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'The Whopper pre-dates the Big Mac by a decade. '
The first McDonald's opened in 1940, although the company dates its origins to 1955 and the singular brilliance of Ray Kroc. It would be another 12 years before Pennsylvania-based owner/operator Jim Delligatti invented the Big Mac. Meanwhile, Burger King, which was founded in 1954, introduced the Whopper in 1957, an invention by James McLamore, one of two co-founders of the fast food giant
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove
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near and dear to my heart...
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
Yep, I kill trees for a livin' ;) No thanks necessary... :lol:
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Most robberies occur on Tuesdays.
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All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20
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Larm's can't be used for masturbating. It's a fact.
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The faster you travel the less time you experience. This has been proven by sending atomic computers into orbit around earth and a sister computer on earth. The one in orbit experiences the passing of marginally less time relative to the one on earth.
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Famed frontiersman Davy Crockett's had alligator arms. No joke, they were so unusually short that he had trouble putting on his own boots.
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i farted, and it stinks
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'Subjects of some secret 1950s CIA experiments were kept on LSD for 77 days straight. '
Some the CIA's dirtiest Cold War secrets -- highly classified, top-secret experiments ranging from germ warfare test-runs on U.S. cities to shocking mind control experiments -- first came to light in the very midst of the Cold War itself in the 1970s, when top-level authorities were hauled before Congress and asked to answer to a broad range of otherwise illegal activities. As part of the covert organization's attempts at mind control, prison inmates were given doses of acid (LSD) for 77 days straight -- an ordeal that seems inhuman. In exchange for their participation, some of those inmates were given heroin.
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LSD was invented in saskatoon, SK, Canada, just 1h from here. it was invented to treat skitzophrenia (spelling nazi pls)
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male in virtually all living species. >:D
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LSD was invented in saskatoon, SK, Canada, just 1h from here. it was invented to treat skitzophrenia (spelling nazi pls)
LOL you asked.
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male in virtually all living species. >:D
Good to know, Lorena....
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male in virtually all living species. >:D
Good to know, Lorena....
I am nothing like her... I would have shoved it down his throat, not throw it in the field. :rofl:
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male in virtually all living species. >:D
Good to know, Lorena....
I am nothing like her... I would have shoved it down his throat, not throw it in the field. :rofl:
:confused: :help:
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male in virtually all living species. >:D
Good to know, Lorena....
I am nothing like her... I would have shoved it down his throat, not throw it in the field. :rofl:
:confused: :help:
Don't worry hunny... just keep mama happy. ;)
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That is a Fact :thumbs:
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FACT OF THE MOTHA F*CKIN DAY! :rofl:
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'Hollywood's summer blockbuster era began in 1975.'
All the elements we associate with a summer blockbuster movie can be found for the first time in Steven Spielberg's 1975 horror masterpiece Jaws: An action-driven narrative featuring cutting-edge special effects, geared toward young audiences out of school and designed to do nothing less than break records at the box office. The Omen played the role of blockbuster in 1976, followed by 1977's Star Wars.
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Hot water can burn in less than 3 seconds. :lol:
I think it was daffy duck who told me that. :lol:
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Jaws: An action-driven narrative featuring cutting-edge special effects, geared toward young audiences out of school and designed to do nothing less than break records at the box office. The Omen played the role of blockbuster in 1976, followed by 1977's Star Wars.
I saw 2 of those 3 in the theater when they came out
I was a bit to young to see the Omen, but my parents had no problem letting me see Jaws.. scared the FERK outta me!
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'HBO was the first-ever satellite-based cable TV service. '
By the time HBO was launched by Time Inc. in 1975, cable television had technically been around for decades. It began in the 1940s as a means of bringing television reception to regions where a home antenna just wasn’t doing the trick. Community antenna television (CATV) was cable TV in its infancy, and it solved that reception problem by putting a tall tower at a high local elevation and using a coaxial cable to transmit the incoming TV signals to local subscribers. By virtue of that powerful community antenna, those subscribers wound up getting far more channels, on both the VHF and UHF signals, than the ordinary person with a home antenna.
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'The longest commercially navigable inland waterway in the world starts in Minnesota.'
Stretching 2,342 miles, from Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota, all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, "Highway H2O," also known as the St. Lawrence Seaway, was one of President Eisenhower's many massive public works projects (the Interstate system being another). The Seaway, which cost over $470 million, required 5 years' work, moved 200 million cubic yards of earth, and includes 15 enormous locks. It opened in 1959 as a joint venture between the U.S. and Canada, and today is operated by the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
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The Twilight Zone is not just a television show.
In 1964 the great Rod Serling turned the twilight zone into The Twilight Zone, one of the more spectacular sci-fi TV shows of all time, but he didn't make the title up; rather, he borrowed it from oceanography. The twilight zone is an aquatic layer in water extending 650 ft (200 m) down to around 3,280 ft (1000 m), an area in deep water known as the mesopelagic, where light cannot penetrate -- or at least, not enough light to allow for photosynthesis.
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'Woodstock was funded by two venture capitalists writing a sitcom pilot about venture capitalists looking for an oddball proposal. '
The now-legendary Woodstock festival of 1969 began as an idea from a store owner named Michael Lang, who wanted to throw a concert as a means of promoting a state-of-the-art recording studio in Woodstock, NY. Lang and music business insider Artie Kornfeld needed funding, so they went to John Roberts and Joel Rosenman, venture capitalists who at the time were writing a pilot about venture capitalists looking for oddball proposals to fund. Ultimately, the two agreed to invest $500,000 in Woodstock, but Roberts later claimed the festival cost in excess of $3 million and that neither he nor Rosenman ever turned a profit off the festival.
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'Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was "Moon."'
The second man to walk on the moon (a fact, he tells the New York Times, that didn't bother him), Buzz Aldrin was indeed born to a woman whose maiden name was, appropriately enough, Moon. According to a piece in GQ by Sean Wilsey, Aldrin's reputation as a player during his NASA days earned him the nickname "Dr. Rendezvous"; shortly after he touched down from Apollo XI, Wilsey claims the married Aldrin used his NASA-issued T-38 supersonic jet to fly from Houston to New York to hook up with a girlfriend.
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"Women fart just as much as men"
It's a fact
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'In one California city, for every live resident there are 1,000 dead ones. '
Colma, just south of San Francisco, was founded to be a necropolis in 1924 after San Francisco authorities evicted most of the city's cemeteries because of rising land values. Today, Colma has 17 cemeteries; three-quarters of the city's 2.2 square miles are zoned for the dead and buried, which includes one pet cemetery. Estimates put the living population at around 1,500 and the dead at 1.5 million, a figure that includes numerous celebrities, such as Joe DiMaggio and Wyatt Earp.
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[Today at 01:18:32 PM] 4gunz4x4z: Penis is great
Fact: Gunny thinks Penis is GREAT!
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Cuttlefish are chronic maturbators- They only stop to eat, or if they have any enegy left...to mate.
Brian's new nickname is therefore "Cuttlefish"
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50 Facts about Men
by Rita Rudner
1. Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.
2. Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
3. If you buy your husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, lock the door when you go to the bathroom. Most of my husband's early films end with a scream and a flush.
4. Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the "nice" of bald.
5. Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible. In a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.
6. Men are very confident people. My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates really hard, he can help his team. If his team is in trouble, he coaches the players from the living room. If they are really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.
7. If it's attention you want, don't get involved with a man during play-off season.
8. Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.
9. Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.
10. All men look nerdy in black socks and sandals.
11. The way a man looks at himself in the mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.
12. Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to KNOW.
13. Men who are going bald often wear baseball caps.
14. All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. I sleep with one under my pillow instead of a gun.
15. A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.
16. Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano.
17. All men hate to hear "We need to talk." No matter what the subject is, these seven words strike fear in the heart of even General Norman Schwarzkopf.
18. Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log doesn't burn, he will take it personally.
19. Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.
20. All men think they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names.
21. Men do not get cellulite. Another point for g-d possibly being a man.
22. Men have an easier time shopping for a bathing suit. Women have two types: Depressing and More depressing! Men have two types: Nerdy and Not Nerdy.
23. Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in the winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore.
24. Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I've never seen a man walk into a party and say "Oh, my g-d, I'm so embarrassed. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo!"
25. Most men hate to shop. That is why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.
26. If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.
27. If you are dating a man who you think might be Mr. Right if he only: a) got older b) got a new job or c) visited a psychiatrist, you are in for a rude awakening. The cocoon-to-butterfly theory only works on cocoons and butterflies.
28. Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get looser, baggier and longer.
29. No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.
30. When four or more men get together, they talk about sports.
31. When four or more women get together, they talk about men.
32. Not one man in a beer commercial has a beer belly.
33. Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie The Way We Were twice, voluntarily.
34. Most women are introspective. "Am I In Love? Am I emotionally and creatively fulfilled?" Most men are outrospective: "Did my team win? How's my car?"
35. If a man says "I'll call you," and he doesn't, he didn't FORGET... he didn't LOSE your number... he didn't DIE! He just didn't want to call you.
36. Men hate to lose. I once beat my husband at tennis. I asked him, "Are we going to have sex again?" He said, "Yes. But not with each other."
37. Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of the sight of women.
38. Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. "Get out" and "I never want to see you again" might sound like a challenge. If you want to get rid of a man, I suggest saying "I love you... I want to marry you... I want to have your children." Sometimes they leave skid marks.
39. Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side, "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."
40. Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network.
41. Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.
42. Only men who have worn a ski suit understand how complicated it is for a woman to go to the bathroom when she's wearing a jumpsuit.
43. Men don't feel the urge to get married as quickly as women do because their clothes all button and zip in the front. Women's dresses usually button and zip in the back. We need men emotionally and sexually, but we also need men to help us get dressed.
44. Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with superheroes. Women have bad self images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
45. When a woman tries on clothing from her closet that feels tight, she will assume she has gained weight. When a man tries something from his closet that feels tight, he will assume his clothing has shrunk.
46. Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause: you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.
47. Men forget everything. Women remember everything.
48. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
49. Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.
50. All men would still really like to own a train set.
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10. All men look nerdy in black socks and sandals. :'( :'(
18. Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log doesn't burn, he will take it personally. U DAMN Skippy
19. Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax. AMEN
23. Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in the winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore. :clap:
30. When four or more men get together, they talk about sports. And Quads
33. Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie The Way We Were twice, voluntarily. That would be considered torture.....it's in the geniva convention :lol:
37. Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of the sight of women. :sit:
41. Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit. They swallow, see Phil for example
46. Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause: you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles. SWEET!!
49. Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony. BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
50. All men would still really like to own a train set. So!!! :'(
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'Solar eclipses occur because of a stroke of galactic and symmetrical good luck. '
In a solar eclipse, the moon moves in front of the sun and blocks it out with seeming perfection, and it works this way by luck: the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, and it is also 400 times further away from Earth. The gorgeous consequence, as noted by Discover Magazine's LeeAundra Temescu, is that both the sun and the moon appear to be the same size in our sky. Without this symmetry, a total solar eclipse as we view it wouldn't be possible.
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Fish fart.....
It's a fact
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Fish fart.....
It's a fact
Best fact ever Gunny! :rofl:
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Boobs are awesome
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'In MLB history, just 22 players have hit an "Ultimate Grand Slam."'
In pro baseball, an "Ultimate Grand Slam" is a walk-off grand slam that gives the home team a 1-run victory. Roger Conner hit the first such grand slam in 1881 off Lee Richmond, and Jason Giambi hit the most recent one off Mike Trombley in 2002. Babe Ruth and Ron Lolich have hit the only ultimate grand slams in extra innings, and Roberto Clemente's 1956 ultimate grand slam is the only one that was also an inside-the-park homer.
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'Contrary to what's seen on TV, defibrillating paddles don't restart a stopped heart.'
We see on TV a person on who's flatlined, then the medical pros slam him with paddles from a defibrillator ("Clear!") and suddenly his heart starts up again. However, defibrillators don't work like that. They are used on a person having a heart attack (there are many ways to have a heart attack) in an effort to bring a heartbeat under control, i.e. slow it down or defibrillate it (stop it from twitching irregularly). The only way to restart a heart that has stopped beating is through certain drugs like epinephrine.
I did not know that!
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'IMAX is short for Image Maximum. '
First developed in 1967 in Canada, the IMAX technology premiered with the first IMAX film, a short titled Tiger Child at the Fuji Pavilion at EXPO '70 in Osaka, Japan. Today the company has 371 IMAX theatres in 43 countries, although two-thirds of them are located in North America. The bulb used in an IMAX projector is bright enough to be seen by residents of the International Space Station if pointed in their direction.
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russ is a lurkin' sumbitch lately :lol:
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he was just here :nun:
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f*ckin ninjas
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California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named . :lol:
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'Only one space vehicle has ever featured a fridge and a freezer. '
One might imagine that this space vehicle would be one of the space shuttles or maybe the International Space Station, but the only one to have a fridge and a freezer was NASA's Skylab, which was in orbit during the 1970s. In fact, Skylab forever changed the how NASA astronauts ate in space. It featured an area for a dining room and a table so astronauts could actually sit down and eat like they normally would. Skylab's fridge and freezer also offered its crew a massive menu of 72 different food items.
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'The 1949 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded for the development of a procedure many consider barbaric today. '
Antonio Egas Moniz was a Portuguese neurologist who developed the prefrontal lobotomy, in which connections to and from the pre-frontal cortex are cut. From the 1930s on, such surgeries, known as psychosurgery, were gaining in popularity, but even before Moniz was awarded the Nobel Prize -- and after tens of thousands of patients had undergone the debilitating procedure -- there was already a growing minority of doctors who saw the procedure as brutal and inhumane. Today it is performed sparingly, if ever.
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'Jason Bateman was the youngest person ever to join the Director's Guild.'
According to the August 2009 issue of Details magazine, actor Jason Bateman, known for Arrested Development and Juno among a host of credits, became the youngest member of the Director's Guild of America (DGA) when, at age 18, he directed an episode of The Hogan Family, one of the many sitcoms he's been a part of throughout his career.
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'One in five Americans admits to "going" in the pool.'
A 2009 survey conducted by the Water Quality and Health Council found that some adults exhibit less-than-hygienic behavior when spending time in pools. Almost one in five (17%) admit to urinating when they go in the pool, while almost four of five adults think that others are doing it (78%). Contributing to any pool water's lack of cleanliness, one in three people don't shower before diving in -- all the more reason to rinse or shower on getting out.
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'Two of every 1000 people will experience dissociative fugue in their lifetimes. '
Dissociative fugue is a temporary form of amnesia and can involve more than one episode in which the sufferer suddenly takes off from home, forgets their identity and past life, and often assumes a new identity. The episodes themselves are called fugues; they tend not to last more than a few hours or a couple days, and are typically triggered by some past traumatic event or events. More often than not, these fugues resolve on their own.
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Times Beach, Missouri, was the first town to be bought out and evacuated by the U.S. Federal government. '
The town of Times Beach was founded in the 1920s and by the early 1980s had a modest population of under 2,500 residents. The town suffered from a dust problem until it decided to pave the roads. First, however, the roads were sprayed with waste oil, some of which was provided by the Northeastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical Company (NEPACCO). As it turned out, much of the waste used contained extraordinarily high levels of dioxin -- thousands of times higher than the defoliant used in Vietnam, Agent Orange. The EPA, along with President Reagan, declared the town unsafe and in 1983 spent over $30 million to buy out the town and evacuate it.
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'2009 is the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the minivan. '
When Lee Iacocca came over from Ford to Chrysler, he brought with him an idea that Ford had rejected -- an idea that amounted to the minivan. Chrysler consequently invented and produced the first minivans in the fall of 1983 for the 1984 model year. These vehicles included the Dodge Caravan and the Plymouth Voyager, the latter a vehicle that was launched in the 1970s as a van and rebranded in 1984 as a minivan. Since 1984, the company has sold over 12 million minivans and they retain in excess of 40% of the U.S. minivan market.
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'2009 is the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the minivan. '
When Lee Iacocca came over from Ford to Chrysler, he brought with him an idea that Ford had rejected -- an idea that amounted to the minivan. Chrysler consequently invented and produced the first minivans in the fall of 1983 for the 1984 model year. These vehicles included the Dodge Caravan and the Plymouth Voyager, the latter a vehicle that was launched in the 1970s as a van and rebranded in 1984 as a minivan. Since 1984, the company has sold over 12 million minivans and they retain in excess of 40% of the U.S. minivan market.
My folks bought a 1984 dodge caravan 2.2 liter 4 cylinder, with a 5 speed manual. COMPLETELY gutless.
My mom came home with a speeding ticket one day and showed my dad. It said she was doing 72 in a 55mph zone. My dad said "BS...there's no fricken way that van can do 72mph" and he was complete serious, becuase when he drove it, he had all 5 of us in the van and it would NOT do over 65mph. With mom alone though, she would rap out at 72mph.
My dad wanted to fight the ticket, because in order to have witness in the viechle, they wouldn't be able to make the van achieve that speed.
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:rofl: Awesome!
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russ is a lurkin' sumbitch lately :lol:
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'An estimated 250,000 people are killed by AK-47s every year. '
Invented during World War II by tank mechanic Mikhail Kalashnikov, who hoped to arm his fellow Soviets with a reliable weapon against Nazi invaders, the AK-47 assault rifle is by some estimates the most prolific killer in the history of weaponry. It took Kalashnikov six years to develop, but when finished he'd created a weapon that was easy to put together, easy to fix and tough as nails in any weather. The only thing he didn't worry much about was accuracy, but when you can fire off 600 rounds a minute, accuracy's not that important.
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'Most of our sense of taste is determined by our nose. '
People often plug their nose before consuming something utterly distasteful, and the reason this works is because, despite having extremely poor olfactory senses compared to much of the animal world, as much as three-quarters of our sense of taste comes from what we smell. According to the authors of Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?, the odor molecules given off by food are picked up by our nose and recognized by our brain.
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'An estimated 250,000 people are killed by AK-47s every year. '
Invented during World War II by tank mechanic Mikhail Kalashnikov, who hoped to arm his fellow Soviets with a reliable weapon against Nazi invaders, the AK-47 assault rifle is by some estimates the most prolific killer in the history of weaponry. It took Kalashnikov six years to develop, but when finished he'd created a weapon that was easy to put together, easy to fix and tough as nails in any weather. The only thing he didn't worry much about was accuracy, but when you can fire off 600 rounds a minute, accuracy's not that important.
AK-47/74 etc are actually fairly accurate to 300meters, beyond that....not so much. But I prefer a 7.62 round over our 5.56 anyday. Seen guys hit with 5.56 run away, 7.62 they don't move ever again.
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Hard to argue one of the best/toughest/most resiliant guns out there though :) even despite their age.
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'At least 50 organisms have been recognized as hyperthermophiles.'
Although it seems incompatible with life as we know it, a few dozen microorganisms on earth live in water that exceeds the boiling point at standard pressure. According to NASA, these organisms have been found living and reproducing in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming (home of Old Faithful), in geothermally heated water that reaches 235 degrees F. Recently, Colorado researchers found that the Yellowstone hyperthermophiles' main source of energy was not sulfur, as long suspected, but hydrogen.
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'The first portable computer weighed over 23 pounds. '
Introduced by Adam Osborne in 1981, the Osborne I is regarded as history's first portable computer. Weighing in at over 23 pounds, the $1,795 Osborne I featured a built-in 5-inch monochrome display, a pair of floppy disc drives, 64Kb of RAM, and it used the CP/M operating system developed by Gary Kildall and John Torode.
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'The world's oldest surviving bank began as a pawnshop. '
Founded in the city-state of Siena, Italy, in 1472 as the equivalent of a pawnshop, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, known as "il Monte," is today one of the three largest banks in Italy, with 30,000 employees and a few thousand branches across the country. In 1995, Italy's Minister of the Treasury turned il Monte into a corporation named Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
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'At 65 mph, it would in theory take an hour to drive your car into outer space.'
Scientists at the University of Calgary recently used a rocket-mounted ion detector to determine at what point the atmosphere of Earth ends and outer space begins. Their conclusion? Outer space begins 73.3 miles from the ground -- a figure that differs from the 62-mile boundary between aeronautics and astronautics known as the Karman Line, as well as the 76-mile boundary used by NASA as a reentry altitude.
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'The largest model rocket ever launched weighed 1,648 pounds. '
Built by an auto body repairman in his garage and in his spare time, the rocket was a 1/10 scale model of the Saturn V rocket that sent the Apollo missions into outer space (and were, at almost 6.7 million lb, the heaviest rockets ever made). When the model launched in 2009 in front of a crowd of around 5,000 people, it reached an altitude of 4,441 feet (and the builder was still able to successfully recover it).
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'The Ouija board was first patented in 1891.'
Although so-called "Talking Boards" as well as planchettes (the device you put your fingers on) had been around in one form or another since the 1850s as a popular Victorian pastime, it wasn't until 1891 that a U.S. patent was issued for one, in this case to the Kennard Novelty Company for their Ouija board, designed on five attachable pieces of wood. Parker Brothers bought the rights in 1966, and in 1999 put out the first glow-in-the-dark Ouija board.
'Mosquitoes use anticoagulants and painkillers to feed off humans without our knowledge. '
Mosquito bites are generally the only evidence we have of having been bitten by a mosquito, and the mosquitoes wouldn't have it any other way. Their saliva is an ingenious mixture that features, among other elements, an anticoagulant that prevents blood from clotting as well as an anesthetic that blocks sensation. The resulting "bite" is an immune response to this saliva.
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'On average in the U.S., less than one person per year dies of a shark attack.'
Sharks have been getting a pretty bad rap at least since Steven Spielberg's 1975 hit Jaws, and other media only make it worse, such as the Discovery Channel's hyped annual Shark Week. Yet according to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File, over the past 15 years there have been only 11 documented cases of death by shark attack, or an annual rate of 0.7.
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'If palm and tarot card readers have let you down, you can always consult a rumpologist.'
(Peelz??????????)
As Robert Ripley used to say, believe it or not: Rumpology is the "art" of reading one's future or fortunes by studying the lines, crevices, folds and other particulars found on one's bare rear end. The most high-profile proponent and practitioner of rumpology is Jackie Stallone, actor Sly's mother, who offers the allegedly "ancient" service by the modern means of PayPal: After emailing her a close-up photo of your rump and $125, she will divine your future and send you a report of her findings.
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:lol: :bird:
I am not the expert here Wandy.
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It costs $6,400 to raise a medium size dog to age eleven.
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'Some men suffer from the unfortunate disorder known as sexual anhedonia. '
Anhedonia is the term used to describe a lack of ability to experience pleasure or be interested in pleasurable activities and is considered a rare psychological variant of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD). For men, sexual anhedonia is a rare condition in which men are able to ejaculate successfully but do not in the process experience orgasm. There are a number of both physical and psychological potential causes for the disorder.
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'For the fifth straight year, Americans cite firefighters as having the most prestigious occupation. '
Each year, Harris Poll Interactive asks Americans which profession they deem to be the most prestigious, and at the top of 2009's list is the same job that has been at the top since 2005: firefighter. Scientist, doctor, nurse and teacher follow not far behind the firefighter at the top of the list. The bottom of the list, meanwhile, partly reflects economic conditions: stockbroker, accountant and the least prestigious occupation of all -- real estate agent.
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'Only two NHL goaltenders in history have been credited with a shutout and a goal in the same game. '
In NHL history, 362 goaltenders have been credited with at least one shutout in the regular season. Nine goaltenders have been credited with scoring a goal in a regular season game. But only two have achieved both in the same game. In 1999, Ottawa's Damian Rhodes shut out New Jersey 6-0 and was credited with a goal when he wound up being the last Ottawa player to touch the puck after the Devils accidentally put it into their own net. In 2001, Montreal's Jose Theodore shut out the New York Islanders 2-0 and, with seconds left in the game, shot the puck the length of the ice and scored into an empty net.
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^^^^Only been Pucked a few times :lol:
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^^^^Only been Pucked a few times :lol:
In before the quote change!
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'The Hima people of Uganda have a unique way of measuring a woman's beauty. '
In stark defiance of much of the world -- and certainly most of the West -- when Ugandan Hima males see a group of women together, it shouldn't be difficult to ascertain which of the women they're coveting the most: it will inevitably be the heaviest woman, as among the Hima, the measure of female beauty is obesity. In fact, as young girls reach marrying age, their families, their future spouses, and the families of the future spouses will actively encourage the girls to pack on the pounds.
Aaron? Is this where your old wife came from? :lol:
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'The smallest known genome belongs to the microbe Mycoplasma genitalium.'
Featuring a mere 580,000 base pairs in its DNA code, the microbe Mycoplasma genitalium has the smallest known genome of any independently replicating cell. By way of comparison, the human genome includes about 3 billion base pairs. There are about 30 million known microbial species on Earth -- and about 1,000 of those species make their home on the surface of human skin. All told, the average human body is home to as many as 70 trillion individual microbes.
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'About 30 times each year, aircraft flying over U.S. airports come within seconds of colliding.'
These near-collisions occur during takeoff and landing. Air traffic controllers, responsible for coordinating the careful madness at major U.S. airports, claim the problem is bad and is only going to get worse in the coming years: U.S. skies are becoming congested with more flights and more passengers, but the number of skilled air traffic controllers on hand is not keeping up.
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'Reebok withdrew its Incubus women's athletic shoe in 1997 when they learned what an Incubus was. '
It's really quite shocking that a product could get as far as the Incubus athletic shoe without anyone at a company the size of Reebok raising a red flag. What's an incubus? Counterpart of the succubus, in Medieval Europe an Incubus was an evil spirit that people believed would climb into the beds of (mostly) women late at night and in essence rape them in their sleep. Reebok said they need to find 1,500 new, non-trademarked product names each year, limiting the time to research what they mean. "Obviously it became very apparent to us why nobody else was using the name," a company spokesman told Reuters.
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^^^^^Holy shat that is awesome! :rofl:
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no doubt. I laughed.
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Just call that shoe "the Socal" :lol:
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'The most remote island in the world lies over 1,400 miles from the nearest inhabited land. '
Bouvet Island is an uninhabited icebound piece of volcanic rock, no bigger than 20 square miles in area and located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It's considered a nature reserve and features only a Norwegian Automated Weather Station. The nearest inhabited land is 1,400 miles away, the volcanic archipelago Tristan de Cunha, a British dependency with a population of less than 300. The archipelago itself happens to be the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, over 1,700 miles from South Africa.
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'Nintendo was founded 120 years ago as a maker of playing cards.'
Founded in Kyoto under the name Nintendo Koppai, Nintendo's first products were handmade cards to be used in a game called Hanafuda, which became a very successful business. The founder was a man named Fusajiro Yamauchi, and when he retired in 1929, his son-in-law took over Nintendo. Every future president of Nintendo would in some way be related to Fusajiro Yamauchi except the current president and CEO, Satoru Iwata, who took over in 2002 from the founder's great-grandson, Hirosho Yamauchi.
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'Nintendo was founded 120 years ago as a maker of playing cards.'
Founded in Kyoto under the name Nintendo Koppai, Nintendo's first products were handmade cards to be used in a game called Hanafuda, which became a very successful business. The founder was a man named Fusajiro Yamauchi, and when he retired in 1929, his son-in-law took over Nintendo. Every future president of Nintendo would in some way be related to Fusajiro Yamauchi except the current president and CEO, Satoru Iwata, who took over in 2002 from the founder's great-grandson, Hirosho Yamauchi.
I <3 nintendo right now. Got a pretty good thing going with the WII and DSi.
Also. Incredible customer service. Colin, My 2 year old son decided one of our DS's need a bath in the pool. :help: I didn't even think about sending it in. 2 months later went to register a new game. Saw that it was still under warranty. Sent it in ON THEIR DIME fixed no questions asked. :thumbs: now, we have four of them :lol: The newest is the DSi wifi with two cameras, wifi, and internet browser. Pretty killer little toy.
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'Diphallia occurs in 1 of 5.5 million male births in the U.S. every year. '
Diphallia -- also known as penile duplication -- is the condition of being born with two penises, generally side by side, and the disorder is an extremely rare one. It was first described in reliable medical literature in 1609, and only an estimated 1,000 cases have been documented since then.
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'The word "filibuster" derives from the Dutch term for "pirate."'
Derived from the Dutch term vrijbuiter, the legal maneuver of filibustering -- a means of legislative obstruction, of "pirating" the legislative body to prevent them from voting on a bill -- is no longer the marathon ordeal that it once was. The late Senator Strom Thurmond once spoke on the Senate floor for 24 hours straight in an effort to filibuster Civil Rights legislation, but as of 1975, a Senator can filibuster a bill simply by declaring that he or she is filibustering a bill -- the declaration is enough. Little wonder these days that it happens with such frequency, as many as 15 to 20 times as often during a single legislative session as it did prior to 1975.
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'Diphallia occurs in 1 of 5.5 million male births in the U.S. every year. '
Diphallia -- also known as penile duplication -- is the condition of being born with two penises, generally side by side, and the disorder is an extremely rare one. It was first described in reliable medical literature in 1609, and only an estimated 1,000 cases have been documented since then.
how would that be? Some days it would be awesome, others...not so much :lol: Keep both hands busy :lol:
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'Contrary to widespread perception, our nails do not continue to grow after death. '
The same goes for hair -- both perceptions are incorrect and can be attributed to an optical illusion. As a corpse begins the decay process, one aspect is dehydration. As moisture leaves, the flesh dries, causing it to retract from the fingernails and toenails, as well as hair. As they put it over at Snopes.com, "Because we are accustomed to nails and hair growing, and not hands, feet and heads shrinking, we perceive this change as an increase in one rather than a decline in the other."
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'No females - of any species - are allowed access to Mount Athos in Greece. '
This self-governed mountain and peninsula in northern Greece is considered a holy site, and only male members of the Eastern Orthodox Church can live there. It is only accessible by boat, despite it being landlocked. That strict "no chicks" rule held true even when Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Phillip were visiting; while Prince Phillip was permitted access, the Queen was relegated to a boat hundreds of yards offshore.
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'A London hotel suite was once briefly ceded to a foreign country so that an exiled monarch's heir could be born on "home soil."'
During World War II, Yugoslavian King Peter II and his wife were forced into exile by an Axis invasion, and found safety in England. Four years later, on July 17, 1945, the British government temporarily ceded sovereignty of the suite over to Yugoslavia so that the pregnant queen could give birth to the couple's son on Yugoslavian soil. Crown Prince Alexander, the child, was considered heir to the Yugoslavian throne until that state was dissolved; he now claims to be heir to the Serbian throne.
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'A controversial 1991 self-portrait sculpture was made from multiple pints of the artist's own blood. '
The artist, Marc Quinn, called the sculpture Self and used about nine pints of his own blood. The sculpture, which requires freezer-like conditions and has caused some people to faint, was bought for about $30,000 by an art collector who turned around a couple of years later and sold it for $3 million. Every five years, Quinn remakes the sculpture with new blood to compensate for the old, degraded blood and to reflect any changes in his face from aging.
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eeww
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41. Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit. They swallow, see Phil for example
46. Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause: you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles. SWEET!!
Fact: Phil DOES NOT listen to classical music
& I only swallow something if I have been able to chew on it properly first (& I have big sharp teeth)
eg: Steak (pref cooked medium rare, with a hot green peppercorn sauce)
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'For centuries, medical treatments followed the so-called "Doctrine of Signatures."'
The Doctrine of Signatures was established by a medieval herbalist who believed that medical treatments should be dictated by plant form. For instance, the red sap of the bloodroot was believed to help in curing blood disorders and walnuts were used to treat headaches because of their resemblance to the brain. This "doctrine" was part of accepted herbalist practice for centuries, into the late 1800s.
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life as an egg would suck
You only get laid once!
You only get eaten once!
It takes 4 minutes to get hard
2 minutes to get soft
You have to share a box with 11 other guys
And the only chick who ever sat on your face was your mother
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life as an egg would suck
You only get laid once!
You only get eaten once!
It takes 4 minutes to get hard
2 minutes to get soft
You have to share a box with 11 other guys
And the only chick who ever sat on your face was your mother
I find it ironic that you just summarized Krandall's life. :rofl:
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One of the most popular early medical treatments for sexual dysfunction involved goat gonads. '
SO THIS IS WHAT PREDDYS DOING...... :rofl:
In the 1920s, Dr. John Brinkley created a procedure to treat sexual dysfunction and low libido for men and women in which he transplanted tissue from the gonads of goats into his patients. He is believed to have performed the medically discredited procedure thousands of times for the then-huge sum of $750. As a result he became one of the most financially successful quacks of the 20th century. He even purposefully wore his facial hair in a goatee as a means of publicity.
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:rofl:
goatf**ker.
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:rofl:
goatf**ker.
Peels, what are you trying to do with that scalpel, & why do you have Preddy & a goat on the operating table together
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:rofl:
goatf**ker.
Peels, what are you trying to do with that scalpel, & why do you have Preddy & a goat on the operating table together
stfu and grab a suture. THe Doctor is in. :lol:
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:rofl:
goatf**ker.
Peels, what are you trying to do with that scalpel, & why do you have Preddy & a goat on the operating table together
stfu and grab a suture. THe Doctor is in. :lol:
Why don't we try a brain swap while were here.......... :nod:
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By law, Italian men can't touch their genitals in public.'
Although the law, passed very recently, was clear about it being an issue of public decency, in fact the "tradition" for Italian men to touch or grab their crotch in public is a superstition that goes back many years. In doing so, the superstition says the men are warding off bad luck, kind of like drawing the Christian cross over one's chest. Former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is said to have touched himself superstitiously if, while speaking in public, he suspected someone in the crowd of giving him the "evil eye."
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'A volcanic eruption in Peru killed an estimated 2 million people in Russia.'
In the year 1600, a stratovolcano (one with a conical shape) in Peru named Huaynaputina erupted, sending an enormous amount of ash and sulfur into the atmosphere, but the real destruction occurred in the Northern hemisphere, specifically Russia, where it created an extremely cold winter and led to the worst famine in history -- one that lasted until 1603 and is believed to have led to the deaths of as many as one third of the Russian population.
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'The longest-running ad jingle in TV history ends with the line: "It's fun for a girl and a boy." '
Written by ad men Homer Fesperman and Charles Weagley and first heard in a 1963 television commercial, the jingle for the Slinky has not changed since that original premiere and continues to be used to sell the toy, which was first invented in the 1940s. Since its launch, more than 300 million Slinkys have been sold worldwide.
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'The longest-running ad jingle in TV history ends with the line: "It's fun for a girl and a boy." '
Written by ad men Homer Fesperman and Charles Weagley and first heard in a 1963 television commercial, the jingle for the Slinky has not changed since that original premiere and continues to be used to sell the toy, which was first invented in the 1940s. Since its launch, more than 300 million Slinkys have been sold worldwide.
One of the most usless, timewasting, but still rather amusing inventions ever! :)
Bit like the internet really............... :nod:
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'A possum set the record recently for the longest mammalian hibernation. '
In 2007, an Australian Eastern Pygmy Possum went on a lengthy feed under the direction of a New England zoologist (as well as the watchful eye of the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records) and then went into hibernation, a deep sleep that lasted a record 367 days, making this the first known mammal ever to have slept for a full year.
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'A possum set the record recently for the longest mammalian hibernation. '
In 2007, an Australian Eastern Pygmy Possum went on a lengthy feed under the direction of a New England zoologist (as well as the watchful eye of the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records) and then went into hibernation, a deep sleep that lasted a record 367 days, making this the first known mammal ever to have slept for a full year.
Brian has only slept 364 so far.................... :(
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'One of the most popular early medical treatments for sexual dysfunction involved goat gonads. '
In the 1920s, Dr. John Brinkley created a procedure to treat sexual dysfunction and low libido for men and women in which he transplanted tissue from the gonads of goats into his patients. He is believed to have performed the medically discredited procedure thousands of times for the then-huge sum of $750. As a result he became one of the most financially successful quacks of the 20th century. He even purposefully wore his facial hair in a goatee as a means of publicity.
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'One of the most popular early medical treatments for sexual dysfunction involved goat gonads. '
In the 1920s, Dr. John Brinkley created a procedure to treat sexual dysfunction and low libido for men and women in which he transplanted tissue from the gonads of goats into his patients. He is believed to have performed the medically discredited procedure thousands of times for the then-huge sum of $750. As a result he became one of the most financially successful quacks of the 20th century. He even purposefully wore his facial hair in a goatee as a means of publicity.
Re-post
Weve already tried that on Preddy :D
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my bad :(
'The initials for the tabloid site TMZ stand for "30-mile zone."'
Launched in 2005 by AOL and overseen by former Los Angeles area legal correspondent Harvey Levin, TMZ.com has become one of the most visited celebrity news sources on the web, thanks to having been the first to break several huge stories -- including the death of Michael Jackson. The name itself stands for "30-mile zone," an area where many celebrities live that radiates out in 360 degrees from the corner of Beverly and La Cienega boulevards in L.A.
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Only five U.S. states use special elections to fill unexpected Senate seats. '
The 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows the legislature of each state to empower the governor to appoint a replacement to occupy the seat until the end of the term. The huge majority of states do exactly this, and the governor is free to choose a replacement from his or her own party, whether they shared that party with the departing Senator or not. Arizona and Massachusetts are among the small handful of states that require special elections to fill the seat.
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An estimated 1,000 Americans die every year from autoerotic asphyxiation.'
Autoerotic asphyxiation (AeA), practiced by so-called "gaspers," involves constricting the two primary blood vessels in the neck during sex and orgasm, the carotid artery heading north to the brain and the jugular vein heading back to the heart. The FBI published this estimation in the 1980s; experts believe it's much higher now, but that many such deaths are reported as suicides.
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Splenda was initially designed to be an insecticide. '
Splenda, also known as sucralose, has in recent years overtaken its rivals (like Equal) to become the No. 1 no-calorie artificial sweetener on the market. However, according to Discover Magazine, it was never meant to be a sweetener; rather, a lab assistant was told to take a sample for testing and allegedly heard "tasting" and put a bit in his or her mouth, and was surprised by the sweet taste. In 1998, presumably after many changes, the FDA approved Splenda for widespread use as a sweetener.
'In the average oil field, only one-third of the oil is recovered. '
That's generally about how much oil in a typical field is relatively easy to recover. The other two-thirds of the oil might, for example, be locked into rock and very, very difficult to recover. Oil fields almost always produce substantially more oil than is initially predicted, because those predictions are based on the current drilling and recovering technology. As technology advances over many years, the predictions about oil yield tend to skyrocket
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The highest recorded IQ in history is 228.'
For many years, the Guinness Book of World Records has listed the IQ (Intelligence Quotient) of Marilyn vos Savant as the world's highest at an astonishing 228 (the average IQ is 100). This IQ may explain why Savant has been the author of "Ask Marilyn," one of the most successful and widely syndicated question-and-answer columns around addressing a broad range of topics, since 1986. Incidentally, Savant is married to Robert Jarvik, credited with the invention of the Jarvik 7, the first artificial heart.
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'Since 2006, more than two million votes have been cast for the Top 49 list.'
Since the inception of the Top 49 Most Influential Men list 2006 (when George Clooney came in at No. 1), AskMen.com readers have cast over two million votes in favor of the men they deemed to be the most influential representatives of our gender -- the men who had the greatest impact on how other men behave, dress, buy, and think. In 2007, David Beckham had the honor of being No. 1, and in 2008, just prior to his election, Barack Obama was chosen as the Most Influential Man of 2008. Who was chosen as the most influential man of 2009? Click through the feature, live on AskMen.com as of 10 a.m. EST on October 6.
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'Since 2006, more than two million votes have been cast for the Top 49 list.'
Since the inception of the Top 49 Most Influential Men list 2006 (when George Clooney came in at No. 1), AskMen.com readers have cast over two million votes in favor of the men they deemed to be the most influential representatives of our gender -- the men who had the greatest impact on how other men behave, dress, buy, and think. In 2007, David Beckham had the honor of being No. 1, and in 2008, just prior to his election, Barack Obama was chosen as the Most Influential Man of 2008. Who was chosen as the most influential man of 2009? Click through the feature, live on AskMen.com as of 10 a.m. EST on October 6.
I'll give you a clue, it wasn't the guy who breaks swingarms on raptor rallies :nod:
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'October 15 is Global Handwashing Day. '
Global Handwashing Day -- that's with soap, not just with water -- was first celebrated in 2008 as a means of promoting good heath and raising awareness among children of the value of handwashing with soap to fight the spread of infectious diseases. The date of October 15 was established by the United Nations General Assembly, and the organization behind the annual celebration claims that at least 20 seconds are required to fully cleanse one's hands.
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'Homeland Security's color-coded Threat Advisory System has yet to go lower than Yellow. '
In March of 2002, President Bush signed Homeland Security Presidential Directive 3, creating the Homeland Security Advisory System (HSAS) and the five-color National Threat Advisory to signify the risk of a terrorist attack: Green (low), Blue (guarded), Yellow (elevated), Orange (high), and Red (severe). When launched it was at Yellow and although it has been changed 16 times in 7 years, it has never gone below Yellow.
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'El Paso, Texas, was the first U.S. city to pass laws making marijuana illegal. '
According to a story by William Martin in Texas Monthly, marijuana first came under the scrutiny of El Paso civic leaders in 1914, having chiefly arrived in Texas by way of Mexican immigrants settling in the state. That year, El Paso passed the first known law banning the drug in the United States, a drug that until that time had been "legally and widely used for at least 5,000 years."
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'In the average oil field, only one-third of the oil is recovered. '
That's generally about how much oil in a typical field is relatively easy to recover. The other two-thirds of the oil might, for example, be locked into rock and very, very difficult to recover. Oil fields almost always produce substantially more oil than is initially predicted, because those predictions are based on the current drilling and recovering technology. As technology advances over many years, the predictions about oil yield tend to skyrocket.
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Contrary to popular opinion, Spike Jonze is not heir to a German catalog fortune. '
Video and film director Spike Jonze was born Adam Spiegel, and many -- including New York Magazine and The New York Times -- have made the mistake of believing he is heir to the $3 billion Spiegel catalog fortune. Although his family does have some distant relation with the original Spiegel family, neither Jonze himself nor anyone in his family is an heir to the catalog fortune.
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'It's legal to make and sell copies of CDs or DVDs thanks to the First-Sale Doctrine. '
Acknowledged by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1908 and expanded by the Copyright Act of 1976, this aspect of U.S. copyright law is a reason why a company like Netflix has been able to do so well, since all they really did was buy DVDs of movies, like anyone else, then they made an extraordinary number of copies of them. The studios were helpless to stop them.
Pretty interesting read.
Application to DVDs and NEBG v Weinstein
No special new copyright protection was given to movies on video and DVD by the two above amendments, and consequently buyers of retail DVDs in the United States are free to sell or exchange them, and rent and lend them to others.
This right was underlined by the US courts in the case of NEBG v Weinstein[4], in which a film-industry defendant accepted that it had no right to restrict buyers of DVDs from renting them to third parties.
Copyright owners sometimes affix warning notices to packaged DVDs, or display notices on screen before showing the content, which purport to list uses of the DVD that are forbidden under copyright law. Such notices do not always fairly reflect the buyer's legal rights established by the first-sale doctrine.
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INTERESTING BIT OF INFO......CANNON BALLS!!! DID YOU KNOW THIS?
It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on
old war ships. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the
problem.. The storage method devised was to stack them as a square based
pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which
rested on sixteen.
Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right
next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom
layer from sliding/rolling from under the others.
The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for
reasons unknown, a Monkey. But if this plate were made of iron, the iron
balls would quickly rust to it.. The solution to the rusting problem was to
make them of brass - hence,Brass Monkeys.
Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than
iron when chilled..
Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations
would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the
monkey.
Thus, it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass
monkey.. And all this time, folks thought that was just a vulgar expression?
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the funky monkey!
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'The human brain runs on just 20 watts of power. '
The brain has as many as 100 billion neurons (nerve cells), and they -- along with their thousands of connections to other neurons -- are very good at generating electrical impulses, and it doesn't much matter what time of day it is or what the person is doing, this electrical activity -- powered by food, mostly sugar -- in the blood, amounts to about 20 watts of power, or about the equivalent of the little light bulb in one's refrigerator.
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Preddy's runs on 5w max. two aaa batteries :lol:
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Preddy's runs on 5w max. two aaa batteries :lol:
Pity that the bulb has blown! :nod:
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'In the United States, at least 200 chimpanzees are privately owned. '
This, despite the fact that few experts think it's a good idea. Chimps not only live for decades -- sometimes 50 years, sometimes longer -- they also lack a history of domestication like dogs and cats, meaning that chimps can turn on their "owners" at any time. When they do, the results are horrifying, as chimps use excessive force and the strength of five grown men to tear and bite off body parts -- facts supported by recent maulings by chimps in the news.
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'No one received more federal bailout money than Citigroup. '
Enormous financial institution Citigroup was the top recipient of federal bailout money, receiving an astonishing $397.9 billion, and as of August 2009, they had not repaid a dime of it. Compare that to much-maligned AIG, which received over $250 billion in bailout money but had, by August, at least managed to pay back $72.8 billion of that amount.
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Adipocere is a post-mortem product also known as "grave wax." '
Adipocere is a substance that forms during the decay, following death, of body fat by way of anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis -- meaning it generally occurs most efficiently when the body is in a cold place with water or humidity (hydrolysis) and without oxygen (anaerobic). Under the right conditions, this crumbly, wax-like and water-insoluble substance can persist for a century or more.
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Adipocere is a post-mortem product also known as "grave wax." '
Adipocere is a substance that forms during the decay, following death, of body fat by way of anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis -- meaning it generally occurs most efficiently when the body is in a cold place with water or humidity (hydrolysis) and without oxygen (anaerobic). Under the right conditions, this crumbly, wax-like and water-insoluble substance can persist for a century or more.
so how come Peelz has it all over his back? :lol:
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'Michael Jackson was not the first person to perform the moonwalk on television. '.
MJ's iconic performance on the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever television special in 1983 is legendary for many reasons, among them, his backward slide dance move The moonwalk during "Billie Jean". A TV audience of 47 million witnessed it, and the move swept the nation. However, recorded versions of the move at least date back to tap dancer Bill Bailey, and Jeffrey Daniel -- the man who taught the move to Jackson -- performed it in 1982 on the BBC's Top of the Pops.
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'Late Show bandleader Paul Shaffer penned one of the biggest disco hits of all time. '
Although Paul Shaffer is most closely associated with his gig as Letterman's longtime bandleader, before that he spent some time on Broadway, briefly played with the Saturday Night Live band, and in 1979, he and songwriter Paul Jabara wrote the massive Weather Girls hit It's Raining Men, which hit No. 1 on the U.S. disco charts. Shaffer's memoirs, We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga, were published in October 2009.
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'Late Show bandleader Paul Shaffer penned one of the biggest disco hits of all time. '
Although Paul Shaffer is most closely associated with his gig as Letterman's longtime bandleader, before that he spent some time on Broadway, briefly played with the Saturday Night Live band, and in 1979, he and songwriter Paul Jabara wrote the massive Weather Girls hit It's Raining Men, which hit No. 1 on the U.S. disco charts. And finally, it became Preddy AND Krandall's motivational theme song. Shaffer's memoirs, We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga, were published in October 2009.
:thumbs: rock it out my bruthas. :rofl:
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rock out w/ your c*ck out!
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One who go to bed with itchy ass wake up with stinky finger
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'Four of every five victims of a lightning strike are men. '
Between 1995 and 2008 in the United States, lightning strikes killed 648 people; 82% of those people were men. However, according to the editors of Popular Science, there is nothing about men that lightning finds especially appealing (i.e., "extra iron in the cranium perhaps"). Rather, men are struck and killed by lightning far more often than women are simply because men tend to take more risks -- like playing sports in a thunderstorm (a decision that led to half of almost all lightning-related deaths).
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That's :mad: up but it makes since. Now I'm smarter than 80% of the ones playing football in thunderstorm.
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'People who suffer from coulrophobia have a irrational fear of clowns. '
Scholars who write about coulrophobia postulate that a clown's behavior is odious to adults because we know there's an adult behind the mask and makeup and we find the mask problematic -- what is he hiding? Furthermore, clowns act as though they have license to do anything they want to do, making their childish behavior ultimately unpredictable. Finally, unlike other adults, a clown doesn't respect boundaries.
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"Man who smoke pot choke on handle."
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Lol
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Fact of the Day... I am a ninja! :nun:
:lol:
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Fact of the Day... I am a ninja! :nun:
:lol:
All those riding on empty tracks beware! If you're not there 4fiddy will own you ???
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'Some historians believe the Spanish flu epidemic started in Kansas.'
Still considered the most deadly epidemic in recorded history, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 infected as many as 500 million people and killed as many as 50 to 100 million worldwide. Officials were so desperate to slow the spread that one Arizona town even outlawed handshakes. Historians debate the origins of the virus, but at least two prominent scholars pinpoint the origins of the outbreak to Haskell County, Kansas. It was called Spanish flu because Spain, neutral in World War I, became the only reliable and uncensored source for news on the virus.
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Learned on the "dirty jobs show" that back in the day arab's used to eat fresh camel poop to fight off disentary...
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Learned on the "dirty jobs show" that back in the day arab's used to eat fresh camel poop to fight off disentary...
yum-tastic.
just think, Aaron does that just for fun. :lol:
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Fact of the Day... I am a ninja! :nun:
:lol:
All those riding on empty tracks beware! If you're not there 4fiddy will own you ???
STFU Dragonz... there were people at that track dammit! Okay so there were only 2 but I was still a better rider than them. :lol:
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lies lies lies
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Fact of the Day... I am a ninja! :nun:
:lol:
All those riding on empty tracks beware! If you're not there 4fiddy will own you ???
STFU Dragonz... there were people at that track dammit! Okay so there were only 2 but I was still a better rider than them. :lol:
LOL at least there was a full podium at the finish eh! :nod:
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Fact of the Day... I am a ninja! :nun:
:lol:
All those riding on empty tracks beware! If you're not there 4fiddy will own you ???
STFU Dragonz... there were people at that track dammit! Okay so there were only 2 but I was still a better rider than them. :lol:
LOL at least there was a full podium at the finish eh! :nod:
I hate you guys :lol:
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A typical office computer keyboard is home to 3,000 germs per square inch. '
For many people, the most germ-infested place they will visit throughout the entire day is their cubicle, where 21,000 germs live on every square inch of the desk, 25,000 live on each square inch of the phone, and about 1,500 live on each square inch of the mouse. These items paled in comparison to the three most germ-infested public items tested, according to the University of Arizona: Playground equipment, armrests on public transportation and shopping carts.
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A typical office computer keyboard is home to 3,000 germs per square inch. '
For many people, the most germ-infested place they will visit throughout the entire day is their cubicle, where 21,000 germs live on every square inch of the desk, 25,000 live on each square inch of the phone, and about 1,500 live on each square inch of the mouse. These items paled in comparison to the three most germ-infested public items tested, according to the University of Arizona: Playground equipment, armrests on public transportation and shopping carts.
I feel the need for a shower now. :(
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'About 70% of all self-professed alien abductees claim the aliens sexually violated them in some way. '
Specifically, 7 out of every 10 alien abductees say under hypnosis that the aliens either used them for purposes of breeding, or they carried out sexual experiments on them, according to a 2003 Harvard study. It's not uncommon for them to describe their alien captors in a similar fashion: as having oversize eyes and heads, smooth features, gray skin, and almost no mouth and no ears. Psychologist Frederick Malmstrom suggests that this happens because it's similar to how newborn babies see -- and remember, permanently -- the face of their mother.
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There’s no word for “Yesterday” in the Eskimo
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'"Handedness" generally correlates with whichever thumb am embryo sucks in the womb.'
Evidence for the correlation between prenatal thumb-sucking and post-natal handedness is building thanks to research from the School of Psychology at Queen's University, Belfast. Work there has shown that fetuses who suck their right thumb are very likely to be right-handed, while those who suck their left thumb tend to be left-handed, though not with the same consistency. Whatever the case, scientists still can't say why the right thumb is favored in the womb in the first place.
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'"Handedness" generally correlates with whichever thumb am embryo sucks in the womb.'
Evidence for the correlation between prenatal thumb-sucking and post-natal handedness is building thanks to research from the School of Psychology at Queen's University, Belfast. Work there has shown that fetuses who suck their right thumb are very likely to be right-handed, while those who suck their left thumb tend to be left-handed, though not with the same consistency. Whatever the case, scientists still can't say why the right thumb is favored in the womb in the first place.
so Ranger would be cock handed then :lol: that wasn't a thumb.
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'"Handedness" generally correlates with whichever thumb am embryo sucks in the womb.'
Evidence for the correlation between prenatal thumb-sucking and post-natal handedness is building thanks to research from the School of Psychology at Queen's University, Belfast. Work there has shown that fetuses who suck their right thumb are very likely to be right-handed, while those who suck their left thumb tend to be left-handed, though not with the same consistency. Whatever the case, scientists still can't say why the right thumb is favored in the womb in the first place.
so Ranger would be cock handed then :lol: that wasn't a thumb.
:sit:
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'Only three people have died in outer space. '
Russia's Soyuz 11 mission launched on June 6, 1971, and proved to be the first time a spacecraft had made a successful visit to a space station (the Salyut 1). The three-man crew remained in space for 383 orbits, but during their return on June 30, a ventilation valve failed while at an altitude of 104 miles, suffocating the crew in outer space (which technically begins about 70 miles up). Tragically, the three cosmonauts were not the originally scheduled crew; they were a back-up crew that went on the mission when the original crew was scrapped for health reasons.
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'Approximately 1% of the adult population wets the bed. '
Bedwetting -- also known by its clinical name, nocturnal enuresis -- is typically associated with childhood, and further, more often with boys than with girls. It's estimated that about 7% of 7-year-olds suffer from nocturnal enuresis. Meanwhile, it's believed that as much as 1% of the adult population also suffers from the disorder.
Wow.....
and 40% of raptorsource does. :lol:
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'Approximately 1% of the adult population wets the bed. '
Bedwetting -- also known by its clinical name, nocturnal enuresis -- is typically associated with childhood, and further, more often with boys than with girls. It's estimated that about 7% of 7-year-olds suffer from nocturnal enuresis. Meanwhile, it's believed that as much as 1% of the adult population also suffers from the disorder.
Wow.....
and 40% of raptorsource does. :lol:
Including 100% of admin staff.
Bedwetter.
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"About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it. "
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'Anesthesiologists have the highest rate of drug addiction among all the medical specialties. '
Anesthesiologists -- both faculty and residents -- are at least four times more likely than doctors of any other specialty to develop drug addictions. One reason is the easy access to otherwise highly controlled drugs -- drugs they work with on a daily basis. Their drug of choice is typically fentanyl, an extremely powerful opioid narcotic at least 100 times more potent than morphine.
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'Anesthesiologists have the highest rate of drug addiction among all the medical specialties. '
Anesthesiologists -- both faculty and residents -- are at least four times more likely than doctors of any other specialty to develop drug addictions. One reason is the easy access to otherwise highly controlled drugs -- drugs they work with on a daily basis. Their drug of choice is typically fentanyl, an extremely powerful opioid narcotic at least 100 times more potent than morphine.
funny. My wife's anastesiologist when our oldest was born was a huge prick, and set in his ways. But...I want them to be a take no shit kinda guy. Know what he is doing and f**k everything else. :thumbs:
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We had the same thing, He was the biggest jackass around but the staff said he was the guy you wanted if something went wrong. They were right, there was a problem with the epidural and he had a plan to fix it. I think they enjoy inflicting pain just so they can give great drugs to make it go away.
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'The ocean floor is dotted with an estimated 3 million shipwrecks.'
More than a few of them are believed to be loaded with gold, silver, platinum and other precious metals, collectively with values too high to make any reasonable estimations. One of the richest discoveries in history may have occurred in January 2009, when a salvage company found what many believe to be the Port Nicholson, a British merchant navy ship sunk off the coast of Newfoundland by the Nazis in World War II, alleged to contain as much as $4 billion in gold, diamonds and platinum.
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PeelsSE2 is Pickle Lips.....From now to enernity :lol:
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PeelsSE2 is Pickle Lips.....From now to enernity :lol:
dammit! :lol:
wanna bite of my kosher dill?
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PeelsSE2 is Pickle Lips.....From now to enernity :lol:
dammit! :lol:
wanna bite of my kosher dill?
This is starting to explain a few things :nod:
Certainly seems to suit! :thumbs:
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'The first gas-electric hybrid vehicle was built in 1898.'
The 1898 Lohner-Porsche Mixte-Hybrid was built by Ferdinand Porsche when he was just 18 and employed at his first job, working for coach-builder Jacob Lohner & Co. The hybrid, which had a top speed of 37 mph, had electric motors in each of its four wheel hubs that got power from a massive lead-acid battery pack that, alone, weighed an incredible two tons.
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'Paul Reubens took the name "Pee-Wee" from a brand of harmonicas. '
Paul Reubens developed his Pee-Wee Herman character as a member of the Groundlings. In the mid-1980s, he auditioned for SNL but lost the spot to Gilbert Gottfried, so he took Pee-Wee to HBO, where he landed a special, The Pee-Wee Herman Show. That led to two feature films, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Big Top Pee-Wee, along with the TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Then an infamous 1991 bust for indecent exposure stalled the Emmy-winning performer's career.
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'Paul Reubens took the name "Pee-Wee" from a brand of harmonicas. '
Paul Reubens developed his Pee-Wee Herman character as a member of the Groundlings. In the mid-1980s, he auditioned for SNL but lost the spot to Gilbert Gottfried, so he took Pee-Wee to HBO, where he landed a special, The Pee-Wee Herman Show. That led to two feature films, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Big Top Pee-Wee, along with the TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Then an infamous 1991 bust for indecent exposure stalled the Emmy-winning performer's career.
lost a job to gilbert godfried? that would suck! Totally understand why the guy went Psycho! :lol:
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No doubt.
gilbert is so annoying.
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'Only two U.S. Presidents are buried in Arlington Cemetery. '
Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia is famous for its eternal flame over the resting place of President Kennedy, but when he was interred in 1963, he wasn't the first U.S. president. Following his death in 1930, William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to be interred at Arlington. Since he also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he became the first Chief Justice to be buried there as well, although he's been followed by three others: Earl Warren, Warren Burger and William Rehnquist.
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'The world record for most pubs visited is 40,000. '
According to the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records, the owner of the world record for most pubs and alehouses visited belongs to a UK man named Bruce Masters. His 40,000th was the Bull's Head in Ranmoor, Sheffield, UK, and since 1960, he's been averaging an astounding 800-900 pubs per year.
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'More people die from heat and drought than any other natural disaster.'
In 2008, the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute at the University of South Carolina began to create a natural disaster fatality map for the United States using statistics from about 20,000 such deaths between the years 1970 and 2004. They determined that location didn't play a very important role in natural disaster fatalities; rather, warm weather was the culprit, with heat and drought accounting for 19.6% of those deaths, followed by severe summer storms, which accounted for 18.8%.
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'Since 1980, the Lunar Embassy has sold millions of plots of land on the moon. '
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty established outer space as belonging to "all mankind," and it prohibits any country from staking property claims on places like the moon. This didn't stop Dennis Hope, the "head cheese" of the Lunar Embassy, from filing an ownership claim for the moon in 1980, doing so as an individual. He is believed to have sold over 2.5 million 1-acre plots of lunar land for as much as $20 a piece.
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'Since 1980, the Lunar Embassy has sold millions of plots of land on the moon. '
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty established outer space as belonging to "all mankind," and it prohibits any country from staking property claims on places like the moon. This didn't stop Dennis Hope, the "head cheese" of the Lunar Embassy, from filing an ownership claim for the moon in 1980, doing so as an individual. He is believed to have sold over 2.5 million 1-acre plots of lunar land for as much as $20 a piece.
genius. :thumbs:
I have decided to stake a claim to all the oxygen in the Atmosphere. Everyone on earth will have to pay me a usage fee. SMokers get to pay less, because their lungs don't work for $Hit. :lol: Old idea of mine. Paying on a per breath basis. :lol:
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haha that reminds me, when i was a kid my great uncle bought and entire star.i believe he named it after his wife.
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'The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing were the costliest and the most polluted in history.'
Prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, no host country had ever spent more than $15 billion on hosting the summer games, and in fact that figure was a record set at the previous Olympics in Athens. However, it's been widely reported that the Chinese government spent over $40 billion, far and away a record. Those Olympics also featured the most polluted air in Olympic history; researchers found that soot and other air pollutants were almost constantly at levels considered unsafe by the World Health Organization.
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'Since 1980, the Lunar Embassy has sold millions of plots of land on the moon. '
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty established outer space as belonging to "all mankind," and it prohibits any country from staking property claims on places like the moon. This didn't stop Dennis Hope, the "head cheese" of the Lunar Embassy, from filing an ownership claim for the moon in 1980, doing so as an individual. He is believed to have sold over 2.5 million 1-acre plots of lunar land for as much as $20 a piece.
genius. :thumbs:
I have decided to stake a claim to all the oxygen in the Atmosphere. Everyone on earth will have to pay me a usage fee. SMokers get to pay less, because their lungs don't work for $Hit. :lol: Old idea of mine. Paying on a per breath basis. :lol:
On the contrary, smokers should pay more because they pollute it for the rest of us!
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work DNS updating sucks. :mad:
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work DNS updating sucks. :mad:
Updating anything workwise sucks
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'The first pilot's license ever issued in the United States was not issued to one of the Wright brothers.'
Despite their status as the great pioneers of fixed-wing, heavier-than-air flight, Wilbur and Orville Wright were not awarded the first pilot's license, then given by the Aero Club of America. Rather, license #1 went to another aeronautics pioneer, Glenn Curtis. In fact, Curtis was almost also awarded the Aero-Club de France's pilot's license #1 (he got #2 instead). The Wright brothers were issued pilots licenses #4 and 5 strictly as an matter of the alphabet, having been among the first five pilots to prove their flight abilities to the Aero Club.
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'Argentia, Newfoundland, is the foggiest place in North America. '
Argentia is a community of about 450 people located along the southwestern coast of the Avalon Peninsula on the Canadian island of Newfoundland, which on average experiences 200 fogbound days every year. The foggiest place in the U.S., Cape Disappointment in Washington state, experiences only about 106 fogbound days annually.
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'One of the most famous speeches in 19th century American history wasn't actually written until the 1970s. '
In 1854, the great leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes, Chief Seattle, delivered a stirring speech to his people about the need to respect nature. It featured lines that have been quoted by a broad range of credible sources, such as, "The earth is our mother," "How can you buy and sell the sky?" and "When the last red man has vanished from this earth, these shores will still swarm with the invisible dead of my people." Yet, although Seattle did indeed deliver a speech around 1854-55, no one knows what he said; he spoke in Lushootseed, which was translated into another Native American dialect, and from there to English -- decades after the fact. The passionate words we've come to associate with Seattle were written by a screenwriter in 1971.
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'One of the most famous speeches in 19th century American history wasn't actually written until the 1970s. '
In 1854, the great leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes, Chief Seattle, delivered a stirring speech to his people about the need to respect nature. It featured lines that have been quoted by a broad range of credible sources, such as, "The earth is our mother," "How can you buy and sell the sky?" and "When the last red man has vanished from this earth, these shores will still swarm with the invisible dead of my people." Yet, although Seattle did indeed deliver a speech around 1854-55, no one knows what he said; he spoke in Lushootseed, which was translated into another Native American dialect, and from there to English -- decades after the fact. The passionate words we've come to associate with Seattle were written by a screenwriter in 1971.
Further proof that history is not about truth, but about who wrote the best story!
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'Since 1894, 17 hockey leagues have competed for the Stanley Cup. '
The National Hockey League (NHL) has been the exclusive competitor for the Stanley Cup since the 1920s, but it didn't start out that way. Initially, a champion from a certain hockey league would challenge the reigning Cup-holding team from another league. A Stanley Cup-winning team would likely have to defend the Cup in multiple annual challenges. For instance, in 1908, the Montreal Wanderers won the Cup five times: once in January, three times in March, then once more in December. The madness ended in 1926-27, when the NHL became the last pro league standing.
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'One of the most famous speeches in 19th century American history wasn't actually written until the 1970s. '
In 1854, the great leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes, Chief Seattle, delivered a stirring speech to his people about the need to respect nature. It featured lines that have been quoted by a broad range of credible sources, such as, "The earth is our mother," "How can you buy and sell the sky?" and "When the last red man has vanished from this earth, these shores will still swarm with the invisible dead of my people." Yet, although Seattle did indeed deliver a speech around 1854-55, no one knows what he said; he spoke in Lushootseed, which was translated into another Native American dialect, and from there to English -- decades after the fact. The passionate words we've come to associate with Seattle were written by a screenwriter in 1971.
Further proof that history is not about truth, but about who wrote the best story!
History is written by popular concensus IMO. Some say "history is written by the victors.....", and in many cases this is true. However, "truth" in war recording would never be popular....People are happy not to know.
Aaron
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'One of the most famous speeches in 19th century American history wasn't actually written until the 1970s. '
In 1854, the great leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish tribes, Chief Seattle, delivered a stirring speech to his people about the need to respect nature. It featured lines that have been quoted by a broad range of credible sources, such as, "The earth is our mother," "How can you buy and sell the sky?" and "When the last red man has vanished from this earth, these shores will still swarm with the invisible dead of my people." Yet, although Seattle did indeed deliver a speech around 1854-55, no one knows what he said; he spoke in Lushootseed, which was translated into another Native American dialect, and from there to English -- decades after the fact. The passionate words we've come to associate with Seattle were written by a screenwriter in 1971.
Further proof that history is not about truth, but about who wrote the best story!
History is written by popular concensus IMO. Some say "history is written by the victors.....", and in many cases this is true. However, "truth" in war recording would never be popular....People are happy not to know.
Aaron
Just look at all the assholes around now saying that the WWII Holocost in Europe never happened!
Got an email about this the other day that I will happily forward to anyone who wants to see it/pass it on.
There are some things we (the human race) must never let ourselves forget!
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'Five soccer clubs are worth at least $1 billion - more than any other pro sport except football.'
According to Forbes' recent evaluation of the market value of soccer teams, the teams valued the highest are, in descending order: Manchester United, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, and Liverpool. They are the only teams valued at over $1 billion, while the top 25 teams have an average value of $597 million. With an astonishing 19 teams worth at least $1 billion, only the NFL has more such teams than professional soccer.
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MANCHESTER UNITED!!!! My favorite team. The team Beckham thought he was too good for....
go reds!
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Beckham is to good for them.
:thumbs:
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Beckham is to good for them.
:thumbs:
WAS, he can't even win a US trophy. :confused: :lol:
Shrimpy needs to be in this thread.
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Soccer is for english muffins.
:lol:
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'NFL rules require specially marked footballs to be used for the kicking game. '
According to the NFL rulebook, the home team is obliged to provide 36 regulation footballs to the referees prior to the start of the game (teams who play indoors need only provide 24 footballs) so that they can be tested with pressure gauges and prepared for use in the game. However, a dozen different footballs are used in the kicking game; these are sealed and shipped by the manufacturer, opened in the referee's locker room, and marked with a "k."
I didn't know that.
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'The odds that an ever-married or cohabiting man has cheated during the relationship are 1 in 4.76, according to the Book Of Odds website. '
According to Book of Odds, the odds that an ever-married or cohabiting man has cheated during the relationship are 1 in 4.76, which matches the likelihood that an adult is afraid of dogs (1 in 4.76) and is more likely than the chance a flight will have a delayed departure (1 in 5.28) and 135 times more likely than the odds that a golfer will be injured playing golf in a year (1 in 644).
:lol:
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I don't like those odds. :jaw:
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it's okay Lady. the odds are probably higher that he likes little boys or farm animals, so pick your poison kiddo. :lol:
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it's okay Lady. the odds are probably higher that he likes little boys or farm animals, so pick your poison kiddo. :lol:
damned if you do. damned if you dont.
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More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
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dang south paws.
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'The odds that an ever-married or cohabiting man has cheated during the relationship are 1 in 4.76, according to the Book Of Odds website. '
According to Book of Odds, the odds that an ever-married or cohabiting man has cheated during the relationship are 1 in 4.76, which matches the likelihood that an adult is afraid of dogs (1 in 4.76) and is more likely than the chance a flight will have a delayed departure (1 in 5.28) and 135 times more likely than the odds that a golfer will be injured playing golf in a year (1 in 644).
:lol:
The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3720 to 1.
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'The odds that an ever-married or cohabiting man has cheated during the relationship are 1 in 4.76, according to the Book Of Odds website. '
According to Book of Odds, the odds that an ever-married or cohabiting man has cheated during the relationship are 1 in 4.76, which matches the likelihood that an adult is afraid of dogs (1 in 4.76) and is more likely than the chance a flight will have a delayed departure (1 in 5.28) and 135 times more likely than the odds that a golfer will be injured playing golf in a year (1 in 644).
:lol:
The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3720 to 1.
"Never tell me the odds 3PO"
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More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.
there's something sinister about that!
(Get ya thesarus out)
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'Four actors have played the same character in at least six different TV series. '
The actors and their characters are George Wendt (Norm Peterson), John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin), Richard Belzer (Det. Munch), and Paul Fusco (the voice of ALF). Most of Belzer's appearances relate to the Law & Order television franchise; Wendt's and Ratzenberger's Cheers characters typically appeared together on shows including Frasier, Wings, St. Elsewhere, The Tortellis, and The Simpsons. Finally, Fusco voiced ALF on ALF, ALF the Animated Series, ALF Tales, Matlock, Blossom, and The Love Boat: The Next Wave.
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'History's first college football game ended in a score of 6-4. '
Bearing significantly more resemblance to rugby and soccer than to today's enormously popular NCAA football, the first American college football game took place in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in early November of 1869. It pitted Princeton University against Rutgers University, with the latter taking the game 6 to 4.
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'The first known man-made depiction of the nighttime sky was discovered in Europe in 2001.'
The discovery of the so-called Nebra disc in Germany in 2001 defied all expectation because it had long been believed that such esoteric artistic undertakings were rather beyond the intellectual capability of the inhabitants of Europe at that time (the disc dates to 1600 B.C.). The bronze disc, which features representations of the universe in the form of the sun, the moon, and a cluster of stars, pre-dates any other depiction known in archeology, including anything done by the Egyptians.
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'Modern toilet paper didn't come along until 1857.'
Although the Chinese had been using a kind of toilet paper made from rice straw since around 600 or 700 A.D., it wasn't until 1857 that American inventor Joseph Gayetty introduced his so-called "therapeutic tissue" to the U.S. public, which was the forerunner to modern toilet paper. Prior to then, it wasn't uncommon for people to use pages from The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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The first "successful" head transplant was carried out in 1963 by Robert J. White of Cleveland, Ohio, who attached the head of one monkey to the body of another. The monkey survived for several days, during which it tried to bite the experimenters.
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'The word "plagiarism" comes from the Latin word for kidnapping.'
The Latin word "plagiarius" translates into English as "kidnapper" or "plunderer," while "plagium" translates as "kidnapping." Meanwhile, the word "kidnapper" was first recorded in the British colonies of North America in the 17th century and defined people who would "nap" (a likely form of "nab" or "steal") people from other areas and bring them to work as laborers on plantations.
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'In 2002, researchers bought DNA through the mail and "built" a deadly polio virus.'
The researchers were from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. They bought DNA through the mail and, using a laptop and taking advantage of their access to the school's biology lab, they built a real polio virus (most viruses are extremely simple organisms, little more than a trace of genetic material wrapped in a sheath) and injected it into a mouse, which became paralyzed and died. Their point was to show how easy it was to create a dangerous yet effective virus.
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'In 2002, researchers bought DNA through the mail and "built" a deadly polio virus.'
The researchers were from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. They bought DNA through the mail and, using a laptop and taking advantage of their access to the school's biology lab, they built a real polio virus (most viruses are extremely simple organisms, little more than a trace of genetic material wrapped in a sheath) and injected it into a mouse, which became paralyzed and died. Their point was to show how easy it was to create a dangerous yet effective virus.
Wow that fuckin nuts
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2 + 2 = 4
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1+1 = 10 using significant figures. :)
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meh. I inject people and they die all the time. No laptop necessary :lol:
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meth. I inject people and they die all the time. No laptop necessary :lol:
fixed
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'One of the biggest and most-visited websites in the world has just three dozen employees. '
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While it takes some 900 employees to keep Facebook running, over 13,000 to support Yahoo!, and more than 20,000 to run Google, the user-edited and monitored online encyclopedia Wikipedia requires just 35 employees, and unlike all the other sites in the top sites worldwide (as ranked by Alexa.com), Wikipedia is nonprofit and runs almost entirely on user donations.
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'One of the biggest and most-visited websites in the world has just three dozen employees. '
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While it takes some 900 employees to keep Facebook running, over 13,000 to support Yahoo!, and more than 20,000 to run Google, the user-edited and monitored online encyclopedia Wikipedia requires just 35 employees, and unlike all the other sites in the top sites worldwide (as ranked by Alexa.com), Wikipedia is nonprofit and runs almost entirely on user donations.
nifty, wasn't aware of that.
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'O.J. Simpson was nearly cast as the cyborg in the original Terminator.'
When James Cameron began casting for his brilliant 1984 sci-fi thriller, Arnold Schwarzenegger -- who had recently starred as Conan the Barbarian -- was being considered for the role of Kyle Reese, the man sent from the future to protect Sarah Conner, while O.J. Simpson, who was a few years into his own acting career, was up for the role of the cyborg. Actor Michael Biehn was eventually cast as Reese, and Cameron convinced Schwarzenegger to play the cyborg, despite some initial reluctance.
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'O.J. Simpson was nearly cast as the cyborg in the original Terminator.'
When James Cameron began casting for his brilliant 1984 sci-fi thriller, Arnold Schwarzenegger -- who had recently starred as Conan the Barbarian -- was being considered for the role of Kyle Reese, the man sent from the future to protect Sarah Conner, while O.J. Simpson, who was a few years into his own acting career, was up for the role of the cyborg. Actor Michael Biehn was eventually cast as Reese, and Cameron convinced Schwarzenegger to play the cyborg, despite some initial reluctance.
can you imagine the punchlines if this would have happened?
"I'll be back" would be even more hilarious. :lol:
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'The Siberian mining city of Norilsk is considered to be the most polluted on earth. '
Norilsk was created in 1921 after Joseph Stalin learned of huge nickel deposits in the region. Over 350,000 slave laborers were sent to newly established Gulags that eventually became part of the city itself. Just 1,500 miles from the Arctic Circle, the city spends several weeks out of the year without seeing the sun. Nickel is smelted on-site, leading to acid rain and pollution so awful that in 2007, Time magazine claimed that there wasn't a single living tree within a 30-mile radius of the smelter.
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An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
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'The 1960 Winter Olympics were the first to feature instant replay. '
Squaw Valley, California, is now home to some of the world's finest ski slopes, but in 1960 it was a modest, little-known region that hosted the VIII Winter Olympic games. These games became the first Olympics not only to feature instant replay on TV but also to be covered exclusively by one network (CBS). It was at these games that the U.S. men's hockey team won their first gold medal by beating the Russians and the Czechs, an incredible achievement overshadowed -- but not outmatched -- by the fabled 1980 team.
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According to a recent survey, adult bedwetting is more common among Republicans than Democrats.
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damn
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:lol:
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According to a recent survey, adult bedwetting is more common among Republicans than Democrats.
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damn
I'm betting the heavy post-election drinking has something to do with that.
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I'll drink to that...
:lol:
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'The 1899 Rivers and Harbors Act was America's first environmental law.'
The first legislative response to the industrial revolution's abuse of the environment, the 1899 Rivers and Harbors Act wasn't all that impressive; the law made it a misdemeanor to throw trash into navigable waters without a permit. It took another 64 years before the U.S. passed its first Clean Air Act.
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The first duct (or 'duck') tape, created for the U.S. military during World War II, could be boiled and eaten as an emergency ration
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I don't believe it... :confused:
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Factropolis.com
http://www.factropolis.com/
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puh lease. I can make a site called factsoffacts.com and say
anyone with the name jeff blows goats
proven fact.
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but not exclusively
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sure I can.
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I am just saying, we don't only blow goats., sheep too
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:rofl:
gotcha
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edible Duct tape is not that hard to believe
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puh lease. I can make a site called factsoffacts.com and say
anyone with the name jeff blows goats
proven fact.
:lol: and where is this site? :lol:
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I only said I COULD make it...
RandomCrapAssFacts.com :lol:
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'Shouting "Geronimo" while jumping has its origins in the U.S. Army. '
Geronimo was a fearless and ruthless military leader of the Chiricahua Apache, the last tribe to surrender to the U.S. in the 1880s. His given name was Goyahkla; Mexican troops, astonished by his bravery, dubbed him Geronimo after Saint Jerome. In 1940, the U.S. 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment assumed Geronimo for their motto and logo, and after watching the 1939 film Geronimo, one especially nervous member of the regiment said he would shout the leader's name as they performed a tricky jump to show he wasn't scared, giving birth to the curious tradition.
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'Crop circles are alleged to cause "the Viagra effect" in some men. '
Since crop circles first began to catch media attention around Southern England in the late 1970s, people have been crediting their existence to everything from simple weather phenomena to evidence of UFOs. But while crop circles may infuriate the landowner and intoxicate believers, some men have allegedly experienced erections upon walking in a crop circle, a phenomenon that's been dubbed "the Viagra effect."
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'Crop circles are alleged to cause "the Viagra effect" in some men. '
Since crop circles first began to catch media attention around Southern England in the late 1970s, people have been crediting their existence to everything from simple weather phenomena to evidence of UFOs. But while crop circles may infuriate the landowner and intoxicate believers, some men have allegedly experienced erections upon walking in a crop circle, a phenomenon that's been dubbed "the Viagra effect."
nice! :lol: I experience this phenomonon in the yamaha shop :lol:
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'Crop circles are alleged to cause "the Viagra effect" in some men. '
Since crop circles first began to catch media attention around Southern England in the late 1970s, people have been crediting their existence to everything from simple weather phenomena to evidence of UFOs. But while crop circles may infuriate the landowner and intoxicate believers, some men have allegedly experienced erections upon walking in a crop circle, a phenomenon that's been dubbed "the Viagra effect."
nice! :lol: I experience this phenomonon in the gay shop :lol:
We know peelz.
:lol:
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'Crop circles are alleged to cause "the Viagra effect" in some men. '
Since crop circles first began to catch media attention around Southern England in the late 1970s, people have been crediting their existence to everything from simple weather phenomena to evidence of UFOs. But while crop circles may infuriate the landowner and intoxicate believers, some men have allegedly experienced erections upon walking in a crop circle, a phenomenon that's been dubbed "the Viagra effect."
nice! :lol: I experience this phenomonon in the gay shop :lol:
I'm with ya peelz.
:lol:
You wanna hold his hand as well? :confused:
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The first chalk body outline was drawn around John Dillinger's corpse.
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The first chalk body outline was drawn around John Dillinger's corpse.
Reminds of GTA
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'Crop circles are alleged to cause "the Viagra effect" in some men. '
Since crop circles first began to catch media attention around Southern England in the late 1970s, people have been crediting their existence to everything from simple weather phenomena to evidence of UFOs. But while crop circles may infuriate the landowner and intoxicate believers, some men have allegedly experienced erections upon walking in a crop circle, a phenomenon that's been dubbed "the Viagra effect."
nice! :lol: I experience this phenomonon in the gay shop :lol:
I'm with ya peelz.
:lol:
Can I hold his weinerl? :gunny:
all yours man.
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'Honeybees kill intruders to their hive by cooking them. '
You would assume that hives of Japanese honeybees 30,000 strong would be well-protected, but a small group of Vespa mandarinia hornets -- the largest hornet on earth at 2" long -- can slaughter the hive in a few hours. So honeybees have conjured up a counterattack known as the "bee ball." Hundreds of honeybees swarm the hornet and force it to the ground, where they pounce and begin to flap their wings so quickly that their body temperature is raised as much 50 degrees Fahrenheit, a process that not only suffocates the hornet but also cooks it.
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Mmmm tasty
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pretty interesting I thought as much as 50 degrees !!
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Sounds possible to me. happens all the time while im out in public. Spray on my axe body spray, hot girls come running and dry dump the shit out of me. Definately warms me up a bit.
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:lol:
there you go folks, it happens to GUYS To!! :rofl:
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8)
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except I don't beleve you funyun, girlz don't dig fluffy guys. :lol:
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German scientists recognized already in 1930's, decades ahead of others, that smoking causes lung cancer. Nazis founded the "National Socialist Institute for the Study of the Dangers of Tobacco" with the mission to protect the mankind against one of its most dangerous poisons. Smoking was branded as socially undesirable and was forbidden in many public places. Tobacco advertising was strictly regulated and athletically or sexually oriented cigarette advertising was prohibited.
We need some of that minus the no sexy ads
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We need nazis?
Hello.
:nazi:
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We need titties in mah face :nana:
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I like the nazi option...
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Brontophobia is a fear of thunder and lightning.
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Pantophobia- Fear of everything
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funyunphobia - scared of sexy men
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and by sexy you mean chunky
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you mean scared of little boys
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'Crop circles are alleged to cause "the Viagra effect" in some men. '
Since crop circles first began to catch media attention around Southern England in the late 1970s, people have been crediting their existence to everything from simple weather phenomena to evidence of UFOs. But while crop circles may infuriate the landowner and intoxicate believers, some men have allegedly experienced erections upon walking in a crop circle, a phenomenon that's been dubbed "the Viagra effect."
nice! :lol: I experience this phenomonon in the gay shop :lol:
I'm with ya peelz.
:lol:
Can I hold his weinerl? :gunny:
bugger off, he's my man.
C'mon, share & share alike :'(
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'Crop circles are alleged to cause "the Viagra effect" in some men. '
Since crop circles first began to catch media attention around Southern England in the late 1970s, people have been crediting their existence to everything from simple weather phenomena to evidence of UFOs. But while crop circles may infuriate the landowner and intoxicate believers, some men have allegedly experienced erections upon walking in a crop circle, a phenomenon that's been dubbed "the Viagra effect."
nice! :lol: I experience this phenomonon in the gay shop :lol:
I'm with ya peelz.
:lol:
Can I hold his weinerl? :gunny:
bugger off, he's my man.
C'mon, share & share alike :'(
too many quote changes, lost me. :lol:
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'One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime.'
According to the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Cancer Statistics Review, as many as 192,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, resulting in the highest incidence rates of cancer for men of any other cancer, including lung cancer. Early detection, thanks to the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test developed in 1986, has helped lower the fatality rate.
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I had my prostate examined a while back, still waiting for Peels to tell me what he found ???
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Caverns.
lots of them.
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I had my prostate examined a while back, still waiting for Peels to tell me what he found ???
gonna need a bigger Exploration vehicle. 15 man observation crew might do it. :lol:
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:(
you said I was tight
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'Quitting smoking can add eight years to your life. '
The remarkable thing about smoking is just how quickly the body begins to heal itself once a person quits smoking. Within just 30 minutes, the pulse and blood pressure begin to go down, and a single day later, one's risk factor for a heart attack decreases, and the benefits just keep coming -- if a smoker quits. If not, the World Health Organization recently asserted its belief that tobacco kills as many as 5 million adults every year.
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:woot:
Smokefree since 9-22-09
the LS rally was difficult
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'Quitting smoking can add eight years to your life. '
The remarkable thing about smoking is just how quickly the body begins to heal itself once a person quits smoking. Within just 30 minutes, the pulse and blood pressure begin to go down, and a single day later, one's risk factor for a heart attack decreases, and the benefits just keep coming -- if a smoker quits. If not, the World Health Organization recently asserted its belief that tobacco kills as many as 5 million adults every year.
cool i'm going to start smoking, so i can quit and gain 8 years to my life.
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GOOD CALL!!! didn't even think about that.
wonder if it works for people w/ emphysema?
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'Quitting smoking can add eight years to your life. '
The remarkable thing about smoking is just how quickly the body begins to heal itself once a person quits smoking. Within just 30 minutes, the pulse and blood pressure begin to go down, and a single day later, one's risk factor for a heart attack decreases, and the benefits just keep coming -- if a smoker quits. If not, the World Health Organization recently asserted its belief that tobacco kills as many as 5 million adults every year.
cool i'm going to start smoking, so i can quit and gain 8 years to my life.
We can live forever :clap:
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:woot:
Smokefree since 9-22-09
the LS rally was difficult
:clap: nice job!!!!! way to go hefe!
I have firsthand knowledge of what the cancer sticks do to ya' :mad: Lung problems already run in our family, so no need to speed it up :help:
I quit right when we were expecting our oldest boy. April of 2003.
:thumbs:
And totally agree about rallies being tough. My roughest time was out riding and my buddy lit up. Ironically, I had quit because he did. He had to. (cancer scare, but he is free of it) I actually tried one after about 4 years of none that day. And it tasted like total dogshit. I was coughing like a 7th grader who just stole his dad's lucky strikes. :lol:
never again. :puke:
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'The average adult has more leisure time today than 40 years ago.'
While we all define leisure time differently, we also all seem to have the same hobby -- the average U.S. adult watches about 2.5 hours of television daily, which is where a lot of leisure time is spent. Of single and married men and women, single men spent the most time in front of the TV (3.5 hours) and married men the least (2.24 hours). According to statistics published in Time magazine, that's about 45 minutes more free time than 40 years ago.
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:woot:
Smokefree since 9-22-09
the LS rally was difficult
:clap: nice job!!!!! way to go hefe!
I have firsthand knowledge of what the cancer sticks do to ya' :mad: Lung problems already run in our family, so no need to speed it up :help:
I quit right when we were expecting our oldest boy. April of 2003.
:thumbs:
And totally agree about rallies being tough. My roughest time was out riding and my buddy lit up. Ironically, I had quit because he did. He had to. (cancer scare, but he is free of it) I actually tried one after about 4 years of none that day. And it tasted like total dogshit. I was coughing like a 7th grader who just stole his dad's lucky strikes. :lol:
never again. :puke:
That is cool Hefe. I quit 9-22-05, holy shit just realized it was the same date as you. I quit for a-lot of reasons, 1. for my son... 2. I wanted to quit before I turned 30 and swore I would. 3. I waaaas sooo tired of the shitty smell and feeling gross every morning I woke up. It's been so long since I smoked I forgot I ever did until something like this reminds me that I did. I went cold turkey and after 3 months it was like I never smoked.
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:clap:
way to go gunz :thumbs:
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'Fried foods may not be healthy, but they don't cause acne. '
The origins of the association between fried foods and acne is unknown, but it is a much-perpetuated myth. Acne is caused when sebaceous glands under the skin produce sebum (a chemical that helps maintain lubrication on the skin) and that sebum, coupled with dead skin cells, blocks or otherwise causes irritation to the pores of the skin. While science has pinpointed hormones as a culprit in causing excess acne, other factors are also at work, including one's genes and outside influences, such as stress, which helps to explain why acne isn't just a problem for adolescents.
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'Results of numerous studies indicate the long-term health benefits of volunteering. '
In his book Why Good Things Happen to Good People, author Stephen Post found a direct connection being doing selfless good deeds and better overall physical health -- a connection that's backed up by other research, such as a 2005 Stanford study that indicated a link between volunteering and living longer, and a study out of England that found that communities that enjoy high rates of volunteering also enjoy significantly lower rates of crime, higher-ranked local schools, and overall healthier residents.
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'The gym isn't the only place where a man can cut his risk of heart attack or stroke.'
While the gym is an obvious place to get exercise and cut one's risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, don't overlook the bedroom: mounting evidence indicates the role of an active sex life in reducing risk factors as well, since not only is sex a cardiovascular workout in its own right, it also contributes to reducing stress and allowing for a better night's sleep -- both important in overall health.
Doin my part to a healthy life! :batman: :clap:
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'In most states, anyone can call themselves a "nutritionist."'
This is an important fact to remember when looking to consult a professional to help you change your eating habits. While the term "nutritionist" can be used by anyone, regardless of training or experience, in a number of states, in order for someone to say they are a registered dietician (RD), they must be authorized by the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association. RDs have at least a bachelor's degree and have fulfilled certain professional requirements specified by the ADA. They may or may not also call themselves "nutritionists."
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'Spending just three months improving one's credit score can result in much lower interest rates. '
Experts recommend spending between three and six months on raising one's credit score before actually applying for a home loan, since the consequences can mean significant monthly savings as well as substantial savings on the life of a loan. This includes checking with Equifax, Experian and TransUnion credit reports prior to applying for the loan, as well as determining your FICO (Fair Isaac Corp., a financial data company) score. What experts suggest avoiding at all costs? Fee-based credit repair agencies, since although they claim to get negative information removed from your credit report, the truth is that if the information is accurate, a credit bureau has no obligation to remove it.
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'1 in 2.56 adults made New Years resolutions. Of them, 1 in 2.7 will fail to keep their resolution for more than a month and only 1 in 7.6 will keep it for the entire year.'
This fact comes to you courtesy of Book Of Odds (bookofodds.com) -- a compendium of strange and funny daily probabilities.
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'NFL assigns Roman numerals to Super Bowls because of the changing calendar. '
It might be easier for fans and advertisers to market the Super Bowl along with the year it took place, but the flow of the NFL season and the inevitabilities of the calendar mean that you'll likely never see spots for "Super Bowl 2010." Each Super Bowl in January is designed to recognize the champion of that season, but since the calendar turns over in January and the season doesn't match the year of the championship game, the NFL chooses to avoid any confusion by using Roman numerals.
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lame
just call it the number, and get it over with. It is isn't an expensive watch :lol:
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'A 30-second ad during the first Super Bowl cost about $40,000.'
According to Advertising Age, advertisers paid $40,000 ($257,000 today) for ads run during the first Super Bowl in 1967, before it was even known as the Super Bowl and before anyone even cared much about the game. This is, of course, a bargain compared with today's prices, which tend to run in the low millions of dollars for a 30-second spot, although today's audience is believed to be made up of as many as 1 billion people.
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'Super Bowls account for the top 10 most-watched programs in television history. '
According to SuperBowlMonday.com, not only are the top 10 most-watched programs all Super Bowls, but 18 of the top 20 most-watched programs are also Super Bowls, testifying to the extraordinary drawing power of the game, which is broadcast in more than 220 countries around the world and always reaches a Neilsen rating of at least 40 (1996's was the highest, with a Neilsen rating of 46.1).
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woohoo :rolleyes: check out World Cup numbers. ;) Super Bowl shmooper bowl.
1.1 billion viewers PER DAY! Lasts close to a month. Or around 450 million viewers just for each match....There are many matches per day. even like Ivory Coast vs Greece or some crappier teamsget more viewers than super bowl... Ending up at 28.8 billion.
Still don't understand how super bowl winner calls themselves world champs when they don't ever play the world. ???
I think I am done watching the SB, the magic is gone. No more suspense. Just cool commercials. :lol:
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no one else has a football team. if those panzy f*ckin europeans would step up and get off their frilly ass soccer.... Maybe we'd let them join in a war finally too..
:lol:
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no one else has a football team. if those panzy f*ckin europeans would step up and get off their frilly ass soccer.... Maybe we'd let them join in a war finally too..
:lol:
they all have football teams. Football the way it was designed ;)
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designed shmezigned.
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'The ultimate trivia question: What are the origins of the word "trivia?"'
Not surprisingly, the word "trivia" derives from Latin: the ancient Romans were famous for building roads, and they built about 53,000 miles of them. Often, the places where two or more roads crossed were also places where people posted news and other information for travelers to see. Thus the word "trivia" comes from two words, "tri" (three), and "vium/via" (road/roads), or a place where many roads meet.
So that's where the band Trivium comes from... 8)
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'The ultimate trivia question: What are the origins of the word "trivia?"'
Not surprisingly, the word "trivia" derives from Latin: the ancient Romans were famous for building roads, and they built about 53,000 miles of them. Often, the places where two or more roads crossed were also places where people posted news and other information for travelers to see. Thus the word "trivia" comes from two words, "tri" (three), and "vium/via" (road/roads), or a place where many roads meet.
So that's where the band Trivium comes from... 8)
cool. Funny thought that the word trivial is assumed to mean of no consequence or ordinary. WHen by this definition, it is "of or pertaining to 3" ???
greek words suck. :lol:
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'An estimated 25 million lightning bolts strike the U.S. every year. '
That calculates to over 68,000 strikes per day, over 2,850 per hour and 47 per minute. In fact, anyone can follow these strikes with the National Lightning map at intellicast.com, which indicates where cloud-to-ground strikes occur every hour in the U.S. While scientists can't say for certain how lightning forms, they can say that lightning temperatures can reach a scorching 54,000 F (30,000 C).
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'The gym isn't the only place where a man can cut his risk of heart attack or stroke.'
While the gym is an obvious place to get exercise and cut one's risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, don't overlook the bedroom: mounting evidence indicates the role of an active sex life in reducing risk factors as well, since not only is sex a cardiovascular workout in its own right, it also contributes to reducing stress and allowing for a better night's sleep -- both important in overall health.
Doin my part to a healthy life! :batman: :clap:
I heard man on man is twice the workout, you must be pretty healthy
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'The gym isn't the only place where a man can cut his risk of heart attack or stroke.'
While the gym is an obvious place to get exercise and cut one's risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, don't overlook the bedroom: mounting evidence indicates the role of an active sex life in reducing risk factors as well, since not only is sex a cardiovascular workout in its own right, it also contributes to reducing stress and allowing for a better night's sleep -- both important in overall health.
Doin my part to a healthy life! :batman: :clap:
Well then...I must make Lydia Uber healthy :nod:
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I am your father
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'The gym isn't the only place where a man can cut his risk of heart attack or stroke.'
While the gym is an obvious place to get exercise and cut one's risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, don't overlook the bedroom: mounting evidence indicates the role of an active sex life in reducing risk factors as well, since not only is sex a cardiovascular workout in its own right, it also contributes to reducing stress and allowing for a better night's sleep -- both important in overall health.
Doin my part to a healthy life! :batman: :clap:
Well then...I must make Lydia Uber healthy :nod:
Is that why I am not getting healthy? You use all your energy on Lydia? :mad:
Randy... Man up and get over here and make me healthy! :kiss: :nana:
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:rofl:
I need a plane ticket.. Aarons. lucky, he's like a sniper. and has the jet stream going his way. :(
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'The gym isn't the only place where a man can cut his risk of heart attack or stroke.'
While the gym is an obvious place to get exercise and cut one's risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, don't overlook the bedroom: mounting evidence indicates the role of an active sex life in reducing risk factors as well, since not only is sex a cardiovascular workout in its own right, it also contributes to reducing stress and allowing for a better night's sleep -- both important in overall health.
Doin my part to a healthy life! :batman: :clap:
Well then...I must make Lydia Uber healthy :nod:
Is that why I am not getting healthy? You use all your energy on Lydia? :mad:
Randy... Man up and get over here and make me healthy! :kiss: :nana:
Randy???....Man up?....That's like asking a Donkey to enter the Kentucky derby....E for effort but inevitably it's just going to be embarrassing
:lol:
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hahahhahahahhahhahhaahhahhaahhahahahhaha
i still like you randi
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E for effort F for fail lol
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I was just reading Peels last post and when I radio'd to the back I almost said "truck 15 is a fail" but caught my self at the fa
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'People who carry a gun are more likely to be killed by gunfire than those who don't.'
According to a two-year study carried out by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania that looked at 677 shooting victims in the Philadelphia area, a person raises his risk factor of losing his life at the business end of a gun by 4.2% if he too is carrying a gun.
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just my guess, but most of the time people carrying the guns are the ones that get into gun fights..... hence dying more often?
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Gangs.. gunz.... etc.
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true stat there. Reason being, if you have a gun, and are threatened with a gun and you pull yours out, the other person will fire first out of fear. You are dead with your gun in your hand :lol:
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'You can't walk on Muhammad Ali's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. '
There are over 2,000 people, groups and other entertainment entities represented by stars embedded in concrete along the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but according to Ana Martinez, who was in 2007 the vice president of media relations for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, when boxing legend Muhammad Ali was offered his own star in 2002, he only agreed one on condition: that his star couldn't be stepped on. For this reason, Ali's star can be found mounted on the wall at the entrance to the Kodak Theater.
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'No less than 21 of the first 23 astronauts in space were first-born children.'
Recent research out of Harvard confirms what many already believed: birth order has a tremendous influence on personality. Specifically, first-born children are often more responsible and tend to be high achievers in comparison with their less-responsible younger siblings. In addition to that, first-born children tend to make friends with other first-born kids and so on down the line; even only children tend to prefer one another's company.
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'16% of the world population would permanently move to another country if they could. '
According to a recent Gallup poll three years in the making, 700 million people worldwide, or about 16% of the world's population would, if given the chance, leave their own country and move permanently to another one. A move to a country in Europe was the most popular choice among those polled (210 million), followed by America (165 million) and Canada (45 million).
put me in that category.
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put me in that category.
Where would you go?
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Yeah Mano if money were no object I might live in the uk with my beyotch shrimpy lol
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I've always wanted to move to New Zealand...don't know if id stay forever though.
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put me in that category.
Where would you go?
All over.
I think I'd go to Germany though. Germany or Sweden.
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put me in that category.
Where would you go?
All over.
I think I'd go to Germany though. Germany or Sweden.
screw it! Moving to haiti, lots of open lots to build on I hear :nod:
too soon? :lol:
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put me in that category.
Where would you go?
All over.
I think I'd go to Germany though. Germany or Sweden.
:krandall:
Is your response supposed to surprise us?
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put me in that category.
Where would you go?
All over.
I think I'd go to Germany though. Germany or Sweden.
screw it! Moving to haiti, lots of open lots to build on I hear :nod:
too soon? :lol:
Good time to buy
Heard their Real estate market crashed down on them......
All aboard the express freight train to hell
<----Conductor
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WOOO WOOO
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put me in that category.
Where would you go?
All over.
I think I'd go to Germany though. Germany or Sweden.
screw it! Moving to haiti, lots of open lots to build on I hear :nod:
too soon? :lol:
Good time to buy
Heard their Real estate market crashed down on them......
All aboard the express freight train to hell
<----Conductor
all aboard capt. :lol:
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So whens the train leaving? Ive been waiting in my seat for hours :mad:
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'In the U.S., two-thirds of second marriages and three-quarters of third ones end in divorce.'
These dismal statistics about second and third marriages in the United States are far less commonly published than those regarding first marriages (i.e., that half of them end in divorce). Regardless, they suggest that people who marry frequently tend not to learn from the mistakes made in prior relationships, instead bringing bad relationship habits with them from marriage to marriage.
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'In the U.S., two-thirds of second marriages and three-quarters of third ones end in divorce.'
These dismal statistics about second and third marriages in the United States are far less commonly published than those regarding first marriages (i.e., that half of them end in divorce). Regardless, they suggest that people who marry frequently tend not to learn from the mistakes made in prior relationships, instead bringing bad relationship habits with them from marriage to marriage.
terrible. :(
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Well that's an easy fix. Outlaw divorce and legalize bigamy. :lol:
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Well that's an easy fix. Outlaw divorce and legalize bigamy. :lol:
:rofl:
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'In the U.S., two-thirds of second marriages and three-quarters of third ones end in divorce.'
These dismal statistics about second and third marriages in the United States are far less commonly published than those regarding first marriages (i.e., that half of them end in divorce). Regardless, they suggest that people who marry frequently tend not to learn from the mistakes made in prior relationships, instead bringing bad relationship habits with them from marriage to marriage.
Oh thanks for posting that... now I will never get married again. :mad: :bird: :(
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cripes.
:door:
gtfo.
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Fine I will get out, but I am heading to your place to carve a swastika on your forehead. :)
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cool!
sounds like someone just saw Englorious Basterds :)
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Yeah a while ago. And you mean Inglourious Basterds. :lol:
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'Women living in stressful times give birth to more girls than boys. '
When times are tough -- during drought or famine, for instance, or even during a more modern-style calamity such as massive layoffs from a large company -- stress hormones in a woman's body have an influence on the sex of her child or children, should she have them at this time: Thanks to evolution, there's a slightly higher chance she'll have a girl, since daughters stand a better chance to reproduce during hard times than men do. Recently, UC Berkeley researchers discovered that stress hormones make the uterus slightly more hostile to a male fetus during tough times, and further, that the body will spontaneously abort more boys than girls.
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so... is your wife stressed?
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'Women living in stressful times give birth to more girls than boys. '
When times are tough -- during drought or famine, for instance, or even during a more modern-style calamity such as massive layoffs from a large company -- stress hormones in a woman's body have an influence on the sex of her child or children, should she have them at this time: Thanks to evolution, there's a slightly higher chance she'll have a girl, since daughters stand a better chance to reproduce during hard times than men do. Recently, UC Berkeley researchers discovered that stress hormones make the uterus slightly more hostile to a male fetus during tough times, and further, that the body will spontaneously abort more boys than girls.
This is probably why I had 2 girls and one boy... I was stressed!
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'The record for the longest banzai skydive is 50 seconds.'
The rules for banzai skydiving are fairly simple: you have to jump from a height of at least 3,000 meters, and when you jump, you must do so without a parachute, since the key to banzai skydiving is seeing how long you can wait after having thrown your parachute out of the airplane before you jump out after it. In 2000, Yasuhiro Kubo claimed the record after waiting 50 seconds before jumping out and chasing down his gear.
holy hell
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I would have landed with wind blown shit all over me.
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If you waited like 5 minutes then jumped after it and ended up dying do you still get the record?
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Holy $hit
when can we do this? Lol
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'A statistically significant sports playoff series would have to be a "best of" at least 23 games.'
Pro hockey, baseball and basketball all use the best-of-5 or best-of-7 series formats in their playoffs. But according to Leonard Mlodinow in The Drunkard's Walk, even between teams that aren't very evenly matched, these series are too brief to truly determine which is the better team. In order to reach statistical significance (meaning the weaker team would be expected to win less than 5% of the time) between poorly matched teams, a series would require 23 games. Between evenly matched teams, a series would require as many as 269 games.
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'A statistically significant sports playoff series would have to be a "best of" at least 23 games.'
Pro hockey, baseball and basketball all use the best-of-5 or best-of-7 series formats in their playoffs. But according to Leonard Mlodinow in The Drunkard's Walk, even between teams that aren't very evenly matched, these series are too brief to truly determine which is the better team. In order to reach statistical significance (meaning the weaker team would be expected to win less than 5% of the time) between poorly matched teams, a series would require 23 games. Between evenly matched teams, a series would require as many as 269 games.
F**k that, we'd be totally over it by then! :'(
You lose, f**k off, no second chances! :thumbs:
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' In the U.S., doctors perform an estimated 2.4 million unnecessary surgeries every year.'
The conclusion of a Congressional subcommittee (and referenced in Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises), these procedures annually cost as much as $3.9 billion, and they result in the unnecessary deaths of an estimated 11,900 people.
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'Guantanamo Bay Naval Base has a McDonald's and a Domino's Pizza. '
The U.S. military base on the island of Cuba has been shrouded in mystery since becoming a high-security prison for suspected terrorists in 2002. However, U.S. military presence dates back over a century, allowing plenty of time for a small city to have grown around the base. In 1986, McDonald's moved in; they've been followed by KFC, Subway and Domino's Pizza, to name a few, although Cuban citizens don't have access -- the franchises only serve the military base.
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'In 1889, a wooden-hulled ship and an iron-hulled ship collided, with disastrous results for the steamship. '
Late one night in 1889 on the English Channel, the 210-foot-long wooden-hulled cargo ship Vandalia collided head-on with the massive 3,000-ton, 380-foot-long iron-hulled steamship Duke of Buccleugh. In a matter of minutes, the Duke of Buccleugh disappeared beneath the waves, taking her captain and the entire crew of 47 with her. The Vandalia was damaged but did not sink. Historians at a loss to explain the collision's curious outcome have tended to blame the Duke's captain.
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'Two iconic symbols of the Olympic games were first launched by the Nazis.'
Hitler designed the enormous pageantry of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a global showcase for Nazi power and Aryan supremacy. Two of the traditions created by Hitler and the Nazis to meet these ends include the Olympic Torch Relay and the ceremony of lighting the flame to begin the games, and the very symbol of the games themselves, the five interlocking rings.
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'Patrick Roy is the only goalie to win the Calder Cup and the Stanley Cup in consecutive seasons.'
More than 100 players and coaches have won both the Calder Cup and Stanley Cup in their careers, most recently Sergei Gonchar and Philippe Boucher, but only one goalie has won both cups, back to back: Playing for the AHL's Sherbrooke Canadiens, Patrick Roy lead the team to the 1984-85 Calder Cup championship despite playing just one game for the team during the regular season. The following year, as an NHL rookie, Roy backstopped the Montreal Canadiens to the 1985-86 Stanley Cup.
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'18th century pirates elected their captains by democratic vote. '
The early 18th century is considered the "golden age of piracy," because of the legendary pirate captains who plied their trade during this era. Captains such as Blackbeard (Edward Teach), Benjamin Hornigold and Henry Morgan had fearsome reputations, but all operated according to a Pirate Code, which differed from ship to ship but in general dictated that each ship elected a captain and quartermaster by democratic vote.
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'An estimated 99,000 people die each year from infections picked up in U.S. hospitals.'
Experts estimate that as many as 1.7 million people who enter U.S. hospitals each year end up contracting an avoidable and unnecessary infection during their hospital stay, and that 99,000 of them will die from those infections. A good percentage of these infections occur because of mishandling of so-called central lines -- IV's and ports that are used to get drugs and medications into the patient and often remain there for days or weeks at a time.
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Funyun
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:ban:
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'A common procedure performed on infants amounts to big business in biotech labs. '
Male circumcision is routinely performed at hospitals throughout the U.S., despite increasing evidence that it is not necessarily beneficial for the child. The removed foreskin, however, is often grown into thousands of square feet of new tissue by biotech labs, and can be used as skin for burn victims and to help manufacturer insulin among other uses. The circumcised skin of one child can be extrapolated into 250,000 square feet of new skin and sold at $3,000 per square foot.
so mah dick may be on someones face you know. ???
:rofl:
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'A common procedure performed on infants amounts to big business in biotech labs. '
Male circumcision is routinely performed at hospitals throughout the U.S., despite increasing evidence that it is not necessarily beneficial for the child. The removed foreskin, however, is often grown into thousands of square feet of new tissue by biotech labs, and can be used as skin for burn victims and to help manufacturer insulin among other uses. The circumcised skin of one child can be extrapolated into 250,000 square feet of new skin and sold at $3,000 per square foot.
so mah dick may be on someones face you know. ???
:rofl:
well mah bawlz are on yo momma's chin.... :lol: :lol:
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'The "Presidential shell game" refers to a security maneuver performed by the U.S. Marines. '
Established under Eisenhower, the Marine One helicopter serves to carry the U.S. president from the south lawn of the White House to points nearby or to the tarmac where Air Force One awaits. However, "Marine One" is the President's exclusive call sign, not a helicopter designation. A handful of HMX-1 helicopters play the part of Marine One, dependent on which one the president is on. When transported this way, three or four identical HMX-1 helicopters fly together -- referred to as the "Presidential shell game" -- to confuse anyone looking to shoot the President down.
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What if they just shoot down all four ???
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kinda what I was thinking. But.. meh.
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What if they just shoot down all four ???
:lol:
the gov't can spend more money this way. ;)
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'Tickets to the Toronto Maple Leafs are the most expensive in the NHL. '
Since the 2007-08 season, tickets to see the Toronto Maple Leafs have been the most expensive in the league, although average prices for the 2009-10 season are far and away the most expensive in recorded league history, and at $117.49, the only average ticket price ever to cost $100 or more.
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'The record for most T-shirts worn at once is 224. '
This record was set by Charlie Williams, a citizen of the United Kingdom, who managed to put on 224 T-shirts at St. Anthony's Primary School in Essex, UK, in September of 2007. The record attempt was organized by itiswhatitis, a web site that sells - what else - T-shirts.
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'The stench of the durian fruit is so strong that it is banned in many public places. '
The durian is native to Indonesia and Malaysia and many consider it a delicacy, but its odor is so strong, so distinctive and, to many, so offensive that some Asian countries ban the fruit from rapid transit and other public places. Many famous travel writers and celebrity chefs have commented on the durian, including Anthony Bourdain, who famously said that after eating the durian, "your breath will smell as if you'd been French-kissing your dead grandmother."
We had durian when we were in Australia and they straight up stink. The inside that you eat is a bit weird. It's almost like a custard/pudding inside. Doesn't taste horrible. But not good either.
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Randy watches the "Wizard of Oz" twice a week :confused:
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The lollipop guild is so hawt.
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did someone say "lollipop"?
Ok, no sugar involved, but I'd sure lick it!
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'Eight U.S. Presidents did not attend college.'
Many U.S. Presidents have been college educated, and the college with the most alumni in the Oval Office is Harvard, but of the 43 men to have served as president, eight never went to college: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Grover Cleveland (who was both the 22nd and 24th president).
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'Losing a job can take years off your life. '
According to research carried out by Columbia University economist Till Von Wachter, mortality rates among men (Wachter studied men in their 40s and 50s) go up every year in the aftermath of being laid off or losing one's job, and the effect is even more pronounced on younger guys; notably, men who are laid off in their 30s tend to have a shorter lifespan Compared with men who became unemployed at a later age, and compared with men who were never unemployed.
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'Losing a job can take years off your life. '
According to research carried out by Columbia University economist Till Von Wachter, mortality rates among men (Wachter studied men in their 40s and 50s) go up every year in the aftermath of being laid off or losing one's job, and the effect is even more pronounced on younger guys; notably, men who are laid off in their 30s tend to have a shorter lifespan Compared with men who became unemployed at a later age, and compared with men who were never unemployed.
I would agree. SO would E.
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'The speed of light is cut in half when traveling through a diamond.'
The speed of light in a vacuum moves along at an impressive clip: 186,282 miles per second. However, it slows when traveling through different mediums. In the case of diamonds, the speed of light is slowed down to 77,500 miles per second because light photons have a harder time escaping diamonds, where they bounce around against carbon atoms -- an action that creates the gem's iconic sparkle.
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'In 2004, David Lee Roth worked as a New York City paramedic. '
The famous front man for Van Halen comes from a medical family, but it's still a surprise to learn he spent a short time as an EMT, going on hundreds of emergency calls in New York City in 2004. At the time, Roth was almost 50 years old and claims that not once during his stint did anyone recognize him. In 2007, he rejoined Van Halen for what would be the highest-grossing tour in the band's history.
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'In 2004, David Lee Roth worked as a New York City paramedic. '
The famous front man for Van Halen comes from a medical family, but it's still a surprise to learn he spent a short time as an EMT, going on hundreds of emergency calls in New York City in 2004. At the time, Roth was almost 50 years old and claims that not once during his stint did anyone recognize him. In 2007, he rejoined Van Halen for what would be the highest-grossing tour in the band's history.
I'll be darned. just a gigolo doesn't have the same meaning now :lol:
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Fact of the day..... I'm taking the mutha fuckn day off, because I can.
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Gunz has 3000 posts
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'The average human body hosts as many as 35,000 different bacterial species.'
In the average human body, bacterial cells outnumber human cells by a factor of 10, but most of them take up residence in just 3 places: the most populated place is the intestine, where between 5,000 and 35,000 different species can be found. Next up is the mouth, which is home to a few hundred species, and finally, about 100 species of bacteria reside on the skin. Fortunately, the overwhelming majority of these species are not considered pathogenic to humans.
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'The average human body hosts as many as 35,000 different bacterial species.'
but raptorsource members are usually closer to 100k. :lol:
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'The average human body hosts as many as 35,000 different bacterial species.'
but raptorsource members are usually closer to 100k. :lol:
No peels you just drag our average way up all by yourself :lol:
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'The average human body hosts as many as 35,000 different bacterial species.'
but raptorsource members are usually closer to 100k. :lol:
No peels you just drag our average way up all by yourself :lol:
I do what I can to make my friends feel normal. :lol:
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'Philematology is the study of kissing.'
While kissing on the lips is very common in many cultures, it is not universal; in fact, according to author Lana Citron's A Compendium of Kisses, which explores philematology in great detail, some cultures find the notion disgusting and prefer to kiss rubbing noses.
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'Each year in the Mediterranean, as many as 9 ships suffer "suspect sinking."'
A sunken ship is termed a "suspect sinking" when officials believe, for a variety of reasons that depend on a host of factors, that a ship's owner has deliberately had her sunk. Often, these ships are believed to have dangerous cargo that the owners can't otherwise unload, such as radioactive waste. According to officials at one Italian university, there are as many as nine such suspect sinkings in the waters of the Mediterranean each year.
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Although diamond is the hardest substance on Earth, when heated to 763ºC (1404ºF) it vanishes. A bit of CO2 is released, but not even ash remains.
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It will only disappear if burnt with pure oxygen. (wont' burn in normal air)
pretty cool though. the only byproduct of burning a diamond is CO2.
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'On average, bears kill three people in the U.S. every year. '
According to the experts in BBC Knowledge Magazine, people seem to have a tendency to underestimate the speed and aggression of bears in the United States. This has led to 30 documented cases of death by bears since the year 2000.
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'On average, bears kill three people in the U.S. every year. '
According to the experts in BBC Knowledge Magazine, people seem to have a tendency to underestimate the speed and aggression of bears in the United States. This has led to 30 documented cases of death by bears since the year 2000.
are they bears, or are they canadians in disguise?
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more deaths by deer than bear
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If there is a forest fire do the people who died count as dieing because of bears? Smokey the bear should have prevented that forest fire therefore its his fault right?
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dammit!
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more deaths by beer than bear.........
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probably true
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it's a fact.
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proof
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A Crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A elephant is the heavest of all land mammals at around 8,000 pounds.
A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
(That last one is gotta end up with some crazy replys) :rofl:
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I can smell you from across the ocean. You need a shower. :lol:
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'Personal use of social networking sites at work in England costs that economy as much as $2.3 billion a year. '
According to a lengthy special report by The Economist on social networking sites, an IT firm estimated that users who are on the job in England are causing their companies lost productivity running into the billions. Another firm estimated that simply by banning Facebook at work, American productivity would increase by as much as 15%.
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I bet that is pretty accurate
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FB is blocked @ work for us. I know a couple friends who kill their day on facebook
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My brothers sister-in-law got up from our nephews Birthday party to check her FB
she was just on there a half hour before, at her house..
I was like WTF?
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damn kids.
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kids.. she is like 30..
I really lose respect for people like that
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'An amazing aquatic ability of the basilisk lizard has earned it a Biblical nickname.'
Basilisks are on average about 3 inches long and weigh no more than 3 ounces, so they are able to run, on their hind legs only, at a clip of almost 5 feet per second on water's surface for almost 15 feet before they begin to sink and are forced to swim. Because of this seeming ability to "walk on water," basilisk lizards are known as "Jesus lizards."
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'Kevlar was invented to save gas, not stop bullets.'
The lightweight fiber used in bulletproof vests and other armor applications is the product of a DuPont researcher during the 1960s. Stephanie Kwolek's work led to the creation of Kevlar, but the idea had been to create something to reinforce radial tires to increase fuel efficiency; the fact that what she developed was five times stronger than steel was merely coincidental.
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"The Voice of GERD" got the job with NFL Films after being overheard at a bar. '
Known by fans as "The Voice of GERD" for his trademark narration for NFL Films of countless pro football games of old, John Facenda was a Philadelphia news anchor in 1965 when he was at a bar watching footage shot by NFL Films. As he began to wax poetic about how incredible the footage was, he was overheard by NFL Films founder Ed Sabol, who was so impressed with his voice and off-the-cuff narration that he offered him the job.
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In 1991, FOX ran the first condom ad in network television history.'
The ad, for Trojan condoms, ran during an episode of the sitcom Herman's Head and it appeared just two weeks after Magic Johnson had announced that he had contracted the HIV virus, although the ad itself never mentions HIV or AIDS. However, 16 years earlier, in 1975, ABC affiliate KNTV ran TV's first condom ad, also for Trojan, but it did not run on a national network.
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what happened to MJ's aids anyway?
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on this day in 1989
Rick Astley's "Never gonna give you up"
was on the top of the billboard charts
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on this day in 1989
Rick Astley's "Never gonna give you up"
was on the top of the billboard charts
:woot:
AWESOME FACT O THE DAY!
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Thank you!
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on this day in 1989
Rick Astley's "Never gonna give you up"
was on the top of the billboard charts
:dance: we're no strangers to love!
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'In the future, we'll all live on Pangaea Ultima. '
Pangaea Ultima is the name given to the formation of the continents 250 million years from now, according to the Paleomap project out of the University of Texas in Arlington. The project estimates that, at that time, the major continents will have fused together, resulting in a Pacific Ocean so large that it will cover the huge majority of the planet.
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cool fact. One of the science topics I follow.
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I don't get how they say the pacific is what it'll be called.. why not make a new name if they are changing the name of all the countries.
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I don't get how they say the pacific is what it'll be called.. why not make a new name if they are changing the name of all the countries.
what should we name it?
Really big f**king ocean!
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'The black mamba snake can reach speeds of over 12 mph.'
One of the most deadly and venomous snakes in the world, the black mamba ("mamba" is Zulu for "big snake"') has been clocked at 12.5 mph, but not when chasing prey; rather, when fleeing danger. Adult black mambas, which can grow to lengths of 10 to 14 feet, carry enough venom to kill 14 people.
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is that anything like an "Alabama black snake"? (it ain't to fuckin buku)
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'The frozen foods industry was launched with just a $7 investment.'
In the 1920s, Clarence Birdseye launched what would become the multibillion-dollar frozen foods industry after picking up clues from the Inuit people of Canada, who used extremely cold Arctic water to quickly freeze and preserve fish. Birdseye spent just $7 on an electric fan, ice and some salted water (brine) to begin perfecting the process. He sold his company in 1929 for millions -- a company that would go on to become General Foods Corporation.
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'An estimated two-thirds of all psychiatric disorders go undiagnosed and untreated. '
This estimate comes from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and they note that in many of these situations, the psychiatric disorder is in fact highly treatable. They further estimate that at least one half the population will suffer from such a disorder in their lifetimes.
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Need treatment? See :peels: or :preddy:
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see peels
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way to copy exactly what pat said.... :homo:
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'Contrary to perception, schizophrenics do not suffer from multiple personalities.'
Disassociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder) is the somewhat controversial psychological condition of having a multitude of personalities or identities at the same time. Schizophrenia, on the other hand, is the condition of having a single, fractured personality.
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I am a schizophrenic.... and so am I
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Us too
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'Latrell Sprewell holds the record for receiving the largest fine in professional sports history.'
As a member of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, Sprewell allegedly choked coach PJ Carlissimo during a practice. The ensuing punishment was severe: in addition to a $6.4 million fine, the NBA suspended him for 68 games -- the remainder of the 1997-98 season. Not until 1999 would be play again, after being traded to the Knicks.
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wow, I missed that story. douche. choking your coach? WTF!
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'Nike was started by a track coach at the University of Oregon. '
Bill Bowerman was a legendary track coach at the University of Oregon in the 1960s and '70s who created handmade running shoes for his runners, among them future legends such as Daryl Burlseon, Steve Prefontaine and Alberto Salazar. Originally called Blue Ribbon Sports, some writers, including John Ball of Living Well, Running Hard, credit Bowerman's Nike initiative for kick-starting the massive running craze that took over the U.S. in the 1970s.
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I wonder where the name Nike came from
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Nike= Greek goddess of victory
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Krandall = Greek GERD of Nerd.
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Krandall = Greek GERD of Nerd.
I was gonna call you last night becuase I had a meeting with our local IT crew yesterday....you would be their king....
no less than 3 WoW conversations going on....tape on coke bottle glasses...and every other stereotypes you can think of were confirmed.
15 40 yearold virgins in one room....epic.
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WoW is for nerds,
I am geek!
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funyun plays wow... not me. :)
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he says he made a bunch of cash on that game
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Yeah, there's other nerds out there willing to pay big $$ for high level characters
pretty crazy.
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and I know a guy who poops his pants while he plays that game, cause he doesn't wanna stop playing for 5 minutes..
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and I know a guy who poops his pants while he plays that game, cause he doesn't wanna stop playing for 5 minutes..
Be nice to Raptor Randy......
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I don't think I know Raptor Randy
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He used to come here every once in a while.. But since he became a mod @ RF I haven't heard from him in a while..
didn't he sell his Raptor?
