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  • deadmandeadman Posts: 8,854 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The ancient city was built over a lake so surprising that it took a couple hundred years to start sinking

  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,578 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Kraft discontinued Hot & Spicy Shake 'n Bake.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Moon Is Bigger Than Pluto

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rice paper contains no rice.

  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,750 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    Rice paper contains no rice.

    I wkipedia'd that and was reminded of Kung Fu.
    If you remember this, you're old.
    Kwai Chang Caine undergoes training to become a Shaolin priest. One of the challenges he faces is to walk on a long sheet of rice paper without tearing it or leaving any marks of his passage. His successful completion of the test is incorporated into the series' opening title sequence, with the narration, "When you can walk its length and leave no trace, you will have learned."

  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,629 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Then world's oldest recorded joke as translated from Sumerian:

    “Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • CharlieHeisCharlieHeis Posts: 8,535 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Significant3 said:
    Did you know Reno NV is further west than Los Angeles CA?

    This reminded me of a map I saw a while back. I believe what I saw said something like 'Most of Canada's population lives south of the Canadian border you're thinking of' (the big straight line from WA to MN)

  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,578 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There's only 206 days left until Christmas 🎄.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,882 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • deadmandeadman Posts: 8,854 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    There's only 206 days left until Christmas 🎄.

    Couple more weeks before Walmart puts out the trees and decorations

  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,629 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2022

    It's amazing, computer synthesized music had so much promise in 1984. How far we've fallen.

    https://youtu.be/SAwaTIwe0jU

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  • genareddoggenareddog Posts: 4,212 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @deadman said:

    @ShawnOL said:
    There's only 206 days left until Christmas 🎄.

    Couple more weeks before Walmart puts out the trees and decorations

    This also means Christmas music starting soon!

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Toilet seats are cleaner than your cell phone.

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cheese is the most shoplifted food in the world.

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  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One single sketty noodle is properly called a spaghetto.

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,578 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bees do in fact poop.

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  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not any more.

    The least popular article on Wikipedia is a about this moth. Trichromia phaeocrota (Dognin, 1911)/Public Domain
    https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1844643635

  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Women Feel Less Stressed on Weekends
    Women feel less stressed on weekends, when there is more downtime, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

  • Rdp77Rdp77 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wonder how long and how much money it took to come to that conclusion.

  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:
    I wonder how long and how much money it took to come to that conclusion.

    Long as they could for as much as they could milk out of it.

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Giraffes have purple tongues.

    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 20,882 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks Davis.

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