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Factoids
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Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:43 pmby rdsrds2120
Time for FACTOIDS!!!
I'm going to post some useless bit of information that could win you countless sums of money if a man in a suitcase were to come up and ask you a random question.
I will then give a CATEGORY for the next tidbit that wastes 3 seconds of our lives to be posted in. It's something that's a rare piece of knowledge, one of those things that makes you go "HMM". So, here we go!
1) A penny has 180 ridged edges on the side of it
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-rd
Mod Edit (DK): Finally fixed the spelling of the thread title.
Re: Factiods
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Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:44 pmby Timminz
You spelled factions wrong.
Re: Factiods
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Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:48 pmby rdsrds2120
Timminz wrote:You spelled factions wrong.
I wasn't going for a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, esp. in politics; I was aiming for a brief or trivial item of news or information, now, shhh
2) Scientists have identified only 4,000 different viruses, a fraction of the estimated 400,000 believed to exist on Earth
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Re: Factiods
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Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:50 pmby Victor Sullivan
Timminz wrote:You spelled factoids wrong.
2) Victor Sullivan is a character from the Uncharted series of video games for the PS3.
Re: Factiods
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Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:52 pmby Victor Sullivan
Oh, rds, fastposting me like that... For shame...
3) e^iπ + 1 = 0
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Re: Factiods
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Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:55 pmby jonesthecurl
Bismarck was the first to introduce old-age pensions.
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Re: Factiods
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Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:00 pmby rdsrds2120
jonesthecurl wrote:Bismarck was the first to introduce old-age pensions.
Next topic: shoelaces.
The tip of a shoelace is called an aglet.
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Re: Factiods
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Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:03 pmby Timminz
rdsrds2120 wrote:Timminz wrote:You spelled factions wrong.
I wasn't going for a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, esp. in politics; I was aiming for a brief or trivial item of news or information, now, shhh
I'll be quiet, when you fix it.
Re: Factiods
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Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:05 pmby rdsrds2120
Timminz wrote:rdsrds2120 wrote:Timminz wrote:You spelled factions wrong.
I wasn't going for a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, esp. in politics; I was aiming for a brief or trivial item of news or information, now, shhh
I'll be quiet, when you fix it.
It's not broken.
In developing countries, 70 percent of industrial wastes are dumped untreated into waters where they pollute the usable water supply.
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Re: Factiods
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Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:06 pmby Army of GOD
Indira Gandhi, India's only female Prime Minister, has no relation to Mahatma Gandhi
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Re: Factiods
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Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:18 pmby rdsrds2120
Your taste buds, hair color, eye color, and something else I can't remember MAY change on a 7 year cycle.
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Re: Factiods
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Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:59 pmby jonesthecurl
Despite the saying "American as apple pie", ou can't buy Bramleys (which the Uk calls "cooking apples") in the U.S. and thus it's hard to make a good uK-style apple pie.
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Re: Factiods
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Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:08 pmby isaiah40
Sixty percent of the 47,744 mile U.S. Interstate highway system was built of concrete, especially in urban areas where FHWA anticipated heavy traffic volumes. Concrete was selected because of its superior durability, safety, higher reflection of light at night, and greater traction.
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Re: Factiods
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Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:10 pmby rdsrds2120
Everyone wants it and we're running out.
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-rd
Re: Factiods
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Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:54 pmby Victor Sullivan
Contains no fruit juice.
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Re: Factiods
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Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:56 pmby Army of GOD
I love picking him as my pitcher in Mario Baseball for the Wii because he reminds me of those long-armed left-handers that have dastardly curveballs.
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Re: Factiods
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Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:57 amby radiojake
Army of GOD wrote:I love picking him as my pitcher in Mario Baseball for the Wii because he reminds me of those long-armed left-handers that have dastardly curveballs.
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Watched it all the time during the short, 4 week stint when we had cable TV - (It was in 1997 - We had it for four weeks, and then got rid of it again) After returning to normal free-to-air TV, I was unable to watch the crappy knock-off kid's 'Maze-Adventure-Game-Show' type of programmes - They just never compared.
NEXT: The collective claim for Autonomy by the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico
Re: Factiods
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Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:36 pmby rdsrds2120
Zapatista grass-roots communities began to organise their own Autonomous Municipalities in 1996. These locally elected councils were formed to oversee the self-governing of the areas of Chiapas where the people had risen in armed rebellion against the Mexican State on 1st Jan 1994. A total of 32 Autonomous Municipalities were organised, encompassing a support base of several hundred thousand.
next: Water
-rd
Re: Factiods
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Wed Jun 14, 2017 3:47 pmby Thorthoth
It's less dense as a solid than as a liquid.
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Re: Factoids
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Thu Jun 15, 2017 3:49 pmby Dukasaur
The first tournament to offer a premium prize was organized by wacicha, who later went on to found the SoC.
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Re: Factoids
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Thu Jun 15, 2017 4:19 pmby IcePack
The average US beer uses about .02 pounds of hops in every 31 gallons, according to Businessweek, but craft brewers can use as much as 1.25 pounds and has led to a shortage in the hops supply chain.
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Re: Factoids
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Thu Jun 15, 2017 5:07 pmby Thorthoth
It can be best averted by maintaining a diverse investment portfolio.
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Re: Factoids
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Thu Jun 15, 2017 5:52 pmby Dukasaur
The Sirenidae are true amphibians, have both a functional set of gills and a functional set of lungs.
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Re: Factoids
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Thu Jun 15, 2017 6:09 pmby Thorthoth
Goodwill was founded by the Reverend Edgar J. Helms, yet most people today have never heard of him.
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