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07 Jan 2008, 1:34 pm

Post a couple of random facts.

1. According to Sun Chips, "Zesteee" is a word.

2. Propriétaire is French for "owner".


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07 Jan 2008, 1:49 pm

1. glass is a liquid

2. sharks drown if they don't keep moving



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07 Jan 2008, 3:20 pm

1. Spiders can't breathe while they're crawling.

2. The latin name of the largest type of spider in the world rhymes with "Farah Fawcett blondie."


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07 Jan 2008, 6:50 pm

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/ have random facts


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07 Jan 2008, 7:00 pm

no one is 100% sure where the name Kilroy comes from

the Genesis album Trick of the Tail-sold more then any other Genesis album put together at the time of its release
despite actually making the game Dawn of War-Games Workshop doesn't sell it in their stores



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08 Jan 2008, 5:21 am

Some oil wells in Kuwait functioned at a PSI of over 8000.

Over 900 wells were set ablaze during Desert Storm.

The oil from the disaster has yet to seep into the ground water in kuwait and the surrounding areas.

The last oil fires were put out in november of 1991.

The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq was the fastest take-over of a nation in the history of war.

Iraq invaded Kuwait claiming rebels welcomed them and over-threw the kuwait government.

Kuwait once was a part of Iraq.

Modified T-62's mounted with Mig jets were used to put out some fires.

Some massive 8000 psi + oil well fires were put out by drilling into the artery of that well, making more guisers of oil and then setting those on fire to releave pressure.

One reason for lighting the oil fires was so Iraq could prevent more US marines from landing, along with other military equpiment and personal.

The Kuwait oil disaster caused hundreds of small lakes of oil to form.


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08 Jan 2008, 5:35 am

The Judge Rotenberg Center makes several million a year.



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08 Jan 2008, 5:59 am

Lene wrote:
2. sharks drown if they don't keep moving


sorry,this is only true of the pelagic sharks.

The chemical structure of chlorophyll is identical to that of haemoglobin,
except at the nucleus.

Chlorophyll contains magnesium,
and blood contains iron.

Eat you're green vegetables, children.
Aspies need Magnesium more than anyone.


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08 Jan 2008, 10:21 am

syzygyish wrote:
Lene wrote:
2. sharks drown if they don't keep moving


sorry,this is only true of the pelagic sharks.


I stand corrected!

:)



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08 Jan 2008, 1:38 pm

the average person with a profound disability uses more than 1,000,000 dollars per year (global funds, including what the schools spend on them what hospitals spend on them what is globally spent on them)

the average person with multiple profound disabilities (thats me!) uses up to 2,000,000 per year!


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08 Jan 2008, 6:28 pm

1 - never put candy in a drawer on top of a heater

2 - if earth were the size of a football, there wouldn't be enough room for all of us

3 - i started a new job yesterday

4 - barrack obama is almost an anagram of a car, a bomb, ok

5- the time here is nearly half 11



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08 Jan 2008, 6:29 pm

Turkish is an Altaic language.
Eiderdown harvesting does not harm the birds.



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08 Jan 2008, 8:50 pm

Lumina was a Chevy model built from 1989 (for model year 1990) to 2001.

The last Chevy Lumina rolled off the assembly line on April 26, 2001. :(

Lumina in Romanian means 'light'. :D



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08 Jan 2008, 11:12 pm

Lene wrote:
1. glass is a liquid

2. sharks drown if they don't keep moving


this is not true for all sharks.


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08 Jan 2008, 11:14 pm

syzygyish wrote:
Lene wrote:
2. sharks drown if they don't keep moving


sorry,this is only true of the pelagic sharks.

The chemical structure of chlorophyll is identical to that of haemoglobin,
except at the nucleus.

Chlorophyll contains magnesium,
and blood contains iron.

Eat you're green vegetables, children.
Aspies need Magnesium more than anyone.


nope, just has to do with gill structure... some sharks have an anterior "hole" where a gill should be... these sharks don't have so swim all the time, the others do. though perhaps most (or all) pelagic sharks don't have this hole but i'm sure there's some non-pelagic sharks don't have this hole either.... hmm off to go look it up.


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08 Jan 2008, 11:29 pm

Sedaka wrote:
syzygyish wrote:
Lene wrote:
2. sharks drown if they don't keep moving


sorry,this is only true of the pelagic sharks.

The chemical structure of chlorophyll is identical to that of haemoglobin,
except at the nucleus.

Chlorophyll contains magnesium,
and blood contains iron.

Eat you're green vegetables, children.
Aspies need Magnesium more than anyone.


nope, just has to do with gill structure... some sharks have an anterior "hole" where a gill should be... these sharks don't have so swim all the time, the others do. though perhaps most (or all) pelagic sharks don't have this hole but i'm sure there's some non-pelagic sharks don't have this hole either.... hmm off to go look it up.


lol, ok, ok! Serves me right for getting my science facts from Horrible Science books :P (actually, this is kind of fascinating though)