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Bert Posted Sep 26, 2011
If all politicians were laid end to end no one would be surprised.
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Vestboy Posted Sep 26, 2011
Q If you had a rope that fitted tightly round the earth's circumference and then wanted to lengthen it so that it would be 30cm (about a foot) above the earth all the way round how much would you have to lengthen it by?
A A bit less than 2 metres (just over 6 feet).
Circumference = pi x diameter so if you increase the diameter by 60cm circumference increases by 60cm x 3.142...
Warning! This could be useful to know if you had a rope running round the earth's circumference that needed lengthening.
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swl Posted Sep 26, 2011
Frogs can vomit in space. They do so by ejecting the stomach out of their mouths and using their front legs to massage the contents out.
Experiments with sharks were inconclusive.
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kuzushi Posted Sep 27, 2011
In 2001 it was discovered that there are in fact two non- interbreeding species of elephant in Africa: the African elephant and the African bush elephant.
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pedro Posted Sep 27, 2011
Don't Namibian elephants count as a separate group too?
Or are they bush elephants?
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Baron Grim Posted Sep 28, 2011
The term for that feeling you get when you can't remember a particular word is 'lethologica'...
Like I'll remember that!
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kuzushi Posted Sep 28, 2011
Just think of the river Lethe.
"In Greek mythology, Lethe was one of the five rivers of Hades. Also known as the Ameles potamos (river of unmindfulness), the Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld, where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. Lethe was also the name of the Greek spirit of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often identified. In Classical Greek, the word Lethe literally means "oblivion", "forgetfulness," or "concealment". It is related to the Greek word for "truth", aletheia, meaning "un-forgetfulness" or "un-concealment".
Lethologica clearly has the same etymology as lethargy, coming from the river Lethe.
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Baron Grim Posted Sep 28, 2011
Yes, but I have a memory like... one of those things...
You know... those things with a screen?
You use them for straining stuff...
Dangit, you know what I'm talking about.
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Tumsup Posted Sep 28, 2011
You mean a yarmulke for FSM believers?
http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/pastafarian-can-wear.html
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kuzushi Posted Sep 29, 2011
According to Stephen Fry the most aggressive, vicious mammal is the honey badger.
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Baron Grim Posted Oct 17, 2011
The Dallas Mavericks, a team in the US's National Basketball Assoc. (NBA) got their name not from an association with Texas' history of wild west lore, but rather because one of the team's original owners was James Garner who played the character Bret Maverick in the 1957 TV series, Maverick.
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Baron Grim Posted Oct 20, 2011
Now that he's dead, we finally discover how to spell his name in the Latin alphabet (via the newly found passport of one of his sons.) It's Gathafi.
So, who win's the pool?
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/08/rebel-discovers-qaddafi-passport-real-spelling-of-leaders-name/244077/
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quotes Posted Oct 22, 2011
>>Now that he's dead, we finally discover how to spell his name in the Latin alphabet (via the newly found passport of one of his sons.) It's Gathafi.
Anyone care to predict who will be the next dictator to 'die by the sword'?
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