RaptorlessRandy?
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He used to come here every once in a while.. But since he became a mod @ RF I haven't heard from him in a while..
didn't he sell his Raptor?
RaptorlessRandy?
He's just a lurking mofo.....until I call his old ass out enough :lol:
And yes he sold his "Heavy duner" :rolleyes: 780 awhile back
he has a Honda 450R now and a utlity quad I think. He was out of work for quite awhile, but now has a steady income again, so I bet he'll return to the raptor game eventually.
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I know the name, but Have never met the guy
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Raptor Randy is a cool guy. DOesn't pull his punches. He has one post here recently, talking trash about a seller :lol:
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what about Donkey punches? (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=donkey%20punch)
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what about Donkey punches? (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=donkey%20punch)
Now look who's pulling something!
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'Diabetics in the U.S. go through 6 billion glucose-testing strips each year.'
According to figures published in Popular Science, the 23.6 million Americans with diabetes go through around 6 billion testing strips each year to determine their blood glucose levels. This self-test requires a drop of blood from the patient, and according to the magazine, those tiny blood drops amount to about 1,600 gallons lost each year.
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holy phuck!
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Diabetes is killing the country slowly. Waaay too much sugar in everything we eat.
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Say wha?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZSnlo3W-3Y
:lol:
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I got your fact of the day:
docking: The act of placing the head of ones penis inside the foreskin of another's penis.
Peelz and Pat enjoyed docking immensely because of Patcy's stretchy foreskin.
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sweet jeezus :lol:
:bird:
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Drrr....Peelz why did you share that?
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docking... WTF?
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docking... WTF? me and preddy call that Saturday night.
for real, nothing better to do!
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interesting...
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hefe---not fair. funny as all hell, but not fair :bird:
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lmao...
I hope you never are granted powers!
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holy crap!!!!!!!!!
'The U.S. Library of Congress' collection occupies 650 miles of bookshelves. '
The Library of Congress in Washington D.C. doesn't just have over 33 million books; it also has 12 million photographs, millions of maps, sheet music, and other manuscripts. Its holdings make it largest library in the world; and having been founded in 1800, it is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country.
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Contrary to popular belief, Julius Caesar was not born by cesarean section. '
According to the Roman historian Pliny, the Caesar family took its name from the word "to cut" (cadere), which does reference an ancestor believed to have been delivered by cesarean section, but there's no evidence Julius himself was delivered that way. Women had been giving birth by the method since before the time of Caesar himself, though the mother inevitably died during the procedure. Not until the 16th century is there a recorded cesarean birth in which the mother survived.
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Guess women were a disposable comodity back then
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back then....?
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'Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter has never been out of print. '
Published in the early spring of 1850, the story of the adulteress Hester Prynne was set amid the Puritanism of 17th-century Boston. The book's initial print run of 2,500 copies may seem small but was in fact reasonable for its time, and sold out in less than two weeks. It has remained in print ever since, and is considered one of the cornerstones of American literature.
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The top of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain (over 26,000 ft.) is made up of "limestone" from the bottom of the ocean floor. This limestone contains fossils from ancient life.
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The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body...
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The human head weighs eight pounds!
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'Nineteen U.S. military personnel are double recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. '
The United States Military has handed out almost 3,500 Congressional Medals of Honor dating back to the Civil War, with the huge majority (over 2,400) given to regular Army personnel and only one to a member of the U.S. Coast Guard. In the history of the Medal, 19 individuals have received the honor twice: 7 were Marines, 5 were Army, and 9 were from the Navy.
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The Navy :wtf: ???
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The Navy :wtf: ???
what is wrong with the navy?
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The Navy :wtf: ???
what is wrong with the navy?
+1..
I thought you liked seaman patters....?
:rofl:
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The Navy :wtf: ???
what is wrong with the navy?
+1..
I thought you liked seaman patters....?
:rofl:
I think you ment seamen!
:nod:
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'Pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. didn't have to prove that their products worked until 1962.'
In 1962, as much a reaction to birth defects arising on account of the sleep aid thalidomide as anything, Congress passed the Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendments. These laws amended the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 and forced drug manufacturers to have to prove the efficacy of their products to the FDA before they were allowed to market them to U.S. consumers.
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"Eric" (or "Erich" for long) means king, and is simply the BEST name in the entire world, sorry everybody else, im just stating facts here, no need to get ur panties in a bundle, At the very least im sure peelio and funyun will agree, and that makes us a bonefied religion.
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I can still ban you.
:lol:
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I can still ban you.
:lol:
that would make u prejudice then :help:
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:krandall:
:nazi:
:lol:
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We should start a cult
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We should start a cult
cults have such a bad name, Religion is where its at now a days, plus we get tax breaks :thumbs:
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Yeah but people don't look at you funny when you say you belong to a religion. I vote for cult.
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Yeah but people don't look at you funny when you say you belong to a religion. I vote for cult.
I'm in. :lol:
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We should start a cult
cults have such a bad name, Religion is where its at now a days, plus we get tax breaks :thumbs:
Cults are still considered a religion.
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Do we get to burn things (like people with names that mean King ;)) & blow shit up?
If so then I'm in :nod:
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'The world's most distinguished prize came about because a man read his own obituary.'
Alfred Nobel believed that his invention, dynamite, would actually lead to peace because countries would see that mutual annihilation was too easy. Then his brother died and a French newspaper mistakenly published Alfred's obituary instead, referring to him as the "merchant of death" for his invention of dynamite. Shaken, Alfred launched the Nobel prizes.
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guess you could say that it all blew up in his face..................ba dum pish :lol:
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that was bad
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'Table saws injure over 30,000 people every year.'
According to the results of a first-of-its-kind study published on table saw accidents and injuries in the United States, over 31,500 people are injured by the device each year -- the huge majority by coming into contact with the blade of the saw, and the overwhelming majority of them (97%) were men.
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the other 3% were dykes
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'Americans sent 110 billion text messages in 2008. '
According to the wireless industry association CTIA and in part published in Discover magazine, 110 billion text messages were sent in the United States in 2008, a figure substantially higher than the 2 billion text messages sent in 2003. More astonishingly, since 2006, an estimated 8 trillion tweets have been posted on Twitter.
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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More astonishingly, since 2006, an estimated 8 trillion tweets have been posted on Twitter.
wow..
I have never even seen twitter
I swear, I have never even been to the site!
man, I must be missing out on something!
I am headed there now!
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Well, there goes a right twit!
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2 facts today as well :)
'Contrary to legend, Galileo never performed the famous experiment from the ledge of the leaning tower of Pisa.'
Legend has it that Galileo disproved Aristotle one day by dropping two balls of different weight from the famous leaning tower and watching them reach the ground at the same time. Not only was this experiment carried out some 1,000 years before Galileo's time by a scholar named John Philloponus (John the Grammarian), but there's also no evidence that Galileo ever even carried out the experiment himself.
'The average shoe carries over 420,000 bacteria. '
If you ever needed a reason to remove your shoes when entering your house, this might be it, as the outer area of the average shoe -- especially the sole but elsewhere on the shoe as well -- carries with it an enormous population of bacteria.
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The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters burn 11,000 lbs of propellant per second. (watching a launch vid now)
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NASA needs to go green.
:lol:
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(John the Grammarian)
is that like Peels the Grammar Nazi?
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'The world's first human genetics department was founded at Johns Hopkins University.'
It was founded by pioneering medical geneticist and the father of medical genetics Victor McKusick in 1957. McKusick was one of the only people to attend Johns Hopkins Medical School without an undergraduate degree (the school waived that requirement briefly during World War II). McKusick maintained a catalog of genes, which he called "Mendelian Inheritance in Man," that he began modestly with the genes his own research had uncovered. Today that catalog has grown to include over 20,000 entries.
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'The Indian state of Tamil Nadu formally recognizes three genders.'
Home to 62 million, Tamil Nadu is the seventh most populous state in India (out of 28 states) and is the only known place in the world in where a government recognizes M, F and T genders (T for transsexual). Stanford professor (and former male) Joan Roughgarden argues in her book Evolution's Rainbow that at least half of all species on Earth exist outside standard male/female parameters.
Peelz, you really do have a home!
:lol:
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^^^ Great news for Peels!
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when are we moving?
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packing my stuff right now!
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'In Japan, possessing child pornography is not a crime. '
This may come as little surprise to those familiar with some forms of manga as well as the more popular pornographic fetishes in Japan featuring schoolgirls. In fact, Japan is believed to be the only developed country in the world that does not criminalize the possession of child pornography. However, its production and distribution are against the law.
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My Buddy's Dad went to Vegas on Halloween once
he said "Everywhere you look.... one naughty school girl after another"
love the naughty schoolgirls
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'On average, each person in the U.S. receives about 34 gigabytes of information into his home each day.'
According to research out of the University of California at San Diego and published in The Economist, each U.S. household receives on average about 3.6 zetabytes of information each day (or 34 gigabytes per person), the huge majority of which is made up of video games and television. About half of those bytes are received interactively, according to the report.
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can you give me that measurement in jigowatts?
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jigawho? wait till i add a flux capacitor in my bathroom.
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'In Japan, possessing child pornography is not a crime. '
This may come as little surprise to those familiar with some forms of manga as well as the more popular pornographic fetishes in Japan featuring schoolgirls. In fact, Japan is believed to be the only developed country in the world that does not criminalize the possession of child pornography. However, its production and distribution are against the law.
this is why we no longer see Brian.
-moved to Japan :lol:
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that would be 1.21 jigawats
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ONE POINT TWENTY ONE JIGAWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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thank you. measurments have been noted. :lol:
now...to hit 88mph. :lol:
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Fact: Aaron and I are engaged!!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Fact: Aaron and I are engaged!!!! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Well!
I suppose congratulations are in order then!
Have you set a date for his last rites sorry I mean your wedding yet? :nod:
Or is this a big enough step for you both at this stage :clap: :clap: :clap:
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'On average, internet users have 17 different password-protected accounts.'
This statistic is derived from a poll of over 13,000 subscribers to Consumer Reports. These same respondents also reported that the No. 1 most common problem they face on the computer is forgetting a necessary password or PIN number. That said, a close second was getting "an incomprehensible computer error message."
I manage 15 passwords @ work (these are the ones that expire/require change every 45 days), 4 that expire yearly, and 6 that don't expire ever.
just @ work!!! cripes!
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Aaron said you stole the ring... he never gave it to ya!
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'On average, internet users have 17 different password-protected accounts.'
This statistic is derived from a poll of over 13,000 subscribers to Consumer Reports. These same respondents also reported that the No. 1 most common problem they face on the computer is forgetting a necessary password or PIN number. That said, a close second was getting "an incomprehensible computer error message."
I manage 15 passwords @ work (these are the ones that expire/require change every 45 days), 4 that expire yearly, and 6 that don't expire ever.
just @ work!!! cripes!
6 different printers, each with OS password and service password. Main server password, 6 spooling station passwords. Firewall password. 20 just for work :help:
let's not start with the interweb passwords :lol: :help:
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not to mention all the gay porn websites!
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Fact...
Hefe is Goatse
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Fact...
Aaron made me that way!
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Fact. Hefe liked it.
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'FDR borrowed the term "New Deal" from Mark Twain. '
President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal," which ran from 1933 through 1937 amounted to one of the largest socioeconomic programs in the history of the United States, if not the largest, all in an effort to get the U.S. out of the Great Depression. FDR took the term from the 1889 Mark Twain novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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Fact:
Randy Watched!
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fact..
I videotaped it.
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Fact...
you spank to that video nightly!
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Fact: Hefe did Krandall....niether one ever felt a thing
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like a hotdog in a hallway :(
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like a hotdog in a hallway :(
More like a cheeto through the pepsi center
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:no:
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:rofl:
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Fact:
Smileys DO add to our post count!
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'The term "Bermuda Triangle" was first coined in 1964. '
The dreaded Bermuda Triangle, which extends from the southern end of Florida to Puerto Rico to Bermuda and back to Florida, has been the subject of endless speculation regarding the mysterious disappearances of ships and planes. It was first mentioned in a 1950 AP article, but it wouldn't get the name it's best known by until a 1964 article in Argosy magazine by a writer named Vincent Gaddis.
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The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have mysteriously disappeared in a manner that cannot be explained by human error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters. Popular culture has attributed these disappearances to the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings
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I used to do a ton of reading on the bermuda triangle.. some of the stuff there is just plain freaky.
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I think a bunch of it is fabricated, just to make good stories
but still interesting to read
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there's reports of stuff happening even to a couple years ago,.
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Fact:
peels likes Seamen
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fact: Hefe is the posterboy for STD prevention
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I have clean parts dammit!
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I have clean parts dammit!
Coliflower....nuff said
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I have clean parts dammit!
Coliflower....nuff said
is that related to dogs?
or did you mean cauliflower?
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I have clean parts dammit!
Coliflower....nuff said
is that related to dogs?
or did you mean cauliflower?
I don't care how you spell it, in this reference...it's still nasty!!! :lol:
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:owned:
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I love cauliflower!
Cold, steamed, breaded... MMMM
'The most lethal part of a triathlon is in the water. '
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that examined 14 sudden deaths that took place between 2006 and 2008 during triathlons, 13 of them happened during the swimming leg. None occurred during the running leg, while one triathlete died in a bike accident. Officially, all deaths from swimming were listed as drownings, but several of those that died had "cardiovascular abnormalities" that contributed to their deaths.
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had some breaded cauliflower last night.. love that shit!
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I love cauliflower!
Remember the pictures/video in health/sex ed class and think about that statement. :puke:
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never took that class
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never took that class
No shit crabman!! :rofl:
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I love cauliflower!
Remember the pictures/video in health/sex ed class and think about that statement. :puke:
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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yea... sorry bout the crabs :(
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'One Wii game is responsible for almost half of all Wii-related injuries.'
According to a study published by researchers at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and Pharmacy (aka NEOUCOM), a full 46% of self-reported injuries occurring while playing the Wii console happened while playing Wii Sports Tennis.
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lol injured myself playing bowling once. And mariokart kills my eyes. :lol:
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we should all kart it up soon again :)
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we should all kart it up soon again :)
played last night. you missed it... We had to bail on aaron ...kids had to go to bed. :lol:
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I got the invite, but had to pass
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Yeah, Aaron text me, but I was on the road driving home. :(
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I was at the Casino
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aren't you just Mr. Cool now...
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I was in Canada,
but I'm hoping for a cure tomorrow
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wtf are you doin in canada......
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aren't you just Mr. Cool now...
yes I am!
I was at the casino, for the most uncool reason
the wife had a 2 day "Hair show" that she was attending
so I met her over there and took her to dinner, then stayed the night
although the place was crawling with hairdressers everywhere.. so that wasn't too bad
and I walked out ahead... just a bit.. but still won!
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'No evidence exists to support the idea that a person should drink 8 glasses of water each day.'
Despite widespread acceptance, and despite the fact that many health professionals give this advice to patients, there is no clinical evidence behind this advice. Recently, Discover Magazine postulated that this misinformation may derive from a 1945 report that urged people to drink "one millimeter of water for each calorie of food" they eat, but while this totaled about eight glasses of water, the report also mentioned that some of that water is already in the food people eat.
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I drink zero water... I really should start
Pepsi for this dude!
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I'm on just under 60oz today of water.
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I'm on just under 60oz today of water.
really?
save some for the whales. I really should drink more. I drink coffee in the morning, water afternoon. but nowhere near that. Am I going to die? :lol:
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:lol:
I broght my nalgene bottle into work. and have a huge straw. It's so easy to drink water when you don't even have to move really.
or invest in one of those beer hats and put 2 glasses of water up top.
when I first started drinkin tons of water. I had to pee like 100 times a day lol.
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I never have to whiz. Bad things happen in restrooms :lol:
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I never have to whiz. Bad things happen in restrooms :lol:
well.. gay marriage IS legal there now.... :help:
:lol:
So I understand the fear I guess.
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I never have to whiz. Bad things happen in restrooms :lol:
well.. gay marriage IS legal there now.... :help:
:lol:
So I understand the fear I guess.
yeah it's weird, I never go. Even when drinking beer. But when it is time....firehose baby! :lol:
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'The first successful removal of a brain tumor occurred in 1893.'
The tumor was removed from the cerebellum by New York surgeon Charles McBurney, who boasted a success rate of just under 50%. McBurney achieved this before the invention of the craniotome, which was a special saw surgeons used to cut through the skull, and decades before the arrival of Harvey Williams Cushing, whose successful techniques contributed to his legacy as the "Father of Neurosurgery."
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I drink water at Rallies, hydration keeps down the headaches
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I drink water at Rallies, hydration keeps down the headaches
welcome to yesterday old man. :kiss:
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welcome to.... mah britches tweaker!
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'The corpse of King Henry VIII exploded in his coffin prior to his funeral.'
The notorious British King, who reigned from 1509 to 1547,is remembered today for his break with the Catholic church, his multiple wives and their fates, and his morbid obesity. Yet not until later in his life did Henry VIII develop a severe weight problem; prior to that he'd been regarded as rather dashing. However, by the time of his death at 55 he was so obese he couldn't get out of his own bed, and legend has it that his bloated corpse exploded in his coffin shortly before he was laid to rest.
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'The corpse of King Henry VIII exploded in his coffin prior to his funeral.'
The notorious British King, who reigned from 1509 to 1547,is remembered today for his break with the Catholic church, his multiple wives and their fates, and his morbid obesity. Yet not until later in his life did Henry VIII develop a severe weight problem; prior to that he'd been regarded as rather dashing. However, by the time of his death at 55 he was so obese he couldn't get out of his own bed, and legend has it that his bloated corpse exploded in his coffin shortly before he was laid to rest.
He's my hero!!
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you aspire to be morbidly obese?
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maybe just the explosion part.
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Yes and Yes....us skinny fuggers gotta have goals too!
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as long as you have SOME goal
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'The Federal U.S. tax code now exceeds 71,000 pages. '
Prior to World War II, the federal tax code was a modest 500 or so pages long, but by the end of the war it had grown to over 8,000 pages. Since that time, the code has grown at a fairly consistent rate of a little more than 3% every year, reaching over 71,000 pages in 2010. And despite complaints that not a single person in the country fully understands it, the code's growth shows no signs of slowing down.
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especially now!
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'Scrabble was invented by an unemployed architect in 1938. '
Today owned by Mattel, Scrabble got its start in the 1930s when Poughkeepsie, New York, resident and unemployed architect Alfred Butts created a letter/word game called LEXIKO. He used the front page of The New York Times to determine values per letter, basing them on frequency analysis. Butts failed to interest game makers until he met entrepreneur James Brunot and together they made Scrabble -- a word, by the way, which means "to grope frantically." Today, the game has sold more than 100 million sets in 29 languages and spawned a host of copycats.
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'The Impac is the world's most lucrative literary award. '
The Impac literary award (officially the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award) pays the winner 100,000 Euros for a single work of fiction in English, making it the most lucrative singular literary award in existence. Novels are submitted by libraries around the world, and it was first awarded in 1996. Previous winners include Herta Muller, 2009's Nobel laureate in Literature.
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'The average length of an adulterous affair is two years.'
According to the infidelity statistics compiled at infidelityfacts.com, affairs last two years, slightly more than half of all American marriages end in divorce, and a surprising 17% of people polled admitted to some form of infidelity (physical or emotional) with a brother(peelz/shawn....) or sister-in-law.
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'The most money paid for a cell phone number is $2.75 million.'
According to the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records, a charity auction held in the Arab Emirate of Qatar in 2006 sold off the Qatari cell phone number 666-6666 to an anonymous bidder for a record 10 million QAR ($2.75 million USD).
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'Practicing yoga can get you out of prison early in some places. '
Specifically in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh: According to Sanjay Mane, that state's Inspector General of Prisons, yoga is reducing sentences for those willing to practice it. The logic behind the move is that yoga is not only good for fitness but it also has a way of reducing stress and allowing the prisoner to learn how to better control his behavior.
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'In current English libel law, the burden of proof is on the accused, not the accuser. '
Unlike libel laws in most of the world, English libel law gets it backward, placing the burden of proof on the accused. Cases on average cost over $2 million and can drag on for years. As a result, English courts have become a popular destination for international plaintiffs, who merely need to show that they have a reputation in England and that the libelous statement could have been heard or read by the English public.
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'The makers of the Q-Ray bracelet were convicted of fraud.'
The Q-Ray ionized bracelet had a decent run, allegedly selling well among professional athletes (notably golfers) around the year 2000. But when its maker, QT Incorporated, claimed actual therapeutic effects, the Mayo Clinic stepped in and proved conclusively that the bracelet was a piece of junk and no more beneficial than any other bracelet. The company was required to pay at least $16 million in refunds. Nonetheless, they still sell the bracelet online.
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Fact of the day....Krandall's slacking today :wtf:
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'Only two pieces of interrupted mail from the Pony Express are known to exist.'
By "interrupted mail," researchers mean mail that began the journey in a rider's pouch but failed to reach its destination. At least one rider was killed by Indians, and not every pouch reached its destination because the terrain was hostile, but of all the mail that disappeared, only two pieces are extant, including one envelope that has a stamp from "The Central Overland California & Pikes Peak Express Company," which ran the Pony Express and ultimately went under in 1861 because it lost a federal government contract to the stagecoach.
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'Only the data from about one-fifth of all clinical trial research actually reaches publication. '
By cross-checking trials listed at ClinicalTrials.gov against findings published at PubMed, researchers determined that less than one in five clinical trial studies reach publication, not because they've been rejected, but because they have never been submitted. Often, whether or not data is published has more to do with who conducted the trial than anything else: The lowest publication rate belongs to industry (drug companies, etc.), which publishes less than 6% of its trial data, while studies performed by clinical-trial networks reached publication almost 60% of the time.
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'The world's first national park was established in 1872. '
President Grant's signature created Yellowstone National Park in March of 1872, making it the first such park in the world. Features include Old Faithful Geyser and the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest supervolcano in North America. While Yellowstone might have been first, it covers just 3,472 square miles -- a fraction of the size of the massive Northeast Greenland National Park in Greenland, which covers over 375,000 square miles.
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'The same man who invented the lie detector also invented a famous comic book heroine. '
In 1915, William Marston, a Harvard grad student, invented a machine that measured one's blood pressure along a graph that corresponded to the person being asked certain questions. Thus, Marston became known as the father of the polygraph. However, according to History Channel Magazine, Marston also believed men were destined to destroy civilization and that women needed to assume power. To support this idea, in 1941 his other invention debuted in D.C. Comics: Wonder Woman.
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'The odds of seeing a perfect baseball game are lower than the odds you'll meet a man named Mary. '
Though on Sunday Dallas Braden became the 19th man in baseball history to pitch a perfect game, the odds of seeing another one are so low (1 in 11,500) that you really are more likely to bump into a man named "Mary." (1 in 11,100).
This fact comes to you courtesy of Book Of Odds -- a compendium of strange and funny daily probabilities.
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'The longest Game 7 in NHL history lasted halfway into the fourth overtime. '
The NHL's longest-ever series-clinching Game 7 occurred in 1987, in a quarterfinal showdown between the Washington Capitals and New York Islanders. The score sat tied at 2-2 until the 8:47 mark of the fourth overtime period, when Islanders star Pat Lafontaine scored to put an end to the game. Islanders goalie Kelly Hrudey finished the marathon game with an astonishing 73 saves.
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'The fastest hat trick in NHL playoff history required just 3 minutes and 24 seconds.'
Longtime Philadelphia Flyers forward Tim Kerr holds the NHL playoff record for the fastest three goals scored in a single game, scoring a hat trick in just 3:24 during the 1985 playoffs.
Astonishingly, the record for the fastest three goals in a regular season game belongs to Chicago Blackhawks forward Bill Mosienko, who in 1952 scored a hat trick in a simply incredible 21 seconds against the New York Rangers.
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'The Seven Deadly Sins began as the Eight Evil Thoughts. '
Contrary to popular assumption, the "Seven Deadly Sins" did not originate in the Christian Bible; they don't even appear in the Bible. Rather, they were hatched by a 4th century Greek monk and initially they were eight and included vainglory, sadness and fornication. Over the next several centuries, both popes and poets reshaped the sins that are said to earn the sinner eternal damnation into wrath, greed, lust, envy, sloth, gluttony, and pride.
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I gottsa gets me sum of thet fornication stuff
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<--- this guy likes tha fornication with tha ladiez
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I gottsa gets me sum of thet fornication stuff
where do you buy that at?
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'About 1 in every 100,000 U.S. men will develop penile cancer. '
At significantly higher risk are uncircumcised men, although science can't say why. In the early stages, penile cancer can be treated and even cured with surgery and/or chemotherapy, but partial amputation becomes a viable solution in the upper stages. Stage IV penile cancer is considered terminal.
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any penile cancer is terminal! :funyun:
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'Over 40% of unplanned pregnancies in the U.S. result from incorrect use of contraception. '
Every year in the United States there are an estimated 6.1 million pregnancies, with roughly half that number being unplanned. As a consequence, 1.3 million end as abortions and another 800,000 end as miscarriages, leaving about a million unplanned and unintended births each year. A mere 5% of these unplanned pregnancies occurred even when the couple used contraception properly and it failed. Among unplanned pregnancies, 43% didn't use contraception correctly and the rest, 52%, didn't use any. In other words, 95% of unplanned pregnancies are preventable.
See aaron for example...
No Aaron, That's not for balloon animals. :rofl:
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Lydia like's how my giraffe tickles ;)
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so what you are saying...is potentially 95% of us are mistakes? :bird: :lol:
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so what you are saying...is potentially 95% of us are mistakes? :bird: :lol:
Not only that, your the poster child for "Never shake a baby" :tweakz:
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'The first movie theater in America opened its doors in 1902.'
Tally's Electric Theater is widely considered to be the first "dedicated movie house" ever built, and it went up in 1902 in -- where else -- Los Angeles. It consisted of a sheet hanging down in front of several rows of benches. The opulent theaters of the 1920s and 1930s didn't really come along until Harlem's Regent Theater opened in 1913.
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'We don't "see stars" after a hit to the head - we see neurons firing spontaneously.'
When we "see stars" after getting hit in the head or even after standing up too quickly, what we're actually seeing are neurons in the brain's visual cortex that have undergone a drastic change in their levels of oxygen. The head's movement forces blood in and out of tiny capillaries, and the neurons closest to those blood vessels will fire off before other neurons. Our brain's visual cortex can't make much sense of these independent and isolated signals except to interpret them as forms of light.
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The English invented football (soccer in America) when kicking around the heads of slaughtered Danish invaders.
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GOAL!!!! :lol:
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stupid Dane's anyway!
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'The United Arab Emirates has the highest percentage of immigrants of any country. '
Evidence that we are fast approaching one world: Almost 20 cities across the globe have at least a million foreign-born residents. Slightly less than half of those are in the United States, which, as a country, has a foreign-born population of about 12% -- significantly lower than the UAE, where over 71% of the population was born elsewhere.
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'A website for adulterers reports a 10-fold increase in sign-ups following Mother's Day.'
Likely the most famous (or infamous) adulterer web site, AshleyMadison.com reports that on an average Monday, about 2,500 women join their website, but that on the Monday following Mother's Day, that number goes up by a factor of 10. The site's owners say that this increase probably has nothing to do with mom having a bad Mother's Day -- rather, they argue that mom has probably been unhappy for a long time.
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'A website for adulterers reports a 10-fold increase in sign-ups following Mother's Day.'
Likely the most famous (or infamous) adulterer web site, AshleyMadison.com reports that on an average Monday, about 2,500 women join their website, but that on the Monday following Mother's Day, that number goes up by a factor of 10. The site's owners say that this increase probably has nothing to do with mom having a bad Mother's Day -- rather, they argue that mom has probably been unhappy for a long time.
Sounds like a good time to go trawling then??? :rolleyes:
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"Black Sunday" refers to the worst Depression-era dust storm on record. '
"Black Sunday" hit the Great Plains in April of 1935: Thanks to a lengthy drought and excessive over-plowing of the land, an estimated 300,000 tons of dry topsoil became a crippling dust storm so massive that it forced the relocation of hundreds of thousands of people and even gave the Great Plains the name by which it became known: the Dust Bowl.
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"Black Sunday" refers to the worst Depression-era dust storm on record. '
"Black Sunday" hit the Great Plains in April of 1935: Thanks to a lengthy drought and excessive over-plowing of the land, an estimated 300,000 tons of dry topsoil became a crippling dust storm so massive that it forced the relocation of hundreds of thousands of people and even gave the Great Plains the name by which it became known: the Dust Bowl.
That is where OKIES got their name. Farmers from Oklahoma who came in droves to California. Became synonomous with country type people. If you go to Oklahoma, you can kinda see how this happened. No trees, and the ones that are there are wind sand and dust bleached. The ground and plants are dry.
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'The results of history's first clinical trial were entirely useful and completely ignored.'
Clinical trials today are a multibillion-dollar business, and history traces them back to a Scottish doctor named James Lind. In 1747, Lind believed that the scurvy that was killing sailors had a dietary cause, so he put six sets of sailors on six different diets. The pair receiving oranges and lemons (vitamin C) fully recovered, but Lind's findings were ignored by the British Admiralty for almost six decades.
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'The record for most goals in a World Cup match is 5.'
During the 1994 World Cup held in the United States, Russia's Oleg Salenko poured in a record 5 goals in a match against Cameroon. Salenko was awarded the Golden Boot that year, scoring 6 total goals, even though Russia was eliminated from competition early. Altogether, the Russian striker played just 9 World Cup matches in his career (one of them for Ukraine), and those were the only goals he ever scored.
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'The record for most goals in a World Cup match is 5.'
During the 1994 World Cup held in the United States, Russia's Oleg Salenko poured in a record 5 goals in a match against Cameroon. Salenko was awarded the Golden Boot that year, scoring 6 total goals, even though Russia was eliminated from competition early. Altogether, the Russian striker played just 9 World Cup matches in his career (one of them for Ukraine), and those were the only goals he ever scored.
2 weeks away!!!!!! Watched Engalnd dismantle Mexico... Gonna be a tough one for the US this year.
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:yawn:
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'The record for most goals in a World Cup match is 5.'
During the 1994 World Cup held in the United States, Russia's Oleg Salenko poured in a record 5 goals in a match against Cameroon. Salenko was awarded the Golden Boot that year, scoring 6 total goals, even though Russia was eliminated from competition early. Altogether, the Russian striker played just 9 World Cup matches in his career (one of them for Ukraine), and those were the only goals he ever scored.
2 weeks away!!!!!! Watched Engalnd dismantle Mexico... Gonna be a tough one for the US this year.
everybody is moping the floor with mexico........... :(
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'In 2009, Americans spent over $4.6 billion on music.
Contrary to incessant complaints from the music industry that it is going broke, worldwide sales of recorded music topped $17 billion in 2009, with $4.6 billion of that spent by Americans. Granted, that figure is down 7.2% from 2008, but two-fifths of the money spent by Americans was on digital music files, and those sales were up 10% from 2008 worldwide.
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'The record for most goals in a World Cup match is 5.'
During the 1994 World Cup held in the United States, Russia's Oleg Salenko poured in a record 5 goals in a match against Cameroon. Salenko was awarded the Golden Boot that year, scoring 6 total goals, even though Russia was eliminated from competition early. Altogether, the Russian striker played just 9 World Cup matches in his career (one of them for Ukraine), and those were the only goals he ever scored.
2 weeks away!!!!!! Watched Engalnd dismantle Mexico... Gonna be a tough one for the US this year.
everybody is moping the floor with mexico........... :(
mexico can usually get the better of us though....
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'No novel has been the object of more challenges to have it banned from libraries than The Great Gatsby. '
According to the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, almost half of the Radcliffe Publishing Course's Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been the subject of challenges, but none have as often as F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 classic. But it may be getting a run for its money in the 21st century from the oft-challenged Harry Potter series by JK Rowling.
'The Texas panhandle is home to the only facility in the U.S. authorized to disassemble nuclear weapons. '
The Pantex plant near Amarillo was established during World War II as a bomb construction facility. While it still stands guard over the nuclear stockpile, it is also the only facility authorized by the U.S. government to dismantle and destroy nukes. Scientists from the National Nuclear Security Administration will examine a warhead and determine how it should be disassembled, then ship it off to Pantex.
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There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world. '
The estimated 400 million dogs in the world is fairly equivalent to the combined populations of the United States and Mexico. On average, the noses of dogs contain 40 times as many olfactory receptors as humans, and they can hear frequencies reaching 45,000 Hz, more than twice as high as humans.
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'The first player to record a World Cup hat trick was an American. '
Bert Patenaude, a member of the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame, scored the first hat trick in World Cup history in a match against Paraguay at the inaugural World Cup in 1930 in a U.S. win, 3-0. The achievement was in dispute for decades, in part because Argentina's Guillermo Stabile scored a hat trick two days later. However, FIFA officially confirmed Patenaude's hat trick in November of 2006.
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'The first player to record a World Cup hat trick was an American. '
Bert Patenaude, a member of the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame, scored the first hat trick in World Cup history in a match against Paraguay at the inaugural World Cup in 1930 in a U.S. win, 3-0. The achievement was in dispute for decades, in part because Argentina's Guillermo Stabile scored a hat trick two days later. However, FIFA officially confirmed Patenaude's hat trick in November of 2006.
:woot:
One more week!!! England is going down....
the path to victory over the USA. :lol:
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/heroin_for_dummies_oLIfe1Gxl7RMk9iJZiWlnL
:peels:
Then.... :wtf: is going on in that city?
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'At least one online bookmaker is offering odds that the Large Hadron Collider will discover GERD.'
Paddy Power, a large and popular online bookmaker, is offering odds on what CERN's Large Hadron Collider will discover in the year 2010. Assuming CERN confirms the discovery "without questionable doubt," they offer 11-10 odds of finding Dark Matter, 12-1 odds of finding Dark Energy, and 100-1 odds of discovering GERD.
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'The costliest event of 2009 was named Klaus. '
In January of 2009, the hard rains and flooding caused by winter storm Klaus in France and Spain killed 25 people and cost insurers over $3.3 billion, making it the costliest event, in economic terms, of 2009, according to insurance firm Swiss Re and published in The Economist.
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'In 2000, pharmaceutical companies spent $15.7 billion on drug promotion.'
That staggering figure is a direct result of these decisions by the Federal Trade Commission to relax the restrictions on how drug companies could promote their products: The 1985 decision to permit print ads and the 1997 decision to permit TV and radio spots. Of that $15.7 billion, $2.5 billion was spent on direct-to-consumer marketing.
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'Thirdhand smoke may be more dangerous than secondhand smoke.'
What is thirdhand smoke? According to a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, thirdhand smoke comes from surfaces that absorb some of the chemicals in a room where people smoke. When they react with a common chemical known as nitrous acid vapor and are inhaled, ingested or absorbed through the skin, they become likely carcinogenic to humans.
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'The four suit designations in a deck of cards is an invention of the French.'
The suit designations we're all so familiar with are a French contribution (which they adapted from earlier Italian designs), according to Cecil Adams and The Straight Dope. Each suit points to a "principal division of medieval society": The clergy (Hearts); the peasantry (Clubs); the merchants (Diamonds); and the nobility (Spades). This last one was actually the sword for the French, but English speakers borrowed the Spanish equivalent, espada.
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No wonder someone always has to surrender at a card game :lol:
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'Band-Aids owe some of their success to the Boy Scouts.'
When first launched by Johnson & Johnson in 1920, Band-Aids were a commercial flop for the company, possibly because of the awkward packaging that required the user to cut a usable Band-Aid from a single large roll. The product only became a hit after the company began giving free Band-Aids to a group that found plenty of use for them: Boy Scout troops.
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'In the 1700s, people worried that youths were corrupted by a new trend: the sofa.'
As noted in The Economist, the newest fad or latest technology will inevitably instill in the older generation the belief that it will corrupt and corrode the minds of youth. Such was the case with the sofa in the early 18th century (the fear was that it would lead young people to "drift off into fantasy worlds"), just as movies, comic books and video games occupied the anxiety of adults in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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'Jimi Hendrix was discharged from the military for masturbating while on detail.'
In May of 1962, a discharge request was sent to the commanding officer of the famed 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, requesting that the future rock guitar pioneer be discharged, even though he had only served one of his three years. The reason given? "Behavior problems, little regard for regulations" and for having gotten caught masturbating when he was supposed to be on detail. He released his classic debut LP, Are You Experienced, five years later.
And how was Aaron never? ???
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You can't get discharged for discharging your pistol in another serviceman....in the US military anyways...
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'The first Google doodle referred to an annual festival in Nevada.'
The Google doodle is another term for Google's logo when it is changed in any manner to reflect a holiday, commemoration, famous birthday, festival, or any suitable commemoration. Users can hover their cursor over the image and learn about why Google has chosen this doodle, and by clicking on it, a search will load. All told, Google has employed over 700 doodles since the first one appeared in 1998 to commemorate the artistic festival known as Burning Man.
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'The largest university in the world boasts three million students.'
Established only recently (1985), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) boasts three million students worldwide, with two million of them based domestically in India and the rest spread across another 35 countries. The school has 175 academic programs and a network of 59 regional centers in India and 52 such centers abroad. It is far and away the largest university in the world by enrollment, with Allama Iqbal Open University in Pakistan's 1.8 million students a distant second.
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'According to the Demi & Ashton Foundation, the average starting age for a female prostitute is 13.'
The Demi & Ashton Foundation (DNA) was founded by the celebrity couple in an effort to raise awareness about child sex slavery worldwide. DNA claims that the sex slavery market generates $32 billion in annual profits and has become an important source of revenue for organized crime since girls can generate as much as $200,000 per year for their pimps.
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13? Here in Florida they start training in Kindergarten...
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'A seminal moment in the history of the internet took place at the zoo.'
In April of 2005, the first video was uploaded to YouTube -- a 19-second clip entitled "Me at the Zoo." The clip features YouTube cofounder (and onetime PayPal employee) Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo discussing how cool it is that the elephants behind him have "really, really, really long trunks."
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A seminal what?
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'The "Miracle on Grass" refers to USA Soccer's greatest upset.'
In the first round at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, Team USA beat England 1-0 on the strength of a goal in the 37th minute by Joe Gaetjens. While the U.S. squeaked into the World Cup that year, England had been picked by many to win it all, making the game a tremendous upset. Both teams would ultimately exit in the first round, and Team USA would not appear in another World Cup until Italia 1990, where they lost three games straight to Czechoslovakia, Italy and Austria.
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'A common internet symbol traces its heritage back to medieval times.'
The symbol, a fist with the index finger extended, is known as a manicule, and for hundreds of years between the 12th and 18th centuries, it was common to draw this symbol in the margins of a book or manuscript to call attention to specific points or parts of the text. Today, the manicule sometimes appears when one's computer cursor hovers over a hyperlink.
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'Only one film was made according to the technology of Smell-o-Vision.'
In 1960, an enterprising inventor named Mike Todd, Jr. developed a system called Smell-o-Vision to run along with a film reel. The reel would emit certain scents or odors at appropriate times during a movie and give moviegoers an olfactory experience along with a visual one. The 1960 movie Scent of Mystery (costarring Peter Lorre) was written for the invention and included smells of wine and peaches. Unfortunately, audiences weren't much into the New York City premiere, and the innovation flopped.
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
smelo-vision porn FTW :woot:
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
smelo-vision gay porn FTW :woot:
:wtf:
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
smelo-vision gay porn FTW :woot:
I have the season one collection...........
;)
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
smelo-vision gay porn FTW :woot:
I have the season one collection...........
I have the whole series and all the specials too ;)
:wtf: :no:
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
smelo-vision gay porn FTW :woot:
I have the season one collection...........
I have the whole series and all the specials too ;)
You guys think that's good. I have the limited edition set w/ the free cocknballs
Uhhhh cool pat.....
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
smelo-vision gay porn FTW :woot:
I have the season one collection...........
I have the whole series and all the specials too ;)
You guys think that's good. I have the limited edition set w/ the free cocknballs
Can I borrow the cocknballs?
:lol:
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:nod: Now excuse me...:lol:
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
smelo-vision gay porn FTW :woot:
I have the season one collection...........
I have the whole series and all the specials too ;)
You guys think that's good. I have the limited edition set w/ the free cocknballs
Can I borrow the cocknballs?
No, I keystered them and they are forever lost.
dang :(
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
smelo-vision gay porn FTW :woot:
I have the season one collection...........
I have the whole series and all the specials too ;)
You guys think that's good. I have the limited edition set w/ the free cocknballs
Can I borrow the cocknballs?
No, I keystered them and they are forever lost.
That happened to you too? :(
I lose the best toys that way.
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
smelo-vision gay porn FTW :woot:
I have the season one collection...........
I have the whole series and all the specials too ;)
You guys think that's good. I have the limited edition set w/ the free cocknballs
Can I borrow the cocknballs?
No, I keystered them and they are forever lost.
That happened to you too? :(
I lose the best boys that way.
WTF!!!
(fixed your quote above... :thumbs: )
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That explains more than one bad movie out there :confused:
smelo-vision gay porn FTW :woot:
I have the season one collection...........
I have the whole series and all the specials too ;)
You guys think that's good. I have the limited edition set w/ the free cocknballs
Can I borrow the cocknballs?
No, I keystered them and they are forever lost.
That happened to you too? :(
I lose the best boys that way.
you'll never lose me, I always find my way out.
ok :kiss:
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epic!
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'The youngest player ever to appear in a World Cup match was barely 17 years old.'
At the World Cup 1982 in Spain, Norman Whiteside was just 17 years and 41 days old when he started in five matches for Northern Ireland, breaking the record previously set in 1958 by Brazilian legend Pele by some 200 days. However, Pele still holds the records, set in 1958, for being the youngest to appear in a World Cup final and the youngest to record a hat trick (against France in a semifinal match).
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'Around 95% of U.S. adults between the ages of 35-40 are infected with the virus that causes mono.'
Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), a human herpes virus that is believed to remain dormant in the human body for life once contracted, is most closely associated with infectious mononucleosis. However, it has also been linked to a number of cancers, including the highly aggressive Burkitt's non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The CDC estimates that infection patterns are highest among adults 35-40 years old and lower among kids and young adults.
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Fact of my day...Stock clutches don't last long under stroker builds. :mad:
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'The 2006 World Cup in Germany set the record for the number of yellow and red cards issued.'
The 2006 World Cup was the first Cup staged in a reunified Germany and proved a huge success. The referees in the tournament set a new record by issuing 326 yellow cards and 28 red cards, including 14 yellows and 4 reds in one match alone (Portugal vs. Netherlands). An estimated audience of 715 million people worldwide watched the final, where the most infamously earned red card was issued to head-butting French midfielder Zinedine Zidane during extra time against Italy.
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'Contrary to popular perception, expressing anger isn't necessarily healthier for you.'
We're often encouraged to "take out our aggressions" or to "get things off our chest" as a means of lowering stress and being healthier, both mentally and physically. But according to Scott Lilienfeld, one of the authors of 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology, expressing pent-up anger only amplifies the feeling of aggression, making us angrier. The only way it can be regarded as healthy is if it is followed by constructive communication that addresses the initial cause of anger.
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'Although fewer than 3,000 attended the Hungary/Wales World Cup match in 1958, FIFA insists that 20,000 were there.'
The discrepancy between the two figures arises as a consequence of the Cold War. At the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, spectators actively boycotted a playoff match between Hungary and Wales to show their support for Imre Nagy, Hungary's former Prime Minister, who had been executed the previous day in the wake of the 1956 invasion of Hungary by the Soviet Union. Actual attendance totaled just over 2,800, but FIFA still claims the number is 20,000.
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'In 1989, an IBM engineer became the first person to ever control the movements of a single atom.'
In 1989, IBM engineer Don Eigler had the privilege of selectively moving the smallest unit of mass in history when, using an atomic force microscope, Eigler moved and manipulated a single individual atom. Since then, the accomplishment has been outshined, specifically by Princeton and University of California researchers who did the same with single electrons.
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'One in seven U.S. marriages is interracial.'
This figure (equivalent to 14.6 percent) comes from the Pew Research Center, where a senior demographer told CNN that it was the highest percentage of interracial or interethnic marriages they had ever encountered. Furthermore, the number has been climbing since 1980, when the figure was less than half what it is today (6.8 percent). Researchers say it's more common -- and more accepted -- among 18-29 year-olds.
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'Excluding the Great Lakes, the United States has over 88,000 miles of coastline.'
Determining coastline measurements comes down to the scale that is used. In large scale nautical charts, what is referred to as general coastline data for the 50 U.S. states amounts to only 12,383 miles of coastline, but when smaller scale charts are used, the measurement reaches over 29,000 miles. However, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) uses very precise charts in administering the Coastal Zone Management program, and those charts indicate that including islands, inlets, etc., the U.S. coastline amounts to 88,612 miles.
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'History's first recorded war took place over 4,700 years ago.'
Since writing was only invented 5,000 years ago, it makes sense that the first recorded war would follow closely, and in 2,700 BC, it did, when Sumer fought Elam near Basra in the Middle East. Today, Sumer can be found in Iraq, Elam in Iran, and the region near Basra in the same area where Iraq and Iran fought their bloody eight-year war beginning in 1980.
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verry interesting....................NOT!
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that wasn't even interesting enough to make me sick :lol:
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'The best-selling patented drug of all time was first known as atorvastatin.'
In 1985, chemist Bruce Roth first synthesized atorvastatin for a company that would eventually become known as Pfizer, and shortly thereafter, the drug, which helps lower cholesterol and prevent strokes, was named Lipitor. Although one of a number of so-called "statins" on the market, Lipitor has distinguished itself from the rest, annually earning Pfizer over $10 billion in sales to become the best-selling patented drug in history. Pfizer's cash cow is about to go dry, as they lose patent protection on it in 2011.
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'The best-selling patented drug of all time was first known as atorvastatin.'
In 1985, chemist Bruce Roth first synthesized atorvastatin for a company that would eventually become known as Pfizer, and shortly thereafter, the drug, which helps lower cholesterol and prevent strokes, was named Lipitor. Although one of a number of so-called "statins" on the market, Lipitor has distinguished itself from the rest, annually earning Pfizer over $10 billion in sales to become the best-selling patented drug in history. Pfizer's cash cow is about to go dry, as they lose patent protection on it in 2011.
"cash cow" huh? :confused:
Hey peels can you make Lipitor? :thumbs:
we'll take a chunck of that $10 billion.
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'The best-selling patented drug of all time was first known as atorvastatin.'
In 1985, chemist Bruce Roth first synthesized atorvastatin for a company that would eventually become known as Pfizer, and shortly thereafter, the drug, which helps lower cholesterol and prevent strokes, was named Lipitor. Although one of a number of so-called "statins" on the market, Lipitor has distinguished itself from the rest, annually earning Pfizer over $10 billion in sales to become the best-selling patented drug in history. Pfizer's cash cow is about to go dry, as they lose patent protection on it in 2011.
"cash cow" huh? :confused:
Hey peels can you make Lipitor? :thumbs:
we'll take a chunck of that $10 billion.
sure...is it made with real lips?
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'Donald Trump was once pranked into cashing a check for 13 cents.'
The prank, put together by Spy magazine in 1989, was to create a fake company and send checks in extremely small amounts to some of the richest and most famous people around to see who was frugal enough to actually cash them. They began by sending checks in the amount of $1.11, and about half the recipients cashed them. They then sent checks in smaller and smaller denominations, until the checks were worth just 13 cents. Donald Trump and international arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi were the only two to cash that check.
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a fact for peelio.
'The most successful product ever to be marketed in the U.S. turns 50 years old in 2010.'
Recently, Fortune magazine declared that in terms of return on investment (ROI), no product marketed in the U.S. had been more successful than the Xerox 914 photocopier, introduced in 1959 but only made available commercially in 1960. The 914, which weighed 650 lbs., had an astonishing 17-year production run, and technology writer Edward Tenner credits the 914 with making "lasting changes" that led to the digital era, helping to kick-start the modern age of information.
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'The "most mysterious manuscript in the world" has been verified as genuine.'
The Voynick Manuscript is well-known in cryptography as an old, illustrated, and completely indecipherable text seemingly about mysticism or the natural sciences. Acquired by book dealer Wilfrid Voynich in 1912 from a Jesuit university, the manuscript's bizarre features, and the fact that it has confounded every attempt at translation, led to speculation that it might be a hoax (possibly fabricated by Voynich himself). In 2009, though, carbon dating confirmed that the book was in fact made between 1404 and 1438.
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well i now feel dumber for reading this shit.... this useless info has just pushed out use full memory space in my brain. thankyou for making me even dumber than peels.
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well i now feel dumber for reading this shit.... this useless info has just pushed out use full memory space in my brain. thankyou for making me even dumber than peels.
It's RaptorSource....you expected more?
:lol:
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Absorbing information here is pointless...just pull a Funyun and let it all go right through you.
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'Cosmonauts bring both vodka and guns into space.'
NASA doesn't exactly look favorably on mixing astronauts and alcohol, and U.S. spacecraft have never carried firearms. The Russian space program does not operate this way. Off-course landings in desolate wolf-filled tundra taught the Soviets to always bring a weapon (in this case, a unique three-barrel firearm with a removable stock, one that contains a machete). As for the vodka, evidently the cosmonauts just like to bring vodka.
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'India Pale Ales (IPAs) were developed to get beer to desperate British soldiers.'
By the mid-18th century, the British East India Company had gained a foothold in the Indian subcontinent, but the going was tough; their "divide and rule" strategy was brutal, insurrection ensued and beer always arrived tasting terrible. Hoppier and more alcoholic than its counterparts, IPA was designed by London's Bow Brewery to survive the half-year sea voyage to India while remaining drinkable.
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'There are 62 Lego bricks for every person on the planet.'
Ole Kirk Christiansen, the 13th son of a poor family in Denmark, lost his job and took to making miniature toys in 1932. He started with wood, but his company moved on to producing its recognizable Lego bricks in 1949. Today Lego creates roughly 600 pieces per second, and has produced roughly 400 billion throughout its history.
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'There are 62 Lego bricks for every person on the planet.'
Ole Kirk Christiansen, the 13th son of a poor family in Denmark, lost his job and took to making miniature toys in 1932. He started with wood, but his company moved on to producing its recognizable Lego bricks in 1949. Today Lego creates roughly 600 pieces per second, and has produced roughly 400 billion throughout its history.
My kids have at least 1 million of them :) Legos still rule as far as kid toys go.
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my brother and I still have all of our legos. Easily one of the best toys we ever got. between that and nerf guns. :)
We had quite a few nerf guns, my parents would run around in the house w/ us. We'd have nerf wars. it was so much fun :)
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nerf wars rule! :lol:
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No doubt. I miss that kind of stuff. Growing up/Old sucks :(
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No doubt. I miss that kind of stuff. Growing up/Old sucks :(
meh, you and the Mrs. will have brats someday, then you can relive your childhood through them..
IE: buying them your old favorite video games etc.... :lol:
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No doubt. I miss that kind of stuff. Growing up/Old sucks :(
me, you and the Mrs. will have brats someday, then you can relive your childhood through them..
IE: buying them your old favorite video games etc.... :lol:
just took one letter out and it all makes sense now. :rofl:
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Lol mags
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:lol:
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'The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the deepest image ever assembled by humanity.'
The image, a million-second-long exposure taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, displays about 10,000 galaxies (some of them among the first galaxies to follow from the Big Bang) and looks back about 13 billion years. Despite all that, the image covers only 11 square arcminutes -- about the size of a lowercase letter O in this sentence, and one thirteen-millionth of the entire sky.
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Fact of the Day, it is possible to rickroll a drunk Randy and a sober Shawna :rofl:
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'Teddy Roosevelt was the first to call the American seat of government "The White House."'
One of the myths surrounding the building was that its white paint was meant to cover the burn marks on the structure following the Burning of Washington in 1814. After the War of 1812, the White House was colloquially referred to by that name from time to time, but its official title was simply "The Executive Mansion" until Roosevelt began putting "White House -- Washington" on official stationery in 1901.
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Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
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someone say swastika?
:krandall:
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Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.
Krandall
I have a kids' cereal idea....
Frosted Swastikas
Fuhrer Flakes :lol:
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ERMAHGERD!!!!!
Fuhrer Flakes!!! :rofl:
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'The most prolific inventor in history is a Japanese researcher named Shunpei Yamazaki.'
Yamazaki, a 65-year-old who owns the Semiconductor Energy Laboratory in Japan, works in computer science and owns, at last count, nearly 2,400 patents (although that's a highly variable figure). His first patent was for a computer chip in 1980, meaning that Yamazaki has averaged more than a patent per week for 30 years.
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'An Asian giant hornet can kill a human being.'
The Asian giant hornet, whose lethality is evident in its nickname "the yak-killer hornet," is two inches long with a three-inch wingspan. The hornet mostly preys on other insects, and its venom is not actually as toxic per volume as honeybee venom-the hornet is simply so large that it delivers far more venom per sting. Even those not allergic to the venom can die following a substantial-enough sting, and more people in Japan are killed per year by giant hornets than by poisonous snakes.
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'An Asian giant hornet can kill a human being.'
The Asian giant hornet, whose lethality is evident in its nickname "the yak-killer hornet," is two inches long with a three-inch wingspan. The hornet mostly preys on other insects, and its venom is not actually as toxic per volume as honeybee venom-the hornet is simply so large that it delivers far more venom per sting. Even those not allergic to the venom can die following a substantial-enough sting, and more people in Japan are killed per year by giant hornets than by poisonous snakes.
ERMAHGERD f**k that... I hate hornets. Got stung by one last weekend. :mad:
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When I went to the outdoor concert a couple weekends ago. bee hit my mirror, and bounced inside. landed on my arm and stung me.. beestard!!!
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If a bee gave it's life to harm you...........That bee should be honored
July 11th...Happy Beesday :lol:
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If a bee gave it's life to harm you...........That bee should be honored
July 11th...Happy Beesday :lol:
Holy hell.... :rofl: Indeed brave soldier, way to take one for the team. :thumbs: + 1 karma for the bee.
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you guys are f*ckers!! :lol:
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I doubt that bee will be the last to put a little prick in you :homo:
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Fact : Per Aaron.. KFC>Life.
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'The U.S. Army Rangers are named after the Spencer Tracy film Northwest Passage.'
As guides and scouts, rangers date back in American military history as early as the 17th century, but in an official capacity they owe their existence to a British Brigadier named Dudley Clarke. Clarke had founded the British Commandos in 1940 and suggested that American Colonel William Donovan consider forming a similar elite force; as it happens, Donovan had just seen Northwest Passage, set during the French and Indian War, and recommended "rangers" as a fitting name.
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'Russia allegedly maintains a vast, secretive underground complex.'
Since the mid-'90s, some sources have alleged that Russia is building (or has completed) a huge military complex popularly dubbed the Yamantau Complex. The structure, under Yamantau Mountain in the Urals, was started by Leonid Brezhnev, and its function is something of a mystery. When asked, Russian officials have variously described the project as a bunker, a mining site, a nuclear dump, or a storage area; others have simply declined to comment.
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Some baboons use birth control.'
Female baboons in the Nigerian rainforest appear to make seasonal use of the African black plum in order to increase progesterone levels, which both halts their reproductive cycles and keeps male baboons from displaying interest. Some biologists argue that this is unintentional behavior, and that the baboons are merely self-medicating (with contraception as a side-effect). If not, this would be the first recorded deliberate exhibition of animal contraception.
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Some baboons use birth control.'
Female baboons in the Nigerian rainforest appear to make seasonal use of the African black plum in order to increase progesterone levels, which both halts their reproductive cycles and keeps male baboons from displaying interest. Some biologists argue that this is unintentional behavior, and that the baboons are merely self-medicating (with contraception as a side-effect). If not, this would be the first recorded deliberate exhibition of animal contraception.
If a baboon showed sexual interest in you, wouldn't you take every measure to halt it? :rofl:
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'Around 1% of the population qualifies as "highly psychotic.'
Robert Hare, a criminal psychology researcher and professor of psychopathology, notes that many of the defining characteristics of psychopaths -- charisma, manipulation, impulsiveness, grandiosity -- actually make some psychopaths better-suited to some careers, e.g. high-powered corporate environments. In a talk in Newfoundland, Hare displayed the WorldCom and Enron CEOs alongside images of more "typical" (violent) psychopaths, making the point that in such positions, lack of empathy is often seen as an asset.
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Fact of the moment...I'm very dirty, very tired, and a little horny....
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'Smarter children are more likely to develop alcoholism as adults.'
Researchers at the University of Glasgow studied intelligence assessments of over 8,000 subjects (taken when they were 10 years old) and compared those scores with the drinking behaviors they'd developed by the age of 30. For every 15-point increase in IQ, the likelihood of adult drinking problems increased 1.38 times for women and 1.17 times for men.
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Fact of the moment...I'm very dirty, very tired, and a little horny....
(http://www.whosyourchampion.com/img/champion/-349.jpg)
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I thought I erased all traces of that picture :mad:
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:rofl:
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'32% of Americans believe in ghosts.'
Oddly, the propensity to believe in ghosts is not the same as the likelihood of believing in haunted houses (in the same poll, 37% of Americans responded that they believed in haunted houses). Both beliefs decrease with age (more than half of 18- to 29-year-olds believe that a place can be haunted) and with political ideology (conservatives being more skeptical on both subjects than liberals).
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not this guy. :confused:
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'One third of city traffic is composed of motorists trying to park.'
In a study conducted by Donald Shoup in Los Angeles, the average time a driver spent looking for parking was 3.3 minutes -- which, just for the 15-block area addressed by the study, would equal nearly a million vehicle miles driven over the course of the year. Shoup theorizes that the allure of curb parking for such a lower cost than parking at a garage is responsible for all the time spent looking for street parking.
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'The prototype kilogram is stored in a vault in Sevres, France.'
The International System of Units dates back to just after the French Revolution. The kilogram was then defined as the mass of one liter of water. Officially, though, a kilogram is equal to the mass of the International Prototype Kilogram, a 130-year-old metal alloy cylinder referred to as the IPK. The IPK sits in a safe secured by three locks, inside a vault, in the basement of an International Bureau of Weights and Measures facility outside Paris.
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drill a hole in and fill it with lead. Peelz buisness would go to chit :lol:
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drill a hole in and fill it with lead. Peelz buisness would go to chit :lol:
:lol:
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'Spartan women enjoyed more rights than any other women in the ancient world.'
It might come as a surprise that in the war state of Sparta, women were unusually valued in comparison with other populations of the ancient world. They were permitted to own land, considered citizens (though with no say in government) and allowed to divorce and remarry while still retaining their property. Aristotle indicated that women owned 2/5 of the land in Sparta.
pats a woman?
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Cooking with microwaves was discovered accidentally.'
In 1945, an American inventor named Percy LeBaron Spencer was building radar components for Raytheon. While working on these components (vacuum tubes called magnetrons), he noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket had started melting. Spencer then tested whether the microwave signals from the magnetron were responsible, and the food he chose to test on -- the first food intentionally cooked via microwave -- was, fittingly enough, popcorn.
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Cooking with microwaves was discovered accidentally.'
In 1945, an American inventor named Percy LeBaron Spencer was building radar components for Raytheon. While working on these components (vacuum tubes called magnetrons), he noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket had started melting. Spencer then tested whether the microwave signals from the magnetron were responsible, and the food he chose to test on -- the first food intentionally cooked via microwave -- was, fittingly enough, popcorn.
Dad always would tell me that story. Him and his buddies worked on the Ginormous radar on top of the Aircraft carriers in the 60's. He would talk about how it would do weird stuff.
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I worked on a surface to air missle radar that had an optical scope on it....it's job was to illuminate an aircraft for the missle to "ride on" to the target....we used to slew it around and point it at crows standing on fence posts......flip the switch, and that pencil beam of energy would go out.......crow was dead before it knew it was cooking :lol:
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I worked on a surface to air missle radar that had an optical scope on it....it's job was to illuminate an aircraft for the missle to "ride on" to the target....we used to slew it around and point it at crows standing on fence posts......flip the switch, and that pencil beam of energy would go out.......crow was dead before it knew it was cooking :lol:
LOL yeah I heard stories like that from him too.
wait for seagull to land, flip switch...seagull nuggets. :lol:
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Alka selsers + Seagulls = Awesome :nod:
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Seagull and nice and gooey roasted marshmallow for the win!! :rofl:
we did that, seagull stabbed it w/ his beak and flew off. Marshmallow stuck :lol:
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Macau has the fastest-growing economy in the world.'
