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QUOTE (Digital Man @ Jan 10 2005, 02:17 PM)
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The average American has $104 in their wallet.

Just where do all these "average" Americans live, & where do they get all that cash?

 

 

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The average human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.

This explians why after 2-3 beers, it's a trip to the loo (notice my use of an english word there wink.gif ) every 30 minutes.

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QUOTE (Rolinda Bonz @ Nov 3 2011, 12:11 AM)
'stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand ..

And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your
right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

Actually, its "sweaterdresses" and "hypolimnion". (Sorry...!)

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QUOTE (Trance @ Jan 10 2005, 10:17 PM)
If there were a computer capable of the memory capacity of the human brain. . . it would have to be the size of Texas.


Just a tidbit from Anatomy class woohoo!

Actually that one's false. The human brain is thought to store about 1 petabyte. A terabyte hard drive isn't that big, in fact there's one in my tower right now

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QUOTE (A Farewell to Things @ Nov 3 2011, 11:03 AM)
QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jan 10 2005, 11:49 AM)
When in the shower, 75% of people wash from top to bottom.

I am the 25%

 

#OccupyTheBathroom

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Me too! Though sometimes I let my feet soak and then go back to them.

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QUOTE (HowItIs @ Nov 3 2011, 09:15 PM)
apetersvt, this is the second thread I've read today wherein you have way too much math! Stop it! tongue.gif


Alex Lifeson has never given me a guitar lesson. More useless info. wink.gif

Sorry, I'm wired/weird that way. To make up for it, I'll drink a bunch tonight and thus won't be able to think math for awhile. new_thumbsupsmileyanim.gif

 

I've never had a guitar lesson by Alex either, but I had a dream one time where I taught Alex how to play Crossroads (15 years before Feedback came out)

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Searching Google for "useless fact" yeilds about 5,940,000 results in 0.26 seconds.
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QUOTE (apetersvt @ Nov 4 2011, 09:41 AM)
QUOTE (HowItIs @ Nov 3 2011, 09:15 PM)
apetersvt, this is the second thread I've read today wherein you have way too much math! Stop it!  tongue.gif


Alex Lifeson has never given me a guitar lesson. More useless info. wink.gif

Sorry, I'm wired/weird that way. To make up for it, I'll drink a bunch tonight and thus won't be able to think math for awhile. new_thumbsupsmileyanim.gif

 

I've never had a guitar lesson by Alex either, but I had a dream one time where I taught Alex how to play Crossroads (15 years before Feedback came out)

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Can you teach me how to play it? laugh.gif

 

Actually, it's weird... I dreamed that Alex showed me how to do the picking pattern for Bravado, which I was having trouble with. The next day I tried it that way and -- voila! of course, that was probably just my inner Alex making me focus but still...

 

 

Back to the topic:

 

 

The largest horse ever recorded is 19.1 hands (6'7" at the withers) tall. He is a Belgian named "Radar."

 

Blackbeard the Pirate actually took a pardon, married and settled in North Carolina. Briefly. He returned to piracy with a few years.

 

Marie Antoinette did not actually say "Let them eat cake." The phrase appeared in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions in 1765, when Marie was 9 years old and still lived in Vienna.

 

 

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QUOTE (HowItIs @ Nov 4 2011, 07:27 PM)
Blackbeard the Pirate actually took a pardon, married and settled in North Carolina. Briefly. He returned to piracy with a few years.

Mrs. Blackbeard must have made him wear the puffy shirt one too many times.... 653.gif 653.gif

 

 

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QUOTE (Workaholic Man @ Nov 4 2011, 08:56 PM)
QUOTE (HowItIs @ Nov 4 2011, 07:27 PM)
Blackbeard the Pirate actually took a pardon, married and settled in North Carolina. Briefly. He returned to piracy with a few years.

Mrs. Blackbeard must have made him wear the puffy shirt one too many times.... 653.gif 653.gif

My god - that's it! Alert the historians! laugh.gif

 

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ohmy.gif you mean, lemony cake is a farce? unsure.gif

 

I'm sorry, Roli. But Bastille Day still rocks 1022.gif 2.gif

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QUOTE (HowItIs @ Nov 5 2011, 06:45 AM)
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ohmy.gif you mean, lemony cake is a farce? unsure.gif

 

I'm sorry, Roli. But Bastille Day still rocks 1022.gif 2.gif

Hey, don't feel bad, Rush isn't alone - it causes problems for Queen too:

 

"Let them eat cake," she said, just like Marie Antoinette! music.gif

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