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The Last man to be condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition was a village schoolmaster named Cayetano Ripoll. Ripoll, accused of being a deist and a Freemason, was garrotted in a square in Valencia in July 1826.
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by black bart on Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:34 am
The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.
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by Draconic on Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:04 am
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That the Salem witch trials were held when Halley's comet came back?
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That the Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different combinations? (or about 43.25 quintillion)
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That the 5 by 5 (professor's) cube has 282,870,942,277,741,856,536,180,333,107,150,328,293,127,731,985,672,134,721,536,000,000,000,000,000
Different combinations? (or about 100 billion times 1 vigintillion)
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That honey is made of bee saliva?
That the Salem witch trials were held when Halley's comet came back?
Did you know
That the Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different combinations? (or about 43.25 quintillion)
Did you know
That the 5 by 5 (professor's) cube has 282,870,942,277,741,856,536,180,333,107,150,328,293,127,731,985,672,134,721,536,000,000,000,000,000
Different combinations? (or about 100 billion times 1 vigintillion)
Did you know
That honey is made of bee saliva?
Some people are like slinkys- They don't really serve any purpose, but they bring you pleasure when you push them down the stairs
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by EarthRise on Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:21 am
Did you know
that eating locally-produced honey can boost your immune system significantly?
that eating locally-produced honey can boost your immune system significantly?
[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.
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by Rainswept on Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:24 am
DYK...
There are vending machines in Japan which sell used panties of schoolgirls ?
There are vending machines in Japan which sell used panties of schoolgirls ?
I believe it's time for mankind to set aside the crutch of religion and embrace morality born of reason and truth. Those crutches have long since proven treacherous when the ground gets slippery.
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by EarthRise on Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:56 am
Rainswept wrote:DYK...
There are vending machines in Japan which sell used panties of schoolgirls ?
Doesn't everyone know that?
DYK,
that S. pyogenes, which causes strep throat, can cause necrotizing fasciitis?
[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.
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by Dr Dagger on Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:32 pm
DYK
That pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoc(or k)oniosis is the longest word in the Oxford dictionary? It is also a disease.
That pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoc(or k)oniosis is the longest word in the Oxford dictionary? It is also a disease.
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by EarthRise on Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:29 pm
DYK,
that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a factitious lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust?
that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a factitious lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust?
[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.
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by thelastpirate on Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:47 pm
EarthRise wrote:that S. pyogenes, which causes strep throat, can cause necrotizing fasciitis?
Everyone well who has read The Short History of Nearly Everything (which should be everybody) knows that.
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That there are actually 22 naturally occuring amino acids, not only the 20 commonly said to exist?
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by Dr Dagger on Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:25 pm
EarthRise wrote:DYK,
that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a fIctitious lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust?
Fixed
DYK
That the word was only made to be the longest word, and that the
p at the beginning is silent?
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by EarthRise on Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:41 pm
Dr Dagger wrote:EarthRise wrote:DYK,
that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a fIctitious lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust?
Fixed
DYK
That the word was only made to be the longest word, and that the
p at the beginning is silent?
Actually, it's factitious, not fictitious. It's a real word; it's origins are questionable.
Doesn't need fixing.
[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.
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by Dr Dagger on Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:30 pm
No-one has ever had the disease, but I'm not sure if it is possible to get pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, so I suppose it could be factitious.
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by Capellini on Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:09 pm
DYK
that "stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with your left hand on a qwerty keyboard?
that "stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with your left hand on a qwerty keyboard?
True terror lies in the futility of human existence.
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Malcolm Reynolds is my co-pilot.
"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill
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by Rainswept on Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:16 pm
Capellini wrote:DYK
that "stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with your left hand on a qwerty keyboard?
Phbbbt.
I can hold my right hand behind my back and still type "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"
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by lordpunkmonk on Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:58 pm
yeah so can I pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321
"The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory." --Lawrence J. Peter
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321
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