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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » December 21, 2019, 7:44 am

1) Earth's magnetic north is shifting at an 'unprecedented' rate of 30 miles a year - throwing satellite positioning data and navigation systems off course

Earth's magnetic north is moving at 30 miles a year

2) Tug of war, live pigeon shooting, and pistol dueling were all Olympic events at one point.
Today’s Olympic events are relatively straightforward, but in the past, there were a few additional competitions that might seem a little strange to modern sports fans. Tug of war, ski ballet, pistol dueling, live pigeon shooting, and solo synchronized swimming were all ways that you could take home a gold medal at one time. You could also make your way onto the Olympic podium thanks to equestrian vaulting, horse long jumping, motorboat racing, singlestick (think fencing but with sticks), rope climbing, and plunging for depth (jumping into the water and seeing how far you could go).

3) The Terminator script sold for $1.
The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, earned a worldwide total of $78.3 million at the box office in 1984. As it went on, the franchise took in over $1.4 billion—not bad for a script that sold for a measly dollar.

Before James Cameron became famous for directing blockbusters like Titanic, he was an unknown filmmaker who had an ambitious idea that became The Terminator. But in order to get his movie made, he handed over the rights to the script for a token amount on the terms that he was allowed to direct the movie. Despite the eventual success of the project, Cameron later admitted that he regrets the decision to sell such a valuable story for such a low amount, saying, “I wish I hadn’t sold the rights for one dollar. If I had a little time machine and I could only send back something the length of a tweet, it’d be—‘Don’t sell.’”

4) Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient times.
In ancient Greece and Rome, doctors used spider webs to make bandages for their patients. Spider webs supposedly have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent infection. It’s also said that spider webs are rich in vitamin K, which helps promote clotting. So, next time you’re out of Band-Aids, just head to your attic and grab some “webicillin.”

5) Chewing gum stops you from crying while cutting onions.
We all know that chopping onions leads to many tears. That’s because the chemicals in onions travel through the air, and when they hit our nasal cavity or eyes, it causes us to tear up. You may have tried goggles or lighting candles, but did you know that chewing gum helps? That’s because the chomping encourages you to breathe through your mouth, so the onion’s chemicals won’t make it up your nasal passage.



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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » December 22, 2019, 8:04 am

1) Someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.
Some odd things have been sold on eBay, from a grilled cheese sandwich with the face of the Virgin Mary to Justin Timberlake’s half-eaten French toast. But one of the strangest listings ever had to be for the country of New Zealand. That’s right: A man from Brisbane, Australia tried to sell New Zealand off on eBay in 2006.

2) Sumo wrestlers make babies cry for good luck.
While most parents do what they can to prevent or stop their babies from crying, that’s not always the case in Japan. That’s because it’s a 400-year-old Japanese tradition that if a sumo wrestler can make your baby cry, it means he or she will live a healthy life. So, during a special ceremony, parents hand over their infants to sumo wrestlers who bounce their precious tots up and down and sometimes will even roar in their little faces to get the tears flowing. “He’s not a baby that cries much but today he cried a lot for us and we are very happy about it,” one mother said at the event in 2014.

3) ABBA turned down $1 billion to do a reunion tour.
The Swedish pop group ABBA, who sang the 1970’s mega-hits “Mamma Mia” and “Dancing Queen,” is one of the best-selling groups of all time. Unfortunately, the band broke up in 1982, but their songs continue to be pop culture favorites. In 2000, an American-British consortium offered $250 million to each of the group’s four members to reunite, but they turned down the $1 billion offer. “We decided it wasn’t for us,” member Benny Andersson said at the time. Who exactly isn’t $1 billion for?

4) The chicken came before the egg.
What came first: the chicken or the egg? Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believed the egg came first. But in 2010, British scientists claimed to have come up with the final answer. They identified the protein, ovocleidin-17, that is required to speed up the production of an eggshell within the chicken. In 24 hours, an egg is ready to be laid. This proves that an egg cannot be produced without a chicken, so, therefore, the chicken had to come first.

5) International astronauts must be able to speak Russian.
As the International Space Station (ISS) has modules and operations in Russian, all astronauts going to the ISS must know how to speak Russian. Some astronauts have claimed that learning this new language was the biggest challenge of their training. According to the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute, English-speaking astronauts can expect to spend 1,100 class hours to reach a reasonable level of fluency in Russian. That’s twice as many hours as it typically takes to learn other languages like French, Spanish, and Dutch.

