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  1. Chaz

    Chaz Well-Known Member

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    At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL

    Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93

    12+1 = 11+2, and "twelve plus one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two"

    If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go, you won't use the letter "A" until you reach 1,000




     
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    Sheep, when wet, weigh exactly 82% more than when dry.
     
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    IwasanotherwatfordR Well-Known Member

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    It's impossible to kill a slug using a vice, if you have just one hand.
     
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    One hundred and one?
     
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    The same thing happens if you pick Swords up by his testicles...
     
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    If you don't wear flight socks when travelling, your feet swell up to 27 x their normal size.
    There are more stars in the galaxy than grains of sand on the earth.
    John Terry is not a racist twat.
    Crisps, when sellotaped to your arm have the same effect on fat bastards (like me) as nicotine patches on smokers (like me).
    My willy is the same shape as a potato and it's even got some cheese on it.
     
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    On a related note, cornflakes were first invented as an anti-masturbatory aid...
     
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    I my case, they didn't work!!
     
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    Rise and shine?
     
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    Time Stops at the Speed of Light

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    According to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, the speed of light can never change—it’s always stuck at approximately 300,000,000 meters/second, no matter who’s observing it. This in itself is incredible enough, given that nothing can move faster than light, but it’s still very theoretical. The really cool part of Special Relativity is an idea called time dilation, which states that the faster you go, the slower time passes for you relative to your surroundings. Seriously—if you go take a ride in your car for an hour, you will have aged ever-so-slightly less than if you had just sat at home on the computer. The extra nanoseconds you get out of it might not be worth the price of gas, but hey, it’s an option.

    Of course, time can only slow down so much, and the formula works out so that if you’re moving at the speed of light, time isn’t moving at all. Now, before you go out and try some get-immortal-quick scheme, just note that moving at the speed of light isn’t actually possible, unless you happen to be made of light. Technically speaking, moving that fast would require an infinite amount of energy (and I for one don’t have that kind of juice just lying around).

    And here is a really interesting one for you, the worlds slowest Reptile (Reptilia) is the giant Galapagos Tortoise.

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    The Galapagos Tortoise can be as slow as 0.23 miles per hour on land. In the water, Galapagos Tortoises can move much faster than this. WOW!<laugh>
     
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    True
    If you grab any cats head
    Twist one ear North the other south
    Then they all say fat bacon

    ... Even French cats
     
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    I'm afraid this week central London traffic was slower than the Galapagos Tortoise...
     
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    If: x = y

    Then: x - y = 0

    Then: 2x - 2y = 0

    So: x - y = 2x - 2y

    So: 1(x - y) = 2(x - y)

    Therefore, through cancelling (x - y): 1 = 2
     
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    You can easily make your own actual reality helmet using a bucket with two carefully placed eyeholes

    What's more it's all in AC HD

    For those about to rock we salut you
     
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    They're all sisters when you turn them over
     
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    what a car crash of a thread. I'm ashamed of myself.
     
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    Dead fish can still receive text messages
     
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    Yes, 1x0 does equal 2x0
     
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    No flies on you, Strolls.
     
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    ninety nine A hundred
     
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