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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: luckee on April 01, 2004, 07:22:23 PM
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The longest movie ever made is The Cure for Insomnia (1987), which clocks in at 85 hours.
A Cheetah is the only cat with non-retractable claws, which is why it\'s the fastest animal on land
It takes the average person 7.5 minutes to fall asleep.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. If an average man had a metabolism comparable to that of a hummingbird, he would have to eat 285 pounds of hamburger every day to maintain his weight
There was a time that the Vatican owned shares of the Watergate complex in Washington D.C., the Pan American building in Paris, and the Hilton hotel in Rome.
Passing the Bar - Back in the day there use to be a big long wooden bar that crossed the court room, it was used to separte the regular folk from the upper class lawyers and judges.....so when you become a lawyer you are passing the bar.
The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.
During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex
water is made from 2 of the most flamable substances
Airport security personnel find about six weapons a day searching passengers
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
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The steps in a ladder are called "rungs."
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Mike D. from the Beastie Boys and Screech from "Saved By The Bell" are brothers.
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I love sushi :D
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Originally posted by Bladez
I love spam:D
Remember, when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown.
BUT
it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and bitch-slap the mother****er.
Luke, thats disturbingly cool to me for some reason. Had no idea.
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Not really a useless one but something to remember....
Kurt Cobain will have been dead for 10 years now April 5th.
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that is kinda useless bladez :)
Although I had no idea it has been 10 years already, seems like 5-7 to me for some reaosn.
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Spudz only has three working brain cells, and they have never met eachother.
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Animals
The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.
Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
Guinea pigs and rabbits can\'t sweat.
The pet food company Ralston Purina recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting, which is popular in many areas of the world.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.
Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don\'t get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don\'t have bones, but cartilage.
The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.
Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
Deer can\'t eat hay.
Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.
Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.
There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
Jellyfish like salt water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task.
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.
You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
Science
In the Durango desert, in Mexico, there\'s a creepy spot called the "Zone of Silence." You can\'t pick up clear TV or radio signals. And locals say fireballs sometimes appear in the sky.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
Bill Gates\' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
Uranus\' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees.
The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
The first fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarenisis was named Lucy after the paleontologists\' favorite song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," by the Beatles.
Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn\'s LETters.
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
Hot water is heavier than cold.
Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.
If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there\'s no air pressure.
The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
The original IBM-PCs, that had hard drives, referred to the hard drives as Winchester drives. This is due to the fact that the original Winchester drive had a model number of 3030. This is, of course, a Winchester firearm.
Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.
Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency\'s Olympus in 1993.
Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.
Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
An ordinary TNT bomb involves atomic reaction, and could be called an atomic bomb. What we call an A-bomb involves nuclear reactions and should be called a nuclear bomb.
At a glance, the Celsius scale makes more sense than the Fahrenheit scale for temperature measuring. But its creator, Anders Celsius, was an oddball scientist. When he first developed his scale, he made freezing 100 degrees and boiling 0 degrees, or upside down. No one dared point this out to him, so fellow scientists waited until Celsius died to change the scale.
At a jet plane\'s speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
The first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter, happened in 1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon\'s orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared about 14% larger than it does at apogee (the point in it\'s elliptical orbit that is farthest from the Earth). Since the Earth is also several million miles closer to the sun at that time of the year than in the summer, sunlight striking the moon was about 7% stronger making it brighter. Also, this was the closest perigee of the Moon of the year since the moon\'s orbit is constantly deforming. In places where the weather was clear and there was a snow cover, even car headlights were superfluous.
According to security equipment specialists, security systems that utilize motion detectors won\'t function properly if walls and floors are too hot. When an infrared beam is used in a motion detector, it will pick up a person\'s body temperature of 98.6 degrees compared to the cooler walls and floor. If the room is too hot, the motion detector won\'t register a change in the radiated heat of that person\'s body when it enters the room and breaks the infrared beam. Your home\'s safety might be compromised if you turn your air conditioning off or set the thermostat too high while on summer vacation.
Western Electric successfully brought sound to motion pictures and introduced systems of mobile communications which culminated in the cellular telephone.
On December 23, 1947, Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., held a secret demonstration of the transistor which marked the foundation of modern electronics.
The wick of a trick candle has small amounts of magnesium in them. When you light the candle, you are also lighting the magnesium. When someone tries to blow out the flame, the magnesium inside the wick continues to burn and, in just a split second (or two or three), relights the wick.
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^^^oookay who\'s gonna top that?! :D..k i got one..canadien geese find one partner for life...if one or the other dies..it will not seek another mate in it\'s lifetime. ;)
k i have another one--hunting wasps search for tarantulas twice their size and paralyze them with their stinger, then while the spider is still alive. it plants eggs on the body so when the larve hatches it has fresh food to eat..that\'s a sad way to go...because when the larve hatches the spider is still alive..just paralyzed..so basicly he\'s being eaten alive.
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only male seahorses lay eggs.
Pig can\'t turn it neck.
That\'s all I can think of right now...
Edited: Horses eyes are lay sideways so they see things sideways, their left eye see the left side while their right eye see the right side...
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- I like Chinese Food
- I play computer games a lot
- If I were stranded on a desert island and could pick a) a thing b) a person to live with, a) would be a Nissan Skyline b) Jessica Alba
- If I had a lot of money I would do Jessica Alba in a Nissan Skyline in the Bahammas
- My TV eats 193 watts
- I need to vacuum my carpet
- I need to RMA my sub amp that blew @ 1ohm
- I get 4 magazine subscriptions, all of which are free
- I use 93 octane gas
- I have a cell phone but I barely use it and I don\'t even pay for it
- I have a USB mic for my puter and it mounts on your head
- I have to use an 8\' long USB extension cord
- My sofa is really old and it iisn\'t really mine
- I like big butts and I cannot lie
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when an ant is poisoned it always falls on it\'s right side.
all polar bears are left handed (legged).
butterflies can taste with their feet.
on a yearly basis people swallow an average of 3 spiders.