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Post by Doodoo » December 23, 2019, 7:16 am

1) The most popular websites are banned in China.
Under mainland China’s Internet Censorship Policy, the websites we all regularly visit are banned. The sites that are blocked include Google, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Twitter, Instagram, The New York Times, Pinterest, and many more.

2) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
In 1881, dentist Alfred Southwick witnessed a drunk man die quickly after touching a live electric generator in 1881. Southwick soon realized that electricity could be a quick and more humane alternative to hanging for executions. And thusly, the electric chair was born and was first used in 1890. Though it wasn’t an initial success—a second jolt needed to be used—Southwick eventually worked out the kinks.

3) At least one of the colors of the Olympic flag appears on all the national flags.
Fresh aristocrat Baron de Coubertin designed the Olympic flag in the early 1900s and he was very intentional with his creation. At least one of the colors on the Olympic flag appears on the flags of every nation that competed in the games at the time, but only if you count the white background of the flag itself. “A white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red … is symbolic,” Coubertin said in 1931. “It represents the five inhabited continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colors are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.”

4) The tea bag was an accidental invention.
In 1908, New York tea merchant Thomas Sullivan sent samples of tea leaves to some of his customers in small silken bags. Many of the recipients assumed that the bags were supposed to be used in the same way as the metal infusers. So, they put the entire bag into the teapot, rather than emptying out its contents.
After such positive feedback from the happy accident, Sullivan designed intentional teabags for commercial production. In the 1920s, his sachets made of gauze—and later paper—included the string with the tag hanging over the side so the bag could be easily removed. Some things really do stay the same.

5) AND FINALLY!!!!!!
Almost 163,00 pints of Guinness are wasted in facial hair each year.
An actual research study commissioned by Guinness found that an estimated 162,719 pints of Irish stout go to waste every year…via mustaches. The study found that 0.56 milliliters of Guinness is trapped in the ordinary beard or mustache with each sip. And it takes about 10 sips to finish a pint.

An estimated 92,370 Guinness consumers every year in the U.K. have facial hair. Figuring they consume on average 180 pints each a year, the total cost of wasted Guinness annually is about $536,000. The moral of this story? Shave and save!

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » December 24, 2019, 6:00 am

1) There is one Blockbuster store left in the world.
As of August 2018, only one Blockbuster store still remains, and it’s in Bend, Oregon. This Blockbuster is beloved by locals, and it’s a hotspot for tourists who often visit to see the last standing Blockbuster in America. It even has that recognizable smell of popcorn, boxed candy, and plastic cases.

For a $30 monthly fee, you can continue to rent movies but only on DVD, not VHS, which is no longer available. Sure, it’s pricier than Netflix, but it’s also more nostalgic.

2) The Russians arrived 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics because they were using the wrong calendar.
Over 2,000 years ago, Julius Caesar promoted the use of the Julian calendar, a 365-day calendar that didn’t account for leap years. Eventually, the calendar fell out of sync with the seasonal equinoxes and holidays, like Easter, didn’t land where they should. Finally, in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII mandated that Catholic nations switch to a new Gregorian calendar that solved the problem.

But for many countries, including Russia, the switch from the Julius calendar to the Gregorian took centuries. As a result, in 1908, the Russians missed the first 12 days of the Olympics, which was hosted in London, because they were still using the Julius calendar. The country finally changed over in 1918 after the Bolsheviks took over. Fun bonus fact: Greece, the country where the Olympics were born, was the last nation to make the switch in 1923

3) The inventor of the Pringles can is now buried in one.
In 1966, Fredric Baur developed the ingenious idea for Proctor & Gamble to uniformly stack chips inside a can instead of tossing them in a bag. Baur was so proud of his invention that he wanted to take it to the grave, literally.

He communicated his burial wishes to his family, and when he died at age 89, his children stopped at Walgreen’s on the way to the funeral home to buy his burial Pringles can. They did have one decision to make though. “My siblings and I briefly debated what flavor to use,” Baur’s eldest son, Larry, told Time. “But I said, ‘Look, we need to use the original.'” Fredric Baur, an American classic.

4) Paper bags can be worse for the environment than plastic ones.
Every time we go to the grocery store, we’re faced with the same choice: “Paper or plastic?” It’s become a common notion that the former is the better choice. In fact, stores like Whole Foods have completely banned plastic bags.

However, both paper and plastic have their drawbacks. According to research, paper bag production emits 70 percent more pollution, uses four times as much energy, and takes more time to break down, when compared to plastic bags. Guess the best option is to carry reusable bags with you.

