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  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    I learned for once and for all that crazy never dies....it just gets crazier
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • Jukee
    Jukee Posts: 4,500
    If the population of China walked past you, in single file the line it would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
    If you have nothing to lose, you have nothing to worry about.
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,146
    Squirrels can climb faster than they can run!
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    How fast a dog shakes to get dry...

    Andrew Dickerson of the Georgia Institute of Technology tested how a Labrador Retriever moves when it is trying to dry itself. They discovered that the dog oscillated its skin at 4.3 Hz and then extrapolated a mathematical model for furry animals in general:

    They reasoned that the water is bound to the dog by surface tension between the liquid and the hair. When the dog shakes, centripetal forces pull the water away. So for the water to be ejected from the fur, the centripetal force has to exceed the surface tension.

    This model leads to an interesting prediction. If the animal has a radius R, the shaking frequency must scale with R^0.5. That makes sense, smaller animals will need to oscillate faster to generate forces large enough to dry themselves.

    To find out whether that applies in nature, Dickerson and pals studied films of various animals of different sizes. They found that a mouse shakes at 27 Hz, a cat at about 6 Hz while a bear shakes at 4Hz. “Shake frequencies asymptotically approach 4Hz as animals grow in size,” they conclude.
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • OceanInDisguise13
    OceanInDisguise13 Posts: 937
    I learned that in Japan, direct eye contact is impolite.. :shock:
    I wish I was an alien at home behind the sun.....
    I wanna race..with the sundown..I want a last breath..I don't let out...
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,146
    The oldest piece of gum is 9000 years old! :o
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  • Jukee
    Jukee Posts: 4,500
    55 billion e-mails are sent around the world everday. WOW!!
    If you have nothing to lose, you have nothing to worry about.
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,146
    The Hawaiian alphabet is consisted of twelve letters! :think:
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  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    The average number of thoughts that humans are believed to experience each day is 70,000.
    wah
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,146
    An average snake has 450 hairs.
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Disney was awarded one full-size Oscar and seven miniature gold statues
    for 'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' :D
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,146
    Elvis Presley didn't use to drink wine at all! :o
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    the television was invented before sliced bread :wtf:
  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    today i learned to reopen a Tab in google chrome that you just closed = command + shift + T
    :mrgreen:
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    July 1, 1979 Sony introduced the 'Walkman'.....last Friday, they unceremoniously killed the Walkman and will no longer produce it. :(

    I loved making mixed tapes back in the day.....but damn, they sure did eat up batteries like they were nothing!
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,146
    Cucumber is the only food which cockroaches don't eat.
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    :lol:

    I wonder why? :?
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    The principle ingredient of dynamite is peanuts!
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    4and20 wrote:
    July 1, 1979 Sony introduced the 'Walkman'.....last Friday, they unceremoniously killed the Walkman and will no longer produce it. :(

    I loved making mixed tapes back in the day.....but damn, they sure did eat up batteries like they were nothing!

    i heard this sad news yesterday. funnily enough what surprised me more was that they were still making it up to now.

    guess i better stock up on discmans now just in case the same fate befalls them. ;)
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,146
    There is a town named Hell in Norway! :crazy:
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