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[WittyInfidel]

Humanity will eventually invent immortality. But we'll all be dead by then.

I just wanted to leave a link of this here. Immortality is closer than you think.

Or a zombie apocalypse, perhaps. It's usually a "breakthrough" drug like this that helps to start spawning zombies.

Spoiler: Russian scientist invents anti-aging serum

http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=90460

Either/or, I say keep the ammo handy.

 

[gostchiken]

In Florida if you tie an elephant to a parking meter, you must pay the same parking fee as you would for a vehicle.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

If, in Utah, you encounter a group of 5 or more Native Americans, they are technically considered a war party, and you are allowed to attack them.

 

[aaronx83]

the 141's pokemon in Black and White's Pokedex is called Sazando

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Purgatory is never mentioned in the bible or any of the attached writings

 

[JoJo]

Chuck Norris' birthday is on the 10th March, which is the same day as Osama bin Laden's!

 

[gostchiken]

The letter used most in the English language is the letter "E".

 

[Comrade_Beric]

The letter used most in the English language is the letter "E".

That doesn't mean we can't get by without it though. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby:_Champion_of_Youth]

 

[manythings]

Christopher Columbus, contrary to what everyone was always taught, was considered an immense fuckwit, tool and criminal. That's why he, a spaniard, had to go to portugal to get funding for his expedition. Also that whole "Everyone thought the earth was flat thing"? Bullshit as well, navigation was based on the priniciple that the earth was round and had been since ancient Greece and Egypt.

Granted that the world being spherical had been well known about by scholars for almost two thousand years, your assessment of Columbus is at least a little bit off. He was Italian and since Italy's naval powers concerned themselves exclusively on the Mediterranean trade routes, he was left to have to go to another power to ask for funding. He went to Portugal first because Prince Henry "the Navigator" had been funding expeditions to sail around Africa for decades by then. Columbus made his pitch (using some incredibly bad math) that he thought that China was much closer to the west than conventional math would suggest. Prince Henry (who was a mathematician in his own right) called bullshit on him and tossed his ass out. That's why Columbus ended up in Spain and got backing from Queen Isabella (who apparently was not nearly as good with numbers as Henry was).

Little known fact about Columbus: He died having never laid his eyes on the mainland, still convinced that he'd made it to the East Indies islands. Thus the reason they are still known as the "West Indies" and many Native Americans as "Indians" to this day.

Dammit, there are some books I need to reread...

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

If you get brain freeze press your tongue against the roof of your mouth as hard as you can and viola...faster relief.

On most elevators if you press your floor number and the close door button at the same time you'll go straight to your floor skipping the others even if they're being called.

If your getting a call from a solicitor simply press nine and the call will drop and your number will be put on the companies do not call list. 95% of solicitor companies support this feature.

If you need to be sick for something publicly eat about half a cigarette. You'll get sweaty, dizzy, pale, and clammy. All around looking and feeling very sick. In about 20 minutes you'll aggressively vomit everything you've eaten and expel the tobacco. A dramatic but effective way to prove sickness and get out of whatever you wanted to escape from at that moment.

Walk on the sides of stairs to avoid/reduce creaks and loud noises.

 

[manythings]

The word barbarian originates from the Greeks thinking that the language of non-Greek people sounding as if they were saying "Bar bar bar".

So it was basically the ancient greek version of the swedish chef from the muppets?

 

[JuryNelson]

Viagra was originally developed to combat high blood pressure.

"R" and "L" sounds are known as "glides." And in Japanese there exists only one. That's why we get stuff like "Engrish." There simply is no separation between the sounds.

In English, there is nothing grammatically wrong with ending a sentence in a preposition. It comes from the way the language evolved from Latin, where it is literally impossible to construct a sentence that way, as they were folded into the words. It's not wrong in this language, just wrong in the language it was evolved from.

"Flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing. So do "regardless" and "irregardless." Meanwhile, "Nonplussed" has two more or less contradictory definitions.

The Sea Cucumber can literally expel all of its internal organs.

More as I think of them?

 

[gostchiken]

To increase it's strength, the steel for a katana is folded only 16 times, any more would be redundant.

 

[Quaxar]

Let's see. I used a lot of facts in other threads with the same topic so I will give you something new this time:

German chocolate cake has nothing to do with Germany. It was invented by a guy named Samuel German (who was despite of his name not German) in Texas.

 

[joshthor]

Careful with this bit of information, as it will change the way you think, if only momentarily.

Spoiler

After reading this, the Final Countdown will be playing in your head

Anyways, Horror is a successful genre for movies, and supposedly a dying one for videogames.
Also, Chuck Norris has beaten a brick wall at tennis.

that wouldnt be hard.

 

[krugerrand123]

the square root of negative one is imaginary

 

[RanD00M]

Did you know that the unit used to measure light is called Lux. And that your average work place should use somewhere between 200-300 Lux for good lighting. And another Lux related fact. Old people need 3times stronger light than young people to see properly.

 

[tigermilk]

The moon can be seen from the Great Wall of China.

A lot of people will misread the above.

 

[skennedy929]

The male Platypus is poisonous.

 

[The Austin]

Guinea Pigs eat their own poop for digestion.

Dawwwwww..
Even when eating poop their adorable.

OP: Put a dollar bill under a darklight, see what happens. It's pretty cool.