einstein condensate isnt it
[QUOTE=day_for_night;560920]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.[/QUOTE]
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Did you know...
A Goliath frog is about as big as a baby deer. Proof:
[IMG]http://allaboutfrogs.org/gallery/photos/images/giant.jpg[/IMG]
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[FONT=Arial][COLOR=Silver] In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, [I]goodnight, sleep tight[/I] came from.[/COLOR][/FONT]
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it is impossible to keep your eyes open while you sneeze.
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[quote=rainman;564046]it is impossible to keep your eyes open while you sneeze.[/quote]
They will fall out of your eyesockets :).