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 Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:23:55 AM
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I'm quite keen on promoting intelligence and general knowledge among individuals. Although I'm quite bad at remembering things I [i]need[/i] to remember, I tend to store away more mundane things in the farther reaches of my brain - Latin names for birds, reciting the periodic table in order, that sort of thing.
So what I thought might be fun/interesting would be for everyone to offer up a fact. I don't want anything made up, this has to be for real. And most of all it has to be interesting. I will give positive 'rep' for good stuff, and will privately curse you for anything obviously made up. If you find something interesting and remotely useful, you can leave rep for the member that made the post.
[i]RULES[/i]
1. Nothing rude.
2. Only ONE fact per post. No serial posting.
So here's mine to start the ball rolling.
[b]Dynamite is made from peanuts.[/b]
Enjoy!
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:30:44 AM
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| Did you know that the flu medically does not include vomiting or diarrhea? "Stomach FLu" does not exist, because it isn't the flu.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:32:36 AM
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| did you know that when your body is signalling hunger, often times it's just thirsty?
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:33:04 AM
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[B]Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:33:20 AM
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Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the name of a New Zealand hill.
Good luck spelling that in a New Zealand Spelling Bee contest...heh.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:34:29 AM
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| On a standard roll of film, both motion pictures and photography, they use a binder to hold all the imaging components together. That binder is a specially purified version of edible gelatin. Yes the same stuff they use is Jello. But don't eat your film.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:38:11 AM
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Oh and I forgot to mention that this is an excellent thread, Mulder.
Love it!
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:38:54 AM
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| The Hairy Frog (Astylosternus robustus) (and yes, I knew the Latin name from memory!) is competely bald!
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:40:56 AM
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| Venus is the only planet in our solar systen that rotates clockwise.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:43:24 AM
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| Limelight was how we lit the stage before electricity was invented. Basically, illumination was produced by heating blocks of lime until they glowed.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:46:39 AM
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Really SE.. that is interesting..
There are approximately 60,000 miles of veins, arteries, and capillaries in the human body.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:55:10 AM
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| Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a novel called "Futility". The story was about an ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April night. The name of the ship in his novel - The Titan.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:55:40 AM
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| Great thread by the way.. It won't let me give you rep...yet..
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:57:27 AM
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| There are no McDonald's outlets in Greenland, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, most of the Middle East, Guyana, Papua New Guinea, Burma, Vietnam and most of Africa. Lucky bas***ds!
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 12:59:36 AM
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| Months that begin on a Sunday.. always have a Friday the 13th.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:01:13 AM
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| Wow, tru I've never thought of that....this is becoming a very enlightening thread.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:02:57 AM
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| Time magazines 'Man of the Year' for 1938 was Adolf Hitler...
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:02:59 AM
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| 184 people are bitten by rats in New York each year, only surpassed by a whopping 1102 New Yorkers who are bitten by other New Yorkers.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:03:30 AM
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[B]Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman
if they had it to do all over again: 80%
Percentage of American women who say they'd marry the same man if
they had it to do all over again: 50%
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:03:52 AM
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[COLOR=#b5b4c0]Since you mentioned dynamite...[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#b5b4c0]Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel who willed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize. He was quite distraught that dynamite became a tool of war.[/COLOR]
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:05:16 AM
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| The longest jail sentence in Norway is just 21 years in prison.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:09:55 AM
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[B][FONT=Arial]Earth is the only planet not named after a god.[/FONT][/B]
This is hella fun..
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:12:03 AM
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| Singer Carly Simon likes to be spanked by her orchestra to calm her nerves before going on stage.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:14:21 AM
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| [B][FONT=Arial]Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.[/FONT][/B]
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:15:29 AM
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| A clock on Earth runs faster than a clock in orbit of Earth.
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Posted - 12/07/2007 : 01:16:12 AM
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| Tipp-Ex (also known as 'White-Out', 'Snopake' and 'Liquid Paper') was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, mother of former Monkee Mike Nesmith.
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