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Stagmar posted...

And kids being kids, they stabbed each other with them instead.

The military does it with their ranks as well, calling it Blood Wings.

And speaking of Mr. Potato head:

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Blue_Thunder posted...

I know this song! I can personally vouch for it's effectiveness :)

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Thank you!

The diving bell spider is the only spider to live almost entirely underwater. They make little air bubbles to supply themselves with oxygen, and can last over a day underwater before needing to replenish their air supply. I tried reading up on them but I still don't quite understand how this works, even with a bunch of pictures, since the air bubbles seem to be on the spiders' ass lol.

Apologies to him, but could @dolomedes elaborate? These guys are really interesting. And additional apologies for not realizing that your name was a genus of spider lol. I just noticed that mentioned in the wiki article that I was reading on these spiders and feel stupid for not realizing that your name might have anything to do with spiders lol

Heartomaton posted...

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That picture is bleached white by the sun by now, right?

Oh I see now. Thats awesome lol. And I just watched this little video.

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I love how its just calmly dragging the fish back home lol

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Nice try, but I know a civilization that's built around a post-meteor apocalypse when I see one

The opposite sides of dice will always equal 7.
The side of 1 and 6, 2 and 5, and 3 and 4 all equal 7. Go on, try it for yourself.

YugiNoob posted...

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Is this true?

BlingBling22947 posted...

Is this true?

That he actually posted that? I doubt it. There's so many "stop sending me this shit" pics out there.

The joke is fine with just the pics. It doesn't need the fake message to be funny.

Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.

The color orange didnt exist in the English language until the late 15th century when the first oranges began to appear in England. So instead, orange-colored things would be called eolucrog (yellow-saffron), or if something had more of a red tinge to it, it was called eolurad (yellow-red).

You get Goosebumps when youre scared to make yourself look bigger. This is thought to have worked on our especially hairy ancestors, having their hair stand up on end somewhat akin to a dog.

Cherophobia is the irrational fear of fun or happiness. something CE might be too familiar with

The original London Bridge is now in Arizona. The London Bridge, originally constructed in 1831, began to fall apart by the 1960s. As a result, the City of London decided to sell it and build another. In 1963, American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch bought the bridge. He dismantled it and shipped it to the United States piece by piece. The bridge moved to Lake Havasu City in Arizona. McCulloch founded Lake Havasu City, and he wanted the bridge to serve as a tourist attraction.

If Pinocchio said, My Nose Will Grow Now, it would create a paradox. This conundrum is known as the Pinocchio paradox.

All Cars are modeled out of thousands of pounds of clay at 1/1 scale before being actually being manufactured. The people who do this job are auto clay modelers. An auto clay modelers annual salary averages $81,474 in the U.S.

Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.

On average, men get bored of a shopping trip after 26 minutes. Meanwhile, women dont get tired of shopping until around 2 hours have passed! On top of this, its been found that eight in ten men hate shopping with their partner.

In the 16th Century, Turkish women could initiate divorce if their husbands didnt provide enough coffee.

Squirrels cause approximately 10-20% of US power outages. What little bastards.

Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they dont drift away from each other.

A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.

Pirates wore earrings because they believed they improved their eyesight. There are many reasons why pirates wore earrings. Some pirates would use trinkets for earrings from faraway lands. This was to show how well-traveled they were.
Pirates believed the precious metals in their earrings were magical and would protect or enhance their eyesight. They also believed earrings could aid in seasickness and prevent them from drowning.

Abraham Lincoln fed his cat with a gold fork. Abraham Lincoln was known to be a lover of animals, it is thought cats were his favorite. The Lincoln family often ate at the White House dinner table with their cat, Tabby. And during a formal dinner at the White House, Abe Lincoln fed Tabby from the table with a gold fork.
Lincolns embarrassed wife said it was shameful in front of their guests. The president replied, If the gold fork was good enough for former President James Buchanan, I think it is good enough for Tabby.

itachi15243 posted...

The original London Bridge is now in Arizona. The London Bridge, originally constructed in 1831, began to fall apart by the 1960s. As a result, the City of London decided to sell it and build another. In 1963, American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch bought the bridge. He dismantled it and shipped it to the United States piece by piece. The bridge moved to Lake Havasu City in Arizona. McCulloch founded Lake Havasu City, and he wanted the bridge to serve as a tourist attraction.

If Pinocchio said, My Nose Will Grow Now, it would create a paradox. This conundrum is known as the Pinocchio paradox.

I have been to Lake Havasu where London Bridge is located. The hotel we stayed at was right next to it and it was a simple matter to climb the steps next to it to walk on it.

I know all about the Pinocchio paradox. It is more or less the same as saying "this sentence is false" which is technically false but also true. So which is it?

The smallest mammal in the world can have two answers. For skull size it is the Bumble Bee Bat but for mass it is the Eutruscan Shrew which weighs around 1.8 grams.

The average adult spends more time on the toilet than exercising.
On average, an adult will spend over 3 hours on the toilet per week but only one and a half hours exercising. Maybe its time we start working out in the bathroom?

Cats can't taste sweet flavors.
This is mainly because they do not possess the base pair of genes that detect sweet flavors. As a result, sugar does not code on their tongues as proper proteins.