5) The two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.

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Post by Doodoo » December 25, 2019, 6:07 am

1) Coca-Cola played a huge part in Santa's image.
Craving a Coke yet? Give it a second. According to Coca-Cola, Santa used to look a lot less jolly — even spooky. Go ahead, Google early images of Santa. We'll wait. It wasn't until the beverage company hired an illustrator named Haddon Sundblom in 1931 to create images of Santa for magazine advertisements that we got the warm and friendly Santa we know today. Now, kids wouldn't fear interrupting Santa's nightly work.

2) Hanging stockings started with an accident.
According to legend, we hang out stockings by the chimney with care thanks to a poor man who didn't have the money for his three daughters' dowries. Generous old St. Nick (remember, that's his trademark!) dropped a bag of gold down their chimney one night, where the girls had hung their stockings to dry by the fire. That's where the gold ended up, and allegedly how the tradition began.

3) Celebrating Christmas used to be illegal.
By the time the Puritans settled Boston, celebrating Christmas was outlawed. Talk about missing the Christmas spirit! From 1659 to 1681, anyone caught making merry would face a fine for celebrating the once-pagan day. And after the Revolutionary War, the new Congress found the day so unimportant that they even held the first session on December 25, 1789. Christmas wasn't proclaimed a federal holiday for nearly another century, proving that the Grinch's notorious hatred of the holiday was alive and well long before he was.

4) Christmas decorating sends nearly 15,000 people to the ER.
If you've ever watched Clark Griswold try to decorate his house in Christmas Vacation (or any number of other holiday movie mishaps), that probably doesn't come as much of a surprise. In fact, the Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that 14,700 people visit hospital emergency rooms each November and December from holiday-related decorating accidents. So please, be careful when you're decking the halls.

5) Santa has his own zip code in Canada.
Every year, letters to Santa Claus flood post offices across the world and every year, parents have to find a way to either answer them or explain to the kiddos why their letter got, um, lost in the mail. Further cementing their reputation as one of the nicest countries going, some big-hearted Canadian Post Office workers even started answering them. As more letters arrived, they set up a special zip code for Santa as part of a "Santa Letter-Writing Program" literacy initiative. The zip code? HOH OHO.

6) This Christmas gift held a lifesaving secret.
During World War II, The United States Playing Card Company joined forces with American and British intelligence agencies to create a very special deck of cards. They gave out the cards as Christmas gifts to help allied prisoners of war escape from German POW camps. Individual cards peeled apart when moistened, to reveal maps of escape routes. Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction

7) Norway donates the tree in Trafalgar Square.
Londoners and visitors probably know the tall, iconic spruce that stretches to the sky in Trafalgar Square each year, but did you know where it comes from? Every year, since 1947, the people of Norway have gifted the people of London a Christmas tree to place in the public courtyard. They donate the tree in gratitude for Britain's support for Norway during World War II. Now that's what we call goodwill toward men.

8) We ship a crazy amount of packages around the holidays.
Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day last year, the U.S. Postal Service delivered an estimated 850 million packages — in addition to 15 billion pieces of mail. That's including gifts for faraway loved ones, heartfelt cards, letters to Santa, and those dreaded credit card statements after we gleefully charge all of our holiday purchases (oops). So cut your mail carrier some slack; they're really pulling double duty this time of year.

9) Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.

10) Great Britain consumes about 8 million trees annually, while in the United States between 35 and 40 million trees are sold during the Christmas season. Artificial Christmas trees are mostly produced in the Pearl River delta area of China. Christmas tree prices were described using a Hotelling-Faustmann model in 2001, the study showed that Christmas tree prices declined with age and demonstrated why more farmers do not price their trees by the foot. In 1993, economists made the first known demand elasticity estimates for the natural Christmas tree market.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » December 26, 2019, 7:01 am

1) CEREAL
Even though Froot Loops (Cereal) are different colors, they all have exactly the same flavor.

2) Marmite was one of most confiscated items at airports from the U.K. – to overcome this issue, Marmite made smaller ones for traveling.

3) The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.

4) Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.

5) It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after he created it; as of June 2018 the world record is 4.22 seconds.

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Post by Doodoo » December 27, 2019, 6:26 am

1)Pilots frequently fall asleep on the job.
So, who’s flying your plane, exactly? Maybe no one—at least for portions of the flight. According to a 2017 report by the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA), among a group of 500 pilots polled, 43 percent admitted to accidentally falling asleep while manning the plane, while 31 percent admitted to waking up from a nap to find their co-pilot sleeping, as well.

