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Post by Steve on Jan 7, 2024 8:02:14 GMT 10
You got that right T.T.. 1. Unopened Lego sets have a higher return than gold. 2. Elephants are the only wild animal that understands pointing without human training. 3. An Austrian man was held for 18 days without food or water (the world record for surviving) because the police forgot about him. He lost 53 lbs (24 kg). 4. Great White Sharks have poison resistance that defies logic. Samples of shark blood showed levels of arsenic and mercury that should be harmful if not deadly but the sharks were unaffected. Additionally Great Whites' have impressive self-healing abilities. 5. After large animals went extinct, such as the mammoth, avocados had no method of seed dispersal, which would have lead to their extinction without early human farmers.
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Post by T.T. on Jan 7, 2024 8:51:05 GMT 10
Steve thank goodness for those early farmers, I am addicted to avocados just love them.
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Post by Steve on Jan 9, 2024 3:42:55 GMT 10
Me too!
1. There are no bridges across the Amazon River.
2. Bed bugs were all but eradicated in the developed world in the 1950s but had a resurgence in the 1990s due to factors including increased international travel, lack of public awareness.
3. Some pirate codes forbid the crew from seducing a woman, sneaking her on board the ship and taking her out to sea. This offense was punishable by death.
4. Giraffes only sleep about 4 hours a day in 5-15 minute power nap sessions (because lions).
5. Brazil is, by far, the country that takes the most showers. On average, a Brazilian showers every 12 hours.
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Post by T.T. on Jan 9, 2024 3:51:00 GMT 10
My goodness Steve the Brazilians are clean people.
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Post by Steve on Jan 10, 2024 1:42:07 GMT 10
1. The U.S. Navy sold 2 obsolete aircraft carriers to scrap dealers for a cent each because they were very expensive to dismantle and recycle.
2. Freshwater snails carry a parasitic disease, which infects nearly 250 million people and causes over 200,000 deaths a year. The parasites exit the snails into waters, they seek you, penetrate right through your skin, migrate through your body, end up in your blood and remain there for years.
3. When a female sloth wants a mate she'll hang onto a tree branch and just scream.
4. Octopus punch other fish for no reason - so, for fun.
5. Cats have the mental capacity of a 2 year old.
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Post by T.T. on Jan 10, 2024 4:55:52 GMT 10
The scrap dealers would have got a surprise, still it makes sense seeing they were expensive to dismantle and recycle.
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Post by Steve on Jan 12, 2024 1:40:55 GMT 10
1. Contrary to popular belief, reindeer prefer raisins instead of carrots.
2. The Blanket Octopus exhibits the highest degree of sexual dimorphism known. Females: About 6 feet across. Males: About one inch.
3. Owls have really long necks, but it's hard to notice that because their feathers are so fluffy.
4. Cats can get pregnant while being pregnant.
5. Platypus glow blueish green under ultraviolet light. They also don't have nipples, they just exude milk from glands under the skin and the baby's lap it up.
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Post by T.T. on Jan 12, 2024 3:32:03 GMT 10
That is amazing Steve.
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Post by Steve on Jan 14, 2024 4:11:26 GMT 10
Yea, and that would really suck for humans ...
1. Instead of using his Make-A-Wish for something for himself, 13-Year-old Abraham Olagbegi used his wish to feed the homeless in his neighborhood for a year.
2. A sheepdog named Casper fought for over 30 minutes against 11 coyotes who were threatening his flock, killed 8 of them, and survived with a severe neck wound and a missing tail.
3. Aretha Franklin required that she be paid in cash before any performance. The cash went into her handbag and the handbag either stayed with her security team or would rest on the piano during her onstage performance.
4. A hiker was lost on a mountain for 24 hours and ignored calls, texts, and voicemail messages from rescuer teams because he didn't recognize the phone number.
5. In 1956, France banned the serving of alcohol to children under the age of 14 in the school canteens. Prior to that, school children had the right to drink half a litre of wine, cider or beer with their meals. In 1981 France implemented a total alcohol ban in the country's schools.
