Well, the whole Northern Ireland thang wasn't really resolved enough for cartographers until the end of the Irish Civil War. Anyway, according to the CIA (and they should know, or they aren't doing their job) the UK didn't officially become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland until 1927.

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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.

The smallest US state has the longest name:

"State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations"

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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

Bees can't see red.

A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second
( 9,192,631,770 to be precise)

Chicken meat today contains more fat than it did 30 years ago.

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But you're sure the astronauts are lying; you just don't seem to know what they're lying about. jayutah

Yes, we are small, but proud.
Best regards, Dan
..................PS: There is no picture or portrait of Roger Williams.
But there is a lot of evidence of his brother Sherwwin.

My surname is the central Canton in Luxembourg.

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"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the greater view?" - Hugo

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Churchill

the ocean contains salt water

Bees can not only see ultraviolet "colors", but can see the polarization of light as well.

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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

Fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia

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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.

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Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, people want to be entertained.

I seem to remember reading that Oxford English Dictionary's longest word was:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

gee...my browser's spell check thinks I spelled it wrong!

(as you can guess, it's a disease...of course, with scientific names created following standard protocols, you can literally have as long a word as you like. E.g. I'm sure the complete chemical name for a DNA strand would be pretty big. And when we get to classifying life in the observable universe...we'll probably have some long names....)

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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

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

Are you sure that's not fear of seven-footed monstrous river horses?

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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

Vertebrates are more closely related to echinoderms (the group of animals that includes starfish and sea urchins) than they are to arthropods (the group that includes insects and crustaceans).

Humans have 46 chromosomes, but potatoes have 48, dogs have 78, and many types of fern have hundreds, with one fern species setting the record for known organisms at 1260 chromosomes!

Humans are more closley related to bacteria than dinasours.

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"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
Stephen Hawking

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein

I doubt that...but humans are more closely related to human gut bacteria than human gut bacteria are to paramecia.

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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

I really don't know if it is true, it's just something i have heard before.

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"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
Stephen Hawking

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein

My Cagiva made 134bhp on the dyno today.

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But you're sure the astronauts are lying; you just don't seem to know what they're lying about. jayutah

Just a thought; was the person who told you that a Creationist?

But no; humans are defintely more closely related to dinos than to bacteria: bacteria are prokaryotes and dinos were eukaryotes (they had fully developed cellular structures) just like us. Plus, like us, they were animals, which places them a notch above the redwood and the shiitake in our family tree, and vertebrates, which makes them more closely related to us than to any of the other 35-odd animal phyla. Beyond that, they were reptiles, which by definition means we are more closely related to them than to amphibians or fish.

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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.

my co-worker has big yellow duck on his table that laughs like a crazy.

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