Richard Nixon forbade backgammon playing in the White House during his administration.
China makes 86 percent of the world's reading glasses.
Three legged dogs suffer less arthritis than their four-legged brethren.
As measured by overall impacts, adjusted by pounds per square inch, and taking into account 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree bruises, as well as more severe ailments such as separated shoulders, college lacrosse is judged by the World Congress of Sports Physicians to be the physically most brutal sport.
Experts predict that by May 2nd 2011, due to the explosion in the amount of text messaging being done in China, the amount of information entered via cell phone keypads and other handheld devices will surpass the amount of information entered via traditional keyboards.
Among graduates who throw their mortar board into the air at the end of the graduation ceremony, 69 percent do not get theirs back.
A cat is twice as likely to be fatally injured if it falls between two and six stories, than if it falls seven to 32 stories.
Originally, Twinkies were produced with banana filling, but this was replaced with a vanilla filling due to the rationing of bananas during World War II.
In a race for Virginia House of Burgesses, George Washington's campaign gave away 160 gallons of alcohol on election day, about a quart and a half per voter.
Nine state Departments of Motor Vehicles will skip a sequentially generated license plate if it contains the number "666."
The Great Wall of China is 2,800 times more massive than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
While cardboard is of course "naturally" brown, post-recycled cardboard is actually off-white due to the bleach used during the pulping process and must be dyed brown to be acceptable to consumers.
Prolonged erections are the leading cause of hypoxic brain damage among men.
The FBI estimates that six percent of government workers are foreign spies.
The newest Apple iPod has 22,500 times more computing power than the Apple I created 30 years earlier.
The tradition of slumber parties arose in 17th century England when children were temporarily sent away to friend's or relative's homes to protect them from outbreaks of "the death fog", which is now known as cholera.
I'm guessing this is based off of this story that this guy someone knew heard about this cat, right? This cat totally fell off of the guy's balcony and fuckin' lived. Hand to God.
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I'm guessing this is based off of this story that this guy someone knew heard about this cat, right? This cat totally fell off of the guy's balcony and fuckin' lived. Hand to God.
I am reminded of the Office episode where Michael Scott pretends to be suicidal and plans to jump off of the building into a moon bounce castle to teach everyone a lesson.
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Fact: Cats can fall 20 stories and live because they just don't give a fuck.
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An Asian girl at work just asked me if I needed any supplies.
I had to fight hard to not make an offensive joke.
In 15th century Venice, the government ordered prostitutes to go topless.
The word "fuck" comes from the Middle Ages. After the plague, with a decimated population, the king of England, I believe, ordered people to have sex. This was called "fornication under command of king", or "fuck" for short.
I prefer the story about how the finger became an insult.
forbidden use of carnal knowledge
This passion for preposterous acronyms seems to be peculiar to Anglo-Americans, and some believe it started around World War I, about the same time many acronyms began popping up in government. Others I've come across include P.O.S.H. ("port outward, starboard home"), said to have been stamped on the tickets of first class passengers on India-bound British ships who wanted their cabins on the shady side of the boat during the passage through the tropics; C.O.P. ("constable on patrol"); and T.I.P. ("to insure promptness"). All are rubbish. The best guess is that "fuck" comes from the Middle English fucken, to strike, move quickly, penetrate, from the German ficken, meaning approximately the same thing. A related word may be the Middle Dutch fokken, to strike, copulate with. We get a clue here as to the level of delicacy and tenderness that has characterized the sex act down through the ages, and which is recalled by the charming epithet "fuck you."
This is pretty much what my English teacher said. Pretty sure why fuck carries a stigma over say the word sex was that fuck has more anglo-saxon roots or something, and it's used was looked down upon for that.
Backronyms are funny.
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you can shoot a cat on the 33 story of any building and it will live on
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I actually saw a factoid thingy that cats will survive a fall from pretty high elevations, but there is a range somewhere in the middle where they die.
It has something to do with the cat realizing it's been falling long enough that it needs to spread out and produce more wind drag to slow its descent. In that middle range, the cat doesn't instintively figure it out in time and so it splats. Below that range, it can fall safely without needing to increase drag.
