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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Your DNA is just millions of years worth of software updates.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Punishment for honesty is what makes us lie.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    For many years, blue was the color most often associated with St. Patrick. Green was considered unlucky. St. Patrick’s blue was considered symbolic of Ireland for many centuries and the Irish Presidential Standard is still blue.
  • itsy_bitsy_spider
    itsy_bitsy_spider Posts: 292 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    There are over 7,500 different types of apple, but only one "apple juice".

    At least it tastes like apples though. Grape juice creeps me out. I mean, it's pretty dang good... but it tastes nothing like grapes. To me, it just tastes like purple. And cherry-flavored stuff doesn't taste like cherries either. It just kinda tastes like... red. :/
  • Geyser_Mountain_Dreamer
    Geyser_Mountain_Dreamer Posts: 304 Member
    The speed of darkness is equivalent to the speed of light.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    "Raw Toast" is a fun way to say "Bread".
  • ericatoday
    ericatoday Posts: 454 Member
    You can die from drinking too much water.

    Its called water intoxication and is actually quite common. A 165 human can die from 6 liters of water. The blood becomes too dilute of salt and sugar.
  • yayabeaks
    yayabeaks Posts: 107 Member
    It's considered terrible etiquette to pass solids in a downstairs toilet!
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Sunna_W wrote: »
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    Our cosmos expands at about the rate at which space is expanding, and the speed at which objects expand away from us depends upon their distance.

    https://youtu.be/b_grOIInZX4
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Before was was was, was was is.
  • SomebodyWakeUpHIcks
    SomebodyWakeUpHIcks Posts: 3,836 Member
    Most American car horns honk in the key of F
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    I've used the letter x more in math than I ever have in English.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    I am tired.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    We make fun of people Instagramming their food, but lest we forget that, during the Renaissance, lots of artists were just painting bowls of fruit.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    A broken clock is right twice per day, but a working clock may not be right at all.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    Right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    A rainbow can be seen only in the morning or late afternoon. It can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    Monkey_Business wrote: »
    Right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people.

    cause left handed people have increased stress from constantly using right handed tools
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    Studies have shown that children laugh an average of 300 times/day and adults 17 times/day, making the average child more optimistic, curious, and creative than the adult.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    edited March 2017
    WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific armed their airplanes while stationed with .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measuring 27 feet before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, he went through "the whole 9 yards", hence the term.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    Statues in parks: If the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or emergency, they could be used as airstrips.
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
    To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Before the camera was invented, no one had ever seen themselves with their eyes closed.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    If you get a bigger bed, you have more bed room but lesser bedroom.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    If you get a bigger bed, you have more bed room but lesser bedroom.

    Wow....very observant. Something to think about

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