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It's far, far older than fivehundred years old, but thanks for your imput. Even as a book, it existed way before Gutenberg decided to put it into print.nuba km said:
In England your picture is taken on average once every 5 seconds by CCTV. There are 86,400 seconds in a day so that is 17280 pictures per day. I believe it is the highest in the world but I can't be completely sure about that.
Fivethousand is about as hilarious as your "blah blah blah your mom" reply. Think about it; When did Christ die (or so we assume)?nuba km said:
The bible as we know it came to be a few centuries after that, at a church-summit which I CBA to find the date for right now.
Posionous snakes are snakes that are poisonous when you eat them. Venemous snakes use venom for self-protection or for killing their prey. Venemous snakes are not always poisonous.
More people get killed by shoes than sharks per year,
More people get killed by shoes than sharks per year,
"Typewriter" is the longest word you can type with one row of letters on a QWERTY keyboard.FoolKiller said:It took me that long to read itA Raging Emo said:
Also, did you know that 'stewardesses' is the longest word in the English language that you can type with one hand on a QWERTY keyboard.
Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, co-wrote and produced a sexploitation film called Pretty Maids All in a Row, a film about a gym teacher who has sex with high school girls. This was in 1971, between the cancellation of Star Trek and the start of the first Star Trek movie. It's the only film credit he has that isn't a Star Trek film.
well the old testament a foundation for many religions is about 5000 years old the new testament used by Christians and now has to be part of the new bible is about 1961 years old ( -30 for how long Jesus lived and then it took 50 years to be written down).Realitycrash said:
Courtney Love's father believes she murdered Kurt Cobain...
Pat Smear was hired as a second guitarist for Nirvana because Kurt's heroin addiction would sometimes leave him unable to play...
Smells Like Teen Spirit was the last song written and added to Nevermind and was not intended to be released as the first single, Lithium was...
The album itself was expected to sell poorly....
Nirvana's first album, Bleach, was recorded on a budget of $600 in 2 days, but they we're high during the first recording and played everything in drop C and half speed so every song was rerecorded in one day, except Blew...
About A Girl is thought to be about Kurt's Ex Girlfriend, Tracy, but was written before they started dating...
Neverminds first single was released with a cover of Devo's Turnaround as a B side...
Both Kurt and Dave sing on the recording of In Bloom...
Most of Nevermind was written before Bleach was released...
In Utero, Nirvana's 3rd album, was originally called "I Hate Myself and I Want To Die" and had a completely different track list but the record company hated it and made them redo it...
Kurt Cobain liked gangster rap, when he bought the N.W.A.'s first album he never stopped playing it...
Kurt never had a left handed guitar until after Bleach was released, until then he either used a Mexican Stratocaster strung for a lefty or a Univox Hi-Flyer...
Most of Nirvana's music was just a random collection of poetry and phrases, Kurt even said himself that most fans we're reading into it too much...
Teen Spirit was actually a woman's deodorant brand... One of Kurts friends wrote Kurt smells like teen spirit on a wall, implying that he smelled like his girlfriends deodorant, but he miss took it as a complement... it wasn't until later that he found out what it was about...
Pennyroyal Tea was supposed to be Nirvana's last single before Kurt died...
Smells Like Teen Spirit music video was deliberately shot like crap because that was a popular style...
The crowed in the video was actually out of control, they weren't supposed to destroy the equipment but did anyway and you can even see the camera man pushing people out of the way while trying to move around...
each of Nirvana's videos had a story board created by Kurt...
The Fender Jagstang was created by taking a picture of a Mustang and a Jaguar cutting them in half and gluing the two halves together...
Nirvana's original name was Fecal Matter...
Nirvana would sometimes start Smells Like Teen Spirit during live shows by playing More Than Feeling because people would point out the similarities in the iconic guitar riff...
Kurt would sometimes bite the microphone while singing...
Pat Smear was hired as a second guitarist for Nirvana because Kurt's heroin addiction would sometimes leave him unable to play...
Smells Like Teen Spirit was the last song written and added to Nevermind and was not intended to be released as the first single, Lithium was...
The album itself was expected to sell poorly....
