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Tell me something I don't know
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Tell me something I don't know
It is estimated that the Earth's helium supply will have run out by 2030 and party balloons will cost about $90.
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#12
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(May 16, 2015 at 5:24 pm)Jericho Wrote: Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.


Except 'philosophy'.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#13
RE: Tell me something I don't know
This # is called an octothorpe
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#14
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In archery, the two most common draws are the 'Mediterranean' and the 'Mongolian'.  The Mongolian draw was used by the Romans, masters of the Mediterranean.  Irony rocks.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” 
-Isaac Asimov

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(May 16, 2015 at 6:01 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: This # is called an octotorpe

Octothorpe.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” 
-Isaac Asimov

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
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The Procrastinator's Club of America has a newsletter. It's called "Last Month's Newsletter." For realsies.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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(May 16, 2015 at 6:45 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:
(May 16, 2015 at 6:01 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: This # is called an octotorpe

Octothorpe.

I ninja fixed it

It took me like 5 tries to get it right Dodgy
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#20
RE: Tell me something I don't know
American car horns beep in the tone of F.
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