1/26/2016 6:29:20 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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Just post unusual facts you've read or heard...or something you've thought about.
Is there really such a thing as an INCOMPLETE STOP?...Either it's moving or NOT! no matter what it is!
This thread prolly won't get very far!
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1/26/2016 6:44:22 PM |
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truly000
Fort Dodge, IA
38, joined Dec. 2011
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Did you get a ticket kat?
It probably won't go far but that's not because it's not good. There just aren't very many chat room posters anymore. Sad
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1/26/2016 6:45:14 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
NO...I did not...luckily I've never gotten a ticket of any kind...
I know...many may have found lives! LOL! or just couldn't take it anymore!
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1/26/2016 6:48:01 PM |
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mrroscoereturns
Ochopee, FL
59, joined Oct. 2015
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NH has the shortest coastline of any state.
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1/26/2016 6:50:37 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them
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1/26/2016 6:56:58 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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How do ya handcuff a one armed man?
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1/28/2016 5:48:39 PM |
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packersbabe920
Green Bay, WI
52, joined Jul. 2013
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just can't, tie his legs up
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1/28/2016 6:28:24 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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When Atheists go to court...do they swear on the Bible?
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1/28/2016 11:09:57 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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PI equals MC squared
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1/29/2016 11:18:22 AM |
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dingobarramacus
Boston, MA
90, joined Nov. 2013
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Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
What about worms?
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1/29/2016 1:27:46 PM |
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acdmv
Binghamton, NY
49, joined Aug. 2014
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The Earth is round: Fact
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1/29/2016 6:18:48 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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What about worms?
Ya' ever dug up those fishin' worms, called wigglers? I would consider that jumpin'!
lol...
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1/30/2016 5:06:23 PM |
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mrroscoereturns
Ochopee, FL
59, joined Oct. 2015
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It is 355 miles on Route 75 ( in Florida) from Rte 10 to State Road 29 in the Everglades
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1/30/2016 6:06:46 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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Blue tail lizards she'd their tail when trapped but it grows back.
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1/30/2016 6:10:10 PM |
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god_says
Cabo San Lucas
Mexico
49, joined Aug. 2014
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Eagles don't shit while flying
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2/2/2016 5:08:44 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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In Illinois...it's the law that a vehicle must be driven with a steering wheel...
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2/2/2016 7:30:53 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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Hummingbirds fly south for the winter... All the way to South America... Since they are so small and travel such great distances they must stop to feed frequently. In the spring for their Northern migration they can accomplish this feat by themselves but in the fall, after feeding all summer, they must hitchhike on the backs of geese flying south.
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2/5/2016 7:27:39 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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nose prints are used to identify dogs...just as are fingerprints for humans...
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2/8/2016 12:18:30 AM |
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acdmv
Binghamton, NY
49, joined Aug. 2014
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Much of our oceans have yet to be explored......depth issues
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2/9/2016 5:54:44 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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A pet owner may become allergic to their own pet.
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2/15/2016 6:55:44 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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Really? Elected TWICE!?
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2/16/2016 6:57:39 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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In Knoxville TN it is against the law for women to wear high heels on Gay Street.
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2/17/2016 6:32:16 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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The earth is not round.
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2/18/2016 4:50:15 PM |
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mrroscoereturns
Ochopee, FL
59, joined Oct. 2015
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The track record at Churchill Downs for 10 Furlongs is 1:59.80, set by Secretariat
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2/18/2016 5:49:47 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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The Great White Spirit wasn't a Native American.
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2/18/2016 7:07:48 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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Warren Beatty and Shirley MaClaine are brother and sister
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2/18/2016 9:32:56 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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redhces neck stress
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2/19/2016 3:43:10 AM |
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alls_fair
Thorlákshöfn
Iceland
98, joined May. 2011
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There is NO echo to a duck's quack!
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2/20/2016 7:40:42 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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Well... Boring
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2/25/2016 6:12:39 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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if it's boring cup...don't post here?
I think it's just a matter of someone actually using their brain.....or google......reckon either is too much work
it's easy to post a random word in abc order
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2/28/2016 7:20:57 PM |
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mrroscoereturns
Ochopee, FL
59, joined Oct. 2015
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In Cape Coral, it is against City Ordinance to hang your clothes on a clothesline..
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3/1/2016 4:54:38 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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The new Bugatti has a top speed of 260 mph.
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3/1/2016 5:54:30 PM |
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katkatkitt
Martin, TN
57, joined Dec. 2010
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Unusual someone posted here! Thank You MOB
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3/1/2016 8:02:00 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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I tried a thread like this in s&d. It didn't last long before it went off track.
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3/3/2016 5:24:14 AM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
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3/3/2016 3:39:50 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
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3/4/2016 6:18:51 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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Most lipstick contains fish scales!
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3/4/2016 6:26:25 PM |
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xo_lj_xo
Haines City, FL
40, joined Nov. 2014
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In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
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3/4/2016 6:47:22 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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3/5/2016 3:54:55 PM |
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DoofusExtremus
San Antonio, TX
48, joined Jan. 2015
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My chest hairs sometimes poke through the fabric of my shirts.
Sometimes I freak out about why I am me and not someone else.
People once thought certain animals were actually produced from various materials -because they were unseen except when those materials were present.