Nirvana's first album, Bleach, was recorded on a budget of $600 in 2 days, but they we're high during the first recording and played everything in drop C and half speed so every song was rerecorded in one day, except Blew...
About A Girl is thought to be about Kurt's Ex Girlfriend, Tracy, but was written before they started dating...
Neverminds first single was released with a cover of Devo's Turnaround as a B side...
Both Kurt and Dave sing on the recording of In Bloom...
Most of Nevermind was written before Bleach was released...
In Utero, Nirvana's 3rd album, was originally called "I Hate Myself and I Want To Die" and had a completely different track list but the record company hated it and made them redo it...
Kurt Cobain liked gangster rap, when he bought the N.W.A.'s first album he never stopped playing it...
Kurt never had a left handed guitar until after Bleach was released, until then he either used a Mexican Stratocaster strung for a lefty or a Univox Hi-Flyer...
Most of Nirvana's music was just a random collection of poetry and phrases, Kurt even said himself that most fans we're reading into it too much...
Teen Spirit was actually a woman's deodorant brand... One of Kurts friends wrote Kurt smells like teen spirit on a wall, implying that he smelled like his girlfriends deodorant, but he miss took it as a complement... it wasn't until later that he found out what it was about...
Pennyroyal Tea was supposed to be Nirvana's last single before Kurt died...
Smells Like Teen Spirit music video was deliberately shot like crap because that was a popular style...
The crowed in the video was actually out of control, they weren't supposed to destroy the equipment but did anyway and you can even see the camera man pushing people out of the way while trying to move around...
each of Nirvana's videos had a story board created by Kurt...
The Fender Jagstang was created by taking a picture of a Mustang and a Jaguar cutting them in half and gluing the two halves together...
Nirvana's original name was Fecal Matter...
Nirvana would sometimes start Smells Like Teen Spirit during live shows by playing More Than Feeling because people would point out the similarities in the iconic guitar riff...
Kurt would sometimes bite the microphone while singing...
Here's something I found interesting. Alot of today's medical knowledge comes from the experiments done on Jews in Nazi concentration camps, because no-one had performed these experiments before or (hopefully) ever will again.
The US Space Command plans to have the capabilities for space-launched kinetic megabomb satellites in space by 2025.
See:
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-06/rods-god
and/or
http://www.cracked.com/article_16477_5-famous-sci-fi-weapons-that-theyre-actually-building.html
See:
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-06/rods-god
and/or
http://www.cracked.com/article_16477_5-famous-sci-fi-weapons-that-theyre-actually-building.html
The new Testament wasn't written right at the time of the death of Christ. There were several gospels circulating, and only at the church-summit I mentioned did they decided on the current four gospels being canon in NT.nuba km said:
There are plants that do not photosynthetise. They are white due to the absence of chlorophyll, and are parasitic. Vampires,essentially. I'd love yo keep one, but it's probably very difficult and unethical.
Also, Richard Dawkins reckons that, had humans evolved to be octadigital (eight-fingered), computers would have been developed centuries ago due to an innate grasp of binary.
Also, Richard Dawkins reckons that, had humans evolved to be octadigital (eight-fingered), computers would have been developed centuries ago due to an innate grasp of binary.
The corpus callosum (the part of the brain that connects the two hemispheres) is low bandwidth. Think of it like 10BastT ethernet while the rest of your brain runs on gigabit.
However, your speech and hearing processors are on opposite sides of the brain, which can be used as an alternate channel to transmit data.
Thus in an emergency, when the signals across the brain overload, people will shout out orders to themselves. A person might shout to get a fire extinguisher, then run over and pick it up.
However, your speech and hearing processors are on opposite sides of the brain, which can be used as an alternate channel to transmit data.
Thus in an emergency, when the signals across the brain overload, people will shout out orders to themselves. A person might shout to get a fire extinguisher, then run over and pick it up.
There's a lot to say on this subject. The most interesting fact they found regarded hypothermia - leaving their subjects naked outside in the cold and measuring how long they survived.thanatus1992 said:
As far as this topic - Cecil Adam's feature The Straigt Dope is the best source of trivia I've found. Check him out here - http://www.straightdope.com/. From there ... http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/789/are-social-security-numbers-recycled - Here's where your social security number came from.