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UnderLord
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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 14:55
Im getting all these facts from a book called "Over 1500 Amazing facts" i do believe my girlfriend gave it to me as a present one day...wonder what she's trying to tell me....so anyhow once a day i'll post one amazing fact....maybe more....who knows....but here is the first.

Oymyakon, Siberia is the worlds coldest village. Temperatures as low as -68 centigrade have been recorded there, but 4,000 people still call it home.

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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 15:06 Edited at: 7th Mar 2005 15:16
ALright alright im bord sue me! post your amazing facts here! i got 1500 of em!

did you know that in america it is against the law to ride a motorcycle while wearing a disguise...

Weird...

Chevrolet tried marketing a chevrolet 'Nova' in spanish-speaking countries it didnt sell well because Nova means "doesn't go" in spanish.

in the 1940's the name Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'

because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.

(is that true..west...eh maybe i should throw my GF west then...heheh j/k)


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Heres a good one for those of you who think your dogs are afraid of you when your nice...

dogs tilt their heads when you talk to them because they want you to know they are listing without staring at you (as dogs see staring as a sign of aggression).

Or so they say....

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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 15:15
I like how you mentioned your girlfriend twice.

Sounds to me like you don't really have one, it's ok, you're among many equals here.

And that is true, about throwing west. That's why they have football stadiums point north-south. So the kickers facing west don't have that enormous advantage.

Well we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 15:19
ahh i see i see good deal...and actually i do have a GF she's actualy my what do you call that when you plan to merry her...but anyhow we have been dating for about 4 years now...im 19 you see...

If you shouted for 8 years 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

I just say those things about her because im going to let her read them later and let her beat the crap outta me *wink*

water expands by about 9% as it freezes.

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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 15:37
Fiance? aww, here, have a toaster.

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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 15:50
yes thats the word =P

Cats wag their tails when they are deciding something once the cat makes a decision the tail will immediately stop wagging.

hmmm i wonder....

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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 17:46
Quote: "And that is true, about throwing west. That's why they have football stadiums point north-south. So the kickers facing west don't have that enormous advantage."


Lol! I believe the actual reason is so they don't have to kick into the sun.


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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 18:08 Edited at: 7th Mar 2005 18:09
Quote: "because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west."


Not quite...

Due to the rotation of the earth, the object already has it's rotational velociy ( just as we all do, but we can't feel it cos of the Atmosphere rotating at the same speed, and gravity, etc ), and thus, if you throw the object, in any direction, it will go just as far, because, Relative to the surface of the earth, it has the same initial velocity, and forces acting upon it.

If what that book says was true, then when you jump straight up/down, you wouldn't land on the same spot, but would land slightly east of where you jumped from ( which doesn't happen ).

The fact that anything in orbit/on the surface of a planet has the same rotational velocity as the body is used in space exploration.
A ship is fired so that it fly's really close to the planet ( getting caught in it's gravitational pull ), which results in it picking up the rotational velocity of the planet on top of the speed it already had, thus, making it go faster.

It's true.

Jess.

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Oh, and you'll find that most of those stupid laws don't actually exist anymore. They're mostly old one-off's

Such as the fact that at one stage, it was illegal to tie a Giraffe to a telegraph pole
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Posted: 7th Mar 2005 22:43 Edited at: 7th Mar 2005 22:44
Quote: "Chevrolet tried marketing a chevrolet 'Nova' in spanish-speaking countries it didnt sell well because Nova means "doesn't go" in spanish"


That one, I'm sorry to say, is pants. In Spanish, you would use "no marcha" or "no funciona" to say a car was out of action. "no va" (2 words, with an accent somewhere), is grammatical nonsense is Spanish.


But here's a fact to replace it with...

Flies take off backwards!

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 00:22
bats only fly left out of caves. (no clue how true this is, heard it...some where.)

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bats are born with amazing eyesight - one to match humans - but as they grow older with being in the dark their eyes stop working and they go blind

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 01:42
Quote: "Lol! I believe the actual reason is so they don't have to kick into the sun. "


That is utterly ridiculous.

