Purgatory was made up to help the Church sell indulgences.
And (according to a sophmore I met yesterday) Vatican City is in Germany
And (according to a sophmore I met yesterday) Vatican City is in Germany
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Yes but imperceptibly, the reason people point to old houses where the panes have thicker bottoms than tops is because of the method used to make glass back then (glass spinning). It would take something in the region of 1,000 years for it to be a measurable change.ggamer2 said:
Antarctica is the driest contenant on Earth.
We are all time travellers.
The British Queen is still considered the (symbollic) head of state of both Canada and Australia.
The British Queen and her estates are the greatest tourist attraction for Americans in the UK.
Water expands when it freezes, most liquids shrink.
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During the great depression a number of rich business owners attempted to hire an American general to overthrough the government and create a fascist dictatorship.
We are all time travellers.
The British Queen is still considered the (symbollic) head of state of both Canada and Australia.
The British Queen and her estates are the greatest tourist attraction for Americans in the UK.
Water expands when it freezes, most liquids shrink.
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During the great depression a number of rich business owners attempted to hire an American general to overthrough the government and create a fascist dictatorship.
A person generates more heat per cubic centimeter than the sun. The sun generates 2.8 ergs/second/cc whereas the average (male) human can emit as much as 170,000 ergs/sec/cc. That's just about 60,0000 times hotter than the sun.
Strawberries aren't even in the berry family at all. Nor are strawberries part of the "straw" family; They were originally known as "Strewberries" because they were found Strewn among the foliage. Strawberries, blackberries and raspberries {as well as apricots, cherries, peaches and plums,} are members of the Rose Family. There are almost 200 "seeds" on the surface of a single fruit.
Urine and manure were once used to make the raw curing agent for bacon (potassium nitrate/Salt Petre (salt peter in American English)) and in some cases is still used today. Think about that next time you buy "organic produce".
Britain has more tornadoes per unit area than America. It is five times more likely to be hit by a tornado than any other country in the world. On average, Britain is hit with more than 100 tornadoes per year, but most go unnoticed or unreported because we do not have the detection equipment over here and our tornadoes are usually smaller than the American "twister". Also, for it to be recognised as a tornado in the U.K. it has to touch land, come of the columns never connect with the land or occur offshore, so don't get reported simply because they "don't count".
Lightning hits the ground at around 100 times per second, lightning isn't one single stream of energy like it appears to us, when slowed down enough by high-speed cameras it has been discovered that lightning is actually broken up into several small streams of energy following a superheated column of air, some of these streams never make it to the ground and branch off of the main "trunk" into the atmosphere and dissipate.
Muslim martyrs will not go to heaven and marry 72 black eyed virgins. This idea stems from a mistranslation: the Quran says martyrs going to heaven will get ?hur,? and the word was taken by early commentators to mean ?virgins.? But in Aramaic, hur meant ?white? and was commonly used to mean ?white grapes,? which the Quran compares to crystal and pearls, and contemporary accounts have paradise abounding with fruit, especially white grapes.
Small meteorites are cold when they hit Earth ? in fact many are found with frost on them. A meteorite has been in the near?absolute zero temperature of space for billions of years, so the interior of it is very cold. A meteor?s great speed is enough to melt its outside layer, but any molten material will be quickly blown off, and the interior of the meteor does not have time to heat up because rocks are poor conductors of heat. Also, atmospheric drag can slow small meteors to terminal velocity by the time they hit the ground, giving them time to cool down.
The term "just desserts" is incorrect, the real phrase is "just deserts" which was the rarely used noun form of the verb ?to deserve?; something which is deserved is a ?desert? (pronounced dessert).
If I think of any more I'll edit this, but those are the only ones that come to mind right now.
Strawberries aren't even in the berry family at all. Nor are strawberries part of the "straw" family; They were originally known as "Strewberries" because they were found Strewn among the foliage. Strawberries, blackberries and raspberries {as well as apricots, cherries, peaches and plums,} are members of the Rose Family. There are almost 200 "seeds" on the surface of a single fruit.
Urine and manure were once used to make the raw curing agent for bacon (potassium nitrate/Salt Petre (salt peter in American English)) and in some cases is still used today. Think about that next time you buy "organic produce".
Britain has more tornadoes per unit area than America. It is five times more likely to be hit by a tornado than any other country in the world. On average, Britain is hit with more than 100 tornadoes per year, but most go unnoticed or unreported because we do not have the detection equipment over here and our tornadoes are usually smaller than the American "twister". Also, for it to be recognised as a tornado in the U.K. it has to touch land, come of the columns never connect with the land or occur offshore, so don't get reported simply because they "don't count".
Lightning hits the ground at around 100 times per second, lightning isn't one single stream of energy like it appears to us, when slowed down enough by high-speed cameras it has been discovered that lightning is actually broken up into several small streams of energy following a superheated column of air, some of these streams never make it to the ground and branch off of the main "trunk" into the atmosphere and dissipate.
Muslim martyrs will not go to heaven and marry 72 black eyed virgins. This idea stems from a mistranslation: the Quran says martyrs going to heaven will get ?hur,? and the word was taken by early commentators to mean ?virgins.? But in Aramaic, hur meant ?white? and was commonly used to mean ?white grapes,? which the Quran compares to crystal and pearls, and contemporary accounts have paradise abounding with fruit, especially white grapes.
Small meteorites are cold when they hit Earth ? in fact many are found with frost on them. A meteorite has been in the near?absolute zero temperature of space for billions of years, so the interior of it is very cold. A meteor?s great speed is enough to melt its outside layer, but any molten material will be quickly blown off, and the interior of the meteor does not have time to heat up because rocks are poor conductors of heat. Also, atmospheric drag can slow small meteors to terminal velocity by the time they hit the ground, giving them time to cool down.
The term "just desserts" is incorrect, the real phrase is "just deserts" which was the rarely used noun form of the verb ?to deserve?; something which is deserved is a ?desert? (pronounced dessert).
If I think of any more I'll edit this, but those are the only ones that come to mind right now.
Neither are the australian ones, nor, technically are the american ones...Innocence said:
(unless you consider a 25% linen, 75% cotton combination, with red and blue synthetic fibres distributed throughout, as paper. Even then you'd have to change the definition of paper from ACTUAL paper to BANKNOTE paper)
incidentally, it costs the US government 6.4 cents to produce a bill, and 16,600,000 $1's are printed each day. A $1 bill typically lasts 21 months in circulation, and will almost always have some trace of cocaine on it
The other 90% is used as your "keep living part". If we only used some brain we would have far less brain since we would evolve to remove what we don't need.GWarface said:
I don't think anyone has use "paper" money in the last 40-50 years. Also money isn't really money, it's "Near-money". A promisary note produced to be redeemable for that amount of goods/services like stamps or coupons.Eisenfaust said:
Actually it's the cerebellum, the size of which is also directly linked to an individual's mental and physical dexteritymanythings said:
also, a giraffe's heart can be up to two feet long, and can only drink without dying because of a complex pressure system in their necks controlling blood flow/pressure
that would seem the case, however the american dollar bill has had no value tied to it since 1973, as opposed to the british pound, where each currency note has a direct value attached to it based on England's silver reserves (1 pound note = 1 pound sterling silver)manythings said:
All other liquids shrink. Sorry, Physics student.gellert1984 said:
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.
One of my favorite bizarre laws. In New Jersey it is illegal to wear a bullet-proof vest while committing a murder.
