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Topic Started: Aug 16 2009, 08:05:37 AM (1,685 Views)
Serris
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Holocaust denial is not only tasteless and rude in Germany it is also ILLEGAL.

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Noname
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That the Roman Empire legally fell in 1453 AD, NOT 476 AD... and that Italy was under the rule of the Empire again in part or in whole from the 500's till after the 1000's... although it was mostly only rule over a few parts... but Rome itself was part of the Empire again from 537 to 752 AD.
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That designers from the former Northrop Corporation (now called Northrop Grumman) visited the Horten Ho-229 in the smithsonian and built the B-2 using the Ho-229 design which was built as a fighter by Remiar and Walter Horten during WWII which when a picture of the B-2 is put next to a picture of the Ho-229 it is eeriely simular.
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Ptyra
Allow me to put on my ~skepticals~
I first made Ptyra in first or second grade. And she was such a Mary-Sue it was awful DX ! And then she was less of one in fourth grade, and now I think she's only got a little sliver of Sue that I need to find a way to erase.
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JitteryDragon
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And now kids, it's time for:

JitteryDragon's fun sound facts and things! Yay!

- The stereo illusion. The illusion is a great demonstration of how the human ears truly work, not only for hearing, but also for their other important use... locating objects in three dimensional space.

Put on some headphones and listen to this: http://extra.listverse.com/amazon/audioill...tualhaircut.mp3

The effect above is a result of the Cetera Algorithm, commonly used in hearing aids.

- The first human recording was in 1860, on a machine called a phonoautograph. It was created by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, and he is also responsible for the first recordings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Au_Clair...Lune_(1860).ogg

- Number stations are mysterious shortwave radio transmissions that still occur to this day. First reported during World War 1, they are believed to be coded transmissions, and some have been traced to military origin. However, there has of course been no comment on this.

http://extra.listverse.com/amazon/music/number.mp3
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Littlefoot Fan
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That it is impossible for anything to reach absolute zero temperature?
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Paradise Bird
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Did you know that not all eldar are females
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Ptyra
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Did you know that snake venom is pretty much modified saliva? That would be spit.
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^ Did you know that the member snake veemon is my friend in real life? :lol:
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Ptyra
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^ Wasn't his birthday yesterday?

Did you know that the doctor who tried to save JFK died yesterday :( ? And coincidentally, he also treated JFK's assassin o.o .
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Noname
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That all Dromaeosaurs ("raptors") are now believed to have had feathers?
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Nick22
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Did you know that the netherland Antilles is dissolving next year? while the island won't become independent, they'll have more autonomy.
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Noname
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That the sun is only about medium-sized for a star. The largest stars are thousands of times as large.
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JitteryDragon
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The good kind of evil.
Noname,Dec 11 2009
03:48 AM
That the sun is only about medium-sized for a star. The largest stars are thousands of times as large.

The largest know star is VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant star in the constellation Canis Major, located about 5,000 light-years from Earth. It's approximately 2,100 times larger than our sun... but it's still being debated by astronomers over the actual size.
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Pangaea
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That dogs aren’t colorblind? Not completely, anyway. They’re dichromats (pronounced with a long ‘a’), with two types of cone cells in their eyes, able to see two color wavelengths. Most mammals have this kind of vision. Humans, on the other hand, are trichromats, with three types of cone cells, enabling us to see the red, green, and blue wavelengths.

Conversely, many insects, arachnids, and non-mammalian vertebrates are tetrachromats, able to see ultraviolet light. Some birds and insects are even pentachromats, able to see five different color spectra. And the mantis shrimp—considered to possess the most complex visual system of all—can perceive over a dozen, including infrared, as well as polarized light.
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Noname
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That the Romanians, in their own language, are still called the "Romans" (Romani), as they were descendants of the Roman colonizers and native people who once lived in the ancient land of Dacia, in Eastern Europe.
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Pangaea
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The great evening bat, Ia io, has not only the shortest scientific name of any animal, but also the only one that is entirely composed of vowels.
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Nick22
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the worst record for any nba team is 9-73? the Philadelphia 76ers of 1972-3 had 3 losing streaks of 13 or more: they lost their first 15, then lost 21 straight during the middle of the season, then lost their last 13.
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Pangaea
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Here's something I learned in Vertebrate Biology that I thought was interesting:

A fish taken out of water doesn't die because its gills don't work in air, but because the gills cannot function once they are dried out. Air contains more oxygen than water, and as long as a fish's gills are kept moist, it can breathe and survive out of water for quite some time.
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Ptyra
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Did you know that when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, Herculanium had less damage than Pompeii because it was farther away (and on the other side). Still, it did get buried and lost to the ages.

And speaking of Pompeii, did you know that in the Dr. Who episode "The Fires of Pompeii", Caecilius and his wife Metella were indeed real people? They didn't have a son, but he was in my Cambrige Latin book. And by *profanities* they didn't have a daughter. I hated her :anger . Caecilius was also really a banker, not a marble maker...thing. I don't remember what his name was in Dr. Who, but his real name was Lucius Caecilius Iucundus.
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