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CRoone

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the forum, I present: The FACT TRIPLE-PACK. Three facts for the price of one post, for your convenience!

Hygiene!
There are more germs on the average kitchen sponge than on the average toilet seat. Therefore, always remember to wash your hands after washing your dishes.

Food!
Fanta Orange is the third-most profitable brand of soda in the world (there are at least 89 other flavors). Purportedly, the spanish term, "Pagafantas", literally translated to "Fanta Payer", refers to a man who loves a woman that doesn't love him back (it shouldn't be hard to figure out why).

Sports!
Pittsburgh is the only city in the US where all of the major sports teams wear the same colors: Black and Gold.
 

LittleWings

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yamitami said:
LittleWings said:
F-I-D-O said:
if you lined up the population of china in a eight person wide line and had them march by you, the line would never end
Think about that one and you'll see it is clearly not true.
We're talking birth rates. By the time you get to the 'end' of the line more people have formed behind it because they were born while the line was going.
That makes more sense. The way it was written it looked as if he was saying there is an infinite number of people in china.
 

Magic Cheese

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Tim Booth, lead vocalist of the band 'James', most famous for their song 'Laid', heard here:


portrayed serial killer Victor Zsasz in a minor cameo in Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins'.


Mr. Zsasz as he appears in Arkham Asylum.
 

LarenzoAOG

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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

More books are printed in German than any other language.

A group of crows is called a Murder.

Collectivley geese are refered to as a flock, flight, or gaggle.

Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the Army and didn't think black people should be allowed in colleges (he was a president of the US, people actually voted for that dick)

Time slows down when gravity is increased.

Diamonds evaporate.

Dogs are smart enough to have personal motivations for doing certain actions.

Al-Qaeda is less of a dick then the Confederate Army (OT: seriously, they fight because they see it as a religous obligation to kill infidels, understandable if not acceptable, the Confederate Army fought because they thought it was socially and economically ok to own another person and treat them like yard tools, tell me I'm wrong if you must but you better back your shit up)

DISCLAIMER: I am not a fan of racism, religous extremism, slavery, Al-Qaeda, Woodrow Wilson, or the Confederate Army.
 

Tanto-chan

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the color red makes you hungery (subconsiously), the longest word in the english language is a variant of the fear of long words, in the Elizabethan era holding hands in public with someone of the oposite sex meant that you were betrothed or that you now had to be (to put it another way it was similar to what would happen if you had sex in the middle of the street).
 

skaskunk

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Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon said:
Tell me a useless fact that you know, but first hear mine!
The first creature sent to space was the fly, specifically the fruitfly,
wasn't it a dog? called leika or smth?
 

VelvetHorror

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skaskunk said:
Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon said:
Tell me a useless fact that you know, but first hear mine!
The first creature sent to space was the fly, specifically the fruitfly,
wasn't it a dog? called leika or smth?
That was probably the first intentional creature brought into space. Satellites were brought up into space before ones with animals. During one or more of those times, I'm guessing a fly got caught inside a satellite before it was launched into orbit. When it came back down, they probably saw a fruit fly inside it and figured that it must have went up into space with the satellite.
 

Sanglyon

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Real Ninjas wore dark blue, never black.

Blue blends better at night, black just make the wearer stand out as darker than it's surrounding. The myth that ninjas were dressed in black comes from japanese traditional theaters. The guys in the background who moved the props were always dressed in black to show they weren't part of the act, and the spectators just ignored them. So, when the actors wanted to portray someone as invisible, like a ninja, he was also dressed in black, so the public will ignore him until he actually did interact with the regular actors (like "killing" someone), taking the public by surprise.
 

Sanglyon

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ahrkin said:
The angle of the Earth's axis is 23.5 degrees.<----- RELATIVE TO WHAT?
The north/south axis relatively to the rotation axis

Kirkby said:
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Dog's can't look up,
Not true = P I have a dog, he looks up a lot
Mine even rolls his eyes every time I tell him a joke. She has no sense of humor.
 

The DSM

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The names of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.

War, Death, Famine and Pestilence.

It might come up in to conversation around halloween if you your lucky, but aside from that, nothing at all.
 

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The penetrating jet of a shaped charged tends to disintegrate in under 10 times the diameter of the metal cone that formed it.

So, err, if someone is shooting RPGs at your house, stay three feet away from all of the walls.
 

Kirkby

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rescuer86 said:
Kirkby said:
Super Six One said:
Dog's can't look up,
Not true = P I have a dog, he looks up a lot
*slaps wrist* Go watch Shaun of the Dead
Dont worry me and 6 have sorted this one, he told me it was true cause big al says so, i asked if he wanted a drink in the Winchester. It was cool
 

F-I-D-O

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LittleWings said:
F-I-D-O said:
if you lined up the population of china in a eight person wide line and had them march by you, the line would never end
Think about that one and you'll see it is clearly not true.
At the current rate of reproduction, the line would never end. It is true, if the rate of reproduction remained constant. In application, no, it's wrong. Using the rates and statistics, it's right.