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Who gets overexcited by sugary drinks?
Parents. There isn't a shred of scientific evidence that children become 'hyperactive' when given sugary drinks, sweets or snacks.
In one test, a group of children were all given the same sugar-rich drink, but the parents of half the sample were told they'd been given a sugar-free drink. When questioned afterwards, the parents who thought their children hadn't had any sugar (even though they had) reported far less hyperactive behaviour. In another study, some children were put on high-sugar diets and others sugar-free ones. No difference in behaviour was observed.
No one has ever come up with a decent theory to explain exactly how sugar might make youngsters hyperactive. If high blood-sugar levels were the cause, they'd be more likely to go ballistic after a bowl of rice.
In the 19th century, moralising Victorians attributed 'degeneracy and idleness' in the Irish to the supposed soporific effect of the potato.

the crazy parent syndrome lol..
stephen fry said himself nobody would believe it.
anyways, hmm...

The male deep-sea anglerfish is much smaller than the female. But he has giant eyes to look for a suitable female and enormous nostrils to sniff out her pheromones. Having found her, he latches onto her with his teeth and then starts to disappear. Scales, bones, blood vessels all merge into those of the female. After a few weeks, all that's left of the male are the testes hanging off the female's side, supplying her with his genes.

poor fella

Ted Turner is America's largest private landowner, owning approximately two million acres (8,000 km2), greater than the land areas of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Turner's land has a higher gross domestic product than Belize. He has the largest private bison herd, with 50,000 head. In 2002, Turner co-founded Ted's Montana Grill, a burger restaurant chain specializing in bison meat.

that's a lotta land! lol
i think the UK is too small for something similar. i wouldn't mind 8,000km2 to live in, so i could play epic games of hide'n'seek

The Isle of Wight was the last place in Britain to convert to Christianity in 686 AD, almost a century after the rest of the country. It was subjugated by Cædwalla (leader of the West Saxons), who killed most of the Pagan population to Christianise it.

Custard can support a person walking on top of it because it is a non-Newtonian fluid, as demonstrated on Sky One's Brainiac. The heavier the weight you put on it, the harder it becomes

A few Latin expressions:

-Salary is from salaium argentium or "salt money,"a fee paid by salt to Roman soldiers.

-"To make a bed" was stuffing straw in a sack each night to virtually remake the bed.

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-What about the saying to go scot free? In Old English scot meant a payment or share of it, and hence escaping that payment.

-How did the word piggy bank come about? People stored money in a "pygg jar."This is a jar made of clay and the English morphed it to pig bank then to "piggy bank."

In 2004, Frank Ames of Saranac, New York State, had his eyebrow hair measured at an incredible 7.8 cm (3.1 inches) thick.

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Parasaurolophuscolobus. Parasaurcolobus. Colobusaurolophus.
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cool, thanks Mdyar

your rank, 'economy of words' reminds me of Laconic, or Laconic phrase, named after Laconia or Lacedaemon a polis surrounding the city of Sparta proper.
a Laconic phrase is a very concise statement, economic with words & quite the opposite of a loquacious statement, which would have seemed 'frivolous' to a spartan.
such phrases often contain a dry wit, at least in Spartan examples.
some famous examples include King Leonidas' "Molon labe" which translates to "Come and take them" now immortalised in film, this is now the motto of the Greek 1st Army Corps.

from Herodotus: " When the banished Samians reached Sparta, they had audience of the magistrates, before whom they made a long speech, as was natural with persons greatly in want of aid. Accordingly at this first sitting the Spartans answered them that they had forgotten the first half of their speech, and could make nothing of the remainder. Afterwards the Samians had another audience, whereat they simply said, showing a bag which they had brought with them, 'The bag wants flour.' The Spartans answered that they did not need to have said 'the bag'; however, they resolved to give them aid."


from the time of the invasion of Philip II of Macedon. With key Greek city-states in submission, he turned his attention to Sparta and sent a message: "If I win this war, you will be slaves forever." In another version, Philip proclaims: "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city." According to both accounts, the Spartan ephors sent back a one word reply; "If."

from elsewhere, Caesar's "Veni, Vidi, Vici" or 'i came, i saw, i conquered'.

Nobel Prize-winning British physicist Paul Dirac was notoriously taciturn. During the question period after a lecture he gave at the University of Toronto, a member of the audience remarked that he hadn't understood part of a derivation. There followed a long and increasingly awkward silence. When the host finally prodded him to respond, Dirac simply said, "That was a statement, not a question."

In the Korean War, after U.N. forces under American command were attacked by Chinese forces in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, U.S. commander Chesty Puller made the remark, "We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things."
He also reportedly said, "All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time".
In the same battle, Major General Oliver P. Smith was widely quoted as saying, " Retreat? Hell, we're attacking in a different direction!", but that is apparently an abbreviation of his actual explanation.
During the Battle of the Imjin River, the British commander, Lieutenant Colonel Carne, surrounded on all sides by a massive force of Chinese soldiers, and with his armoured support destroyed, was radioed by an American battalion further upriver asking him for a situation report. Carne's reply was "A bit sticky."

got a bit carried away there

Calvin Graham, the youngest U.S serviceman in World War 2, was wounded in combat and later discharged for lying about his age - he was only 12 years old.

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Parasaurolophus, Plesiosaurs, Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Music, Tuna, Chocolate milk, Oreos, Blue things

Parasaurolophuscolobus. Parasaurcolobus. Colobusaurolophus.
....And Nunchucks are my friends.

yeah, although 300 exaggerates somewhat, the Spartans really were 'hardcore'. lol

interestingly, another Philip, born into the Greek and Danish royal families, married the now monarch of england/britain/UK , Queen Elizabeth II. she was just a princess at the time.
he now holds the title of Duke of Edinburgh & a Prince of the United Kingdom. although i'm fairly certain he can almost never become King.
possibly not that interesting but nvm.

The Welsh equivalent of a King is known as a Prince, therefore the 'Prince of Wales' is essentially the 'King of Wales'.

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THINGS I LIKE
Parasaurolophus, Plesiosaurs, Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Music, Tuna, Chocolate milk, Oreos, Blue things

Parasaurolophuscolobus. Parasaurcolobus. Colobusaurolophus.
....And Nunchucks are my friends.

Interesting fudo. ^^ A lady once labeled my linguistics as pithy.
Ever been to a professional baseball game? Imagine you standing at home plate and throwing a baseball into the upper deck in center field. Someone did throw a baseball 456 feet, and hypothetically that would put it in the upper deck at center field.

The longest female throw is I believe is 296 feet--off memory. Almost a home run down the line in smaller ballparks.