"Random fact of the day" thread.
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China and Russia weren't best buddies during the Cold War
As a matter of fact, by the late 50's it was not uncommon to see Chinese Communists burning effigies of Stalin.
Isn't Cracked Magazine wonderful?
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There were parts of rural China that, up until around the late 80's, had no idea that the government was communist. They assumed that Deng Xiaoping was the new Emperor.
Pro Wrestling, in one form or another (generally as exhibition catch wrestling), is older than Basketball, North American Football, and Major League Baseball.
It's fist major epicenters were Switzerland, Germany, Britain and Spain.
As a matter of fact, by the late 50's it was not uncommon to see Chinese Communists burning effigies of Stalin.
Isn't Cracked Magazine wonderful?
Also:
There were parts of rural China that, up until around the late 80's, had no idea that the government was communist. They assumed that Deng Xiaoping was the new Emperor.
Pro Wrestling, in one form or another (generally as exhibition catch wrestling), is older than Basketball, North American Football, and Major League Baseball.
It's fist major epicenters were Switzerland, Germany, Britain and Spain.
No you can't, that requires thumbs as well.Hasido said:
Further, if you include all digits, it also requires that you are capable of raising your ring finger independently of all your other fingers, which only a small percentage of the human race can do.
Peas are not vegetables, but seeds.
If you put banana's next to flowers, the flowers (also other fruits) will ripe faster. Due to bananas having a gaseous hormone called ethylene.
Daddy Longleg's are not spiders.
Any Oscar winner who is thinking about selling their coveted award for a large sum of money must first offer the gong back to the Academy, who can buy it back for $1.
If you put banana's next to flowers, the flowers (also other fruits) will ripe faster. Due to bananas having a gaseous hormone called ethylene.
Daddy Longleg's are not spiders.
Any Oscar winner who is thinking about selling their coveted award for a large sum of money must first offer the gong back to the Academy, who can buy it back for $1.
oh so your one of those people that are adamant that the thumb should not be included when someone says fingers, even though that for almost all intents and purposes it can function the same way?Maze1125 said:
and you don't have to extend the ring finger completely, so long as an attempt to extend it is significantly different from not extending it, the system can work.
This is a thread of "interesting facts".Hasido said:
If someone can point out that "peas are not vegetables but seeds" then I can point out that that thumbs are not fingers, but both are digits.
Well, if we can count "half-up", why not count it on every digit? Giving each one, bar the ring finger, three different positions, down, half-up and fully up. Allowing you to count up to at least 26243.