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24 Jan 2007, 11:39 am

Coffee is the world's second largest item of international
commerce. Petroleum is the first.



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24 Jan 2007, 11:42 am

Percentage of Americans that want to change their bodies in
some way: 75% Percentage of Americans that would want to
change their intelligence: 13%



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24 Jan 2007, 12:19 pm

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A female salamander inseminates herself. At mating time,
the male deposits a jellylike substance containing the
sperm. The female draws the jelly into herself, and in
doing so fertilizes her eggs.


I'm glad I'm not a salamander. Reproduction should be fun!



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24 Jan 2007, 12:38 pm

I have both Depression and Psychosis.



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24 Jan 2007, 12:40 pm

That doesn't surprise me in the least.

Greater Manchester is one of the biggest counties by population in England after West Midlands and Greater London.



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24 Jan 2007, 12:43 pm

The German code machine used during WWll was named 'Enigma'.

The Brit computer built to break the German code was named 'Colossus'.


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24 Jan 2007, 12:58 pm

Tequila wrote:
That doesn't surprise me in the least.

Greater Manchester is one of the biggest counties by population in England after West Midlands and Greater London.


I actually know the fact about Manchester, because I used to read about England, all the time. I guess that you would call that a random fact that no one needs to know that someone from the other side of the world actually knew. :lol:



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24 Jan 2007, 1:23 pm

Before 1933, the dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less. In that year, Congress made the dime legal tender for all transactions.



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24 Jan 2007, 1:30 pm

On December 15, 1854, Philadelphia began using the first street-cleaning machine.



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24 Jan 2007, 3:47 pm

The Russian Typhoon is the largest submarine in the world.


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24 Jan 2007, 4:00 pm

I usually wear white socks.



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24 Jan 2007, 4:04 pm

There are at least two movies with the intoduction using music by Rammstein... ten points to the person who can guess the ones I have in mind. Both of the movies involve Russia in one way or the other.



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24 Jan 2007, 4:11 pm

Beets reminded early cooks of a bleeding animal when they cut them open, so they started calling them "beets." This was derived from the French word bête, meaning "beast."



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24 Jan 2007, 4:45 pm

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There are at least two movies with the intoduction using music by Rammstein... ten points to the person who can guess the ones I have in mind. Both of the movies involve Russia in one way or the other.


One of them is Triple X, i think.

You can't use one pound notes in England as they apparently don't exist.



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24 Jan 2007, 4:49 pm

MelancholyBunny wrote:
ahayes wrote:
There are at least two movies with the intoduction using music by Rammstein... ten points to the person who can guess the ones I have in mind. Both of the movies involve Russia in one way or the other.


One of them is Triple X, i think.

You can't use one pound notes in England as they apparently don't exist.


-5 points for telling everyone one of the movies

5 points to the person who knows the other movie



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24 Jan 2007, 4:52 pm

In the 1990s, in response to a quiz conducted at the National Science Foundation, only 48 percent of Americans answered the following true/false question correctly: "The earliest human beings lived at the same time as the dinosaurs." The correct answer, as you know doubt knew, is "false." This quiz was used to determine how much American adults know about basic science.