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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/07 19:41:37
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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one of many "origins" for the Rule of Thumb comes from brewing beer... when a brewer could put his thumb into a vat of wort, without instantly removing it because of burning himself, he knew it was safe to put the yeast into the mix, in order to create the beer
because of its exoskeleton, an ant can carry up to 6 times is body mass.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/07 20:16:23
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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the average man will shave 24.5 feet of facial hair during his adult lifetime
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 06:05:02
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Super cooled liquid Heleium Will "crawl" up and out of the beaker it is being held in
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 07:08:28
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Combat Jumping Rasyat
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Ancient Romans cleansed themselves by spreading oil on their bodies then shaving it off with a large dull sickle/razor called a strigil. Caesar's troops constructed a bridge large enough to ferry 40,000 men across the Rhine, in ten days, using only lumber they cut on site, twice. The first steam engine was invented by Heron in the 1st century. It was deemed only useful as a toy and never developed further. The hands on Michaelangelo's David are out of proportion.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 07:16:58
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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[MOD]
Madrak Ironhide
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avantgarde wrote:The hands on Michaelangelo's David are out of proportion.
As is Mary in his Pieta.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 07:25:12
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork
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Wine is considered to have been discovery, and beer invention, as noted earlier.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 08:16:58
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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The Mona Lisa has no visible facial hair—including eyebrows and eyelashes.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 08:22:46
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Almost all animals and plants can synthesize vitamin C internally, except for: Humans, simians (specifically the suborder haplorrhini), guinea pigs, a number of species of passerine birds (but not all of them), and many (perhaps all) major families of bats.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 08:23:54
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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There are four main types of pelvis:
Gynaecoid: Normal female pelvis, round with enlarged transverse diameter
Android: Normal male pelvis, Heart shaped
Anthropoid: Long anterior to posterior diameter
Platypelloid: Long transverse diameter
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 08:27:47
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Between AD 800 and 1300 the regions around the fjords of southern Greenland experienced a mild climate, with trees and herbaceous plants growing and livestock being farmed.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 09:08:22
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Anti-piracy Officer
Somewhere in south-central England.
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The film "Krakatoa, East of Java" dramatising the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano ignores the fact that Krakatoa is west of Java.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 09:10:17
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Sword-Wielding Bloodletter of Khorne
Burnaby, British Columbia
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Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Between AD 800 and 1300 the regions around the fjords of southern Greenland experienced a mild climate, with trees and herbaceous plants growing and livestock being farmed.
That explains a lot. One of life's great mysteries, solved!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 09:45:56
Subject: Re:The Quite Interesting Thread.
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The UH-60A Blackhawk helicopter began life as Sikorsky's entry into the Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter program. Originally dubbed the S-67, it featured a 5 bladed main and tail rotor system, Tactical Armament Turret (TAT) with a 30mm cannon and wing pylons mounting etiher 16 130mm TOWs, 2.75 in. rockets or sidewinder air-to-air missiles. It set an air speed record or 216 knots (249 mph). It also featured retractable langing gear and speed brakes on the trailing edges of the wings. It's the granddaddy of what I fly today so I foud it interesting. Here's a picture.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 11:22:15
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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CaptainCommunsism wrote:Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Between AD 800 and 1300 the regions around the fjords of southern Greenland experienced a mild climate, with trees and herbaceous plants growing and livestock being farmed.
That explains a lot. One of life's great mysteries, solved!
It explains that Greenland was a hell of alot hotter than it is now in the age of 'global warming'
A south western Greenland Village today (in summer):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Ittoqqortoormiit_top_hg.jpg
Certainly no trees and only a few herbacious plants.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 11:31:45
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Only five countries (USA, USSR, UK, France and Italy) have won more Summer Olympic gold medals than Hungary.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 11:32:49
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Plastictrees
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 11:33:05
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In October 1983, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (International Bureau of Weights and Measures) defined the meter as the distance that light travels in a vacuum during 1/299,792,458 s.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 11:36:39
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Left-handedness occurs more frequently in both identical and fraternal twins, and several groups of individuals with neurological disorders (such as people with epilepsy, Down's Syndrome, autism, mental retardation and dyslexia).
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 11:41:00
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Members of the British Parliament may not eat or drink in the chamber; the exception to this rule is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who may have an alcoholic drink while delivering the Budget statement.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 14:52:32
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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There are 117 possible patches for Jr. Girl Scouts.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 15:26:19
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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Anti-piracy Officer
Somewhere in south-central England.
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Frazzled wrote:There are 117 possible patches for Jr. Girl Scouts.
Wow! That's a hell of a broken OS. How long does it take to download and install them all?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 15:45:53
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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the reasons why Fire stations traditionally have "the pole" is because the firefighters live upstairs, and in the days before the automobile, the fire-engine was drawn by horses; well, after the completion of a firefight, the horse would follow the firefighters up the stairs to the second floor.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 16:40:09
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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Kilkrazy wrote:Frazzled wrote:There are 117 possible patches for Jr. Girl Scouts.
Wow! That's a hell of a broken OS. How long does it take to download and install them all?
No patches demonstrating you've achieved something to put on your uniform. I have the lesser known "most in need of a shave" patch.
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-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/08 18:29:58
Subject: The Quite Interesting Thread.
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of all the teams in the NHL, only one in the league's entire history has ceased to exist (bonus points for those who know the answer to that)
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/09 00:45:47
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Guam is the 32nd largest island of the United States.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/09 07:52:23
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Transylvania was first referred to in a Medieval Latin document in 1075 as ultra silvam, meaning "beyond the forest"
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/09 07:55:44
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The world's first skyscraper was constructed in 1885 using steel-skeleton construction in Chicago.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/09 08:00:45
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The PS2 is the best-selling console to date, having reached over 140 million units in sales by mid-2008.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/09 08:14:43
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Since 1930 Liverpool has experienced negative population growth every decade, at its peak over 100,000 people leaving the city between 1971 and 1981
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2008/12/09 08:18:16
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In cricket before the umpire will award a dismissal and declare the batsman to be out, a member of the fielding side (generally the bowler) must "appeal". This is invariably done by asking (or shouting) the term "Owzat?" which means, simply enough, "How is that?"
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