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human.
A hummingbird\'s heart beats 615 beats in a minute.
In order to scare away predators, Giant petrels, a type of seabird, throw up all over the intruder
The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes.
A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.
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In order to mate, a male deep sea anglerfish will bite a female when he finds her. The male will never let go and will eventually merge his body into the female and spend the rest of his life inside the female mate. The males internal organs will disappear apart from the testes that are needed to for breeding.
A giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongue.
A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.
Mosquitoes prefer children over adults.
The Aphid\'s (lice) reproductive cycle is so fast that females are born pregnant.
Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
The sea cucumber spills its internal organs out as a defense mechanism
Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations.
A snail can crawl across a razor blade without getting injured. This is possible because they excrete a slime that protects them.
Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
In 1999, a three headed turtle was discovered by Lin Chi-Fa in his pond in Southern Taiwan.
A blue whale\'s tongue is so large that fifty people could stand on it.
Orcas (killer whales), when traveling in groups, breathe in unison.
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You can\'t sneeze with your eyes open.
Cats can breath while it drinks.
Astronauts DID land on the moon (this one is for our Spaniard friend :p )
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I have a long eyebrow that has to be cut off every so often. Only one damned hair that grows much longer than the others.
*this useless fact was brought to you by Kurt Angle inc* :D
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Originally posted by Kurt Angle
I have a long eyebrow that has to be cut off every so often. Only one damned hair that grows much longer than the others.
*this useless fact was brought to you by Kurt Angle inc* :D
No wonder we lost communications link with you! STOP CUTTING IT! You may not know this....but you are not human. You\'re a Martian! That\'s your antennae you\'re cutting, man!
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Originally posted by politiepet
Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
ummm, Kangaroos walk on 2 legs...
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kangaroos have 4 legs. They hop (not walk) on their hind legs.
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A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless.
In order to mate, a male deep sea anglerfish will bite a female when he finds her. The male will never let go and will eventually merge his body into the female and spend the rest of his life inside the female mate. The males internal organs will disappear apart from the testes that are needed to for breeding.
Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
Crazy. There were a lot more that i know i forgot about but at the end these just amazed me the most. Moreso the chicken one.
Some of you guys have too much time on your hands. Unless you are just copying and pasting random things.
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Do you really think these people are writing these themselves?
Dang, we need an IQ test at registration.
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Originally posted by videoholic
Do you really think these people are writing these themselves?
Dang, we need an IQ test at registration.
Whats up your ass vid :p. No i didnt mean it that way. I meant to put more emphasis on the random selection part. If somebody is actually copying them and pasting them from multiple locations and/or reading them all, then thats when it gets kinda sad. Rather than copying a list. To assume that people were pulling these out of their memory is stupid.
I dont think i need the IQ test thank you :yawn:
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OK, just checking. You scared me there.
I was hoping you didn\'t think Soully would write that.
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Originally posted by theomen
Spudz only has three working brain cells, and they have never met eachother.
This is suprisingly true.
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Don\'t know if it\'s been mentioned or not but coca-cola use to have coke in it.:eek:
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i didn\'t write out that.. i have a life. I just found a site with useless crap on it and copied and pasted. I did read through them though. The only thing i typed out myself was that kangaroos have 4 legs and hop etc.
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Originally posted by Bladez
Don\'t know if it\'s been mentioned or not but coca-cola use to have coke in it.:eek:
Man, everyone knows that.
Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
I believe I may have seen a movie about something like that. Or at least a similiar experience.
I still think the movie one is the most amazing. 87 hours?!? If a 2 hour movie takes a long time to film, imagine that...
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oj did not kill nichole
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the longest bringe in the world is 6529\' long.
the speed of light is 186,282.3976mps
the Sears tower is 4554\' tall
in the simpsons episode "Mr Lisa goes to washington" she visits the Winifred Beatrice Howe memorial, who was on the 75 cent piece and lead the floor mop revolution of 1910.
This is all stuff off the top of my head, I\'m not a dirty copy and paster.
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February was once the last month of the year.
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May is the next month after this one
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Sorry guys. Split out the racism stuff to it\'s own thread.
Peace out.
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I don\'t know if it\'s true or not but I was snoooping around on the internet today and it said that David Hayter(Solid Snake) wrote the first 2 scripts to the X-men series. Is that true? (I don\'t have the movies and haven\'t seen them either)
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^^^Yeah, that is true.
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I got this from a different forum.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for
blood plasma.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or
older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley\'s gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) Olive from
each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.>
(Hmmmmm.......)
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
So did the first "Marlboro Man."
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
A duck\'s quack doesn\'t echo, and no one knows why.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet
away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
(I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains
all
the letters from the word "criminal."
The second? William Jefferson Clinton.
(Please don\'t tell me you\'re SURPRISED!?!!)
And the best for last.....
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
(I know some people like that; don\'t YOU?)
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PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA is an anagram for TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS!!!
:eek:
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racecar spelt backwards is... racecar.
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A duck\'s quack doesn\'t echo, and no one knows why.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet
away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
both wrong, watch mythbusters.
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the only 15 letter word that doesn\'t repeat a letter is uncopyrightable.
The human body falls at 38metres per second.
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All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20.
THIS IS FALSE!