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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wayout on June 28, 2011, 07:55:47 AM
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If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of
your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left
side of your mouth.
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million
individual flowers.
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is
considered an insult!
People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in
their stomachs.
Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave
them off!
Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for
a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time
when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out
and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for
thousands of years.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is
dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every
English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless
it's heated above 450�F.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the
ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of
man.
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air
density.
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of
marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy
Birthday.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it
was intended to prevent.
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it
is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights
in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see
stars, even in the middle of the day.
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is
sight.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred
grams.
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000
meters (49,212 feet).
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set
up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are
needed at lift-off.
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
And last but not least:
In 2011, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently
happens once every 823 years! This is called 'money bags'.
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Forgot one.
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Forgot one.
And that would be?????
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Your left foot goes on the left side
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"Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean."
Is there more to this one? :headscratch:
Coogan
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I four one am much smarterer now.
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Googol is the correct spelling for a number followed by 100 zeroes. No, searched Google and all I got was the browser.
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Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
Actually a Google has 100 zeros a Google-plex has one million zeroes.
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Actually a Google has 100 zeros a Google-plex has one million zeroes.
Actually, a googolplex is a 1 followed by a googol 0s. :)
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Actually a Google has 100 zeros a Google-plex has one million zeroes.
A googol is 10^100.
A googolplex is the number 10^googol, i.e. 10(^10(^100)).
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And last but not least:
In 2011, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently
happens once every 823 years! This is called 'money bags'.
:old:
In the past 20 years this has happened in :
January - '93, '99, '10.
March - '91, '96, '02.
May - '92, '98, '09.
July - '94, '05.
August - '97, '03, '08.
October - '93, '99, '04, '10.
December - '95, '00, '06.
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#3 isnt quite correct! bayer marketed heroin as a cure for Morphine addiction. insedently to add to useless imfo...
Bayer "invented" heroine and asperin in the same year and both were legal and easily gotten from any "drugstore"
:salute
PS: check my avatar.... :D
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"Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean."
Is there more to this one? :headscratch:
Coogan
Sounds about right. More of the Earth is covered by ocean than by land. And oceans have much more liveable space because of the 3d aspect and how deep they go. Plus, life started in the oceans and evolved quite a bit before anything even touched dry land.
To add to the pot: I've read in multiple places that 99% of all species that have ever existed on Earth are extinct. Kinda puts things in perspective.
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If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of
your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left
side of your mouth.
odd, butmakes sense
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million
individual flowers.
thats insane!!!! that makes you wonder...is all honey REALLY honey?
Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'.
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is
considered an insult!
good to know...was headed over there this summer...not really
People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.
:O
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
interesting...why?
Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in
their stomachs.
well, there goes my number one reason for going into space :D
Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.
:huh asia also used pig hair for toothbrush bristles
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave
them off!
looked just now...i always thought the shadows around her eyes were eybrows
Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for
a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.
thatts just cool
The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve", which is regarded as a time
when a young woman dreams of her future husband.
lol my girlfriend dreamt of that guy from twilight that night...i remembered that just now
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.
thought it was 'googol' and with 100 '0s'?
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out
and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
i knew it was a long time, but not that long
Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for
thousands of years.
its already a rusty-ish color. thats why, in my mind
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
i actually checked this :lol
If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is
dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
whoops...
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
so how did they differentiate between the month, day and year in dates?
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
short string=short range...?
The song, Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every
English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
:aok
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent.
i KNEW it was good for something other than hydration!!!
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless
it's heated above 450�F.
makes sense
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the
ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
knew that...tried talking to my grandma oncewhen i went to the beach when i was small...didnt work out so well.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
:huh that many?i thought there like were like 5729850120120 different kinds of inscets/bugs/arachnids?
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of
man.
so if everyone died now, and 1000 years later life cam back, there would be no bananas? :(
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air
density.
cool
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
:huhhow is that possible?!
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
knew that
In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of
marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
my girlfriend would have so many marriages happening right now... :lol
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy
Birthday.
i wonder who REALLY wrote that song?
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
how do people come up with these things?!
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
thank you, science class :D
The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it
was intended to prevent.
:( now thats just sad
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it
is found in some medicines.
its a painkiller on its own XD
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights
in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
i thought it was to show them they were unarmed?
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see
stars, even in the middle of the day.
me :google maps: "deep well"
When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is
sight.
how do they know that? :headscratch:
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
oh...
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
there must be something else...
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred
grams.
blech
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
oh dear...
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
i dont even know how much it weighs in the first place :lol
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000
meters (49,212 feet).
really? huh.
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
:rofl
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set
up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
it must be hell once you get off the bridge.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
how do they know THIS!?
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are
needed at lift-off.
what is the definition of "extra" and "excess"?
The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
again....thank you science class
And last but not least:
In 2011, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays. This apparently
happens once every 823 years! This is called 'money bags'.
thats actually really wierd.
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:banana: :banana: yes we have no bananas :banana: :banana:
Coogan
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Density Altitude is actually pretty important........
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FIRST THING CAVEMAN DO IS MAKE BANNA!
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and if u tear the paper off water bottles you have a lack of sex.
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And that would be?????
Humming birds are the only species of birds that can fly backwards and sideways.
add another one.
Devil's Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) , are one of the most threatening species of fish in the world that only 104 remains in a cave about 10' by 30' in Nevada.
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Humming birds are the only species of birds that can fly backwards and sideways.
add another one.
Devil's Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) , are one of the most threatening species of fish in the world that only 104 remains in a cave about 10' by 30' in Nevada.
you mean threatened?
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Did you know that kayak spelled backwards is -
kayak.
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Did you know that kayak spelled backwards is -
kayak.
Racecar
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zxcvbnmnbvcxz
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Did you know that kayak spelled backwards is -
kayak.
Rats live on no evil star, too. (Don't use the too)
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... are yall on the "LEVEL"
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... are yall on the "LEVEL"
Shuffler if you were new here, this question would make sense. :)
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Shuffler if you were new here, this question would make sense. :)
Clarify... sense..... since...... scents.... or cents. Enquiring minds want to know :neener:
BTW did you know that all biscuits have a ROLL model?
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Clarify... sense..... since...... scents.... or cents. Enquiring minds want to know :neener:
BTW did you know that all biscuits have a ROLL model?
:lol
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:huh NO MORE BANANAS!!!!!!!!!!!! :( :( :( :( :(
:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
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The human body can survive without the stomach or spleen.
An eyeball can become fully dislodged from its socket, but if one simply presses it back into place the eye will be good as new.
The diameter of a blue whale's urethra can be the size of a human head.
-Penguin
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there is a star that is so dense, a cubic centimeter weighs 300lbs....just cant remember the stars name...haha
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there is a star that is so dense, a cubic centimeter weighs 300lbs....just cant remember the stars name...haha
Rosie O'Donnell?
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Rosie O'Donnell?
:rofl :rofl :rofl
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Rosie O'Donnell?
Aww I knew that one :P
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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
At least that's longer than my fights :joystick:
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
:lol
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
:headscratch:
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
:O
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Sounds like some people I know
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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
At least that's longer than my fights :joystick:
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
:lol
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
:headscratch:
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
:O
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Sounds like some people I know
North America, South America?
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North America, South America?
Very good!!
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well eastern europe does, but western europe doesnt (sarcasm intended).
hey did columbus rediscovered central america only?
semp
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North America, South America?
Oceania?