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The collective term for a group of cats is a clowder.
Mar 16, 2010 18:36 by hardrockhippie -
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Aside from being a QB, a placekicker AND a defensive lineman (for a bit), George Blanda was 48 when he retired from pro football.
Mar 16, 2010 18:08 by zoe -
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Mar 16, 2010 17:46 by coco-tidan -
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John Wayne Gacy was given special permission to meet first lady Rosalynn Carter when he was a community leader. This was later an embarrassment to the secret service.
Mar 16, 2010 17:33 by sarastarrr -
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This is a white throated sparrow
Mar 16, 2010 17:13 by callan -
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The atomic weight of cobalt is 58.9.
Mar 16, 2010 16:50 by fordzaphod -
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An average cow produces 30 lbs of urine and 65 lbs pounds of feces daily.
Mar 16, 2010 16:40 by mandy716-
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holy shit! (literally). no wonder why we have such bad carbon emissions!
Mar 16, 2010 17:39 by toyotaboy. -
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now that is impressive
Mar 16, 2010 17:50 by coco-tidan. -
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Wow....imagine having to measure that.
Mar 16, 2010 18:21 by stephie.
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Organ²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) is a musical piece composed by John Cage and is the subject of one of the longest-lasting musical performances yet undertaken. The current organ performance of the piece at St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt, Germany, began in 2001 and is scheduled to have a duration of 639 years, ending in 2640. They specially built an organ to play this song and continue to maintenance it while it plays. Each note or chord takes anywhere from 2 months to 2 years to play.
Mar 16, 2010 14:59 by jon_wizzle -
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Sun dogs are two bright (often rainbow-like) lights that show up on either side of the sun, when light is reflected off of ice crystals in the air. They're really beautiful, but if you see them it usually means the day is gonna be pretty darn cold.
Mar 16, 2010 14:10 by philos-phobos-
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oooh, pretty, in a freeze you dead kind of way.
Mar 16, 2010 14:46 by nonlinear_time.
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"As of March 2008, it cost the U.S. Mint 1.7 cents to make a penny, 70% more than the value of the coin." (thanks to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_%28United_States_coin%29 for more info)
Mar 16, 2010 13:47 by chaomancer -
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A long island ice tea has almost as many calories as a cheeseburger. Averaging around 740.
Mar 16, 2010 13:09 by discomeg2-
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nooooo!
Mar 16, 2010 14:11 by breanna. -
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Yikes! Useful information, though.
Mar 16, 2010 14:46 by nonlinear_time. -
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And there's no tea in it.
Mar 16, 2010 15:59 by stephie. -
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Wow - that's crazy. Is it all the alcohol or is there something else in it that makes it so caloric? (I'm trying to recall how it's made - is there lemonade in it??)
Mar 16, 2010 17:43 by mandy716. -
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vodka, gin, tequila, rum, triple sec, lime juice, sugar syrup and coke
Mar 16, 2010 17:52 by coco-tidan.
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Just because your butt has a crack in it does not mean it's broken!
Mar 16, 2010 12:35 by fstopblues365 -
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There is never a reason to be defensive. If you are right, you need no defense, if you are wrong, you have no defense.
Mar 16, 2010 12:34 by wpb30635 -
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In the Netherlands, we celebrate our queen's birthday on 30 April, but actually it's not her birthday, but her mother's birthday. Her real birthday is in January, but they decided to celebrate on 30 April, as the weather in April is much better than in January.
Mar 16, 2010 11:12 by x-u -
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You only breath through one nostril at a time.
Mar 16, 2010 11:00 by sayanythingbam-
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I'm paying attention to that, but it seems that both nostrils are involved....now I'm obsessing
Mar 16, 2010 11:59 by redd141. -
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@redd141: You aren't the only one.
Mar 16, 2010 12:20 by kellydna. -
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what! great, now I'm going to be breathing manually for the rest of the day! haha
Mar 16, 2010 12:28 by pensandpencilsgalore. -
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@pensandpencilsgalore: you mean you normally have a digital attachment to help? sheesh this whole tinkering plug in revolution has come a long way.
Mar 16, 2010 13:43 by rabbitdan. -
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oh great. me too. can't stop nose breathing. I'm pretty convinced both are working.
Mar 16, 2010 14:13 by breanna.
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The original ancient Greek meaning of tragedy was a reversal of fortune brought about by a mistake. In order to suffer a tragedy, things have to have been going so well for you, you feel some hubris (excessive pride) which causes you to make an error which causes your reversal of fortune. Thus, in the Classical sense, a true tragedy cannot be an accident. Knowing this causes me endless consternation since common usage has turned about as far away from this meaning as it possibly can to label every sad thing that happens as a tragedy. It's sort of like the annoyance people who know the meaning of irony feel when they listen to Alanis Morissette.
Mar 16, 2010 09:43 by nonlinear_time-
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...like rain on your wedding day?
Mar 16, 2010 10:20 by a_noob. -
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That is indeed a much richer idea of tragedy. It's no wonder Greek tragedies are so full of insight into our frail condition and still resonate so well now. It's beginning to bum me out that so little these days measures up. Saying that, we're most probably only left with the highlights of hundreds of years of Greek culture.
