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CassandraCroft
10/22/22 7:37:50 AM
#101:


A pigs orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A hippopotamus' milk is pink.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language.

Floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest word in the English language that isn't a scientific name.

There are more trees on Earth than there are Stars in The Milky Way Galaxy

There is more grains of sand on the beaches of Earth than there are Stars in The Universe.

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Valjackal
10/22/22 8:21:40 AM
#102:


CassandraCroft posted...
There is more grains of sand on the beaches of Earth than there are Stars in The Universe.

Eh, I don't know if I believe that. The universe is pretty goddamn huge.

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indica
10/23/22 11:13:43 AM
#103:


Indians read the most in the world. On average, they spend 10 hours more of their time during the week just reading. In the age of digital media, this country still prefers an old fashioned book rather than their phones.

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MI4_REAL
10/23/22 2:08:53 PM
#104:


indica posted...
Indians read the most in the world. On average, they spend 10 hours more of their time during the week just reading. In the age of digital media, this country still prefers an old fashioned book rather than their phones.

Thank fuck.

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indica
10/24/22 6:50:16 PM
#105:


The most widely printed book in the world is the catalog for IKEA. IKEA has over 200 million copies of its catalog circulated annually. This surpasses the amount of printing the Christian bible has.

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Imit8m3
10/24/22 7:48:37 PM
#106:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/6/1/AAZgIXAAD0Dt.jpg
Big yikes

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Forest_Temple
10/24/22 8:07:43 PM
#107:


CassandraCroft posted...


There is more grains of sand on the beaches of Earth than there are Stars in The Universe.
Its the opposite.
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YugiNoob
10/25/22 6:19:20 AM
#108:


In the movie Thor: Love and Thunder, Gorr's daughter is played by Chris Hemsworth's actual daughter

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indica
10/26/22 5:15:45 AM
#109:


There was a fifth member of the Beatles. Stuart Sutcliffe was a painter and bassist who was an original member before the band came into fame. He soon later died due to a brain hemorrhage.

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Forest_Temple
10/26/22 12:59:29 PM
#110:


indica posted...
There was a fifth member of the Beatles. Stuart Sutcliffe was a painter and bassist who was an original member before the band came into fame. He soon later died due to a brain hemorrhage.
They could've at least wrote a song dedicated to him or something
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CassandraCroft
10/26/22 1:24:43 PM
#111:


You can fit every planet in The Solar System between The Earth and The Moon with room to spare.

If there was an ocean big enough Saturn would float on it.

Voyagers 1&2 are the first craft to leave the Solar System and entre Interstellar Space.

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Foppe
10/27/22 3:33:18 PM
#112:


The Boeing 314 flying boat Pacific Clipper did thefirst commercial circumnavigation of the globe... by accident.
It started in December 1941 when it started in San Francisco for its scheduled passenger service to Auckland, New Zealand. Well there, they discovered that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
They were ordered to not fly back, and had to fly West to New York.

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Mr_hulk88
10/27/22 3:34:12 PM
#113:


Katy Perry's eye situation was an act.

It's part of her playing an android malfunctioning, like in her 365 video, where she does the exact same thing.

And here is another part of the same concert,
0:58
https://youtu.be/RS77NM326ws
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indica
10/28/22 9:55:26 PM
#114:


Pineapples are named after pinecones.

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CassandraCroft
10/29/22 2:29:26 AM
#115:


As of 1st October 2022 Astronomers have found 5,197 exoplanets in 3,833 planetary systems with 840 systems having more than one planet.

So for the biggest confirmed planetary systems are our own Solar System and and Kepler-90 both with 8 planets.

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MI4_REAL
10/29/22 8:35:51 AM
#116:


The creator of synthesized insulin sold the patent for $1 so everyone who needed it could have it. Look where it ended up.

I know a person who has an insulin pump and the insulin costs $1200 a month (uninsured), and is required for her to live.

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BlingBling22947
10/29/22 9:35:58 AM
#117:


tag

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CassandraCroft
10/29/22 10:09:27 AM
#118:


MI4_REAL posted...
The creator of synthesized insulin sold the patent for $1 so everyone who needed it could have it. Look where it ended up.

I know a person who has an insulin pump and the insulin costs $1200 a month (uninsured), and is required for her to live.

In The United Kingdom where I am that insulin would cost her ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, NIET, NOT A PENNY, as Diabetes is one of the illnesses exempt from prescription charges and all treatment is FREE on the National Health Service.

