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Post by Steve on Aug 6, 2023 0:35:47 GMT 10
1. Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family. 2. A cluster of bananas is called a "hand." Along that theme, a single banana is called a "finger." 3. Scientists discovered sharks living in an active underwater volcano. Divers cannot investigate because they would get burns from the acidity and heat. 4. Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons. 5. The average American child is given $3.70 per tooth that falls out.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 6, 2023 4:27:09 GMT 10
Interesting Steve the Lettuce is a member of the Sunflower family.
Didn't know about the bananas either.
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Post by Steve on Aug 6, 2023 8:49:20 GMT 10
Go tell someone to pick up a hand of bananas at the grocery store for you and watch the look on their face. I had never heard of it either.
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Post by Steve on Aug 8, 2023 1:50:11 GMT 10
1. "Opposites attract" is a common myth. People are actually attracted to people who look like family members or those with a similar personality type.
2. Llamas can be used as guards against coyote attacks on sheep herds. Studies have proven that just one guard llama is an effective protector and can even kill the attacking coyotes.
3. The unique smell of rain actually comes from plant oils, bacteria, and ozone.
4. If you heat up a magnet, it will lose its magnetism.
5. Cruise ships have morgues that can store up to 10 bodies at once. The average amount of people that die on cruise ships per year is 200.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 8, 2023 3:58:50 GMT 10
Never thought of Cruise ships having morgues but when you think about they would have to.
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Post by Steve on Aug 9, 2023 0:30:36 GMT 10
1. Small as they may be, ladybugs have a unique smell that humans are incredibly sensitive to.
2. During WWII, a U.S. naval destroyer won a battle against a Japanese submarine by throwing potatoes at them. The Japanese thought they were grenades.
3. A man with severe OCD and a phobia of germs attempted to commit suicide with a gun to his head. Instead of killing him, the bullet eliminated his mental illness without any other damage.
4. The oldest unopened bottle of wine was found in a Roman tomb that is over 1,650 years old.
5. More tornadoes occur in the United Kingdom per square mile than in any other country in the world.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 9, 2023 3:56:43 GMT 10
I love it when I see ladybugs they are beautiful. Amazing finding a bottle of wine that old.
Enjoy these my boy.
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Post by Steve on Aug 10, 2023 20:15:30 GMT 10
I'm glad. Sorry I didn't do one yesterday.
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Post by Steve on Aug 11, 2023 5:11:04 GMT 10
1. Although there is currently no drug proven to make someone tell the truth, some countries like Russia, Canada, and India use truth serums.
2. Only primates, humans, and opossums have opposable thumbs. Out of these, the opossum is the only one with no thumbnail.
3. It snows metal on planet Venus! There are two types that have been found, galena and bismuthinite.
4. Only official members of federally accepted Native American tribes may legally possess or collect eagle feathers. If a normal citizen has one, it is illegal.
5. There is a company in the U.K. that offers "being hungover" as a valid reason for calling off work. They are allotted four hungover days per year.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 11, 2023 5:39:31 GMT 10
Hungover days, 4 isn't many Steve. :)
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Post by Steve on Aug 12, 2023 2:12:25 GMT 10
Hungover days, 4 isn't many Steve. :) True but I don't get hangovers anyway. 1. It's not just humans who are right or left-handed. Most female cats prefer using their right paw, and males are more likely to be left-pawed. 2. A bolt of lightning can reach 53,540 degrees Fahrenheit. That's 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun, which is 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit. 3. The quietest room in the world in Minnesota is measured in negative decibels – so quiet that you can hear your own heartbeat and your bones moving. 4. The Guinness World Record for the longest time spent searching for the Loch Ness Monster is held by Steve Feltham, who camped at Loch Ness for 25 years. 5. Chewing gum boosts mental proficiency and is considered a better test aid than caffeine – but nobody knows why.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 12, 2023 3:29:53 GMT 10
Have to admit I don't either, we must have had a lot of experience.
How interesting about the cats with left and right paws. That would be frightening sitting in a room hearing your heart beat and your bones moving.
Thank you Steve.
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Post by spice on Aug 12, 2023 21:44:44 GMT 10
4. The Guinness World Record for the longest time spent searching for the Loch Ness Monster is held by Steve Feltham, who camped at Loch Ness for 25 years. What a waste of your life.
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Post by Steve on Aug 15, 2023 22:15:58 GMT 10
1. Even though Irish is the official language of Ireland, Polish is more widely spoken.
2. The average household income of the top 1% in the United States is $1,260,508 per year.
3. If you cut a starfish, it won't bleed – it doesn't have blood! Rather, they circulate nutrients by using seawater in their vascular system.
4. 12% of the world's total languages are found in Papua New Guinea, which has over 820 indigenous languages. There are more languages on this island than in any other country.
5. While shedding, geckos will eat their skin in order to prevent predators from finding and eating them more easily.
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Post by spice on Aug 16, 2023 1:20:51 GMT 10
5. While shedding, geckos will eat their skin in order to prevent predators from finding and eating them more easily.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 16, 2023 4:06:22 GMT 10
No. 4 is interesting Steve to have that many languages.