Mar 16, 2010 13:41 by rabbitdan. -
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@rabbitdan You're right, we do only have a few bits and pieces of all the wonderful stuff they wrote. For example, most tragedies were plays written in trilogies meant to be shown all in the same day at a yearly festival, but the only remaining trilogy we have intact is Aeschylus' Oresteia. The three plays about Oedipus by Sophocles that are usually presented as a trilogy were not originally written together. They are three plays from three different trilogies although they all cover the same story and are by the same playwright.
Mar 16, 2010 14:57 by nonlinear_time.
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Sometimes the hottest love, has the coldest endings.
Mar 16, 2010 09:32 by jdp0212 -
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Aircraft life jackets have never saved one person in a crash.
Hitting water in an aircraft at 200MPH is like hitting concrete.Mar 16, 2010 09:15 by jackcomrie -
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Although most depictions of zombies portray the undead as slow, clumsy creatures (perhaps due to rigor mortis), there are some who believe zombies will be quick and more human like.
Let's hope that if the zombie apocalypse happens soon, we get the Shawn of the Dead zombies and not the Zombieland Type...
Mar 16, 2010 08:56 by thebradymachine -
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The word "nugget" has been permanently ruined for me ever since I read one of the historic BloodNinja quotes on bash.org. If you're interested, have a memory-delete function handy and are not at work, the URL to the quote is http://www.bash.org/?642195.
Some background: BloodNinja is an internet legend among those of us who remember IRC. His chat transcripts consist of cybersex sessions with girls which would gradually become strange, twisted, downright wrong, and often before they realised what was going on. The transcripts can be found all over the place (merely searching BloodNinja produced over 55,000 results). Recognition of the popular phrase "I put on my robe and wizard hat" is a guaranteed proof that someone is truly a computer/Internet/IRC geek.
Mar 16, 2010 08:26 by a_noob-
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PML! FUNNY LINK.
Mar 16, 2010 09:09 by jackcomrie. -
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as soon as I saw BloodNinja, I started laughing hysterically. he is genius.
...robe and wizard hat... gets me every time!
Mar 16, 2010 12:18 by pensandpencilsgalore. -
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God, you have made my day @a_noob. These are brilliant.
Mar 16, 2010 15:50 by jackcomrie. -
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i cried and i cried
Mar 16, 2010 17:56 by coco-tidan.
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The Barbed Wire Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 32) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It provided that where barbed wire was placed adjoining a highway in such a manner as to which pose a danger to people or animals using the highway, then the local authority was empowered to demand its removal; if the owner of the wire failed to remove it, they could apply for a court order, and if this failed they were empowered to remove it themselves and charge any expenses to the owner.
The Act has since been repealed by various legislation, predominantly by the Highways Act 1959.Mar 16, 2010 08:26 by kellydna -
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Here's an interesting little concept, we may all be holographic projections.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true
Mar 16, 2010 08:21 by pensandpencilsgalore-
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Well, I got halfway through that article before I realized that I understood so little of it, it probably wasn't worth it to continue reading, but I sense that is was trying to blow my mind. I'm sad I don't understand enough physics for it to succeed.
Mar 16, 2010 09:56 by nonlinear_time. -
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@nonlinear_time: I don't blame you for stopping, the jargon can get a bit jumbled, hah. but you sensed correctly! it was definitely trying to blow your mind.
Mar 16, 2010 12:27 by pensandpencilsgalore.
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111,111,111 x
111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321Mar 16, 2010 08:20 by coco-tidan-
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I think this is my favorite so far.
Mar 16, 2010 12:14 by kellydna.
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Sumanya Purisai is a professional footballer from Thailand. He currently plays for Osotsapa in the Thailand Premier League.
Mar 16, 2010 08:13 by rabbitdan -
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If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
Mar 16, 2010 07:48 by rahci -
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having a dog for a companion is a better choice than a husband, boyfriend or children. They don't lie, they are loyal, they love to play, they think you are funny, smart and they know how to take a good nap.
Mar 16, 2010 07:15 by redd141-
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amen!
Mar 16, 2010 07:22 by jacosaurus.
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fake it until you make it. No one will ever know.
Mar 16, 2010 07:14 by redd141-
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this is so true.. I've lived it, and it works. Also one can say "just showing up is half the work, effort goes a long way"
Mar 16, 2010 16:01 by toyotaboy.
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Mar 16, 2010 07:13 by jacosaurus -
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It's better to have five friends than five rubels
Mar 16, 2010 06:58 by shannonsfchef -
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Poison is ingested, whereas venom is injected.
Mar 16, 2010 06:44 by gothking85-
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that's actually interesting. Makes sense.
Mar 16, 2010 07:20 by jacosaurus. -
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@jacosaurus: Dito
Mar 16, 2010 09:10 by jackcomrie. -
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so if you swallow a snakes "venom" is it then poison?
Mar 16, 2010 11:10 by imryanharris. -
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Hmm. . . I've always thought of venom as being secreted from animals and everything else as poison. . .
Mar 16, 2010 14:14 by philos-phobos.
