You learn something new every post.

[A Satanic Panda]

Radio waves (used in radio communication) don't travel at the speed of sound as you would think.
They travel at the speed of light, because they are part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Did you know that after about 2 or 3 light-years, man made radio waves carrying information will dissipate and turn into background radiation? That's not even to our closest star.

 

[Aerodyamic]

The reason that the lights in the red light district are actually red is because blemishes and imperfections are harder to spot under a red light, i.e. you look prettier under a red light.
True story.

You may look prettier under a red light, but I'm DAMN fine in every kind of light.

According to George Carlin, a cat will blink when struck in the head with a hammer. According to me, it's pretty funny to have one of those tiny keychain-charm-sized hammers and tap your cat in the middle of the forehead and listen to it purr like some kind of complete simpleton.

My cat is such a happy little twerp; now, if only I could get him to stop molesting my other boot so I can go grocery shopping, I'd be set!

 

[The Funslinger]

snip

I'm going to put mine in the same vein:

It is actually legal to keep wolves. A wolf raised from cub to adult around humans, properly socialized can turn out just fine. They're incredibly loyal companions and very even tempered creatures in general.

So what does snip mean? Every once in awhile someone writes that underneath your name. Always wondered. Now if it is a common thing in threads then I apologize. Basically like the first account I have set up with threads in it.

Well, to prevent clutter, you delete the excess irrelevant contents of a quoted post. If you delete the entire post, as the point you reference is fairly obvious, it's essentially become customary to put snip in its place, to show you have "snipped" the post's content.

 

[WoW Killer]

Well the whole point of an IQ test is to rank ones IQ relative to that of the whole world. So, theoretically, a score of 100 is average and the extremes (0, 200) barely stay off of the X-axis of the graph of all IQs at 1. Standard Deviation, it is. The reason IQ tests don't work (well, there several reasons, but the one relevant to this fact..) is that there is no conceivable way to create a test where the average will certainly be 100 and 200 and 0 will only be hit by 1 person each.

Slight nitpick. IQ ranks you relative to other people of the same age. A child can have an IQ higher than yours while achieving a lower score on the test.

 

[The Funslinger]

A wolf raised from cub to adult around humans, properly socialized can turn out just fine. They're incredibly loyal companions and very even tempered creatures in general.

I also heard that socialized wolves can randomly flip out for seemingly no reason at all.

If that's ever happened, I highly doubt it wasn't for no reason.

Honestly, while I'm glad it's legal, so one such as myself (who has grown up training and handling various dogs, and knows the requirements for a wolf to lead a happy life) I hope it doesn't become too common. You'd just get thugs and bastards keeping them as status symbols, and they'd be miserable as well as a huge liability.

Personally, I'm going to get two males (ideally the quietest in the litter) so they'll have company. If they get cocky, I might have them neutered for safety, but that shouldn't be necessary.

When they've passed on quite some time later and I'm more used to handling them, I may get a male and female to have a go at breeding. That way I could sell cubs to people I think could handle that responsibility, as they go for like 2 grand a cub. And obviously I could get my next pair of males from that breeding couple.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

Unicorns aren't actually real.
Sorry to break this down to you guys.

Everybody knows they were wiped out by the dragons in 1652. Jeez.