Tell me something I don't know.

[Biosophilogical]

You're wasting your time by reading this post.

Wrong, by reading your post I learnt the valuable piece of information to never do so again (which I didn't know before) ... as to whether I use that information is an entirely different matter.

OT: (I am pretty sure this is correct) Approxiamtely every seven years, every replacable cell in your body is replaced. So you have a new body every seven years.

Ummm ... Physics teachers are genetically bad at explaining things (take out 'genetically' and it is true).

Blanket statements are illogical. (which is also a blanket statement regarding blanket statements).

 

[Queen Michael]

Many believe that we only use 10% of our brains. This is untrue; we use 100% (but self-proclaimed "psychics" often claim they gain their "gift" from the remaining 90%).

 

[messy]

I once open mouth kissed a horse.

(cookie for refrence)

Damn you I was going to say this

but groovy baby very groovy

 

[Semitendon]

Dan Ackroyd was in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

( explanation: In the movie, after Indy, Short Round, and Willie escape the club ( first scene in the movie) they make their way to an airstrip. At the airstrip, a person is standing by and says something to the effect of " the plane is ready to go". That person is Dan Ackroyd.)

Alexander Hamilton ( the person featured on the US ten dollar bill) was NOT a President.

( tip: most people don't realize this. It's a good way to make money, bet the person that there is a US paper money under the twenty that doesn't feature a president. 9 out of 10 people will guess George Washington on the one dollar, under the assumption that he might not have been considered a president. They will be wrong, then point out Hamilton on the ten, he was the US treasurer, not president, and also the guy who came up with the " America can stay in debt forever " idea.)

Those are the only interesting ones I can think of at the moment.

 

[Eleuthera]

La Crosse, WI has the highest bar density (bars per capita) in the US.

 

[G1eet]

I once open mouth kissed a horse.

(cookie for refrence)

Austin Powers. Damn you, I was going to use that bit when I saw this thread pop up in latest posts.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Did you know that Anders Fridén, the singer for In Flames, was the original singer for Dark Tranquillity, and their current singer was a session singer for In Flames during that time.

 

[Thaius]

Ted Dekker, a well-known author of some absolutely amazing novels, once made his living by selling adult diapers. Now he writes some of the greatest fiction of our day, in my opinion.

 

[AWC Viper]

I once open mouth kissed a horse.

(cookie for refrence)

Austin Powers. Damn you, I was going to use that bit when I saw this thread pop up in latest posts.

Spoiler: cookie inside

there you go!

 

[ClaptonKnophlerHendrix]

I once open mouth kissed a horse.

(cookie for refrence)

Austin Powers, Goldmember.

Knophler is a misspelling of Knopfler that's been copied way too often.

Also:

Last night a burglar got shot by the police in Zevenbergen.

I know I realised what I had done about 15 seconds after I hit enter.

Well this thread done gone and failed.

Your hidden bump fools no-one.
Did you know that?

Umm, sorry it had been 12 minutes I was't trying to bump it.

Did you know that Green Day is a pile of Fail?
ZING

Ireland invented both the fizzy orange drink and flavoured crisps.

The homeland of flavoured crisps and drunken pub brawls!
What not to love about Ireland?

I happen to enjoy their music, it's not punk rock anymore but I still enjoy it, besides they aren't my favourite band or anything, it's just I can't change my avatar for some reason. Now in the efforts of peace:
What sort of music do YOU enjoy?

Metal, Alternative Metal, Indie, Melodic Hardcore(See Rise Against).

I absolutely love Rise Against, see we aren't so different after all.

A Rise Against lover?
I LOVE You.

Don't you love making up?

 

[Skeleon]

Did you know that Erythromycin inhibits the metabolism of Theophylline, thus increasing the risk of arrhythmia when administered at the same time?

 

[ClaptonKnophlerHendrix]

You're actually adopted.

Your faux-parents killed your real parents.
With hugs.

True story.
Ask them about it sometime.

That actually explains alot.

 

[Yumi_and_Erea]

The canyon in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in which Indy threatens to blow up the Ark is the same canyon from "A New Hope" in which the Jawa's shoot R2D2.

 

[The Hairminator]

At Cambridge you may require cookies and ale during the examinations, since it is written in the school laws. You are also required to carry your sword to the examinations.

 

[KaiRai]

In Yorkshire, at 12noon, on a Sunday, it is still legal to kill a Welshman with a longbow in the town square.

One of those crazy laws they just never got round to outlawing.

 

[Tomsky]

Knophler is a misspelling of Knopfler that's been copied way too often.

Also:

Last night a burglar got shot by the police in Zevenbergen.

I know I realised what I had done about 15 seconds after I hit enter.

Well this thread done gone and failed.

Your hidden bump fools no-one.
Did you know that?

Umm, sorry it had been 12 minutes I was't trying to bump it.

Did you know that Green Day is a pile of Fail?
ZING

Ireland invented both the fizzy orange drink and flavoured crisps.

The homeland of flavoured crisps and drunken pub brawls!
What not to love about Ireland?

I happen to enjoy their music, it's not punk rock anymore but I still enjoy it, besides they aren't my favourite band or anything, it's just I can't change my avatar for some reason. Now in the efforts of peace:
What sort of music do YOU enjoy?

Metal, Alternative Metal, Indie, Melodic Hardcore(See Rise Against).

I absolutely love Rise Against, see we aren't so different after all.

A Rise Against lover?
I LOVE You.

I love Rise Against, I'm seeing them live on Saturday.

Please love me too.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

What not to love about Ireland?

The guerrilla warfare?

Would have worked better with your original avatar Furburt

All "solid" mass is >99% empty and is only held in place by chemical bonds.

Zero wasn't added to the number system until at least a 100 years had passed since its creation, purely because people couldn't find a use for it other than a placeholder.

You are blind for one tenth of your life, on average. Every time your head moves rapidly, if you weren't rendered blind, you'd see a motion blur. The reason you don't see one is that your brain picks out the beginning and the end of the movement, shows you those two scenes and then fills in the detail from the blur.

 

[ClaptonKnophlerHendrix]

I love Rise Against, I'm seeing them live on Saturday.

Please love me too.

God it's like one big group hug, I'll love you. But only a jealous love because they've already come through Sydney earlier this year, so I dont get to see them again for a while

 

[SultanP]

This thread defies itself. If I tell you something you don't know, then now you know it.

So I'll just go ahead and keep my secrets. And they're things you don't know!

It does not defy itself. It would if it said "Tell me something I'll never know"

OT: I haven't eaten for about 34 hours now.

 

[MissShortosity]

Building on what Sonicron said, an abbreviation like ATM is not an acronym, it's an initialism.
Basic rule: if the letters form a word, like QANTAS, it's an acronym, which is a word formed by the first letters of several words.
If you sound out the initials, like RTA, it's an initialism because you're pronouncing the first letter of every word (Roads (and) Traffic Authority).

Saying "I've just got to get some money out of an ATM machine" is a tautology and annoys me to no extent. The M in ATM stands for 'machine', thus the previous sentence reads as "I've just got to get some money out of an Automatic Teller Machine machine". I hate tautologies.

A backronym is a slang term for a word that existed before an acronym of the same word existed e.g. Adidas was a brand before the acronym "All day I dream about Sport" (of if you're a KoRn fan, All day I dream about sex) existed. Hence backronym!

So thats three