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Interesting Facts That You Know

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Interesting Facts That You Know
Elskidor Offline
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Interesting Facts That You Know
August 28, 2014 at 2:06 pm
I'll start.

Queen is the best band in the world.

Next.
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
August 28, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Starting a fact thread with a subjective opinion is dubious.
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
August 28, 2014 at 2:22 pm
I know how many fingers I'm holding up right now.



...and where they've been. Naughty
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
August 28, 2014 at 2:22 pm
(August 28, 2014 at 2:06 pm)Elskidor Wrote: I'll start.

Queen is the best band in the world.

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Shouldn't that be:

Queen was the best band in the world?
Or is F. Mercury not still dead?
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
August 28, 2014 at 2:23 pm
I'd say Queen were a great band - But it is overrated to claim they are the best band ever Tongue

I'd pick Led Zep - I'm not saying they were the best of all time, but I prefer them to Queen.
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
August 28, 2014 at 3:32 pm
(August 28, 2014 at 2:23 pm)Blackout Wrote: it is overrated to claim they are the best band ever Tongue

Negative. Only the Beatles have that honor. I still find Queen kinda underrated in the states.
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
August 28, 2014 at 4:02 pm
I'm sorry, where are the facts?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
August 28, 2014 at 4:32 pm
Here's a cool fact: The Sun contains 99.85% of all the matter in our solar system.
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
August 28, 2014 at 4:37 pm (This post was last modified: August 28, 2014 at 4:38 pm by Diablo.)
(August 28, 2014 at 4:32 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Here's a cool fact: The Sun contains 99.85% of all the matter in our solar system.
That ain't cool, the sun's hot.
Does that include dark matter? Or grey matter? Are you being matter-of-fact?
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RE: Interesting Facts That You Know
August 28, 2014 at 4:43 pm
(August 28, 2014 at 2:06 pm)Elskidor Wrote: I'll start.

Queen is the best band in the world.

Next.

There are academic studies into how much cow farts contribute to rising CO2 emissions.

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