I have no idea where I heard this and it could be complete bunk.
In 15th century Venice, the government ordered prostitutes to go topless.
The word "fuck" comes from the Middle Ages. After the plague, with a decimated population, the king of England, I believe, ordered people to have sex. This was called "fornication under command of king", or "fuck" for short.
I prefer the story about how the finger became an insult.
forbidden use of carnal knowledge
Nah I'm pretty sure all of that's wrong. The first written document containing it was some half english half latin garble from 1261 perhaps? Regardless, it said something along the lines of "the monks are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of ely"
Neither of those really work for that. I believe it actually came from a german word for strike or something.
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Way to be way late, Quetzi.
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someone find proof of the cat fact
it is going to bother me forever
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Cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads, at which point they die of starvation.
Followers of the Zoroastrian religion leave their dead atop a local tower, where vultures handle the nasty business of disposing the spiritually impure flesh.
In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.
In 1992, approximately 750 deaths occurred in the United States due to workplace violence.
In Erwin, Tennessee an elephant was once hanged for murder.
In the Spanish Pyrenees, when a beekeeper dies, each of his bees is splashed with a drop of Black Ink.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying. However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.
On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.
Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people.
Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.
The Buddhist priest and mystic, Kukai, who died on 23 April 835, is believed by his followers to have become a 'Buddha in his own body' by mummifying himself while still alive.
The leading cause of deaths for children between the ages of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle crashes.
The most extraordinary thing about the Tarim mummies of Xinjiang province in China is that these naturally-preserved bodies are not Chinese but Caucasian. Discovered in the Takla Makan desert, the mummies are dressed in what has been described as a 'Celtic tartan' style of clothing.
The tiny poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2200 people!
When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.
When Thomas Edison died in 1941; Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.
When Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution, died in 1924, his body was mummified and placed on display at the Kremlin wall in Moscow.
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In a study from the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, two veterinarians examined 132 cases of cats that had fallen out of high-rise windows. On average, the cats fell 5.5 stories, but 90 percent survived, although many suffered severe injuries. The number of broken bones and injuries increased with the number of stories the cat had fallen – up to seven stories. Above seven stories, however, the number of injuries declined. In other words, the farther the cat fell, the better were his chances of escaping injury.
The reason for this may be that after falling five stories or so, cats reach a terminal velocity. The velocity or speed of a falling body does not increase forever because the rate of increase in speed is interrupted by air resistance. A skydiver reaches a terminal velocity of around 130 to 140 mph after about 30 seconds of free-falling. Cats reach terminal velocity much sooner at a speed of 60 mph.
It's instinctive for both humans and animals to tense their muscles when free-falling, which makes them more susceptible to injury. When cats land before reaching top speed, they are rigid and flexed and prepared for the landing. This results in most of the force impacting the parts of the body that hit initially. However, after reaching terminal velocity, cats relax their muscles and spread themselves out like flying squirrels. This allows the impact of the fall to be spread across a larger surface area.
The explanation is kinda close to what I remembered.
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In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.
that is a fucking metal parrot
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I'm guessing this is based off of this story that this guy someone knew heard about this cat, right? This cat totally fell off of the guy's balcony and fuckin' lived. Hand to God.
cats are designed wierd
Intelligently designed. By God.
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I'm guessing this is based off of this story that this guy someone knew heard about this cat, right? This cat totally fell off of the guy's balcony and fuckin' lived. Hand to God.
I'm guessing this is based off of this story that this guy someone knew heard about this cat, right? This cat totally fell off of the guy's balcony and fuckin' lived. Hand to God.
cats are designed wierd
Intelligently designed. By Thomas Edison.
haha why am i laughing so much
t manifest: that is the plot of a fantasy novel i bought recently
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China makes 86 percent of the world's reading glasses.
Three legged dogs suffer less arthritis than their four-legged brethren.
As measured by overall impacts, adjusted by pounds per square inch, and taking into account 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree bruises, as well as more severe ailments such as separated shoulders, college lacrosse is judged by the World Congress of Sports Physicians to be the physically most brutal sport.
