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Useless Fact of the Day

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  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    JackKopCh wrote: »
    Spoons kill more people than sharks in a year. 10 vs 6 on average.

    Don't know if I should be less afraid of sharks, or more afraid of spoons
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    Bet if you used more sharks as spoons, that number would go way up :-)
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    If banks made 6 billion dollars from overdraft fees last year, then banks made 6 billion off of people who don't have money.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    MRW my friend reminds me that The 5th Element came out 20 years ago.

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  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    dc8066 wrote: »
    Merkavar wrote: »
    Your star sign has likely changed. I used to be a Taurus, now I am an Aries. Oh an apparently there is a 13th star sign now?

    Capricorn: Jan 20 - Feb 16
    Aquarius: Feb 16 – March 11
    Pisces: March 11 – April 18
    Aries: April 18 – May 13
    Taurus: May 13 – June 21
    Gemini: June 21 – July 20
    Cancer: July 20 – Aug 10
    Leo: Aug 10 – Sept 16
    Virgo: Sept 16 – Oct 30
    Libra: Oct 30 – Nov 23
    Scorpio: Nov 23 – Nov 29
    Ophiuchus: Nov 29 – Dec 17
    Sagittarius: Dec 17 – Jan 20

    Ophiuchus, sounds like Pikachu. Did you make it up?

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    They seriously must have been on some hard drugs when they came up with these constellations.
    From wikipedia - "serpent-bearer", and it is commonly represented as a man grasping the snake that is represented by the constellation Serpens.
  • subcounter
    subcounter Posts: 2,382 Member
    The origin of the word Gung ho; which means, extremely or overly zealous or enthusiastic is actually a motto (interpreted as meaning “work together”) adopted by certain U.S. marines, from Chinese (Beijing) gōnghé, short for Zhōngguó Gōngyè Hézuò Shè Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    ( ) ( ) isn't a palindrome, yet ( ) ) ( is.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    It's a lot easier to win an argument with a smart person than with a dumb person.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The most unrealistic thing about science laboratories in TV/movies is the lack of computer instruments still running on Windows 2000 or XP.
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  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    ( ) ( ) isn't a palindrome, yet ( ) ) ( is.

    Took me a second to realise, thought you were wrong at first :open_mouth:

  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    This guess coach has all the kids zoned out. Too long of a speech dude
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Whichever drawer the birthday candles are in is the "junk drawer"...
  • xzsharp
    xzsharp Posts: 781 Member
    you can pee without pooping but you can't poop without peeing
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    No matter what number you pick between negative infinity and positive infinity, it will always be the middle.
  • AdamBenks
    AdamBenks Posts: 23 Member
    Time can be altered by speed !
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Sun burn are really just Radiation Burns from a massive Nuclear Reactor.
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    tiny_rick wrote: »
    If you type 'google' into Google you can break the Internet.

    I know where you got that from but I still had to actually do it.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Irish Saying of the Day:
    May the luck of the Irish be with you!

    Go raibh an ádh na hÉireann a bheith in éineacht leat!



  • ChrisNels1
    ChrisNels1 Posts: 16,638 Member
    edited March 2017
    www.sixthman.net has had 100 festival cruises taking 222,435 people on vacation.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    edited March 2017
    Irish Toast:

    Sláinte! (pronounced "slaan-sha")


    Sláinte literally translates as "health" and is used as a stand-in for the more time-consuming "I drink to your health!"
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  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    I have numerous t-shirts. Some were given to me as a remembrance from Uncle Sam. They cover the period from Vietnam to Desert Storm and a couple of 'exotic' places in between.
  • ChrisNels1
    ChrisNels1 Posts: 16,638 Member
    I've worn t-shirts
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Fishing would be a lot less peaceful if fish could scream.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Emma Stone has become the person I thought Lindsay Lohan would grow up to be.
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