Since receiving tens of billions of dollars in foreign investments over the past decade, Macau had the highest estimated GPD growth rate in 2009. With an economy largely built on gaming and tourism, Macau is the largest gambling center in the world, having overtaken Las Vegas in 2006. Gaming-related taxes account for almost 3/4 of the government's revenue.
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I learned that from TV....A short lived Aaron Sorkin network drama called "studio 60 on the sunset strip" included among it's cast of characters the head of "NBS", a fictional US television network. The storyline highlighted the importance of Macau as the source of tremendous growth and business opportunity which was primed to explode with progress.
This series was aired in late 2006 through mid 2007; prophetic in my eyes and one more reason television is more than just a method for rotting one's brain.
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I remember that show and I like it. Because I liked it the show was cancelled. Sorry, it is a curse I have.
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Some people currently alive will live to be 150. '
Stephen Austad, head of the Comparative Biology of Aging Center, is "virtually certain" that some children now alive will live until halfway through the 22nd century. Austad argues that, even without the benefit of medical advances, humans -- even those in preindustrial societies -- are living longer and longer due to evolutionary changes. (He's certain enough about his proclamation that he and a friend each bet $150, to be placed in a trust fund, the $500-million result of which will go to the winner's nearest living relative in 2150.)
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'232 million prescriptions were written for antidepressants in 2007.'
A 2008 study on the efficacy of antidepressants determined that the drugs improved a patient's depressive symptoms by a "clinically insignificant" degree compared with a placebo, in all but the most severely depressed subjects. The study also noted that antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed drugs in the U.S., at 232.7 million prescriptions nationwide (keep in mind that there were only 303 million people in the country altogether in 2007).
I'm sure some would argue, but IN MY OPINION... Depression is a made up thing.
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'The word "snob" used to mean exactly the opposite of what it does now.'
Though "snob" was once suggested to be a contraction of "sine nobiltate" (without nobilty), and that theory is now regarded as very unlikely, the fact remains that the term was used to refer to the lower classes by the kinds of people who were deeply concerned with their status (i.e., snobs). The word was initially used to describe a shoemaker or his apprentice, then was adopted by Cambridge students to refer to non-students, and eventually came to stand for anyone "of the ordinary or lower classes."
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The .223 Rem (M16 rifle round) is fast. It shoots a 55 or so grain bullet at about 3300 feet/sec, give or take. It's the fastest of all these rounds (except one).
When you move up to the .30 caliber rounds, the bullets jump up in weight to 160-200 grains. Speeds run from about 2600 to 3000 fps or so.
The .338 Lapua is the king of the sniper rifles these days and shoots a 350 grain bullet at 2800 fps or so. They kill bad guys at over a mile with that one.
The .50 BMG is really big. Everyone who picks one up thinks it's some sort of fake, unless they know big ammo. It's really huge with a bullet that weighs 750 grains and goes as fast the Lapua.
The bullet for the 30x173 GAU-8 Avenger (Gun to which the A-10 Warthog is built around)has an aluminum jacket around a spent uranium core and weighs 6560 grains (yes, over 100 times as heavy as the M16 bullet, and flies through the air at 3500 fps (which is faster than the M16 as well). The gun shoots at a rate of 4200 rounds per minute. Yes, four thousand. Pilots typically shoot either one- or two-second burst which set loose 70 to 150 rounds. The system is optimized for shooting at 4,000 feet. Each of those seven barrels is 112" long. That's almost ten feet. The entire gun is 19-1/2 feet long.
Glad it’s on our side…..If you don’t agree, perhaps you could ask the 12 Iraqi armored divisions that encountered it?? Oh…that’s right you can’t …………they’re dead :lol:
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'The first smartphone dates back 17 years. '
Demonstrated as a concept in 1992 and released in 1993, the IBM/BellSouth Simon "Personal Communicator" combined the functionality of a pager, fax machine, e-mail device, calendar, appointment/address book, calculator, and stylus touchscreen. (It also offered games). Though all its features are pretty much standard fare for contemporary phones, the device was one-of-a-kind in 1993, and retailed for $899.
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bag phones FTMFW!
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'The internet is rapidly running out of addresses. '
IP addresses aren't just used for computers; an address gets assigned to every device that accesses the internet (including, for instance, phones and cars). John Curran, president of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, estimates that 94% of the IP addresses currently available have already been allocated. This is largely a problem for service and content providers, but it is one that will have to be resolved within a year.
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'The most densely populated area in the U.S. is a community in Maryland.'
Friendship Village, technically a "census-designated place" as opposed to an incorporated village or town, covers a mere 1/20 of a square mile but had a population of 4,512 during the 2000 census. That works out to a population density of nearly 82,000 per square mile, or three times the population density of New York City.
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The .338 Lapua is the king of the sniper rifles these days and shoots a 350 grain bullet at 2800 fps or so. They kill bad guys at over a mile with that one.
more: The caliber was designed to arrive at 1000 meters with enough energy to penetrate 5 layers of military body armor and still make the kill. The effective range of this caliber is about 1 mile (1600meters) and in the right shooting conditions, it could come very close to the 2000 meter mark, provided you have the right rifle/ammo/optics/shooter/spotter combination. Realistically, 1200 meters is well within the average sniper.
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Fact of the Day.....
working everyday sucks.....might as well whore it up.
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Fact of the Day.....
working everyday sucks.....might as well whore it up.
I'm right with you :mad:
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I wish I was working right now :(
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'Teddy Roosevelt once gave a speech immediately after having been shot.'
In 1912, while campaigning for a third term (and as a third-party candidate), Roosevelt was shot in the chest in front of a Milwaukee hotel. The bullet passed through a glasses case and a folded speech in Roosevelt's pocket before lodging itself in his chest. The former president gave his speech anyway, speaking for almost an hour before finally going to the hospital.
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The Great Wall of China is not especially visible from space.'
Though urban legend often asserts that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space, the Wall itself is difficult to discern in low-earth orbit. Some parts of the structure are arguably visible, but its texture and color are too similar to the terrain to be markedly obvious. NASA's chief scientist for Earth observation, Kamlesh Lulla, suggested that cities at night are the most noticeable man-made structures (also visible: roads, bridges, reservoirs, and the Giza pyramids).
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'Early military Harley-Davidsons were equipped with machine guns and, in one case, a pigeon loft.'
Harley-Davidson motorcycles were employed by the U.S. Army in General Pershing's pursuit of Pancho Villa in 1916 -- not especially surprising, given that the bikes were already popular with police and the military (half of all early Harley-Davidson production went to the U.S. Army). Also tested, though, were Harleys with a machine-gun-equipped sidecar and one with a sidecar pigeon loft, as carrier pigeons were still being used for communication at the time.
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'Eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano could result in a death toll in the millions.'
Yellowstone is home to three overlapping calderas and has seen over a hundred eruptions over the last 117 million years. Though an eruption anytime soon is highly unlikely, it has the potential to be cataclysmic. Two million years ago, Yellowstone produced an eruption that rated an 8 (out of 8) on the Volcanic Explosivity Index; that would be an eruption 10 times the size of a VEI 7, and the last VEI 7 (74,000 years ago in Indonesia) may have threatened humanity with extinction.
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AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT AUGUST 2010.
This August has 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays, 5 Tuesdays, all in one month.
It happens once in 823 years.
I'll probably miss the next one.
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'Eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano could result in a death toll in the millions.'
Yellowstone is home to three overlapping calderas and has seen over a hundred eruptions over the last 117 million years. Though an eruption anytime soon is highly unlikely, it has the potential to be cataclysmic. Two million years ago, Yellowstone produced an eruption that rated an 8 (out of 8) on the Volcanic Explosivity Index; that would be an eruption 10 times the size of a VEI 7, and the last VEI 7 (74,000 years ago in Indonesia) may have threatened humanity with extinction.
I'm tellin you mofos! head southeast :nod: we can live with pat :lol:
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I'll take my chances w/ the super volcano..
k,thx,bai.
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'The length of a meter is technically defined by the speed of light.'
The meter has been defined by a few different things throughout its 350-year history, including the swing of a pendulum and the length of the meridian that passes through Paris. in 1983, for a whole host of reasons -- one of which was to have a consistent, unvarying speed of light -- the meter was redefined as "the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458th of a second."
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'The earliest automobile design concept incorporated a windmill.'
Guido da Vigevano, an Italian inventor in the early 14th century, sketched plans for a wind-powered battle vehicle that da Vigevano intended for use in the Crusades. He also sketched a crank-operated vehicle, similar to a later concept by Francesco di Giorgio, another artist and military engineer who would be the first to use the term "automobile" ("self-moving") to describe the vehicle.
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'The Whopper pre-dates the Big Mac by a decade. '
The first McDonald's opened in 1940, although the company dates its origins to 1955 and the singular brilliance of Ray Kroc. It would be another 12 years before Pennsylvania-based owner/operator Jim Delligatti invented the Big Mac. Meanwhile, Burger King, which was founded in 1954, introduced the Whopper in 1957, an invention by James McLamore, one of two co-founders of the fast food giant
Funyun?
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'Mexico City is gradually sinking.'
Mexico City dates back to the 14th century, when Tenochtitlan was founded by the Aztecs, originally on an island. Much of the gigantic present-day Mexico City is built atop artificial islands and canals, situated over groundwater that provides its water supply. The city sank around 30 feet during the 20th century alone, as evidenced by the base of El Angel, the Angel of Independence statue, to which steps have been continuously added as the ground surrounding the landmark sinks.
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'The first-ever text message read "Happy Christmas."'
Developed as a French-German telecom collaboration in the 1980s, SMS ("Short Message Service") had little initial support on most phones, partially because companies weren't sure what to charge and whether or not messaging should be allowed across subscribers. Neil Papworth, the test engineer who sent the text (alternatively reported as "Happy Christmas" and "Merry Christmas") in 1992, had to type on a PC in a development lab to send the message to a Vodafone colleague's phone.
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'The center of the Milky Way contains the same chemical compound that gives raspberries their taste.'
Astronomers searching for evidence of amino acids in space were investigating Sagittarius B -- the molecular cloud near the center of the galaxy -- when they instead discovered ethyl formate, a chemical that smells of rum and is responsible for the taste of raspberries. The astronomers, who were working from the IRAM telescope in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, also discovered the presence of propyl cyanide/butyronitrile (which is, conversely, highly toxic).
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'The center of the Milky Way contains the same chemical compound that gives raspberries their taste.'
Astronomers searching for evidence of amino acids in space were investigating Sagittarius B -- the molecular cloud near the center of the galaxy -- when they instead discovered ethyl formate, a chemical that smells of rum and is responsible for the taste of raspberries. The astronomers, who were working from the IRAM telescope in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, also discovered the presence of propyl cyanide/butyronitrile (which is, conversely, highly toxic).
I was trying to figure out what a chocolate bar had to do with astronomy. :rofl: I couldn't make the connection. I just woke up, honest!
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:rofl:
damn kids.... :lol:
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'The center of the Milky Way contains the same chemical compound that gives raspberries their taste.'
Astronomers searching for evidence of amino acids in space were investigating Sagittarius B -- the molecular cloud near the center of the galaxy -- when they instead discovered ethyl formate, a chemical that smells of rum and is responsible for the taste of raspberries. The astronomers, who were working from the IRAM telescope in the Spanish Sierra Nevada, also discovered the presence of propyl cyanide/butyronitrile (which is, conversely, highly toxic).
I was trying to figure out what a chocolate bar had to do with astronomy. :rofl: I couldn't make the connection. I just woke up, honest!
Holy Crap Dan!!! We really need to get you out of Texas :lol:
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:lol: I just sat down with my coffee and was still waking up.
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'The world's most precise clock is accurate to within a second over 3.7 billion years.'
The idea of the atomic clock has been around for over a hundred years, and in practice such clocks have used cesium-133 for the past half-century (accurate to around 2 nanoseconds per day). The NIST physics lab in Boulder, Colorado has recently developed a quantum logic clock that detects the state of an aluminum ion, and is over 30 times as accurate as the cesium clock standard. In practical terms, a more accurate clock could have wide-ranging applications in everything from relativity experiments to the functionality of GPS.
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'The fastest speed ever traveled by human beings is nearly 25,000 miles per hour.'
Apollo 10, which was essentially a practice run for the Apollo 11 moon landing, returned to Earth on May 26th, 1969. During reentry, the command module hit a velocity of 24,791 miles per hour (39,897 km/h), according to Guinness World Records. The Apollo 10 mission report's own estimate is actually slightly faster (24,816 mph).
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"They've gone to plaid!"
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"Ludicrous speeed, GO!!!"
(http://gadgetsteria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ludicrous-speed.png)
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'Edison helped develop the electric chair to demonstrate the comparative safety of DC over AC.'
After Nikola Tesla went to work for George Westinghouse in the development of AC devices, Thomas Edison (who was in the process of promoting direct current, and in competition with Westinghouse and Tesla) hired an employee to help develop the first electric chair, relying on alternating current in order to demonstrate that it was more dangerous than DC. The first-ever electric chair execution took place in 1890, and was particularly gruesome (the condemned man had to be electrocuted twice, over a prolonged period, until he finally died).
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Did a quick Louggle Search :lol: and electric chair apparently uses around 2000 volts and 7-12 amps.
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'Calvin Coolidge owned a legion of unusual pets, including a lion named Tax Reduction.'
Coolidge and his wife owned several cats and dogs, a raccoon that was apparently sent to the White House to be eaten one Thanksgiving but was instead named Rebecca and kept, a wallaby, a duiker (small African antelope), and two lion cubs (Tax Reduction's partner was named Budget Bureau). As many of these pets simply arrived at the White House, Coolidge wound up sending most to the zoo, though he kept a chow chow named Tiny Tim.
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'The world's largest crossword puzzle covers the side of a building in Ukraine.'
A residential tower in Ivov, Ukraine is adorned with a 100-foot-tall pattern of large interlocking squares, some blanked out, the rest seemingly bare during the daytime. The questions for the puzzle are located around the city in public places of interest, and at night, the crossword squares are illuminated and the answers written on them become visible.
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'Julius Caesar was once captured by pirates.'
Years before his dictatorship, Caesar was sailing across the Aegean Sea when his ship was boarded by pirates. The pirates intended to ransom him for 20 talents of silver, at which Caesar laughed, commented that they didn't know whom they'd captured, and recommended they ask for 50. While the pirates waited for their ransom money, Caesar seemed entirely unconcerned with the situation and jovially remarked that he would have them all executed. Once free, Caesar raised a fleet, hunted the pirates down and had them crucified.
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'A newborn's skeleton contains, on average, 94 more parts than that of an adult.'
Babies' skeletons are not yet composed of actual bones, like those of adults, and instead consist of around 300 pieces of bone and cartilage. All bones begin as cartilage and ossify over time, developing and receiving nutrients, and eventually fusing into an adult skeleton (with a total of 206 bones).
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'High caffeine intake increases the risk of hallucination.'
A Durham University study in 2009 retorted that people identifying as "high caffeine users," drinking seven cups of coffee a day, were three times more likely than low-caffeine users (one cup a day) to hear voices or see things that aren't there. Researchers suggested that this could be because of caffeine's propensity to increase stress. The stress hormone cortisol (which increases blood pressure) is produced in greater amounts in a person consuming caffeine.
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That's why my magic Penguin friends haven't visited lately :(
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:tweakz: :coffee: :coffee: :coffee: :coffee:
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:lol:
that smiley rocks.
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'The St. Elmo's Fire phenomenon is essentially a naturally occurring fluorescent light.'
Plasma, an ionized gas, is the most common form of matter in the universe (as stars are made of plasma), and it is also common in consumer products (neon signs, fluorescent lamps, plasma TVs). St. Elmo's Fire, the phenomenon named by sailors for the glow with which it surrounded the masts of ships, is essentially just the result of an object discharging electricity and ionizing the air around it.
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'The St. Elmo's Fire phenomenon is essentially a naturally occurring fluorescent light.'
Plasma, an ionized gas, is the most common form of matter in the universe (as stars are made of plasma), and it is also common in consumer products (neon signs, fluorescent lamps, plasma TVs). St. Elmo's Fire, the phenomenon named by sailors for the glow with which it surrounded the masts of ships, is essentially just the result of an object discharging electricity and ionizing the air around it.
I see that phenomonon every day. My big color printer...charges via corona wires. THey glow purple kinda freaky. DOn't touch em. A SMALL zap of around 4800 volts is waiting for ya :lol:
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pics or it didn't happen.
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pics or it didn't happen.
I shall try.
dick :lol:
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make it so...
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hefe is a ho.
FACT.
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do not un whore me!
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I'm breakin up yo game fool.
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stop it!
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shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh just let it happen
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SHUT UP RANDY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6uWViQuxRA
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that's not a fact :(
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FACT:
you are bogarting my whoring!
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FACT:
You can't keep up the pace old man.
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Fact: Krandall has no penis.
I have proof. :lol:
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^---- Dat man blows goats. I have proof.
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Fact:
some of us have to work!
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In order for that to be a fact, it has to be proven! :lol:
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FACT:
Natural Raptor is being a pain in my butt today!
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Just wait till the rally!
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Just wait till the rally!
are you saying you want to be the pain in his butt ????
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What What ???
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'Five times as many students suffer from mental health issues as did during the Depression.'
According to a Minnesota questionnaire which has been used since 1938, high school and college students are vastly more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, and stress now than those of the same age during the Great Depression. Nearly a quarter of students reported having difficulty with rules and authority, and over three-quarters reported feeling significant pressure to be financially well-off.
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'Five times as many students suffer from mental health issues as did during the Depression.'
According to a Minnesota questionnaire which has been used since 1938, high school and college students are vastly more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, and stress now than those of the same age during the Great Depression. Nearly a quarter of students reported having difficulty with rules and authority, and over three-quarters reported feeling significant pressure to be financially well-off.
cuz they is spoiled! expect to much. depression kids knew to be happy with what they have. Ironic hey? depression = happy? :lol:
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I have a lot of opinions. One of them that depression is a made up thing. Everyone gets bummed/sad. Its all in how YOU choose to handle it.
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'A worm called a sea mouse may be able to provide superior nanowire technology.'
The iridescent spines that cover this small marine worm may be used to grow nanowires 100 times longer than current technology allows, according to scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The incredibly small, hollow spines, called setae, are removed from dead sea mice and can act as molds for nanowire material, allowing a cheap production alternative to an otherwise costly procedure. Nanowires may some day be used to build extremely tiny computers and sensors.
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so....somthing they MIGHT use to MAYBE build something SOMEday....
thrilling :lol:
JK very interesting.
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Play-Doh was originally marketed as wallpaper cleaner.'
Developed in the 1930s by a man named Noah McVicker, Play-Doh was originally sold as wallpaper cleaner by the Kutol Company, a soap manufacturer based in Cincinnati. In 1956, with the company floundering, McVicker and his nephew Joseph began marketing the product as a toy under the newly formed company, Rainbow Crafts. When Play-Doh was featured on TV by children's entertainer Captain Kangaroo in 1957, sales began took off and had reached $3 million by 1958.
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'People who suppress anger are more likely to be violent when drunk.'
A Scandinavian study of teens and young adults reported a correlation between suppressing anger, heavy drinking and violent behavior. Those surveyed were interviewed initially at 16-17 years of age and then again five years later. Among those who reported habitually suppressing anger, it was found that a 10% increase in drinking to intoxication was linked to a 5% increase in violent behavior.
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'People who suppress anger are more likely to be violent when drunk.'
A Scandinavian study of teens and young adults reported a correlation between suppressing anger, heavy drinking and violent behavior. Those surveyed were interviewed initially at 16-17 years of age and then again five years later. Among those who reported habitually suppressing anger, it was found that a 10% increase in drinking to intoxication was linked to a 5% increase in violent behavior.
:mad: :mad: :mad:
That is all.
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one for peelz
'The term "soccer" is an abbreviation of English origin.'
In 1863, when the rules of soccer were first written down by the Football Association, the game was given the name of "association football" to distinguish it from rugby football and other games. A few decades later, "soccer" started showing up as a slang abbreviation for "association." Use of the term in England eventually faded and "football" became the preferred term in most countries, with the notable exceptions of the U.S., Canada and Australia.
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one for peelz
'The term "soccer" is an abbreviation of English origin.'
In 1863, when the rules of soccer were first written down by the Football Association, the game was given the name of "association football" to distinguish it from rugby football and other games. A few decades later, "soccer" started showing up as a slang abbreviation for "association." Use of the term in England eventually faded and "football" became the preferred term in most countries, with the notable exceptions of the U.S., Canada and Australia.
cool. Have you ever seen Gaelic (irish) Football? Like rugby with soccer ball, net. But they carry and have to dribble the ball off their foot as they run. Weird to watch.
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http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/
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http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/
Are you celebrating? Sure we won't see AJ Raptor on this holiday :lol:
also...last weekend, I missed "talk like a pirate day." :( :lol:
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'Coca-Cola has had 49 different slogans.'
Since 1889, Coke has rotated official slogans every few years, ranging from the compellingly simple original slogan "Drink Coca-Cola" to 1939's unwieldy "Whoever You Are, Whatever You Do, Wherever You May Be, When You Think of Refreshment Think of Ice Cold Coca-Cola." Other notable slogans include "The Great National Temperance Beverage,""Pure as Sunlight" and "Around the Corner from Everywhere."
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'Copernicus may have inspired modern geology.'
The foundation of modern geology is generally credited to James Hutton, who in the 18th century challenged the then-prominent idea that the Earth was 6,000 years old. A paper in the journal Geology, however, stresses the importance of Copernicus' contributions. "Prior to the Copernican Revolution the concepts of 'Earth' and 'planet' had nothing whatsoever to do with each other," the paper points out, arguing that this unprecedented realization should be considered the starting point for a new scientific way of thinking.
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'Men have a longer sexual lifespan than women.'
Although women outlive men by 5 to 10 years in most of the industrialized world, men generally remain sexually active (and report satisfaction with their sex lives) for about five years longer than women. A University of Chicago study collected data from 6,000 people ranging in age from 25 to 86. The researchers found correlations between good health and sexual interest, and a gender gap in sexual activity that increases in the later years.
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'Virgin Galactic has successfully completed a test flight for its space tourism program.'
The test flight, which took place earlier this year, is one of several steps necessary before the company begins commercial suborbital spaceflight, in which craft will fly at an altitude of 360,000 feet and reach a speed of Mach 3. Virgin Galactic is one of several commercial spaceflight endeavors either planned or in early operation (another, Blue Origin, was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and has received funding from NASA). Orbital space tourism to the International Space Station is substantially more complex and expensive; the first three private citizens to travel to the ISS paid over $20 million each for the privilege.
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'Molly Pitcher received a military pension of $40 per year.'
Mary Hays McCauley was given her nickname after she brought water to her husband's battery during fighting between Continental and British troops on a 100-degree June day. When her husband was wounded, she took his place at his gun mount and participated in the battle. Many years later, after she had been widowed and remarried, Pennsylvania awarded her a $40 yearly pension. Curiously enough, another woman named Margaret Cochran Corbin was involved in similar exploits, taking her husband's place alongside a cannon on the battlefield and later receiving a Pennsylvania-recommended pension. The two women now collectively share the Molly Pitcher/Captain Molly legend.
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'Cheerleading is the most dangerous high school sport.'
Though only about 3% of female high school students are cheerleaders, cheerleading was the leading cause of catastrophic injuries over a 26-year study of high school and college athletes. Injuries in school sports have jumped 150% over the past decade, according to a study in Pediatrics, due partly to lack of supervision and an absence of school nurses.
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'Two vice presidents have served under multiple presidents.'
George Clinton (under Jefferson and Madison) and John C. Calhoun (John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson) both served as vice president under two different men. Clinton was Jefferson's replacement for Aaron Burr, who proceeded to run for Governor of New York, subsequently lost, then shot Alexander Hamilton and fled to Europe. John C. Calhoun has the distinction of serving as vice president for two different political parties (J.Q. Adams' Democratic-Republicans and Jackson's Democrats).
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'The first professional football player was paid $500.'
Though players had been reimbursed before for services or expenses, the honor of being the first football ringer to receive cash for his services was bestowed upon William "Pudge" Heffelfinger, who in 1892 was paid $500 by the Allegheny Athletic Association of Pittsburgh. The game was part of an intercity rivalry against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club, for whom Heffelfinger had originally intended to play. He only found out he'd been lured to the opposing team when he showed up for the game dressed in their uniform.
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Been hearing a lot about divorce and troubled marriage lately... so I thought I would share this. (I know this is so girly of me). :kiss:
7 Habits of Happy Couples
We’ve all seen those annoying couples walking hand in hand, gazing into each other’s eyes, feeding chocolate Danish chunks into each other’s mouths as they snicker with childish glee. Sickening? Perhaps. But what if they actually know something we don’t? One of the most important things I have learned while researching the idea of the “happy couple” is that sometimes you have to open yourself up to the idea that good relationships are not handed over on a silver platter, but rather earned through a conscious effort of ritual and rules.
1. Fill Their Love Cup at Least Once a Day
Couples therapist and author Tina Tessina reminds us that happy couples are sometimes more about ritual than natural intuition. In other words, we can’t all be Romeo and Juliettes, but we can follow a daily program designed to keep our love cups from running on empty (this is when trouble begins). Such daily love bites may include curling up on the couch together, walking the dog as you share the day’s events, or leaving the occasional “love-minder” post-it note in random places around the house.
2. Be Curious
Dale Carnegie’s book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, is by far one of the top selling books of all time, and for good reason. It works. One of the best ways to make a connection with another human being is to be honestly interested in them. We all began our relationships intrigued by our partner, but the stress of life can sometimes nudge us into forgetting to foster that curiosity. If you ever find yourself at a loss for words, let your curiosity take over and watch the conversation flourish.
3. 10-Second Rule
Whenever you’re in a disagreement and you can feel your inner kettle boiling, remember to give yourself at least ten seconds to think about what you’re about to say and the consequences that might follow. We often say hurtful things out of anger that we don’t really mean, but which have a lasting effect on our relationships.
4. If You Must Argue… Do it Right
Happy couples have ground rules when it comes to arguments. Unless you’re versed on the delicacies of debate, many people allow their emotions to get the best of them, saying and doing things that could do more damage than good. A few rules to live by are to start and end every argument on a positive note; listen; respect your partner; stay on topic; ask questions; compromise; and use the word “I” rather than “you” to avoid putting your partner on the defensive.
5. Two Year Rule
Studies have shown that the majority of couples (approximately 86 percent) who choose to stay together and work through their differences emerge in happier, more fulfilling relationships. It has even been suggested (by author Mike McManus) that over half of divorces could be curbed by giving couples the opportunity to cool down and work things out over the course of up to two years. McManus theorizes that one of the greatest faults to divorce is that they’re just too easy to get. All that’s needed is one partner to make a hasty decision, and a marriage can be dissolved in a matter of weeks under “no fault.”
6. If You Don’t Have Time to Walk the Walk… Talk the Talk
Couples argue about sex (a lot). The stereotypical scenario is that she thinks he wants it too much, and he thinks she wants it too little. Regardless of where you stand on how much you do it, one way to satisfy both sides is to engage in vocal sex each day. This is simply sexy talk, reminding your partner of how sexy and irresistible you find them, and possibly a few promises of what you plan to do to them later in the week. The important thing is that it lets the partner know you are thinking about them. That, along with the build-up of expectation, can leave couples satisfied until the next bout of horizontal mambo.
7. Daily Weather Checks
Happy couples make time for each other in what they call “daily weather checks.” These could be anything from a short e-mail, to an hour lunch away from the office. The idea is keep up with each other, so that even when apart, you’re still connected on some level. This minimizes the scenario of one partner coming home in a solemn mood after work, and the other not knowing if it’s because something bad happened, or because they’re not excited to see them. Keeping contact throughout the day minimizes the chance of these moments putting a crutch on a perfectly good evening.
By Eric J. Leech
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very cool
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8. Don't be stupid enough to marry some evil witch to begin with.
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8. Don't be stupid enough to marry some evil witch to begin with.
Well that's just a asshole thing to say! :jaw:
:(
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9. Be single fo life like MD. :rofl: at least after saying things like that he might be. :rofl:
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9. turn gay like MD. :rofl: at least after saying things like that he might be. :rofl:
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There are 25 flavors on the Blizzard Celebration Menu... 3 of those are in our house right now!!! :clap:
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I have to agree with MD on this one. He's not saying ALL women are witches....
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'One former Soviet Republic is a primarily-Buddhist chess mecca.'
The nation of Kalmykia, now officially a republic of the Russian Federation, is the only European nation in which Buddhism is the official state religion. The Kalmyk people, descended from Mongolian nomads, have maintained Buddhist traditions despite systematic oppression (Stalin closed or destroyed most Buddhist buildings and deported the Kalmyks to Siberia). Until this month, the republic's head of state was also the president of the World Chess Federation, and oversaw the construction of Chess City, a complex built specifically to house major chess tournaments.
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'Freud's term for the instinctual subconscious was literally "The It."'
The psychological terms as we know them (id, ego and superego) are translators' attempts to capture the meaning of Freud's Latin phrasing. He employs the German phrase, "Das Es," (The It) when describing the id, the sum of instinctual drives underlying conscious thought. Freud actually owes this term to another writer and physician, Georg Groddeck, whom he credits in "The Ego and the Id," mentioning Groddeck's insistence that "we are 'lived' by unknown and uncontrollable forces."
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'There is an ATM in Antarctica.'
McMurdo Station in Antarctica, home to between 200 and 1,000 people, depending on the season, is also the location of the continent's only ATM, which is maintained by Wells Fargo. The station actually contains two ATMs, though only one is operational at a time. The machines do see preventive maintenance, though only occasionally, due to the difficulty of actually getting to the station (hence the second backup ATM). According to Guinness World Records, these are the southernmost ATMs in the world.
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Read to the very end....
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> Honestly, this is a very interesting email RAILROAD TRACKS
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> The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet,
> 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
> Why was that gauge used?
> Because that's the way they built them in England and English
> expatriates designed the US railroads.
>
>
> Why did the English build them like that?
> Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built
> the pre-railroad tramways and that's the gauge they used.
>
> Why did 'they' use that gauge then?
> Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools
> that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
>
> Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?
> Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would
> break on some of the old, long distance roads in England , because
> that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
> So who built those old rutted roads?
> Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including
> England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since.
>
> And the ruts in the roads?
> Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to
> match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.
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> Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike
> in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard
> railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original
> specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live
> forever.
>
>
> The next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and
> wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly
> right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to
> accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' butts.)
>
> Now - the twist to the story:
> A Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad has two big booster rockets
> attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket
> boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at a factory in Utah .
>
> Engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a
> bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory
> to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run
> through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through
> that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and
> the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses'
> behinds.
>
> So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the
> world's most advanced transportation system, was determined over two
> thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass.
> And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important!
>
> Ancient horse's asses control almost everything.
> CURRENT Horses Asses in Washington are controlling everything else.
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'Development of functional invisibility is well underway.'
Light-bending metamaterials that could essentially "cloak" a two-dimensional object viewed from a specific direction existed back in 2006, but physicists are making consistent progress toward devices that can bend light around three-dimensional objects. Silicon "carpet cloaks" can achieve this effect already, and although they have only done so on an incredibly tiny scale, the technology can, in theory, work with larger objects. The limitations for viewing from a specific angle are also gradually being overcome; UC Berkeley physicists were "optimistic" in improving the technology to work from any angle within a few years.
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'The first modern boxing match lasted 21 rounds.'
The first world heavyweight fight that involved boxing gloves and the new Marquess of Queensbury rules occurred in New Orleans in 1892. Several years before, reigning bare-knuckle champion John L. Sullivan had defended his title in a brutal, illegal bout that lasted 75 rounds and saw Sullivan vomit during the 44th. In 1892, he fought "Gentleman Jim" Corbett in a fight that ushered in a new era of respectability and legality for the sport. Corbett, fully 25 pounds lighter than Sullivan, but an educated and technical fighter, knocked Sullivan out in the 21st.
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Fact of the day...Krandall is a slacker on the weekends
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I didnt sign onto a computer until about 10:00pm last night :(
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'The FBI's first mission was to investigate prostitution.'
Originally an unnamed force of agents whose purpose was to assist the Department of Justice, the FBI was founded in 1908 under Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte. It was tasked with investigations relating to the Mann Act, also called the White-Slave Traffic Act, a law intended for the prosecution of illicit sexual behavior, including the transport of women for "debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose." J. Edgar Hoover became the first director of the agency (then the Bureau of Investigation), and the Mann Act went on to repeatedly influence American jurisprudence (it was used to prosecute Charles Manson, and is still on the books today).
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'The phrase "O.K." expresses support for Martin Van Buren.'
The 1840 election saw the birth of political catchphrases involving both candidates -- the Whig Party's William Henry Harrison ("Tippecanoe and Tyler, too") and the Democratic Party's incumbent President, Martin Van Buren ("O.K." was an abbreviation for Old Kinderhook, his birthplace). Whether this is definitively the very first use of "O.K." is a matter of debate, but it was definitely used in a pro-Van Buren context, and it soon became part of the American linguistic consciousness.
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interesting.
really. :thumbs:
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I thought it was from WW2 when platoons came back to base with "0 Killed"???
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couple different stories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay
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'One strike in Britain continued for 25 years.'
The longest-running strike in Britain's history started in 1914, in the form of English schoolchildren protesting the dismissal of their teachers. When the village school at Burston fired Kitty and Tom Higdon on (somewhat suspicious and unlikely) charges of abuse, their pupils marched out of the school and set up makeshift classes on the village green to be conducted by the schoolteachers. A proper school was built on the strength of donations in 1917 (the Burston Strike School). The school closed upon Tom's death in 1939, but still exists in the form of an educational charity.
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'Swarming locusts have larger brains than non-swarming locusts.'
One of the most destructive pests on the planet, locusts can, when swarming, cover a fifth of the Earth's land surface, with swarms hundreds of miles across containing tens of millions of locusts per square mile. Most locusts don't swarm, however; the average locust is solitary and not part of a vast migratory group. According to Cambridge scientists, locusts who are kept solitary, while larger, have significantly smaller brains. Though solitary locusts have brains developed for responding to stimuli, swarming locusts are substantially more invested in learning and processing information, to the tune of a brain 30% larger than that of their solitary counterparts.
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FACT: the "reply" button under each thread should be bigger. So people can see it easier. Apparently, we have lost it. :lol:
no more whores, so lonely. :lol:
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Fact.
Peelz is on strike 2.
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fact:
Im sorry... no ban plz kthxbai
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fact.
2.
:bat:
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'The first economic bubble was due to a sudden infatuation with tulips.'
Tulips were entirely new to Europe in the 16th century, and having only recently been brought from Turkey, they retained their status as an expensive luxury in the Dutch Republic. Between 1636 and 1637, the price of tulip bulbs exploded by 1,000%, and historical accounts are full of anecdotes stressing their absurd worth -- particularly valuable single bulbs were literally selling for 10 times the yearly salary of a common laborer. The abrupt crash of tulip prices is chronicled in 19th-century journalist Charles Mackay's aptly titled Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
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Fact...we need more bannings around here.
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Fact...we need more bannings around here.
Volunteering?
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Fact: russ-russ should have left me his truck :( :lol:
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Fact...we need more bannings around here.
Volunteering?
I've been banned by bigger sites before...bring it on bitches :box: :rofl:
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Fact: russ-russ should have left me his truck :( :lol:
Fact: That would have been a long ride home on the rappy...
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'Video games have overtaken movie theaters in popularity.'
A survey by market researcher NPD determined that 64% of respondents had played a video game in the past 6 months, while only 53% had gone to see a movie. This figure is bolstered by the continuing rise of online gaming in all its forms (including both hugely popular social networking games and more standard multiplayer online games). On a related note, a purchasable digital horse in World of Warcraft -- whose subscriber base is the size of a small country -- recently netted the company $2 million in sales within four hours.
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(http://www.chucknorris.com/html/images/chuckTHEFACT1.jpg)
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I don't even know if I can post any more facts.....
that one is the fact of all facts.
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'The United States Constitution is the shortest of its kind.'
Drafted in 1787, the U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution still in effect. At 4,000 words long, it is also the shortest, with a mere 400 words dedicated to the Judicial Branch. By comparison, the 1950 Constitution of India runs well over 100,000 words in its English translation. The Constitution of the State of Alabama is over three times that length, at 350,000 words, although much of that is attributable to its amendments (not included in the length of the original U.S. document).
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'The United States Constitution is the shortest of its kind.'
Drafted in 1787, the U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution still in effect. At 4,000 words long, it is also the shortest, with a mere 400 words dedicated to the Judicial Branch. By comparison, the 1950 Constitution of India runs well over 100,000 words in its English translation. The Constitution of the State of Alabama is over three times that length, at 350,000 words, although much of that is attributable to its amendments (not included in the length of the original U.S. document).
To me that's part of the Genius of it all. Our constitution was designed to empower the states under a united front, so the individual constitutions and ammendments of each state could more throughly document the rights and wrongs for it's population......atleast orginally. :aaron:
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'In 1999, a millionaire former CEO switched careers to work at McDonald's.'
Scott Heiferman, who was then in charge of Internet ad agency i-traffic, sold the business for millions in 1999, at the height of the dot-com boom, and began another job -- working the counter at McDonald's. He explains on his Web site that he'd spent a lot of time working with lawyers, bankers, "and other people living strange lives... I got a job at McDonald's to help get back in touch with the real world." Heiferman also founded Fotolog, and is now the CEO of Meetup.com.
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'One of the originators of the American flag asked to be paid in wine.'
As with many poorly recorded episodes in history, the issue of whom to credit with the invention of the American flag is a matter of debate (although it was probably not Betsy Ross, whose story only came into the public consciousness a hundred years after the flag did). One candidate is Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of independence and a New Jersey congressman, who worked on several designs and requested a "Quarter Cask of the Public Wine" for his services. He was never paid
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'Sweden is home to a 10,000-year-old tree.'
To put it in perspective, when most civilizations were entering the Bronze Age -- thousands of years before the birth of Christ -- this particular tree in Sweden had already been around for several thousand years. The tree, in the mountainous region of Dalarna, has been carbon-dated at 9,550 years old, making it the oldest known tree (the previous oldest had been North American pine trees roughly half that age).
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'The term "E pluribus unum" was first used in describing a salad.'
"E pluribus unum," which appears on the Great Seal of the United States as well as on U.S. currency, means "Out of many, one," and was already a coined expression in the late 18th century when the country's founders debated possible mottoes. However, its first recorded use seems to come from the minor poetry of Virgil, albeit slightly different due to noun genders ("E pluribus unus"). The poem describes a pastoral scene in which a peasant assembles a salad of onions, garlic, parsley, and herbs.
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An effing POEM about a SALAD ? Goddamn hippies...
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:lol:
like you wouldn't make a poem about greens.....
:om:
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Only users lose drugs
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'There have been nine U.S. capitals.'
Although Washington, D.C., has been the established U.S. capital since 1800, eight other cities have served as the temporary seat of government, depending on the location of Congress. These are Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lancaster, York, Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton, and New York. Post-Constitution, the Congress as it exists in its present form has convened in Philadelphia, New York and Washington, D.C.
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'Groupon is at present the fastest-growing major company in history.'
According to Forbes, the coupon-of-the-day website Groupon is on track to make $1 billion in sales faster than any company in history (the current record also belongs to a Web-based company, Priceline). The company launched in 2008, originally localized in Chicago, and now boasts 13 million subscribers. Under its 29-year-old CEO, Groupon has seen growth comparable only to the pace of YouTube (though the latter, unlike Groupon, has never been profitable in and of itself).
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'Gum disease is linked to heart attacks.'
Periodontal diseases, including gingivitis, contribute to the risk of both heart attack and stroke. A 2005 study even located DNA from periodontal bacteria within the hearts of patients who had suffered heart attacks. Researchers refrained from specifying a direct causal relationship, though the existence of an environment (the bloodstream) in which bacteria can travel through the body is certainly a consideration. A separate study found coronary artery disease twice as likely among patients with periodontal disease.
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'Jack LaLanne swam towing 70 rowboats through Long Beach Harbor, handcuffed, at the age of 70.'
LaLanne, who is currently 96, has a long history of impressive feats of strength dating back to before World War II. At the age of 45, he did 1,000 push-ups and 1,000 chin-ups in 82 minutes, and he has frequently performed various swimming-related feats, often towing watercraft in the process. In 1984, at 70, LaLanne towed 70 boats containing 70 people 1.5 miles -- handcuffed, shackled and swimming against strong currents.
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'George Washington was strongly against the idea of political parties.'
American political parties did not exist until the formation of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists (the former was founded by Alexander Hamilton while Washington was still in office, and would likely have been Washington's party if he weren't so unsympathetic to the notion). In his farewell address, Washington explicitly condemned partisanship in all its forms, stressing his desire to "warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party."
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'George Washington was strongly against the idea of political parties.'
American political parties did not exist until the formation of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists (the former was founded by Alexander Hamilton while Washington was still in office, and would likely have been Washington's party if he weren't so unsymFunyun's Pimphetic to the notion). In his farewell address, Washington explicitly condemned partisanship in all its forms, stressing his desire to "warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party."
do I spy a filter in here somewhere? :lol:
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:lol:
damn whoever put that filter in.
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pimpathetic....it's a word! I use it!
root: Pimpathy
To show empathy for a playa.
:lol:
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One in 10 men surf the internet for porn - and 40% of those peek at saucy pictures while their partner is in the next room
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328369/1-10-men-surf-internet-porn-40-partner-room.html#ixzz14yGPyp8W
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'PetroChina was the first trillion-dollar company.'
Among the world's most valuable companies in 2010, PetroChina, the largest oil company in China, was momentarily worth over $1 trillion upon its debut in 2007, more than doubling Exxon Mobil's market capitalization ($448 billion). The Financial Times now lists the company second by market capitalization, as of October 2010 -- directly behind one oil company (Exxon Mobil) and two spots ahead of another (Petrobras).
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One in 10 men surf the internet for porn - and 40% of those peek at saucy pictures while their partner is in the next room
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328369/1-10-men-surf-internet-porn-40-partner-room.html#ixzz14yGPyp8W
That explains why Aaron likes to be in another room when we are using computers! ;)
:lol:
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Tardigrades can live for days in the vacuum of space.'
Tardigrades, also called water bears, are tiny aquatic invertebrates known for their remarkable endurance in surviving the most extreme environmental conditions. They can enter a state of dramatically reduced metabolism called cryptobiosis, something like an extreme form of hibernation. In this state, tardigrades have been subjected to extreme temperatures (from -240 degrees to 392 degrees Fahrenheit) and radiation measuring over 100 times the amount necessary to kill a human. In 2007, the European Space Agency brought tardigrades along on the Foton-M3 mission and exposed them to the vacuum of space for 10 days, after which many of the animals survived unharmed.
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One in 10 men surf the internet for porn - and 40% of those peek at saucy pictures while their partner is in the next room
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328369/1-10-men-surf-internet-porn-40-partner-room.html#ixzz14yGPyp8W
1 in 10 ? I'd be willing to bet the actual number is AT LEAST 5 in 10... otherwise, why pay for internet ? ???
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One in 10 men surf the internet for porn - and 40% of those peek at saucy pictures while their partner is in the next room
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328369/1-10-men-surf-internet-porn-40-partner-room.html#ixzz14yGPyp8W
1 in 10 ? I'd be willing to bet the actual number is AT LEAST 5 in 10... otherwise, why pay for internet ? ???
change this stat to read RS members instead of Men and your numbers might change....to 100% :lol:
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'Animal biodiversity reduces the threat of disease in humans.'
Aside from simply being desirable in and of itself, biodiversity helps insulate humans from animal-borne diseases. Since the rate of disease transmission depends on the number of available animals that can be infected, diverse populations slow the spread of disease compared to homogeneous ones (this concept has been proposed theoretically in the past, but was only experimentally confirmed in a 2009 study of Panamanian rats and hantavirus). This trend complements the concept of zooprophylaxis -- the idea that having livestock around for mosquitoes to feed on, for example, diverts those mosquitoes from seeking out humans instead, thereby slowing the spread of malaria.
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'Doctors have performed the first all-robot surgical operation.'
The McGill University Health Centre in Montreal was home to the first operation in which both the anesthetist ("McSleepy") and the surgeon ("DaVinci") were robots. DaVinci is operated from a nearby workstation, allowing the surgeon more delicate movements than human hands are capable of, while McSleepy can be configured to provide anesthesia based on the specific needs of individual surgeries. The two robots were both utilized in a prostatectomy in October 2010, their collaboration marking a world first.
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'First impressions are generally accurate judgments of personality.'
A University of Texas study showed participant-judges two sets of photos -- one in which subjects were posed in a carefully neutral way, and another candid set. The subjects answered a questionnaire about their own traits, and those traits -- like extroversion and self-esteem -- were readily apparent to the judges, just from looking at the subjects' photos. This may seem like an obvious conclusion from a set of candid photographs (given the opportunity to judge body language), but even the carefully posed photographs were still good indicators of personality for some traits.
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I agree, I thought you were gay at first...then you proved it ;)
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'A device called BrainPort allows users to see with their tongues.'
The BrainPort device consists of a video camera mounted on a pair of sunglasses, a phone-sized handheld computer and an array of electrodes that sit on the user's tongue. The CPU relays the camera's visual information, sending out stronger or weaker electrical pulses depending on the lightness or darkness of each individual pixel, effectively rendering a black-and-white image in a tactile way. For the user, it's then just a matter of learning how to "see" by interpreting these signals. Though acclimating to the device is a learning process, its capabilities are impressive; some patients using it are even able to make out distinct letters and numbers.
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'90% of life on Earth died out 250 million years ago.'
The event scientists have dubbed "The Great Dying" marked the end of the Paleozoic era. Throughout this era, the continents were combining in the supercontinent Pangaea, and pre-dinosaur and pre-mammalian reptiles roamed the Earth. Suddenly, though, nearly all of the planet's marine species (around 95%) died out, likely due to environmental factors, which also coincided with the only known mass extinction of insects. Several theories have been proposed as catalysts (an impact event, volcanic eruptions), but regardless, the end result was the largest extinction event on record.
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too bad the orvis gene continued. Life would be grand :lol:
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thats not so nice peels :confused:
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too bad the orvis gene continued. Life would be grand :lol:
aww WTF!! :confused:
I've been nice to you since the couple hour accidental banning....
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banning never happens on "accident" :P
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too bad the orvis gene continued. Life would be grand :lol:
aww WTF!! :confused:
I've been nice to you since the couple hour accidental banning....
that is true. Buit before that. You were an evil sonofabitch :krandall: :lol:
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were? ???
I don't understand.
:nazi:
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w-o-w
'The Flat Earth society has been relaunched and has reopened its membership.'
Relaunched one year ago, the current Flat Earth Society is a continuation of the organization founded in 1956. The society claimed thousands of members at its height, who -- in case it isn't explicit from context -- literally believe that the Earth is a disc-shaped mass, surrounded by a wall of ice. According to The Guardian, its current president, Daniel Shenton, is entirely mainstream in many of his scientific views -- he believes in evolution and happily makes use of GPS -- but just happens to also believe that the Earth is flat, based on the evidence that it appears that way.
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weird
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'The "X" in "Xmas" is a 1,000-year-old abbreviation.'
"Christ" has been abbreviated with an "X" by Christians for at least 1,000 years, the Greek letter Chi standing for the first letter of Jesus' Greek name, Xristos; the shortened form, not intended as a sign of disrespect to Christianity, was merely popular shorthand for Christ's Mass. The Online Etymology Dictionary dates a reference to "Xres masse," appearing in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, to 1100 A.D.
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Kranberry isn't deliberately evil, he was just born that way............
(in his dreams at least) :nod:
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:nazi:
really just a powder puff............... :nod:
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'During World War II, one British officer went to battle with a longbow and claymore.'
Lieutenant Colonel Jack Churchill, dubbed "Mad Jack," was an officer in the respected Manchester Regiment, famous for his iconoclasm and impulsive heroics. (He's the source of the quote "In my opinion, sir, any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed," his response to being asked about the presence of his Scottish blade.) Churchill tooled around the battlefield on a motorcycle, led his men playing the bagpipes and conducted daring commando raids, during which he actually used his sword and bow in combat. A professional soldier for most of his life, Churchill went on to appear as an extra in Ivanhoe (as an archer), and died peacefully in 1996 at the age of 89.
this man sounds like a true Badass!
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'The archerfish shoots water at its land-based prey.'
A small, tropical fish that lives in both freshwater and saltwater, the archerfish searches for insects sitting on low-hanging branches over the water or spiders in webs, then compresses its gills to fire a jet of water at its target. The fish can shoot at distances up to five feet, and is remarkably accurate, even managing to account for the distortion caused by the surface of the water.
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In 1939, Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel that did not contain the letter "e."'
In an extended attempt at a lipogram -- a restrictive word exercise -- Wright wrote a 50,000-word novel, Gadsby, while avoiding the use of the most common letter in the English language. This is no easy feat -- "the," "be," "he," and "she" are all rendered unusable, for instance -- and would probably have won Wright a little more fame than it did, had he not died shortly after the book's publication. Gadsby does contain its share of curious turns of phrase; at one point, while describing a county fair, Wright is forced to refer to turkeys as "our National Thanksgiving Bird."
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Now this is a badass!!!
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html
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Now this is a badass!!!
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html
Häyhä basically just ran around doling out head-shots like the ice cream man gives out Dove bars on a hot sunny day in the Sahara desert.
:rofl:
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He would have been unbeatable at COD: Modern Warfare!!! :nod:
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Now we know fathered Chuck Norris.
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Nikola Tesla, During his lifetime, Tesla invented fluorescent lighting, the Tesla induction motor, the Tesla coil, and developed the alternating current (AC) electrical supply system that included a motor and transformer, and 3-phase electricity, X-ray machine and cell phones.
Tesla is now credited with inventing modern radio as well; since the Supreme Court overturned Guglielmo Marconi's patent in 1943 in favor of Nikola Tesla's earlier patents. When an engineer (Otis Pond) once said to Tesla, "Looks as if Marconi got the jump on you" regarding Marconi's radio system, Tesla replied, "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents."
The Tesla coil, invented in 1891, is still used in radio and television sets and other electronic equipment.
thank GERD for Tesla
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I have one of their cd's :lol:
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right on!!! :rofl: :lol: :thumbs:
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The term "wild goose chase" is a Shakespearean reference to horses.'
Used by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, the term that now refers to the hopeless pursuit of a pointless goal apparently had a similar meaning in Shakespeare's day, but with a separate figurative connotation. Referring either to a game played by riders or to the behavior of galloping horses themselves, the phrase evoked horses chasing after a single lead horse, thereby winding up in a geese-like "V" formation. (On the other hand, a "wild-goose chase," hyphenated, is literally just a chase for wild geese.)
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the SR-71 black bird flexed and stretched up to 15 inches during its landing and flight. it's skin was designed to do this becuase of it's speed and how high if flew. the landing gear are one big peace of titanum. at the time they were being built, the usa didn't have enough so they bought almost all the titanum that went on the planes from Germany. :nod:
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SR-71 is a sweet bird!!! 8)
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'The largest financial empire of the early 20th century was built on the production of matches.'
In his day, Ivar Kreuger may well have been the richest man in the world. The Swedish businessman and engineer eventually founded or acquired hundreds of companies, but the core of his business was his family's match factories. Kreuger's match business merged with several others, and when the Swedes invented safety matches, Kreuger's influence expanded until his companies (which included Diamond Match, Ohio Match and the International Match Corporation) were responsible for the bulk of the world's match production. Kreuger's empire was financially unsound, however, having been built on speculation and dummy corporations, and ended in utter financial collapse and Kreuger's suicide (although some speculation suggests that he may have been murdered).
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'A company in New Zealand is producing functional jet packs.'
Christchurch's Martin Aircraft Company has begun developing several varieties of jet pack, including one for military use and another for recreational consumer use (the latter comes with an expectably high $100,000 sticker price). The company has produced working models of the device, which it classifies as an ultralight aircraft; Martin's website features several videos of the jet pack in use. Unlike earlier attempts to build similar personal flight devices, this jet pack has solved the thrust-to-weight problem, and can run for half an hour on five gallons of gas.
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'A company in New Zealand is producing functional jet packs.'
Christchurch's Martin Aircraft Company has begun developing several varieties of jet pack, including one for military use and another for recreational consumer use (the latter comes with an expectably high $100,000 sticker price). The company has produced working models of the device, which it classifies as an ultralight aircraft; Martin's website features several videos of the jet pack in use. Unlike earlier attempts to build similar personal flight devices, this jet pack has solved the thrust-to-weight problem, and can run for half an hour on five gallons of gas.
vids & photos or this didnt happen.
no time for google searching :lol:
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http://www.martinjetpack.com/the-martin-jetpack.aspx
(http://zedomax.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/martin-jetpack.jpg)
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Can't you get a pretty decent plane for $100G ? Think I'd feel better in a plane... :lol:
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Yea, but it's not a f*ckin JET PACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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http://www.martinjetpack.com/the-martin-jetpack.aspx
thanks randy
I want one.
only 86k :lol: totally worth it if you had that.
i dig how they are controlling attitude and motion with the little X shaped deflectors.
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I feel ya Randy, I'll wait until they work out a few more bugs myself though :lol:
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(http://zedomax.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/martin-jetpack.jpg)
In this picture you see a man scared to death...what you don't see is his wife on the phone quadrupling his life insurance while shopping at the local Ferrari dealership!
:lol:
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:lol:
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'The letter J did not exist until the Renaissance.'
The original Latin alphabet omitted some letters we now use, and other letters served multiple purposes ("Z" was once the seventh letter, for example, and then briefly disappeared from the alphabet entirely). The "J" sound was considered part of the "I" sound, which is why, for instance, the inscription on Trajan's Column in Rome spells the emperor's name "TRAIAN." It remained that way until a grammarian named Gian Giorgio Trissino attempted to make improvements to literary Italian; some of his suggestions were disregarded, but his modern versions of the "V" and "J" caught on.
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cool.
:thumbs:
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Gian Giorgio Trissino... Oprah thanks you for the V and the J ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVxm-SO6Vdo
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'Drunkenness is influenced by the placebo effect.'
Researchers in New Zealand found that test subjects who believed they had been drinking alcohol had worse memories than those who didn't. The experiment placed two groups of students in a bar-like atmosphere, but gave one group "vodka tonics" which were actually just water with lime, and then presented both groups with a series of slides and quizzed them on details they had seen. The students who had been "drinking" had comparatively impaired memories, and were more suggestible than their counterparts.
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how could you confuse the taste of Vodka with water?
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Adolph Hitler played chess daily. He always played the white pieces, and insisted on being allowed to replace one of his bishops with a second queen.
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how could you confuse the taste of Vodka with water?
dont get that either. But...i have seen it happen. Give some dumb annoying chick some "mixed drinks" and watch the fun.
Seen it happen with a fake joint too. :lol:
"Dudes, I'm so Baked!"
"suuuuure you are" :lol:
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"Taiwanese scientists are breeding green-glowing pigs."
One of the most scientifically relevant facts about this story is that the genetically modified ("transgenic") pigs were able to breed successfully; the first green-glowing pigs were produced in 2006, but it took much longer for a cloned sow to pass on her particular traits to her offspring. The long-term worth of the experiment lies in using the pigs to help produce viable organs for human transplants: the green-glowing protein, originally from injected jellyfish DNA, would allow transplanted tissue to be tracked and monitored.
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weird
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Very weird.
Would be interesting to know how long they've been trying to do this...
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I don't want a green glowing liver...kthxbye
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Most people can't drink milk."
Only about 40% of the world can actually digest milk after childhood. Most of those people are of European descent and share a genetic mutation that enables them to do it: only about 25% of Africans, 5% of Asians and 0% of Native Americans can fully digest the lactose in milk in adulthood. Lactose persistence likely comes from an ancient European dairy-farming people (potentially the Funnelbeaker culture or the Linear Pottery culture) and spread across the continent from that genesis around 7,500 years ago.
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Most people can't drink milk."
Only about 40% of the world can actually digest milk after childhood. Most of those people are of European descent and share a genetic mutation that enables them to do it: only about 25% of Africans, 5% of Asians and 0% of Native Americans can fully digest the lactose in milk in adulthood. Lactose persistence likely comes from an ancient European dairy-farming people (potentially the Funnelbeaker culture or the Linear Pottery culture) and spread across the continent from that genesis around 7,500 years ago.
interesting. :thumbs:
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Most people can't drink milk."
Only about 40% of the world can actually digest milk after childhood. Most of those people are of European descent and share a genetic mutation that enables them to do it: only about 25% of Africans, 5% of Asians and 0% of Native Americans can fully digest the lactose in milk in adulthood. Lactose persistence likely comes from an ancient European dairy-farming people (potentially the Funnelbeaker culture or the Linear Pottery culture) and spread across the continent from that genesis around 7,500 years ago.
Good thing I am a Spaniard! I needz my milk!
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Most people can't drink milk."
Only about 40% of the world can actually digest milk after childhood. Most of those people are of European descent and share a genetic mutation that enables them to do it: only about 25% of Africans, 5% of Asians and 0% of Native Americans can fully digest the lactose in milk in adulthood. Lactose persistence likely comes from an ancient European dairy-farming people (potentially the Funnelbeaker culture or the Linear Pottery culture) and spread across the continent from that genesis around 7,500 years ago.
Good thing I am a Spaniard! I needz my milk!
I don't think the Dread Pirate Roberts is going to trust you very much.
This is interesting, I have a neighbor that was born in China, she said they don't drink milk like we do here. Milk is for infants and looked at baby food.
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"Testosterone is good for your heart."
A British study of 930 men linked individuals with low testosterone and increased risk of mortality from heart disease and other medical problems. The study indicated that even otherwise healthy men with borderline-low testosterone were more likely to die than men with ordinary levels of the hormone. Researchers stressed, however, that this particular study suggested a link, but did not strictly prove causation (although testosterone was shown to reduce the buildup of arterial cholesterol in animal test subjects).
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"The efficacy of acupuncture has been demonstrated in a lab setting with fMRI."
Acupuncture has always been controversial -- and, occasionally, dismissed outright as pseudo-scientific -- but it has also been consistently effective for many of the people who have experienced it. Now, German researchers have conducted a study in which volunteers were monitored with fMRI, first while receiving electric shocks and again while receiving the same shocks but with acupuncture needles in place. A marked difference became obvious in the imaging of the subjects' brains; pain perception was visibly reduced in the second case, suggesting that acupuncture can indeed help relieve pain.
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I don't know if I like the thought of needles...
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I don't know if I like the thought of needles...
Just try it. You'll wonder why you didnt do it sooner.
:peels:
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I'll take your word for it... :lol:
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fact.
peelz REALLY does do drugs.
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Fact: Krandall really does do Dolphins
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Fact: Peelz had sloppy seconds w/ said dolphin.
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Fact: ShockWears are better used to suffocate small children/animals than to protect shocks
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Fact: Shock Covers are coats... 100% down.
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okay shut up now :rofl:
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that's not a fact...
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creepy.
"Companies are developing pills that can text you once they've been ingested."
One such company, a start-up called Proteus Biomedical, has developed microchips that operate from a tiny circuit which can be embedded in a pill. Using the battery acid in your stomach, the circuit then generates enough voltage to power itself, sending a signal to an electronic Band-Aid on the patient's skin. The Band-Aid can then actually send a text
message -- to doctors or to a patient's caretaker, for example -- confirming that the correct dosage has been taken.
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creepy.
"Companies are developing pills that can text you once they've been ingested."
One such company, a start-up called Proteus Biomedical, has developed microchips that operate from a tiny circuit which can be embedded in a pill. Using the battery acid in your stomach, the circuit then generates enough voltage to power itself, sending a signal to an electronic Band-Aid on the patient's skin. The Band-Aid can then actually send a text
message -- to doctors or to a patient's caretaker, for example -- confirming that the correct dosage has been taken.
my business could use this. :) :lol:
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:lol:
then you could make sure you're clients know they are only getting the best :lol:
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Nice, resupply dates in the pills :lol:
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peelz gives all his clients the little birth control dispencer thing, so when they take nearly the last... they get the message.. :lol:
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Fact: most people don't get my avatar! :rofl:
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i dont get it.
