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Old 15-February-2008, 12:01 PM
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Ants evolved from wasps.
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Old 15-February-2008, 12:47 PM
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eusociality has evolved independently in wasps (twice) termites, aphids, pistol shrimp and at least one species of mammal (the naked mole rat)
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Old 15-February-2008, 01:52 PM
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If each of those 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376 universe-possibilities contained another person flipping a coin 100 times, there would be 1,606,938,044,258,990,275,541,962,092,341,162,602, 522,202,993,782,792,835,301,376 universe-possibilities within universe possibilities.
I can't be bothered doing the math, but i do not think every universe splits off... there is an energy requirement to make it do so.
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Old 15-February-2008, 01:54 PM
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There is a limit on time and space when a ''thing'' comes into existence. There isa small box space of 1.616 x 10^-33 and a time of 5.3 x 10^-44. This is called the Planck Space and the Planck Time/Chronon.
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Old 15-February-2008, 04:46 PM
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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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Old 15-February-2008, 05:51 PM
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Dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly and uncopyrightable are the longest words in which no letters are repeated.
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An em is a unit of measure for the amount of printed matter in a line.
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Old 15-February-2008, 09:22 PM
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Reunion Island, off the coast of Madagascar, was the first nation in the world to use the Euro as official currency. A French colony, they adopted the currency the same day as the rest of Europe, but, due to their earlier time zone, several hours before anyone else.

Reunion's volcano is also believed to result from the same lava plume that created the Deccan Traps in India 65 million years ago; a supervocanic eruption thought to have played a role in the dionsaurs' extinction.
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La Réunion is a Région d'outre-mer of the French republic.
A tropical piece of France, and the EU.
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Old 16-February-2008, 12:09 AM
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All matter is said to have evolved from photon energy.
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All matter is said to have evolved from photon energy.
If you weren't expressing some ATM idea here, I would not be moderating a game. I think, though, that as stated this doesn't qualify as a fact unless you say who in particular said it.
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An em is a unit of measure for the amount of printed matter in a line.
"...amount of printed matter in a line" ?

A collision between a train and a car or truck occurs every 90 minutes in the US.
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Old 16-February-2008, 10:29 AM
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Jericho claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world (starting from circa 9000 BC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...habited_cities
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Our galaxy is called the Milky Way because the ancient Greeks thought it was made from milk drops from the breasts of the Greek goddess Hera.
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The chief weapon of the Monkey King is the cudgel used to hammer the Milky Way flat.
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There are no Flamingos in Flamingo, Florida.
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male and female badgers are called boars and sows.
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An optical fiber can have up to 160 wavelength channels traveling through it at the same time,
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Old 19-February-2008, 08:03 AM
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Our MRI here at work just broke down.
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Actors Rip Torn and Sissy Spacek are cousins.
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Old 19-February-2008, 07:44 PM
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Siddig el Fadil is Malcom McDowell's nephew.
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