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Nigh Invulnerable

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If a rat has its brain wired to give a mild electric shock to its pleasure center (basically the equivalent of an orgasm) when a lever is pressed, the rat will forsake food and orgasm until it starves.
 

Cari Scholtens

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Kiutu said:
jedi88 said:
Alright everyone...time to show just how smart you are! Well...maybe not smart...hmm. Time to show how well you could do on a game show! I'll begin. In honor of this week's Escapist, did you know that the exact sentence "Beam me up, Scotty." was never uttered in the original Star Trek series? Alright peeps...your turn!
Those cops are gonna come beat you up for breaking the douche bag law. (I assume you were watching that Robot Chicken sketch when you made this)
Nope...swear to God...I saw it on Star Trek 2.0
 

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Nigh Invulnerable said:
If a rat has its brain wired to give a mild electric shock to its pleasure center (basically the equivalent of an orgasm) when a lever is pressed, the rat will forsake food and orgasm until it starves.
I learnt that from the Big Bang Theory, lol.

OT: Did you know that many people in Hawaii have no fingerprints due to working with Pineapples.
 
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The velocity (or speed) of a radio wave radiated into free space by a transmitting antenna is equal to the speed of light - 186,000 miles per second. Since light is faster than sound, that means a person listeing to a concert on the radio will hear the sound before a person actually there.
 

AkJay

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razer17 said:
Did you know that Clint Eastwood never uttered the line "Do you feel lucky punk?" he in fact said "The question you have to ask yourself us: Do I feel lucky, punk?"

Also, humans and dolphins are the only animals to have sex for pleasure. I find this fun because i wonder how scientists figured this out. Did they suddenly see a dolphin pull out some Durex?
they also rape and kill for pleasure, just like us! (well, not all of us.)
 

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Dublin is the only place on Earth (reportedly) Where a Lion has eaten a Penguin. Two people broke into Dublin Zoo and stole a Penguin and threw it into the Lion cage. Mean but funny.
 

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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
 

IanB.

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The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

BTW, penguins don't have phones; I already tried.
 

Jark212

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I didn't know that thing about the snails. Thats actually really gross.

Heres mine. The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
The most dangerous Mammal in North America is the Common Deer... Kills a lot of people each year due to car crashes...
 

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wilted_orchid said:
Nigh Invulnerable said:
If a rat has its brain wired to give a mild electric shock to its pleasure center (basically the equivalent of an orgasm) when a lever is pressed, the rat will forsake food and orgasm until it starves.
I learnt that from the Big Bang Theory, lol.

OT: Did you know that many people in Hawaii have no fingerprints due to working with Pineapples.
I learned that by being a psychology student.

Many of the crew who hand made the chainmail armor for the Lord of the Rings trilogy also have no fingerprints thanks to the extensive wear and tear of the metal.
 

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Did you know, that velociraptors were actually the size of a turkey and covered in feathers? It shares a remarkable number of similarities to modern day birds.
The one's people usually think about is most closely identical to Utah Raptor. As seen (inaccurately) in The Jurassic Park Movies.
 

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Scotland is the only country in the world where Coca-Cola is not the number 1 selling soft drink, it is in fact Irn Bru
 

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Contraception pills work on gorillas. Female ones, at least.
I thought this was going to seem like a boring fact, bu it seems to fit quite well with some of the others here.
 

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LockHeart said:
Did you know, that velociraptors were actually the size of a turkey and covered in feathers? It shares a remarkable number of similarities to modern day birds.
Yes indeed. The raptors in Jurassic Park were modeled after Deinonychus, which for quite a while was considered one of the Velociraptor sub-types or some such silliness.

"The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter in the English alphabet.