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Fact: most people don't get my avatar! :rofl:
Does it mean you are hung like a horse? :rofl:
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Ding ding ding!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :clap:
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What do I win? :clap:
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a date with rappy freak, cause he is hung like a horse.
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"No healthy person uses only a small percent of his brain."
Perhaps to lament the fact that many people aren't very thoughtful or to erroneously indicate that most of the brain is inactive at any given time, someone once established the rumor that people only use a small part of their brain (the fabled number is usually 10%). However, of the brain's hundred billion neurons, no significant portion ever sits there dormant -- in a healthy person, at least. Imaging shows our brains lighting up with activity; indeed, most of the brain is active most of the time... and that's true of virtually the entire brain over a 24-hour period.
apparently they haven't met funyun.
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Fact: most people don't get my avatar! :rofl:
is it how you make dinner in S. America? :) :deadhorse:
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I thought they were used for glue...
hmm interesting.
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"Orchids employ multiple kinds of deception, imitating both insects and other flowers."
One orchid (the hammer orchid) evolved to lure a particular species of wasp by resembling a female of that species in color and shape. Others mimic the scents of flowers. Still another species, a Chinese orchid named Dendrobium sinense, mimics the pheromones of distressed honeybees in order to attract hornets. The hornets, who prey on bees, have been shown by laboratory testing to be even more attracted to the fragrant orchid than to the (odorless) bees themselves.
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Fact: most people don't get my avatar! :rofl:
is it how you make dinner in S. America? :) :deadhorse:
LOL I'm in Central America, not South America!
Lady4fiddy, you win my admiration! :lol: kinda lame price huh?
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Fact: most people don't get my avatar! :rofl:
is it how you make dinner in S. America? :) :deadhorse:
LOL I'm in Central America, not South America!
Lady4fiddy, you win my admiration! :lol: kinda lame price huh?
whatever...it's "South" of my "America" :rofl:
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:lol:
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Fact: most people don't get my avatar! :rofl:
is it how you make dinner in S. America? :) :deadhorse:
LOL I'm in Central America, not South America!
Lady4fiddy, you win my admiration! :lol: kinda lame price huh?
whatever...it's "South" of my "America" :rofl:
:lol: buttwipe! :lol:
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Fact.... Randy is a Weenis!!!!! :bird:
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fact is... :sit:
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Fact.... Randy is a Weenis!!!!! :bird:
Agreed!
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fact is... :sit:
Well if I could find the damn thing!
Oh snap! Do I get another banning?
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Nematodes are the most numerous animals on Earth."
Of all multicellular animals on the planet, the simple nematode is the most common. Nematodes are essentially very tiny worms, and they have adapted to almost every conceivable ecosystem: thousands are present in any given handful of soil, and they represent the vast majority of life on the ocean floor. Many nematodes are parasitic and are responsible for diseases in humans and animals -- heartworm disease in dogs, for example.
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"Benjamin Franklin got his start writing ballads."
Young Benjamin Franklin worked as an apprentice to his brother James, who had started America's first independent newspaper, the New England Courant. Benjamin wrote for the paper while learning his brother's trade, and some of his writing appeared under the pseudonym Silence Dogood, a fictional widow around whom Franklin constructed an entire persona. The earliest piece of published writing that may be attributable to Franklin, however, is a ballad about Blackbeard called "The Taking of Teach the Pirate" or "The Downfall of Piracy." The teenage Franklin's writing
opportunities were curtailed when his brother discovered his Silence Dogood deception, whereupon Ben left the
apprenticeship and fled to Philadelphia.
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"Thunderstorms can create antimatter."
Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor is able to identify a phenomenon called "terrestrial gamma-ray flashes" -- bursts of energy that are relatively common on Earth (they're associated with thunderstorms but usually undetectable). These gamma-ray bursts, which expand upward from thunderstorms, indicate interaction between beams of electrons and positrons (the latter being antimatter). According to the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team at the University of Alabama, this is the first direct evidence of the production of antimatter by the TGF phenomenon.
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"Young men are more susceptible to turmoil in relationships than young women."
A Wake Forest study that examined 1,000 subjects aged between 18 and 23 found that relationship difficulties were more upsetting to male respondents than to female ones. The converse, however, was also true: young men received more benefit from ongoing positive relationships than their female counterparts. Researchers suggested that this might be due to male
respondents' insularity; they were perhaps more emotionally invested in romantic relationships because they had fewer outlets for emotional support elsewhere in their lives.
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"Some food coloring is derived from beetles."
Carmine (or cochineal) is a bold red coloring that comes from South American beetle-like scale insects. The dye dates back to the Aztecs and is still commonly used in cosmetics and food products, where it is often listed as "carmine", "cochineal extract" or "natural red 4". On January 5th, a years-old FDA ruling went into effect, requiring food and cosmetics containing carmine to declare their inclusion of the additive somewhere on their packaging.
om nom nom.
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"People are more likely to remember their first kisses than their first sexual experiences."
Research scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum, author of The Science of Kissing, writes that kissing's influence on brain chemistry is so significant that relevant kisses remain most people's most outstanding memories. Psychologist John Bohannon, she adds, surveyed 500 respondents to determine their most significant life experiences, and nothing - not even the subjects' loss of virginity - was as memorable as a first kiss.
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"The Super Bowl indirectly costs the U.S. workforce hundreds of millions of dollars."
Workforce analyst Kronos Incorporated investigated the claim that the Monday following the Super Bowl is one of the most frequently called-off days of the year. A 2008 survey indicated that 1.5 million employed Americans would call in sick the day after the game, costing employers hundreds of millions in lost productivity (and previous surveys indicated that more people actually call off than admit on planning to do so). The results aren't particularly surprising -- 20% of people admit to calling in sick even if they actually aren't, and Mondays and Fridays are the most popular days to do so.
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"Pepsi's first ad jingle became a hit record."
Pepsi was responsible for the first nationally-broadcast advertising jingle, "Nickel Nickel," in 1940. This came after a tough decade for the soft-drink company, which went bankrupt in 1931 and changed ownership several times afterward, but still sold a 12-ounce, five-cent bottle -- a larger size for the price than its competitors. The jingle highlights this point ("Pepsi-Cola hits the spot/Twelve full ounces, that's a lot..."), went on to become a hit record, and was eventually translated into 55 languages.
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"Dozens of different spellings existed for Shakespeare's name."
Shakespeare's name was spelled in such a wide variety of ways that some even make the case for two different historical figures living in the same era who went by the moniker. Though experts typically frown on this claim, it is true that the author's surname was spelled virtually every way one could think to spell it, from the reasonable (Shackspere, Shexspere) to the less-reasonable (Shaksper, Shaxberd).
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"People who grew up watching black-and-white TVs are more likely to have monochrome dreams."
Most young people (and most people in general) dream in color. But some, most notably those old enough to have grown up watching black-and-white TVs, sometimes dream in monochrome. During the height of black-and-white TV's popularity, most people seem to have dreamed in black and white, suggesting a significant link between media exposure and unconscious thought. Surveyed respondents who grew up with black-and-white TV had black-and-white dreams roughly 25% of the time, compared to only 5% of such dreams among respondents under the age of 25.
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I dream in binary
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I dream of bisexuality
Interesting fact...
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I dream of bestiality
Interesting fact...
Truly!
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I dream of bestiality
I live that dream
I wanna be the animals
weirdos....seriosuly, have you no shame?
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I dream of bestiality
I live that dream
I wanna be the animals
weirdos....seriosuly, have you no shame?
None! And that's a FACT. :nana:
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"Scars are attractive to women looking for a fling."
Studies at the Universities of Liverpool and Stirling expected to find that facial scarring was generally perceived as unattractive in Western cultures; instead, they found that women find it an admirable trait in short-term relationships -- and even an indicator of masculinity and bravery. A lack of scarring did not, however, deter women in search of a long-term, nurturing relationship. Men found women with and without scars to be equally desirable in both scenarios.
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"The man responsible for blood banks was not permitted to donate to them."
Dr. Charles Drew was the first black man to be appointed as an examiner by the American Board of Surgery, and the first to receive a medical science degree from Columbia University; he worked with enterprising techniques to preserve stored blood when that field was wholly new. Drew was director of the world's first blood drive, World War II's "Blood for Britain", and was thereby in charge of the world's first blood bank, located in New York City. However, black people were not permitted to donate blood to blood banks until years later. Drew resigned his position over the issue in 1942.
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"Manhole covers are round to assure they don't fall through the opening."
Microsoft was one of the first major American corporations to begin asking off-the-wall brainteasers as interview questions, mostly to gauge an interviewee's creativity. "Why are manhole covers round?" was one such Microsoft interview question, and though interviewees could answer any number of ways ("Because manholes are round!"), the most practical answer is that a square manhole cover, placed at an angle, could fall through a circular hole (unlike a circular cover).
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"Tennis grunting actually interferes with opponents' performance."
A study from the University of Hawaii at Manoa found that tennis players' response times were significantly slower when they heard their opponent grunt, and those subjects even recorded the wrong direction for the shot more often than when the sound was absent. The study showed respondents videos of a tennis player serving to the left or to the right in order to measure respondents' reactions; some clips played a brief sound during the shot, while others did not.
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"Yellowish or reddish skin tones are more attractive to women than traditionally masculine features."
Pale skin that lacks the yellowish or reddish hue sometimes called a "healthy glow" is a larger detractor to physical attractiveness than any major facial characteristic, according to a UK study. Vaguely yellow or red skin tones indicate a healthy diet and physical fitness, while pallid skin generally indicates a weakened immune system. The study's female respondents were more swayed by the tint of a man's skin than his features, indicating that perceived health was more important to them than virility or masculinity.
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"There is one pictographic language left in the world."
The Library of Congress's Selections from the Naxi Manuscript Collection features the only pictographic writing system still in use today: ceremonial texts by the Naxi people of Yunnan Province, China. The simplified, illustrative system resembles a series of drawn glyphs similar to Egyptian or Mayan hieroglyphs, with many recognizable figures of animals and objects. Practicing Naxi priests, called "dongbas," use this system to produce manuscripts, which are used for standard ceremonies such as funerals and blessings.
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"Spam emails have declined for the first year on record."
According to Cisco, 2010 was the first year on record that spam email activity declined -- only by 1.6% in the United States, but historic nonetheless. The decline resulted in a mere 11.1 trillion spam emails sent in 2010, down from 11.3 trillion sent in 2009. The decrease is likely due to the shutdown of major spam senders around the globe. As spam activity decreases, however, malware activity is on the rise; Google processed a 111% increase in e-mail virus transmissions in late 2010 compared to the same month in the previous year.
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"Too much sleep is deadlier than not enough."
Sleeping fewer than six hours a night -- and over seven and a half hours a night -- can often be indicative of illnesses or even the cause of health problems. Researchers from British and Italian universities analyzed studies that covered more than one million people and found that those who slept fewer than six hours a night were 12% more likely to die before 65, but those who slept more than nine hours were 30% more likely to die prematurely.
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randy....
re-post :confused:
;)
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Wow Randy, and the original post is like 4 posts up! :lol:
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the heck are you guys talking aboot?
???
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ninja.
we saw what we saw. :bird:
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"Beer keeps you younger, but may give you cancer."
There are notable health benefits associated with a moderate level of beer consumption: it raises HDL ("good cholesterol"), helps prevent cardiovascular disease, decreases the likelihood of dementia, and in general counteracts some of the risks of aging. Of course, all of this only applies when people drink in moderation (fewer than five drinks when one indulges; one to six beverages over the course of a week). However, averaging a drink a day also increases your risk for several types of cancer, including lung, liver, stomach, and prostate cancer.
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"Beer keeps you younger, but may give you cancer."
So, f*cked either way. Might as well get sh!tfaced and enjoy yourself. :beer:
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"By licking a postage stamp, you will pick up a nutritional content of around six calories."
According to the British Royal Mail, the nutritional content of a single adhesive stamp is 5.9 calories -- although presumably this figure is the caloric content of all the lickable adhesive on the entire surface of the stamp, and therefore a person's actual caloric consumption would be lower (which may explain the far lower U.S. Postal Service estimate of one-tenth of a calorie). The caloric content comes from the sugars present in the wood-based adhesive gum on these stamps, although they have become far less prevalent with the advent of self-adhesive stamps.
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"Men are more likely to forgive a partner who has a lesbian affair than a heterosexual one."
According to a University of Texas study, men are more than twice as likely to forgive a partner who's had a homosexual affair (50% said they would forgive a homosexual affair, as opposed to 22% who said they'd forgive a heterosexual affair). Women, conversely, showed the opposite pattern; 28% said they'd stick with a boyfriend after he'd had a heterosexual affair, while 21% would forgive a homosexual affair.
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"Pedestrians are three times more likely to be killed in traffic accidents after daylight-saving begins."
The sudden extra hour when clocks are changed for daylight-saving time is to blame for an increase of pedestrians hit by cars. In November -- when daylight-saving starts -- pedestrians walking near traffic after 6 p.m. are much more likely to be struck by a car than at the same time of day in October, the month before the time change -- and the risk returns to normal the following month. Furthermore, a pedestrian's risk of being struck by a car at 6 p.m. in November is 11 times higher than in April, when daylight-saving time ends. Morning traffic, according to researchers, seems unaffected; only evening rush hour becomes deadlier.
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"Doritos once paid a research facility to broadcast an ad into space."
Over a six-hour period in 2008, a Doritos advertisement was broadcast into space by the EISCAT Scientific Association, an international research organization based in Scandinavia. The high-powered radars directed the ad toward a star within a habitable zone that could theoretically support life in the distant Ursa Major constellation. The director of EISCAT conceded that since the ad was being sent as a binary MPEG file, it was rather unlikely to be decoded by extraterrestrial life, but he did defend the benefit to the institution -- pointing out that funding, even from commercial sources, still gets research done.
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DOritos...exactly what I want exterrestrial civilizations to know about the ingenuity of the human race. :thumbs: :lol:
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"Doctors have successfully cured a man with HIV for the first time in history."
In 2007, an HIV-positive man named Timothy Ray Brown was diagnosed with a form of leukemia and underwent aggressive treatment at a Berlin hospital. The treatment included total body irradiation and a risky stem-cell transplant. The transplant came from a donor who happened to have a specific genetic mutation (CCR5 delta 32) that made him highly resistant to HIV. After allowing Brown's immune system to recover and submitting him to extensive testing, doctors have officially declared him cured of HIV.
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"Doctors have successfully cured a man with HIV for the first time in history."
In 2007, an HIV-positive man named Timothy Ray Brown was diagnosed with a form of leukemia and underwent aggressive treatment at a Berlin hospital. The treatment included total body irradiation and a risky stem-cell transplant. The transplant came from a donor who happened to have a specific genetic mutation (CCR5 delta 32) that made him highly resistant to HIV. After allowing Brown's immune system to recover and submitting him to extensive testing, doctors have officially declared him cured of HIV.
Pity the extensive radiation treatment caused his willy to shrivel & he's now growing a second head
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"Doctors have successfully cured a man with HIV for the first time in history."
there is hope for preddy after all. Keep hope alive!
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"Men with deeper voices tend to have more children."
A study of the Hadza people in Tanzania found higher reproductive success and more children overall among men with deeper voices compared to men with high-pitched voices. Researchers have suspected that deeper voices are more attractive to women, but they selected the Hadza because their lack of birth control methods allows for a more direct link between measurable vocal pitch and number of children. Anthropologists suggest that either increased testosterone or the perception that deeper-voiced men are better providers could explain the findings.
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"Scientists have discovered a solar-powered hornet."
The oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis) somehow produces electricity with its body, according to findings from a study at Tel Aviv University that observed the behavior and biology of the insect. Realizing that the insect was -- unlike most hornets -- at its most active during intense sunlight, researchers discovered that the yellow stripe on the hornet's abdomen traps light using a pigment called xanthopterin (also found on the wings of butterflies and in the urine of mammals). The hornet then generates electricity from this energy -- although the specific method it uses remains a mystery.
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"Researchers discovered that even just the scent of a woman's tears can decrease sexual arousal in men.
The study, published in the January issue of Science magazine, exposed participants to either a solution of women's tears (emotional tears, which are chemically distinct from eye-lubricating tears) or saline. Though unable to distinguish consciously between the two, men exposed to the emotional tears reported a drop in arousal and measured decreased testosterone compared to their counterparts."
Researchers who originally intended to study the chemical effects of empathy and sadness instead discovered that even just the scent of a woman's tears can decrease sexual arousal in men. The study was published in Science magazine in January. Participants were exposed to either a solution of women's tears (emotional tears, which are chemically distinct from eye-lubricating tears) or saline. Though unable to distinguish consciously between the two, men exposed to the emotional tears reported a drop in arousal, and measured decreased testosterone, compared to their counterparts.
funny, because the scent of mens tears turn me on :raptorrally:
:rofl:
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I need to get some of those tears...could do some pranking with that stuff :thumbs: hmmmm...how could i get some...
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A Harvard professor has developed an accelerometer that costs four cents to produce."
Accelerometers, which measure the acceleration forces of the object they're attached to, have countless uses in engineering, consumer electronics and medicine (the NFL is planning a test run of on-helmet accelerometers to gauge and diagnose the severity of concussions). While they used to be time-consuming to produce, a professor named George Whitesides has now developed a model made mostly of chromatography paper and other extremely low-cost materials. The sensors -- roughly the size of a dime -- demonstrate a proof-of-concept that would allow accelerometers to be built on flexible, stretchable materials. This could revolutionize the way they're used.
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"Six of the 12 most recent presidents have been left-handed."
Even though only 11% of the world is left-handed, a dramatically higher incidence of left-handedness has been apparent in presidential elections since the end of World War II. In two general elections, all of the contenders have been left-handed (McCain and Obama in 2008; Bush, Clinton and Perot in 1992). One possible explanation is that some left-handers process language using both sides of the brain instead of just one, making them more adept speakers. Another is that left-handers are predisposed to creative problem solving.
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"Six of the 12 most recent presidents have been left-handed."
Even though only 11% of the world is left-handed, a dramatically higher incidence of left-handedness has been apparent in presidential elections since the end of World War II. In two general elections, all of the contenders have been left-handed (McCain and Obama in 2008; Bush, Clinton and Perot in 1992). One possible explanation is that some left-handers process language using both sides of the brain instead of just one, making them more adept speakers. Another is that left-handers are predisposed to creative problem solving.
It's cos us lefties are just better than you lot!
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"Small children are generally less afraid of spiders and snakes than adults are."
A Rutgers experiment showed that children, just like adults, were able to recognize images of snakes and spiders faster than they did other images -- caterpillars, mushrooms, cockroaches -- but "not a single one" displayed any fear while doing so. While snakes and spiders are two of the most commonly-feared creatures amongst adults, depending on their prevalence in a given area, young children have apparently not yet developed this aversion.
I HATE SNAKES! :mad:
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"Small children are generally less afraid of spiders and snakes than adults are."
A Rutgers experiment showed that children, just like adults, were able to recognize images of snakes and spiders faster than they did other images -- caterpillars, mushrooms, cockroaches -- but "not a single one" displayed any fear while doing so. While snakes and spiders are two of the most commonly-feared creatures amongst adults, depending on their prevalence in a given area, young children have apparently not yet developed this aversion.
I HATE SNAKES! :mad:
But you like Australia???
They have 7 of the 10 most deadly snakes in the world there
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Haven't seen any snakes while there. Other than what was in the zoo.
Did get to see a white tail spider there... Quick little f*ckers!
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"Playing hard to get actually does work."
Harvard and UVA researchers found that women who do not know whether a man is interested in them or not become more interested. The researchers showed college-aged women fake Facebook profiles of attractive men who had allegedly viewed the subjects' own Facebook profiles. The subjects were then told that the men had given them high ratings, were told that they'd given average ratings, or were told nothing at all. The women were more interested when they were told nothing at all. "Uncertainty increases thoughts about the uncertain situation," study author Erin Whitchurch explained. People can't help their curiosity, "but rather than recognize it's because of the uncertainty, they assume it is because they must be attracted to the person."
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"A full bladder causes you to make more cautious decisions."
Though the conclusion might seem counterintuitive, the need to urinate actually correlates to more reserved decision-making. A study published in Psychological Science tested 500 college students, who drank either a few sips of water or five cups of water and then waited 40 minutes. The students were then offered choices involving deferred rewards: $18 tomorrow or $30 in 25 days. The students with higher bladder pressure were more likely to choose the long-term reward. The suggested explanation was that inhibition takes place in the same neural area -- when you're concentrating on inhibiting one behavior, you inhibit them all.
That's funny.
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Ill take the 18 now plz. I need a hit bad. :peels:
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"Attractive men are more likely to get hired than attractive women."
An Israeli study sent out 2,656 resumes in pairs -- 5,312 in all -- to advertised job openings. In Israel, resumes are often delivered with attached photos, and the pairs of resumes contained one with no picture and one with a picture of an attractive or plain-looking man or woman. Attractive men were substantially more likely to receive a response than plain-looking men, and twice as likely to get one as resumes with no photo. The trend was reversed in women: attractive women were the least likely to get a response, beneath plain-looking women and no-photo resumes.
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"Exercise can actually increase, rather than decrease, your stress levels."
Exercising as much as you want makes you smarter, and being forced to exercise beyond that point can make you even smarter than that (at least this is what scientists have gathered from observing mice). Stress is a separate result, however. Willingly engaging in exercise helps decrease your stress response, but much of that decrease is attributable to an elevation in mood. Mice who were forced to run showed an increase in stress hormones, indicating that the mood benefit of exercise is tied to whether or not you're going to enjoy it.
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"Exercise can actually increase, rather than decrease, your stress levels."
Exercising as much as you want makes you smarter, and being forced to exercise beyond that point can make you even smarter than that (at least this is what scientists have gathered from observing mice). Stress is a separate result, however. Willingly engaging in exercise helps decrease your stress response, but much of that decrease is attributable to an elevation in mood. Mice who were forced to run showed an increase in stress hormones, indicating that the mood benefit of exercise is tied to whether or not you're going to enjoy it.
well, being chased by a mechanical cat isn't going to lower a mouses stress levels any is it?
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Fact: This guy is my new effing hero. Fact.
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/lozito.html
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male in virtually all living species. >:D
Good to know, Lorena....
I am nothing like her... I would have shoved it down his throat, not throw it in the field. :rofl:
I can hear her now
"Meatballs & sausages for dinner dear.............
You eat it all, I'm happy with a salad, go on, I insist..........."
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you have too much free time. :lol:
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"Posture influences how qualified you consider yourself."
An Ohio State study told respondents that they'd be participating in two studies, one for the arts school and one for the business school. The arts study, they were told, gauged posture's influence on other activities. They were then seated upright, slouching forward or slouching dramatically downward, as they participated in a business study on professional performance. Students sitting up straight were much more confident about their own self-analyses while students in the slumped-over position seemed unconvinced by their own thoughts, and their self-analyses were insincere and doubtful.
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"For some men, confrontational stare-downs are instinctual behavior."
A Dutch study gave participants a questionnaire about their behavior in social situations and then instructed them to watch a computer screen and shift their focus between areas on the screen. Unbeknown to the participants, a face briefly flashed on the screen while they were doing so, displaying an angry, happy or neutral expression. In this laboratory setting, with no logical reason to be confrontational, people who self-identified as being dominant in social situations took longer to look away from the angry face than their counterparts did. Similarly, people who identified themselves as reward seeking took longer to look away from the happy expression.
interesting.
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"Gmail is the e-mail domain of choice among men aged 18 to 35."
Recommendation engine Hunch.com asked its users a series of questions about their demographics and personalities, then organized their responses into broad categories based on their e-mail addresses. The divisions between the top four major e-mail domains were stark. The typical Gmail user is a thin young man, college-educated and single. Hotmail users are most likely to be young women who live in the suburbs. Yahoo! users tend to be women aged 18 to 49, family-oriented and with children. AOL users tend to be overweight women aged 35 to 64, characterized as "optimistic extroverts."
page 69 woot!
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"Human aging patterns are similar to those of wild primates."
The rate at which the likelihood of human death increases with age is often generally assumed to be slower than that of wild animals. However, new research indicates that "human patterns are not strikingly different." The mortality rate of wild primates, like chimps and gorillas, is comparable to that of humans -- despite the safety and convenience that characterize human society, and the numerous risks wild animals face. Additionally, in both cases, males tend to die sooner than females. The smallest difference in male/female rates was found among the muriquis, monkeys that also happen to have the least male-male aggression.
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"New fathers can experience postpartum depression just as new mothers can."
Postpartum depression, which affects up to 15% of women who have given birth, also manifests itself in men, and can significantly influence their behavior. A University of Michigan study found that 7% of new fathers experience major depression (although its cause was not necessarily due to fatherhood), and that fathers who experienced depression were more than three times as likely to spank their children.
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totally true
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totally true
So you're a kid spanking depression ridden dad? :lol:
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totally true
So you're a kid spanking depression ridden dad? :lol:
L-O-L
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totally true
So you're a kid spanking depression ridden dad? :lol:
L-O-L
well thats probably better than being a monkey spanking depression ridden wannabe.............. :P
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you? :lol:
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you? :lol:
I'm no wannabe.................
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"Optimists die younger."
Researchers for the Longevity Project, which has been conducted continuously since 1921, started off studying 1,500 children and eventually concluded that the most cheerful kids had shorter lives overall than those who were less cheerful. A likely explanation is that cheerful people are more likely to take potentially life-shortening risks. Howard Friedman, the leader of the study's research teams, explained that whimsical optimism "can lead one to be careless about things that are important to health and long life," especially when compared to the lifelong behaviors of someone more cautious and reserved.
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Live hard, die young, & leave a good looking corpse
(some dead bloke)
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"Financial risk-taking is just as common in men with low levels of testosterone."
Some risk-taking is associated with high testosterone -- evidenced, for example, by the disproportionately risky behavior shown by men with spiking hormones (particularly those aged 18 to 24). But the likelihood of risk-taking is not necessarily that straightforward according to the authors of a new Duke University study. Testosterone's relationship to risk-taking has a U-shaped, rather than a linear, correlation. The study found that the people likeliest to gamble on a small financial risk were those with either the highest or lowest levels of testosterone for their gender (men and women included).
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"People who watch more television are less happy overall."
The 30-year General Social Survey concluded that happier people tend to be socially active, and that unhappier people tend to watch TV (the actual act of watching TV was identified as pleasurable and positive in the short term, but correlated with unhappiness in the long term). The contradiction between the short-term and long-term effects of TV could have to do with the way it influences a person's worldview. Before his death in 2005, communications theorist George Gerbner argued that television gives people a false image of the world -- that its sensationalism makes people unconsciously believe, and therefore act, as though the world is worse than it actually is. He called this "Mean World Syndrome."
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you? :lol:
I'm no wannabe.................
OK,
dissapointed........
Left this wide open & it got ignored!
Bring back Brian, thats all I can say
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you? :lol:
I'm no wannabe.................
OK,
dissapointed........
Left this wide open & it got ignored!
Bring back Brian, hes my man-crush
I know you miss him dragonz. itll be okay
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go to facebook if you wanna hang w/ brian, but there's no quote changes there.
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"A spammer can potentially make $7,000 to $9,500 a day."
A Berkeley study commandeered part of a botnet that was responsible for a large chunk of the internet's spam and turned it into a research tool. The researchers instructed the infected computers to send out spam that directed people to fake storefronts, which the study then monitored. The researchers netted only 28 "sales" in 26 days -- a 0.00001% conversion rate -- but they'd infiltrated only about 1.5% of the actual botnet. Their final conclusion was that whoever was responsible for the entire botnet could be pulling in $7,000 a day, and $9,500 during active periods, although they stressed that determining actual profit from that figure would be difficult.
peelz, what you doin?
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"A spammer can potentially make $7,000 to $9,500 a day."
A Berkeley study commandeered part of a botnet that was responsible for a large chunk of the internet's spam and turned it into a research tool. The researchers instructed the infected computers to send out spam that directed people to fake storefronts, which the study then monitored. The researchers netted only 28 "sales" in 26 days -- a 0.00001% conversion rate -- but they'd infiltrated only about 1.5% of the actual botnet. Their final conclusion was that whoever was responsible for the entire botnet could be pulling in $7,000 a day, and $9,500 during active periods, although they stressed that determining actual profit from that figure would be difficult.
peelz, what you doin?
no E-spamming here
we do make tons O' bank though. And all the non profit agencies we serve could not exist without direct marketing.
Spam rules
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"Eating at night contributes disproportionately to weight gain."
An experiment at Ohio State University aimed to emulate humans' late-night TV watching and computer usage by exposing mice to light throughout the restful phase when they typically would have been asleep. Though the mice ate the same amount as the mice who got ordinary sleep, they ate half their food during their now-wakeful rest phase, and summarily gained weight. When their food availability was restricted to their "day" phase only, the mice exposed to the nighttime light lost weight, implying that night eating contributed to weight gain -- even if they'd have eaten the same amount of food over the course of the day anyway.
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"Eating at night contributes disproportionately to weight gain."
An experiment at Ohio State University aimed to emulate humans' late-night TV watching and computer usage by exposing mice to light throughout the restful phase when they typically would have been asleep. Though the mice ate the same amount as the mice who got ordinary sleep, they ate half their food during their now-wakeful rest phase, and summarily gained weight. When their food availability was restricted to their "day" phase only, the mice exposed to the nighttime light lost weight, implying that night eating contributed to weight gain -- even if they'd have eaten the same amount of food over the course of the day anyway.
Id believe that. Body is in rest mode, not burning the fat you eat. Cool study...
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go to facebook if you wanna hang w/ brian, but there's no quote changes there.
few seem to play the game here these days either...........
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go to facebook if you wanna hang w/ brian, but there's no quote changes there.
facebook is way too hetero for me most days...
Krandalls always here for ya :lol:
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go to facebook if you wanna hang w/ brian, but there's no quote changes there.
facebook is way too hetero for me most days...
ME & Krandalls will always share with ya :lol:
Thanks Peelzy, go on, gimme a hug,
no thanks no tongue!!
I've seen what you do to Krandall with it
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"Finger length is correlated to testosterone levels."
A Concordia University study of 413 male and female students found that in men, the ratio between the ring finger and the index finger is affected by prenatal testosterone. A longer ring finger indicated a likelihood of higher testosterone levels and a higher likelihood of risk-taking behavior. The Concordia study noted the risk-taking connection only in male subjects perhaps, its authors suggested, because risk-taking doesn't have the same status as a mating behavior for women.
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"Finger length is correlated to testosterone levels."
A Concordia University study of 413 male and female students found that in men, the ratio between the ring finger and the index finger is affected by prenatal testosterone. A longer ring finger indicated a likelihood of higher testosterone levels and a higher likelihood of risk-taking behavior. The Concordia study noted the risk-taking connection only in male subjects perhaps, its authors suggested, because risk-taking doesn't have the same status as a mating behavior for women.
yep read about this. A biologist was able to correctly predict the winners in a track and field competition 99.9% of the time, based on the ratio between the index and the ring finger I think it was. Cool study.
So if your index finger is way bigger than your ring finger, you just might be a homo.
:lol:
everybody go measure
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"Humor helps you solve problems more effectively."
Neuroscientists observing the ability of subjects to solve word problems found that people were most likely to suddenly come up with answers if they were amused (having just watched a comedy routine). Study author Mark Beeman suggested that levity allows the brain to make more remote connections than it otherwise would, which helps us arrive at those moments of insight. While imaging the brains of subjects who were preparing to solve puzzles, his study also noted that the most successful subject's brains exhibited a state of positivity.
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I think that way! :thumbs:
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"As much as 50% of men may carry some form of HPV."
A study at the H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa tested 1,100 adult males and found that 50% had human papillomavirus (HPV) infections. There are hundreds of types of HPV, and many cause no known symptoms, but the high incidence of HPV in men indicates that men are less able than women to be healed from an HPV infection as they age. The study concluded that every year, 6% of men will contract HPV 16 -- the strain that causes cancer in women and men. HPV is a sexually-transmitted virus and the most common cause of cervical cancer in women. It's also the most common cause of other types of cancer in both genders.
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"Men tend to regret work failures; women, relationship failures."
Men and women are both liable to harbor longstanding life regrets, most frequently about relationships, family, education, work, and finances. More than twice as many women, however, express romantic regrets (45% to 20%) while work regrets are more common among men than women (35% to 30%). Study researcher Neal Roese indicated that regretting inaction rather than some regrettable action was common among men and women; making mistakes causes short-term consequences that people generally get over, while regrets over missed opportunities tend to linger.
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"The U.S. military has commissioned a cheetah-like robot for a defense program."
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the organization responsible for the forerunner to the internet, has commissioned both a humanoid and a cheetah-like robot. The commissions are to be completed within the next two years from the engineering company Boston Dynamics. The humanoid robot (named "Atlas") will be capable of biped-like locomotion, while the cheetah, imaginatively named "Cheetah," will initially be able to run up to 30 mph (though "there's no fundamental reason why it can't go as fast as the animals," according to the company's president, Marc Raibert).
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"75 million users spend 200 million minutes every day playing Angry Birds."
That's a total of 16 years of avian revenge taking place every hour, according to Rovio, the small Finnish company behind Angry Birds. The game's popularity spans the globe -- "Angry Birds Day" on December 11, 2010, drew street gatherings in Jakarta and Budapest, and Israeli comedy show Eretz Nehederet did a sketch about the app. One sequel, "Angry Birds Rio," sold 10 million copies in 10 days.
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"75 million users spend 200 million minutes every day playing Angry Birds."
That's a total of 16 years of avian revenge taking place every hour, according to Rovio, the small Finnish company behind Angry Birds. The game's popularity spans the globe -- "Angry Birds Day" on December 11, 2010, drew street gatherings in Jakarta and Budapest, and Israeli comedy show Eretz Nehederet did a sketch about the app. One sequel, "Angry Birds Rio," sold 10 million copies in 10 days.
Love that game :thumbs:
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"Stress makes women more perceptive of social cues, but men, less so."
University of Southern California researchers induced stress in experiment subjects by having them submerge their hands in ice water for three minutes (which stimulates cortisol levels) and then asking them, and a control group, to assess a series of facial expressions. While monitoring their subjects' brains, researchers found that men under stress showed less activity in a brain region associated with facial recognition than unstressed men did. Women experienced the opposite result. Neuroscientist Shelly Taylor suggested that this may be evolutionary behavior -- men experience a "fight or flight" response, while women, who would be unable to care for offspring if injured, instead "tend and befriend."
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"Exercise can lower your risk of death from prostate cancer."
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, along with skin cancer: about one in six men will be diagnosed with it at some point in their lifetime. However, a study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that monitored 2,075 diagnosed men reports that men have a better chance of surviving the cancer if they engage in vigorous exercise. All men who engaged in at least moderate physical activity had a better chance of living through the 18-year study. Vigorous activity -- over three hours of exercise a week -- resulted in a 61% lower risk of death from prostate cancer itself.
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male in virtually all living species. >:D
Good to know, Lorena....
I am nothing like her... I would have shoved it down his throat, not throw it in the field. :rofl:
Grilled it firat I hope???..........
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"Owning a car costs about $10,000 a year."
Assuming a car is being driven 15,000 miles per year, the total cost of its operation and maintenance (gas, tires, fees, repairs, and so on) would be $9,641 per year, or around 53 cents per mile, according to an analysis by AAA. This figure was based on late 2006 gas estimates, however, when gas prices in the U.S. were dramatically lower per gallon (around $2.25 on average) than they are now (approximately $3.60). This per-year AAA estimate was also for a medium-sized sedan -- that 52-cents-per-year figure goes up to 63 or 67 cents per mile for a large sedan or SUV.
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"Owning a car costs about $10,000 a year."
Assuming a car is being driven 15,000 miles per year, the total cost of its operation and maintenance (gas, tires, fees, repairs, and so on) would be $9,641 per year, or around 53 cents per mile, according to an analysis by AAA. This figure was based on late 2006 gas estimates, however, when gas prices in the U.S. were dramatically lower per gallon (around $2.25 on average) than they are now (approximately $3.60). This per-year AAA estimate was also for a medium-sized sedan -- that 52-cents-per-year figure goes up to 63 or 67 cents per mile for a large sedan or SUV.
its gone up 3 percent in the last year :help:
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"Owning a car costs about $10,000 a year."
Assuming a car is being driven 15,000 miles per year, the total cost of its operation and maintenance (gas, tires, fees, repairs, and so on) would be $9,641 per year, or around 53 cents per mile, according to an analysis by AAA. This figure was based on late 2006 gas estimates, however, when gas prices in the U.S. were dramatically lower per gallon (around $2.25 on average) than they are now (approximately $3.60). This per-year AAA estimate was also for a medium-sized sedan -- that 52-cents-per-year figure goes up to 63 or 67 cents per mile for a large sedan or SUV.
its gone up 3 percent in the last year :help:
right along with the national average of annual income increases.
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ours isn't going up this year @ work :(
bastards
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mine either
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We haven't seen raises in 2 1/2 years.
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"People who enjoy the taste of beer are much more likely to have sex on the first date."
The OKCupid analysis blog OKTrends uses data gathered by polling its users to arrive at curious and surprising dating statistics. When asked "Would you consider sleeping with someone on the first date," men and women who identified themselves as liking the taste of beer were much more likely to say yes. For women, 40% said they'd consider sex on the fist date, but a woman would be 15% more likely to do so if she enjoyed the taste of beer. The trend was similar among men (roughly 50% of all respondents would consider it, compared with over 80% of beer-lovers).
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I like the taste of beer! And if you give me enough, sure the first date thing might happen! :rofl:
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:nana:
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"The U.S. loses $2.6 billion per year on water-main breaks."
The country relies on literally millions of miles of pipelines for the transportation of trillions of gallons of water per day, but that water infrastructure is aging. Some parts of the country still use old wooden pipes for their water mains. These sometimes century-old pipes break around 240,000 times per year, a figure that will only increase as most weaknesses are compounded by age.
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"Coca-Cola invented the coupon."
Before Asa Candler began a national campaign of distributing tickets for a free glass of Coca-Cola, redeemable at "any dispenser of genuine Coca-Cola," the company did only modest business, and its muddled ownership was split among at least three manufacturers. Candler's tickets, mailed to customers and included in magazines, changed everything. By the end of the campaign, 1 in 9 Americans had tasted a free Coca-Cola, and the company was well on its way to establishing itself as a retail icon.
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"Occasionally goofing off at work is less disruptive than merely wishing you could."
In an attempt to gauge the effects of workplace distraction, a University of Copenhagen study asked two groups of subjects to watch videos of people passing a ball and to record the number of passes. The first group was suddenly interrupted with a funny video; the second group received a popup that told them such a video was available if they clicked a button -- but told them not to. Having spent several minutes laughing, the first group, despite being more "distracted," substantially outperformed the second group.
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"Unemployed men are much more likely to die earlier."
A McGill University study found that unemployed men's mortality risk increased 40% in comparison with unemployed women's; the effect was even more pronounced on men under 50. The researchers suggested that stress is particularly at fault in the case of men who expect themselves to be materially supportive of their families, but who instead fall into an unhealthy and discouraging lifestyle. Though previous studies have addressed this topic, researcher Eran Shor stressed that those studies didn't account for preexisting health conditions and other mortality-affecting behaviors.
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The cracks in breaking glass move at speeds of up to 3,000 mph
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it's actually faster than that depending on the type of glass, If I remember right Pyrex glass is one of the fastest
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ya the harder the glass the faster it fractures
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"Men generally care about honor above all else."
A Kinsey Institute study surveyed nearly 28,000 adult men in eight countries, asking them to articulate what was important in their lives. Since the study was initially an erectile dysfunction study, the men were asked other questions regarding that condition as well, but all responses from men with and without ED were included in the results. Above all, the men expressed the importance of being seen as a "man of honor," and that, along with "being in control of your own life," accounted for 60% of their responses.
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"Swearing reduces physical pain."
Researchers at Keele University in the UK found that swearing can have a painkilling power, especially for people who don't regularly curse. Dr. Richard Stephens and other scientists conducted an experiment with student volunteers. The students were asked to submerge their arms into a bucket of icy water while repeatedly uttering a swearword. They then repeated the experiment while repeating a "harmless" word instead of a swear. The results showed that volunteers were able to keep their arms in the icy water longer when they were swearing than they could when they were uttering the non-swearword.
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"Swearing reduces physical pain."
Researchers at Keele University in the UK found that swearing can have a painkilling power, especially for people who don't regularly curse. Dr. Richard Stephens and other scientists conducted an experiment with student volunteers. The students were asked to submerge their arms into a bucket of icy water while repeatedly uttering a swearword. They then repeated the experiment while repeating a "harmless" word instead of a swear. The results showed that volunteers were able to keep their arms in the icy water longer when they were swearing than they could when they were uttering the non-swearword.
8) helps when turning wrenches on rusty bolts too. :rofl: My Dad actually taught me that. "get a breaker bar, and swear at it like it just stole your bike" Said that when we were getting a hub off an old f150 :lol:
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too bad he didn't tell you the same when tighting bolts sprocket boy
:lol:
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too bad he didn't tell you the same when tighting bolts sprocket boy
:lol:
:rofl: he never had any funny anecdotes about loc tite though :rofl:
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"The world's most expensive apartment is a $221 million penthouse in London."
Apartments at the development One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, central London, start at around £6 million pounds (just under $10 million). The Ukrainian buyer of "Flat A" paid $221 million for his unfinished apartment, and reportedly spent another $100 million on interior decoration. The apartment covers the top three floors in its complex, and, like almost all of the other apartments, was purchased through an overseas trust.
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"People who spend their free time sitting have a 20% higher death rate."
Even with all other factors taken into account (including diet and exercise), being entirely sedentary is a dangerous lifestyle. A series of studies by Mayo-Clinic researcher Dr. Ken Levine gauged the impact of inactivity by monitoring his subjects with a sensor apparatus that recorded their every movement. Even though the subjects all had the same caloric intake and were prohibited from exercise, some subjects -- those who unconsciously fidgeted or moved around more -- didn't gain weight. Conversely, occasional exercise doesn't quite offset being sedentary for long stretches, which decreases your insulin effectiveness and increases your risk for diabetes.
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"The world's first skyscraper was intended to convince hunter-gatherers to take up farming."
Jericho is possibly the oldest continually-inhabited site in the world, with a history that dates back over 10,000 years. Early in the Neolithic period, an era characterized by a movement toward farming and settlements, a 28-foot tower was constructed at the city's outskirts. The tower took around 10 years to build, and Tel Aviv University researchers suggest that it was a cosmological marker meant to symbolically connect the settlement with its outlying hills and the surrounding nomadic peoples. Researchers also argue that this makes the tower the world's first public building.
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Interesting...
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"Religious youths are twice as likely to become obese."
Even when accounting for other factors that contribute to obesity, researchers from the "Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults" study, which tracked 2,000 participants over the past 20 years, found that subjects with high religious involvement were twice as likely as their peers to be obese by the time they reached middle age. Notably, however, some studies correlate religious activity with an increased lifespan, partially attributable to a general avoidance of other unhealthy risk behaviors.
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GERD makes you fat?...t-shirts being made :lol:
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Therefore Jenny Craig is the antichrist?
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"People can accurately gauge socioeconomic status from body language."
The subtle body cues that display confidence or submission can be just as revealing as more overt displays of wealth, UC Berkeley psychologists have found. Researchers videotaped subjects interacting with each other and looked for behaviors that evinced either disinterest or engagement. Subjects from a higher-status socioeconomic background showed more disengagement behaviors, appearing more uninvolved and reserved; other participants who watched these interactions on video were able to correctly guess the participants' backgrounds.
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"During Prohibition, several distilleries continued to produce legal "medicinal whiskey.""
The Volstead Act, which prohibited the sale of alcohol in the United States in 1919, provided for the possibility that citizens might "purchase and use liquor for medicinal purposes when prescribed by a physician." This provision was known as "the loophole," and it permitted some distilleries to remain open and functional throughout the "Noble Experiment." Most of the brands that persisted tno longer exist, but some have lasted. For example, vintage bottles of Old Grand-Dad from the era proudly declare themselves "Unexcelled For Medicinal Purposes."
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"Two British designers have produced a $900,000 suit."
Designers Stuart Hughes and Richard Jewels offer what they describe as "the world's most expensive suit," a diamond-studded affair made of cashmere wool and silk. The jacket contains 480 certified half-carat diamonds and, according to Jewels, is part of an effort to establish the prominence of the designers' luxury brand. Only three of the suits will be produced.
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"The modern keyboard layout is only designed not to jam typewriters."
Christopher Sholes, the man who developed the classic QWERTY keyboard layout, did so not to be efficient but to avoid efficiency. His design was intended to separate letter pairs that were frequently hit in succession and thus avoid causing jams. In fact, the world's fastest typist didn't use the QWERTY system at all: Barbara Blackburn, who clocked as high as 212 words per minute, used the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, a much more intuitive design whose home row of keys includes all the vowels and the commonly used consonants.
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"Big Ben is technically a bell, not a clock."
Although Big Ben is contained within the iconic Great Clock of Westminster, the name initially only referred to the main bell itself and not to any other part of the tower. The original 16-ton bell was by far the largest ever cast in Britain, and it cracked while being tested. The bell was recast, slightly smaller, at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, but remained unnamed. Parliament met to rectify the problem, whereupon the portly Sir Benjamin Hall gave a lengthy speech on the subject; Sir Benjamin was known as "Big Ben" to his peers, and his speech provided an obvious moniker that has stuck with the bell ever since.
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"Women are attracted to at least a degree of femininity in men's features."
Psychologists at Princeton and NYU developed a computer model to test people's attraction to 50 dimensions of facial features. They divided these features into two categories, shape (actual physical features) and reflectance (color, complexion). Men, unsurprisingly, were attracted to a traditionally feminine shape and feminine reflectance. Women were attracted to masculine reflectance but feminine shape -- for example, darker complexions but more delicate features.
So... THAT's how peels got his woman. :lol:
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"Women are attracted to at least a degree of femininity in men's features."
Psychologists at Princeton and NYU developed a computer model to test people's attraction to 50 dimensions of facial features. They divided these features into two categories, shape (actual physical features) and reflectance (color, complexion). Men, unsurprisingly, were attracted to a traditionally feminine shape and feminine reflectance. Women were attracted to masculine reflectance but feminine shape -- for example, darker complexions but more delicate features.
So... THAT's how peels got his woman. :lol:
dick I work hard on this figure. :rofl:
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"Relationships work better when the participants feel they're allowed to check out attractive strangers."
The ideal situation is that partners are so committed that they don't even want to check out the hot passersby - but among people who do have that inclination, relationships are healthier when neither partner feels prohibited from doing so. A series of experiments published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology studied couples and found that the participants who unknowingly prevented themselves from noticing attractive strangers reported lower relationship satisfaction. They were also, oddly enough, more likely to remember the fleeting glimpses of attractive strangers they did see than their nonchalant counterparts.
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"More adult women have advanced degrees than men."
Working women first surpassed men in college degrees in 2006, when 34% of women -- compared to 33% of men -- had degrees. But for the first time, employed American women now also report more advanced degrees than their male counterparts, with 10.6 million women over 25 having a master's degree or higher compared to 10.5 million men. Women are also more likely than men to have finished high school (87.6% to 86.6%).
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"Facebook improves its users' self-esteem."
A study in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking tested the theory that the internet can influence self-esteem by offering people the chance to selectively show the best of themselves (as opposed to, for example, the objectivity of a mirror). Participants were seated by a computer that was either on and showed their Facebook profiles or off. Some of the students seated by turned-off computers were also near mirrors. After the participants with Facebook access were given time to navigate through their profiles, everyone was given a self-esteem questionnaire. The Facebook group reported higher self-esteem, with the highest self-esteem coming from those who'd edited their profiles in that span.
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"Facebook improves its users' self-esteem."
A study in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking tested the theory that the internet can influence self-esteem by offering people the chance to selectively show the best of themselves (as opposed to, for example, the objectivity of a mirror). Participants were seated by a computer that was either on and showed their Facebook profiles or off. Some of the students seated by turned-off computers were also near mirrors. After the participants with Facebook access were given time to navigate through their profiles, everyone was given a self-esteem questionnaire. The Facebook group reported higher self-esteem, with the highest self-esteem coming from those who'd edited their profiles in that span.
until idiot rednecks delete you when they cant take a joke :lol:
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"Powerful women are as likely as powerful men to have affairs."
Though past studies have reported that men are more likely to cheat, a Psychological Science survey that sought to limit its scope to powerful men and women concluded that infidelity has less to do with gender than with power and confidence. According to psychologist Dr. Joris Lammers, "We found that among powerful people, gender made no difference" and the relationship between infidelity, and power and self-esteem were far more important indicators.
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Fact:
I miss Randy
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Fact:
I miss Randy
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Fact:
Me too!!! :(
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"Men rely on the lower-left quadrant of the face to express emotion."
Women tend to display emotions with the entirety of their faces, but men's emotional displays tend to be localized in the lower-left quadrant of their faces, according to University of Florida researchers. In men’s brains, language is localized in the left hemisphere; the same functions are more evenly distributed in women. Study researcher Dawn Bowers explained it this way: because men’s brains are more compartmentalized, the triggers for emotional expression may operate in the same way as language distribution.
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"You should neither starve a cold nor feed a fever."
Doctors Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen simplify this myth to "whether you have a cold or fever, listen to your body," eat healthy foods and drink a lot of liquids. Food and rest help your body's T cells and B cells -- lymphocytes involved in your immune response -- fight off illness, and neither is particularly helped by starvation.
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"You should neither starve a cold nor feed a fever."
Doctors Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen simplify this myth to "whether you have a cold or fever, listen to your body," eat healthy foods and drink a lot of liquids. Food and rest help your body's T cells and B cells -- lymphocytes involved in your immune response -- fight off illness, and neither is particularly helped by starvation.
This doesn't apply to Pealer, he has no T-Cells anyway.
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I'm sick :lol:
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"The first automobile assembly line was used by Oldsmobile, not Ford."
The assembly line concept actually dates back much further than either man, but the first to apply the idea to automobiles was Ransom E. Olds, the namesake of both Oldsmobile and REO. The Oldsmobile assembly line used the familiar assembly line principle of workers specializing in single tasks out of a larger process, but Ford revolutionized the idea by having the line itself move while the workers remained stationary. For a time, Oldsmobile was king: the company sold 5,000 cars in 1904, making it the top seller in America.
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"One of Nostradamus's first works was a recipe book."
French apothecary Michel de Nostredame, better known as the seer "Nostradamus," published several works besides The Prophecies for which he is best remembered. One of the first was his Traite des fardemens et confitures, whose English title is Excellent and very useful Treatise necessary for all those who desire to have knowledge of several exquisite Recipes. The book contains recipes for making cosmetics, some of which are quite poisonous, and also acts as a cookbook. The latter section includes preparation instructions for cherry jam, pear preserves and marzipan.
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"Intelligent people drink more."
The UK's National Child Development Study has been ongoing since 1958, when it initially classified its participating youths as "very dull," "dull," "normal," "bright," or "very bright." The children from these different groups grew up to drink alcohol in similar proportions, with "very bright" subjects drinking the most, followed by "bright" subjects, and so on. This trend is true for both British and American children. Psychology Today argues that with all other demographics are accounted for, it's not that more intelligent people wind up in social situations where drinking merely happens to be more likely; rather, it appears to be that intelligence is a contributing factor in motivating some people to drink in the first place.
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"You are taller in the morning than at night."
Over the course of a day in which you're standing upright, slight compression of the discs decreases your height by the time you finally go to bed. There can be an up to one-inch difference between day and night. Between the spine's 29 vertebrae are intervertebral discs, composed of a fibrous outer layer and an interior nucleus pulposus that has the consistency of gel. This gel is what protects the spine against compressive forces, and displacement of the nucleus pulposus that tears the outer layer is one of the causes of sciatica. These discs are also responsible for, in total, about a foot of an adult's height.
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"You are taller in the morning than at night."
Over the course of a day in which you're standing upright, slight compression of the discs decreases your height by the time you finally go to bed. There can be an up to one-inch difference between day and night. Between the spine's 29 vertebrae are intervertebral discs, composed of a fibrous outer layer and an interior nucleus pulposus that has the consistency of gel. This gel is what protects the spine against compressive forces, and displacement of the nucleus pulposus that tears the outer layer is one of the causes of sciatica. These discs are also responsible for, in total, about a foot of an adult's height.
poor littlebuddha :rofl:
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"A brand-new Chicago library is staffed by robots."
The University of Chicago's Joe and Rika Mansueto Library applies the same principles of automated storage and retrieval used by automakers to its bookshelves. Instead of taking up floor space, books are shelved underground, in 50-foot-high stacks, where the bar-coded materials are accessed by automated robot cranes. The system allows the library to stock 3.5 million volumes in one-seventh the space that would be necessary for the racks to be human-accessible.
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So us non-spelling folk are screwed :lol:
I just wanted the "Karmasutra", but instead i got "where in the world is Carmen San Deigo"
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"Supportive co-workers increase your lifespan."
Having social support from your peers at work is "a potent predictor of the risk of all causes of mortality," according to a study in Health Psychology. The study examined 20 years of medical records and questionnaires from 800 workers, and found that positive influence from supportive coworkers was most evident between the ages of 38 and 43. Supportive bosses, incidentally, appeared to have no effect on mortality.
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"Pepsi's first ad jingle became a hit record."
Pepsi was responsible for the first nationally-broadcast advertising jingle, "Nickel Nickel" (1940). This came after a tough decade for the soft-drink company, which went bankrupt in 1931 and changed ownership several times, but still sold a 12-ounce, five-cent bottle -- a larger size for the price than its competitors. The jingle highlights this point ("Pepsi-Cola hits the spot/Twelve full ounces, that's a lot..."), went on to become a hit record, and was eventually translated into 55 languages.
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"Eye color can predict alcohol tolerance."
A Georgia State study that examined data from 10,000 prison inmates and a group of women across the country found that light-eyed respondents had consumed significantly more alcohol than dark-eyed respondents, in keeping with the hypothesis that lighter-eyed people are more resistant to the effects of alcohol. Associations between dark eyes and greater sensitivity to drugs and alcohol have been demonstrated before (darker-eyed individuals have greater autonomic reactivity in general, including respiration, pulse rate and pupil dilation).
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"Eye color can predict alcohol tolerance."
A Georgia State study that examined data from 10,000 prison inmates and a group of women across the country found that light-eyed respondents had consumed significantly more alcohol than dark-eyed respondents, in keeping with the hypothesis that lighter-eyed people are more resistant to the effects of alcohol. Associations between dark eyes and greater sensitivity to drugs and alcohol have been demonstrated before (darker-eyed individuals have greater autonomic reactivity in general, including respiration, pulse rate and pupil dilation).
Intresting, Troy's eyes must be White :lol:
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5 DEADLY TERMS USED BY A WOMAN 1) FINE - this is the word used to end an argument when she knows she is RIGHT & YOU need to SHUT UP. 2) NOTHING - means SOMETHING & you need to be WORRIED. 3) GO AHEAD - this is a dare, not permission, do NOT do it. 4) WHATEVER - is a woman's way of saying SCREW YOU. 5) THAT'S OK - she is thinking long & hard on HOW & WHEN you will pay for your mistake. Re-post if you agree.
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#6 laugh at all of these when they happen
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damn women! :mad:
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"75% of young Americans are unfit for military service."
According to a Pentagon report, 75% of Americans aged 17 to 24 are ineligible for military service for a variety of reasons. Over a third are disqualified for physical or medical reasons, and many in that category are disqualified due to obesity. The remaining categories that disqualify youths from service include illegal drug use (18%), being classified in the lowest 10% of the population intellectually (9%), having too many dependents (6%), and having a criminal record (5%).
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"Coffee lowers your risk of prostate cancer."
Drinking any kind of coffee -- even decaf -- can decrease the risk of prostate cancer among men, according to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health. The study found that men who regularly drank six or more cups daily were 20% less likely to develop any kind of prostate cancer. Notably, the men were also 60% less likely to develop lethal prostate cancer, the most dangerous form of the disease. Even drinking one to three cups daily lowered the risk of lethal prostate cancer by 30%.
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"A Korean company is developing a robot cafe."
IM Technology is known primarily for building military robotics, but the Robo Cafe in Songdo U-City will be a much friendlier affair. The concept restaurant will be staffed by the smallest possible human workforce, and its service personnel will consist only of a three-foot-high robot with a chef's hat, blue LED smiley-face and touchscreen on its midsection. Customers will be able to order verbally or with the screen, whereupon the robot will roll back to the kitchen and relay the customer's order. (This Robo-Cafe is not to be confused with the Robo-Cafe in Osaka, an entirely different cafe without robot waiters.)
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"Hair theft is becoming a national trend."
As evidence of the increasing trend, the New York Times relates the story of a robbery a Houston salon called My Trendy Place, a robbery in which burglars had to pull iron bars out of a window and bypass a motion detector in order to steal $150,000 of human hair. Similar recent burglaries have occurred in San Diego, Missourri City, Texas, Dearborn, and San Leandro, California, totaling $165,000 in stolen hair. Two years ago, a Chicago salon was robbed by thieves who went after the store's cash register; in a more recent robbery, the thieves ignored the register and simply stole $90,000 worth of hair.
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balding thieves!!!! The cueball gang :rofl:
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"When love is involved, women are more willing to cheat on their partners than men."
The matchmaking company Coffee & Company surveyed 3,000 people; according to The Sun, 25% of female respondents said they would "definitely" have an affair if they fell in love with someone else, while only 9% of men said the same. Women aged 35-40 were most likely to cheat, according to the survey. A quarter of single women said they'd consider an affair with a married man, while 12% of men said they'd consider such an affair.
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"A third of students in Berlin would consider prostitution to pay for school."
The Berlin Studies Center found that more students would consider prostitution in Berlin (where it is legal) than in the other two cities it examined, Paris (29.2%) and Kiev (18.5%). According to one of the study's authors, higher student workloads and higher fees have caused students to consider prostitution as a viable financial solution. Additionally, 4% of students admitted to having already done some variety of sex work (including exotic dancing and internet shows).
funny, that's the same as in Iowa.
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"A third of students in Berlin would consider prostitution to pay for school."
The Berlin Studies Center found that more students would consider prostitution in Berlin (where it is legal) than in the other two cities it examined, Paris (29.2%) and Kiev (18.5%). According to one of the study's authors, higher student workloads and higher fees have caused students to consider prostitution as a viable financial solution. Additionally, 4% of students admitted to having already done some variety of sex work (including exotic dancing and internet shows).
funny, that's the same as in Iowa.
hey easy now! we care 'bout our dang ole schoolin' down herrrrre!
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"The average income in medieval England was much greater than the average income in today's poorest countries."
University of Warwick researchers determined that the average annual income in England in the late Middle Ages was around $1,000 (expressed in 1990 international dollars), substantially more than the previously assumed figure of around $400. Most of the population of Britain could afford occasional luxuries, including meat and ale. Conversely, in many of the world's poorest countries, the population subsists on annual incomes that allow for only the barest necessities (Zaire: $249, Burundi: $479, Afghanistan: $869, in 1990 international dollars).
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"Men are more likely to fall in love at first sight than women."
Fifty-four percent of men said they'd experienced love at first sight, while only 44% of women said the same, according to a Match.com study designed by Binghamton University's Institute for Evolutionary Studies. The study, which polled 5,200 singles, also found that among singles under 18, more men than women wanted to have children (24% to 15%). On the other side of the coin, 35% of men and women said they'd fallen in love with someone they hadn't initially been attracted to.
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moral of the story...
women can be worn down... keep creepin' fellas!
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Fact: Just like Elvis, Hefe is everywhere. Fact.
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"High-fat diets may not have any adverse effects on heart health."
A Johns Hopkins study separated 46 obese men and women into two groups, both of which exercised throughout the study. One group ate a low-carb, high-fat diet, while the other ate a low-fat, high-carb diet (both diets also reduced participants' normal caloric intake). Both groups lost weight, but more importantly, the high-fat group tested just as well in endothelial function and arterial stiffness -- two indicators of vascular health -- as the low-fat group.
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"It's not possible to cry in space."
