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Bloodfrenzy187 wrote:If you sneeze with your eyes open they pop out.

Pics! Pics or it's a lie!

Grambo wrote:More then 1000000 type lol every year

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olo?

metallifan wrote:

Bloodfrenzy187 wrote:If you sneeze with your eyes open they pop out.

Pics! Pics or it's a lie!

and BTW, the war with the least recorded fatalities was the Slovenian Independence war (AKA the Ten Day War). c. 62 were killed, 328 wounded and 4,944 taken prisoner (on the Yugoslav side). The war with the most mortalities was WW2, with an estimated 60-72,000 deaths.

The shortest war was the Anglo- Zanzabar War... it lasted 40 minutes.

Vikings were famous for many things; trade, pillaging, but there are some things that missed most history books.

Vikings buttered their hair to keep it shiny, converted to christianity for trade purposes, and most importantly came up with the idea of "Sanctuary"(the act in which a person is protected from harm whilst inside a church).

I'm not rising to that bait.

I'm also part norse my good sir.

Also, the vikings established the first breweries in Ireland.

Also partly Norse.
And partly Welsh.
But due to in recent times my family living in england then I'm now mostly English.
Useless fact for you.

My family lineage traces back to a member of the American Revolutionary forces. A little bit past that and I hit french canadian, irish, german, and Norse. Most of northern europe basically.

I also have a relative buried in the same graveyard as Benjamin Franklin so that's another useless fact.

halonachos wrote:My family lineage traces back to a member of the American Revolutionary forces. A little bit past that and I hit french canadian, irish, german, and Norse. Most of northern europe basically.

I also have a relative buried in the same graveyard as Benjamin Franklin so that's another useless fact.

Interestingly enough.... same here on all counts, except the canadian part. And members of my family fought on both sides of the war....

Wouldn't know about both sides of the war, but my anscestor was in maryland. Last name was Orcutt at the time.

I know that I did have a relative in the Werhmacht during WW2 and several others who were either marines or army during the same war.

Mine were a man named Hale on the american side, and a Hessian captured in Trenton.

All I really know is that the Orcutt guy is related to me and got payed for 6 months of service.

Most of my relatives were american based so I don't yet have too much to go on in the european side of that conflict.

One of my legs is exactly 1 inch longer than the other one. Also, If I make an L-shape with my index finger and my thumb on my left hand, the distance between the tips is exactly 6 inches (handy for predicting assault ranges). Wierd how its so precise in inches. I guess my creator was a stickler for precise measuring, and doesn't use metric.

The reason we have 24 hours in a day comes from Ancient Egypt, who, in the summer, measured time at might by measuring the passing of 12 stars past a plumb line.

The reason we have 60 second and 60 minutes comes from Ancient Babylon, who operated on a base 60 system of counting rather than base 10.

I am 3/4 Italian, 1/8 English, 1/16 Russian and 1/16 Korean.

In North Carolina you only need to take two Vocational Drafting Classes in High School to become a certified Draftsman. I don't know if it carries over to other states though, haven't tried yet.

I hear voices in my head.

Useless fact for all of you.

Glass is debated to be either solid or liquid.

Annnnd!!!! 1000 posts!
There my useless fact.

I am now a knight of th inner circle

VikingScott wrote:I am now a knight of th inner circle

I'm a Third Tier Knight of the Inner Circle.

But I am beaten by many more senior ranking members. (LunaHound with 113 something or other.)

I am a certified pope of the discordian foundation! HAIL ERIS!

POEE Blessed be the Sacred Chao.

c34r34lk1ll3r wrote:Glass is debated to be either solid or liquid.

Not true. People think it may be a liquid as the glass in really old buildings tends to be thicker at the bottom than the top.

Truth is that glass manufacturing techniques weren't too hot way back when, and they ran a bit when still cooling off. The panes were then put in the windows with the tihcker end to the bottom as it was easier to fit them like that!

NEW FACT: The world's first 'motion picture' was taken with a large number of cameras which were triggered by a tripwire. A horse was then run through the series of tripwires, taking a series of still images that could be flicked through in order to show the horse running. The actual purpose of the exercise was to establish once and for all if a galloping horse lifts all four legs off the ground at any point (they do). This apparently was a long-standing debate between people with too much time on their hands

Tom Waits was living in his car parked behind the studio during the recording sessions for his early works. Man that guy has a had a rough and awesome life, and you can hear it in his cigarette/whiskey-tortured voice.

Wrong thread

If you stand on an aluminum can (assuming you have balance) it won't crush (assuming you aren't huge) until you tap it on the side, at which point you have a perfectly crushed can smashed flat. It can hold up my 140 pounds with no problem standing on it with one foot. The slightest tap turns it into a pancake of aluminum. Try it. It's awesome.

^ that

I used to do it and a freind throw a pepple at it.

This AK-47 built from LEGO actually shoots lego bricks.

Wow

Response to an earlier post regarding 3 sided die...
http://www.gamescience.com/3-sideddice%28d3%29
I haz one.

The Caparo T1 has the highest power to weight ratio of any production automobile, approx. double that of the bugatti veyron