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tell me some intersting facts that u know
for exmple ppl with long fingers: Put a little less effort into gathering unnecessary facts when making decisions. Long fingered people tend to need more details and facts than other people before making decisions. This can delay or exclude the decision from ever being made
I know my english is bad so correct me if i wrong.
thanks.
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2005 20:48 Post subject: |
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Mutantius
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2005 21:05 Post subject: |
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| Mutantius wrote: | Women lives longer then men  |
FALSE. The oldest human was a man 
It's a fact a cockroach can live for 3 months without it's head. |
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2005 21:06 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2005 21:40 Post subject: |
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ChinUp
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* If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
* The chances of your dying on the trip to buy your MegaBucks ticket is greater than your chance of winning
*An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
*cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
*The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
*Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
*More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a typical French kiss!
*Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.
*The Pacific island of Nauru’s economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings.
*A group of frogs is called an army
*Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.
*The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
*A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
*Most lipstick contains fish scales!
* In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
* Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
* One in 500 humans has one blue eye and one brown eye.
* Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
* Blue whales reach between 70-100 feet in length and weigh up to 150 tons. That's comparable to a Boeing jet!
* Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
* The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in 17th Century England. During heavy downpours of rain, many of these poor animals unfortunately drowned and their bodies would be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets. The situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression.
* The first elevator, called the Flying Chair, was erected in King Louis XV's private apartments in the Palace of Versailles in 1743. It gave him ready access to his mistress, Madame de Chateauroux, on the floor above. The Flying Chair was operated by weights.
* In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
* The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
* Fresh urine is cleaner than spit or the skin on your face because healthy pee is not home to bacteria.
* Henry II was murdered by by his homosexual lover, who pushed a red hot poker 0.5 metres up his rectum.
* The longest recorded tapeworm found in the human body was 33 *metres* in length.
* Several well documented instances have been reported of extremely obese people flushing aircraft toilets whilst still sitting on them. The vacuum action of these toilets sucked the rectum inside out.
* A woman who had recently visited South America, where she had safaried in local rainforest, began to experience severe pains in her left ear, accompanied by headaches, dizziness and constant rustling sounds, at first put down to tinnitis. It became so serious that exploratory surgery was required, which revealed that a spider which had become trapped in her ear. Eventually it had eaten through her eardrum and was living within the aural cavity. The rustling sounds were from the spider crawling around inside her skull. An egg sac was also removed...
* Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
* Sex is the safest tranquiliser in the world. It is 10 times more effective than Valium.
* The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in thier lifetime.
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
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ChinUp
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2005 22:38 Post subject: |
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* Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women do. But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men.
* It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
* One acre of hemp will produce as much paper as four acres of trees (and can be replaced next season).
* Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.
* Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic. The federal government subsidized hemp during the Second World War and US farmers grew about a million acres of hemp as part of that program.
* Hemp Seed is far more nutritious than even soybean, contains more essential fatty acids than any other source, is second only to soybeans in complete protein (but is more digestible by humans), is high in B-vitamins, and is 35% dietary fiber. Hemp seed is not psychoactive and cannot be used as a drug. See TestPledge.com
* The bark of the hemp stalk contains bast fibers which are among the Earth's longest natural soft fibers and are also rich in cellulose; the cellulose and hemi-cellulose in its inner woody core are called hurds. Hemp stalk is not psychoactive. Hemp fiber is longer, stronger, more absorbent and more insulative than cotton fiber.
* According to the Department of Energy, hemp as a biomass fuel producer requires the least specialized growing and processing procedures of all hemp products. The hydrocarbons in hemp can be processed into a wide range of biomass energy sources, from fuel pellets to liquid fuels and gas. Development of biofuels could significantly reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and nuclear power.
* Hemp grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides. Almost half of the agricultural chemicals used on US crops are applied to cotton.
* Hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber on a sustainable basis, and can be used for every quality of paper. Hemp paper manufacturing can reduce wastewater contamination. Hemp's low lignin content reduces the need for acids used in pulping, and it's creamy color lends itself to environmentally friendly bleaching instead of harsh chlorine compounds. Less bleaching results in less dioxin and fewer chemical byproducts.
* Hemp fiber paper resists decomposition, and does not yellow with age when an acid-free process is used. Hemp paper more than 1,500 years old has been found. It can also be recycled more times.
* Hemp fiberboard produced by Washington State University was found to be twice as strong as wood-based fiberboard.
* Eco-friendly hemp can replace most toxic petrochemical products. Research is being done to use hemp in manufacturing biodegradable plastic products: plant-based cellophane, recycled plastic mixed with hemp for injection-molded products, and resins made from the oil, to name just a very few examples.