Experts predict that by May 2nd 2011, due to the explosion in the amount of text messaging being done in China, the amount of information entered via cell phone keypads and other handheld devices will surpass the amount of information entered via traditional keyboards.
Among graduates who throw their mortar board into the air at the end of the graduation ceremony, 69 percent do not get theirs back.
A cat is twice as likely to be fatally injured if it falls between two and six stories, than if it falls seven to 32 stories.
Originally, Twinkies were produced with banana filling, but this was replaced with a vanilla filling due to the rationing of bananas during World War II.
In a race for Virginia House of Burgesses, George Washington's campaign gave away 160 gallons of alcohol on election day, about a quart and a half per voter.
Nine state Departments of Motor Vehicles will skip a sequentially generated license plate if it contains the number "666."
The Great Wall of China is 2,800 times more massive than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
While cardboard is of course "naturally" brown, post-recycled cardboard is actually off-white due to the bleach used during the pulping process and must be dyed brown to be acceptable to consumers.
Prolonged erections are the leading cause of hypoxic brain damage among men.
The FBI estimates that six percent of government workers are foreign spies.
The newest Apple iPod has 22,500 times more computing power than the Apple I created 30 years earlier.
The tradition of slumber parties arose in 17th century England when children were temporarily sent away to friend's or relative's homes to protect them from outbreaks of "the death fog", which is now known as cholera.
hmm i wonder why
Someone explain this to me with science.
above 32 stories, cats are immortal
I
what
Yeah, guess I'm retarded. I'd always assumed it ran East to West not North to South
Sex panther: 60% of the time, it works every time.
i guess
cats are designed wierd
I had to fight hard to not make an offensive joke.
This is pretty much what my English teacher said. Pretty sure why fuck carries a stigma over say the word sex was that fuck has more anglo-saxon roots or something, and it's used was looked down upon for that.
Backronyms are funny.
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I shall remember this the next time the "flip" argument comes up.
you can shoot a cat on the 33 story of any building and it will live on
It has something to do with the cat realizing it's been falling long enough that it needs to spread out and produce more wind drag to slow its descent. In that middle range, the cat doesn't instintively figure it out in time and so it splats. Below that range, it can fall safely without needing to increase drag.
I have no idea where I heard this and it could be complete bunk.
Nah I'm pretty sure all of that's wrong. The first written document containing it was some half english half latin garble from 1261 perhaps? Regardless, it said something along the lines of "the monks are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of ely"
Neither of those really work for that. I believe it actually came from a german word for strike or something.
it is going to bother me forever
Forbidden use of carnal knowledge you Geek.
Followers of the Zoroastrian religion leave their dead atop a local tower, where vultures handle the nasty business of disposing the spiritually impure flesh.
In 1845, President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot was removed from his funeral for swearing.
In 1992, approximately 750 deaths occurred in the United States due to workplace violence.
In Erwin, Tennessee an elephant was once hanged for murder.
In the Spanish Pyrenees, when a beekeeper dies, each of his bees is splashed with a drop of Black Ink.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do dying. However, statistically you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by the bite of a poisonous spider.
On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.
Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.
Over 2500 left handed people are killed each year from using products made for right handed people.
Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.
The Buddhist priest and mystic, Kukai, who died on 23 April 835, is believed by his followers to have become a 'Buddha in his own body' by mummifying himself while still alive.
The leading cause of deaths for children between the ages of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle crashes.
The most extraordinary thing about the Tarim mummies of Xinjiang province in China is that these naturally-preserved bodies are not Chinese but Caucasian. Discovered in the Takla Makan desert, the mummies are dressed in what has been described as a 'Celtic tartan' style of clothing.
The tiny poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2200 people!
When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.
When Thomas Edison died in 1941; Henry Ford captured his last dying breath in a bottle.
When Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution, died in 1924, his body was mummified and placed on display at the Kremlin wall in Moscow.
The explanation is kinda close to what I remembered.
I'm trying to picture this and I just cant do it.
this is true
Intelligently designed. By God.
I would have sucked it out of his lungs to consume his soul.
haha why am i laughing so much
t manifest: that is the plot of a fantasy novel i bought recently