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Did you know that on average right handed people live nine years longer than left handed people? |
Did you know that May 16-26 is International Pickle Week? (to big to fit into a normal 7 day week!)
Pickles!!! It's just so wrong! MissInformation <=============> While in Europe, don't assume a pickle is a pickle as you know it... |
Did you know, on april 29, it's Matt Attallah's birthday?! :D
Did you know if the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. There, 2 at ya! ;) |
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B: that is no longer true. China has a law stating that only one child may be born per couple. So eventually if the law were to stay in effect forever the population would be lowered to two people than one then extinction. |
did you know that there is actually a type of deer so small it can fit in the palm of your hand...when it reaches it's adult size...
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There has been more information published in the past 30 years than in the previous 5000.
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Here's one I thought was common knowledge (amongst FIRSTers, that is), until several people stared at me blankly, and one wouldn't even believe me.
Did you know that Dean Kamen owns his own Island, and has seceded from the Union? (Island name is North Dumpling I think, or thereabouts. He even issued currency with the exchange rate of pi! At least he's got a sense of humour :D) Stephen [EDIT] Quote:
After checking a few sources, nobody agrees on all the facts, but everybody includes most of the details (sligthly different from version to version). [/EDIT] |
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Yes, and 1 Dollar = Pi Dumplings |
Did you know that air craft carriers have their own ZIP codes?
Heh, imagine trying the look on some poor clerks face when you demand 2.14159256.... dollars back! |
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Ketchup is believed to be a descendant of a Chinese brine sauce called 'Ketsiap' which was the result of making either pickled poultry or pickled fish. Ketsiap has been known in China since around 1690 and the name is most commonly applied to a type of fish sauce. The Chinese word 'Ketsiap' simply means 'sauce.' There is also a Malay version of this fish sauce by the name of 'kechap' and this Malaysian word means 'taste.' Sometime in the 17th century, British sailors were out sailing around for a breath of fresh air and adventure, not to mention plunder, when they discovered this fish sauce in China and carried a mess of it back home. There, probably in an effort to make it taste like anything but pickled fish, cooks mutated and reformulated this concoction until, somewhere along the way, someone invented tomatoes and history was made. Tomato Ketchup was born. |
Infield Fly Rule
Suprisingly many people do not know this rule.
from The Glosiversity With runners on first and second base, or the bases loaded and zero or one out, a ball hit in the air that does not go past the infield (or fifteen feet into the outfield). The batter is automatically declared out, thus preventing the fielders from purposely dropping the fly ball in an attempt to force out runners. |
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I seriously thought that you were kidding about that one... I believe stuff that's not true, but then when I try to be all smart and not gullible, what I don't believe ends up being true. But it's kind of strange it isn't more well known that Dean has his own island... you'd think that it would be. (especially amung FIRSTER-ers) |
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.
also..the human swallows an average of 3 spiders per year in their sleep. |
Did you know that snails can sleep for up to three years?
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Did you know that if locusts were scaled up to the size of humans, when they jumped their acceleration would be more than 7000 mph/s.
I think that's right. |
Did you know that team 294's contol board is made out of a real surf board?
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The world's most expensive coffee is made from coffee beans passed through the digestive system of an Indonesian animal. The animal processes the beans and excretes them whole, unscratched, and without dung. The animal is a palm civet, a dark brown tree-dwelling cat-like creature found throughout Southeast Asia. The palm civet likes the ripest and reddest coffee beans, which happen to be the ones best for brewing. The cat eats the outer covering of the beans in the same way that is accomplished by de-pulping machines. Something happens to the beans in the journey through the cat's intestines that gives it a flavor that is celebrated by coffee drinkers. The coffee's called Kopi Luwak .  |
Did you know that floccinaucinihilipilification (pronounced: FLOK-sih-noh-see-NEE-hee-lee-PEE-lih-fih-KAY-shun) is the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary's first edition?
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The Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois reaches 1,707ft (including the antennas) into the sky. It weighs more than 222,500 tons and is covered by more than 28 acres of black aluminum.
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There is small municipal uncontrolled airport in the middle of nowhere (6 miles from where I live) that the locals got state and or federal funding to make a runway that could handle a 737.