The USA is one of the last remaining industrialized countries whose citizens go bankrupt over medical bills since their Doctors and insurance companies care more for the almighty Dollar than their citizens health.

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MrResetti
10/29/22 10:29:48 AM
#119:


CassandraCroft posted...
In The United Kingdom where I am that insulin would cost her ZERO, ZILCH, NADA, NIET, NOT A PENNY, as Diabetes is one of the illnesses exempt from prescription charges and all treatment is FREE on the National Health Service.

The USA is one of the last remaining industrialized countries whose citizens go bankrupt over medical bills since their Doctors and insurance companies care more for the almighty Dollar than their citizens health.


We know. This topic is for interesting facts

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MI4_REAL
10/29/22 10:50:37 AM
#120:


MrResetti posted...
We know.


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CassandraCroft
10/29/22 11:02:15 AM
#121:


MrResetti posted...
We know. This topic is for interesting facts

Alrighty then you want a fact then have one:

Volvo created the three point seat belt that is currently used in all cars and made it free and open to everyone becuase of how valuable it was towards passenger safety.


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YugiNoob
10/30/22 4:40:32 AM
#122:


Dang, and I have to pay a whopping $5 per month for each of my anti-epileptic medications to be delivered to me :<

Anyway, Japanese spider crabs have legs than can span 13 feet and they can live to be 100 years old :3

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YellowSUV
10/30/22 1:25:23 PM
#123:


The earliest known use of a high-five was from 1977.

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YellowSUV
10/31/22 2:34:08 PM
#124:


Despite the nature of the show, South Park was never banned in China until after the 2019 episode Band in China aired.

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CassandraCroft
10/31/22 3:04:56 PM
#125:


Almost everyone thinks that our Scientific name is Homo Sapiens but that is wrong as it is actually Homo Sapiens Sapiens as we are one of two subspecies of Homo Sapiens the other one being the now extinct Homo Sapiens Idaltu.

The Milky Way Galaxy is part of a group of Galaxies called The Local Group which is part of The Virgo Supercluster of Galaxies and that in turn is part of the even larger Laniakea Supercluster.

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Blue_Thunder
10/31/22 8:45:46 PM
#126:


The universe is expanding. The rate at which it is doing so is still debated but many say it is faster than light speed. If this is true then that means there is a lot of space that humans will never get to see or visit, unless wormhole technology is perfected.

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YellowSUV
11/01/22 5:58:44 PM
#128:


Pokemon Red's release date is closer to the first moon landing than it is to today.

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YugiNoob
11/02/22 2:02:37 AM
#129:


Obviously Scooby was CGI in the live action movie, but they still occasionally used real things so the actors could keep track of where he would be when they edited him in. This is him when he's dressed up at the airport lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/6/AAPV5JAAD11E.jpg

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CassandraCroft
11/02/22 2:54:16 AM
#130:


Here is one: Everyone thinks that an Asteroid or large Meteor wiped out the Dinosaurs but according to some palontologists the Asteroid impact was just the final nail in the coffin for them.

Around 65,000,000 years ago Pangea was going through a very violent break up which was causing massive earthquakes and super volcanoes and those volcanic eruptions was causing a lot of acid rain.

So that acid rain was poisoning the plants which in turn was poisoning the plant eating Dinosaurs and the meat eating Dinosaurs were being poisoned by eating the dead bodies of the plant eating Dinosaurs.

Then the Asteroid hit and that was just the final straw for them. They werent wiped out overnight there were survivors but with the tempertures on Earth dropping because of all the ash and soot in the atmosphere, being posoned by eating the plants and meat and eventually food becoming scarce that was the end for them.

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YugiNoob
11/02/22 7:28:47 PM
#131:


Baby carrots are just regular carrots that have been shaved down :<

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MI4_REAL
11/03/22 7:00:20 AM
#132:


Baby carrots also were the solution for people wasting a fuckton of carrots. Too bad people nowadays do not have that kind of ingenuity.

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indica
11/04/22 4:35:44 PM
#133:


Scotland has over 400 words to refer to snow. One of Scotlands three official languages has a great extent of expressive phrases for snow. A few among these words include snaw (snow) and flindrinkin (light snow showers).

