But they weren't being treated as lesser beings, they just didn't have representation due to the impracticality of it, and the taxes were being levied to pay for a war that was fought, in part, on the colonists's behalf.Keepeas said:
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No driver-less vehicle may exceed 60mph in California
It is illegal to keep an alligator in a bathtub in Arkansas
Phobatriviaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias
19th century Britian punished failed suicides by hanging
In Michigan, it is illegal to kill a dog using a decompression chamber
In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to have a threesome with a woman and her daughter
In Bromide, oklahoma, it is illegal for children to wear towels as capes and jump from houses pretending to be Superman
In Alaska, it is illegal to whisper in someone's ear while they are hunting moose
It is illegal to put a skunk in your boss' desk in Michigan
Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star and 12% believe Joan of Arc is Noah's wife
Heavy metal music doubles the speed at which termites eat wood
It is illegal to stab yourself to gain the pity of others in Alabama
It is illegal to fish from a camel's back in Idaho
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California
It is illegal to ride down a street in a motorboat in Breton, Alabama
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver within a toll both
In Nebraska, it is illegal for bar owners to sell beer unless they are brewing a kettle of soup at the same time
One must have a hunting license to catch mice in Cleveland, Ohio
In North Andover, Massachusetts, citizens are prohibited from carrying "space guns"
It is illegal to ride a camel on the highway in Nevada
In 1863 France, a man was given a life sentence for murder; 21 years later, it was discovered he was convicted for murdering himself
It is illegal to mistreat oysters in Baltimore, Maryland
In Oblong, Illinois, it is illegal to have sex while hunting or fishing on your wedding day
In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home
In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp
Boanthropy is a disease in which one believes they are an ox
It is illegal to buy ice cream after 6pm without a doctor's note in Newark, New Jersey
It is illegal to tie an alligator to a fire hydrant in Detroit, Michigan
It is illegal to make an ugly face at a dog in Oklahoma
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words; it has 35 letters
Raw peanuts can be used to get high (I'm not telling you how)
Banana's contain Musa Sapientum bananadine, a mild psychedelic
It is illegal to keep an alligator in a bathtub in Arkansas
Phobatriviaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias
19th century Britian punished failed suicides by hanging
In Michigan, it is illegal to kill a dog using a decompression chamber
In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to have a threesome with a woman and her daughter
In Bromide, oklahoma, it is illegal for children to wear towels as capes and jump from houses pretending to be Superman
In Alaska, it is illegal to whisper in someone's ear while they are hunting moose
It is illegal to put a skunk in your boss' desk in Michigan
Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star and 12% believe Joan of Arc is Noah's wife
Heavy metal music doubles the speed at which termites eat wood
It is illegal to stab yourself to gain the pity of others in Alabama
It is illegal to fish from a camel's back in Idaho
It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California
It is illegal to ride down a street in a motorboat in Breton, Alabama
In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver within a toll both
In Nebraska, it is illegal for bar owners to sell beer unless they are brewing a kettle of soup at the same time
One must have a hunting license to catch mice in Cleveland, Ohio
In North Andover, Massachusetts, citizens are prohibited from carrying "space guns"
It is illegal to ride a camel on the highway in Nevada
In 1863 France, a man was given a life sentence for murder; 21 years later, it was discovered he was convicted for murdering himself
It is illegal to mistreat oysters in Baltimore, Maryland
In Oblong, Illinois, it is illegal to have sex while hunting or fishing on your wedding day
In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home
In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp
Boanthropy is a disease in which one believes they are an ox
It is illegal to buy ice cream after 6pm without a doctor's note in Newark, New Jersey
It is illegal to tie an alligator to a fire hydrant in Detroit, Michigan
It is illegal to make an ugly face at a dog in Oklahoma
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words; it has 35 letters
Raw peanuts can be used to get high (I'm not telling you how)
Banana's contain Musa Sapientum bananadine, a mild psychedelic
The thing I love about these kinds of laws is that you know that someone had to have done these things to attract the attention of the politicians who made these laws.emissary666 said:
Bwahahahaha fear my thread of procrastination and time sucking evil.achilleas.k said:
I heard that ok was an abbreviation used by the democratic party back in the 1800s to support Martin Van Buren. But I may be wrong.Segadroid said:
haven't gone through the whole thread to see if anyone has addressed this yet buuut.Dreadman75 said:
Carrots were originally purple until the Dutch specifically bred carrots to be orange (after a couple of mutations probably) to honour the Dutch royal family whose 'royal' colour was orange.