I just about died laughing when I found out. After all, there’s not much around here to make this place a destination. It’s just a rest stop on the way to Arches National Park and the other southern recreational areas. But that’s not the really funny part. The airport has served well as a safe place for the larger planes to land in emergencies and has had several jets re-routed there (9-11, type stuff). We also see private jets landing there on a regular basis now (Have to be careful about those jack rabbits sprinting across the runway though). Well, now that the airport actually proving itself and getting more frequent use etc……… DID YOU KNOW- That yesterday, the local officials made it known in the local newspaper that they want to make a shooting range there? (When my mother read the article, she laughed so hard I thought she’d have a stroke) Out here in the “wild” west, I guess just about anything that flies, is considered skeet. Think of the convenience. Now the shooters don’t have to waste their energy yelling “Pull!” |
The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
The most sensitive finger is the forefinger. |
Okay, a silly one I learned last weekend:
Did you know that you can roast marshmallow peeps over a bonfire but that they leave a strange after-taste? (and they don't really work for S'mores and some people get really appalled when you impale the peeps on sharp sticks, especially if you make frantic peeping noises while you're impaling the peeps) MissInformation <=============> no relation to Vlad the impaler |
Did you know that if you try to hold a sneeze in you can fracture a rib?
Or that if you sneeze too hard you can cause haemorrhaging in your brain and ultimately die of internal bleeding? |
Did you know that humans are the only animals that sneeze with their mouth open?
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OK I kinda stole this from the Show John Doe on FOX, If you havent seen it, Its about a guy who knows everything...I mean Everything... anyways
There are 336 dimples in a regulation PGA golfball |
I've always found this one amusing:
Did you know that Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the technical name for "fear of long words"? (How cruel!) Taken from www.phobialist.com. - Katie |
Did you know that all polar bears are left handed?
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Did you know if you keep thinking your wish, it would happen.
Did you know our time is speeding up. and Did you know my team was Canadian Regional Winner last year, but end up with second last place this year. :) |
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
Will Clark hit a home run in his first at-bat in college, the Olympics, and the Major Leagues. |
Did you know that an ostrich's eye is larger than its brain?
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Did you know that there was a study that lasted for 80 years in which 200,000 ostriches were observed, and that throughout the entire study there was not a single reported case of an ostrich either burying its head in the sand or obviously attempting to do so.
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Here are some interesting cat facts:
Did you know: Cat urine glows in the dark. Turn off the lights to see it. A cat cannot see directly under its nose. That explains why it may have a hard time finding tiny treats on the floor. Cats can't taste sweets. Every cat's nose pad is unique, and no two nose prints are the same. MissInformation <============> Hand in hand Is the only way to land And always the right way round Not broken in pieces Like hated little meeces... -Love Cats, by the Cure |
Did you know that the famous Wright brothers drew straws to choose who would fly their first airplane?
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Did you know I'm going to be REALLY nice and considerate to future Megaforce members who do not attend New Tech High? Because I really hate the feeling of being left out and wouldn't want to inflict that feeling on anyone else.
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shrimp often change gender from male to female after a year of sexual activity?  |
Did you know that Gerbils can chew through metal?
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Did you know that all California Sheepheads (a fish) are born male, and the males have a duel to determine who turns into a female to mate?
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The Mint issued two-cent and three-cent coins during the latter 1800s.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. |
Dinseyland & Disne World both had one of the top ten submarine fleets in the world untill the attractions they were built for closed.
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Did you know that Butterflies taste with their feet?
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This was actually from a T.V. commercial but anyways...
Did you know that an average female uses lipstick as much as her height in every 10 years? Did you know that actually there are monsters under your bed? Well, actually, they're just dust mites and they do live under your bed. They feed on your dead skin. (That was from a book I have about microscopic organisms and many other things in your home) |
I'm only posting this because it is one of the few things I learned in geometry.
The man who created the geodesic pattern used on the 'giant golf ball' at Walt Disney World was named R. Buckminster Fuller, thereby gaining the early monument the name of the 'Bucky Ball'. I asked this way back at the 2002 Nationals, and although nobody in line or on my team knew the answer, an elderly woman a couple lines over shouted out the answer. |
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In South Korea, people catch a baby octopus, dip it in oil and swallow it whole while it's still alive. But the octopus tries to stay alive by gripping on with its tentacles to the throat of the person eating it as they're swallowing.  |
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Did you know the word "cephalopod" (the class octopus belong to) generally means "head-foot"? |
The first words spoken on the moon, by Neil Armstrong, are well known, but what were the last words spoken from the moon?