I haven't been on a date in longer than some forum posters here have been alive -because I don't want to get really involved with someone and not have the time or resources for a relationship -not to mention I'm kinda weird, and finding a good match is not easy.
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3/5/2016 6:33:22 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
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3/7/2016 7:31:59 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
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3/8/2016 6:47:57 PM |
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mrroscoereturns
Ochopee, FL
59, joined Oct. 2015
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Haley's Comet appeared on the day that Mark Twain was born...
It also appeared on the day that he died.
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3/8/2016 6:51:40 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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That's awesome!
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3/8/2016 6:52:06 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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The US Education System in now the Laughing Stock of the World
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3/8/2016 7:36:56 PM |
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mrroscoereturns
Ochopee, FL
59, joined Oct. 2015
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In Florida, it is Illegal to song in public while wearing a bathing suit.
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3/9/2016 4:39:11 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
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3/9/2016 7:20:00 PM |
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bluecougareyes
Chelan, WA
73, joined Nov. 2008
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Rabbits run up hill faster then down hill.
Down hill, their guts push up against their wind pip, restricts breathing.
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3/9/2016 9:14:48 PM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.
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3/9/2016 9:39:58 PM |
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ivaiva
Goleta, CA
98, joined Oct. 2007
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White light contains all the colors.
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3/9/2016 9:42:07 PM |
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cultured10
Cyclone, PA
58, joined Sep. 2008
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when you sneeze, your heart stops for a mili-second.
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3/10/2016 2:12:37 AM |
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inde_5
Bonaire, GA
43, joined Sep. 2014
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I only poop once a day ,
........because working makes me tired.
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3/10/2016 4:53:48 AM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
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3/11/2016 4:45:16 AM |
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lu777ck
Pardeeville, WI
51, joined Dec. 2013
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Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
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3/11/2016 9:38:17 AM |
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masterofbacon2
Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Iceland
90, joined May. 2014
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Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
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3/11/2016 11:44:14 AM |
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ivaiva
Goleta, CA
98, joined Oct. 2007
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Nodding you head means "no" in Greece.
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3/11/2016 12:28:06 PM |
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DoofusExtremus
San Antonio, TX
48, joined Jan. 2015
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That would drive me nuts -it's like that bike that turns the wrong way -only kids can adapt -adults can't ride it
unusual fact -some dudes made a bike that turns the wrong way
YES -WEAR A HELMET
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3/12/2016 2:27:55 PM |
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mrroscoereturns
Ochopee, FL
59, joined Oct. 2015
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Binary numbers and arithmetic let you represent any amount you want using just two digits: 0 and 1. Here are some examples:
Decimal 1 is binary 0001
Decimal 3 is binary 0011
Decimal 6 is binary 0110
Decimal 9 is binary 1001
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3/12/2016 7:42:45 PM |
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ivaiva
Goleta, CA
98, joined Oct. 2007
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There is another hexadecimal numeral system that uses 16 digits - 1 through 9 and A,B,C,D,E,F - it is used in mathematics and computing. According to it we are in year 7E0. In binary 11111100000 (2016)
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3/12/2016 8:28:46 PM |
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DoofusExtremus
San Antonio, TX
48, joined Jan. 2015
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Don't forget Octal (base 8) in computing!
Interestingly, base-10 is not universal across human societies. The Mayans were known to use a base 20-system, and the Babylonians developed a system using sets of 60. Base-8 and base-16 (the hexadecimal system) have also been used, mostly for computational reasons (quarters and eighths are simplified).
Some believe we should adopt a base 12 system....
Also called the duodecimal system, the "dozenal" system was initially popularized in the 17th century when mathematicians began to recognize the limitations of base-10.
Later, during the 1930s, F. Emerson Andrews published a book, New Numbers: How Acceptance of a Duodecimal Base Would Simplify Mathematics, in which he cogently argued for the change. He noticed that, due to the myriad occurrences of 12 in many traditional units of weight and measures, many of the advantages claimed for the metric system could also be adopted by the dozenal system.
Indeed, examples of base-12 systems abound. A carpenter's ruler has 12 subdivisions, grocers deal in dozens and grosses (12 dozen equals a gross), pharmacists and jewelers use the 12 ounce pound, and minters divide shillings into 12 pence. Even our timing and dating system depends on it; there are 12 months in the year, and our day is measured in 2 sets of 12. Additionally, in geometry, a circle is replete with subsets and supersets of 12 — what's measured in degrees (a 360 degree circle consists of 30 sets of 12).
It's also obvious that someone in our history was thinking along these lines. It's the largest number with a single-morpheme name in English (i.e. the word "twelve"). After that, we hit thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and so on — derivatives of three, four and five. Clearly, it was natural to think in terms of dozens.
Three decades after Andrews's book, the brilliant mathematician A. C. Aitken made a similar case. Writing in The Listen in 1962, he noted:
The duodecimal tables are easy to master, easier than the decimal ones; and in elementary teaching they would be so much more interesting, since young children would find more fascinating things to do with twelve rods or blocks than with ten. Anyone having these tables at command will do these calculations more than one-and-a-half times as fast in the duodecimal scale as in the decimal. This is my experience; I am certain that even more so it would be the experience of others.
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