In late May, astronauts Andrew Feustel and Mike Fincke were running power cables outside the International Space Station when Feustel got something in his eye. It was around the five-hour-mark of the pair's spacewalk, and the third spacewalk of shuttle Endeavour's final voyage. But Feustel couldn't dislodge whatever was in his eye, because he was unable to shed tears: "They don't fall off of your eye," explained the astronauts, "they kind of stay there." Feustel was finally able to rub his eye against a strap inside his helmet and continue the spacewalk.
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"Attractive men don't make the best husbands."
Guys who are rated as the most masculine -- a billboard for a man's good genes -- tend to have more testosterone, and men with higher testosterone levels are 43% more likely to get divorced than men with normal levels, 31% more likely to split because of marital problems and 38% more likely to cheat, according to a study led by psychologist James Roney at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
you're all set shawna. :rofl:
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"Money only buys happiness if you become richer than your peers."
The simple fact of making more money isn't enough to make people happier. According to researchers at the University of Warwick and Cardiff University, for money to influence their happiness, they have to perceive themselves as having improved in social rank. Their study is titled "Money and Happiness: Rank of Income, Not Income, Affects Life Satisfaction," and its finding that status trumps actual dollar earnings partially explains why people haven't grown significantly happier over the past few decades despite consistent increases in overall prosperity.
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"Self-control is more important than money or intelligence in determining future success."
Discipline and perseverance were predictors of adulthood success; children who lack self-control are three times more likely to have difficulties (such as criminal or financial problems) in young adulthood, according to a study that tracked 1,000 participants from childhood in the early 1970s onward. The study was conducted in New Zealand and was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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"Attractive people are also likely to have above-average intelligence."
Intelligence and attractiveness are positively correlated, to the effect that men who are viewed as attractive have IQs 13.6 points above average, while attractive women have IQs 11.4 points above average, according to a London School of Economics study. The explanation, according to Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, is partially that women tend to prefer smart men (since these men are likely have a desirable income and status) and successful men tend to prefer attractive women, resulting in these characteristics converging over time. Evolutionary psychologists also suggest that both may be correlated simply because of underlying genetic fitness.
whew.. you're safe shawna.. :lol:
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"Pacemakers can be hacked."
Researchers demonstrated as far back as 2008 that many pacemakers -- the ones that contain radios to allow for reprogramming -- could be hacked to deliver a shock to the owner's heart, although the process would require a specialized kit and close proximity. The data contained in the devices is also unencrypted. In response, MIT researchers have developed a wearable jamming transmitter the size of a watch to handle encryption for the devices, protecting existing implants from attacks.
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OMFG....I got $50 Troy will be the first of us to happen......This could be fun :nod:
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you and me wont be far behind old man :lol:
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hey, just 1 day of fukking with troy like that would be worth our eternety in hell :lol:
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"It is unclear when the Declaration of Independence was actually signed."
Though Independence Day has been celebrated on the 4th of July since 1777, the date of the signing of the Declaration has been a matter of dispute. Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and John Adams all wrote that the declaration was signed on the 4th, but not all delegates were present then, and records indicate the signing ceremony was officially held on August 2nd. Furthermore, the date Congress actually voted for independence was July 2nd, not July 4th. "The Second Day of July 1776," wrote John Adams, "will be the most memorable Epoch, in the History of America."
I say we celebrate both days.
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"Scientists have developed a device that can re-trigger lost memories."
Wake Forest and USC researchers trained rats to perform a lever-pushing task, and recorded the signals in the hippocampus region of their brain (the area crucial to memory creation). The researchers then drugged the rats to induce forgetfulness, then replayed the signals with an artificial hippocampus implant; the rats were then able to recall which levers they'd been trained to push. The study's authors theorized that the device could be used by people with diminished memory function, even though human cognition is much more complicated and the technology is certainly a long way off.
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"Personal freedom decides happiness more than money does."
A study at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand analyzed survey responses from over 400,000 people in more than 60 countries and concluded: "Money leads to autonomy, but it does not add to well-being or happiness." Rather, freedom is the single most important predictor of happiness. Wealthier people are more satisfied with their lives, but their day-to-day experiences are no happier. Their lives appear to be more stressful than those of people with average incomes.
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"Type 2 diabetes is reversible."
Type 2 diabetes, or adult-onset diabetes, can be reversed, according to a Newcastle-University study. The study is recent, so its long-term results have yet to be examined, but of the 11 subjects whom researchers followed, seven were free of diabetes three months after the study's conclusion. The study restricted patients to extremely low-calorie diets (600 calories) of nonstarchy vegetables, eliminating fat in the pancreas and restoring ordinary insulin secretion.
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"Type 2 diabetes is reversible."
Type 2 diabetes, or adult-onset diabetes, can be reversed, according to a Newcastle-University study. The study is recent, so its long-term results have yet to be examined, but of the 11 subjects whom researchers followed, seven were free of diabetes three months after the study's conclusion. The study restricted patients to extremely low-calorie diets (600 calories) of nonstarchy vegetables, eliminating fat in the pancreas and restoring ordinary insulin secretion.
Yes, but do people really want to give up their big macks and insulin shots? A healthy diet is just asking too much :lol:
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Jesus how could you eat 600 calories a day for that long
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Jesus how could you eat 600 calories a day for that long
They hired the Olsen twins
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Jesus how could you eat 600 calories a day for that long
I'm assuming also, it's not forever, once they lose a large part of the fat buildup, they can begin to work their way back up to a normal diet.
funnerz, you're gonna get diabetes if you don't watch it, fatty. :lol:
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Jesus how could you eat 600 calories a day for that long
They hired the Olsen twins
*giggles* :rofl:
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"Our predisposition for social eye contact is partially genetic."
A study in the journal Molecular Autism has found that the CNR1 gene can determine people's inclination to look at happy faces. Researchers found a correlation between two naturally occurring mutations in the CNR1 gene and how long volunteers spent watching the smiles and eyes of the happy faces they were shown in video clips. "This is the first study to have shown that how much we gaze at faces is influenced by our genetic makeup," explained head researcher Bhismadev Chakrabarti. "If replicated, it has profound implications for our understanding of the drive to socialize."
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"It rains and snows more near airports."
Planes sometimes fly through clouds containing droplets of supercooled water that has remained liquid below its freezing point; in fact, planes have de-icing systems precisely to avoid ice forming on their wings when they do this. When the planes fly through these clouds, their cooling effect leaves behind ice, "seeding" the clouds and leading to increased precipitation. According to Andrew Heymsfield of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, prop planes have a 6% chance of inadvertently seeding clouds; jet planes, a 2% to 3% chance.
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"Babies remember music they've heard in the womb."
A Leicester University study has demonstrated that, for a year after birth, babies recognize music they've heard as far back as three months before birth. The study tested 11 babies whose mothers had played them specific pieces of music while they were in the womb; the babies showed a preference for the music they had heard before, compared to similar-sounding music they hadn't. A control group showed no preference for one piece or the other.
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"Babies remember music they've heard in the womb."
A Leicester University study has demonstrated that, for a year after birth, babies recognize music they've heard as far back as three months before birth. The study tested 11 babies whose mothers had played them specific pieces of music while they were in the womb; the babies showed a preference for the music they had heard before, compared to similar-sounding music they hadn't. A control group showed no preference for one piece or the other.
My kid's gonna be rocking out to All That Remains and In Flames in the womb :preddy:
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"Babies remember music they've heard in the womb."
A Leicester University study has demonstrated that, for a year after birth, babies recognize music they've heard as far back as three months before birth. The study tested 11 babies whose mothers had played them specific pieces of music while they were in the womb; the babies showed a preference for the music they had heard before, compared to similar-sounding music they hadn't. A control group showed no preference for one piece or the other.
My kid's gonna be rocking out to All That Remains and In Flames in the womb :preddy:
You're having a kid ???
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9 months after my next visit...
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"Offering fake smiles makes you less happy."
A study in the Academy of Management Journal followed a group of bus drivers for two weeks, on the understanding that bus drivers' jobs require much more social interaction than most. The study found that when engaged in fake smiling - "surface acting" - the bus drivers became more unhappy. Conversely, drivers who tried to display genuine smiles by thinking of pleasant situations or happy memories - "deep acting" - became happier and more productive.
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"Men are more likely to say they're happier in relationships, while women are more likely to say they're sexually satisfied."
A study in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior examined over 1,000 long-term couples from five different countries, and found that men and women in committed relationships seem to subvert both gender stereotypes. Men were more likely to be happy when receiving signs of physical affection (hugs, cuddling), while women's sexual satisfaction outpaced men's and increased over time. (Overall, women were at their least happy between years one and 15 of a relationship, but they grew happier thereafter.)
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"In some animal populations, high-ranking males also experience the most stress."
High-ranking alpha males in baboon populations, previously thought to have easier lives, are in fact more stressed than beta males below them, according to authors of a Princeton study. Baboon populations are a good model for human interactions, given their genetic resemblance to humans and similarly complex societies. Researchers measured the stress-hormone levels of baboons over a nearly decade-long span and found that alpha males, who are constantly responsible for protecting their spoils and guarding their mates, had stress levels comparable only to those of the lowest-ranking males.
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"Arousal is much more subjective in women."
Men and women have decidedly different interpretations of sexual arousal, but a metastudy that analyzed over 130 smaller studies (and over 4,000 subjects) demonstrated that men are more likely to report levels of arousal mirrored by their bodily indicators (66% of the time), while the same is unlikely to be true with women (only 26% of the time). According to the study, women are more likely to experience physical arousal but report feeling none. A similar study about the subjectivity of arousal found that men responded as expected to erotica (with gay and straight men reacting to images of men and women respectively), while women of either orientation were aroused by images of both men and women.
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"Handshake grip is directly correlated to thrill-seeking behavior."
In men, the hand-grip strength ("HGS") used in a handshake is linked to testosterone levels. A study of 117 men set out to test whether HGS was also linked to risk-taking; the study found that a firm handshake is an indicator of sensation-seeking in general, and of thrill- and adventure-seeking personalities in particular. Grip strength is also correlated with a high shoulder-to-hip ratio, sexual promiscuity and a younger age for the person's first sexual experience.
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"Women find a far wider range of traits attractive than men do."
Men are generally in agreement about what's attractive: "thin" and "seductive" appear to be the traits they're drawn to, followed by "confident," according to a Queens College study. Women in the study were also drawn to these traits to some extent, but were far more varied in the specific men they found attractive. Study participants were shown photos of 100 men and women, and while men agreed on which women were attractive, some women were attracted to men who others found entirely unattractive. This was true regardless of sexuality. Homosexual men were more in accordance about the attractiveness of other men than women were, and straight men showed a greater consensus on the subject than lesbians did.
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"Chicago and New York consumers are least likely and most likely to steal unattended bottles of tea, respectively."
Honest Tea set up an experiment on July 19th, when temperatures in U.S. cities ranged above 100° F. The company set out unattended racks of bottled iced tea adorned with signs that asked people to leave $1 per bottle if they took one, then monitored the racks with hidden cameras. Seattle, the coolest city in the running, initially also had the highest payment rate, though Chicago, where it was 85° F, eventually won that spot with a 99% payment rate. Boston and Dallas rounded out the top three spots, both with 97% payment rates. Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York filled out the bottom of the list, with 91%, 88%, and 86% payment rates respectively.
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"Meaner people tend to gain more weight."
Impulsiveness and conscientiousness are the most influential traits in predicting weight gain (with impulsive people separated by some 22 pounds of weight gain compared to conscientious people). More surprising is that people who identified as cynical and aggressive also tended toward greater weight gain, while people who were perpetually worried about their appearance tended toward cycles of weight gain and weight loss. The National Institute on Aging has been conducting the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging since 1958, and has followed over 1,400 subjects.
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I would have fucked that average lol
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"Meaner people tend to gain more weight."
Impulsiveness and conscientiousness are the most influential traits in predicting weight gain (with impulsive people separated by some 22 pounds of weight gain compared to conscientious people). More surprising is that people who identified as cynical and aggressive also tended toward greater weight gain, while people who were perpetually worried about their appearance tended toward cycles of weight gain and weight loss. The National Institute on Aging has been conducting the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging since 1958, and has followed over 1,400 subjects.
then why aren't you a raging fatass? :rofl:
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"Half of social networking users plan to leave Facebook for Google+."
A PCMag poll found that 50% of respondents approved of Google+ and intended to leave Facebook for the new Google service. A further 21% were undecided about whether they'd leave Facebook or not. Only 7% of respondents claimed unwavering loyalty to Facebook, fewer even than the number of people who simply refuse to use social networking at all (11%). The poll only reflects the opinions of 6,237 respondents; Facebook boasts, in total, three fourths of a billion users.
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"Half of social networking users plan to leave Facebook for Google+."
A PCMag poll found that 50% of respondents approved of Google+ and intended to leave Facebook for the new Google service. A further 21% were undecided about whether they'd leave Facebook or not. Only 7% of respondents claimed unwavering loyalty to Facebook, fewer even than the number of people who simply refuse to use social networking at all (11%). The poll only reflects the opinions of 6,237 respondents; Facebook boasts, in total, three fourths of a billion users.
meh, that google site is lame as shit.
that being said, Ill be on there with hijinx at some point :lol:
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I have some invites if any of you guys wanna check it out. I like it :)
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send me an invite Randy, wanna try that geek stuff
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send me an invite Randy, wanna try that geek stuff
just shoot me your e-mail :)
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"A 1,000-pound weight difference between vehicles increases the fatality rate for lighter vehicles by nearly half. "
The fact that heavier vehicles are safer for their occupants (but more dangerous for other people) is not particularly surprising, but two Berkeley economists set out to quantify this effect and determined that a 1,000-pound difference accounts for a 47% increase in fatality risk. The effect is even more pronounced if the heavier vehicle is a truck or SUV. Also notable is that 1,000 pounds was the reduction in average vehicle weight of cars in the U.S. from 1975 to 1980, but by 2005, cars had become heavier again and had grown back to their 1975 weights.
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"A Tuscon inventor has developed a wearable television screen."
David Forbes originally built what he calls "the world's worst wearable television" for Burning Man in 2009, but the original model was bulky and monochrome (it was composed of only red LED lights, so he dubbed the project "SatanVision"). This year, he revised the concept and wound up with the Video Coat, a full-color lab-coat model with a resolution of 160x120 (half that of an iPod). Forbes offers to fill orders for video coats through his site (Cathode Corner), though the garments carry a $40,000 price tag.
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"Couples born very far from one another have taller children."
A study in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology found that parents born in the same town have children who are, on average, slightly shorter than the children of parents born far from one another. The explanation for this phenomenon appears to be that people born close to one another are likely to be more genetically similar. Genetic diversity, on the other hand, could result in children with genetic advantages that enable their bodies to work more efficiently, directing energy toward growth instead of expending it elsewhere.
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"A Georgia company produces and ships millions of pairs of chopsticks to China."
The company, Georgia Chopsticks, is responding to a shortage of the common eating utensils in China, where manufacturers already produce 63 billion sets of chopsticks a year. Started by Korea-American Jae Lee, Georgia Chopsticks aims to make and export 10 million pairs of chopsticks a day -- labeled "Made in USA"-- by the end of this year. Located south of Atlanta, the company has access to sweet gum and poplar trees; this wood is ideal for chopstick production and is a dwindling resource in the Pacific Rim.
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LOL take that china!!! :rofl:
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"The Earth may have once had a second moon."
The moon itself was likely formed when a large body collided with the Earth at some point early in the timeline of the solar system. Models suggest that this collision could have produced two separate resulting bodies, the moon and one other, and generally predict that the second body would have combined with the newly-formed moon while both were molten. A new theory now suggests that the second body may have survived in orbit, eventually colliding into the solid moon; this impact could explain the marked landscape difference in the visible and "dark" sides of the moon.
crack don't smoke itself.. isn't that right pealer. :lol:
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dang right :lol:
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"Playing music may be more effective in treating depression than antidepressants."
A study in the British Journal of Psychiatry followed 79 people who had been diagnosed with depression, and assigned 33 of those patients to music therapy sessions -- improvising playing African drums and a vibraphone-like instrument -- in addition to their regular therapy. One out of four patients responded to music therapy, reporting fewer symptoms and better daily functioning than patients who had engaged in only regular therapy.
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"Playing music may be more effective in treating depression than antidepressants."
A study in the British Journal of Psychiatry followed 79 people who had been diagnosed with depression, and assigned 33 of those patients to music therapy sessions -- improvising playing African drums and a vibraphone-like instrument -- in addition to their regular therapy. One out of four patients responded to music therapy, reporting fewer symptoms and better daily functioning than patients who had engaged in only regular therapy.
it can be....pickin up the guitar and playing a few chords is quite therapeutic.
You still workin on it, or did you give up cuz it hurt you widdle fingers?
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Havent been practicing every week like I should. :(
But still goin at it.
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FACT: Krandall no longer cares about the website he helped create. :confused:
:lol:
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"Women are more likely to look for torso movements when judging a man to be a good dancer."
A Northumbria University study recorded the dancing motions of 19 male volunteers -- mapping their movements onto featureless avatars to remove physical attractiveness from the equation -- and asked female participants to rank their dancing ability. Larger neck and torso movements were judged by the participants to be more attractive, as was bending and flexing of the right knee. Dancing ability, the researchers added, is also generally correlated with overall health and attractiveness.
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"A Georgia company produces and ships millions of pairs of chopsticks to China."
The company, Georgia Chopsticks, is responding to a shortage of the common eating utensils in China, where manufacturers already produce 63 billion sets of chopsticks a year. Started by Korea-American Jae Lee, Georgia Chopsticks aims to make and export 10 million pairs of chopsticks a day -- labeled "Made in USA"-- by the end of this year. Located south of Atlanta, the company has access to sweet gum and poplar trees; this wood is ideal for chopstick production and is a dwindling resource in the Pacific Rim.
America.... FERK YEAH!
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"Sad people have more accurate memories."
Being unhappy brings with it a slew of adverse effects on cognition, including a diminished ability to engage in abstract critical thinking -- but evidently facial recognition is exempt from this effect. A study in Consciousness and Cognition encouraged happy or sad moods in student volunteers (by asking them to concentrate on either happy or sad memories, while playing The A-Team theme and Mozart's "Requiem," respectively) and found that the saddest participants had the most accurate facial recognition; the happiest participants were the least accurate.
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"Sad people have more accurate memories."
Being unhappy brings with it a slew of adverse effects on cognition, including a diminished ability to engage in abstract critical thinking -- but evidently facial recognition is exempt from this effect. A study in Consciousness and Cognition encouraged happy or sad moods in student volunteers (by asking them to concentrate on either happy or sad memories, while playing The A-Team theme and Mozart's "Requiem," respectively) and found that the saddest participants had the most accurate facial recognition; the happiest participants were the least accurate.
that quote is reversed IMO. Someone who can hang on to many memories, will have a tendency to be sad. Ever hear the saying "ignorance is bliss"? same theory.
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I guess Iowa is the most blissful state then? :rofl: :rofl: too easy
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I guess Iowa is the most blissful state then? :rofl: :rofl: too easy
way too easy ;) :lol:
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I haven't been up this early since the last day of school last year, it's a fact.
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"Adolescents who have romantic relationships are more depressed than those who don't."
According to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which surveyed over 8,000 high school students, adolescents who become romantically involved are actually more likely to become depressed than those who aren't dating. (And not just because of breakups, either; the effect exists even when the relationship continues.) Males with more romantic partners, as well as males who had had recent breakups, were also more likely to suffer from depression. Both males and females who were romantically involved were more likely to abuse alcohol.
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"Browsing the internet improves your productivity."
Two studies presented at the Academy of Management in San Antonio concluded that concentration and effectiveness are actually improved in workers who have the freedom to surf the internet. The studies separated participants into three groups, then assigned a menial task requiring concentration. One group spent its break working on a separate task, the second group was given freedom to do anything except use the internet and the third group was given internet access. After all the groups returned to their initial tasks, the group with internet access was more energized, less bored and more effective at their tasks.
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"Browsing the internet improves your productivity."
Two studies presented at the Academy of Management in San Antonio concluded that concentration and effectiveness are actually improved in workers who have the freedom to surf the internet. The studies separated participants into three groups, then assigned a menial task requiring concentration. One group spent its break working on a separate task, the second group was given freedom to do anything except use the internet and the third group was given internet access. After all the groups returned to their initial tasks, the group with internet access was more energized, less bored and more effective at their tasks.
you bet your super sweet ass it does!!!! :rofl:
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"Nice people make less money than mean people."
A study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology hypothesized that agreeableness would translate into lower incomes, at least among men, and tested this hypothesis with four separate studies. All four studies confirmed the hypothesis; the disparity was more marked among men than women.
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"Single people die 10 years earlier, on average."
A metastudy of 90 previous studies, covering data from about 500 million people, concluded that single men have a risk of death one-third higher than married men, and single women about a quarter higher than married women. Overall, this translates to single men dying between eight and 17 years earlier than their married counterparts. While in their 30s, singles have a 128% higher risk of death than married people (though once they're out of their 30s, that risk gradually decreases).
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"Nice people make less money than mean people."
A study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology hypothesized that agreeableness would translate into lower incomes, at least among men, and tested this hypothesis with four separate studies. All four studies confirmed the hypothesis; the disparity was more marked among men than women.
Awww. you're telling me I'm nice? how sweet. :lol:
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"The shape of a CEO's face can predict a company's success."
A study published in the journal Psychological Science indicates that CEOs who have faces that are wide in relation to their height tend to outperform CEOs with the opposite facial characteristics. The study examined 55 male CEOs from Fortune 500 companies, and its findings are in keeping with the demonstrated link between facial width and increased aggression (and, potentially, heightened testosterone) in men. Related research has demonstrated that men with wider faces are also more likely to behave unethically.
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"Men's and women's brains process beauty differently."
According to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, men and women gauge beauty using entirely different methods of perception. When viewing an image they consider beautiful, men's brains process the image in absolute terms -- "coordinate-processing" -- as if they are examining points on a grid. Women's brains exhibit "category-processing," locating objects in relation to each other (e.g. behind, above, beneath). Researchers propose that this distinction is tied to the evolution of hunter-gatherer societies, when men's hunting tasks would have involved spatial orientation, while women's jobs would have included classifying and identifying edible plants.
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"The Escalade is the vehicle most targeted by car thieves."
A study by the Highway Loss Data Institute examined insurance data from 2008 to 2010, and found that the Cadillac Escalade is six times more likely to be targeted by thieves than the average vehicle: Overall, theft losses are 10 times greater for Escalades than the average vehicle. In response to this, GM intends to make new Escalades more difficult to steal. The 2012 model will include numerous anti-theft features, including new wheel and steering column locks, and an alarm that sounds when the angle of the vehicle changes.
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"The Escalade is the vehicle most targeted by car thieves."
A study by the Highway Loss Data Institute examined insurance data from 2008 to 2010, and found that the Cadillac Escalade is six times more likely to be targeted by thieves than the average vehicle: Overall, theft losses are 10 times greater for Escalades than the average vehicle. In response to this, GM intends to make new Escalades more difficult to steal. The 2012 model will include numerous anti-theft features, including new wheel and steering column locks, and an alarm that sounds when the angle of the vehicle changes.
haha thieves go for the biggest fraud vehicle ever... :lol:
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"Men's employment statistics are currently at their lowest since 1948."
The percentage of men with any job, even just a part-time one, recently rose to 63.5% -- just barely above the previous 2009 "high" of 63.3%. In addition, wages for middle-aged men have fallen 27% since 1969 (even when the numbers are adjusted for inflation). Though women still continue to earn less than men across the board, they have adapted to some fields -- particularly those requiring a college education -- better than men, and unemployed men are now more likely than unemployed women to be out of work in the long term.
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FOTD: Randi sux0rz
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"Astronomers have discovered a planet made of diamond."
The planet appears to consist of carbon and is the most dense planet yet discovered, leading astronomers to conclude that its carbon is in crystalline (diamond) form. The planet, more massive than Jupiter but 20 times as dense, is about one-eighth of the way from the Earth to the center of the Milky Way, or 4,000 light years away. The planet orbits a pulsar, and scientists suggest it was once a star itself until the formation of the pulsar caused it to lose its outer layers and become the carbon-oxygen rarity it is now.
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"Internet pornography contributes to sexual dysfunction."
More and more otherwise young, healthy men are reporting a form of erectile dysfunction that appears to result from heavy use of internet pornography. A study by the Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine recently investigated the otherwise anecdotal problem. A survey of 28,000 young men determined that "excessive consumption" or pornography led to desensitization, a gradual decrease in real-life libido, and finally diagnosable sexual dysfunction. The "youthful ED" condition is reversible, but recovery is slow, and takes weeks or even months.
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you must be useless in the bedroom :lol:
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"Men sleep less -- and fall asleep less readily -- than women."
The circadian rhythms of men and women are markedly different. The average circadian period for a man is 24 hours and 11 minutes, which is six minutes longer than the average for a woman. In day-to-day-living, this means that men tend to want to sleep later and wake up later, a tendency that compounds over time. In addition, twice as many women as men have circadian periods shorter than 24 hours, meaning that their tendencies are more likely to compound in the opposite manner (falling asleep and waking up progressively earlier).
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"22,000 pieces of space garbage large enough to damage satellites and spaceships are surrounding Earth."
It may soon become necessary to clean the massive collection of debris in orbit around Earth. Its orbit was already filled with 50 years of various pieces of trash -- discarded boosters and other pieces of spacefaring objects -- but two recent events have doubled the number of fragments in orbit (a 2009 satellite crash and a Chinese anti-satellite weapon test in 2007). One DARPA study, "The Catcher's Mitt Study," mentions nets, harpoons, magnets, and a large umbrella-like device among its possible cleanup methods.
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the reality of this problem is vastly more complex. The concepts of "catching" and collecting these items cannot be done by a static craft or machine in space. near matching speed and vector would be required to capture most of these objects becuase even with some items releatively small mass, their velocity is extreme. The extreme velocity effects on a static, and or non co-trajectory capture system would be like putting your hand infront of a gun.
Now, that may not seem like too big of deal....just nearly match the speed and trajectory with a space craft and complete the capture...unfortunately, becuase of their smaller mass, modern space craft (with much greater mass) cannot safely intercept these objects without succumbing to Earth's gravity and uncontrolled re-entery (Burn..burn..splat)
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fish net? ???
:lol:
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send Randy up with a butterfly net
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"The Twitter "tweet" button makes a site seven times more likely to have its content shared."
SEO platform Brightedge conducted a study on the efficacy of social media buttons. Sites featuring a "tweet" button saw an average of 27 link mentions in the study's analyzed samples, while sites without one averaged four mentions. Social media buttons of all stripes are becoming more prevalent, with the largest monthly gains coming from Google+ (which currently has 8.1% penetration, up from 7.3% a month ago). Facebook widgets are still the most popular social media buttons, appearing on just over half of top sites.
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"Half of American adults will develop a mental illness."
About 7% to 9% of the population is experiencing depression right now, according to the CDC, and about 16% will experience it at some point. The condition is most common in the Southeast. West Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama had the highest per-capita rates of depression, while North Dakota had the lowest. About 5% of the population experienced "serious mental illness" (defined as a condition that affects the ability to function) in 2009.
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"Half of American adults will develop a mental illness."
About 7% to 9% of the population is experiencing depression right now, according to the CDC, and about 16% will experience it at some point. The condition is most common in the Southeast. West Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama had the highest per-capita rates of depression, while North Dakota had the lowest. About 5% of the population experienced "serious mental illness" (defined as a condition that affects the ability to function) in 2009.
Strangely, 100% of all RS users develop some kind of mental illness as well
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You USANIANS are all focked up in the head :clap: but I really like you guys!
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"A strenuous workout continues to burn calories for the following 14 hours."
A study by UNC and Appalachian State University found that men who performed vigorous exercise (biking on a stationary bike for 45 minutes) not only burned around 500 calories during their workouts -- they also continued to burn an additional 190 calories for 14 hours after they'd stopped. Researchers defined vigorous exercise as activity in which "you're sweating, your body temperature is up and your heart beats fast." Less vigorous exercise does not appear to have a similar post-workout effect.
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"Dogs approach men more than women."
According to University of Vienna researchers, dogs owned by men are more likely to approach their owners than dogs owned by women, possibly as a throwback to their wolf ancestry. In the study, dogs and owners who scored high in neuroticism -- typified by anxiety and meekness -- also appeared to have a bond based on mutual needs (men and women who scored high in neuroticism inspired more closeness with their dogs). The researchers stressed that closeness isn't necessarily synonymous with affection; it can also indicate insecurity, and a dog seeking reassurance from its owner.
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"Women generally perceive men interested in casual sex as low-status and uninviting."
A series of four studies by the University of Michigan's Dr. Terri Conley found that when men are approached by an imagined "attractive member of the opposite sex" who offers a sexual encounter, men thought positively of the theoretical woman, while women rated the imagined man as low-status, cold, unlikely to be sexually skilled, and downright dangerous. In fact, when being offered a blunt, unsolicited sexual invitation, women were almost as likely to say yes to another woman as to a man, in part because they concluded that the other woman would at least be sexually skilled.
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"Sleep deprivation makes you less likely to consider moral consequences."
A recent study tasked 71 Norwegian military cadets with taking the "Defining Issues Test," an exam that judges stages of moral reasoning before and after sleep deprivation. Most of the cadets scored highly at first, but when they were substantially sleep-deprived, their behavior became robotic; they followed the rules for making moral decisions, but without engaging in any complex planning or problem-solving for moral situations. Cadets who scored poorly in the first place were unaffected by sleep deprivation.
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"Being checked out makes women worse at math. "
Women who feel they're being judged for attractiveness -- with the standard up-and-down evaluating look, for example -- tend to underperform compared to women who don't feel the same pressure. In a study published in the Journal of Social Issues, researchers invited male and female subjects to an interview followed by a series of 12 math problems. In some of the interviews, research assistants were told to noticeably ogle their opposite-sex subjects first. Women who received this treatment got an average of fewer than five out of 12 correct answers on the math test; women who didn't averaged six. Male subjects were unaffected.
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"Laughter increases pain tolerance."
A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society tested subjects' tolerance to painful stimuli before and after they watched comedy shows or stand-up routines. Subjects exposed to comedy could tolerate around 10% more pain than those who weren't. The results were dose-dependent; people who laughed more could tolerate more. Furthermore, it appears to be laughter in particular, and not other positive feelings, that elicits this response. A similar experiment found no such effect on pain tolerance when provoking generally happy, feel-good emotions.
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"Rich women prefer older men."
Psychologists conducting a study in Scotland found that men are generally more likely to consider physical attractiveness in their partners, while women are more likely to consider a partner's ability to provide. The researchers anticipated that women who were financially stable (and so were not in need of a provider partner) would be more likely to mirror men's interest in young partners. They instead found the opposite; higher incomes made women prefer (attractive) older men, and made men prefer younger women.
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"Rich women prefer older men."
Psychologists conducting a study in Scotland found that men are generally more likely to consider physical attractiveness in their partners, while women are more likely to consider a partner's ability to provide. The researchers anticipated that women who were financially stable (and so were not in need of a provider partner) would be more likely to mirror men's interest in young partners. They instead found the opposite; higher incomes made women prefer (attractive) older men, and made men prefer younger women.
YES!!!!
:woot:
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"Rich women prefer older men."
Psychologists conducting a study in Scotland found that men are generally more likely to consider physical attractiveness in their partners, while women are more likely to consider a partner's ability to provide. The researchers anticipated that women who were financially stable (and so were not in need of a provider partner) would be more likely to mirror men's interest in young partners. They instead found the opposite; higher incomes made women prefer (attractive) older men, and made men prefer younger women.
YES!!!!
:woot:
LOL
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"Physicists may have monitored particles moving faster than light -- a discovery that would revolutionize physics."
On September 22nd, physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced that they had detected neutrinos traveling faster than light (60 nanoseconds faster, over a 450-mile stretch). It's possible that the results are flawed; the researchers have to make atmospheric corrections, as light travels slower in our atmosphere than it does in a vacuum, and their error estimates may have been inaccurate. However, if their findings hold up, the very basis of Einstein's theory of relativity would be challenged.
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"Physicists may have monitored particles moving faster than light -- a discovery that would revolutionize physics."
On September 22nd, physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced that they had detected neutrinos traveling faster than light (60 nanoseconds faster, over a 450-mile stretch). It's possible that the results are flawed; the researchers have to make atmospheric corrections, as light travels slower in our atmosphere than it does in a vacuum, and their error estimates may have been inaccurate. However, if their findings hold up, the very basis of Einstein's theory of relativity would be challenged.
"Fact of the day"....just sayin'
:lol:
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its a fact that they may have. :lol:
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you guys are both incredible douches. :thumbs:
FACT.
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Peels is STILL not attending the rally.... FACT!
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I am sad.
FACT.
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we all are man ... fact :(
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shit is tapered so your asshole doesn't slam shut...........scientific fact.
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"Kids who play in green environments have less severe ADHD."
University of Illinois researchers studied 400 children with ADHD. They found that even among groups of children who all played outdoors, ADHD symptoms were milder when the children's outdoor setting was an open, green, natural environment (as opposed to outdoor structures, or less open spaces like heavily-forested settings). Even exposure to pictures of green settings appears to have a positive effect.
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"People without siblings are more likely to have successful careers."
According to a CareerBuilder survey of 5,708 American workers, an only child is more likely to earn a six-figure salary and more likely to have a corporate title than someone with siblings. Only children also tend toward positions in engineering, law enforcement and information technology. However, people who do have siblings are more likely to be happy at their jobs. Among workers with brothers and sisters, first-born children are the most likely to earn six figures, while middle children are the most likely to earn sub-$35,000 salaries.
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"People without siblings are more likely to have successful careers."
According to a CareerBuilder survey of 5,708 American workers, an only child is more likely to earn a six-figure salary and more likely to have a corporate title than someone with siblings. Only children also tend toward positions in engineering, law enforcement and information technology. However, people who do have siblings are more likely to be happy at their jobs. Among workers with brothers and sisters, first-born children are the most likely to earn six figures, while middle children are the most likely to earn sub-$35,000 salaries.
Well, I'm the youngest in my family & I earn the most!
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"People's reactions to their cell phones show some hallmarks of addiction."
After a recent op-ed in The New York Times ("You Love Your iPhone. Literally.") suggested that attachment to smartphones bears more similarities to love than to addiction, science journalists have begun to comment on the truth of that assertion. Kelly McGonigal at Psychology Today points out that the insular cortex -- which experiences a "flurry of activation" when exposed to video of a ringing, vibrating iPhone -- is actually strongly associated with addiction, as well as other brain functions. In fact, according to a 2007 study, the insula is a "critical neural substrate" in addiction, one involved in conscious urges like cigarette smoking.
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Beer>no Beer
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Beer>no Beer
This is true
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"Researchers have developed a wasabi-based fire alarm."
The Ig Nobel Prize -- an award bestowed by a satirical science magazine called the Annals of Improbable Research -- honors humorous but thought-provoking scientific discoveries each year. The 2011 winner of the chemistry prize is a team of Japanese researchers who won for "determining the ideal density of airborne wasabi (pungent horseradish) to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire". The practical application of this research is a silent but effective fire alarm (or general purpose alarm), for which the group now has a patent.
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"People who blush are more trustworthy."
Two recent UC Berkeley studies examined the social connotations of blushing. The first asked participants to talk about embarrassing memories, then asked them to share some raffle tickets they'd been given with a partner. The more the participants blushed, the more likely they were to share. The second study tested participants' level of trust in an actor who was demonstrating either pride or embarrassment. They found the actor more trustworthy when he was embarrassed than when he was proud.
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"Only about 1% of people are "early birds.""
About half of people fall in the middle of the "night owl/early bird" spectrum, and around 17% have delayed sleep phases (and thus are "night owls"). About 1% of people have advanced sleep phases, falling asleep early and waking progressively earlier. Though the circumstances of a person's life can influence his or her biological clock, a person's essential "chronotype" (or "circadian type") never changes. It's defined by genetics and biology.
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"Only about 1% of people are "early birds.""
About half of people fall in the middle of the "night owl/early bird" spectrum, and around 17% have delayed sleep phases (and thus are "night owls"). About 1% of people have advanced sleep phases, falling asleep early and waking progressively earlier. Though the circumstances of a person's life can influence his or her biological clock, a person's essential "chronotype" (or "circadian type") never changes. It's defined by genetics and biology.
my circadian rhythm is weird.
But you'll have that with amphetamines. ;)
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:rofl: Totally understand.. we coulda used your product when driving to OK peelz. :(
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If there's a circadian rhythm for going to bed ~930pm, and still waking up wanting to burn the world and everyone in it....
It should be called "Nikki's Rhythm" :lol:
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are you sure its not Nikki's Cycle?
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If there's a circadian rhythm for going to bed ~930pm, and still waking up wanting to burn the world and everyone in it....
It should be called "Nikki's Rhythm" :lol:
LOL!
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Fact:
Peels is whoring today!
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fact.. peelz is a WHORE
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fact: only a whore can truly spot another whore.
hard to whore on you own. :lol:
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group whoring FTMFW!
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Someone say group? :raptorrally:
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that sounds kinky
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can we have some cheerleaders?
:cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2:
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RE RE RE RE!!! :cheer:
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no Pat.. it's Rah rah.. not RE RE
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I never could figure that sound out :(
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If there's a circadian rhythm for going to bed ~930pm, and still waking up wanting to burn the world and everyone in it....
It should be called "Nikki's Rhythm" :lol:
Yes I hate mornings!
are you sure its not Nikki's Cycle?
Nikki does NOT have a cycle!!! :bird:
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"Exposure to goats can increase your risk of cancer."
A rare type of lung cancer -- pneumonic-type adenocarcinoma -- is only weakly linked to tobacco smoking, in comparison with more common varieties of lung cancer. Researchers (who ultimately presented their findings at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress) had therefore been investigating other triggers for the disease. Since P-ADC shares some similarities with a viral infection that can be contracted by sheep, the study examined people who had consistent professional contact with goats. Sure enough, they were five times more likely to have P-ADC than other types of lung cancer.
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"Exposure to goats can increase your risk of cancer."
A rare type of lung cancer -- pneumonic-type adenocarcinoma -- is only weakly linked to tobacco smoking, in comparison with more common varieties of lung cancer. Researchers (who ultimately presented their findings at the European Respiratory Society's Annual Congress) had therefore been investigating other triggers for the disease. Since P-ADC shares some similarities with a viral infection that can be contracted by sheep, the study examined people who had consistent professional contact with goats. Sure enough, they were five times more likely to have P-ADC than other types of lung cancer.
Aaron, Phil....you guys are f**KED!!!!! :dragonz:
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"Women with high Facebook activity tend to base their self-worth on their appearance."
A study published in the journal Cyberpsychology found that women with larger friend networks and better-maintained public profiles (including large photo albums) also tend to have a public-based sense of self-esteem, influenced by others' approval (and especially by physical appearance). Additionally, the study found that women at large shared five times as many photos as men, as well as being more active on Facebook overall.
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"Women with high Facebook activity tend to base their self-worth on their appearance."
A study published in the journal Cyberpsychology found that women with larger friend networks and better-maintained public profiles (including large photo albums) also tend to have a public-based sense of self-esteem, influenced by others' approval (and especially by physical appearance). Additionally, the study found that women at large shared five times as many photos as men, as well as being more active on Facebook overall.
drives me nuts when people Upload a shit ton of crappy pics. like I want to see them all. :rolleyes: pick the good ones and GTFO
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isn't that the fundimental problem with social networking in general?
When did people start thinking that others cared what they do or think or say?
Facebook is like going to someone's house after their vacation and having to listen to their stories and see thier pics.... NOBODY CARES!
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"Male crickets will die to protect their mates."
Researchers previously believed that male crickets only protected their mates for the sake of successful reproduction. However, after analyzing thousands of hours of recorded footage of their behavior in the wild, researchers found that lone female crickets were more likely to fall victim to predation than females with mates; conversely, males with mates were less likely to survive. Male crickets evidently go out of their way to ensure the safety of their mates, even when it means an increased risk of personal danger.
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isn't that the fundimental problem with social networking in general?
When did people start thinking that others cared what they do or think or say?
Facebook is like going to someone's house after their vacation and having to listen to their stories and see thier pics.... NOBODY CARES!
unless those people ride atv's, then I'm all ears. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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well ya...
I was thinking about ther stupid trip to collionial willimasburg or something to that effect
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which is still fine. But I dont need to see all 497 pictures of nothing. Weed them out to the few good ones, so I can be impressed :lol:
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all Canadians are seal clubbers
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"Men are likely to eat more when around women."
A study at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the University of Akron observed students' dining behavior over a 10-day period and found that men tended to buy more calories when eating with women as compared to when eating with men, while women showed the opposite tendency (buying fewer calories around men and more around women). Researchers theorize that people are more aware of gender norms when with the opposite sex. Men don't want to appear to be light eaters, and women don't want to be judged for eating too much.
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"B. F. Skinner worked on a pigeon-guided missile."
The hugely influential psychologist B. F. Skinner spent some of World War II working on, in his words, "a crackpot idea, born on the wrong side of the tracks intellectually speaking." The idea was to create a pigeon-powered missile guidance mechanism. The theory behind it was that a pigeon trained to peck at an image of the specific target would be housed inside the cone, along with a screen with which the pigeon could essentially steer the missile. Skinner demonstrated proof of the concept's functionality in several experiments leading up to the war, and "Project Pigeon" seemed to show some real promise before it was ultimately canceled in 1944.
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"An Italian crew captured by pirates was finally rescued after sending a message in a bottle."
The Italian cargo ship Montescristo was hijacked on October 10th, 2011 by Somali pirates who disabled the ship's communications. The Montecristo's crew had already radioed a distress call before holing up in what was essentially the ship's panic room, bringing the NATO ship into the vicinity. The crew wrote out a distress message, stuffed it in a bottle along with a flashing beacon and threw it out a porthole into the ocean, where it was later picked up by the nearby NATO ship. The bottled message told NATO officials that the crew was safe, so NATO ships were able to approach Montecristo and mount a rescue operation without fear that the pirates could take any hostages.
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"An Italian crew captured by pirates was finally rescued after sending a message in a bottle."
The Italian cargo ship Montescristo was hijacked on October 10th, 2011 by Somali pirates who disabled the ship's communications. The Montecristo's crew had already radioed a distress call before holing up in what was essentially the ship's panic room, bringing the NATO ship into the vicinity. The crew wrote out a distress message, stuffed it in a bottle along with a flashing beacon and threw it out a porthole into the ocean, where it was later picked up by the nearby NATO ship. The bottled message told NATO officials that the crew was safe, so NATO ships were able to approach Montecristo and mount a rescue operation without fear that the pirates could take any hostages.
While we were on deployment we had something simular happen with a cargo ship. except it wasn't NATO it was UAE who took out the pirates... they are hell of alot faster than the seals thats for damn sure... seals were on the boat for over a week planning out how to take out the three pirates on the sailboat the quest... everyone died on that boat the uae came on and were off the boat in less than 48 hours and everyone lived... Makes you wonder who really is the power house in the world...
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We just have to be more careful...being the biggest country, we live in a fishbowl...If that were to go wrong...we'd never hear the end of it. :thumbs:
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We just have to be more careful...being the biggest country, we live in a fishbowl...If that were to go wrong...we'd never hear the end of it. :thumbs:
Peels did you do some research before you posted? It did go wrong... two dead americans one pirate saved using american money and doctor's by the way the pirate that was saved was the one who killed both americans and shot the rocket at the US destroyer... To me sounds like we need some help from the UAE for getting people back alive after pirates take over...
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"People who watch reality TV are more likely to believe that meanness is beneficial."
The Girl Scout Research Institute gathered data from a thousand teenage girls, about half of whom watched reality TV regularly. Most of them were consciously aware that reality TV engendered bad behavior, but that didn't make them immune to its effects. Compared to non-viewers, more reality TV viewers believed in being mean to win respect (37%-25%), lying to get what you want (37%-24%) and being liked for outer rather than inner beauty (28%-18%). In their defense, reality TV viewers were also more likely to aspire to leadership (46%-27%).
I see both sides. Granted we take longer, and people DID die.. but if we moved in quickly, and people died, we'd be under much more scrutiny than sitting back. Because it wasn't at the fault of the seals (or replace that with whatever group you want).
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"Men with monotone voices have more sex."
Researchers from universities in California and Pennsylvania followed male volunteers in various situations, including a fake dating game, and measured the variation in each subject's vocal pitch. That pitch variation was directly linked to the number of sexual partners each subject had had. A monotonous voice, according to researchers, is a traditional indicator of power and confidence. Anxiety causes the voice to rise, and aggression causes it to deepen, but men who remain in control of their emotions tend to maintain a more even pitch.
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"Body position can influence memory."
A study in the journal Cognition demonstrated that subjects were able to recall memories more quickly when their body position matched the position they'd been in during the scene they were trying to remember (e.g. waving goodbye or lying down). In addition, two weeks after the first experiment, researchers followed up and found that the subjects whose body positions had matched their memories were able to recall nearly twice as much of their initial recollections.
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"The largest-ever mobile phone study has found no link between tumors and mobile phone use."
A study published in the British Medical Journal examined 18 years of data from 358,403 subjects who used mobile phones and concluded that there is no increased risk of central nervous system tumors (or tumors of any other variety) associated with phone use. This was the follow-up to a nationwide Danish study that had previously reached the same essential conclusions. However, the researchers did stress that it's not possible to rule out a small risk among very heavy users over very long periods. The main criticism of the study was that many more people would need to be followed for far longer for researchers to arrive at a meaningful result.
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"One in five women would rather give up sex than Facebook access."
These results come from a 2,000-respondent Cosmopolitan survey, which also found that, given a choice between things to give up, 70% would give up texting and 50% would give up phones entirely for sex. A previous survey conducted by TeleNav found that 1 in 3 people would give up sex for a week instead of their phones, noting that phone attachment was at its peak among iPhone users (22% of people, for instance, would give up their toothbrushes before their phones. That number jumped to 40% among iPhone users).
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"One in five women would rather give up sex than Facebook access."
Let me guess, they were all married, right? Am I right? What do I win?
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:lol:
"Scientists have discovered giant single-celled organisms in the Mariana trench."
National Geographic engineers and researchers with Scripps Institution of Oceanography investigated the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Earth's oceans. They recorded the existence of organisms called xenophyophores; similar to giant amoebas, these protozoans can reach up to four inches in diameter, making them the largest individual cells ever recorded. They've been observed before, though never this deep. Xenophyophores are suited to life in their extreme environment, which makes them difficult to study.
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"63% of jobs in America will require a post-secondary degree by 2018."
This statistic comes from a report by the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, which also stresses that the disparity in earnings is now at its greatest between high school dropouts and people with professional degrees (accounting for a difference in earnings of $3,452,000 over an entire lifetime). Having any post-secondary school at all, even without graduating, is worth an extra $473,000.
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unfortunately that degree will cost you $474,000
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isn't that ridiculous? :confused:
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trade school FTW!
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lot lizarding ftw!
low investment, decent return
sore mouth :lol: :lol: :lol:
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lot lizarding ftw!
low investment, decent return
sore mouth :lol: :lol: :lol:
(http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv89/quadnut/ThreadPitchers.jpg)
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lot lizarding ftw!
low investment, decent return
sore mouth :lol: :lol: :lol:
(http://i672.photobucket.com/albums/vv89/quadnut/ThreadPitchers.jpg)
raptor rally photo....? that's totally you on the right. :lol:
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"Two-thirds of Americans believe that Ouija boards are dangerous."
65% of Americans believe in the potential dangers of using a Ouija board, according to a collection of statistics on belief in the paranormal compiled by LiveScience. Furthermore, Gallup polling indicates that 73% of Americans believe in at least some kind of paranormal phenomenon, with most of those (41%) believing in ESP. Slightly fewer Americans (37%) believe in haunted houses, as do a similar number of Britons (40%). Canadians are somewhat more rational on this point, with only 28%.
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fact is, I think this girl is far more interesting than anything else posted in this thread recently
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Real fact of the day, Dragonz has a bigger collection of pictures (and probably videos) than any of us combined...:jaw:
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Real fact of the day, Dragonz has a bigger collection of pictures (and probably videos) than any of us combined...:jaw:
no, I just knows where to find dem :)
& sharing is caring.............. :P
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thanks for sharing your STD's w/ Erich. :lol:
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"Men are more likely to engage in social shopping than women."
Social shopping, which integrates social networking with internet commerce, has traditionally been considered the domain of women but according to an ROI Research study, men are actually more likely to engage in most of the aspects of social shopping (e.g. finding store information via social networks and looking up product reviews). Men were also more active in every major social networking site than women, with the sole exception of Facebook (used by 97% of female respondents and 96% of male respondents).
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"Men are more likely to engage in social shopping than women."
Social shopping, which integrates social networking with internet commerce, has traditionally been considered the domain of women but according to an ROI Research study, men are actually more likely to engage in most of the aspects of social shopping (e.g. finding store information via social networks and looking up product reviews). Men were also more active in every major social networking site than women, with the sole exception of Facebook (used by 97% of female respondents and 96% of male respondents).
you f**king shoutbox homos are bad about that! :lol:
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dude... whats with the strechmarks on that broad?
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"Men are more likely to engage in social shopping than women."
Social shopping, which integrates social networking with internet commerce, has traditionally been considered the domain of women but according to an ROI Research study, men are actually more likely to engage in most of the aspects of social shopping (e.g. finding store information via social networks and looking up product reviews). Men were also more active in every major social networking site than women, with the sole exception of Facebook (used by 97% of female respondents and 96% of male respondents).
you f**king shoutbox homos are bad about that! :lol:
getting reviews straight from the source 8)
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dude... whats with the strechmarks on that broad?
Sorry, I used her........... :P
You should see the stretchmarks on the inside.........LOL
Will try to find a non MILF, non 2nd hand broad for you to oggle (in a PG13 kind of way) shortly
:nod:
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Stretch marks can be sexy too....sorta :confused:
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you know what strech marks mean
she puts out
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:lol: vern!
"Scientists have isolated cells that contribute to aging and can remove them to slow the effects."
Senescent cells, which cause inflammation and build up in aging tissue, appear to contribute to everything from cataracts to cancer, and Mayo Clinic researchers have shown it's possible to remove them entirely. The researchers engineered a type of mouse in which senescent cells could be purged via medication and demonstrated that mice without these cells aged far slower, retaining their energy and youthful physical characteristics. Even mice that were not given the treatment until middle age had further aging delayed (though already-apparent effects were not reversed).
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you know what strech marks mean
she puts out
I'm sorry, but this is one of the funnier things I've heard in awhile :rofl:
optimism for the win :rofl:
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yea... make them young... dats the stuff!
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you know what strech marks mean
she puts out
I'm sorry, but this is one of the funnier things I've heard in awhile :rofl:
optimism for the win :rofl:
I like the way you're thinking.........
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:boobs:
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"Frontier families are more fertile."
Researchers at the University of Montreal studied records from 1.2 million Quebecers, spanning nearly 200 years. Families who settled on the frontiers outside existing settlements tended to marry younger and have more children than their peers. The end result of this increased activity (about 15% more than settlement families) is that frontier-family genes are more prevalent in current populations -- one to four times more, in the case of the study.
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did someone say "fertile"
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"Your brain grows as you make more friends."
Researchers studying rhesus macaques found that the monkeys' brains grew as they were introduced to more cage-mates. There was a hefty 5% increase in gray matter per cage-mate. These increases reflected a greater need to read different gestures and vocalizations from more individuals in a social group; two brain regions showed increases that corresponded with a monkey's status in the dominance hierarchy. Studies on humans are harder to perform, due to the necessity of restricting a subject's total social contact, but the researchers indicated that previous human studies exhibit a similar link between social network and brain size.
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"Kids who play video games (even even violent ones) show increased creativity."
A study in the journal Computers in Human Behavior gave 491 12-year-olds a common test, the "Torrance Test of Creativity", which involves drawing pictures from existing shapes, titling the images and telling a story about them. Both male and female subjects who played video games - regardless if they were violent or nonviolent - were more creative. But the effect seems limited to video games; games on cell phones or on the internet were not linked to creativity.
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"Men can unconsciously smell when a woman is ovulating."
According to a study published in Psychological Science, men are able to detect the scent of a fertile woman, even if they're unaware of what it is they're detecting. Researchers asked two groups of men to smell t-shirts. Some had been worn by women at various points in their menstrual cycles; others were unworn control-group shirts. Men who smelled the shirts of ovulating women experienced an increase in testosterone levels. Furthermore, they rated the shirts worn by ovulating women as the most pleasant-smelling.
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"Men can unconsciously smell when a woman is ovulating."
According to a study published in Psychological Science, men are able to detect the scent of a fertile woman, even if they're unaware of what it is they're detecting. Researchers asked two groups of men to smell t-shirts. Some had been worn by women at various points in their menstrual cycles; others were unworn control-group shirts. Men who smelled the shirts of ovulating women experienced an increase in testosterone levels. Furthermore, they rated the shirts worn by ovulating women as the most pleasant-smelling.
Hmmmm
Smells like raincoat weather to me!
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"Strawberries can protect you against alcohol damage."
Consistent alcohol use predisposes us to various health issues, including ulcers and various cancers (between %2 and %4 of cancers are attributed to alcohol). However, new research has indicated that strawberries can help mitigate this damage. European researchers fed rats 0.0014 ounces of a strawberry extract per 0.00003 ounce of body weight, then fed them an alcohol diet designed specifically to damage their stomach tissue, and found that those rats' stomachs were protected compared to those in a control group. Strawberries may even be effective protection against various other kinds of stomach-tissue damage (from viruses, for instance).
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"A woman's history of orgasm is observable in her walk."
A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine asked female subjects to take a questionnaire on sexual behavior. The participants were then filmed walking in public spaces. Two professors of sexology, unaware of the women's questionnaire answers, were able to guess with 80% accuracy whether a woman experienced vaginal orgasm just by examining her walk. Researchers theorized that either a woman's physiological characteristics influence both her stride and her sexual behavior, or a vaginally orgasmic woman is also more likely to feel confident and liberated in general.
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tis surely a fact that its dead as a dodo here tonight
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"One third of women are uninterested in cuddling."
One in three women dislike bedtime cuddling, according to a study conducted by Silentnight, a U.K. bed manufacturer. Most women's lack of interest merely stems from being tired but some actually find the act uncomfortable (about one in five). Nearly a tenth of women said they'd rather check Facebook than cuddle. Coincidentally, about one in three men admitted to actually wanting more cuddling.
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wonder about the numbers when raptor rally is figured in. Among men of course. :lol:
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crying in the fetal position is different.
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crying in the fetal position is different.
voice of experience???
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crying in the fetal position is different.
voice of experience???
You show up to a rally phil, you'll see the world a whole new way. :lol:
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""Beer goggles" are partially due to impaired perception of symmetry."
Facial symmetry is among the features that we're least able to notice once we've been drinking, according to a study in the journal Alcohol. Researchers sought out and tested drunken bar patrons, giving them a breathalyzer test and asking them to examine 20 pairs of photos for facial symmetry and attractiveness. Sober patrons were more attracted to symmetry and were more accurate in judging which faces were symmetrical. Drunken patrons ceased to rate symmetry as attractive, as they'd lost the ability to detect it. Women were more prone to this loss of perception than men.
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crying in the fetal position is different.
voice of experience???
You show up to a rally phil, you'll see the world a whole new way. :lol:
& if I get to one, you might have a few perceptions altered also.................
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"Tanning beds can be addictive."
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers studied participants as they used two different kinds of tanning beds -- an ordinary one, and one designed to filter out UV radiation. As they started tanning, participants felt a sense of reward similar to what a drug or alcohol addict might feel, and demonstrated similar brain activity. Though none of the participants knew if they were receiving a real or fake tan, the effect was much less pronounced in the latter case.
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Fact of the day:
more than 1/2 the current posts have me as the last to reply..................
What a bunch of slack-whores y'all are! :nod:
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"Women find conscientious men to be better dancers."
A German study gave male participants personality questionnaires, recorded them dancing and transferred their movements onto computer-generated avatars before asking a panel of women to judge their dancing talents. Men who ranked highly in conscientiousness and agreeability were regarded as better dancers than their peers. The researchers, from the University of Goettingen, also stressed that attempts to emulate dance movements that clash with your true personality are unlikely to work.
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Fact of the day:
more than 1/2 the current posts have me as the last to reply..................
Fact: no one really cares :lol:
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Fact: My hubby is hawt! :rofl:
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we lookin at the same guy? :confused:
:lol:
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"Twitter is frequently used to relay lifesaving information."
According to studies by University of Pennsylvania researchers, tweets are often used to communicate potentially lifesaving information, including the use of CPR or defibrillators. The analysis, performed by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, turned up 15,324 tweets providing information about cardiac arrest over a month-long period. About a quarter of the tweets related personal experiences involving the use of CPR and about 5% described personal encounters with cardiac arrest.
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"Smile intensity can predict both future relationship success and longevity."
A study from Indiana's DePauw University examined hundreds of school yearbook photos for smile authenticity and intensity and then followed up with the pictured students to check the status of their relationships. The more heartfelt a student's smile, the less likely he or she was to be divorced. A similar study on photos from the 1952 Baseball Register found that players with more intense smiles lived longer.
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"Narcissism is good for leadership."
According to a study from the IMD business school in Switzerland, CEOs with narcissistic personalities tend to outperform CEOs without them. Professors examined the characteristics of 78 chief executives at 33 American pharmaceutical companies, recording (among other things) how often their photos appeared in annual reports and how frequently their names were mentioned in press releases. The analysis concluded that more egotistical CEOs were also more daring and innovative, leading companies that were faster in responding to the rise of biotechnology than their peers.
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"A company has built a dual-core computer within a USB stick."
Norwegian company FXI Technologies recently unveiled the prototype for the "Cotton Candy" USB device, a 3-inch-long USB stick that contains a dual-core 1.2-GHz processor, a quad-core GPU, Bluetooth/Wifi support and runs on the Android OS. When plugged into a computer, the device starts Android in a separate window on the desktop and, as it has HDMI output, can also run the OS on a TV. The device will retail for around $200 in mid-2012.
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"The purpose of yawning may be to cool down the brain."
A study published in the journal Medical Hypotheses suggested that yawning -- something that has always baffled scientists -- may serve to move air through the maxillary sinuses (under and behind the eyes) and up to the brain thereby lowering its temperature. This theory would also tidily explain the function of sinuses, another curious anatomical feature. Researchers tested the theory by measuring the temperatures in rats' brains and found that temperatures tended to spike before a yawn before dipping back down, indicating that the yawns themselves were precipitated by a brain in need of cooling.
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"Walking speed can predict overall health."
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center analyzed data from over 35,000 people over the age of 65 and found that walking speed was one of the most accurate predictors of longevity. The participating seniors typically moved at around speeds of 2.2 miles per hour. For every 0.1 meters per second they moved faster than that, they were 12 percent more likely to be alive a decade later. Only age and gender were better predictors -- making it potentially even more accurate than metrics like weight and blood pressure.
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"Narcissism is good for leadership."
According to a study from the IMD business school in Switzerland, CEOs with narcissistic personalities tend to outperform CEOs without them. Professors examined the characteristics of 78 chief executives at 33 American pharmaceutical companies, recording (among other things) how often their photos appeared in annual reports and how frequently their names were mentioned in press releases. The analysis concluded that more egotistical CEOs were also more daring and innovative, leading companies that were faster in responding to the rise of biotechnology than their peers.
I argued this with people that called their doctors assholes, or jerks. I WANT my doctor to be an arrogant prick. No wishy washy BS. Know the decision, and make it... :thumbs: same goes for large businesses in my opinion
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"Well-done red meat substantially increases the risk of prostate cancer."
A University of California study published in the journal PLoS ONE found that consumption of processed meats in general, and ground beef in particular, increases the risk of prostate cancer. The study also found that cooking methods influence cancer incidence: men who ate a lot of ground beef that was well done or very well done had twice the prostate cancer risk of men who ate none. Mutagenic compounds produced by some cooking methods (including grilling and pan frying) are likely involved, although the researchers stressed that other factors may be involved and the issue calls for further research.
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"Increasing the time between having kids can increase their academic performance."