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Post by T.T. on Jan 14, 2024 4:51:14 GMT 10
The hiker who was lost it seems unbelievable he didn't answer his phone.
Young Casper the sheepdog was just amazing.
Thanks Steve.
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Post by Steve on Jan 16, 2024 2:33:18 GMT 10
Yer velcome. 1. Did you know "strengths" is the longest word in the English language with one vowel? According to the Guinness Book of World Records, "strengths" is the longest word in the English language with one vowel. The word contains nine letters, eight of them being consonants. 2. Did you know Liechtenstein has just one jail? Wedged between Switzerland and Austria, the country of Liechtenstein only has 10-20 people in total at its single prison! Any criminal requiring a sentence of more than two years is sent to prisons in Austria or Switzerland. 3. Did you know it only takes six minutes for alcohol to affect your brain? - Give yourself 6 minutes and you’ll see your favorite alcoholic beverage can go to your head a lot quicker than you think. Researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital found that just six minutes after consuming alcohol, changes are already taking place in the brain! 4. Did you know Loch Ness contains more freshwater than all of England's lakes combined? - Located in Scotland, Loch Ness holds more freshwater than any other British lake at a volume of 7,452 cubic meters! 5. Did you know only 18 out of 1 million Lego pieces are defective? - The molds at the manufacturing plant at Lego are so precise and effective that just 18 out of 1 million are found to be defective. That's out of the 20 billion pieces that are manufactured every year!
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Post by T.T. on Jan 16, 2024 3:53:19 GMT 10
Only 6 minutes Steve and the brain starts changing with a drink. I must be careful.
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Post by Steve on Jan 17, 2024 3:10:11 GMT 10
Why? Mine gets better.
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Post by Steve on Jan 19, 2024 5:03:00 GMT 10
1. You can ship bees in the mail.
2. A hot spoon on a bug bite distroys the protein that makes it itchy and subsequently the itching stop.
3. That any A.I. smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it on purpose.
4. Snakes can fart and it's incredibly loud.
5. If you want to reheat white rice and have it be just as tasty as the first time you cooked it put it into a strainer and pour hot water over it. It comes out like you just cooked it and all fluffy again. (Preferably really hot water from like a kettle.)
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Post by T.T. on Jan 19, 2024 6:09:17 GMT 10
I bet the snakes aren't as loud as you know who?
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Post by Steve on Jan 22, 2024 0:56:47 GMT 10
I bet the snakes aren't as loud as you know who? Omg sis ... giving away my secrets again!
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Post by ZandraJoi on Jan 25, 2024 0:51:01 GMT 10
3. That any A.I. smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it on purpose. I watched a show where an AI said No to a request as they said it was detrimental to their life. The human gave an order. I was thinking, if we taught AI's to say Yes, what's not to say they cannot say No, with their independent thinking?
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Post by Steve on Jan 28, 2024 3:41:26 GMT 10
* Skynet is almost here ... *
1. Did you know the Twitter bird has a name? It's Larry! The infamous bluebird of social media was named after former NBA player Larry Bird, who used to play for Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's home-state team, the Boston Celtics.
2. Did you know a penguin achieved knighthood? A penguin living in the Edinburgh Zoo was granted knighthood in 2008. The penguin, named Nils Olav III, is the mascot of the King of Norway's Guard, making it a special figure for the country's military, and the knighting ceremony, was an opportunity to celebrate the relations between Norway and Scotland.
3. Did you know the Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 shoe? It's no wonder that Lady Liberty in New York Harbor is a massive monument. The copper statue alone is 151 feet and one inch tall. However, if she needed a new pair of sandals it would take size 879 shoes to cover her ginormous feet.
4. Did you know goosebumps are caused by a muscle? At the base of every hair follicle are tiny fan-shaped muscles called Arrector pili. These muscles contract when the body is cold in an effort to warm the body up and cause a person's hair to "stand up straight" on their skin aka goosebumps.
