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shogunblade

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triggrhappy94 said:
If Pez were to make a Perez Hilton Pez dispenser, it would hold 12 peices of pez.

You Don't Know Jack is a very fun game
Do you play on 360 or PS3? Also, we should be friends, because YDKJ is a fun game.

OT: The first "Brave Little Toaster" was composed by David Newman. David Newman's Brother? Randy Newman. Randy Newman composed all three Toy Story movies.

The Original script to the movie "8mm" was written by Kevin Andrew Walker, who wrote "Se7en". He had a falling out with the director, Joel Schumacher, who later rewrote the script. Had Schumacher directed Walker's Script of 8mm, the film would have been an NC-17.

The Famous Scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark with the shooting of the swordman was done because Harrison Ford had Montezuma's Revenge and couldn't film a big staged fight scene.

Originally, the movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry had a scene where Chuck & Larry, the supposed Gay Couple, was supposed to kiss. The kiss was filmed, but yanked because the movie would have had an "R" rating.

Electric Light Orchestra's 1st album title was an accident from the producer never hearing from anybody, thus the title was called, "No Answer".

Jeff Lynne (of ELO) wrote Eldorado after a bet he made with his father that he could write a song with an actual Orchestral Sound. The Album cover came from Wizard of Oz, but none of the band had ever seen the movie, so it was picked by Sharon Osbourne (Her father was the band's producer).

The ELO song "Shangri-La" refers to the Beatles "Hey Jude" due to its long fade out, reminiscent of a relationship break-up.

Originally, Roy Orbison didn't allow David Lynch to use "In Dreams" in the movie Blue Velvet, but Lynch found a loophole that allowed him to use it.
 

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Nouw said:
Around the World is said 144 times in the album-length version of the song.
Daft Punk right?

To make this post longer, I will add that Polar Bears skin is black and they are so adapted to keeping warm that they can actually overheat.
 

Mischa87

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Giraffes are one of the gayest animals

"Male giraffes have been observed to engage in remarkably high frequencies of homosexual behavior. After aggressive "necking", it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling.[65] In one study, up to 94% of observed mounting incidents took place between two males. The proportion of same sex activities varied between 30 and 75%, and at any given time one in twenty males were engaged in non-combative necking behavior with another male. Only 1% of same-sex mounting incidents occurred between females."
 

Waaghpowa

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The movie Ben-Hur, had an actor die on set during a scripted scene, and the footage was used in the full length movie.
 

Gustavo S. Buschle

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Daverson said:
All bananas are cloned from one plant, which is incapable of natural reproduction.
That is not entirely true, not all bananas are the same kind of banana, though the ones most people buy in the super market probably are clones.
 

Hyperrhombus

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The Worlds fastest computer is currently the "K" computer, it can do 8 QUADRILLION calculations in a second, and contains 68,544 8-core processors, or 548,352 cores. It runs linux, is still growing and costs over $10 million to run each year, but it still cannot play crysis or even minesweeper, as it has no graphics card.
 

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Sikratua said:
Angry Camel said:
If your eyes didn't close when you sneeze, your eyes would fly out.
That myth was busted 2 seasons ago. Adam's eyes didn't fly out, and he forcably held his eyes open during multiple sneezes.
Hell, I've sneezed with my eyes open before. Didn't even have to use my hands, I just kept my eyes open.

Side note, it's kinda gross to watch yourself sneeze.
 

tk809

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pope_of_larry said:
cfb_rolley said:
glass is a liquid. if you look closely at a window that's extremely old, you'll see that it's thinner at the top and thicker at the bottom. also, low grade glass is ever so slightly porous.

and, every window cleaner is a little bit eccentric, especially those that do high rises.
Good sir that is just not true glass is not a liquid back when the old glass was made they couldn't make it evenly and so they put the thicker side down so it doesn't just fall out.
On topic: 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
Technically both and neither of you are correct. But glass is technically a liquid and only remains flat now because of a better process of creation of glass. Glass was never made thicker side down though.

Edit - Should have read thread before posting to this. Someone already psted this on page 2
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-fiction-glass-liquid&ref=digg.com
Explains it better than I ever could.
 

pope_of_larry

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tk809 said:
pope_of_larry said:
cfb_rolley said:
glass is a liquid. if you look closely at a window that's extremely old, you'll see that it's thinner at the top and thicker at the bottom. also, low grade glass is ever so slightly porous.

and, every window cleaner is a little bit eccentric, especially those that do high rises.
Good sir that is just not true glass is not a liquid back when the old glass was made they couldn't make it evenly and so they put the thicker side down so it doesn't just fall out.
On topic: 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
Technically both and neither of you are correct. But glass is technically a liquid and only remains flat now because of a better process of creation of glass. Glass was never made thicker side down though.
Glass is an amorphous solid. i would go in to more detail but i have been awake for well over 20 hours so i'll just give you this link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Behavior_of_antique_glass
 

ScumbagEddie

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George Washington was the only US president in history to, during their term, ride out in full military uniform at the head of an army into anticipated action. This also makes Washington the only truly badass president in history. July 1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion
 

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WanderingBiscuits said:
"The Irish Car Bomb" drink was first created in america.
The ingredients consist of a half shot Irish whiskey ,a half shot of Irish cream [usually baileys] and half pint of Irish stout
Continuing the "Irish Car Bomb" trivia, if it's not drank quickly enough it curdles in the glass. Also, most pubs in Ireland will refuse to sell it.
 

dls182

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TacticalAssassin1 said:
dls182 said:
TacticalAssassin1 said:
You have an awesome avatar.
Why, thank you. Was it, by any chance, Justin Bieber? If it was, that wasn't me, that was the Escapist being a dick because I pushed a red button...
Or was it my normal one?
Guessing it is the normal one..... Art is Resistance
 

Nerfherder17

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Learned this the other day, pickles are only put on a McDonalds burger for tax reasons, to stop it from being legally classed as a dessert. There's a suprising amount of sugar in those things.
 

omega 616

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triggrhappy94 said:
omega 616 said:


Your a new person every 7 years. The cells in your body die and are replaced the one that takes the longest is seven years.

(At least I think it's 7).
Someone's probably already corrected you, but the cells in nerve endings never duplicate or get replaced, which is what causes permanent paralysis. Bones, however, do take around 7 years to become fully replaced (I believe). Also I'm pretty sure brain cells WILL duplicate and get replaced to a certain point

Another useless trivia fact: ^That girl licking her elbow is really cute.
Somebody said Brain but to be honest I can't be bothered editing my post to post a more correct fact.

I read that when I was about 10 and it stuck with me and was the first thing that came to mind when asked for a useless fact this time.

I will post one here though, there are far more than 3 states of matter ... there are 19 last time I took a peek.