California Laws
* Animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship.
* It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.
* No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.
* Many animals are illegal to own as pets, including snails, sloths, and elephants.
* Nobody is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool.
* It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a strap wider than 2 inches without her consent.
* It is illegal to cry on the witness stand.
* Molesting butterflies can result in a $500 fine.
* It is illegal for a secretary to be alone in a room with her boss.
* One may not carry a lunch down the street between 11 and 1 o'clock.
* Persons classified as "ugly" may not walk down any street.
* It is illegal to pile horse manure more than six feet high on a street corner.
* Giving or receiving oral sex is prohibited.
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
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Rofl_Mao
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2005 22:55 Post subject: |
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The illegal warez scene is severely hurting legal software sales.
| Lopin18 wrote: | I think you played too much Fallout 3, Pedo Perk acquired.  |
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fisk
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| Posted: Mon, 29th Aug 2005 23:49 Post subject: |
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Chinup: Please stop posting these "facts", a lot of them are absolutely fake.
For instance, lightning travels from the ground up? Oh really? So all scientists that have concluded that lightning comes from two clouds with different charges expel a bolt of energy that seek ground (just like electricity) are wrong?
Man, I just hate "fact lists" that ie. snopes prove wrong - it just goes to show how stupid a lot of people are.
| Quote: | | Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. |
First of all, not true in all cases... all decks are NOT the same, and Julius Caesar was obviously not king.
| Quote: | | * Fresh urine is cleaner than spit or the skin on your face because healthy pee is not home to bacteria. |
That of course depends on your definition of "clean", urine contains rest-products from the body, just like fecal matter. Urine is also extremely strong. Lastly, depending on what sort of fluids you've been drinking, urine can be pretty damn unhealthy ... it's a pretty good anti-bacterial fluid though (if nothing else is available) ... if you take a course of survival, you'll learn that you can use your urine as a last-resort disinfectant, so it's not entirely wrong...
Yes, yes I'm back.
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ChinUp
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2005 00:05 Post subject: |
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| fisk wrote: | Chinup: Please stop posting these "facts", a lot of them are absolutely fake.
For instance, lightning travels from the ground up? Oh really? So all scientists that have concluded that lightning comes from two clouds with different charges expel a bolt of energy that seek ground (just like electricity) are wrong?
Man, I just hate "fact lists" that ie. snopes prove wrong - it just goes to show how stupid a lot of people are.
| Quote: | | Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar. |
First of all, not true in all cases... all decks are NOT the same, and Julius Caesar was obviously not king.
| Quote: | | * Fresh urine is cleaner than spit or the skin on your face because healthy pee is not home to bacteria. |
That of course depends on your definition of "clean", urine contains rest-products from the body, just like fecal matter. Urine is also extremely strong. Lastly, depending on what sort of fluids you've been drinking, urine can be pretty damn unhealthy ... it's a pretty good anti-bacterial fluid though (if nothing else is available) ... if you take a course of survival, you'll learn that you can use your urine as a last-resort disinfectant, so it's not entirely wrong... |
ho boy are you wound up tight over this ..
first I have watched lightening do its thing & its a contact with the earth that is synchronous so to say it comes from he sky or the earth is not happening, it happens together @ once .. the facts are fun data I picked up along my search .. easy nobody is expecting you to believe everything I post .. sheesh
no more from me ok .. will you be so kind as to take over ?
* In 1937, the Marijuana Tax Stamp prohibited the use, sale and cultivation of marijuana AND hemp in the United States. No attempts were made to distinguish Hemp from the smokeable Marijuana
* President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
* The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
* Among the Abipone people of Paraguay, individuals who abstain from alcohol are thought to be "cowardly, degenerate and stupid."
* A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
* The fastest moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2005 00:13 Post subject: |
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fisk...... urine isn't poisonous so that is true but many of his facts weren't true. The 'raining cats and dogs' is bullshit. As is 'Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women do. But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men. '
chin up stop pasting stuff from the net and come up with unusual facts you've picked up.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2005 00:15 Post subject: |
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| ChinUp wrote: |
first I have watched lightening do its thing & its a contact with the earth that is synchronous so to say it comes from he sky or the earth is not happening, it happens together @ once ..
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The charge travels from the clouds to the point of least resistance. Do you expect to be able to see the lightning come down? It might look instantaneous to the human eye but it's not. Any kid who's passed GCSE physics will be able to tell you that.