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Quote: "Such as the fact that at one stage, it was illegal to tie a Giraffe to a telegraph pole "


I think that might still be illegal in georgia but im not sure heh.

Quote: "bats only fly left out of caves. (no clue how true this is, heard it...some where.)"


Yeah the book has that one too i think most of the facts are useless but i found a couple of funny ones.

According to an old law if you bring a raccoon's head to the town hall in Henniker, New Hampshire, you are entitled to receive ten dollars from the town.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 05:28
We share 50% of our genese with a bananana!

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 06:32
...which is more than what we share with apes, (true story), but they still try to tell me i evolved from a monkey.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 06:35
Maybe you monkey boy, but I come from grapes....

Cheers

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Quote: "bats are born with amazing eyesight - one to match humans - but as they grow older with being in the dark their eyes stop working and they go blind"


Who said that...where've you gone?

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Here're some weird facts:

Mortal Kombat: Deception was re-titled in a european country (can't remember which one) because in that country 'deception' was their word for 'disappointment'.

This one may not be appropriate for younger users:


American football chearleaders have a 45% injury rate, that's higher then rock-climbers, sky-divers, hollywood stunt 'performers' and even astronauts.

The game Bladerunner was originally started in 1987 due for release in 1990 the game wasn't actually released until 1997. That's the world record for the longer development time, currently Duke Nukem Forever is due to break that record in less then 18 month.

In england it's considered high treason to put a postage stamp with the current monarch's head on it, up-side-down on an envelope. As far as I know, this law has never been repealed.

When Sony originally manufacture the Walkman, they thought the name was too japanese for the western market and so decided to rename it. But when they tried to show the product to manufacturers in america and europe they were told to use the japanese name because they thought no one would ever take it seriously it is was called the 'Sony Soundabout'!

More injuries are caused in the home by people trying to put their underwear on then by getting attacked in the streets. That servey was done by some strange people in america.

I was discovered that a cat's pur (or a similar low frequency vibration) can make broken bones heal faster.

The original Grand Theft Auto game is still banned a number of countries, while many of it's more violent sequals were allowed through without incident.

A subliminal message was recently discovered in a track entitled "Dinner at Devient's Palace" by gothic metal band 'Cradle of Filth' (who have a reputation for their often depraved lyrical content), if played backwards the lyrics were transformed into the Lord's prayer.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 07:19
A pineapple is a berry.

hot water freezes quicker then cold water.

There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

4,000 people are injured by teapots yearly.

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Quote: "American football chearleaders have a 45% injury rate, that's higher then rock-climbers, sky-divers, hollywood stunt 'performers' and even astronauts.
"


That's because you have middle aged women trying to wrap their legs around their heads.

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The car name blunder in Spain was the Mitsubishi "Pajero" (find the translation yourself ). It was renamed "Montero" in Spain and the Americas (and Shogun in the UK).


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In the 1970's Pan American World Airways accepted reservations for flights to the moon in the year 2000. Former president Ronald Reagan was one of the many who signed up.

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A shop in america once made a special offer where the more the buy the more money you get taken off per item. Someone worked out that if you bought enough it would make the price of each item negative and so bought so many that the store had to pay him about $100,000 as well as hand over the items he bought.

Not one sequal was ever made by Walt disney until after he died.

The Sony Playstation had an almost 50% fault rate on all consoles made in it's first year.

Fact: Games released on-time or early are almost always riddled with bugs, games released late almost always have very few bugs.

British Airways saved several million pounds per year by removing the olive from the salad in the 1st class menu.

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Quote: " ...which is more than what we share with apes"

well not true, seeming as they will have the banana stuff too, we share more the more similar they get to us

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Quote: "A shop in america once made a special offer where the more the buy the more money you get taken off per item. Someone worked out that if you bought enough it would make the price of each item negative and so bought so many that the store had to pay him about $100,000 as well as hand over the items he bought."


