there are exactly 10!=10x9x8x...x2x1 seconds in six weeks

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Todd (Bowie, MD, US, North America, Earth, Sol System, Vega region, Local Bubble, Orion arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo A Cluster, Virgo supercluster, the universe in which spock is clean shaven)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

Even After Going a FULL 24 Hours Without Food or Drink ...

I Have Only Experienced a Tiny Part of The Hardship Incurred By All of The World's Hungry!

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If you Ignore YOUR Rights, they Will go away.

ligers are sterile crossbreeds between lions and tigers

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There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark - Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

As are Tigons (actually it's usually the males of both hybrids that are sterile, the females are generally fertile).

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'Forensic anthropologist! That's why no gun'
Are you a Bright?

This year I went out stargazing for exactly 3 (yes, three) nights.

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Non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem.

Diamonds can be vaporized directly from solid into gas at roughly 6,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

CUMMINGTONITE

is the name of a mineral,
also known as magnesium iron silicate hydroxide, and it has the formula (Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2

No way!

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Round...everything is always round!

Unless I had read that in a newspaper, or heard it on TV I would think that you made it up!

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Round...everything is always round!

Cummingtonite has a hardness of 5 - 6 and it's streak is white.

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How many times have you been about to grasp the truth when somebody else suddenly yanked it out of your reach?

All the following facts* are have been throughly checked by the Casus Belli college of amazing things. A non-profit making organization (Worse luck)

The "Addidas" spider will disguise itself as a football so that it can eat all of Scotlands best footballers. It was very succesful but is now in danger of starvation.

Spiders kill and consume an estimated 65 million Australians annually, which serves the smug bronzed gits right. However "Neighbours" still pollutes our TV screens nightly.

The Iberian towel spider disguises its web to look exactly like a large towel, which it drapes over sun loungers. The Iberian towel spider lives entirely on German Tourists.

The only non vemonous spider in the world is the Scottish "See you Jimmy" spider which headbutts its victims to death.

Gather together 100 000 money spiders and they will link together to create a perfect scale model of Jennifer Lopez's bottom. Scientists studying this behaviour theorize that the spiders do this "Because they can"




*My legal dept have advised me to change this to "Some utter tosh I made up while bored one rainy afternoon"

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Beer, the cause of and solution to, all lifes problems

Babe Ruth kept a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool.

Over 60 percent of the world’s total 2,600 tons of annual gold production is consumed in Asia. - ngdi

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

Urban Legend, they actually do echo. Just hard for human ear to pick up. (Think this was on Mythbusters...and we all know how scientifically accurate that show is )

Really? I didn't know they ate gold in Asia sorry couldn't help myself from sharing the mental image ur post gave me



As for a random fact.... uhmm..... May 15th fell on a Monday this year... that's random and factual. Sorry I got nothing.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

Strongest land creature - Rhiniceros beetle. Can carry 850 times its own weight.

Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

Each year, more than 20 million meteors enter our atmosphere.

Fear of veggies - Lachanophobia.

A practical can opener was invented in 1858, about 50 years after the can.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

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Alex

Dark Comedy Theory. Where c is coffee, s is spew, v is velocity, and w is how much windex used to clean LCD monitor. When I put the sentence through the equation, it unified all 4 forces above. I'm hoping someone here can help me express the precise mathematics into an elegant, simple equation. My next step is to post it in ATM, and then hopefully submit if for refereeing.
-Serenitude

Yup; was hiking the Big Sur Bird Sanctuary and came upon 2 ducks "making out" in the cliffs of a cove high above the surfline. The male's expressed "happiness" reverberated (for a very long time).Yes, I saw that, too, but didn't want to spin it any more than the author.

Two more, in an automotive vein:
The Ferrari insignia:Lamborghini Countach:(Both from the January 2007 issue of Road & Track , print edition)

Ooh-ooh, new French bakery just opened in the neighborhood---with bakers actually from France---yum!

I thought it was 11.80285267392 inches long...

Miles:

The original definition of a mile came from the Romans. It was 1,000 steps, at 29 inches per step. The Roman definition for a foot was 1/5 of a step. The original term in Latin was mille passuum.

The nautical mile is defined as being one arc-minute of latitude. Thus, there are 60 nautical miles per degree of latitude, and the distance between the equator and the North or South pole is 5,400 nautical miles. Since the Earth's surface varies in shape, the official definition of it being 6,080.2 feet varies in actual practice. However, it's close enough not to affect navigation by more than a couple feet.

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WIKIPEDIA and GOOGLE are your friends! But only if you use them.

Perception isn't reality. It's merely an abstraction thereof, and quite often, not a very good one at that.

Perception is what happens between the senses and consciousness. Reality is what happened before that. If you think the two are equivalent, you've never heard of Von Claustwicz, Sun Tsu, or street magicians.

Formal Logical Fallacy List

Dice used in board games are crudely manufactured and always favor the higher numbers (4, 5, and 6) because more material is drilled out of those sides.

Walruses only return to land a few weeks out of the year. Only then are they pink. When at sea, they are white, as they keep their blood away from their skin to conserve heat.

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.