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Paul

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The Luftwaffe were the first air force to attempt to field a rocket-propelled aircraft. Can anyone see an issue with using a rocket to propel something that other aircraft would be shooting at? Then again, this was in 1944 when anything probably was considered a good idea by the higher echelons of Nazi command. Still, hitting almost 700mph was pretty impressive for the time. And that's about the only claim to fame the Messerschmitt Me-163 'Komet' had.
 

KoSTHB

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ancient west africans around(2000-1500 b.c) visited the Americas and left the Olmac civilization beating columbus a couple thousand years
 

Kiju

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Fun Fact: I'm a brony.

Okay, but in all seriousness: There are four types of Pathogens: Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Fungi. However, Fungi isn't entirely harmful to the human body, and more often than not can merely be scraped off. (I wouldn't suggest doing this in a restaurant, though...)
 

Harveypot

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1 A duck's quack does echo
2 Women can be topless in Liverpool, England but only in tropical fish shops.
3 Doctor Who was originally made to teach kids about science and history but the sci-fi stuff became too popular.
4 Up until 2009 (might be 2010, I'm not completely sure), in England it was still legal to own someone.
5 Peter Jackson was approached in the 90s to remake King Kong and they made models to use for stop-go animation. The project was then cancelled until late into production of The Two Towers
6 Wolverine is the only X-Men character to have appeared in all adaptions of the comics ever.
 

Queen Michael

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Harveypot said:
6 Wolverine is the only X-Men character to have appeared in all adaptions of the comics ever.
But what about Professor X and Cyclops? They were in all of them, right?
 

Coraxian

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I don't know whether this is still out in the open, but according to a somewhat dated book I own, chances are that the whole universe is a black hole in another universe.

Try out the McGurk effect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0

And according to some, Troy lay in England, not Turkey.

The perception of colour is influenced by your native language. As seen in this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b71rT9fU-I&feature=related

You can remedy phantom pains in, for instance, a lost hand by massaging somebody else's hand in view of the patient. (long story short)

The bloodhound gang lyrics "I'm hung like planet Pluto, hard to see with the naked eye, but if I crashed into Uranus I would stick out where the sun don't shine" is factually correct. Due to the fact that Uranus is the only planet in the solar system of which the rotation axis is somewhat pointed towards the sun, causing one side to never see the sun at all. Seeing as Pluto is further from the sun than Uranus, this would indeed cause Pluto to stick out where the sun don't shine... :p
 

Harveypot

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Queen Michael said:
Harveypot said:
6 Wolverine is the only X-Men character to have appeared in all adaptions of the comics ever.
But what about Professor X and Cyclops? They were in all of them, right?
Cyclops wasn't in X-Men First Class and I think there was a game that didn't have Professor X in it.
 

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The reason why we don't remember things from when we are really young is because memories work as stories that require structure. Children cannot comprehend the concepts of plot, character, setting, and other story pieces, so they do not have the capacity for remembering things that happened.
 

MrRetroSpectacles

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Azaradel said:
Many insects have ocelli ("simple eyes"), in addition to their compound eyes. These tend to be larger in flying insects such as bees, wasps and dragonflies and usually occur in triplets.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Vespa_mandarinia.jpg/250px-Vespa_mandarinia.jpg

Asian Giant Hornet.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk9iwxURtf1qibfxpo1_500.jpg
Just thought you'd like to know...
Vespids and dragonflies are both filed under my list of things that are fucking beautiful, but I wouldn't touch to save my life.

What? I thought it was interesting!

Don't ask me why I've got nothing better to do than amass useless facts about insects, though...

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There is a restaurant in Stockholm that only offers all-garlic products. They even have a garlic cheesecake.




I must make sure that my sister never finds out about that place.

Especially seeing how close to Stockholm we actually live.



Ah, you may change your tune, apparently they also serve 101 different flavours of vodka shots at the bar. Then again if you live near Stockholm you may not share the English joy of drunkeness that I do ;) Just in case though, it's address is: Folkungagatan 84, Sofo-Sodermalm. T-Bana- Medborgarplatsen. At least I think that's an address, could be Clingon to me :p
 

kickassfrog

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25. It is illegal for a cab in the City of London to carry rabid dogs or corpses.

24. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

23. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down.

22. In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon.

21. Under the UK?s Tax Avoidance Schemes Regulations 2006, it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you don?t want him to know, though you don?t have to tell him anything you don?t mind him knowing.

20. In Alabama, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle.

19. In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.

18. Royal Navy ships that enter the Port of London must provide a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower of London.

17. In the UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants ? even, if she so requests, in a policeman?s helmet.

16. In Lancashire, no person is permitted after being asked to stop by a constable on the seashore to incite a dog to bark.

15. In Miami, Florida, it is illegal to skateboard in a police station.

14. In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation.

13. In England, all men over the age of 14 must carry out two hours of longbow practice a day.

12. In London, Freemen are allowed to take a flock of sheep across London Bridge without being charged a toll; they are also allowed to drive geese down Cheapside.

11. In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.

10. In the UK, a man who feels compelled to urinate in public can do so only if he aims for his rear wheel and keeps his right hand on his vehicle.

9. In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays can be jailed.

8. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon more than six-feet long.

7. In Chester, Welshmen are banned from entering the city before sunrise and from staying after sunset.

6. In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.

5. In Boulder, Colorado, it is illegal to kill a bird within the city limits and also to ?own? a pet ? the town?s citizens, legally speaking, are merely ?pet minders?.

4. In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth.

3. In London, it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have the plague.

2. In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman?s genitals but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination; he may only see their reflection in a mirror.

1. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast is legally the property of the King; the tail, on the other hand, belongs to the Queen - in case she needs the bones for her corset.


24 Is my personal favourite.
 

Tsaba

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DJ_DEnM said:
http://urbantitan.com/10-most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-in-2011/

Whats that internet? Number one is Bogota?

Get your facts straight and stop being so freaking discriminative against Mexicans.
When the city you list (not yours but mine) consistently places second on several top 10 whatever, then by the laws of math it would average first.

And I like that you called me racist on no valid point thanks, honestly, now go away.

[link]http://www.mostdangerouscities.org/[/link]
[link]http://www.mediadump.com/hosted-id73-worlds-ten-most-dangerous-cities.html[/link]
[link]http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/10/dangerous.cities.world/index.html[/link]
[link]http://www.wonders-world.com/2010/03/top-5-most-dangerous-cities-for-live-of.html[/link]
 

That's Funny

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The Roman emperor Caligula decided that he was the Greek god Zeus in disguise, and he then started a war with Neptune (the roman god of the sea). This was marked by his men throwing spears into the sea, as a way to somehow attack the sea.

In fact this video sums it up best.
 

Incignito

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Too long, did not read.

But still thought should tell you about estonia:

In estonia, twelve months is Kaksteist kuud and you say it like you would say C*ck tastes good
 

the spud

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You probably already know this, buuuttttt..... Pack Man's design was based on a pizza with a slice missing.

Also, the 7 years war was one of the world's biggest conflicts that nobody knows about.
 

KeiraZodiac

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+ The arcade game space invaders became so popular in Japan that there was a mini economic crisis because everyone spent their coins on the game.
 

AlexWinter

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A butterfly has 10,000+ eyes.

Venus has a retrograde spin.

Aliens exist.

The Galileo satellite system can track your car with an error of only 1 metre.

Uranus is on its side.

Although it is smaller Jupiter weighs more than the Sun. (Not actually sure on that one.)

A second is not 1/86400th of a day but actually 9,192,631,770 periods of the rotation of a caesium-133 atom.

A day is actually 23 hours and 56 minutes long (This is how long it takes for the Earth to spin round once.) But a Sidereal day is 24 hours (This is how long it takes for the sun to be at the same point in the sky.)

Travelling at the speed of Earth's fastest probe, Voyager, it would take 300,000 years to reach the nearest Exo-Earth.

Gold, silver, lead and platinum can only be formed within a supernova.

Everything is made out of stardust.

Melbourne was founded by Batman.

I am an Astronomy student.