"America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." - Commander Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Mission, 11 December 1972. |
Did you know that a new website is established every six seconds?
I wonder what the rate is for websites being taken down...hmmm. |
Did you know that your pinky finger is approximately 1 centimeter wide?
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Did you know a Leafy Sea Dragons relies entirely on its ability to look like a piece of sea grass for protection against predators? (do you even know what a Leafy Sea Dragon is?) They're very cute: Leafy Sea Dragon
MissInformation <=============> See, I told you dragons exist... |
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However, Fuller didn't create the geodesic dome, he just sought to popularize it. The geodesic dome was invented by Walter Bauersfeld in 1922. The first was built that same year in Jena, Germany. Geodesic domes are fun because none of the triangles around their surface are the same. In addition to the sphere found in Epcot, Buckminster Fuller was also responsible for the United States Pavilion at Expo '67 ...so, there's more information about domes than you could've ever hoped for. |
Did you know that cats have over 100 different sounds while dogs have only ten?
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Did you know that the Matrix:Reloaded comes out the 15th? You should already be in line waiting.
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In some tropical countries - lungfish can survive periods of drought - when lakes and rivers dry up - by burying themselves in the mud. The mud soon becomes hard baked in the sun and they stay there - breathing through a tiny air passage to the outside world - until the next rains come. They can live in these pits in the mud for up to 4 years and are unable to move until the rains return - the ground gets muddy and the pit dissolves.
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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesnt wear pants!!
If you cut off a cockroaches head, it can still live for weeks Cows give more milk when they listen to music |
Did you know that there are more english speakers in China then there are in America?
Did you know that Donald Duck's middle nameis Fontleroy? (My Discovery Lab teacher told me that one) |
Did you know that Charles Lindberg graduated from Redondo Union High school
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Tigers are the only members of the cat family that can not purr...and nobody knows why.
also, scientists still can not understand why flags wave in the wind. apparently, flags have the ability to stay perfectly still in the wind too...as proven by experiments done by the scientists. go figure. |
Did you know that 7up was invented by Charles Ceiper Grigg of the Howdy Corporation in 1929. It was originally called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", but the name was eventually changed to 7up. 7up was also the first soda to use 1 liter bottles.
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The purest gold coin is made by the Canadian Mint.
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i know do you?
did you know that racecar spelled backwards is racecar! amazing isint it:)
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if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney Cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie the winter of 1992 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid!! |
We're getting closer and closer to International Pickle Week!
Did you know good pickles have an audible crunch at ten paces? This is measured using an Audible Crunch Meter. Pickles that can only be heard at one pace are known as denture dills. MissInformation <============> Got pickles? |
Did you know that it is legal to duel in Paraguay as long as both parties are blood doners?
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The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale.
If a person in New Hampshire is caught raking the beaches, picking up litter, hauling away trash, building a bench for the park and many other activities without a permit, he/she may be fined $150 for "maintaining the national forest without a permit." Although bourbon is Kentucky's leading export and its production directly employs thousands of people, it is illegal to buy the product in the very counties in which it is produced. They are all, to this day, still dry. |
It's illegal to hunt whales on Sunday in Ohio.
If someone beats a cow with porcelan figures he could be called a Nick Nack Patty Wack. TODAYS ODD DISNEY FACTOID: All the waterways in the Magic Kingdom are connected. The highest point in the system is the 20000 Leagues Lagoon and flows to the lowest point, the Rivers of America. 384 acutally handed out rare gold & blue beeds at the VCU regional, while at Nats they handed out orange and blue. Freaky.... |
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dumb NYC law
Did u know...that in NYC jumping off a high building is punishable by death!
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Crab Drive comes from the Crab car. I forget when it was introduced but I think it was the 60's or 70's. In the crab car, to parallel park all you need to do was to drive up beside the spot and press a button. Your wheels would rotate 90 degrees and you could drive straight in and out of your spot. Unfortunately this was ridiculously unreliable so many times your wheels would get stuck in one orientation. Currently, Engineers in major auto makers are looking into the idea of crab drive.
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Did you know that elephants are the only ones that can't jump?
