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RE: Tell me something I don't know
May 19, 2015 at 10:55 am
It costs the US Mint almost twice as much to mint the Penny and the Nickel as they are actually worth.
Jim Parsons (aka Sheldon Cooper) has never seen an episode of Star Trek or Dr. Who
The Soviet Union refused to host the 1980 Paralympics, stating that none of their citizens had disabilities.
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May 19, 2015 at 10:56 am
Figured, although wiki says LaPlace for some reason (I've only been to La. once, driving through all the way mostly on I-10, "detouring" on I-12, stopping for the night in Slidell, near NO).
Ports are cool. I saw a documentary on the Port of Singapore recently on TV. Chaos, perhaps, but lots of control, too.
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May 19, 2015 at 2:32 pm
Scallops have as many as 100 simple eyes
they're often blue (eyes, not scallops)
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May 19, 2015 at 2:35 pm
Platypuses are venomous.
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RE: Tell me something I don't know
May 19, 2015 at 11:07 pm
89% of Nazi Germans interviewed enjoyed white wine, physics, and rock crushing equipment.
Just saying....
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May 19, 2015 at 11:40 pm
You cannot work in Antarctica unless you have your wisdom teeth and appendix removed.
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RE: Tell me something I don't know
May 20, 2015 at 3:05 am
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2015 at 3:06 am by robvalue.)
"Wisdom teeth" was coined* as a sarcastic slur at our intelligent designer who decided it would be wise to give us useless extra teeth that may cause us problems and have to be removed. Similarly, appendix literally means, "WTF bro?"
*Other sources will disagree.
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