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Uber Evil

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pulse2 said:
Uber Evil said:
scatmanfan said:
Unless you're 32, you haven't lived for a billion seconds. I actually did the math on that one, as it seemed preposterous. 32 isn't exact, but I didn't go so far into the math as to see EXACTLY when you'd hit a billion seconds.
31 years, 259 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, 40 seconds, and 51.2 milliseconds, not counting leapyears. Not legally old enough to get laid, but, still, I have no life.
Thats going on my facebook status, lol
Are you kidding me! Me too!
 

Sacman

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lacktheknack said:
The longest word in the world is 1185 characters long.

Also, the fear of long words is called "Hippopotomonstrosesquipidaliophobia".
actually the longest word in the world is the chemical name for Titin which is 189,819 characters long...<.<
 

lacktheknack

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Sacman said:
lacktheknack said:
The longest word in the world is 1185 characters long.

Also, the fear of long words is called "Hippopotomonstrosesquipidaliophobia".
actually the longest word in the world is the chemical name for Titin which is 189,819 characters long...<.<
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Naeo

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In Texas, painting vertical purple stripes around your property (on your house, on trees, fences, etc) counts as official, legal warning of "do not trespass." The lines have very specific requirements on height, width, and height off the ground or else you're just painting purple stripes for fun.

"Trespassers will be shot" is I believe considered legal warning and authorizes you to shoot trespassers. Their death will not be prosecuted as murder.

English actually has about two dozen different tenses (different ways of expressing the same tense aside (e.g. "I will do" versus "I shall do"), there's still about a dozen and a half).

English almost always takes fewer syllables to express a long/complex thought than any other living language.
 

MrHero17

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cyrogeist said:
did you know the word tank was just the british pulling a word out of there ass! they used it so the german had no clue what they were talking about!
Sounds suspect to me, there are other uses of tank like water tank, cooling tank.
From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tank
"Origin:
1610?20; perh. jointly < Gujarati t&#257;nkh reservoir, lake, and Pg tanque, contr. of estanque pond, lit., something dammed up, deriv. of estancar (< VL *stantic&#257;re ) to dam up, weaken; adopted as a cover name for the military vehicle during the early stages of its manufacture in England (December, 1915)"

When angler fish reproduce the comparatively tiny males permanently attach themselves to the female.
 

Tim_Buoy

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every time you have an orgasm at that second you brain literally cant think of anything else
the average male thins about sex on average every three seconds
studies have shown that men tend to sleep on the left sides of beds while women sleep on the right
one out of every three statistics are made up on the spot
 

Timeslament

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Julius Caesar was killed in 44 B.C. on Ides of March (March 15) people to this day still leave flowers in the forum in Rome in remembrance of his death.
 

Lukeje

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Daemascus said:
Lukeje said:
Daemascus said:
Water is the only thing that expands when is freezes.
No, it isn't. For example:
wikipedia said:
Other substances that expand on freezing are silicon, gallium, germanium, antimony, bismuth, plutonium and other compounds that form spacious crystal lattices with tetrahedral coordination.
...from this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water] wikipage.
No one ever said the facted needed to be right.
If it's not right, then it's not a fact.
 

Rockchimp69

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MrHero17 said:
cyrogeist said:
did you know the word tank was just the british pulling a word out of there ass! they used it so the german had no clue what they were talking about!
Sounds suspect to me, there are other uses of tank like water tank, cooling tank.
From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tank
"Origin:
1610?20; perh. jointly < Gujarati t&#257;nkh reservoir, lake, and Pg tanque, contr. of estanque pond, lit., something dammed up, deriv. of estancar (< VL *stantic&#257;re ) to dam up, weaken; adopted as a cover name for the military vehicle during the early stages of its manufacture in England (December, 1915)"

When angler fish reproduce the comparatively tiny males permanently attach themselves to the female.
And after the male is attached, it is slowly consumed by the female until only its penis is left.
 

Rockchimp69

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A Pious Cultist said:
Talal Provides said:
Sharks have seven senses.
Really?
Sight
Hearing
Touch
Taste
Smell
Temperature
Pain / Pleasure
Erogenous sensation
Balance
Probably boyancy
Their supposed electrical sense
Their perception of their body and the physical location it takes up.

Five senses is as ridiculous a notion as there being four elements.

In Chester, England. It is legal to shoot a welsh-man with a crossbow after midnight...
Specific examples (ie. the law is that you can't bring in animals and saying that "bringing in a moose on a watersky is illegal") are one thing but murder is pretty damn illegal, your "fact" is just plain bollocks.

My interesting fact:
Most of "It's legal to X and X in X with an X after X" are made up, as are quite a few of those so called facts you hear on QI. Do not deny it :D


Read my post on page 2, I said the same thing and he explained that what he meant was that they have 2 extra senses (motion and electricity) to us humans.