"Techniclly speaking, Beta-Manboi didnt inject Burberry_Massi with Benz, he injected him with liquid that had air bubbles in it, which caused benz." - House M.D
"Faith without logic is the same as knowledge without understanding; meaningless"
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ChinUp
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2005 00:36 Post subject: |
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| ChinUp wrote: | | why would the ground get hot before it happens ? |
Because of the congregation of opposing charge.
Bullshit did you study electronics in uni, otherwise you would know that.
"Techniclly speaking, Beta-Manboi didnt inject Burberry_Massi with Benz, he injected him with liquid that had air bubbles in it, which caused benz." - House M.D
"Faith without logic is the same as knowledge without understanding; meaningless"
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ChinUp
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2005 00:57 Post subject: |
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Fact: This thread got messed up due to fake facts
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When rome had one million citizens the next city to have such a population came 1000 years later.
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fisk
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2005 01:26 Post subject: |
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| Pizda2 wrote: | | When rome had one million citizens the next city to have such a population came 1000 years later. |
Err, I hope you mean "in Europe".
| ChinUp wrote: |
first I have watched lightening do its thing & its a contact with the earth that is synchronous so to say it comes from he sky or the earth is not happening, it happens together @ once .. the facts are fun data I picked up along my search .. easy nobody is expecting you to believe everything I post .. sheesh |
You are incorrect.
But perhaps lightning is created by one of those "unknown forces" you've heard "scientists" refer to when you watched Discovery. 
(These fucking religious people)
| Sublime wrote: | | fisk...... urine isn't poisonous |
I never said so.
The urine comes from the rest-products from the liver, the liver is basically the organ that cleans our body from different substances that can cause serious reactions in the body. When a person has quaffed a certain amount of ie. food with "unhealthy content", alcohol, or acidic substances, the liver is the filter for the body.
The more "bad substance" you consume, the more unhealthy stuff the body has to get rid off, through urine and fecal matter (you know when it smells real bad, that's your own damn fault ).
This is pretty easy logic, and shouldn't be that hard to comprehend. Bad shit in, bad shit out.
So urine is as "healthy" or "unhealthy" as what you've been drinking/eating. It can be quite acidic at times.
Yes, yes I'm back.
Somewhat.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2005 01:31 Post subject: |
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| fisk wrote: | | Pizda2 wrote: | | When rome had one million citizens the next city to have such a population came 1000 years later. |
Err, I hope you mean "in Europe".
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Well, ofcourse.... where else? Asia? Africa? Don't know any history of those continents.
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fisk
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2005 01:41 Post subject: |
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The Minoans, now I remember, also.... Carthage, thinking of Rome made me think of them, they had a good civilization as well....
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ChinUp
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| fisk wrote: | | (These fucking religious people) |
look up animism chump .. then call me religious & look like a real fool .. Aren’t any animist church’s cousin .. why do you insult me for having faith in a higher awareness beyond understanding .. suppose you think we are the only life in the cosmos also .. rofl .. just because we have no proof otherwise .. you decide how shallow you want life to be .. but don’t go slagging me off for thinking life is more than just this little planet .. ok
Ivan IV (the Terrible)
1547 --- 1st Tsar of Russia.
Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary)
1553 --- 1st reigning queen of England.
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in & out of favor." ~ Frost
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fisk
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What the hell has animism got to do with real life physics?
Lightning doesn't come from the earth and travel towards the clouds, you were wrong, period.
What make you "a fucking religious person" (in all it's derogatory sense) is that you convey and spread bullshit as if it was true.
No one of the people who disagreed with you said there's no "higher conscience", we were just plain sick of your typical mindless Missionary-religious-fanboi spreading pseudo-babble about how everyone who didn't reason like you "hadn't experienced what <blah blah blah> really is".
Oh, by the way - since you really are only promoting your ego here (and nothing else, no matter what you try to make me believe), go fuck yourself.
Yes, yes I'm back.
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2005 02:42 Post subject: |
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| fisk wrote: | Most Europeans think the only "epic" civilization in history is the Roman empire.
This just shows Europeans are about as smart as they imagine americans are. |
damn, to bad I cant add that to my sig.....  |
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SycoShaman
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| Posted: Tue, 30th Aug 2005 02:43 Post subject: |
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| Pizda2 wrote: | | fisk wrote: | Most Europeans think the only "epic" civilization in history is the Roman empire.
This just shows Europeans are about as smart as they imagine americans are. |
I know that the Greeks had an epic civlization as well, The Egyptians and there was one civilization,... I forgot what they were named something with an M or so, on a small Island, a volcano ultimatley ended that empire, they had a great civlization even before the Egyptians. The Babylonians had a super civlization... eh... the Macedonians as well well that counts more as the Greeks, if you know more please do add. |
The M...ur thinking of Myians (spelling?) perhaps? |
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