2) A Boeing 747 is more fuel efficient than your car.
The Boeing 747 burns about 1 gallon of fuel every second, or 5 gallons per mile. Reversing this gives us the figure of 0.2 gallons of fuel used per mile. This is much lower than the average car’s fuel efficiency at about 25 miles per gallon. But, considering the number of passengers the 747 carries, it is far more efficient. This breakdown explains that, because the plane can carry about 500 people, it’s actually getting 100 miles per gallon per person.

3) There are thousands of planes over the United States at any moment.
While you may only see the occasional plane pass by overhead, that doesn’t mean the sky isn’t full of them. In fact, according to the FAA, there are 5,000 planes in the air over the United States at any moment in time, and more than 8,000 flying across the globe.

4) The world’s largest airplane weighs nearly 600 tons.
The Antonov An-225 has an impressive maximum takeoff weight of 591.7 tons. In comparison, the Boeing 747-8F’s maximum takeoff weight is 489,218 pounds less, at 347.091 tons.

5) SO Business and First Class dont cut it
The safest seats on an aircraft are those at the back of the plane.
According to crash data compiled by Time, the fatality rate for seats in the rear third of a plane during a crash was 32 percent. The middle of the plane was the least safe, with a 39 percent fatality rate, while the front was marginally safer with a 38 percent fatality rate.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Khun Paul » December 27, 2019, 11:23 am

Yes but you die more comfortable in those classes ….lol

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » December 28, 2019, 4:43 am

THINGS TO GO BYE BYE TO IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS

1) Plastic bags
Single-use plastic bags are clogging streets, sidewalks, streams, and oceans like hair in a stopped-up shower drain. In response, cities, counties, and even states have enacted bans designed to rid the world of this environmental scourge. Although there's debate on the merit of such bans, the growing urgency of calls for global climate action and the rapid development of plastic alternatives portend a future in which plastic is prehistoric. And in case you doubt our predictions, revisit these 10 Accurate 2020 Predictions That Were Shockingly Spot-On.

2) Checkout counters and cashiers
Amazon is the corporate equivalent of a crystal ball. Its online bookstore foreshadowed the rise of e-commerce, its Prime service helped popularize streaming media, and its Echo home assistant ushered in a new era of smart home technology. Amazon once again donned its soothsayer hat in 2018, when it debuted its Amazon Go chain of checkout-free convenience stores. Instead of waiting in checkout lines and paying cashiers, customers scan their smartphones upon entering, pick up their desired items, then simply exit the store, at which point Amazon—which uses in-store sensors to track purchases—automatically charges their Amazon account. If the rest of the retail industry follows Amazon's lead, checkout counters, cash registers, and cashiers all could be extinct by 2040.

3) Farmers
The United States used to be blanketed with family farms. Now, it's paved with urban development and suburban sprawl. Between 1992 and 2012 alone, the nation irreversibly lost nearly 31 million acres of farmland to development. That's like losing most of Iowa or New York. Since then, of course, the bulldozers have kept on bulldozing—and so, ironically, have farmers, whose work has eroded soil so much that it has depleted a third of the world's arable land in the past 40 years. If development and agriculture continue to cannibalize farmland, farms as we know them might cease to exist. Instead of sprawling fields with rows of crops picked by hand, imagine giant warehouses filled with food that's grown vertically under artificial lights and harvested by robots. If you ask indoor farmers, it's not just possible; it's probable.

4) Remote controls
Speaking of television: Your remote control might end up in the garbage alongside your cable box thanks to voice computing. After all, you already can use your voice to change the channel on your TV using your cable provider's voice remote; it's only a matter of time before you can chuck the remote altogether and talk to your TV—and anything else you control by remote—directly.

5) Passwords
If there's any shred of privacy left in 2040, here's good news: You probably won't have to memorize yet another password in order to protect it, because passwords are becoming passé.

"Today's user authentication methods are becoming archaic and impractical for both consumers and businesses," says Shawn Keve, chief revenue officer at Simeio Solutions, an Atlanta-based provider of identity and access management solutions. "New password-less technologies are beginning to appear … that will help ease the management of authentication and access while ensuring greater protection of personal and corporate data."

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Post by Doodoo » December 29, 2019, 7:44 am

MORE PLANE NEWS

1) American Airlines saved $40,000 by cutting one ingredient from meals.
When attempting to cut costs in the 1980s, American Airlines discovered that removing just one item from passengers’ meals would do the trick. By simply nixing just one olive from the salads served in-flight, the airline saved a staggering $40,000 in the course of a single year.

