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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    Learning English is difficult, but it can be taught through tough thorough thought though.
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    Darth Vader is banned from all official Star Wars events.

    David Prowse, the actor who portrayed Darth Vader (in form, not voice), is banned from attending official Star Wars conventions because George Lucas finds him annoying.
  • Sunna_W
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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.
  • AmyOutOfControl
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    #alternativefacts
  • relynne
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    John Tyler, 10th president and born in 1790, has two living grandchildren.
  • cee134
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    The reason I stay up late is because I don't want my free time to end and tomorrow to start.
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    There is a computer called the Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIC) that, in 1949, took 70 hours to figure out the first 2,037 decimal places of pi.
  • cee134
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    Anybody who has used a chainsaw knows it will make a terrible weapon.
  • cee134
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    The Guinness Book of World Records states that Lu Chao holds the world record for memorizing the most number of digits of pi. He memorized 67,890 digits, which took him 24 hours and 4 minutes.
  • cee134
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    When playing limbo, setting the bar high is setting the bar low.
  • cee134
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    Your DNA is just millions of years worth of software updates.
  • cee134
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    Punishment for honesty is what makes us lie.
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    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
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    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
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    The speed of darkness is equivalent to the speed of light.
  • cee134
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    "Raw Toast" is a fun way to say "Bread".
  • ericatoday
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    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
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    It's considered terrible etiquette to pass solids in a downstairs toilet!
  • Timshel_
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    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
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    Before was was was, was was is.

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