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 Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:53 pm
Who doesnt love random facts? Knowledge of unuasual things can be pretty cool right. and to kick it off im making this thread. i have a random fact but ill have to post it later for family reasones, so please post before i do and you can say your better than the caption smile
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:29 am
wow that was a while.
okay who knows groundhog day? well groundhogs dfay actually origionated in Germany. but over there they watched a badger, then when thise settlers moved to america since there were no badgers they watched the groundbhog. o.o
~credit to my WHAP teacher for tellin me that
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:58 pm
Random fact: a study revealed an estimate of a two-outa-three wrongness rate in all published studies.
No, I did not make that up. Yes, I did word it differently to make it funnier.
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:15 pm
^^ lol cool
Okay now does anyone know whats in a hotdog? well according to a freind of mine apparently everything in a pig we dont usually eat, including its toenail D:. beleive it or not its also healthier than the actual meat of the pig too.
weird...
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:14 pm
Hm, just looking up some weird facts that caught my eye, xD *Fortune cookies were invented in America and not China. (very werid. O.O) *Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie (wow XD) *Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe *If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. (Remind me never to hold in a sneeze...) I got these from Here
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:15 pm
^cool, we should hold a contest on who can find the wierdest fact!
(if anyones in favor reply and i'll do it, i just want people to enter it though)
oh i love this one.
In scottish 'mail' is the word for rent. 'whate mail'' was legal rent paid to the ruling fuedal lord, it's counterpart 'black mail' was 'rent' paid to raiding bendits.
who knew?
-my WH teacher
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:02 pm
wow i like this site. top five are.... -The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the fire engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and soon figured out how to walk up straight staircases (neat!) -Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great;Hearts-Charlemagne and Diamonds - Julius Caesar, i liked this one because im studying Shakepheres Caeser play now! - next would be the fortune cookies not being from china -111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 (o.o) and my favorite -if you turn a 0 sideways, it looks like a potato haha those are pretty awesome ^^ Especially the last one. XDD
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:19 pm
Did you guys know the turkey first appeared in england almost a hundred years before the british colonies in america were founded. It had come from spanish america but was mistakenly though that it was from turkey thus the name.
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:45 am
oh my god.
the humptey dumptey song doesnt actually say humpty dumptey is an egg. o.o
i never noticed that...
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:00 pm
Historians presume that the wedding rings were used by barbarians to mark stolen brides...
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:05 am
This fact is actually important to your real life ;
according to a study % percent of jobs are picked by acual skills and resume and u is chosen because of peoples happy attitudes. what? i dont have to be smart, i just have to be happy? Awesome! This is unusual because most people think of happpiness as a sign of success but actually success is a product of happiness, how cool is that?
now i do wonder one thing, how come that takes up the full 0? last i checked gender, # of tattoos, colledge degrees, etc outta have some affect on job rates :/. maybe they all get over ruled when your happy? or maybe the results are based off an anonymous survey in which no one wanted to check those options...
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:11 am
hey who knew a giraffe's tongue is purple o.o.
it apparently protects it from the sun...
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:13 am
oh follow up on the happy story that study said that if you write 3 good things every day for a week your optimism actually goes up. the effects last for as long as 6 months smile . if thats true i think that'd be pretty cool
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:20 am
this one also pertains to real life-
did you know that as long as you are sourrounded by lights your brain thinks its the day? It doesn't even have to be a lightbulb, most electronics can trick your brain into staying up longer. so playing pokemon in your bed when its time to sleep actually forces you to stay up longer OoO. if you want your brain to sleep you have to sourround yourself in darkness for at least 30 minutes.. it doesn't have to be total darkness, a little light is alright. Nightlights are enough light that your brain will still classify it as dark is coming, whether by study or chance i dunno.
Oh and make note that if your sleep-deprived your brain will tire out even if its day time to let you know you need a nap.
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:23 am
oh and by the way, playing a game with brightlight in the dARK, LIKE A DS, CAN HURT YOUR EYES CONSIDERABLY.
oh frik, caps lock. well the point is your eyes aren't made to contrast total darkness with the light off a ds. even the lowest setting on a ds light will still hurt, if not as much. if you do want to play at night turn on a lamp or something so that its not such a large change for your eyes.
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