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Old 12-June-2007, 03:15 AM
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The attached image is not yellow and no yellow light is emitted from your monitor screen (ever).

Furthermore you don't get yellow light's frequency by interference between the red and green lights.
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Burlesque star Immodesty Blaise has a merkin made of diamonds.
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Sapphires come in more colours than blue, red ones are called rubies
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Left handed sugar can't be metabolized and is thus said to have 0 calories.
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"They reasoned that an object situated at the center and related equally to the extremes in every direction can have no impulse to move in any specific direction. In fact, they compared the situation of such an object with that of a man violently but equally hungry and thirsty, standing at the same distance from food and drink and unable to decide in which direction to move." - Aristotle
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Children breathe 50% more air than adults.
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Small children sometimes think cats and dogs are the same species, the cats being female and the dogs male.
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Kuiper belt co-discoverer David Jewitt is a massive Death Metal fan.
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Old 19-June-2007, 01:03 PM
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Chapter 12/Air Pollution - Why Johnny Can't Breathe
Is That A Politician In Your Pocket? © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, p.110
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The big and small dippers were known as the big and small bears by the ancient Greeks, Arabs, Persians as well as Native American Indians. The constellations generally feature long tails, a feature non-existent in actual bears.
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During the 1960's, Nintendo briefly diversified into their own chain of "love hotels"
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The Battle of the Thirty (March 1351)

was an episode in the struggle for the succession to the duchy of Brittany. It was fought between thirty champions, knights and squires on each side, in a challenge issued by Jean de Beaumanoir, a captain of Charles of Blois supported by the king of France, to Robert Bramborough, a captain of Jean de Montfort supported by the king of England.

12 of the thirty were killed while of the rest all but one was seriously wounded....the Bretons/France 'won'
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Sound familiar still though


You can never ever write ten to the power of a google in the expanded form even if the entire universe is given to you to write down.
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Random fact:
ZaphodBeeblebrox is one of many people who annoy the crap out of me by...

Capitalizing Every Word In The Entirety Of Their Posts
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You can never ever write ten to the power of a google...
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Old 21-June-2007, 08:25 AM
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ZaphodBeeblebrox is one of many people who annoy the crap out of me by...

Capitalizing Every Word In The Entirety Of Their Posts
i often do exactly the opposite. i don't know why capitalize anything actually, is it to aid people in skipping sentences, as they read through?
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Old 22-June-2007, 12:22 AM
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Some insights from today's 'Ask Alice' column:
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...In general, men's handwriting remains less legible, less "graceful," and more erratic than women's. That might cause men to shift to uppercase for clarity more often. But the upper/lowercase thing seems to be governed more by the intent of the writer, not gender. So, if the caps have to mean something, I guess it means you know a lot of men with messy handwriting who fret about being misunderstood. And what that means, we can't imagine...
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Old 22-June-2007, 12:32 AM
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New York City has 13,000 taxicabs.
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Old 22-June-2007, 01:11 AM
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New York City has 13,000 taxicabs.
You know, I 1st read that as toxicabs ! ... maybe not so wrong?
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Old 22-June-2007, 01:26 AM
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The net "center of gravity" of a rocket propelled spaceship and it's fuel is not altered when it thrusts.
(There has got to be a better way).
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Old 22-June-2007, 01:15 PM
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the super punch footage that lasts few seconds in matrix3 movie, was created over a 3 years (sauce)
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