Did you know my Birthday is on Valentines day? |
the only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear??
my birthday is on leap year?? |
heh, about that 60's crab drive.
My great grand-something (i never met him) unloaded a few hundred Popular Mechanics, from the 50's through the 70's. One of them featured the parrallel parking system of which you speak . . . but not quite. It was indeed called crab car or something, but the main drive wheels did not actually rotate. Instead, a small set (read, 4 inche diameter) of wheels that were oriented perpendicular to the direction of normal travel lowered, and allowed you to drive the car (slowly) either left or right. It never caught on because it was buggy and expensive, and most people could parrallel park without it. Most people still can, its not that hard. They featured several other parking systems. One I remember was a kinda forklift device. You would pull up in the spot and pay the man (or the machine, it may have been automated) and it would slide its forks under your car and park it in any of a honeycomb of spots that it controlled (it had two directions of motion.) It never caught on because of price and maintenence. And noone would let their BMW get forklifted up twenty feet by either a robot or the scruffy-looking operator. did you know that what a company tells you is one kilobyte is only 1000/1024 of a kilobyte. And what a company tells you is one meg is really only 1000/1024 kilobytes, and so on and so forth? |
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I've heard a few nifty factoids lately and thought of this thread.
Did you know... on every continent there is a city called Rome? the pin that holds a hinge together is called a pintle? the electric chair was invented by a dentist? |
ok this is completly random but did you know that it is illeagl to own a hedgehog in Pennsylvania. weird huh? just found that out.
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dumb laws
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In chico california...Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits results in a $500 fine In texas...When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone. In new york... A person may not walk around on Sundays with an ice cream cone in his/her pocket. In maine...You may not step out of a plane in flight. and finally, In pensacola, florida...A women can be fined (only after death), for being electrocuted in a bath-tub because of using self-beautification utensils. cant help but laugh at all the dumb laws in the US, for more go to http://www.dumblaws.com/index.html |
More dumb laws...
San Francisco: -Prohibits elephants from strolling down Market Street unless they are on a leash. -Persons classified as "ugly" may not walk down any street. What good would a leash do on an elephant? Seriously! ...So who classifies the person as ugly? A police officer? Or can any person call the police and report an "ugly person"? |
Another dumb law just to keep this moving!
In North Carolina, it is illegal for a game of Bingo to last longer than five hours unless it is held at a fair.
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does anyone know any dumb canadian laws?? because so far these are all dumb american laws.
some more dumb american laws: In Minnesota, it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head. In Indiana, it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic. Arizona requires its citizens to register with the state before going into the business of selling cocaine, marijuana, heroin or other illegal drugs. Pierre, South Dakota is the only example of a state and capital in the U.S. that don't share any letters. and some random american stats: In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills. (of course) There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. In the U.S. there are more 2nd streets than there are 1st streets and Main street is not the most common; Pine street is. |
did you know that Alaska is the state that pays the most for computer engineering when you first start?
did you know that i want to name one of my future kids Aristotle? did you know that you can make a spectroscope out of some cardboard paper, an old cd, and some tape? i didn't think so..... "do you know the muffin man????......." |
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Did you know that if you are released from prison in Alberta, Canada, it is required that you are given a handgun with bullets and a horse, so you can ride out of town? |
did you know that Jessie Owens's real name was J.C. but one of his teachers heard him wrong and he used Jesse ever since?
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Did you know that 100% of the people who eat bread die?? :)
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-Did you know that procrastanation is an art, and cruising Chief Delphi at 10:00 at night actually decreases your productivity? Who would have thought? Stephen |
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Did you know that if you eat a pickle a day you probably won't get Scurvy?
MissInformation <============> "Never invite a teenager into your house, it renders you powerless." Okay, so the real quote says "vampire" but it still applies to teens too. |
Did you know that December 10th is the only day that no registered Chief Delphi user has a birthday listed?
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Downtown Los Angeles is near 4 major faults - San Andreas, Newport-Inglewood, Sierra Madre and Whittier. Not all experts think this heightens the danger. Some say it prompts little quakes, and so prevents big ones. |
That galaxy called Milky Way is just one of the 25 in its group. When astronomers discovered another near it, they called it Snickers.
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That there are more posts in the "A Word Association Here" thread than there are members on CD.
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"yes, i in fact did know that right handed people live longer than lefties."
-I say as i type with my left hand:( |
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