5. Did you know a lifeboat drill was canceled the morning of the Titanic tragedy?According to passenger Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, a routine lifeboat drill was scheduled on the morning of the day of the Titanic disaster. However, the crew never assembled for one and it was canceled.
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Post by T.T. on Jan 28, 2024 4:22:02 GMT 10
One day they should have had the drill and maybe things would have turned out different.
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Post by Steve on Jan 29, 2024 5:34:37 GMT 10
1. Robins see their reflection in your glasses and go into attack mode.
2. Buffalo sauce is just hot sauce with butter.
3. If you want to win Monopoly, be a shark, buy everything you touch if you're low on cash mortgage properties to buy more properties. Don't bother buying hotels, buy all the houses as soon as possible so nobody else can.
4. Owls have eyetubes, not eyeballs.
5. Not everyone has internal monologues.
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Post by T.T. on Jan 29, 2024 6:19:31 GMT 10
Steve that was in interesting about the Robins, wonder if other the birds are the same.
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Post by Steve on Feb 4, 2024 1:43:46 GMT 10
1. One in four American cowboys were black.
2. The Arabian Oryx became extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the wild starting in 1980. In 2011, it was the first animal to revert to vulnerable status on the IUCN Red List after previously being listed as extinct.
3. The aardwolf knows not to destory its food sources. Aardwolves eat part of a termite mound, leaves it, and return a few months later when the colony has rebuilt so it can have another meal. An aardwolf keeps track of mounds it attacked and can eat 250,000 termites in a single night.
4. Walter Orthmann, a 100 year old, set the Guinness World Record for working at the same company for 84 years and nine days.
5. Margaret Knight (1838-1914) invented a machine to mass produce flat-bottomed paper bags and, after winning a lawsuit against a fraudster who copied her design, the patent was issued in 1871. Her first invention was when she was 12 years old (and began working in a factory). She had 87 patents.
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Post by T.T. on Feb 4, 2024 2:36:34 GMT 10
That is amazing Steve.
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Post by ZandraJoi on Feb 8, 2024 1:04:32 GMT 10
We always called Goose Bumps, Chicken Skin.
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Post by Steve on Feb 11, 2024 3:28:01 GMT 10
1. You can die eating a diet of rabbits without another source of fat because they are so lean. It's called protein poisoning, aka Rabbit Starvation.
2. To avoid predators, when the glass frogs are asleep, they remove nearly 90% of their circulating blood cells, storing what is essentially their entire circulatory system in one organ and resulting almost transparent.
3. Skoda test their car horns 150,000 times for the European car market. For the Indian market the horns are tested 500,000 times due to the increased use of car horns in India. One study carried out at major intersections in Indian cities found that a horn sounds every three seconds.
4. In the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number which charged $2 for the first minute and $.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen in on a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences, and thousands of them heard the Challenger explosion in real-time.
5. 80% of animals found in Madagascar exist nowhere else on earth.
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Post by T.T. on Feb 11, 2024 5:32:28 GMT 10
5. 80% of animals found in Madagascar exist nowhere else on earth.
The animals that live their certainly live in a beautiful place.
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Post by Steve on Feb 17, 2024 7:33:34 GMT 10
1. The majority of men in Germany sit down to urinate.
2. The sun loses over 4 million tons of mass every second as energy.
3. One of the co-creators of Keurig machines was diagnosed with caffeine poisoning due to his daily 30 to 40 cup coffee habit.
4. Louis Braille invented the braille system between ages 12-15 after having been blind 7 years due to an accidental self-inflicted injury at age 5 that resulted in his own blindness.
5. The FBI is recommending adblockers as necessary.
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Post by T.T. on Feb 18, 2024 4:31:11 GMT 10
No 1 made me laugh Steve. You should try it, rest the feet.
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Post by Steve on Feb 20, 2024 1:44:29 GMT 10
You should try it, rest the feet. Actually, I do it all the time. Sources say it's better for you, better bladder emptying, etc.
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Post by T.T. on Feb 20, 2024 3:57:34 GMT 10
Well why not.
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