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Post by Susan on Aug 16, 2023 4:14:32 GMT 10
1. Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family. 2. A cluster of bananas is called a "hand." Along that theme, a single banana is called a "finger." 3. Scientists discovered sharks living in an active underwater volcano. Divers cannot investigate because they would get burns from the acidity and heat. 4. Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons. 5. The average American child is given $3.70 per tooth that falls out. oh wow didn't know any of this susan hey back in the day i was given 1.00 while others were only given a quarter so think my neices got 5.00 for a tooth not too sure
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Post by Steve on Aug 17, 2023 3:47:51 GMT 10
1. Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, which drew more visitors to see the empty space than the actual painting.
2. Bees actually have knees. The expression comes from the fact that they store large build-ups of pollen in hairy baskets on their knees.
3. When you exercise, the burned fat metabolizes to become carbon dioxide, water, and energy. Meaning that you exhale the fat that you lose.
4. Polar bears often hunt walruses by simply charging at a group of them and eating the ones that were crushed or wounded in the mass panic to escape. Direct attacks are rare.
5. When shuffling a deck of cards, the number of possible arrangements is approximately 8×1067. That's more than the number of stars in the observable universe.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 17, 2023 4:53:44 GMT 10
You don't get too close to the Mona Lisa now with all the crowds.
Smiled at the bees having knees we used to have a club called The Bees Knees.
I have a bit more fat I would like to exhale.
Some good ones there Steve.
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Post by Steve on Aug 17, 2023 9:00:59 GMT 10
You don't get too close to the Mona Lisa now with all the crowds. Especially since some idiot tried to deface it.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 17, 2023 11:44:39 GMT 10
You are right there Steve, darn twits.
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Post by Steve on Aug 19, 2023 3:49:57 GMT 10
1. There is an insurance policy issued against alien abduction. Around 50,000 policies have been sold, mainly to residents of the U.S. and England.
2. In 2005, Connecticut was accidentally issued an Emergency Alert to evacuate the entire state. Only about 1% of the people actually tried to leave.
3. Webster's Dictionary accidentally had a word that didn't exist in it for five years – "Dord."
4. Roselle, a guide dog, led her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs during 9/11. The descent took about an hour, and they both safely made it out.
5. Madagascar once was a stomping ground for lemurs which were the size of today's gorillas.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 19, 2023 5:01:52 GMT 10
That is amazing Steve.
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Post by Steve on Aug 20, 2023 23:28:39 GMT 10
1. The American roulette wheel is different from the European wheel. The American one has 2 green spaces while the European one only has 1. Although on both, if you add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel, you will get 666.
2. A study from Harvard University finds that having no friends can be just as deadly as smoking. Both affect levels of a blood-clotting protein.
3. The world's smallest mammal, a Bumblebee Bat, weighs about the same as a U.S. dime. Native to Myanmar and Thailand, these bats are endangered.
4. The Great Pyramid of Giza actually has eight sides rather than four. All of the other pyramids have just four sides.
5. In Korea, there is a breed of dog called a Sapsali, which was originally thought to banish ghosts and evil spirits.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 21, 2023 4:05:12 GMT 10
Steve I agree about having no friends I think it is very important in life.
Thank you.
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Post by Steve on Aug 22, 2023 0:26:40 GMT 10
1. Berries are simple fruits stemming from one flower. This means that pineapples, bananas, watermelons, pumpkins, and avocados are berries.
2. One horse can have approximately 15 horsepower. Horsepower is about 746 watts. The term was coined in the late 18th Century.
3. All the paint on the Eiffel Tower weighs the same as ten elephants. It gets repainted every seven years without closing to the public.
4. The blue whale's heart is the size of a VW Beetle and weighs up to 1,000 lbs (453 kg).
5. Garlic is known to attract leeches.
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Post by Steve on Aug 23, 2023 1:05:02 GMT 10
1. The Japanese term for a Shotgun Wedding is "Dekichatta kekkon," which literally translates to "oops-we-did-it-marriage."
2. After the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage tripled in the United States.
3. Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed because the pilot let his kids fly the plane who unknowingly disengaged the autopilot function. The crash killed everyone on board.
4. It takes Uranus 84 years to orbit the Sun once.
5. A 26-sided shape is known as a rhombicuboctahedron.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 23, 2023 3:54:12 GMT 10
When I eat my avocados Steve I will think of them as berries.
Steve fancy the pilot letting his kids fly the plane.
Thanks Steve.
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Post by Steve on Aug 24, 2023 0:35:16 GMT 10
1. By applying even pressure to an egg, it is nearly impossible to break the shell by squeezing it.
2. A recently discovered deep-sea snail, the Scaly-Foot Gastropod, has a shell that is impressively developed. So much so that the U.S. military is trying to use its design to inspire defensive layers in military armor.
3. There are over 6,000 known species of grass.
4. The total weight of all air on Earth is 11 quintillion pounds.
5. Ant queens can live for up to 30 years.
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Post by T.T. on Aug 24, 2023 3:47:49 GMT 10
Interesting about the egg shell and I didn't realise Ant Queens lived that long.
Good ones there Steve.
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