2) Some of the deadliest crashes happen when planes are securely on the ground.
In 1977, the deadliest crash in the history of aviation happened on the ground. Pan Am Flight 1736 and KLM Flight 4805, both Boeing 747s, crashed into one another in Tenerife. However, as CBS News reports, it wasn’t an error on either pilot’s part, per se—low fog made visibility poor, and the airport’s runways were overly congested, leading to the two planes colliding, killing 583 passengers and crew members in the resulting fire.

3) The world’s oldest airline will turn 100 in 2019.
Dutch airline KLM has the longest continuously operating record in the world. The Amsterdam-based airline’s planes have been lifting off and touching down since 1919.

4) All pilots who fly internationally must know at least a bit of English.
English may not be the official language of the United States, but it is the language of air travel. In 2003, the International Civil Aviation Association introduced new requirements to the Chicago Convention that stipulated that all pilots flying internationally must be proficient in so-called aviation English to prevent potentially-fatal communication errors.

5) Plane doors can’t actually open in mid-flight.
While numerous people have tried to open the exterior door to an airplane mid-flight (only to find themselves arrested later for doing so), actually doing so would be next to impossible. The interior pressure within the plane ranges from 4 to 14 PSI, meaning that, unless The Hulk or Thanos boarded your plane, it’s unlikely that the door could be opened.

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Post by Doodoo » December 30, 2019, 8:10 am

1) Gotthard Base Tunnel
The tunnel is as long as 21 Golden Gate Bridges, according to CNN. It consists of two 35-mile-long tracks, and the total length of the new tunnel system, including cross-passages, access tunnels, and shafts, is more than 94 miles.

2) 5 Giza pyramids' worth of rock had to be excavated, according to the Swiss news site SwissInfo. Tunnel workers used special drills to bore through more than 31 million tons of rock to create the tunnels.

3) The amount of copper cable needed would span the distance from Madrid to Moscow, according to CNN. Almost 2,000 miles of copper cable were required to construct the tunnel.

4) The entire project costs $10.3 billion, or about 9.8 billion Swiss francs, financed entirely by Switzerland.

5) Trains will travel at speeds of more than 150 mph, which is possible because the tunnel is almost completely flat throughout its entire length, instead of having to twist around the Alps.

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Post by Doodoo » December 31, 2019, 8:06 am

1) New Year celebrations are not new. The concept actually dates back to 2000 BC. The Mesopotamians used to celebrate New Year!

2) 1st January was accepted as New Year in 46 BC by Julius Caesar. England and the American colonies of England adopted the date long time later in 1752.

3) People of Denmark practice throwing dishes at the doorsteps of other people. This is believed to bring many new friends to the person on whose doorsteps the dishes are thrown.

4) Spanish tradition is to eat 12 grapes at midnight of 31st December. While eating these grapes, Spaniards will make wishes. This tradition is believed to bring good luck for those who practice it. This grape eating tradition started back in 1895.

5) By popping open a bubbly bottle is how many people celebrate the New Year. In America alone, during the holiday season, 360 million glasses of sparkling wine are consumed every year.

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Post by Doodoo » January 1, 2020, 8:03 am

1) Ontario Canada has 250,000 lakes and about 1/5th of the worlds fresh water

2) 68.7% of the fresh water on Earth is trapped in glaciers.

3) In one year, the average American residence uses over 100,000 gallons (indoors and outside)

4) To create one pint of beer it takes 20 gallons of water.

5) Unsafe water kills 200 children every hour.

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Post by Doodoo » January 2, 2020, 6:05 am

1) 70% of the human brain is water

2) Water expands by 9% when it freezes.

3) The United States draws more than 40 billion gallons (151 million liters) of water from the Great Lakes every day—half of which is used for electrical power production.

4) American use 5.7 billion gallons per day from toilet flushes

5) Refilling a half-liter water bottle 1,740 times with tap water is the equivalent cost of a 99 cent water bottle at a convenience store

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1) There are no lakes in Maryland
Talk about a dubious honor—Maryland is the only state in the United States that has no natural lakes within its borders. The bodies of water Maryland now has have all been the result of damming rivers, so they are reservoirs.

2) One tiger killed more people than 100 years of all bears, spiders, and snakes combined
Bears kill on average of two people a year, spiders are responsible for six deaths per year, and snake bites account for five deaths each year in the United States. Add those all together for the past 100 years and you still don't come close to the total deaths caused by the Champawat tiger, who killed 435 people in Nepal and India.