Funnily enough for the romans (and probably a couple of other ancient civilisations) purple was considered the colour of nobility and high status, people wearing the colour purple were highly regarded, this 'rare' purple dye came from oysters (or some other similar clam like creature), sorry this is very vague I remember this from 10th grade ancient history (=_=
Meatramen said:
fun fact:
A banana is not berry at all, it is in fact an herb
http://www.marigoldlane.com/kitchen/banana.html
another fun fact:
'An herb' and 'A herb' are both acceptable English uses due to the fact herb has two different pronunciations that change it's sound
another fun fact:
neither of those were fun and i'm a giant failure at this!
Pubs in the UK have the right to evict anyone dancing on their property (especially without a proper license), except for Morris dancing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_dance]. Charles II(I think) had a fondness to Morris dancing so he passed a law stating anyone could morris dance in pubs.
Correct me if I am wrong, Im going by memory on this one.
Correct me if I am wrong, Im going by memory on this one.
Betelgeuse is about 1180 times the size of our sun (which we'll just call R for now) which means reaching around the orbit of Jupiter. Now on the other hand <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris>Canis Majoris, the biggest currently known star, is probably around 2000 R, going past Saturn. What we define as "our solar system" is a damn lot bigger than that.x EvilErmine x said:
That was my fact by the way. You may disagree, but I find astronomy facts damn fun.
Oh and for those that need 5:47 mins of solid factual facts enjoy this.
Oh and I'll try add some more facts that I can remember
-the scottish apparently kept wearing kilts because they didn't have horses and such didn't really need to wear pants, also it's a very 'free' feeling experience
-all clocks and watches in the movie pulp fiction are set to 4:20
-Valve can't count to '3'
-creepers were apparently made from a failed 'pig' model
-her name is 'Caroline' remember that!
That's all I can say
Yeah sorry I bored enjoy your fact sphere
Oh and I'll try add some more facts that I can remember
-the scottish apparently kept wearing kilts because they didn't have horses and such didn't really need to wear pants, also it's a very 'free' feeling experience
-all clocks and watches in the movie pulp fiction are set to 4:20
-Valve can't count to '3'
-creepers were apparently made from a failed 'pig' model
-her name is 'Caroline' remember that!
That's all I can say
Yeah sorry I bored enjoy your fact sphere
I dont know if its fun or infuriating.
If you contact Apple customer service, you are initially greeted with an automated attendant with voice recognition capability. Not at all uncommon. What is odd is that if you say something it does not understand, it plays a recording of typing noises, and stammers along apologizing while it is processing and forcing you to wait for 30 seconds mimicing that of a human being... even though its completely impossible to mistake this IVR system for a human being and it even disclaims itself at the beginning of the call and there is no logical reason to do so because the system had to identify that it did not understand your query in order to even play that scripted event in the first place.
Thereby it wastes 30 seconds of your life for no other reason than to "seem cute" to have a program that creates the illusion it thinks like people.
If you contact Apple customer service, you are initially greeted with an automated attendant with voice recognition capability. Not at all uncommon. What is odd is that if you say something it does not understand, it plays a recording of typing noises, and stammers along apologizing while it is processing and forcing you to wait for 30 seconds mimicing that of a human being... even though its completely impossible to mistake this IVR system for a human being and it even disclaims itself at the beginning of the call and there is no logical reason to do so because the system had to identify that it did not understand your query in order to even play that scripted event in the first place.
Thereby it wastes 30 seconds of your life for no other reason than to "seem cute" to have a program that creates the illusion it thinks like people.
The great white shark's only natural predator is a whale.
Also the piranha's only predator is the pink dolphin.
Also the piranha's only predator is the pink dolphin.
Jupite's mass is 1/1047 of the Sun. Also, why not be more general and say every element in the periodic table higher than iron can only be produced by supernovae because fusion would need more energy than the result would release.AlexWinter said:
On a related note I wanna throw another fact out there: Due to the atmosphere refraction occurs and gets more the nearer you get to the equator. At the equator itself it is about 0,5° or almost exactly the apparent size of the sun. So in reality this means if you see the sun touch the equator in the evening it actually just vanished behind it.
So what uni semester are you in currently? Just interested.
Not Uni, College. 2nd year. And yeah I know it's all of them heavier than iron it just doesn't sound as cool. That's why I added that everything is made out of stardust and like I said I wasn't sure on the Jupiter one. I wonder what I was thinking of.Quaxar said:
Uh... maybe Saturn's low density that'd make him stay afloat in water? Only thing I can think of atm that'd fit.AlexWinter said:
I'd say it sounds even cooler to say that 92 currently known elements are made from exploding stars than just a few.
College, sorry. It is just so much simpler to assume uni.