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EyeWontBeFooled
11/04/22 4:40:34 PM
#134:


indica posted...
Scotland has over 400 words to refer to snow. One of Scotlands three official languages has a great extent of expressive phrases for snow. A few among these words include snaw (snow) and flindrinkin (light snow showers).
Everything's drinkin to the Scots

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CassandraCroft
11/04/22 4:53:01 PM
#135:


indica posted...
Scotland has over 400 words to refer to snow. One of Scotlands three official languages has a great extent of expressive phrases for snow. A few among these words include snaw (snow) and flindrinkin (light snow showers).

Straight up deadly serious here I live in Glasgow Scotland and I have never heard of that before in my life.

I just call it snow and thats it.

Apollo took 3 days to get to The Moon the New Horizons Probe that went to Pluto did the same Earth to Moon journey in 8 hours 35 minutes.

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YellowSUV
11/04/22 10:19:02 PM
#136:


The novel Dracula is canon in the Castlevania timeline. However, not all Castlevania games are canon.

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EyeWontBeFooled
11/04/22 10:40:23 PM
#137:


Alcohol attacks your brain almost the exact same way the immune system does when an MS patient is having a relapse.

Multiple sclerosis is an immune system condition where the white blood cells target your brain cells in your central nervous system, instead of dangerous germs.

The damage to the brain can manifest itself as slurred speech, double vision/blindness, motor control issues and a host of cognitive issues.

Which is why it is often misdiagnosed as drunkenness. Particularly in men.

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MI4_REAL
11/05/22 7:00:01 AM
#138:


EyeWontBeFooled posted...
Alcohol attacks your brain almost the exact same way the immune system does when an MS patient is having a relapse.

Multiple sclerosis is an immune system condition where the white blood cells target your brain cells in your central nervous system, instead of dangerous germs.

The damage to the brain can manifest itself as slurred speech, double vision/blindness, motor control issues and a host of cognitive issues.

Which is why it is often misdiagnosed as drunkenness. Particularly in men.

I've been a hard drinker for 4 years, so that's worrisome.

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Foppe
11/05/22 7:15:48 AM
#139:


indica posted...
Scotland has over 400 words to refer to snow. One of Scotlands three official languages has a great extent of expressive phrases for snow. A few among these words include snaw (snow) and flindrinkin (light snow showers).
You sure that aint eskimos?

CassandraCroft posted...
Apollo took 3 days to get to The Moon the New Horizons Probe that went to Pluto did the same Earth to Moon journey in 8 hours 35 minutes.
To be fair, Apollo needed to go slower so they could stay in the moon orbit while New Horizon didnt want to get stuck in moons orbit.

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YellowSUV
11/05/22 9:21:23 AM
#140:


Before ICANN was created in 1998, top level Internet domains and IP addresses were distributed by one man, Jon Postel.

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MI4_REAL
11/06/22 7:21:59 AM
#141:


Arizona is the only state in the US that does NOT observe DST.

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YugiNoob
11/06/22 7:38:16 AM
#142:


MI4_REAL posted...
Arizona is the only state in the US that does NOT observe DST.
Wait, daylight saving time? We dont do that shit here in Hawaii :<

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Stagmar
11/06/22 12:42:37 PM
#143:


YugiNoob posted...
Wait, daylight saving time? We dont do that shit here in Hawaii :<
Hawaii doesn't exist.

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Forest_Temple
11/06/22 12:54:57 PM
#144:


Stagmar posted...
Hawaii doesn't exist.
Yeah I've never seen in it person before so I wonder if it's even real to be honest
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YellowSUV
11/06/22 4:15:46 PM
#145:


Influenza B may be extinct. There have been no known cases since early 2020.


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YugiNoob
11/06/22 6:52:18 PM
#146:


Stagmar posted...
Hawaii doesn't exist.

Forest_Temple posted...
Yeah I've never seen in it person before so I wonder if it's even real to be honest
You guys say that, but...

https://i.imgur.com/1LSUez7.gif

:3

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Blue_Thunder
11/06/22 7:19:29 PM
#147:


YugiNoob posted...

:3

I like Filipino women too but I'm not sure what that has to do with the posts you've quoted.

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YugiNoob
11/06/22 7:22:55 PM
#148:


That's in Hawaii :3

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TULPAMANCER
11/06/22 7:33:59 PM
#149:


Charles Manson lived with the Beach Boys for a time. In fact, their song "Never Learn Not to Love" was actually written by Manson himself, though he had titled it "Cease to Exist."
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CassandraCroft
11/06/22 7:38:41 PM
#150:


Anthropologists estimate that something like 118,000,000,000 people have come and gone since Humanity first started.

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