I bet no shop in the world has made that mistake twice....

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Quote: "I bet no shop in the world has made that mistake twice...."

Don't speak too soon, someone might!

Fact: Penicillin comes from bread mould.
Fact: Years ago, people would eat rotten meat in a curry, since the meat was too expensive to just throw away and the curry disguised the flavour.
I wonder what chemicals there are in meat mould that we are not eating now that our ancestors were, that could've been keeping them healthy. Disgusting but interesting.

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Fact: Avan knows too many facts...

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Quote: "I wonder what chemicals there are in meat mould that we are not eating now that our ancestors were, that could've been keeping them healthy. Disgusting but interesting."


i don't think the people of today are willing to find out...like me...im not willing...

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 08:33 Edited at: 8th Mar 2005 08:33
Quote: "Fact: Avan knows too many facts..."


No, I'm just wierd!

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Yeah that too...look at the bar below your posts...only one button...tsk tsk

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Ahh you silly kids

Dating back to the 1600s thermometers were filled with brandy instead of mercury.

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and nowadays they reverted back to alcohol (more pure this time)

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The buttons on my posts?

My only website sucks, it's at geocities.
I don't put my email address everywhere, that's why I haven't receive any spam email in over a year.
I don't use the other online services like MSN or ICQ.

And, as my sig says:

I don't suffer from insanity:

I enjoy every minute of it!
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You know, a lot of these facts are totall bullcrap, because they can't be proven. It also can't be proved that they aren't real, so people get away with making stuff up like that. Fact.


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yay enjoy insanity thats what i say!

Alaska has 29 volcanoes!

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Bread pudding is made with slightly stale bread.

A Korean guy, declared the world's greatest at Starcraft, gets paid over $100,000 to play, and has bodyguards.

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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 08:45 Edited at: 8th Mar 2005 08:47
I have to agree with your sig, Underlord!

Quote: "Bread pudding is made with slightly stale bread."

Actually, the best bread pudding is made from slightly stale bread.

Fact: Millions of people make their entire living out of being complete idiots.

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Quote: "Actually, the best bread pudding is made from slightly stale bread.
"

True that. True that. A little bit of rum in it, too.

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yeah well what about this woman...

I hate skinny women, especially when they say things like, "Sometimes i forget to eat." Now, I've forgotten my mother's maiden name... I've forgotten my car keys... But you've got to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. -Marsha Warfield

sounds like anyone you know?

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Yes i got my motto off a book with quotes in it =P

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Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second.

In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.

Heh.


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Posted: 8th Mar 2005 08:56 Edited at: 8th Mar 2005 08:56
Quote: "I hate skinny women, especially when they say things like, "Sometimes i forget to eat." Now, I've forgotten my mother's maiden name... I've forgotten my car keys... But you've got to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. -Marsha Warfield"

Erm, because of programming I sometimes forget to eat. FACT.


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hehehehee hmm weird

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Quote: "Erm, because I programming I sometimes forget to eat. FACT."


Are you a skinny woman?

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No, what I'm SAYING is, um. Thinner people don't need to eat as often because they are..thinner therefore..oh forget it.


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Fact: my signature is below this message


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Several computer games recently (including Fable and Project Gotham Racing 2) have mentioned in their credits numerous take-away services for keeping the development teams fed for the last 6 to 12 months of the project.

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Fact: Some people are sad enough to read the credits of such games...

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Quote: "numerous take-away services for keeping the development teams fed for the last 6 to 12 months of the project."

You mean "take-out," right?

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Fact i will soon get myself a nice little signature!
Fact i will use 'The GIMP' to make it in
Fact i will have no way to hotlink it.

The surface area of the earth is almost 200 million square miles

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Quote: " Fact i will soon get myself a nice little signature!
Fact i will use 'The GIMP' to make it in
Fact i will have no way to hotlink it."

Lol. That is exactly what I did, used to make it, and had trouble with. You psychic spazuh, you.

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