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03 Apr 2011, 6:12 am

Kaihougyou, Known more fully as the Sennichi Kaihougyou, or "one-thousand-day circumambulation." Is an arduous meditative practice of Tendai monks in which they walk around Mt. Hiei and its environs for one thousand days reciting the mantra of Fudo Myo-o, the central deity of the Kaihougyou.



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03 Apr 2011, 6:35 am

QI Fact of the Day

During World War II, Germans owned most of the delicatessens along the coast of Long Island, New York. It was not uncommon for U-boats patrolling the Atlantic to surface and send a dinghy ashore to pick up breakfast.


QI Quote of the Day

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake!" SIGMUND FREUD



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03 Apr 2011, 7:16 am

Fudo wrote:
Mudkip wrote:
Here is something intresting:

Strawberry Milkshakes have no strawberries in them.


thanks for adding to the quite interestingness Mudkip :)


Thats ok!



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03 Apr 2011, 10:39 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f_uwZREGCk&feature=related[/youtube]



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03 Apr 2011, 1:17 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuH8pxJo88s&feature=related[/youtube]



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03 Apr 2011, 5:35 pm

more QI, can't think of much trivia just now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEdIDoN_9_0&feature=related[/youtube]



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04 Apr 2011, 8:11 am

terry bozzio and his amazing drum kit. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9WlgC5oWo[/youtube]

in the hands of a lesser man, it might be a gimmick.. but not terry



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04 Apr 2011, 8:52 am

QI Fact of the Day

All centipedes are predators. They kill their prey with poisonous claws attached to their heads. The Giant Centipede is 30cm long and kills small mammals and reptiles. It is extremely painful to be bitten by one.


QI Quote of the Day

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount."
OMAR BRADLEY (1893-1981) US general



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04 Apr 2011, 8:59 am

"There are no facts, only interpretations." -Friedrich Nietzsche



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04 Apr 2011, 9:06 am

the evolution of the human eye defies any explanation provided by the doctrine of evolution as far as i can see.



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04 Apr 2011, 9:46 am

thanks you two :)

reminds me, didn't Nietzsche say 'God is dead'?

& pigeons can see ultraviolet light :)



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04 Apr 2011, 10:16 am

My friend's mum lived on an animal farm for 20 years. Those were the happiest years of her life. :)


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04 Apr 2011, 10:27 am

i imagine a lot of aspies would quite like to live on a farm too, animals are great companions compared to confusing humans. thanks Mick :)



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04 Apr 2011, 11:19 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wk2FwrOoDA&feature=related[/youtube]



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04 Apr 2011, 7:47 pm

Coincidences:

  • In 1898, a novel called 'Futility' described an "unsinkable" ocean liner called Titan colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on her maiden voyage. Just as in the case of the real-life Titanic, a catastrophic shortage of lifeboats did for Titan's passengers.
  • Chris Cleave's first novel, 'Incendiary', about a terrorist attack on London, was published on 7 July 2005.
  • John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, second and third presidents of the United States and lead authors of the Declaration of Independence, both died on 4 July 1826, 50 years to the day after they signed it.
  • That other American founding father, Mark Twain, was born on the day Halley's Comet visited in 1835 and died on the day of its return in 1910. He predicted it would see him out.
  • The 19th-century King Umberto I of Italy was eating in a restaurant when he noticed the owner was a near-exact physical double. It emerged that both were born on the same day, in the same town, and had married women with the same name. The restaurateur had opened his establishment on the day of Umberto's coronation. Umberto was shot dead on the day he learned the restaurateur had died in a shooting.
  • Park ranger Roy Cleveland Sullivan was hit by lightning seven times: in 1942, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1977. On one occasion the lightning blew his shoe clean off. After the fourth of these strikes he became accustomed enough to having his hair on fire that he took to carrying a can of water around with him. He lived to 71, dying by his own hand after a love affair went wrong.


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05 Apr 2011, 1:30 pm

thanks Cornflake, great stuff! :)
i had heard of twain's celestial coinkydink & park ranger roy was actually mentioned on QI.. Rich hall said he was very 'testy'..

king Umberto's story was amazing. :) bonus points for you ;)