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Burkina Faso ( Formerly The Republic of Upper Volta) is a land locked nation in central Africa. The capital is Ouagadougou. As far as I know, there never was a "Lower Volta" nor even a "Volta" as an adjoining neighbor.
Mar 16, 2010 06:40 by jdproductions-
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i may change my name to UPPER VOLTA
Mar 16, 2010 08:17 by coco-tidan. -
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@coco-tidan: Funny... I was thinking of changing MINE to Mr. Ouagadougou
Mar 16, 2010 08:25 by jdproductions.
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Common Sense is NOT so common anymore!
Mar 16, 2010 05:53 by machinehead-
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Amen!
Mar 16, 2010 06:44 by yadarfyn. -
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Oh how I wish this weren't SO true!
Mar 16, 2010 06:59 by shannonsfchef. -
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LOL o.o
Mar 16, 2010 08:22 by endroine.
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Movie characters are not real D:
Mar 16, 2010 05:25 by endroine-
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i'd like the tween girls running around gushing about sexy vampires to read this.
Mar 16, 2010 05:44 by jbrowne34. -
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WHAT?!
Mar 16, 2010 06:12 by yadarfyn. -
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LOVE IT
Mar 16, 2010 07:13 by redd141. -
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No way! Life just turned upside down! <:o
Mar 16, 2010 07:52 by rahci.
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Chickens have ear lobes. They are the same color as the eggs they lay and they can be white, brown, blue, green, and even speckled.
Mar 16, 2010 05:25 by imryanharris-
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Green eggs D: ?
Mar 16, 2010 05:29 by endroine. -
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ear lobes?
Mar 16, 2010 07:20 by jacosaurus. -
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Now that's a cool tidbit.
Mar 16, 2010 07:38 by stephie. -
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That's pretty interesting. So if we only want to eat white eggs, are we racist against those with green earlobes?
Mar 16, 2010 08:58 by thebradymachine.
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Dogs CAN look up.
Mar 16, 2010 05:18 by yadarfyn-
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that is a lie i tell you, a fallacy... it is not possible, i have personally carried out many studies into the phenominon and proven that they CAN NOT look up.
Mar 16, 2010 06:05 by coco-tidan. -
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@coco-tidan: I just walked into my kitchen. Our puppy raised his li'l head and looked at me. Ergo I conclude that dogs can look up :-P
Mar 16, 2010 06:12 by yadarfyn. -
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i am so sorry @yadarfyn: but i think you will find that dogs use a mixture of hypnosis, telekinesis and cuteness to trick us into believing that they can. it is simply canine trickery in order for them to save face... they are deeply embarrassed as a species by this fact.
Mar 16, 2010 06:31 by coco-tidan. -
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Pigs cannot see the sky, however.
Mar 16, 2010 06:43 by jdproductions. -
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@coco-tidan: You mean my puppy is less than six months old but has already learnt the age-old canine manipulation of tricking us into thinking he can look up? D:
I don't know whether to be impressed or insulted...Mar 16, 2010 06:45 by yadarfyn. -
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@yadarfyn: a little bit of both
but be careful not to let the poor thing know that you know, you could stunt its development!
@jdproductions: that too is the truth bizarrely enoughMar 16, 2010 08:16 by coco-tidan.
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Sometimes amazing things really do happen. Unfortunately sometimes incredibly bad things happen too. If you're lucky they won't happen at the same time.
Mar 16, 2010 04:53 by stephie -
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The foreman grill was originally going to be the hulk hogan grill, but he missed a call from his agent while picking up his kids
Mar 16, 2010 04:27 by toyotaboy-
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eh hulk hogan sucks anyways
Mar 16, 2010 05:45 by jbrowne34. -
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Hulk Hogan is BUMMED! lol
Mar 16, 2010 06:57 by shannonsfchef.
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My sister calls her boyfriend "nugget". She calls @a_noob "The 'Røs" (he thinks she is saying "The Roast" however, and occasionally refers to himself as such, much to my chagrin)
Sorry I used such a crappy picture Em, but you brought it on yourself by not allowing me to view tagged photos of you!
Mar 16, 2010 04:09 by merendis-
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THE ROAST IS ON FIRE.
Mar 16, 2010 07:14 by a_noob. -
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"...you brought it on yourself..." I often tell people that.
Mar 16, 2010 12:28 by thedigitalghost.
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no one ever actually feels all the way grown up.
Mar 16, 2010 00:55 by breanna from iphone-
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i dont doubt that
Mar 16, 2010 07:21 by jacosaurus. -
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Half of me is thinking 'thank goodness I'm not the only one', and the other half is saying 'wait... that means I'll Never feel grown up'.
Mar 16, 2010 14:16 by philos-phobos.
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the way to a man's heart really IS thru his stomach! (at least in the case of my man :P)
Mar 16, 2010 00:12 by jenaissance-
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haha its true!!
Mar 16, 2010 00:15 by jbrowne34. -
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not just men! I've made most of my friends by baking them cookies...
Mar 16, 2010 04:03 by merendis. -
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lol, totally!
Mar 16, 2010 06:59 by shannonsfchef.
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