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YugiNoob posted...

These Cyclone arcade games are literal scams. In the owner's manual, it says that you can set how often you want it to pay out :<

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/5/9/AAPV5JAADsj_.jpg

i had my cyclone game perfected in the 90s, but they definitely seemed rigged from the 00s onward

The first person to be charged with speeding was Walter Arnold of the English village of Paddock Wood, Kent. On Jan. 28, 1896, Arnold was spotted going four times the speed limit in his Benz.
The speed limit at the time was just two miles per hour. The constable had to chase him down on his bicycle.

The Elysia cf. marginata, a type of sea slug, has been found to not only survive decapitation, but to be able to grow a whole new body from it.

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Hyenas bite the balls off buffalos :<

Minnie the Mouses first name is not Minnie. It is Minerva. Minnie Mouse is a nickname that was given to the character by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. Minnies actual name is rarely used.

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A jiffy is a proper unit of time. It is exactly 1/100th of a second. This is slower than a Planck which is sextillion times faster.

The following people were all alive when portrayed in Epic Rap Battles of History but are now dead:

Macho Man Randy Savage, Kim Jong-il, Stephen Hawking, Mikhail Gorbachev, Muhammad Ali, Grant Imahara, and Stan Lee

Sweden had plans to nuke Soviet during the Cold War.

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This is the RB-330 supersonic cruise missile.
If Sweden suspected that Soviet would start an invasion, they would be used to blow up every Baltic States ports to disrupt the invasion efforts (and, also, killing several hundred thousands of Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians).
The plans were scrapped when the higher ups realized the possibilities that it would also be angering USSR into full-scale nuclear retaliation against Swedish cities.

Brunch was invented as a way of curing hangovers.
This meal would be enjoyed as a late breakfast that leans more towards fatty foods. This came from the belief that alcohol causes cravings for greasy food to increase.

The continental plates move at the same rate that fingernails grow.

75 burgers are sold in McDonalds every second. You can view how many burgers have been sold in real-time on the McDonalds website. You can also track the number of other products that have also been sold from all over the world.

Oganesson (element 118) is the last element known, and the only one named after someone who is still alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Oganessian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oganesson

1,700 people become millionaires every day in the U.S. The United States has over 8 million families who have a yearly income of over $1 million.

You cant hum while holding your nose.
I bet you just tried it, didnt you?

Male bees can only mate once. After mating with a female, the male bees endophallus is removed. Its abdomen also rips open and results in the male bees death.

indica posted...

Male bees can only mate once. After mating with a female, the male bees endophallus is removed. Its abdomen also rips open and results in the male bees death.

That's the life of a bee. Honey, nut, cheerio!

They also die after stinging something because the stinger gets attached to the stingee. They literally rip open their abdomen to fly away from the sting.

Imit8m3 posted...

That's the life of a bee. Honey, nut, cheerio!

They also die after stinging something because the stinger gets attached to the stingee. They literally rip open their abdomen to fly away from the sting.

There's a recent Daily Dose of Internet that had a bee sting someone and then regret everything in life. It then VERY carefully unscrewed itself to fly away. Amazing stuff.

I found an interesting fact in another topic lol. Huh. I just copy/pasted the quote. I wonder why it didnt show up like one :<

RenescoStCewl posted...
Fact: A dragonfly uses its penis as shovel to scoop the jizz of rival dragonflies out of potential mate

That sounds like the first step of the duck sex organ nightmares.

A snail has 2,500 teeth. These teeth can be found on their tongue thats covered in ridges. Snails eat by rubbing their tongue on its food while the ridges cut it into tiny pieces.

Manatees control their buoyancy with farts.
Hold'em in to float up, let'em out to sink down.

Hugh Johnson was the 1933 Time Man of the Year.

Imit8m3 posted...

Manatees control their buoyancy with farts.
Hold'em in to float up, let'em out to sink down.

Suddenly calls into question just how exactly Appa is able to fly (considering that Sky Bison are part bison and part manatee).

Pigeons can't fart. Farts are caused by a noticeable number of eruptions from intestinal gas. However, for a bird, their intestine is short which causes them to get rid of waste more frequently.

Foppe posted...

That sounds like the first step of the duck sex organ nightmares.

Male muscovy ducks, for example, have corkscrew-shaped penises that spring out from their body in less than half a second and are 20cm long when erect. Other species' length varies from 1.5 to 40cm. Some ducks also have barbs on their penises to scrub away competing sperm. In fact, male ducks grow a new penis every year (yes, you read that right), which means they can vary the length depending on that year's competition. Female ducks have corkscrew vaginas.They twist in the opposite direction to the male duck's penis. But, crucially, they have dead ends they can try to send the males down if they don't want to have their ducklings.

indica posted...

Male muscovy ducks, for example, have corkscrew-shaped penises that spring out from their body in less than half a second and are 20cm long when erect. Other species' length varies from 1.5 to 40cm. Some ducks also have barbs on their penises to scrub away competing sperm. In fact, male ducks grow a new penis every year (yes, you read that right), which means they can vary the length depending on that year's competition. Female ducks have corkscrew vaginas.They twist in the opposite direction to the male duck's penis. But, crucially, they have dead ends they can try to send the males down if they don't want to have their ducklings.

That kind of ratio is like if guys had an AVERAGE of 18 inches downstairs.

Damn

This exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TP-ZzKbXJk

137 or 173 may be the last element possible, as S1 electrons would have to orbit beyond the speed of light for the next one.

YugiNoob posted...

This exists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TP-ZzKbXJk

Nope...
Just nope.

The "Vevo" on youtube videos are not a watermark, but an annotation.

One strand of hair can hold up to 3 ounces of weight. The average persons head contains about 100,000 strands of hair. If you do the math, your hair can support up to 12 tons worth of weight.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/4/2/AAPV5JAADxOK.jpg

In the 1999 song It's All About the Pentiums Weird Al's computer has "a hundred gigabytes of RAM".

This amount of RAM is still overkill for the vast majority of people todqay.

Male spiders sometimes wrap up insects to give to females as gifts to increase their chances of mating. Some of them, however, wrap up trash in hopes that the female doesnt notice until after lol

YugiNoob posted...

Male spiders sometimes wrap up insects to give to females as gifts to increase their chances of mating. Some of them, however, wrap up trash in hopes that the female doesnt notice until after lol

I didn't realize there are spider ceman

RenescoStCewl posted...

I didn't realize there are spider ceman

But they spend all their time on the web...

YugiNoob posted...

Male spiders sometimes wrap up insects to give to females as gifts to increase their chances of mating. Some of them, however, wrap up trash in hopes that the female doesnt notice until after lol

Get laid with one easy trick!

Founder of Match.com Gary Kremen lost his girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com lol

They have found something strange with a black hole.
Three years ago, it destroyed a planet that got too close to it.
Now, it has suddenly started to burp out remains of it, at half the speed of light.
It is not unusual that a black hole burps out remains while still eating it, but at speeds of around 10% of the speed of light, and they have never seen any wait so long before burping out material.
They call it AT2018hyz.

An Einstein Rosen-Bridge is short for the common term for the spatial anomaly of "wormhole"

This site helps you find words rather than saying something is very _____

https://www.losethevery.com/

Since when was that a thing?

No idea. I just saw it on a recent MxR Plays video

NASCAR drivers lose weight while racing. Because of the high temperatures during a race, the average driver can lose up to 10 pounds worth of weight by sweating. A racecar regularly reaches temperatures of 170 degrees despite the built-in ventilation.

Hegel really did think all that shit up.

The only way to spell incorrectly correctly is to spell it incorrectly.