3) Sesame seeds were once worth more than gold
The people of the Middle Ages prized sesame seeds so highly that they cost more than their weight in gold. They're highly nutritious and tasty but many civilizations thought they also held magical or spiritual properties, bestowing luck and fortune. Now you'll never pick them off your hamburger bun again, right?

4) The largest desert in the world is covered in snow
Think the famed Sahara desert is big? At 3.5 million square miles, it's definitely a monster, but it doesn't even compare to the Antarctic Polar Desert. It covers the continent of Antarctica and has a size of about 5.5 million square miles. Surprised? The definition of a desert is simply a place that receives less than ten inches of precipitation per year—it doesn't have to be hot!

5) The FDA once banned sliced bread
The first loaf of machine-sliced bread was sold in 1928. Americans were still getting used to this amazing modern convenience when suddenly, 1943, the FDA banned sliced bread. The reason was because pre-sliced bread used up too much plastic packaging—plastic that could be used in the war effort. However noble the reason, people were furious and the ban only lasted three months.

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Post by Doodoo » January 4, 2020, 6:39 am

1) More French soldiers died during World War I than American soldiers during all of U.S. history
World War I was catastrophic on levels that most of us alive today cannot even comprehend. One example? The numbers of total deaths. During the first world war, France lost about 1,360,000 soldiers. In contrast, the United States has recorded about 1,350,000 military deaths total, over every war since 1775.

2) Prince Charles has a car fueled by wine
In the search for more efficient fuels, Prince Charles is taking a strange-but-entertaining approach: The heir to the British throne had his vintage Aston Martin reworked to use wine as it's primary fuel.

3) A strawberry isn't actually a berry—but a watermelon is
Raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries aren't true berries. The scientific definition of 'berry' is a plant that has three distinct layers: an outer skin (exocarp), a fleshy middle (mesocarp), and—here's the key—internally contained seeds (endocarp). So because their seeds are on the outside all those berries aren't actually berries. However, watermelon, bananas, grapes, and eggplants are all technically berries!

4) There are more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy
There are about 3 trillion trees on Earth but only 300 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way. Space is big but relatively empty, it turns out.

5) Shaking ketchup makes it 1,000 times thinner
There's a good scientific reason for shaking your ketchup before you pour it on your fries: The more you shake it, the thinner the consistency gets. Why? Spherical tomato particles form into thinner ellipses when shaken, making your ketchup 1,000 times runnier.

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Post by Drunk Monkey » January 4, 2020, 11:23 am

Saw this on the net n made me smile ..nay chortle ..
Theres some strange folk.out there a d be careful out there if you hang your smalls out to dry

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/police- ... -underwear

The first paragraph 555555 .. we would like to.point out the undies werenit being wirn at the tine ..classic ..TIT

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L2 Season 19/20 Codheads 0 Scunny 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2qrsItFUug
8 minutes is the point of lift off !!!!!!!

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Post by Drunk Monkey » January 5, 2020, 2:03 am

NEWSFLASH ..
AS ov now DM just checked his smalls on the East side of town n no scribbling ..wot can only be diagnosed as a weirdo only left a cryptic message that reads .

XL XXL XXXL

Thai police are following he lead n have a hunch he guy might be Italian of .. Roman .... numeral decent..

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » January 5, 2020, 5:02 am

1) Scotland 40 bottles of Scotch Whisky are shipped overseas each second (yes, that's right!)

2) In 1970 there were just 11 breweries in Scotland; there are now over 100 craft brewers in Scotland producing a wide variety of specialist beers

3) Bread is banned from space missions. Crumbs—from bread, crackers, cookies, etc—don’t do well in space. They float around, and can fly into an astronaut’s eyes and interfere with important equipment. That’s why you’ll find tortillas used instead of bread on all crafts traveling out of orbit. Though the creation of crumb-free bread in 2017 means this rule could be changing soon.

4) The Great Depression originated in the United States, under President Herbert Hoover, starting with the fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929 and resulted in the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday).

5) USA The gross national product fell by almost 50%. during the Depression

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » January 5, 2020, 6:36 pm

Doodoo wrote:
January 5, 2020, 5:02 am
Scotland 40 bottles of Scotch Whisky are shipped overseas each second (yes, that's right!
So 31536000 seconds in one year = 1261440000 bottles of Whisky according to your figures.

Are you sure, old chum? :-k
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