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Dude! Are you ASKING to get banned? They will ban you if you ask them. I'd remove your whole post if you want to keep posting here. This isn't a political forum.

Two men can pick up an object that individually, they can't lift half the weight of.

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"The beauty of that discussion of averages is that you don't have to be an expert in Apollo or in photography in order to see where this time study "analysis" breaks down. You just have to be, well...not an idiot." -JayUtah

No, not asking to be banned at all, just adding my 2 cents worth of free expression. Just replying with my view in response to what someone else posted. Which .. umm was political, or about a controversial (to say least) figure, so ... I think I'm within the BA's set limits.Now, okay, I have strong opinions and I'm not averse to expressing them but hey what's the net for?

(NB. If Phil or one of his moderators wants me to move or delete it I will but please note I'm going offline for a while soon - probably a few days at least ..)

A-n-y-w-a-y back to the thread topic & here's another trivia quirkefact :

There's a greater percentage of oxygen in earth's crust (40%) than in our atmosphere (20%). (source :"The New Atlas of the Heavens", Author, Publisher & Date I'll ..uh have to add later as that books at home & I'm not.)

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'Night hides the world but reveals a universe.'
- Russian proverb.

Oxygen was discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in Sweden in 1771 and then by Joseph Priestley in 1774. It was named by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier in 1774.

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Okay Mung, I wasn't yelling at you. Just trying to give you fair warning.

Bichers, (genus, Polypterus) are one of the few remaining cold blooded vertibrates with a blow hole on top of their heads. Leads to their swimbladder, which they breathe with.

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"The beauty of that discussion of averages is that you don't have to be an expert in Apollo or in photography in order to see where this time study "analysis" breaks down. You just have to be, well...not an idiot." -JayUtah

Before 1928, yo-yos used to be called bandalores in the United States.

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Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories.

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It requires 63 feet of wire to make a Slinky toy.

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Obviously, my sarcasm was lost on you, Mungascr.

Henry Kissinger was Nixon's Secretary of State, not Defense. By the way, did you mean the invasion of Cambodia?

The Yoruba people of Nigeria have the highest rate of twins, 49 in every 1,000 births.

Dave Mitsky

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Soy crayons have been invented to replace wax crayons and one acre of soybeans can produce over 80,000 crayons.


Thats it for today, time to go to school (grrr)

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gGriffeth...

In Nigeria, women are still put to death for bearing twins.

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"The beauty of that discussion of averages is that you don't have to be an expert in Apollo or in photography in order to see where this time study "analysis" breaks down. You just have to be, well...not an idiot." -JayUtah

In proportion, if Jupiter were a basketball, then the sun would be the size of the Louisiana Super Dome. (Approximate)

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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
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In World War II, the German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.

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One person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.

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Well looks like this post is DEAD.. When I'm not busy, I'm going to have to enlighten BAUT with my factual knowledge!

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Unlike mammals, female birds have two different kinds of sex chromosomes (ZW), while males have two of the same kind (ZZ).

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De gustibus non est disputandum.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

If you were to drive a car at 100 kilometres an hour, 24 hours a day then you could reach the sun in about 3 years.

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BOtulinumTOXin

Hey Sarong

BOvine reTARD is an insult used in my neck of the woods alot.

(I'm not calling you names BTW)

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space is only an hour away if you could drive straight up

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Asians eat gold?


At nearly the same time as the American civil war, a civil war in China killed more people than all the people lost in WWII (20+ million)

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"The beauty of that discussion of averages is that you don't have to be an expert in Apollo or in photography in order to see where this time study "analysis" breaks down. You just have to be, well...not an idiot." -JayUtah