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Offline Bunsen

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Useless fact of the day
« on: Apr 27, 2010, 02:04:57 AM »
Useless fact of the day: If all retired US ships that now serve as memorials were used to form a new navy, it would rank as the third largest in the world.

What's your favorite nerdy factoid?  The more inane you can go, the better!
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #1 on: Apr 27, 2010, 02:18:15 AM »
okay.
did you know that the 5th note of the treble line in the 13th measure of Chopin's Prelude in E minor is D#?
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #2 on: Apr 27, 2010, 02:18:47 AM »
NO I DID NOT!
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #3 on: Apr 27, 2010, 02:25:05 AM »
was that inane enough for you? ;)
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #4 on: Apr 27, 2010, 02:39:23 AM »
If Texas were its own country, it would be the ___th biggest country.

California is bigger than Japan.
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #5 on: Apr 27, 2010, 02:40:50 AM »
See. I knew this thread would be a great idea.  A wonderful excuse for us all to act like idiots.
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #6 on: Apr 27, 2010, 03:13:27 AM »
Flavius Josephus was married 4 times- once while in prison, by command of Emperor Vespasian.
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #7 on: Apr 27, 2010, 06:18:54 AM »

Dogs kill more people every year in the USA than sharks and poisonous snakes combined.
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #8 on: Apr 27, 2010, 06:45:06 AM »
I wonder how she is doing today.
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #9 on: Apr 27, 2010, 07:40:40 AM »
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There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos.

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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #10 on: Apr 27, 2010, 11:42:41 PM »
Really didn't want to know that, to be honest.

But, my new outcry will be, "Holy Poo-Eating Sloths, Batman!"
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #11 on: Apr 28, 2010, 12:09:08 AM »
Benjamin Franklin's slaves were named King and George.
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #12 on: Apr 28, 2010, 12:59:24 AM »
Hammerhead sharks have six senses. They can sense electro-magnetic waves with receptors on their weird shaped heads.
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #13 on: Apr 28, 2010, 02:41:14 AM »
Quote from: Knight VII on Apr 28, 2010, 12:59:24 AM
Hammerhead sharks have six senses. They can sense electro-magnetic waves with receptors on their weird shaped heads.

as well as most, if not all sharks.
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Re: Useless fact of the day
« Reply #14 on: Apr 28, 2010, 05:05:54 AM »
Ted Haggard is not completely heterosexual.
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