Notre Dame researchers have determined that leaving two years between siblings is beneficial to the older sibling's overall intelligence. Based on an analysis of 5,000 sibling pairs, an additional year between siblings' ages accounted for an increase of intelligence of 0.17 standard deviations. The issue, researchers explained, is that having one or two children in need of constant supervision decreases the time spent on the older child's enrichment as he or she develops. The more time a child gets to be an only child, the more that child is likely to benefit.
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"Increasing the time between having kids can increase their academic performance."
Notre Dame researchers have determined that leaving two years between siblings is beneficial to the older sibling's overall intelligence. Based on an analysis of 5,000 sibling pairs, an additional year between siblings' ages accounted for an increase of intelligence of 0.17 standard deviations. The issue, researchers explained, is that having one or two children in need of constant supervision decreases the time spent on the older child's enrichment as he or she develops. The more time a child gets to be an only child, the more that child is likely to benefit.
I like this fact.... :thumbs: makes sense.
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"Women who are gamers have more sex."
A Harris Interactive survey found that women who play any variety of computer, mobile or social networking games have more sex than their peers: 57% of gamers had sex regularly, compared to 52% of non-gamers (38% of gamers had sex at least once a week, compared to 34%). Furthermore, they have richer real-life social lives; 42% of gamers socialized with friends in person at least once a day, compared to 31% of non-gamers.
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"Women who are gamers have more sex."
A Harris Interactive survey found that women who play any variety of computer, mobile or social networking games have more sex than their peers: 57% of gamers had sex regularly, compared to 52% of non-gamers (38% of gamers had sex at least once a week, compared to 34%). Furthermore, they have richer real-life social lives; 42% of gamers socialized with friends in person at least once a day, compared to 31% of non-gamers.
while for males, the opposite is true... :nerd:
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:lol:
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"The FDA has approved a hangover cure."
New York-based Rally Labs has developed an FDA-approved over-the-counter hangover pill. "Blowfish" contains a maximum-strength dose of aspirin and about as much caffeine as a cup of coffee. The tablet takes effect more quickly than its ingredients would on their own, according to Brenna Haysom, who came up with the idea for Blowfish while she was studying as a grad student at Harvard.
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ibuprofen, and water before you go to bed. same in morning, Maybe a little coffee... No need for special drug. but bet it sells. :lol:
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I try to make sure I drink either a gatorade or water before I go to bed. i had a heck of a time a few weeks ago after our car club christmas party. forgot, woke up and felt like crap! ::)
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"Forgetting why you've walked into a room is partly caused by how your brain perceives doorways."
Notre Dame researchers conducted a series of experiments studying living spaces and their effect on memory. In one of these, the participants were supposed to take a specific object from one table and put it on a different table. The participants were separated into two groups; both were traveling the same distance, but one group passed through a doorway, and the other didn't. People in the doorway group were three times as likely to forget the details of their task. Doorways are "event boundaries," explained researchers; decisions made in another room often get filed away and forgotten after you've crossed the threshold of a doorway.
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thats actually quite interesting :thumbs:
Explains why I forget shit when I leave the room all the time :lol:
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lol
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"Wi-Fi in laptops may be dangerous to men's reproductive health."
According to a study in the journal Fertility and Sterility, Wi-Fi-enabled laptops may endanger sperm. Researchers placed semen samples from 29 healthy men under laptops connected to the internet via Wi-Fi, then checked on the samples four hours later. They found that 25% of the sperm were no longer active (11% more than in the sample not exposed to Wi-Fi) and 9% showed DNA damage (three times the rate of the control samples). According to the researchers electromagnetic radiation is to blame, furthermore, a separate test recorded no radiation from active laptops that weren't connected via Wi-Fi.
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not mine. I'm good to go. :thumbs: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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"Posture influences your sense of power more than your actual title or position."
A study at the Kellogg School of Management placed participants in high-power and low-power roles, and in open or closed physical positions. The researchers found that posture had more influence on behavior than the participants' actual roles; participants with high-power roles said they felt powerful but didn't actually behave that way. Open-posture participants took more risks, exhibited more power-related behaviors and were more likely to take decisive action, regardless of their roles.
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"People often perceive several gifts as less valuable than a single one of those same offerings."
A study in the Journal of Consumer Research indicated that, in some cases, more gifts can seem to have less total value than a few (of the same) gifts. One experiment divided 54 participants into "presenters" and "customers;" it was the presenters' job to put together the most valuable-seeming package (their materials were either an iPod Touch with a cover, or an iPod Touch, a cover and one free song). While 92% of the presenters figured it was most valuable to include the free song, the customer group was actually likely to pay more for the package without the free song.
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AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE ON CHRISTMAS
There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world.
However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau).
At an average (census) rate of 3.5children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second.
This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child,Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney,jump into the sleigh and get onto the next house.
Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks.
This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second -- 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.
The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself.
On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds.
Even granting that the "flying" reindeer can pull 10 times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them -- Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).
600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would adsorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake.
The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip.
Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 mps in .001 seconds, would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now. Merry Christma
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"One-third of Americans have been arrested by the age of 23."
The first study in 50 years to examine nationwide arrest histories for a sample of young adults found an increase of 8% over the previous arrest rate -- 30% of 23-year-olds had been arrested (discounting traffic violations), compared to 22% when last recorded (1965). Furthermore, the study (published in the journal Pediatrics) found that the likelihood of an arrest also appears to leap right around the age of 18 and then to decline as people enter adulthood. The study relied on data from 7,335 participants who enrolled in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in 1996 and have been interviewed every year since then.
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"Urban areas could potentially weather a flu epidemic much better than rural ones."
The general perception is that crowded cities, teeming with people living in close quarters, would be devastated by a flu epidemic. But a new study of the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak by Norwegian School of Public Health researchers indicates that the opposite might be true. In some cases, the H1N1 strain of that flu only killed about 1% of people dwelling in urban centers, while its fatality rate approached 90% in some rural communities. City dwellers had built up stronger immune systems due to their lifelong exposure to various strains of flu, and were therefore dramatically more likely to survive the H1N1 strain, researchers found.
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"The Scottish accent is deemed the most sensible and responsible of Anglo-Saxon accents."
A survey conducted by UK-based communications consultant The Aziz Corporation found that 43% of respondents believed a person with a Scottish accent to be responsible, 40% of respondents assumed them to be hardworking and 31% found them trustworthy. Only 9% believed that someone with a Liverpudlian accent would be hardworking and reliable. Other UK accents (Newcastle, London Cockney) fell somewhere around the middle of the spectrum.
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"The Scottish accent is deemed the most sensible and responsible of Anglo-Saxon accents."
A survey conducted by UK-based communications consultant The Aziz Corporation found that 43% of respondents believed a person with a Scottish accent to be responsible, 40% of respondents assumed them to be hardworking and 31% found them trustworthy. Only 9% believed that someone with a Liverpudlian accent would be hardworking and reliable. Other UK accents (Newcastle, London Cockney) fell somewhere around the middle of the spectrum.
and by far the least understandable. :lol: Have you ever spoken with a scotsman? :lol:
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"There is no real consensus on what "had sex" means."
When people are speaking casually, the phrase "had sex" can mean virtually anything. A Kinsey Institute study asked 486 participants a series of questions, all beginning with the prompt "Would you say you 'had sex' with someone if..." before describing some intimate behavior. Nineteen percent of respondents thought that anal sex fell outside the definition of sex, and about 28% thought oral sex didn't qualify. Eleven percent of respondents thought that typical intercourse didn't count as sex if there was no ejaculation. Five percent of people didn't identify typical intercourse as sex at all.
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So only somewhere between 81% and 72% of raptor rally attendees "had sex". ??? I'm not buying it.
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So only somewhere between 81% and 72% of raptor rally attendees "had sex" with me. ??? I'm not buying it.
Guess that explains your funny walk...............
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So only somewhere between 81% and 72% of raptor rally attendees "had sex" with me. ??? I'm not buying it.
Guess that explains your funny walk...............
I was in the 19-28% :( :lol:
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So only somewhere between 81% and 72% of raptor rally attendees "had sex" with me. ??? I'm not buying it.
Guess that explains your funny walk...............
I was in the 19-28% :( :lol:
Yea, this year you were. :thumbs:
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"Distaste for broccoli is genetic."
Many vegetables, but particularly cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, contain compounds called glucosinolates that can protect against carcinogens at low doses while being toxic at extremely high doses. Some people can taste these compounds, finding them incredibly bitter, while others can't taste them at all. Research published in Current Biology indicates that the gene hTAS2R38 is responsible for people's perception of glucosinolates. Study participants with two "sensitive" versions of the gene rated broccoli and its related vegetables 60% more bitter than those with an "insensitive" version of the gene.
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I haz dis gene :lol:
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I actually do like steamed broccoli...
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me too :)
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barf. the taste of peas, broccoli, and cauliflower makes me wretch instantly
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I dislike cooked peas, but fresh from the garden are delicious. I LOVE broccoli and cauliflower. Cauliflower especially. Probably my favorite veggie :)
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Love eating broccoli, cauliflower and peas, they make me pass gas like I'm on :tonto:
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"Driving a Porsche communicates that you're interested in uncommitted sex."
Men's conspicuous spending suggests that flashiness indicates an interest only in flings, not relationships, according to a study by Rice University, UT San Antonio and the University of Minnesota. The flashiness does in fact make a man more sexually desirable to women than owning a functional and inexpensive item does: Women who participated in the study found a Porsche-driving man more attractive as a date, but not as a candidate for a serious relationship.
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"Driving a Porsche communicates that you're interested in uncommitted sex."
Men's conspicuous spending suggests that flashiness indicates an interest only in flings, not relationships, according to a study by Rice University, UT San Antonio and the University of Minnesota. The flashiness does in fact make a man more sexually desirable to women than owning a functional and inexpensive item does: Women who participated in the study found a Porsche-driving man more attractive as a date, but not as a candidate for a serious relationship.
:rofl:
driving a scion suggests that you are into bisexual encounters. No joke I read it on the internet.
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true!
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"Trans-fat consumption shrinks the brain."
A study in the journal Neurology indicates that a diet high in trans fats not only impairs cognition in aging brains, it is also correlated with actual brain shrinkage. The research found that older people with higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids performed better on cognitive tests than those with lower levels, while the reverse held true for trans fats. Fat levels and other nutritional benchmarks were responsible for an astounding 70% of the variation in cognitive scores.
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"Getting a cat for the first time as an adult can give you cat allergies."
Having a cat around in childhood makes you less likely to develop feline allergies, but apparently getting one in adulthood actually doubles your risk of developing them, according to a study in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Researchers examined 6,000 adults who started out not sensitive to cat dander and followed them for nine years, finding that about twice as many adults who acquired cats developed allergies as those who didn't own cats. The phenomenon was limited to adults who let their cats into their bedrooms.
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"Excess milk consumption increases the risk of prostate cancer."
According to a study outlined in the American Journal of Epidemiology, men who drink milk daily in adolescence and then quit drinking it later are three times as likely as those who don't drink milk to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. Researchers noted that the study was correlative, and does not necessarily imply direct causation (although the estrogen in cow's milk has been elsewhere linked to increased risk of prostate cancer). A related study conducted on a cellular level found that cow's milk increases the growth of prostate cancer cells by 30%.
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"Deeper-voiced men actually tend to be less fertile."
Men with deeper voices generally have higher levels of testosterone, and are therefore also associated with its other virile-seeming effects (more facial hair and increased muscle mass, for example). But according to a study published in the journal PLoS One, men with deeper voices may have lower-quality sperm than their higher-voiced counterparts. The study found that the sperm of deeper-voiced men scored lower on seven motility parameters (ratings of sperm's ability to reach an egg), meaning they had lower overall fertility.
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"Competition against daunting opponents makes your own performance worse."
A study by Northwestern University appearing in the Journal of Political Economy investigated 11 years of Tiger Woods' records against various PGA opponents, and found that the simple fact that they were facing Woods made them worse golfers. His opponents tended to play more conservatively when competing directly against him, taking shorter, safer shots. The economist Jennifer Brown estimates that the influence of this effect made Woods an extra $6 million overall.
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also, racing atv's against guys with really fast ones, makes you slower..I know this :lol:
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"Sex bolsters the immune system."
According to a study conducted at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania, having sex a couple of times a week improves immune function. Researchers tested undergraduates for their levels of the antibody immunoglobulin A, which is crucial to resisting illnesses. Those who'd averaged sex less than once a week had slightly higher levels of the antibody than those who'd had none at all; sex twice a week led to a 30% increase. Those who'd had sex more than that, however, actually had lower levels of IgA than the abstainers.
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"A Nashville software developer has developed an app that functions as a visual breathalyzer."
The BreathalEyes App, developed by Xplor Apps, approximates a person's blood-alcohol content by monitoring his or her eye movements. Using a phone's camera, the app measures horizontal gaze nystagmus -- jerkiness in eye movement that becomes apparent at around .04% BAC (and a metric sometimes used by police to test sobriety). BreathalEyes is currently available for the iPhone 4 for 99 cents; an Android version is in the works.
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seriously cool.
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"Dutch designers are working on an iPad game that will be played by humans and pigs."
The "Playing With Pigs" project, a collaboration between research institutions in the Netherlands, has demonstrated an iPad concept app that involves a human touching the screen to project a ball of light on a large touchscreen in a pig pen. The pigs, drawn to the light, would then chase the ball around with their snouts. Human players would see a snout on their screens and try to move in harmony with the pigs. The pigs, if successful, are rewarded with bright, colorful stimuli. The app was precipitated by European laws, which require that pig farmers provide their intelligent livestock with toys or some other stimulating activity, reducing the animals' boredom (and therefore their aggression)
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"Dutch designers are working on an iPad game that will be played by humans and pigs."
The "Playing With Pigs" project, a collaboration between research institutions in the Netherlands, has demonstrated an iPad concept app that involves a human touching the screen to project a ball of light on a large touchscreen in a pig pen. The pigs, drawn to the light, would then chase the ball around with their snouts. Human players would see a snout on their screens and try to move in harmony with the pigs. The pigs, if successful, are rewarded with bright, colorful stimuli. The app was precipitated by European laws, which require that pig farmers provide their intelligent livestock with toys or some other stimulating activity, reducing the animals' boredom (and therefore their aggression)
wow. just wow. :lol:
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"Some people are genetically able to taste fat more acutely than others."
One common recurring myth about the tongue is that it's segmented into specific areas that detect only one taste per area (sour, sweet, bitter and salty). The segmentation theory has been known to be false for decades: It was originally based on a psychologist's mistranslation of a century-old research paper. Furthermore, there is at least one other basic taste -- "umami," the taste of glutamate -- and research now indicates that humans can taste fat as well, with their sensitivity to the taste determined by the CD36 gene (and those less sensitive to it are likely to consume more of it). The research, conducted by the Washington University School of Medicine, was published in the Journal of Lipid Research.
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"Women are more attracted to a lack of stress than to a surplus of masculinity."
Some of the traits associated with testosterone (muscle mass, square jaws) are inarguably associated with attractiveness. A Scottish study from the University of Abertay Dundee indicates, however, that the presence of testosterone is actually less important to women judging attractiveness than the lack of cortisol, the stress hormone. Researchers compiled composite face images that illustrated traits corresponding to high and low testosterone, and to high and low cortisol; the high-testosterone face was not notably preferred over the low-testosterone face, but the low-cortisol face was seen as significantly more attractive than the high-cortisol face.
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"Your ethnicity influences where you look to recognize a person's face."
The "looking pattern" with which we recognize other people varies between cultures and ethnicities, according to a study conducted by by the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and published in the journal PLoS One. Westerners look mostly in a triangular pattern, moving between the two eyes and then down to the mouth (a method, according to the authors, suited to populations whose features vary dramatically). Some Asian groups look instead at the center of the face, gathering information about the arrangement of facial features. The study also found that British-born Chinese people combined these approaches, fixating on the eyes or mouth -- suggesting that facial recognition is a variable, learned behavior.
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"Parasitic worms could potentially be used to treat lung injuries."
According to a study published in the journal Nature Medicine, intestinal parasites -- which cause millions of illnesses and deaths each year -- may someday be used to treat serious injuries caused by pneumonia and other diseases. Researchers at the New Jersey Medical School studied Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, a rodent parasite similar to hookworm. They found that a mouse's immune system produces an abundance of cytokines (crucial signaling proteins) to expel the parasites and promote healing of the lungs, which are often damaged by these parasites. If humans produce a comparable reaction then the parasites, or something designed to provoke the same immune reaction, could be used to treat acute lung injuries.
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"Nissan has developed a self-healing iPhone case."
Nissan is testing what it refers to as a "self-healing" iPhone case -- a phone cover coated in "Scratch Shield" paint. According to the automaker, the innovation is "a world first in paint technology" whose structure reacts to scratches by reverting to its original shape, and thereby erasing them. The process allegedly takes between an hour and a week, depending on the size of the scratch. Nissan is beta-testing the product now, and intends to release the case later this year if reactions are positive.
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"Miami is the happiest city in which to work."
Employment forum CareerBliss compiles an annual list of the happiest and unhappiest cities for work. Data comes from polling employees about their relationships with their coworkers, opportunities for advancement, compensation, work atmosphere, and other factors that express their general job satisfaction. The 2012 list, based on data from 43,000 respondents, found that the happiest cities were Miami, FL; Worcester, MA; and Oklahoma City, OK. Incidentally, the average salary in Miami was just under $54,000 -- some $8,000 less than the average salary in New Haven, CT, which ranked as the unhappiest city on the list (the second and third unhappiest were Dayton and Milwaukee).
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"People's willingness to believe in evolution is mainly based on intuition."
A study in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching sought to clarify the motivating factors in a person's willingness to accept evolution (previous studies have had mixed results in trying to equate knowledge level and religiosity with evolution acceptance). The study surveyed 124 soon-to-be biology teachers in Korea, selected for their similar educations; teacher preparation courses in Korea are highly standardized, making the participants' overall educational experiences very similar. The study found that respondents believed in evolution in accordance with their gut feelings. How "true" the basic concepts "felt" to them had more impact on their conclusions than any other factor -- even having more knowledge on the subject had less of an effect on people's conclusions than intuition did.
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I cant believe in things that don't seem possible no matter how I try. wish I could. life would be simple LOL
"that which makes more sense is closer to truth, than that which you only choose to believe"
:)
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"Moving at the same pace as someone else makes you more likely to agree with him."
A study conducted at USC's Marshall School of Business asked participants to walk alongside an experimenter, either trying to keep stride, walking purposefully out of sync, or walking at whatever pace was comfortable. Participants were then given questionnaires on their perceptions of the experimenter (how much they liked him, how close they felt to him and how similar to him they felt). The participants who were instructed to keep in step thought they were more similar to the experimenter than those who walked at their own pace or stayed intentionally out of step. A second study made groups perform a task while listening to music on headphones that either kept them in sync or kept them working at different rates and again, the participants felt closer to their in-sync peers.
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"Powerful people believe themselves to be taller than they are."
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Cornell asked the participants of their study to think about situations in which they'd had power over someone else, or in which someone else had held power over them. They were then asked to estimate their height in relation to a pole that was exactly 20 inches taller than they were. The people who thought about power situations felt that the pole was closer than their counterparts did. In another experiment, when asked to choose video game avatars that most closely resembled them, empowered people frequently chose taller avatars than the disempowered group did. Finally, the study's participants were asked to play out manager/worker scenarios and then to list their actual heights; participants who played the part of the manager consistently supplied inflated heights.
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"Simply cutting calories, of any kind, is a more effective dieting strategy than monitoring fat, protein, or carbohydrate proportions."
A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition assigned several hundred participants one of four diets: high protein, low fat, high carbs; average protein, low fat, high carbs; average protein, high fat, low carbs; or high protein, high fat, low carbs. All of the diets, assigned to overweight participants, cut 750 calories a day from their daily intake. The study found no difference in results between the diets. Participants were also able to maintain their weight loss (an average of eight pounds overall) at the two-year mark. Researchers concluded that actual adherence to a diet is the most important factor in its success, and that a diet someone is actually likely to follow is more beneficial than any particular proportional breakdown.
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"Certain names tend to correlate with certain facial features."
Upon noticing that she often mixed up the names of two of her students, a cognitive scientist at Miami University in Ohio realized that her forgetfulness was due to the fact that their names, to her, failed to match their faces. Robin Thomas therefore designed an experiment, asking her colleagues and 150 students to design faces that "fit" 15 common male names (all the faces white, all with the same hairstyle). A second group of students largely agreed that the names matched their faces, particularly the names Jason, Brian, Bill, and Bob ("Bob" is a round-seeming sound, for example, and the "Bob" face was suitably rounded). Follow-up studies found that students were also better able to remember faces that had names they thought "fit."
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"Facebook can be harder to resist than tobacco or alcohol."
A study at Chicago University's Booth Business School tested 205 participants by asking them to self-report the frequency and intensity of their various desires over the course of a week, ending up with over 10,000 individual responses. The first two strongest urges which the participants failed to resist were sleep and leisure; third was social media, followed by e-mail (both of which came ahead of tobacco or alcohol on the list of responses). Cigarettes and alcohol, theorized the researchers, come with associated costs, as well as situational availability; social media has no such drawbacks. Incidentally, respondents were much better at resisting urges for sex, sports or spending money.
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i like my alcohol :lol:
But, I see it every day...
also, you hear of the growing social site "pinterest"?
Its like a "check this out" thread from here, but for women. FInd something you like, pin it to your page, somebody else steals it... kinda genius, but....
Spreading like a disease. :lol: That's All I hear these days....
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"Men are as likely as women (and sometimes even more likely) to want marriage and children."
A Match.com study called Single in America, designed by biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, found that men are far more open to commitment than the stereotype implies. According to the study, both men and women are as likely, overall, to want to get married (33% want to tie the knot). Furthermore, men in every age group are actually more interested in having children, even in the 21-to-34 age group (51% of men in that group want kids, compared to 46% of women). Men were also less likely to report that they'd needed more space in a relationship (58%, compared to 77% of women), and less likely to insist on nights out with friends (23%, compared to 35% of women).
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"Obesity may be, in part, a transmittable disease."
The fact that obesity can result from shared behaviors is not particularly groundbreaking; studies on that subject go back decades. But a new study in the journal Nature indicated that obesity may have a component that is literally infectious. Researchers examined mice who'd been engineered with a fatty liver disease that made them obese, and then placed them in a cage with healthy mice, whereupon the healthy mice gained weight as well. In this case, the cause was digestive bacteria, which increased dramatically in the obese mice and were transferred to the healthy mice. The same mechanism of transfer for these digestive tract microbes is not as likely in humans, given that mice eat each other's waste, but the study suggested a very serious possibility in the spread of a very common problem (75% to 100% of obese people suffer from fatty liver disease).
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"Powerful people believe themselves to be taller than they are."
Shut up shorty & get back in your corner!
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"Social media makes users feel worse about themselves."
Stanford researchers studied girls ranging from 8 to 12 years old and found that those who spend a lot of time using media (not just social networks, but television as well) are more likely to feel out of the ordinary and inferior to others. Because this effect could also be a cause (in that the more socially awkward girls would choose to spend their time this way instead of out in public), researchers investigated further and found that as the girls spent more time having actual face-to-face conversations, they were more likely to report feeling better about themselves and their social standing. The study authors also noted past findings indicating that heavy media multitaskers scored worse in three major aspects of cognitive function (memory management, filtering and, ironically enough, task switching).
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"Social media makes users feel worse about themselves."
Stanford researchers studied girls ranging from 8 to 12 years old and found that those who spend a lot of time using media (not just social networks, but television as well) are more likely to feel out of the ordinary and inferior to others. Because this effect could also be a cause (in that the more socially awkward girls would choose to spend their time this way instead of out in public), researchers investigated further and found that as the girls spent more time having actual face-to-face conversations, they were more likely to report feeling better about themselves and their social standing. The study authors also noted past findings indicating that heavy media multitaskers scored worse in three major aspects of cognitive function (memory management, filtering and, ironically enough, task switching).
the raptorsource must make you positively suicidal :rofl:
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:rofl:
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"Your brain benefits in different ways from different kinds of exercise."
Frequent exercise has been previously shown to benefit cognitive function, but an analysis of more than 100 studies has indicated exactly how. According to study author Michelle Voss, weight-lifting and other resistance training specifically benefit a person's ability to focus amid distractions. Aerobic exercise, on the other hand, improves a person's capacity for long-term planning and ability to concentrate for long periods of time. Both are effective at preventing the decline that comes with age. Separate studies found that in seniors over 60, the hippocampus typically shrinks up to 2% a year, but in seniors who are physically active, the region actually grows by the same amount.
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"Copying someone's mannerisms may make observers view you as less competent."
Mirroring someone else's behavior is a common and often unconscious social gesture. One of the most relatable examples is that upon hearing laughter your brain prepares your facial muscles to laugh. In a study at UC San Diego, participants watched videos of staged interviews in which a subject mirrored the physical behaviors of an interviewer. In videos where the interviewer was noticeably unfriendly, study participants rated the mimicker as less competent than a subject who performed no mimicking. In an experiment in which the interviewer was hidden, subjects didn't rate the mimicker as less competent; their disapproval of his ability was due entirely to the visible mirroring behavior.
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"Dogs are better than much smarter animals at understanding humans."
A study in the journal PLoS One indicated that domestication has so altered the behavior of dogs over time that even untrained puppies are able to understand gestures like human pointing, while chimpanzees, humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom, are not. In the study, humans pointed to an object that was within reach of the subject animal (either a dog or a chimpanzee), and if the animal retrieved the object, it received a treat. The chimpanzees largely ignored the humans, while the dogs were much more responsive. According to the study authors, the effect of domestication is so pronounced that even some cats naturally understand pointing gestures (though much less so than dogs).
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"Dogs are better than much smarter animals at understanding humans."
A study in the journal PLoS One indicated that domestication has so altered the behavior of dogs over time that even untrained puppies are able to understand gestures like human pointing, while chimpanzees, humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom, are not. In the study, humans pointed to an object that was within reach of the subject animal (either a dog or a chimpanzee), and if the animal retrieved the object, it received a treat. The chimpanzees largely ignored the humans, while the dogs were much more responsive. According to the study authors, the effect of domestication is so pronounced that even some cats naturally understand pointing gestures (though much less so than dogs).
:+1: FOR THAT!
Funny you mention that. I woke up last weekend about 8ish with a massive hangover to a hungry dog. This is my morning :lol: I feed her at 8am and 8pm. This was seriously 8am on the DOT!
(http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a195/preddy08/2012-02-12_09-59-25_326.jpg)
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:lol: Awesome
that's how my parents dogs are... if my mom isn't up @ 7:00am to feed the dog.. he's in the kitchen racing around waiting for it. :lol:
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dogs are smart because they get hungry and jump on your bed you to wake up?? :confused:
please explain.
also, please help me understand why you sleep with a camera AND a dog in your bed.
:lol:
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two reasons peels..........
morning wood and peanut butter :rofl:
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two reasons peels..........
morning wood and peanut butter :rofl:
:thumbs:
carry on then.
:rofl:
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nice try on the name change Krandall. :rofl:
I am not negative. I am realistic. 8)
You believe dogs are smart, because you choose to.
Getting hungry and doing what is necessary to get food is NOT intelligence. It is primal. IE: If you are hungry, you walk to the fridge and get food......because it is what you have learned to do.
the dog has learned to jump on the bed, and get food, because the owner continually gets up when he does it.
Therefore we are only as smart as a dog? :rofl:
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wow peelsy, you're sounding like MD! :horsepop1: :rofl:
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You're destined to be an old bastard peels.
cripes.
I don't choose to think dogs are smart. There are some better than others.. Some who train easier than others... Does that make them smart? sure as hell does... Everything you learned to do.. You've been "trained" to do so. Using a toilet. using a fork, using a knife, driving your car.. everything. what makes you smarter than the dog?
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that is my point. dogs are dumb, and so are we. :rofl: the difference is the ability to think through those actions. And move past them should the need arise.
I will say the fact is correct, though. they are smarter than most animals. But still, not "smart" MY argument is that the pic has nothing to do with this. If it "understood humans" it would gtfo off the bed, and lay down until the owner got up. Preddy's dog is well behaved though...
But...If I woke up to what is in that pic, you'd be peeling the dog off the wall. But that's just me. I wouldnt allow a dog into an intimate spot like my bed. Do you wanna have sex in dog hair and mites? I certainly don't. :lol: I prefer the safety of the dumpster behind Walmart. :rofl:
Note: the cat we had would do that too. EXACTLY the same thing. so argue that dogs are smarter, go for it.....cuz that is incredible BS. And yes...after a few collisons with said wall, it "learned" to knock that shit off. :bslap:
I will be an old bastard indeed. :kiss: :rofl:
I love pointless arguments on RS :lol:
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"People with more friends have bigger brains."
Specifically, people with more friends have a bigger orbital frontal cortex (the part of the brain just above the eyes). Research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B posits that the cognitive skills (like empathy) we use for maintaining large networks of friends are dependent on this specific brain region. Furthermore, MRI images illustrated that, when asked to mentally list their friends (as opposed to just their business associates), participants with a bigger orbital frontal cortex also tended to have more friends and were better at the kinds of social skills that involve juggling large social networks.
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my brain is tiny :( :lol:
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my penis is tiny :( :lol:
Thats why you need to start modding that 700 :thumbs:
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my brain is tiny :( :lol:
At least it's proportionate to other organs on your body.
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jerks.
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"Frequent texting makes people less able to accept new words."
A University of Calgary researcher conducted a study on the effects of texting on language interpretation. The study provided students with a list of both real and invented words and polled them on their reading and texting habits. The more people texted, the less likely they were to accept these words as genuine (regardless of whether or not they were). The author of the study hypothesized that traditional print media exposes people to a wider variety of words, and thus equips them to interpret meanings for potential new words. Texting, on the other hand, usually only reinforces common words.
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jerks.
There you go, jerking off again.
Didn't momma tell ya that excessive wanking will make your brain & dick shrink???
:P
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Nope. That info woulda been helpful around age 12.... Little late now :lol:
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"Women find it important for men they're dating to like their pets."
A University of Houston researcher polled 120 heterosexual couples about their closeness to their pets and their happiness with their relationships. Most of the volunteers (75%) were dog owners, and the researchers found that women were more likely to be happy with their boyfriends if the boyfriends were close to their pets. Men, conversely, didn't place much importance on their girlfriends' interest in their pets. Furthermore, men who said they had an especially close bond with their pets were happier with their relationships, regardless of how their girlfriends felt about the animal.
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"Women find it important for men they're dating to like their pets."
A University of Houston researcher polled 120 heterosexual couples about their closeness to their pets and their happiness with their relationships. Most of the volunteers (75%) were dog owners, and the researchers found that women were more likely to be happy with their boyfriends if the boyfriends were close to their pets. Men, conversely, didn't place much importance on their girlfriends' interest in their pets. Furthermore, men who said they had an especially close bond with their pets were happier with their relationships, regardless of how their girlfriends felt about the animal.
ya thats a big fat no :rofl:
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:brokenrecord:
I think that's a record for broken records in one day. :lol:
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"Using lighter-colored plates can make you eat less."
A study in the journal Health Affairs set out to investigate the effect of apparent portion size on the amount people eat. Researchers found that up to one-third of diners at a Chinese restaurant were willing to eat a lower-calorie meal with half as much rice, even if the meal cost the same as the version with a full serving of rice (and weighing leftovers determined that regardless of which meal people opted for, they all wound up throwing away the same amount). Researcher Brian Wansink argued that the appearance of a full meal is more important to consumers than how much food is actually there, and his previous research has determined that people will serve 18% more pasta onto a red plate than a white one (the stark contrast makes them more aware of the volume of food). But if the pasta is an alfredo dish, the reverse is true.
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"Some of the days in 2009 were shorter than usual."
According to a researcher at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Earth spun slightly faster than its usual during a two-week period in 2009. Days are not perfectly uniform, and are affected by things like ocean currents. This natural influence was particularly pronounced in November 2009, when a slowdown in an Antarctic Ocean current markedly changed Earth's spin. This was one of several quirks in the ocean's behavior that year. 2009 also saw record-high pressures at the bottom of the ocean, as well as record-high surface temperatures for that region.
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"Handedness influences your perceptions of good and bad."
Cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto has demonstrated what he dubs the "body-specificity hypothesis" -- in short, that our bodily quirks influence how we perceive, and judge, the rest of the world. Casasanto found through a series of experiments that, all other things being equal, people prefer things they encounter on the same side as their dominant hand. When asked to pick between two products, or to judge which of two alien figures seemed more trustworthy, people tended to choose the one that fell on their dominant side. The effect isn't permanent, though. Right-handers who had become handicapped and had to rely on their left hands switched preferences, as did right-handers who were (temporarily and artificially) handicapped in a lab setting.
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"Sugar helps with willpower."
Previous research has implied that sugar fuels your ability to exercise self-control and that exercising self-control depletes your blood glucose levels. However, a new study in Psychological Science paints a more complicated picture. In an experiment participants were asked to complete a self-control task, then to use (and not drink) a solution as though it were mouthwash. Half of the participants' solution was sweetened with sugar while the other half received solution that used an artificial sweetener. The participants who had rinsed with the sugar water performed better on a second self-control task than the other group, even though they ingested no sugar, and would have had no time to metabolize it even if they had. The restoration of their willpower, say researchers, was in the sensation of possible reward -- they hadn't actually restored any energy, but their brains anticipated that possibility enough to make them outperform their counterparts.
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"You can actually see food-related words more clearly when you're hungry."
A French study has demonstrated that hunger and satiety influence how people perceive the world at the most basic level and found that we react to cues before those signals even have time to be processed by the brain. The study, published in Psychological Science, asked participants to arrive for testing after hours of not eating, then sent some of the participants to get lunch, while the others simply left and returned without eating. The participants then watched words flashing on a computer screen for 1/300th of a second, just barely long enough for to perceive them. Hungry participants thought that food-related words appeared brighter and were better able to discern between them and similar-looking non-food words (like "gateau," meaning "cake," and "bateau," meaning "boat").
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"Women physically require more sleep than men."
Several unrelated studies have demonstrated that sleep deprivation has lasting adverse effects on women that are not seen in men. One study at the University of Warwick Medical School examined the sleep habits of 6,000 participants and found that women who sleep less than five hours a night are twice as likely to have high blood pressure, while men's blood pressure remains unchanged. Another study, this one at Duke University, studied the habits of 210 male and female participants in detail, and found that even when accounting for potential risk factors, women with poor sleep habits were more at risk for heart disease and diabetes, while men's risks were the same regardless of their sleep patterns.
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this is true in our household.
AIdan and I can function on little sleep. :thumbs:
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I'm here today on about 4 hours. :five:
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so get insurance for the wife and don't ever let her sleep for more than 4 hours :nod: :lol:
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My Cooper S is no match for my friends supercharged LT1 S-10. It was ugly. :lol:
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My Cooper S is no match for my friends supercharged LT1 S-10. It was ugly. :lol:
why don't you even the odds.
Try again on a tight twisty back-road................
Had a '66 Cooper S.
Was the fastest pice of rust you're ever seen!
I could kill anything on a winding road!
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Oh yeah, I'd destroy him if that was the case. I replaced my factory tires after I wore them out and the new ones are pretty sucky but the car still handles good. Slides and squeals a lot more. I come into the parking lot at work pretty hot on occasion. :) And the last 90 degree turn on the way home, the traction light has flashed on more than one occasion.
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Oh yeah, I'd destroy him if that was the case. I replaced my factory tires after I wore them out and the new ones are pretty sucky but the car still handles good. Slides and squeals a lot more. I come into the parking lot at work pretty hot on occasion. :) And the last 90 degree turn on the way home, the traction light has flashed on more than one occasion.
apparently they go rather well if you supercharge them............
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"Volunteering your free time makes you feel like you have more of it."
Researchers at UPenn, Harvard and Yale interrupted students who were working on a lab task and asked them to either perform some mundane busywork or write an encouraging letter to a sick child. Those who'd been interrupted for the latter task were more likely to feel that they had more time ahead of themselves. Researchers repeated the experiment but asked half of the participants to do something enjoyable -- whatever they wanted to do -- while the other half were asked to do something for someone else (again, chosen by the participant). Again, the latter group felt that their futures were brimming with free time. In a final experiment, participants were interrupted to help edit a disadvantaged high school student's application essay, but only half actually did so; the others were told the task was done and they were free to go. Those who had actually performed the task (who now had, by definition, less free time) felt they had more free time and were even more likely to commit their free time to other activities in the coming week.
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"Thoughts of scarcity make you eat more."
A University of Miami study invited participants to an M&M taste test, telling half of the participants that these were M&Ms made of a higher-calorie chocolate, while telling the others that they were reduced-calorie M&Ms. Participants were told they were allowed to sample the candy while they waited for the study to start. Some were also given a text to read that mentioned key words like "survival," "adversity" and "shortfall" (the control group read a text using only neutral words). The result: Scarcity-minded participants ate more "high-calorie" M&Ms than "low-calorie" M&Ms, and ate more "high-calorie" M&Ms than the non-scarcity-minded control group (in reality, of course, all the M&Ms were the same).
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"Thoughts of scarcity make you eat more."
A University of Miami study invited participants to an M&M taste test, telling half of the participants that these were M&Ms made of a higher-calorie chocolate, while telling the others that they were reduced-calorie M&Ms. Participants were told they were allowed to sample the candy while they waited for the study to start. Some were also given a text to read that mentioned key words like "survival," "adversity" and "shortfall" (the control group read a text using only neutral words). The result: Scarcity-minded participants ate more "high-calorie" M&Ms than "low-calorie" M&Ms, and ate more "high-calorie" M&Ms than the non-scarcity-minded control group (in reality, of course, all the M&Ms were the same).
If I worry too much about financial ruin, I end up feeling like I should eat... makes sense
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If I worry too much about financial ruin, I end up feeling like I should eat Krandall... makes no sense at all
I'll stick with the M&M's myself
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"Athletes perceive pain differently."
A metastudy at Heidelberg University in Germany indicates that athletes literally experience pain differently from people with a regular level of activity, though they share the same pain threshold. After examining 331 normally active people and 568 athletes, the study found that athletes had a significantly higher pain tolerance, though the details differed by sport. Endurance athletes had similar levels of tolerance compared to one another, indicating that they might be more physiologically similar overall, while athletes in game sports were more varied. Researchers are hopeful that pain perception can be modified by physical activity in a way that can benefit non-athletes with chronic conditions.
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"People with higher emotional intelligence are actually worse at detecting liars."
Emotional intelligence is the ability to detect and assess the feelings of other people, but it may actually cloud people's judgment when it comes to lying. A study published in the journal Legal and Criminological Psychology gave 116 participants a questionnaire to determine emotional intelligence, then showed them 20 videos depicting real people making pleas for the safe return of a missing loved one (in half of these cases, the person making the plea would later be found responsible for the loved one's murder or disappearance). People with a higher ability to perceive emotion were worse at spotting when people were lying -- partially, researchers say, because of their overconfidence in their own assessment abilities.
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duhhhhhhhhh
"Men tend to find unintelligent women more attractive (at least for a short-term relationship)."
A UT Austin study published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior tested the theory that a woman being sexually exploitable is, unconsciously or not, more attractive to men ("exploitability" in evolutionary psychology just refers to the likelihood that a woman could be, in any sense, sexually available -- covering the entire spectrum from willingness to coercion). Researchers asked study participants to list cues, traits and characteristics that signify this availability. The 88 signs the participants came up with included items like "attention-seeking," "tight clothing," "sleepy" and "unintelligent." Researchers then compiled images of women expressing these signs and asked a new group of men to rate their attractiveness. The men noted that some women -- sleepy, intoxicated, unintelligent -- were more exploitable, but they also rated these women as more attractive and ideal for the purposes of a fling. Notably, though, they rated these same women as less desirable for long-term relationships.
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"Personality traits can account for longevity even more than actual habits."
Researchers have previously theorized that genetic makeup is often a factor in longevity, but a new study published in the journal Aging examined 243 centenarians and found that their most prominent common ground was actually in their personality traits. They were optimistic and easygoing; they also tended to be and less neurotic than the population at large. Furthermore, a related study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that centenarians often share the same unhealthy habits of everyone else, eating badly and smoking at the same rates as the rest of the population.
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"Unhappiness makes you financially reckless."
Researchers at Harvard and Columbia set out to test the theory that sadness actually impairs rational decision-making, rather than making people more measured and cautious. They split participants into three groups. One group watched a video with sad overtones (about the death of a boy's mentor), another watched a video intended to engender disgust and a final group watched a neutral video. All participants were then presented with a common discounting scenario, in which they could either have $85 in the future or a smaller fraction immediately. Participants usually took some pay cut in order to be paid immediately, but their willingness to take a steeper discount was used as a measure of self-control. The sadness group wound up taking dramatically larger losses -- on average, they opted to walk away with $37 of a potential $85. For comparison, the average control group participant and the average disgust group participant walked away with $56.
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"The longer your commute is, the poorer your health."
According to a study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, the longer your commute to work is, the more likely you are to weigh more, to have higher blood pressure and to be less physically fit in general. Data from the study comes from 4,297 adults surveyed in Texas (in an area in which 90% of the public commutes to work). The top 10 areas of the country with the longest commutes all average around a half hour or more -- the New York metropolitan area is the longest, at an average of 35 minutes, while the metro area with the shortest commute is Great Falls, Montana (at 14 minutes on average).
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"Women have the most sex at 25, while men do at 29."
The Best Sex Survey, conducted by sex toy retailer Lovehoney, asked respondents about the quality and frequency of sex over the course of their lifetimes. On average, the survey found, people tend to have the most sex as they're approaching 30. However, activity is apparently separate from quality; the majority of respondents weren't having the best sex when they were having the
most sex. Women tended to have their best sex at 28, and men at 33. The survey also found that the average age at which people lost their virginity was the same for both genders (17), except for respondents in their 60s (for whom it was 18) and those younger than 20 (for whom it was just shy of 16).
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Fact: We draw like shit!
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Fact: We draw like shit!
:rofl:
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2nded.
I should take a screenshot of the pics my friend draws. he's good.
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"Raisins make you eat less."
A study announced at the annual meeting of the Canadian Nutrition Society followed the eating behaviors of young children (8-11 years old) for three months. The participants were told to eat either raisins or some other kind of snack (including potato chips, cookies and grapes). The rest of each child's diet was the same on test days, during which they ate standardized meals. The kids who ate raisins ate less overall than the other participants. The raisin group also had the highest satiety and recorded the lowest desire to eat more.
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"Exercise reduces nerve pain."
According to a study in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, exercise reduces inflammation-related pain associated with neuropathic conditions (those involving damage to the peripheral nervous system). Researchers examined sciatic nerve injury in rats, assigning some of the animals to swim or run on a treadmill for a few weeks. The rats who exercised showed a substantial reduction in observable pain behaviors. Neuropathic pain is ordinarily difficult to treat -- it doesn't respond to common pain medications and is only somewhat controlled by antidepressants. This study represents a new non-drug possibility in dealing with these conditions.
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"Porn correlates with unhappiness in relationships."
A study at the University of Florida polled 308 female participants, ranging from 18 to 29 years old, all of them heterosexual. Results indicated that women whose partners watch porn often were substantially less happy in relationships than women whose partners don't. On top of that, women who were actively bothered by their partner's porn habits (saying, for example, that their interest was greater than "normal") were more likely to have low self-esteem and to be unhappy with their sex lives and their relationships.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! GUESS I HAVE TO STOP WATCHING PORN........ :(
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! GUESS I HAVE TO STOP WATCHING PORN........ :(
donkey videos are not included in the study. :thumbs:
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lets carry on then :nana:
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"Baldness is linked to prostate cancer."
A study at the University of Toronto found that prostate biopsies were more likely to result in a cancer diagnosis when the biopsied men were bald. The exact mechanism of this correlation is unknown, but some researchers theorize that androgens -- the hormones responsible for the development of secondary sex characteristics -- affect both baldness and prostate cancer. Previous research also indicates a possible link between finger length and prostate cancer (as index- and ring-finger length are, possibly like prostate cancer, influenced by the level of sex hormones in the womb).
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AHHHHHH crap...........
you should re-name this thread "bad news for mags of the day" :(
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lol magz
good for me.... :rofl:
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"City kids are much more likely to have food allergies."
According to a study published in the journal Clinical Pediatrics, kids who live in urban centers are significantly more likely to have food allergies than rural kids. The study examined 38,465 children and found that 9.8% of children in cities had allergies, as opposed to 6.2% of children in rural areas. Oddly, peanut allergies were more than twice as common among kids in urban areas, with 2.8% of children in cities suffering from them (as opposed to 1.3% in rural areas). Allergies to shellfish were even more pronounced in city kids (2.4%, as opposed to 0.8% in rural communities).
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"Men tend to use more creative words when flirting."
A study published in the journal *PLoS ONE* set out to examine how a woman's fertility (and thus, her attractiveness to men) would influence the speaking behaviors of the men she interacts with. Previous studies have demonstrated that men read -- and are attracted to -- any number of subtle signs that a woman is ovulating, including behavior, speech, and scent. This study paired male study participants with female confederates -- all of whom were instructed to act neutral -- during various points in their menstrual cycle and the two were tasked to describe images to one another. The result: the more fertile a woman was, the more likely men were to use unusual words. Non-conformity and creativity being prized traits, men who are unconsciously attracted to a woman change their speech patterns -- also unconsciously -- to try to exhibit those traits.
So that's why hefe used the word rambunctious.
:lol:
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yepper.. dats why!
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MD must sense peels ovulating every damn day
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"Music keeps your brain younger."
Research conducted at the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University monitored the brain responses of various subjects -- young and old, musicians and non-musicians -- to various speech sounds, recording the neural response time for the stimuli. Those participants who were musically trained had faster and more accurate responses than their counterparts. The older musicians performed much better than the older non-musicians, even equivalent to the young non-musicians. The implication of the research is that the seemingly inevitable age-related decline of speech processing is not, in fact, inevitable; with proper musical training, the brain may even be able to overcome some hearing loss.
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"You are more likely to die on your birthday than on any other day."
A Swiss study published in the journal Annals of Epidemiology determined that people are, all causes considered, 13.8% more likely to die on their birthdays than on any other day. The study examined data from 2.4 million deaths over 40 years and found that the risk of a birthday death increases as people get older (18% in people over 60). Some of these deaths are health-related (with people being 21.5% more likely to die of strokes and 18.5% more likely to die of heart disease), but the numbers also indicate 35% more deaths by suicide, as well as 28.5% more accidental deaths.
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"Fathers are happier."
According to research published in Psychological Science, dads are emotionally better off than people without children. One study polled 7,000 Americans about their overall life outlook, and found that fathers were happier and more likely to report having meaning in their lives. Another study asked 186 participants to report their previous day's activities, including emotions, and found that parents found more meaning and positive emotion in their lives when they were interacting with their children than when they weren't. Yet another study gave beepers to 329 adults and paged them randomly, five times a day, over the course of a week, to ask how happy they were. Parents reported being happy more often than non-parents.'
Uhhh, I've seen you guys with kids... I'm gonna hafta disagree.... :rofl:
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It says ” emotionally better off” definately not financially lol
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So.. are you the one that they don't include in statistics? :lol:
I wouldnt' ever claim you as emotionally better off.. Care for me to go through quote of the day? :rofl:
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Mostly insane is still better than totally insane lol
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It says ” emotionally better off” definately not financially lol
amen brother!
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My kids crack me the f**k up. One hilarious joke outta them removes the stress of the whole day. :thumbs:
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yep... Spencer walks up to me and says "BIG HUG!" is his silly voice... melts the BS day away!
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Someday. :)
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ALso, disclaimer...we should note, that there are some days where this does not happen :lol:
like I come home from a crap day of work...AIdan has forgotten to take the dog out, and it shits.... or theyve been playing video games all day and games and snacks are all over when I get home.
just gotta take a minute and go to your happy place..... 8)
the bad ones FAR outweigh the good ones :lol:
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"Pizza vending machines are coming to America later this year."
Entrepreneur Claudio Torghele rolled out the Let's Pizza vending machines in Italy a few years ago. The machines are now expected to debut in the U.S. later this year. They don't just reheat frozen food; they mix the dough, roll it into shape, add a customer's chosen toppings and bake the pie in an infrared oven, producing a 12-inch pizza in around three minutes. Depending on toppings, the pizzas can cost as little as $4.50.
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very excited for this!
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MERIKA........FUK YAH!!!!!
I think said machines should have a camera installed to snap a pic of the consumer. Like a rollercoaster.
Then you can see how fat you are. Make the machines a public service :rofl:
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"A spike in online activity can (sometimes) indicate depression."
According to a study in IEEE Xplore: Technology & Society Magazine, depression is often linked to a change in internet-related behaviors. The study recruited 216 undergraduate students as study participants, gave them a questionnaire to measure levels of depression and compared those results with the participants' internet use (traffic flow and bandwidth, not actual content). The results indicated a general trend: people with depression sent more email, exhibited more "flow duration entropy" (constant switching between applications) and used the internet more, in general.
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"A spike in online activity can (sometimes) indicate depression."
According to a study in IEEE Xplore: Technology & Society Magazine, depression is often linked to a change in internet-related behaviors. The study recruited 216 undergraduate students as study participants, gave them a questionnaire to measure levels of depression and compared those results with the participants' internet use (traffic flow and bandwidth, not actual content). The results indicated a general trend: people with depression sent more email, exhibited more "flow duration entropy" (constant switching between applications) and used the internet more, in general.
:rofl:
they also change people's screen names on chat...ANNND invent an entirely new language :lol:
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Congrats!! :clap: You all are still homo's!!!! and as for a few of ya, :nana:
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"Internet hypochondriacs and gamblers operate on similar patterns of thinking."
A 2012 study in the journal Psychological Science observed that people are likely to find patterns in a series of unrelated events. Researchers then set out to determine how this tendency influences people's reliance on the internet to check medical symptoms (a 2009 Pew poll found that 60% of Americans rely on the internet for medical information). The study presented three groups of participants with a list of symptoms for a fictional kind of thyroid cancer; each group received the list of symptoms in a different order. Researchers found that when generalized, common symptoms -- like shortness of breath and fatigue -- were lumped together, participants were more likely to self-diagnose with the fictional cancer than when the list of symptoms was jumbled. The mechanism is similar to the one that makes gamblers believe they're on a "hot streak" -- finding a pattern in random events.
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"Internet hypochondriacs and gamblers operate on similar patterns of thinking."
A 2012 study in the journal Psychological Science observed that people are likely to find patterns in a series of unrelated events. Researchers then set out to determine how this tendency influences people's reliance on the internet to check medical symptoms (a 2009 Pew poll found that 60% of Americans rely on the internet for medical information). The study presented three groups of participants with a list of symptoms for a fictional kind of thyroid cancer; each group received the list of symptoms in a different order. Researchers found that when generalized, common symptoms -- like shortness of breath and fatigue -- were lumped together, participants were more likely to self-diagnose with the fictional cancer than when the list of symptoms was jumbled. The mechanism is similar to the one that makes gamblers believe they're on a "hot streak" -- finding a pattern in random events.
lol at internet hypochondriac
I just ask my shoutbox buddies when I have health issues. way simpler answers.. :rofl:
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"Thinking about wine can make you less inhibited."
According to a study in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, the power of suggestion has more effect on outcomes than most people -- even in scientific fields -- tend to think. Researchers compared "response expectancies" to the placebo effect, demonstrating that the simple suggestion of something like a lucky rabbit's foot or a relaxing glass of wine can influence actual behavior -- the expectation of an outcome, in other words, makes you unconsciously behave in a way that makes that outcome more likely. The effect isn't even limited to deliberate suggestion; police lineups, for example, tend to yield more false IDs when organized by someone who knows who the suspect is (again, a case of anticipation unconsciously influencing actual behavior).
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"Raisins can lower blood sugar."
According to research presented at the annual session of the American Diabetes Association, eating raisins can significantly lower post-meal glucose levels. The study examined 46 men and women with high glucose and randomly assigned them either raisins or non-fruit packaged snacks of the same caloric value. The participants had these snacks three times a day, after meals, for 12 weeks. The results: Raisins substantially decreased glucose (by 16%) and glycated hemoglobin, while the packaged snack group saw no reduction. Raisins were chosen in part for their antioxidant and fiber content, as well as their low glycemic index.
I wonder if licking a horse will?
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:clap:
give it a lick!
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"The act of remembering influences your eye movements."
Scientists use pupillometry (the measurement of pupil diameter) to gauge cognitive processes and emotional states. Pupil dilation generally shows cognitive activity -- that is, thinking harder or experiencing stronger memories is associated with more dilated pupils. Furthermore, we tend to move our eyes twice as much when making decisions or accessing long-term memory. But in a recent study, researchers suppressed participants' involuntary eye movements during a series of memory tasks and found no effect on their ability to create memories, indicating that our eye movements might be an evolutionary holdover no longer serving any function.
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"Coffee decreases your risk of skin cancer."
According to a study published in the journal Cancer Research, coffee drinkers are less likely to develop basal cell carcinoma, the most common cancer. The study examined the data of 113,000 men and women, and concluded that those who drank three or more cups of coffee daily had a 20% lower risk than those who drank none. The effect didn't extend to people who drank decaf, implying that at least part of the protective benefit comes from caffeine. In previous studies, coffee has also been shown to potentially decrease the risk for prostate cancer (a 30% lower risk) and dementia (a 65% lower risk).
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"Men who help around the house are happier."
A Cambridge study began with the assumption that increasingly mixed gender roles would lead to increased dissatisfaction with household responsibilities. They found exactly the opposite. The results showed that men who did more housework reported less conflict and increased well-being. According to researchers, the results suggest that most men don't see chores as an inconvenience, and that the more likely they are to want to do their fair share around the house, the more likely they are to be happy overall.
Help as in.. picking up your feet when the vacuum cleaner goes by?
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"Men who help around the house are happier."
Help as in.. picking up your feet when the vacuum cleaner goes by?
:rofl:
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slide your beer over so the whole table can be dusted....
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"Chewing gum improves mood."
A study at Swinburne University in Melbourne gave 40 participants the Defined Intensity Stressor Simulation -- a battery of concurrent tests that appear on a screen, all at once, designed both to induce stress and to measure subject performance. Participants took the tests while chewing and not chewing gum. They reported less anxiety while chewing gum (a 17% reduction), as well as more alertness (a 19% increase), and demonstrated increased performance overall (gum chewers scored 67% better than non-chewers).
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"Women spend more time getting ready on Mondays."
A study of 2,000 women conducted by the U.K. skincare company Simple found that women devote the most time to their appearance at the beginning of the week. Respondents estimated spending 39 minutes getting ready on Mondays, but that routine grew shorter as the week went on--32 minutes on Tuesdays, and 29 minutes on Wednesdays and Thursdays, before finally bouncing back to 33 minutes on Fridays. One in ten women said she received compliments on Mondays, but was less likely to get the same compliment later in the week.
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"Respect makes you happier than money."
Research from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley concluded that earning people's respect influences your level of happiness more than earning a lot of money. Researchers started with the theory (demonstrated in previous studies) that wealth doesn't necessarily make people happier. Then they conducted four studies, weighing participants' sociometric statuses against their socioeconomic statuses (popularity, or respect, vs. wealth). In all four studies, sociometric status had a direct effect on well-being scores. The participants' sense of acceptance better predicted happiness than how much money they had.
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"Sad people enjoy tragedies more."
A South Korean study published in the Journal of Media Psychology asked 165 American study participants to watch the tragic 1995 film Angel Baby, which is about two schizophrenics who fall in love after meeting in therapy. The participants were then asked how they felt and whether they enjoyed the movie. Contrary to expectations, it wasn't that the story made viewers sad; rather, viewers' sadness made them more likely to perceive reality in the story. In short, sad people become more involved in the story, and involvement is directly correlated with enjoyment.
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"Infants in dog-owning families are healthier."
A Finnish study conducted at Kuopio University Hospital indicates that the presence of a dog in the house (or, to a lesser degree, a cat) makes babies less likely to get sick. Researchers followed the health of 400 infants over the course of a year. One-third of the households involved had dogs, and slightly fewer had cats. The babies in households with dogs were healthy between 72% and 76% of the time; in non-dog households, that number was 65%. Babies who were at home with a dog between zero and six hours out of the day were the healthiest, indicating that some exposure, but not overexposure, to dog-associated germs and dirt helps a child's immune system mature faster than in a totally pristine environment.
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"Infants in dog-owning families are healthier."
A Finnish study conducted at Kuopio University Hospital indicates that the presence of a dog in the house (or, to a lesser degree, a cat) makes babies less likely to get sick. Researchers followed the health of 400 infants over the course of a year. One-third of the households involved had dogs, and slightly fewer had cats. The babies in households with dogs were healthy between 72% and 76% of the time; in non-dog households, that number was 65%. Babies who were at home with a dog between zero and six hours out of the day were the healthiest, indicating that some exposure, but not overexposure, to dog-associated germs and dirt helps a child's immune system mature faster than in a totally pristine environment.
OH MAN!!! a few months ago, I Would have spewed hate ALL over this post :rofl:
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"All other things being equal, family dinners aren't associated with healthier or better-behaved teens."
Research appearing in The Journal of Marriage and Family indicates that sharing a family dinner doesn't, in and of itself, have any particular benefits. The study controlled for all the non-dinner factors in family relationships (so it wasn't comparing broken homes with happy families). Teens who engaged in family dinners did have slightly fewer depressive symptoms, but none of the other often-touted benefits held up. The study found no notable lasting effects on delinquency, drug and alcohol use, or overall well-being (though the researchers allowed that dinners can be beneficial if they provide the only context for teens and parents to talk).
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"Work stress is the most common cause of sleep disturbance."
Research from Consumer Reports found that, among all people who report trouble sleeping, the most common cause for staying awake is work-related stress, followed by health and financial worries. The study, which surveyed 26,451 participants, found that 60% of respondents considered themselves insomniacs, 40% had tried over-the-counter sleep aids, and 30% had tried prescription medication-but about half of people using sleep medications reported some kind of side effect. Buying a new mattress helped 75% of respondents with their sleep problems.
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"Work stress is the most common cause of sleep disturbance."
Research from Consumer Reports found that, among all people who report trouble sleeping, the most common cause for staying awake is work-related stress, followed by health and financial worries. The study, which surveyed 26,451 participants, found that 60% of respondents considered themselves insomniacs, 40% had tried over-the-counter sleep aids, and 30% had tried prescription medication-but about half of people using sleep medications reported some kind of side effect. Buying a new mattress helped 75% of respondents with their sleep problems.
and amphetamines :thumbs:
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"How you use Facebook can reveal your personality traits."
Researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a scale that measures personality based on Facebook activity. They formulated the scale by surveying study participants on their Facebook usage and giving them accompanying personality tests. According to the scale, risk-seeking individuals have a tendency toward more overt activity -- frequently updating statuses and uploading photos, for example. More reserved people tend to prefer familiar, routine experiences, usually just browsing news feeds without interacting directly.
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"How you use Facebook can reveal your personality traits."
Researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a scale that measures personality based on Facebook activity. They formulated the scale by surveying study participants on their Facebook usage and giving them accompanying personality tests. According to the scale, risk-seeking individuals have a tendency toward more overt activity -- frequently updating statuses and uploading photos, for example. More reserved people tend to prefer familiar, routine experiences, usually just browsing news feeds without interacting directly.
true. I read very small amounts, then go away because it is maddening. just like real life :rofl:
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My boss is a DOUCHE!!! :rofl:
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:lol:
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I think I work for his twin
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"A woman's finger length can predict her navigational skills."
The length of a person's ring finger in relation to his or her other fingers has been used in hundreds of studies to indicate hormone exposure. MIT researchers asked 82 male and female participants to watch a clip from a computer game showing the location of a tiny crystal in a field, then to navigate back to the crystal's location. Women in the study navigated more accurately and performed better overall if their ring fingers were longer than their index fingers (as is the case with the majority of men).
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"Most of your traits are evident from your shoes."
A study at the University of Kansas asked 208 volunteers to fill out questionnaires on their lifestyle and behavior, then gathered pictures of the volunteers' most frequently worn shoes. Student participants were then given these pictures and asked to guess the characteristics of the people wearing the shoes (gender, age and personality traits). The students accurately guessed the volunteers' traits in almost all categories, including, for example, flashy shoes belonging to extroverts, uncomfortable-looking shoes belonging to calm people and functional, practical shoes belonging to agreeable people.
