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A Weakgeek

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Did you know that crabs (or lobsters idonremember) practice sex wíth their male buddies before breeding with the females?
 

kinggamecat

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Sea cucumbers excrete their internal organs to entangle their foes, and escape because they can re-grow them

Swans are the only bird with a penis

There's a kind of spider that breaks it's penis off inside the female spider after intercourse

Gandhi was an Anti-Semite (This is not my opinion but I've heard it from a few places/people)

Hitler was a vegetarian

Some people believe Nazis had help from aliens

A member (or former member) of the Nazi part was one of the most important people who worked on NASA's project to get a human on the moon

Samurai swords can cut a speeding bullet in half

(might have more later)
 

Solid Reece

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It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
 

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Realitycrash said:
darth.pixie said:
The Bible is the world's most shoplifted book.
The bible is also the world's most sold book.
well du I hate when someone tells me that and is expecting me to be surprised it is over 500th years old has to be bought by people who go to school and I the book of the largest world religion why the hell wouldn't it be the worlds most sold book?

OT: The escapist isn't the only website that is mostly made of smart, reasonable people.
 

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lbucyk said:
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
Well, if that's not scaling for inflation then yeah that just makes sense. Otherwise that's really interesting.
 

Solid Reece

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# Cat's urine glows under a black light.
# All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
# Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
# If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
# It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
# In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
 

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Jesus said that the two most important things are to love your God, and love your neighbour. He said that they were the most important and so therefore everything should simply be an extension of that, like I robots three rules. FUN FACT: Thats been the case for over 2000 years and people still listen to the coat-holding-at-stoning-needed-to-be-struck-down-by-god-to-be-converted-never-even-met-Jesus-indecisive St Paul when they read the bible and mindlessly parrot a name and a number! Not that I'm a bitter fucking follower of Christ or intend to become Pope through an extensive campaign of murder and trickery so I can enforce the two greatest commandments by simply removing all else from the Bible except for the stuff about forgiveness and perhaps the old testiment. No, that would be a phycotic plan to either change Christian views or at least out all the homophobes hiding within it.
 

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Nearing9 said:
Fun fact on how heavy metal got its sound:

Tony Iommi (guitarist of Black Sabbath) had his fretting hand's finger tips cut off in a machine accident at work. He then tuned down his guitar to relieve tension on his finger tips and it resulted in a "heavier" sound.
I always thought he lost his finger tips because of working with acid...
 

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?The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
?One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
?Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
?TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
?A snail can sleep for 3 years.
?Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
?Only female mosquitoes bite.
?Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
?If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
 

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?A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
?Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
?A group of frogs is called an army.
?A group of rhinos is called a crash.
?A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
?A group of whales is called a pod.
?A group of geese is called a gaggle.
?A group of ravens is called a murder.
?A group of officers is called a mess.
?A group of larks is called an exaltation.
?A group of owls is called a parliament.
 

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Haseo21 said:
Dolphins have sex up to 5 times a day.....dont ask me why I know this
Did it involve taking interracial sex to the next level?

*shudder*

OT: You're more likely to be killed by your own trousers than in a plane crash.
 

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dragonslayer32 said:
Nearing9 said:
Fun fact on how heavy metal got its sound:

Tony Iommi (guitarist of Black Sabbath) had his fretting hand's finger tips cut off in a machine accident at work. He then tuned down his guitar to relieve tension on his finger tips and it resulted in a "heavier" sound.
I always thought he lost his finger tips because of working with acid...
nope it was in shop class during English version of high school. Him dropping the tune of his string helped create the genre metal.
 

dragonslayer32

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bak00777 said:
dragonslayer32 said:
Nearing9 said:
Fun fact on how heavy metal got its sound:

Tony Iommi (guitarist of Black Sabbath) had his fretting hand's finger tips cut off in a machine accident at work. He then tuned down his guitar to relieve tension on his finger tips and it resulted in a "heavier" sound.
I always thought he lost his finger tips because of working with acid...
nope it was in shop class during English version of high school. Him dropping the tune of his string helped create the genre metal.
Fair enough... You learn something new every day :) Thanks for the fact.
 

Quinadin

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Fun Facts:
1. Most English dinner terms stem from the Norman Invasion in 1066. Deer=English, Venison=French. Sheep=English, Mutton=French. Cow=Eng, Beef=Frenches.

2. Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, discovered a way to impale a man from bottom to mouth which would keep the victim alive for days. He also impaled an entire village to scare away the Ottoman Turks. It worked. ALSO when a noble complained about the stench of the dying villagers, Vlad stuck HIM on a pole and said "Let's see if the smell can reach you there". Also also, he is supposedly the inspiration of Dracula.

3. I am greatly enjoying reading this thread.
 

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dragonslayer32 said:
Nearing9 said:
Fun fact on how heavy metal got its sound:

Tony Iommi (guitarist of Black Sabbath) had his fretting hand's finger tips cut off in a machine accident at work. He then tuned down his guitar to relieve tension on his finger tips and it resulted in a "heavier" sound.
I always thought he lost his finger tips because of working with acid...
I heard it from a documentary and they said a machine (not like some dude on a forum is a reliable source of info. just what I heard).

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