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Interesting Facts That You Know
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 (August 28, 2014 at 8:59 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'm pretty sure the fact behind his point is that the Muslims kept many of the discoveries of ancient Greece alive, and brought them to Europe -- not to mention, they imported the idea of zero from the Indians. Not to mention keeping astronomy alive and well. RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
September 1, 2014 at 8:16 pm
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(August 28, 2014 at 11:30 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: 'Daddy long legs' have an EXTREMELY lethal venom, but they also have soft fangs (and not much of a propensity to use them) so they aren't dangerous to humans. Myth. (August 29, 2014 at 6:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Urban myth (about the bug, not your sister). Daddy long legs have no venom glands. Another true fact - true daddy long legs "spiders" are not spiders at all, but Opilionids. 
Try telling that to a six-year-old arachnophobe Stimbo who has one land on his hand.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (September 1, 2014 at 12:54 am)bladevalant546 Wrote: So can kidney stones, had them twice.....painful bastards, Fun kidney stone fact: You can prevent (some types of) kidney stones by drinking a glass of wine a day, but drinking alcoholic beverages, especially binge drinking, may increase your risk of developing other types of stones. (September 1, 2014 at 8:35 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Try telling that to a six-year-old arachnophobe Stimbo who has one land on his hand. True story: My cat threw up his dinner last night right over the floor register (luckily it was in the "closed" position) and when I took it out to clean it I found a giant black spider in my HVAC duct below where the register was.  My register is currently all pristine and washed off and dry and sitting on my kitchen counter. The register hole is currently covered with a wood board (with a heavy ceramic vase sitting on top just in case the spider is strong enough to lift the board). :p I haven't worked up the courage to move the board and vacuum up the spider.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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September 2, 2014 at 4:17 am
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(September 1, 2014 at 8:16 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(August 28, 2014 at 11:30 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: 'Daddy long legs' have an EXTREMELY lethal venom, but they also have soft fangs (and not much of a propensity to use them) so they aren't dangerous to humans. More commonly, 'harvestman'. Boru <---bug nerd (going on with spiderish stuff) The brown recluse spider, despite its fearsome reputation, rarely bites and about 80% of its bites are dry (no venom injected). 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
 (September 1, 2014 at 5:27 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: The average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second.Grip it by the husk.
Sum ergo sum
(September 2, 2014 at 4:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The brown recluse spider, despite its fearsome reputation, rarely bites and about 80% of its bites are dry (no venom injected). I don't know what's worse; having a spider bite me or knowing it's going in dry.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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September 2, 2014 at 2:07 pm
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The largest diamonds are Earth are the Golden Jubilee diamond (545 carats) and the Greats Star of Africa diamond (530 carats).
BPM 37093 is a pulsating variable white dwarf star and is about 50 light years away from Earth and is about 2/3 the diameter. It's thought to be composed of mainly carbon and oxygen, with a hydrogen atmosphere. It was predicted in the '60s that as white dwarfs cool they would crystallize from the center out, and to test this hypothesis scientists studied BPM 37093's pulses to gain insight into it's inner structure. Based on their observations they estimated that BPM 37093 is about 90% crystallized, making it potentially the largest diamond ever found. It's carat-weight is estimated to be 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's 10 * 10^33 carats or a total crystalline mass of more than 5×10^29 kilograms. It's nicknamed Lucy, after the Beatles song Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
 
Fun fact: Byblos, a city in Lebanon, is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world, having been settled between 8000 and 7000BC.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
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