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@Dolomedes Spider facts that you probably already knew!

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in 2027, Bougainville will become a sovereign state, having previously been a part of PNG.

The Groom of the Stool was a personal assistant to medieval monarchs. They followed the king and queen and carried around shitting stuff, like a toilet, water, and towels. And while one might think that carrying around literal shit everywhere would be a demeaning and humiliating job, it was actually highly sought after, and many of them were sons of noblemen. Because the GotS spent so much time with the king, they were highly trusted and often rewarded handsomely.

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^Example of thy royal shitbox

Frank 'Rocky' Fiegel, born in Poland on January 27, 1868. He emigrated with his family to America where in 1887 he joined the Navy.
When Popeye's creator met him, he was a retired sailor contracted by Wiebuschs tavern in the city of Chester, Illinois, to clean and maintain order. He had a reputation to be always involved in fighting, so he had a deformed eye (Pop-eye). He had demonstrated his strength in so many fights that he became a local legend. He always smoked his pipe, so he spoke only with one side of his mouth.
When he was with children he held the pipe with the corner of his mouth and told them the antics of his youth, often boasting of his physical strength and loudly claiming that spinach is the food that makes him invincible.
Popeye's character creator Elzie Crisler Segar was born in Chester and was one of the children who had the privilege of hearing 'live' the stories of the former sailor.
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YugiNoob posted...

The Groom of the Stool was a personal assistant to medieval monarchs. They followed the king and queen and carried around shitting stuff, like a toilet, water, and towels. And while one might think that carrying around literal shit everywhere would be a demeaning and humiliating job, it was actually highly sought after, and many of them were sons of noblemen. Because the GotS spent so much time with the king, they were highly trusted and often rewarded handsomely.

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^Example of thy royal shitbox

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It's good to be the king.

God dammit Australia.

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YugiNoob posted...

God dammit Australia.

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At around 12,000 years old, Gbekli Tepe in south-east Turkey has been billed as the worlds oldest temple. It is many millennia older than Stonehenge or Egypts great pyramids, built in the pre-pottery Neolithic period before writing or the wheel.

More people speak English as their second language than those who use it as their mother tongue.
English has a total of nearly 2 billion fluent speakers and it is also the most widely spoken language in the world. However, only 350 million people speak this language natively.

Doves and pigeons are the same thing:

Whats the actual scientific difference between doves and pigeons?
As it turns out, there isnt one. Paul Sweet, the collection manager for the department of ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, said the difference is more linguistic than taxonomic.
The word dove is a word that came into English from the more Nordic languages, whereas pigeon came into English from French, Sweet told Mental Floss in 2018.
Both dove and pigeon refer to the 300-plus species of birds in the Columbidae family, Sweet said. Theres no difference between a pigeon and a dove in scientific nomenclature, but colloquial English tends to categorize them by size. Something called a dove is generally smaller than something called a pigeon, but thats not always the case. A common pigeon, for example, is called both a rock dove and a rock pigeon.

Dr. Nick Riviera on the Simpsons was inspired by George "Dr. Nick" Nichopoulos. He was Elvis Presley's doctor for the last decade of his life, and became known for overprescribing amphetamines, tranquilizers, narcotics, and other drugs.

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Well the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are kinda fucked up. *SPOILERS*

Shredder is killed off in the very first comic. Splinter trained the turtles to get revenge on Shredder for him, because he killed his former owner and master. Leo landed a fatal blow to Shredder and handed him his sword to commit seppuku, but instead Shredder pulled the pin on a grenade intending to kill everyone. He was knocked off the building they were fighting on though. He wouldn't reappear for two years, but it was revealed that that Shredder was some weirdass worm clone thing.

Your fingernails on your dominant hand grow faster.
It also takes around half a year for a fingernail to grow from its base to the tip. These nails also grow faster on the bigger fingers rather than the smaller ones.

Frigate birds can sleep while flying.
This is possible because they can keep only half of their brains hemispheres awake. Theoretically, they could fly forever if they didnt need food or water.

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Heartomaton posted...

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I called the number, AND IT WORKS!!! (my life is now complete)

There are several names for a group of rabbits, including a warren, a herd and a fluffle~

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Pizza Huts somewhere had salad bars?

Stagmar posted...

Pizza Huts somewhere had salad bars?

My wife and I went to a pizza for their lunch buffet like 5 years ago. When we got there, there was 3 slices of a thin crust pizza there and 2 dessert pizzas. We figured we would have a salad and then eat pizza. There were like 3 other tables there for the buffet as well. 10 minutes pass and we see them bringing out something. Its a full pan of breadsticks. We are done with our salad and just waiting for pizza still. 5 more minutes and finally here they come... nope more breadsticks. The breadsticks are almost falling on the floor there are so many there. 5 more minutes and they literally put out another pan of breadsticks, except this time its on a platter where pizza goes. My wife decides to get their disgusting dessert pizza. Finally after another 5 minutes, they bring out 1 cheese pizza. I say fuck it, its better than nothing. I grabbed 2 slices, my wife one and left the last for the others there. they brought out 1 pizza every 5 minutes. The place had nothing else going on. It made us so mad. They ended up comping everyones meals. I am not even a huge fan of pizza hut, we were just hungry and decided to give it a try.