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"Being unreachable by work makes you happier at work in the long term."
A study conducted by a professor at Harvard Business School surveyed 1,600 managers and other workers and found that only 2% of those surveyed ever turned off their smartphones, even when on vacation. A follow-up study therefore sought to gauge the effects of being intentionally unreachable on a regular basis. Participants were asked to take a night off once a week, starting at around 6 p.m., during which time their workplaces would be unable to contact them (other team members were designated to cover for them if any issues arose, and exceptions were made in legitimate emergencies). Participants were very reluctant at first, but the study found that taking this day off worked even better than expected. The participants became more proactive about future time management, felt happier about their work-life balance and felt increased work satisfaction overall.
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"Men fantasize slightly more, but women have conventional fantasies more often."
Researchers at the University of Granada in Spain interviewed 2,250 participants, all of them in long-term (over six months) heterosexual relationships, about their tendencies toward sexual fantasy. Men, they found, are more likely to fantasize about exploratory situations (e.g. group sex with other couples), but women are more likely to have "pleasant" sexual fantasies, while both men and women often fantasized about their significant others.
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"We're conditioned to crave fats, but tasting fats actually makes us perceive flavors less."
We have a biological drive to consume fats and have a genetic variance in how we respond to eating it (we can't technically taste fat, but people with a specific variant of the CD36 gene are able to detect it, and as a result tend to crave less of it). A three-year study at the University of Nottingham has concluded that tasting fat actually inhibits the brain's perception of flavor. Participants were monitored with MRI scanners as they tasted four different fruit emulsions, one of which had flavoring but no fat, while the other three had fat and various flavoring properties. The non-fatty sample provoked a bigger response in the brain regions associated with taste than any of the fatty samples, even though the flavor perception was the same.
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"We're conditioned to crave fats, but tasting fats actually makes us perceive flavors less."
We have a biological drive to consume fats and have a genetic variance in how we respond to eating it (we can't technically taste fat, but people with a specific variant of the CD36 gene are able to detect it, and as a result tend to crave less of it). A three-year study at the University of Nottingham has concluded that tasting fat actually inhibits the brain's perception of flavor. Participants were monitored with MRI scanners as they tasted four different fruit emulsions, one of which had flavoring but no fat, while the other three had fat and various flavoring properties. The non-fatty sample provoked a bigger response in the brain regions associated with taste than any of the fatty samples, even though the flavor perception was the same.
not sure I agree.... unless I am one of these with said "cd36" gene. Because enjoy some fatty steak....and pork chops...Oh man :thumbs:
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not a fan of fatty steak.
I like some marbling, but fattyy.. nastyyyy
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pork fat rules
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yah pork chop fat.... probably the reason my arteries are nearly closed.
I sorta agree Krandall... too much on a steak is icky. Leaner cuts of meat with a little marble- om nom nom
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/math/d/5/d/d5d38569c12e04088ee6e9085fc190f7.png)
In the PBS science program Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Episode 9: "The Lives of the Stars", astronomer and television personality Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in standard form (i.e., "10,000,000,000...") would be physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe provides.
An average book of 60 cubic inches can be printed
with 5 ×10 5 zeroes (5 characters per word, 10 words per line, 25 lines per page, 400 pages), or
8.3 ×10 3 zeros per cubic inch. The observable (i.e.
past light cone) universe contains 6 ×10 83 cubic
inches ( 4 /3 × π × (14 ×10 9 light years in inches) 3 ). This math implies that if the universe is stuffed with paper printed with 0s, it could contain only
5.3 ×10 87 zeros—far short of a googol of zeros. In
fact there are only about 2.5 ×10 89 elementary particles in the observable universe, so even if one were to use an elementary particle to represent each digit, one would run out of particles well before reaching a googol of digits.
Consider printing the digits of a googolplex in unreadable, one-point font (0.353 mm per digit). It
would take about 3.5 ×10 96 metres to write a googolplex in one-point font. The observable
universe is estimated to be 8.80 ×10 26 meters,or
93 billion light-years, in diameter, [2] so the distance required to write the necessary zeroes is
4.0 ×10 69 times as long as the estimated universe.
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this chick is hot...........
Fact!
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this chick is hot...........
Fact!
:thumbs:
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"Coastal populations are healthier (at least in the UK)."
A study at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health used UK census responses from 2001 to analyze health data for some 48 million people. After accounting for factors like socioeconomic status and age, they compared people's responses for overall health with their location in the country. People living by the coast reported higher rates of good health than people living inland. The potential reasons for this are numerous, but researchers suggest that living by the coast enables increased physical activity, more opportunities for stress reduction and an increased sense of relaxation.
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"Feeling awe seems to make time pass slowly."
Psychologists at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management set up a series of experiments to study the effects of awe (a rarely researched emotion, according to study authors). Participants engaged in a mundane word-scramble task designed to provoke the sensation of being pressed for time, then watched a video evocative of either happiness or awe. People who watched the awe video were more likely to feel that time was plentiful.
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"Hair color may influence long-term health."
Researchers from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid studied the effects on hair color in boar populations, and found that boars with red fur generally had higher levels of cell damage related to stress over time. The study links the prevalence of the animals' red fur to lower levels of the cellular antioxidant glutathione, which inhibits cellular damage. Conversely, boars with gray hair had the lowest levels of oxidative damage. It's possible, according to the study's authors, that the pigment responsible for red or chestnut colorations could "use up" available glutathione, leaving it less available to fight oxidative stress elsewhere (previous research indicates that gray hair is actually a sign of oxidative stress in humans, but researchers pointed out that all higher vertebrates share the same melanins, and that the topic warrants further study).
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"Cheese eaters are less likely to have diabetes."
A study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition indicates that people who eat cheese have a 12% lower risk of type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes than non-cheese eaters. The study relied on data from nearly 350,000 people across eight European countries, and the research indicated a difference in the benefits of cheese consumption based on nationality (cheese eaters in the UK actually had higher rates of diabetes than their counterparts in other countries). Dairy consumption overall was not linked to any change in diabetes risk.
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"The Amish are one of the fastest-growing religious groups in America."
According to a study by Ohio State researchers, the Amish population in the United States doubles every 21 to 22 years, due in part to the likelihood of Amish people to remain within the community and continue to practice their religious beliefs as they start their own families. According to the study, there are a little over 250,000 Amish people in the U.S. and Canada, spread across 456 communities (up from 179 communities in 1990). The study also suggested that, within the next 15 years, some counties in the U.S. may be predominantly Amish (the study's author indicated Holmes County, Ohio, as the likeliest candidate).
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"Not sleeping enough affects your cognitive tasks -- even if you don't feel tired."
A study published in The Journal of Vision followed participants at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital who started the research period by getting 10-12 hours of sleep per night for a week. For the following three weeks, however, they were allotted only 5-6 hours of sleep per night on a 28-hour cycle. As the days wore on, participants scored worse and worse on visual search tests, growing slower and less accurate in identifying important details, even though they consistently felt only slightly more tired than during their first over-rested week. How tired you feel, researchers noted, isn't necessarily a valid indicator of how tired you are.
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"When you smell oncoming rain, part of what you smell is ozone."
The smell of rain, according to Scientific American, is a medley of scents that have varying meanings for humans. The first olfactory indicator, before a storm actually starts, is the pungent smell of ozone, generated by an electrical charge (be it lightning or an arc welder). The smell we associate with actual falling rain is something called petrichor -- airborne detritus agitated by falling water -- and the earthy post-rain smell is geosmin, an organic compound produced by many microorganisms (particularly by earthbound bacteria after it has rained).
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the earthy post-rain smell is geosmin, an organic compound produced by many microorganisms
geosmin?
isn't that what pools up on Sierra's belly?
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the earthy post-rain smell is geosmin, an organic compound produced by many microorganisms
geosmin?
isn't that what pools up on Sierra's belly?
:rofl:
Nope, that was the wet spot left on the carpet near the mirrored closet door. :thumbs:
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BAAHAAAHAHAHAHHA
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"Men with shaved heads seem tougher but older."
A professor at UPenn's Wharton School realized after shaving his head that people's reactions to him had changed -- they were treating him with more deference than they used to. He developed three studies (published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science) to further test this phenomenon. In one study, participants rated photos of men with shaved heads as more influential and more powerful than men with various hairstyles; in another, researchers digitally altered photos of men with hair to make them appear bald (in which case they were also rated as more dominant). Finally, men without hair were perceived as stronger and even taller than men with hair -- though they were also rated as less attractive, and older (four years so) than their counterparts with hair.
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"Being honest makes you physically healthier."
A study presented at a meeting of the American Psychological Association followed 110 participants who came into the laboratory once a week to take a polygraph assessing their overall honesty throughout that week. Half of the participants were told not to lie for any reason throughout the 10 weeks (they were allowed to omit truths and keep secrets but were forbidden from making any statement they knew to be false). The control group was given no such instructions. The more honest people were overall -- in both groups -- the better off they were in terms of their physical and mental health. But the effect was even more pronounced for the no-lying group. That group also reported improvement in their relationships, as well as an increased sense of personal honesty.
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"A sense of humor is among the single most attractive traits (to both sexes)."
A study in the American Journal of Play surveyed 250 undergraduates to determine which traits they found important in a potential long-term romantic partner. Both sexes indicated that "fun loving" and "playful" were among the most important. Men ranked "sense of humor" as the highest priority, followed by a fun-loving personality and playfulness, before finally ranking physical attractiveness at a distant 9th. Women listed these traits in second, third and fourth place (the first trait they looked for was "kindness and understanding").
100% agree.
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"I'll take home a fat girl with a good sense of humor", "But a fat girl without a sense of humor better have a joke book in her back pocket"
~Rodney Carrington
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"People with allergies are less likely to have brain cancer."
New research in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests a link between allergies and reduced risk of some kinds of brain cancer. Researchers analyzed blood samples from patients that were taken years before they were diagnosed with glioma (tumors originating from glial cells in the brain or spine), and found that patients with allergy-related antibodies in their blood were almost 50% less likely to develop the cancer 20 years later compared to those without allergies. The mechanism is not clear, but the study authors suggest that the increase in an allergic person's circulating antibodies may stimulate the immune system.
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"People with allergies are less likely to have brain cancer."
New research in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests a link between allergies and reduced risk of some kinds of brain cancer. Researchers analyzed blood samples from patients that were taken years before they were diagnosed with glioma (tumors originating from glial cells in the brain or spine), and found that patients with allergy-related antibodies in their blood were almost 50% less likely to develop the cancer 20 years later compared to those without allergies. The mechanism is not clear, but the study authors suggest that the increase in an allergic person's circulating antibodies may stimulate the immune system.
sweet!!!!!! <sneeze> I should be good then! LOL
I have all sorts of sinus allergies :nerd:
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"People with allergies are less likely to have brain cancer."
New research in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests a link between allergies and reduced risk of some kinds of brain cancer. Researchers analyzed blood samples from patients that were taken years before they were diagnosed with glioma (tumors originating from glial cells in the brain or spine), and found that patients with allergy-related antibodies in their blood were almost 50% less likely to develop the cancer 20 years later compared to those without allergies. The mechanism is not clear, but the study authors suggest that the increase in an allergic person's circulating antibodies may stimulate the immune system.
sweet!!!!!! <sneeze> I should be good then! LOL
I have all sorts of anus allergies :nerd:
Noice.
I'd hate to be sneezin all the time
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"People with allergies are less likely to have brain cancer."
New research in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests a link between allergies and reduced risk of some kinds of brain cancer. Researchers analyzed blood samples from patients that were taken years before they were diagnosed with glioma (tumors originating from glial cells in the brain or spine), and found that patients with allergy-related antibodies in their blood were almost 50% less likely to develop the cancer 20 years later compared to those without allergies. The mechanism is not clear, but the study authors suggest that the increase in an allergic person's circulating antibodies may stimulate the immune system.
sweet!!!!!! <sneeze> I should be good then! LOL
I have all sorts of anus allergies :nerd:
Noice.
I'd hate to be sneezin all the time
yeah, but I don't gotz no tumors.... :lol:
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"Men are more likely to be attracted to their opposite-sex friends than women."
According to research in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, men, whether single or not, are more likely to be attracted to their opposite-sex friends than women are. Men in opposite-sex friendships also tend to overestimate their friends' sexual interest in them. The researchers-who brought in 88 pairs of male/female friends and interviewed them separately for the study-also found that men were less likely to think of sexual attraction to a friend as something that got in the way of the friendship (women felt more strongly that attraction was a burden to the relationship, not a benefit).
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""Women and children first" may not have applied in most shipwrecks."
Two Swedish economists studied the data surrounding 18 shipwrecks over 160 years of maritime history, and determined that women and children weren't usually afforded the same deference that they were on the Titanic (when many men gave up their lifeboat space). The study, which involved some 15,000 people, found that women were half as likely to survive a typical shipwreck as men (and actual crewmen were 18% more likely to survive than regular passengers). When a "women and children first" order was issued, it seems to have increased the survival rate of women by only 7%.
FODW!!!!!!!!!!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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never let go jack :rofl:
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"Men who use prostitutes are often interested in romance."
A study in the journal Men and Masculinities analyzed 2,442 postings on a forum for reviewing sex workers and found many men who become regular clients turn out to want emotional intimacy, not just sex. About a fifth of the postings were by men saying that such emotional connections in a paid sex context were impossible, but about a third of them had an emotional component -- clients talking about sharing their feelings or expressing a wish for mutual love with a sex worker. Most men expect nothing but sex at first, and when some develop an emotional connection, they almost always express surprise at this development. The study authors point out that men were never previously thought to be looking for an emotional connection when paying for sex, and that the volume of evidence to the contrary is surprising.
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candlelight dinners...roses, candies, flowers.... then :humper: :rofl:
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well at least when you use a postitute the :humper: part is guaranted :thumbs:
[speaks from experience] LOL
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donkey hookers FTW
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"People who own aggressive dog breeds are more likely to be aggressive themselves."
Psychologists at Queen's University Belfast surveyed 147 dog owners on their personalities (all of the dog owners had either Rottweilers, German shepherds, golden shepherds, or Labrador retrievers). The only difference the survey found was that people with one of the more aggressive breeds (Rottweilers or German shepherds) also rated higher in psychoticism-tendency toward interpersonal hostility and aggression. Whether aggressive people choose dogs based on their aggressiveness or subconsciously seek out animals like themselves is unclear, but this is the second recent study to come to a similar conclusion (an earlier survey also found that more argumentative people tended to choose bull terriers and animals with similar reputations).
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That's my argument.
using dogs to look tough....
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"The more stressed you are, the more likely you are to prefer heavier women."
A study appearing in PloS One asked 41 men to engage in a stress-inducing task, while their 40 counterparts in the control group weren't exposed to any stressors. Both groups then rated the attractiveness of various female bodies across the size and weight spectrum. The men in both groups were matched for age, BMI and appetite, but after the task, the stressed group rated a much heavier body size as the most attractive, rated heavier women as more attractive overall and preferred a wider range of figures in total. Previous research has implied that there is an evolutionary motivation for this response (that is, when resources are unavailable, people get less sexually choosy, even on an instinctive level).
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"Nearly 30% of Americans have been found sleepwalking."
Statistics have traditionally held that sleepwalking is very rare, but, in fact, a recent study of 19,000 Americans found that just over 29% of Americans had been caught sleepwalking at some point in their lives. Since sleepwalkers don't remember the event unless they're awakened, it could be even more common than that. People with depression are dramatically more likely than others to sleepwalk (3.5 times so) and it's also something that tends to run in the family.
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"Nearly 30% of Americans have been found sleepwalking."
Statistics have traditionally held that sleepwalking is very rare, but, in fact, a recent study of 19,000 Americans found that just over 29% of Americans had been caught sleepwalking at some point in their lives. Since sleepwalkers don't remember the event unless they're awakened, it could be even more common than that. People with depression are dramatically more likely than others to sleepwalk (3.5 times so) and it's also something that tends to run in the family.
all the time.
and my kids do it consistently. they like ti get up to whizz at 4 am. doing the "firehose" :lol:
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my kids have done it too..............scary as FERK........ :lol:
all of a sudden i heard my 3 year old crying in the living room and I'm all like WTH?
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"Both genders stare at breasts."
A study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology presented participants with random images of fully clothed men and women. Each image was of a person standing in a neutral pose and looking at the camera. Then, after a pause, participants saw two more images: one that was a cut-out image of the person they'd just seen, and one that modified a sexual body part. Women's body parts were more accurately recognized in this second picture, regardless of the participants' gender. The more accurate identification indicates that men do glance at a woman's sexual body parts enough to recognize them, but so do women (though their motivation in doing so is probably not the same).
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"A dog can shake itself three-fourths dry in under a second."
Research conducted at Georgia Tech indicates that furry mammals can shake themselves up to 70% dry in less than a second, and the smaller the animal, the faster it shakes (with dogs averaging around five times a second and rodents averaging 30 times a second). Being able to dry themselves quickly can be crucial to animals in the wild, where a larger animal could expend a fifth of its daily caloric intake simply staying warm while wet in the colder months. A rat might exit the water with 5% of its body weight in water soaking its fur; a fully doused (and relatively hairless) human, by contrast, is carrying about one pound of water.
This is a lie.. Its in 4 seconds.
Still interesting none the less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFzWJ6P2iyY&feature=player_embedded
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"Women tend to drink more after marrying; men drink less."
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati examined previous surveys conducted in past decades of some 5,300 U.S. respondents. They found that single women (either divorced or unmarried) tended to drink less than women who were married. Conversely, married men tended to have the least number of drinks, while divorced men tended to have the highest. Married women averaged nine drinks per month, while divorced women averaged 6.5. Married men averaged 19.2 drinks a month; divorced men, 21.5. When men and women actually got divorced during the monitored period, their drinking increased to 10 drinks a month for women and 26 for men.
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"Your blood type could indicate your risk for heart disease."
According to a study in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, people with type O have a decreased risk for heart disease compared to those with types A, B and AB. Type O is the most common blood type (about 43% of Americans have it). Compared to them, people with type A have a 5% increased risk for heart disease and people with type B have an 11% increased risk. People with AB, which is the rarest blood type (only about 7% of Americans have it), showed the highest increased risk -- a 23% jump. The research is based on two major U.S. studies, the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (covering data from some 90,000 people
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"The more stressed you are, the more likely you are to prefer heavier women."
A study appearing in PloS One asked 41 men to engage in a stress-inducing task, while their 40 counterparts in the control group weren't exposed to any stressors. Both groups then rated the attractiveness of various female bodies across the size and weight spectrum. The men in both groups were matched for age, BMI and appetite, but after the task, the stressed group rated a much heavier body size as the most attractive, rated heavier women as more attractive overall and preferred a wider range of figures in total. Previous research has implied that there is an evolutionary motivation for this response (that is, when resources are unavailable, people get less sexually choosy, even on an instinctive level).
i think they pitted a group of white guys vs a group of black guys
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"The more stressed you are, the more likely you are to prefer heavier women."
A study appearing in PloS One asked 41 men to engage in a stress-inducing task, while their 40 counterparts in the control group weren't exposed to any stressors. Both groups then rated the attractiveness of various female bodies across the size and weight spectrum. The men in both groups were matched for age, BMI and appetite, but after the task, the stressed group rated a much heavier body size as the most attractive, rated heavier women as more attractive overall and preferred a wider range of figures in total. Previous research has implied that there is an evolutionary motivation for this response (that is, when resources are unavailable, people get less sexually choosy, even on an instinctive level).
i think they pitted a group of white guys vs a group of black guys
i think it is because when you are stressed you just want to FERK something...............anything
thats how preddys dog gets some acction and his dose of peanut butter
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"Men and women both look down on people who have sex with too many partners."
The perception in some past studies has been that people judge women more harshly than men for having a lot of casual sex, but according to data from the 2011 Online College Social Life Survey, which surveyed students at 22 colleges, that perception is changing. Students were asked to respond to the question "If women hook up or have sex with lots of people, I respect them less" (and then the same question for men). About 48% of respondents judged men and women the same way in this regard. About 12% judged women more harshly then men, but about 13% judged men more harshly than women. An unconcerned 27% said they didn't judge anybody for casual sex, regardless of its frequency.
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"Men and women both look down on people who have sex with too many partners."
The perception in some past studies has been that people judge women more harshly than men for having a lot of casual sex, but according to data from the 2011 Online College Social Life Survey, which surveyed students at 22 colleges, that perception is changing. Students were asked to respond to the question "If women hook up or have sex with lots of people, I respect them less" (and then the same question for men). About 48% of respondents judged men and women the same way in this regard. About 12% judged women more harshly then men, but about 13% judged men more harshly than women. An unconcerned 27% said they didn't judge anybody for casual sex, regardless of its frequency.
uhhh
:bs:
study needs redone with raptorsource curve added.
dat shits a badge of honor here
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:rofl:
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"People will reject a small reward, preferring no reward at all, if they feel they're being treated unfairly."
Half of the participants in a University College London study were drip-fed a salt solution, making them very thirsty. They were then paired with a partner and told that one of them would get to decide how to split a bottle of water and that if the other rejected the offer, neither would get anything. In reality, all participants were told that their partners were the decision makers and had presented them with an unfair offer (one-eighth of a water bottle). Even extremely thirsty subjects tended to reject the offer, forgoing their own best interests purely because of the unfairness of the situation.
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"People will reject a small reward, preferring no reward at all, if they feel they're being treated unfairly."
Half of the participants in a University College London study were drip-fed a salt solution, making them very thirsty. They were then paired with a partner and told that one of them would get to decide how to split a bottle of water and that if the other rejected the offer, neither would get anything. In reality, all participants were told that their partners were the decision makers and had presented them with an unfair offer (one-eighth of a water bottle). Even extremely thirsty subjects tended to reject the offer, forgoing their own best interests purely because of the unfairness of the situation.
precisely. your offer of butsects could not overcome these years of hatespewing and bigotry!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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"BMI numbers actually understate how many people are obese."
One common complaint about the use of Body Mass Index as a predictor of health is that it can overstate obesity; since the number is a factor only of weight and height, a very muscular athlete, for example, might inaccurately qualify as obese. But most people are not muscular athletes, and a new study in PloS One that compared X-ray fat measurements with participants' BMI numbers found that the formula actually understated how much fat they carried. Women were particularly prone to this misrepresentation. According to the researchers, BMI only identifies actually obese people as obese three-fifths of the time, and by a more accurate metric, a staggering 64% of American women should be classified as obese.
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64% cripes!
we gotta do something....all lol's aside. thats bad.
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"BMI numbers actually understate how many people are obese."
One common complaint about the use of Body Mass Index as a predictor of health is that it can overstate obesity; since the number is a factor only of weight and height, a very muscular athlete, for example, might inaccurately qualify as obese. But most people are not muscular athletes, and a new study in PloS One that compared X-ray fat measurements with participants' BMI numbers found that the formula actually understated how much fat they carried. Women were particularly prone to this misrepresentation. According to the researchers, BMI only identifies actually obese people as obese three-fifths of the time, and by a more accurate metric, a staggering 64% of American women should be classified as obese.
BS the BMI calculation shows me as over weight!
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"BMI numbers actually understate how many people are obese."
One common complaint about the use of Body Mass Index as a predictor of health is that it can overstate obesity; since the number is a factor only of weight and height, a very muscular athlete, for example, might inaccurately qualify as obese. But most people are not muscular athletes, and a new study in PloS One that compared X-ray fat measurements with participants' BMI numbers found that the formula actually understated how much fat they carried. Women were particularly prone to this misrepresentation. According to the researchers, BMI only identifies actually obese people as obese three-fifths of the time, and by a more accurate metric, a staggering 64% of American women should be classified as obese.
BS the BMI calculation shows me as over weight!
lol same here. at 210 i was borderline extremely obese :rofl:
target weight 160-170
yup I was a fatty :rofl:
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"Shy people read negative facial expressions more accurately."
A study at Southern Illinois University set out to investigate the perception that shy people are bad at reading facial expressions. The study surveyed 241 college students about their levels of shyness, then asked them to identify the facial expressions in 110 photos. The participants were 81% accurate overall, but shy people were more accurate at judging expressions like sadness and fear than outgoing people were.
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"You can smell how old someone is."
Elderly people are often said to have a distinct smell and a study at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia set out to test the reality of that perception. Subjects of various ages slept for five nights wearing underarm pads, which were then collected and put in jars for study participants to smell. participants were much more accurate at judging the smell of older people than other age groups. Interestingly, however, the elderly smell was rated as less unpleasant than those from the other age groups (smells from other age groups were rated as both worse and more intense).
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"You can smell how old someone is."
Elderly people are often said to have a distinct smell and a study at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia set out to test the reality of that perception. Subjects of various ages slept for five nights wearing underarm pads, which were then collected and put in jars for study participants to smell. participants were much more accurate at judging the smell of older people than other age groups. Interestingly, however, the elderly smell was rated as less unpleasant than those from the other age groups (smells from other age groups were rated as both worse and more intense).
we shall test this :nod:
come on Krandall take a whiff!!!!
:hefe1:
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Psh, rallies are over powered by the scent of butsekz. :lol:
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"You drink more slowly from a straight-sided glass."
According to a University of Bristol study published in the journal PLoS ONE, people drink alcohol twice as slowly out of a straight-sided glass as they do from a beer flute. Researchers theorized that people have a harder time gauging the midpoint in a curved beer flute, and are thus less likely to pace themselves; a follow-up test asked participants to gauge the fullness of different kinds of glasses and confirmed a higher error rate for curved glasses. Glassware shape had no effect on the speed with which people drank nonalcoholic beverages.
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"A Tanzanian village was once overcome with contagious laughter so extensive that it shut down 14 schools."
On January 30, 1962, in the village of Kashasha, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), one group of students began laughing, and the laughter spread to more students, then beyond the school to the surrounding area, and from the area to neighboring villages. Though symptoms lasted a few hours or days, they also relapsed periodically; all in all, the episode lasted for about a year and affected several thousand people. One explanation for the incident, according to linguist Christian F. Hempelmann, is mass psychogenic illness -- a group response to constant stress, formerly dubbed mass hysteria. Similarly inexplicable group behaviors have been recorded throughout history, including the 1518 "Dancing Plague" in Strasbourg, during which dozens (and then hundreds) of people began dancing ceaselessly, some until they died of exhaustion.
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"A Tanzanian village was once overcome with contagious laughter so extensive that it shut down 14 schools."
Aww snap...who sent them the whistles go woo video? :confused:
:rofl:
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"People prefer flexibility at work more than anything else."
Harris Interactive surveyed 1,096 U.S. workers on behalf of the staffing firm Mom Corps, and found that almost half (45%) of working adults would give up a percentage of their salary for more flexibility at work. The average amount they'd be willing to part with is 8.6% (which is nearly double what this figure was last year). Young adults aged 18-34 would give up 14% of their salaries for more flexibility. More than half of people surveyed believed they'd be more productive if allowed to work from home occasionally.
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"A Tanzanian village was once overcome with contagious laughter so extensive that it shut down 14 schools."
Aww snap...who sent them the whistles go woo video? :confused:
:rofl:
:bubbrubb:
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"For a third of Americans, age 70 will be too young to retire."
According to research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, working an additional five years beyond the traditional retirement age of 65 still won't be enough for them to retire comfortably. The EBRI's research analyzed data from millions of people with 401(k)s, and found that about 64% of people would be able to retire by age 70, while only slightly more than half (52%) could retire comfortably at 65. Working longer can certainly help people save for retirement, the study's summary explains, but this approach is risky, especially for low-income workers.
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"Flirting, but not friendliness, helps women get better deals."
Researchers at UC Berkeley and the London School of Economics devised a series of experiments to evaluate the effects of female flirting. In one experiment, flirtatious women were able to get 20% off the price of a car, but in another, women who made the effort to be friendly without coming off as flirtatious actually wound up paying more. Men tended to see flirtation as strong and assertive (in this case, the flirtatious woman would smile, look the seller up and down, touch his arm and wink). When women were merely friendly, however, men tended to perceive them as pushovers. Other women weren't swayed one way or the other by these different approaches.
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"Being told they're better navigators makes men navigate better"
For a study at Durham University in England, 40 male and 40 female participants were asked to navigate through a computer landscape in order to find a hidden objective. The participants navigated either spatially (relying on geometric cues like angles and distant surfaces) or by using landmarks. The male participants performed better when just using geometric cues, but when half of the participants were told that the test was to examine gender differences in navigation ability, the men performed better on both geometric and the landmark navigation. The effect, called "stereotype lift," is widespread, and has been demonstrated to improve performance in relation to a negatively stereotyped group. One study on the phenomenon focused on Asian women, and called attention either to the fact that they were women (in which case their math performance decreased) or to the fact that they were Asian (in which case their math performance increased).
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"Men and women see motion and colors differently."
According to a study published in Biology of Sex Differences, men's and women's vision are slightly different -- men are better at tracking objects, while women are better at observing subtle color differences. Male participants, the study found, are not as proficient at discriminating between shades in the middle of the spectrum (greens, yellows, and blues), and might see an object as being warmer (more reddish or more orange) than a woman would. However, men excelled at noticing details that shifted rapidly and at a distance (thanks to hormone exposure in the womb, men have more neurons in the visual cortex, which is responsible for this visual processing).
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"Three-fourths of women won't date an unemployed man."
It's Just Lunch, a personalized matchmaking service for professionals, surveyed users on their dating preferences and found that 75% of women are at least "unlikely" to date an unemployed man (including 33% who flatly said they would not). Only 4% of women responded that, "of course," they would. Women were partially concerned about the financial repercussions of dating someone who is unemployed, but were also concerned that their partner's lack of employment would keep them from doing things they enjoy. Conversely, 65% of men were open to dating an unemployed woman.
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"Sights and smells can subliminally influence your pain response."
Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Charlestown set out to test the idea that outside stimuli completely unrelated to treatment are able to invoke the placebo response and its counter-effect (dubbed the nocebo response). Participants were shown two different images on a computer screen, one of which was presented along with a painful heat pulse to the arm; the other image was accompanied by a much less severe heat pulse. Half of the participants then saw the same images again, but this time, both images were accompanied by an identical heat pulse. The participants nonetheless believed that the previously higher-pain image was again accompanied by a more painful pulse. The other half of the participants were presented with the same setup, but only saw the images for 12 milliseconds, far too fast to consciously parse them (for reference, a blink lasts about 300 milliseconds). These participants also rated the high-pain image as more painful. The implication, according to the study's authors, is that stimuli we're not even aware of can assist (or hamper) a patient's recovery.
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"Watching reruns helps restore your willpower."
A study at the University of Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions asked participants to track their daily activities along with their television consumption and found that people are more likely to seek out TV reruns (or favorite books or movies) if they have something taxing to do later in the day. A followup experiment asked participants to engage in either a demanding task or a less-demanding one. Half of the participants were then asked to write about their favorite TV show, while the other half were given a neutral writing assignment (listing items in their rooms). Those who had dealt with a demanding task wrote more, and for longer, about their favorite TV show than those who'd had a less-demanding task, implying that reflecting on familiar content is in some way restorative.
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"Watching reruns helps restore your willpower."
A study at the University of Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions asked participants to track their daily activities along with their television consumption and found that people are more likely to seek out TV reruns (or favorite books or movies) if they have something taxing to do later in the day. A followup experiment asked participants to engage in either a demanding task or a less-demanding one. Half of the participants were then asked to write about their favorite TV show, while the other half were given a neutral writing assignment (listing items in their rooms). Those who had dealt with a demanding task wrote more, and for longer, about their favorite TV show than those who'd had a less-demanding task, implying that reflecting on familiar content is in some way restorative.
yep mindnumbing tv. use that regularly to purge the brain....
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"DNA may one day be used to provide an accurate facial reconstruction."
Police may someday be able to reconstruct an image of a suspect's face based purely on DNA, according to researchers at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands. Scientists examined DNA from 10,000 Europeans, trying to correlate genetics with broad characteristics in photos and in MRI scans of their heads. The genes they identified did have noticeable effects in the participants' faces, though the effects were very small (the gene TP63 does seem to influence eye width, for example, but only to the tune of about 9 millimeters).
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"Everyone with blue eyes has one common ancestor."
According to researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, blue eyes are a genetic mutation that first appeared between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, before which all humans had brown eyes. A mutation in the OCA2 gene, which influences melanin production, limited one human being's ability to produce melanin (only in the iris; blue eyes are essentially albinism that is limited to the eyes). The researchers studied 800 blue-eyed people, and only one person -- whose eye color was blue with one brown spot -- didn't share the same haplotype (a recurring bit of common genetic code). Except for such outliers, all blue-eyed individuals can be linked to the same ancestor.
So does this mean... blue eyed people shouldn't marry blue eyed people ???
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"Everyone with blue eyes has one common ancestor."
According to researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, blue eyes are a genetic mutation that first appeared between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, before which all humans had brown eyes. A mutation in the OCA2 gene, which influences melanin production, limited one human being's ability to produce melanin (only in the iris; blue eyes are essentially albinism that is limited to the eyes). The researchers studied 800 blue-eyed people, and only one person -- whose eye color was blue with one brown spot -- didn't share the same haplotype (a recurring bit of common genetic code). Except for such outliers, all blue-eyed individuals can be linked to the same ancestor.
So does this mean... blue eyed people shouldn't marry blue eyed people ???
unless you like birth defects.... :lol:
kinda spoils your whole "aryan" theing huh? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Hey.
I don't ask questions. I just eff b*tches.
:lol:
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"People who have second thoughts about getting married are actually more likely to have a failed marriage."
Researchers at UCLA studied 232 couples and found that both men and women who feel uncertain about an upcoming wedding are both more likely to wind up divorced. Men were more likely to report feeling these doubts than women (47% to 38%). Of the men who'd had second thoughts, 14% were divorced within 4 years (compared to 9% of those who hadn't had second thoughts). For women, 19% of the doubters ended up divorced (compared to 8% of the non-doubters). Expressed another way, in marriages where neither partner had experienced doubts, only 6% divorced within four years. In marriages where both partners had had doubts, that number became 20%.
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"People who have second thoughts about getting married are actually more likely to have a failed marriage."
Researchers at UCLA studied 232 couples and found that both men and women who feel uncertain about an upcoming wedding are both more likely to wind up divorced. Men were more likely to report feeling these doubts than women (47% to 38%). Of the men who'd had second thoughts, 14% were divorced within 4 years (compared to 9% of those who hadn't had second thoughts). For women, 19% of the doubters ended up divorced (compared to 8% of the non-doubters). Expressed another way, in marriages where neither partner had experienced doubts, only 6% divorced within four years. In marriages where both partners had had doubts, that number became 20%.
;) good stat there. just makes sense...... have doubts, dont do it :lol:
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Adolph Hitler played chess daily. He always played the white pieces, and insisted on being allowed to replace one of his bishops with a second queen.
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Adolph Hitler played chess daily. He always played the white pieces, and insisted on being allowed to replace one of his bishops with a second queen.
:rofl: kinda tells ya what kinda guy he is.... dontcha think? :lol:
is there any seriousness to this?
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sounds familiar..there's always three queen's on the RS boards too!
(Peels, Randy, and Hefe)
"thee three queens of questionable sexual oreintaion"
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oh, there's no questioning this orientation!
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^
:lol:
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"Gonorrhea rates among young men go down when taxes on beer go up. "
According to a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research first published in Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, among young men between ages 15-19 and 20-24, higher taxes on beer (the alcoholic beverage of choice for those age groups) correspond with lower gonorrhea incidence rates.
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"Self-compassion is the most important element in getting over a breakup."
Self-compassion is similar to self-esteem, but more measured -- it involves realistic self-perceptions instead of ego-inflated ones, and forgiveness instead of criticism over personal shortcomings. A study in Psychological Science indicated that out of all the personality traits (including optimism, aptitude for relationships, self-esteem and resistance to depression), self-compassion is the single most helpful in rebounding from an emotionally difficult period such as a divorce. The study followed recently divorced participants (with a mean age of 40) and found that those high in self-compassion both recovered sooner from their divorces and felt better than their peers did a few months down the line.
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"A woman's history of orgasm is observable in her walk."
A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine asked female subjects to take a questionnaire on sexual behavior. The participants were then filmed walking in public spaces. Two professors of sexology, unaware of the women's questionnaire answers, were able to guess with 80% accuracy whether a woman experienced vaginal orgasm just by examining her walk. Researchers theorized that either a woman's physiological characteristics influence both her stride and her sexual behavior, or a vaginally orgasmic woman is also more likely to feel confident and liberated in general.
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"In 2007 dollars, George Washington's presidential salary is higher than that of George W. Bush."
Technically, the U.S. president is the highest-paid employee in the government. Expense accounts aside, right now he earns a $400,000 annual salary (a figure established in 2001, which was a substantial increase from $200,000).
George Washington's initial salary was $25,000, which, in today's money, comes to about $566,000. Historically, the $75,000 salary approved in 1909 is the highest in 2007 dollars, being about the equivalent of $1,714,000 today.
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I miss mah raptor buddies.
Fact ;)
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quit workin
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quit workin
meh, Id miss my paycheck more :lol: :rofl:
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"Strawberries can protect you against alcohol damage."
Consistent alcohol use predisposes us to various health issues, including ulcers and various cancers (between %2 and %4 of cancers are attributed to alcohol). However, new research has indicated that strawberries can help mitigate this damage. European researchers fed rats 0.0014 ounces of a strawberry extract per 0.00003 ounce of body weight, then fed them an alcohol diet designed specifically to damage their stomach tissue, and found that those rats' stomachs were protected compared to those in a control group. Strawberries may even be effective protection against various other kinds of stomach-tissue damage (from viruses, for instance).
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"The world's highest waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela."
The world's highest waterfall is Angel Falls in Venezuela, which drops 3,212 feet from brink to base.
The world of waterfalls is not cut-and-dried; experts disagree on the criteria used to determine what constitutes a waterfall. Regardless of the criteria, Angel Falls is the highest. The divisive question becomes how high.
Water plunges 2,648 vertical feet from its crest onto what's called a talus slope (a mix of rocks and debris), before flowing down a 100 foot bedrock cascade to the base. Some consider the initial drop one waterfall, the talus slope another, and the cascade a third.
Nonetheless, that initial plunge is still the tops, 48 feet higher than Hawaii's Waihilau Falls.
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"Two million mites live in your bed."
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"Two million mites live in your bed."
great, now I have more reasons to pick and claw at my skin. :mad:
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"Our opinions of attractiveness are influenced by our peers."
A Harvard study instructed 14 male subjects to rate the attractiveness of 180 women based on photos of their faces. They were shown the series of faces twice, and both times they could see a "peer rating" of the women's attractiveness -- a value picked by the authors of the study, sometimes unduly high and sometimes unduly low. During the second series, the subjects were monitored with fMRI. The second showing revealed that their value judgments weren't influenced by the attractiveness of a face -- they were visibly tied to whether subjects felt they'd been "right" in judging someone attractive or not.
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""Ain't" is an 18th-century contraction of "am not.""
Around the turn of the 18th century, a number of the contractions we use today begin to enter the vernacular, such as "won't" and "don't." "Ain't" developed around this time as well, and is believed to have descended from "am not." Although language purists hate the word, it's easy to see how it developed, since constructions involving "I," such as "am I not," are both awkward-sounding and anomalous aspects of the English language.
:sit: Peelz.
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""Ain't" is an 18th-century contraction of "am not.""
Around the turn of the 18th century, a number of the contractions we use today begin to enter the vernacular, such as "won't" and "don't." "Ain't" developed around this time as well, and is believed to have descended from "am not." Although language purists hate the word, it's easy to see how it developed, since constructions involving "I," such as "am I not," are both awkward-sounding and anomalous aspects of the English language.
:sit: Peelz.
regardless of when it was developed, it makes one sound ignorant when used :lol: And....it is used now for more than AM NOT. its used for is not, and are not as well...which makes it confusing. Unless its in music..."i am not" is hard to fit into a hip hop or country song.... so whatever, just randomly change the language that we all hold so dear that we insult all those that do not speak it :lol:
however, that is very interesting.
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aint aint aint aint aint taint aint aint aint aint aint aint bitch aint aint aint aint aint aint aint.
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aint aint aint aint aint taint aint aint aint aint aint aint bitch aint aint aint aint aint aint aint.
what did you say about my taint? :confused:
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:lol:
tastes like raisins
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"The term pH stands for Potential of Hydrogen."
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"October is the right month to observe a spike in cases of clinical lycanthropy. "
Clinical lycanthropy is the name of the psychiatric syndrome in which people believe that they turn into wolves or werewolves, one of the more recognizable icons of Halloween. Some researchers think that werewolves -- as well as vampires -- came about on account of a condition known as porphyria. Sufferers lack a certain iron-rich molecule in their blood, leading to light sensitivity, receding gums, and even an allergic reaction to garlic.
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"October is the right month to observe a spike in cases of clinical lycanthropy. "
Clinical lycanthropy is the name of the psychiatric syndrome in which people believe that they turn into wolves or werewolves, one of the more recognizable icons of Halloween. Some researchers think that werewolves -- as well as vampires -- came about on account of a condition known as porphyria. Sufferers lack a certain iron-rich molecule in their blood, leading to light sensitivity, receding gums, and even an allergic reaction to garlic.
lycanthropy? seriously?
I just put on my wolf wolf moon shirt and rock the f**k out! 8)
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"Eric Bana turned down the role of Xander Cage in XXX, which later went to Vin Diesel. "
Bana was also considered for the role of James Bond that went to Daniel Craig, and Diesel himself turned down the
lead in the sequel xXx: State of the Union, a role that went to Ice Cube.
Neither of those decisions made much impact in the history of film, but back in 1971 Paramount studios clashed with Francis Ford Coppola over his desire to cast Marlon Brando in The Godfather. They offered the role to Danny Thomas, who declined and even backed the casting of Brando.
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Seriously?
so if I read that correctly.....
we are comparing to Vin Diesel in XXX to Marlon Brando in the godfather?
that is fuking ridiculous. And insulting....
vin diesel movies are complete and utter garbage. ALL of them.
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Thank you for your opinion. :)
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Thank you for your opinion. :)
Nope, its a fact :lol: you cannot compare those two movies.
now....if by some chance, 30 years from now, they are talking about XXX like a classic, such as they do Godfather, I will eat my shoe. With fava beans and a nice chianti. ill send you the video.
Im pretty confident its a safe bet, a "good vin diesel movie" is an oxymoron. :thumbs:
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^ would you like some ketchup with your shoe?
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^ would you like some ketchup with your shoe?
LOL yes, 500 gallons plz. :thumbs: :rofl:
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"The Morse code distress signal "SOS" is not an acronym."
The famous code, erroneously read as "Save Our Souls" or "Save Our Ship" was adopted in 1906 at the International Conference on Wireless Communication at Sea, after officials from different countries had suggested and vetoed other ideas for a universal distress signal in Morse code that could be understood by anyone, regardless of the language they spoke.
Popular belief holds that the Titanic was the first ship to send an SOS distress call, but this is untrue; accounts show that it had been used at least two years before the Titanic sunk.
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"In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some life forms were patentable."
Before 1980, life forms were regarded as aspects of nature and thus not patentable. In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Diamond v. Chakrabarty that genetically engineered bacteria were indeed patentable because they didn't naturally occur in nature. After that, scientists and companies began to patent genes as well as fragments of DNA, leading to an enormous amount of controversy in the scientific community.
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"In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some life forms were patentable."
Before 1980, life forms were regarded as aspects of nature and thus not patentable. In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Diamond v. Chakrabarty that genetically engineered bacteria were indeed patentable because they didn't naturally occur in nature. After that, scientists and companies began to patent genes as well as fragments of DNA, leading to an enormous amount of controversy in the scientific community.
and the whole monsanto thing.... genetically mutated soybean seed... if you're bored, interesting info.
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Yea, I've read about that before. It's crazy.
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"Moving at the same pace as someone else makes you more likely to agree with him."
A study conducted at USC's Marshall School of Business asked participants to walk alongside an experimenter, either trying to keep stride, walking purposefully out of sync, or walking at whatever pace was comfortable. Participants were then given questionnaires on their perceptions of the experimenter (how much they liked him, how close they felt to him and how similar to him they felt). The participants who were instructed to keep in step thought they were more similar to the experimenter than those who walked at their own pace or stayed intentionally out of step. A second study made groups perform a task while listening to music on headphones that either kept them in sync or kept them working at different rates and again, the participants felt closer to their in-sync peers.
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"The Minnesota North Stars were the last NHL team to reach the Stanley Cup finals with a losing record. "
Back in 1991 when the NHL had just 21 teams, reaching the playoffs wasn't too difficult since 8 teams from each of the 2 conferences were granted playoff spots, leaving just 5 teams out. That year the Minnesota franchise - which was just two years away from relocating to Dallas - finished 27-39-14, almost 40 points behind division leader Chicago.
Nonetheless, they upset Chicago, St. Louis and Edmonton on their way to the Stanley Cup Finals. There they ran into Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins and were up 2 games to 1 before losing 3 straight.
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"Before 1850, most golf balls were stuffed with feathers."
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"In some animal populations, high-ranking males also experience the most stress."
High-ranking alpha males in baboon populations, previously thought to have easier lives, are in fact more stressed than beta males below them, according to authors of a Princeton study. Baboon populations are a good model for human interactions, given their genetic resemblance to humans and similarly complex societies. Researchers measured the stress-hormone levels of baboons over a nearly decade-long span and found that alpha males, who are constantly responsible for protecting their spoils and guarding their mates, had stress levels comparable only to those of the lowest-ranking males.
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"Leonardo da Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa's lips."
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"The first industrial robot went to work at GM in 1961."
Named Unimate, General Motors put it to work in the spring of 1961 without fanfare -- not because they were worried about an uproar over it one day taking the jobs away from so many people, but because they were concerned that it wouldn't work out.
It did, of course, and today robotics is a multibillion-dollar worldwide industry. The original Unimate is at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.
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"Lifting free weights helps exercise parts of your brain."
Proprioception, the sense of where your body is in space, is regulated by your whole nervous system and relies on the information your body sends through your spinal cord and to your brain. It's also further developed with practice, which is why patients whose coordination has been impaired by illness often train to get their balance back (by balancing blindfolded, for example). Working with free weights helps develop your proprioception because of the balance involved; using a machine doesn't offer the same benefits.
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"40% of all people who come to a party at your house snoop in your medicine cabinet."
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"40% of all people who come to a party at your house snoop in your medicine cabinet."
:rofl:
they gonna get a surprise at my house! :clap: :troy:
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"40% of all people who come to a party at your house snoop in your medicine cabinet."
:rofl:
they gonna get a surprise at my house! :clap: :troy:
I think there's a loaded mouse-trap in mine
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would be funny as hell to put a sign in there that says "I see you!" or GTFOMMC!
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"The longest escalator in the world is in St. Petersburg, Russia, with 729 steps."
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"In the early days of baseball, a fielder put a runner out by hitting him with the ball."
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that would be one way to make baseball watchable!
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that would be one way to make baseball watchable!
LOL :thumbs:
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"Babies can understand basic elements of physics when they're as young as two months old."
A study in the journal WIREs Cognitive Science indicated that infants who are as young as two months old are intuitively able to understand basic physical concepts (e.g. gravity, and that an object hidden in a container will move when the container moves). By five months, they understand the difference between solid objects and non-solid substances (like sand or liquids). At six months, they can gauge values (if one sample is substantially larger than another) and at ten months, they can gauge physical quantities -- which cup holds more liquid, or which container holds more food (though again, only if the samples are large enough for there to be an appreciable difference).
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"Babies can understand basic elements of physics when they're as young as two months old."
A study in the journal WIREs Cognitive Science indicated that infants who are as young as two months old are intuitively able to understand basic physical concepts (e.g. gravity, and that an object hidden in a container will move when the container moves). By five months, they understand the difference between solid objects and non-solid substances (like sand or liquids). At six months, they can gauge values (if one sample is substantially larger than another) and at ten months, they can gauge physical quantities -- which cup holds more liquid, or which container holds more food (though again, only if the samples are large enough for there to be an appreciable difference).
nifty.... but it takes til like 18 months til they can spot an obstacle while walking... IE a step up, or a cliff....
little shits just keep walking...... :lol: pretty hilarious to watch. "step...step BAM!" face into carpet.
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"The words we say to others account for less than 10% of first impressions."
Naturalist Charles Darwin -- yes, that Darwin -- first launched the study of nonverbal communication when he published The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in 1872. Today researchers believe that we make first impressions of people based on three factors: body language, vocal delivery, and the content of what we say.
Although statistics tend to vary a few percentage points here and there, what we say accounts for just 7% of that first impression, vocal delivery (tone, pacing, etc) accounts for 38%, while body language accounts for the rest -- a whopping 55%, something to remember when approaching a woman for the first time.
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"Babies can understand basic elements of physics when they're as young as two months old."
A study in the journal WIREs Cognitive Science indicated that infants who are as young as two months old are intuitively able to understand basic physical concepts (e.g. gravity, and that an object hidden in a container will move when the container moves). By five months, they understand the difference between solid objects and non-solid substances (like sand or liquids). At six months, they can gauge values (if one sample is substantially larger than another) and at ten months, they can gauge physical quantities -- which cup holds more liquid, or which container holds more food (though again, only if the samples are large enough for there to be an appreciable difference).
nifty.... but it takes til like 18 months til they can spot an obstacle while walking... IE a step up, or a cliff....
little shits just keep walking...... :lol: pretty hilarious to watch. "step...step BAM!" face into carpet.
sounds like me after a couple beers......... :(
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"There are numerous recorded occurrences of different types of animals raining down from the sky."
In a little-understood but occasionally documented phenomenon, weather conditions -- possibly waterspouts caused by tornadoes -- occasionally result in a rain of animals. These are usually, but not always, small and aquatic. Japan experienced several tadpole showers in 2009, and Jennings, Louisiana briefly saw a rain of worms in 2007. Also in 2007, an Argentinean vacationer hiking the San Bernardo Mountains managed to take pictures of what he described as an afternoon rain of spiders.
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raining spiders?!?!?!?!
<slits wrists>
LOL
I have seen a mass hatch of spiders, out in a field, and they fly all over on their little web...
freaky
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"A dog can't hear the lowest key on the piano."
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"A dog can't hear the lowest key on the piano."
depends on the piano...what if the lowest key on my piano is middle c? can it hear that? :poke:
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I'm guessing, its referring to the standard piano, not a keyboard/mini piano.
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I'm guessing, its referring to the standard piano, not a keyboard/mini piano.
:confused: relax mr srs
i was yankin yer chain
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on a side note...
I was goin through my storage at my parents place... found a whole cd case w/ mixes I made.
one I titled... "If a tree falls on a midget in the middle of the woods... does anybody care?"
my mom was like... wTF? LOLOLOLOL
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hahaha!!!! :thumbs:
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"Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times."
nice. :lol:
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"The ocean floor is dotted with an estimated 3 million shipwrecks."
More than a few of them are believed to be loaded with gold, silver, platinum and other precious metals, collectively with values too high to make any reasonable estimations. One of the richest discoveries in history may have occurred in January 2009, when a salvage company found what many believe to be the Port Nicholson, a British merchant navy ship sunk off the coast of Newfoundland by the Nazis in World War II, alleged to contain as much as $4 billion in gold, diamonds and platinum.
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"The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap."
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"The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap."
well shit, then I should be able to make like 50 boxes of irish spring :rofl:
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"The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad."
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"The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad."
awww not Raul? :rofl:
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"Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass."
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"Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made of grass."
:peels:
is that why Im so mellow after I eat mah lucky charms?
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"Some of the 140 or more dead bodies on Mt. Everest are visible from standard climbing routes."
Since 1922, the tallest mountain in the world has claimed the lives of almost 200 climbers. While many have died because of avalanches, others have succumbed to a variety of conditions related to the mountain's extreme temperatures, such as hypothermia.
Currently, there are over 140 bodies still on the mountain. Efforts to retrieve the bodies have almost always resulted in failure; consequently, climbers using standard routes pass more than their share of corpses, which should serve as fairly effective reminders of just how serious and perilous the endeavor can be.
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thats gotta be comforting during that hike..... :confused:
at least youd have something to eat I guess.... :rofl:
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"Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy."
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"Modern pop music is more homogenous."
A study published in the journal Scientific Reports analyzed patterns in samples of pop music dating back 50 years, including pitch and timbre distributions, loudness, and note combinations. All evidence pointed toward "an important degree of conventionalism" or "no evolution" in the production of contemporary music. In other words, an increasing lack of originality. Furthermore, the study found increasingly louder volume dynamics.
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"Modern pop music is more homogenous."
A study published in the journal Scientific Reports analyzed patterns in samples of pop music dating back 50 years, including pitch and timbre distributions, loudness, and note combinations. All evidence pointed toward "an important degree of conventionalism" or "no evolution" in the production of contemporary music. In other words, an increasing lack of originality. Furthermore, the study found increasingly louder volume dynamics.
not surprising. :)
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"Coca-Cola once recalled an advertising poster due to a risqué image hidden within it (it was of a woman about to perform oral sex)."
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"A group of kangaroos is called a mob."
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"We're conditioned to crave fats, but tasting fats actually makes us perceive flavors less."
We have a biological drive to consume fats and have a genetic variance in how we respond to eating it (we can't technically taste fat, but people with a specific variant of the CD36 gene are able to detect it, and as a result tend to crave less of it). A three-year study at the University of Nottingham has concluded that tasting fat actually inhibits the brain's perception of flavor. Participants were monitored with MRI scanners as they tasted four different fruit emulsions, one of which had flavoring but no fat, while the other three had fat and various flavoring properties. The non-fatty sample provoked a bigger response in the brain regions associated with taste than any of the fatty samples, even though the flavor perception was the same.
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"The U.S. Library of Congress' collection occupies 650 miles of bookshelves. "
The Library of Congress in Washington D.C. doesn't just have over 33 million books; it also has 12 million photographs, millions of maps, sheet music, and other manuscripts. Its holdings make it largest library in the world; and having been founded in 1800, it is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country.
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"In 2002, researchers bought DNA through the mail and "built" a deadly polio virus."
The researchers were from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. They bought DNA through the mail and, using a laptop and taking advantage of their access to the school's biology lab, they built a real polio virus (most viruses are extremely simple organisms, little more than a trace of genetic material wrapped in a sheath) and injected it into a mouse, which became paralyzed and died. Their point was to show how easy it was to create a dangerous yet effective virus.
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I regularly send my "dna" through the mail....
seeps through the paper envelopes sometimes though :(
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"Around 32,000 people actually live in Timbuktu."
Often used as a byword for an out-of-the-way locale, Timbuktu -- an impoverished town in the West African country of Mali -- was in the Medieval era a bustling and vital outpost where people from across Africa, Asia and the Middle East came together to trade. At the confluence of so much wealth, culture and knowledge, and located in far-off, exotic and mysterious Africa, Timbuktu became a subject of intense fascination for Europeans.
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is that near bum-fuked-egypt?
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"Every citizen in Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year."
:lol:
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"Every citizen in Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year."
:lol:
Sadly....Probably needs to be enforced LOL
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That's why we don't hear from Brad anymore...
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That's why we don't hear from Brad anymore...
L-O-L
theres a blast form the past :)
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"It takes 31.7 years to count off a billion seconds."
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better get started :thumbs:
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"The earliest automobile design concept incorporated a windmill."
Guido da Vigevano, an Italian inventor in the early 14th century, sketched plans for a wind-powered battle vehicle that da Vigevano intended for use in the Crusades. He also sketched a crank-operated vehicle, similar to a later concept by Francesco di Giorgio, another artist and military engineer who would be the first to use the term "automobile" ("self-moving") to describe the vehicle.
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"112,015 people own the Green Bay Packers."
The NFL team is unlike any other in professional sports; since 1923, it has been a publicly owned, non-profit corporation governed by a stockholder-elected board of directors and a seven-member executive committee.
Currently, 112,015 stockholders own 4,750,934 shares in the Packers, stocks for which they are given no seating entitlements and for which they earn no dividends.
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"112,015 people own the Green Bay Packers."
The NFL team is unlike any other in professional sports; since 1923, it has been a publicly owned, non-profit corporation governed by a stockholder-elected board of directors and a seven-member executive committee.
Currently, 112,015 stockholders own 4,750,934 shares in the Packers, stocks for which they are given no seating entitlements and for which they earn no dividends.
hmm thats kinda cool.
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"112,015 people own the Green Bay Packers."
The NFL team is unlike any other in professional sports; since 1923, it has been a publicly owned, non-profit corporation governed by a stockholder-elected board of directors and a seven-member executive committee.
Currently, 112,015 stockholders own 4,750,934 shares in the Packers, stocks for which they are given no seating entitlements and for which they earn no dividends.
hmm thats kinda cool.
I own 2 share :woot: It is true I recieve no dividends for them, however their value has quintupled since I've owned them.
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Hey, whats with the wishy-washy asshole posting here?
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my brother was going to invest in them this past time when they opened it up for more stock purchases. Granted not worth anything. Still very cool and the camaraderie that the people have there is unreal. Like when it snow's and they have to clear the stadium. The stadium is packed w/ people with shovels. Wisc loves their team. :)
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Hey, whats with the wishy-washy asshole posting here?
who you callin asshole,? Asshole! :bird: :rofl:
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"Men are more likely to fall in love at first sight than women."
Fifty-four percent of men said they'd experienced love at first sight, while only 44% of women said the same, according to a Match.com study designed by Binghamton University's Institute for Evolutionary Studies. The study, which polled 5,200 singles, also found that among singles under 18, more men than women wanted to have children (24% to 15%). On the other side of the coin, 35% of men and women said they'd fallen in love with someone they hadn't initially been attracted to.
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"The U.S. Post Office Department briefly attempted mail by rocket."
"Rocket mail" has a long history. The first rocket mail attempt was in 1936, when the "Gloria," a rocket airplane, was launched from Greenwood Lake in New Jersey. Popular Mechanics wrote that the flight "may in time be considered as significant as that first historic flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk." Later, in 1959, the Postmaster General assisted in the delivery of mail via a cruise missile (the Regulus) fired from the USS Barbero. "Before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia by guided missiles," he proclaimed.
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"When you eat too much, your hearing becomes less sharp."
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huh? What chu say?
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"Vanna White is Television's Most Frequent Clapper, averaging 720 claps per episode according to the Guinness Book of World Records."
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"Vanna White is Television's Most Frequent Clapper, averaging 720 claps per episode according to the Guinness Book of World Records."
dat bitch gotz da clap! :rofl:
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"Men are likely to eat more when around women."
A study at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the University of Akron observed students' dining behavior over a 10-day period and found that men tended to buy more calories when eating with women as compared to when eating with men, while women showed the opposite tendency (buying fewer calories around men and more around women). Researchers theorize that people are more aware of gender norms when with the opposite sex. Men don't want to appear to be light eaters, and women don't want to be judged for eating too much.
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"The world record for most pubs visited is 40,000. "
According to the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records, the owner of the world record for most pubs and alehouses visited belongs to a UK man named Bruce Masters. His 40,000th was the Bull's Head in Ranmoor, Sheffield, UK, and since 1960, he's been averaging an astounding 800-900 pubs per year.
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"The "Presidential shell game" refers to a security maneuver performed by the U.S. Marines. "
Established under Eisenhower, the Marine One helicopter serves to carry the U.S. president from the south lawn of the White House to points nearby or to the tarmac where Air Force One awaits. However, "Marine One" is the President's exclusive call sign, not a helicopter designation. A handful of HMX-1 helicopters play the part of Marine One, dependent on which one the president is on. When transported this way, three or four identical HMX-1 helicopters fly together -- referred to as the "Presidential shell game" -- to confuse anyone looking to shoot the President down.
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Airforce 1 is Any Airplane the Prez is on. Marine 1 is any helicopter the prez is on.
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Airforce 1 is Any Airplane the Prez is on. Marine 1 is any helicopter the prez is on.
yeah dont they fly more than one every time? and call them all that during the flight to confuse would be attackers?
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Yes, multple aircraft always
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Yes, multple aircraft always
:thumbs:
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(http://i.imgur.com/lIywYhD.jpg)
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Hey, whats with the wishy-washy asshole posting here?
who you callin asshole,? Asshole! :bird: :rofl:
I was callin you "wishy-washy", Asshole :P