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[hab]

365 different languages spoken in Indonesia

[Jewbert]

Step outside and smell the roses. On a daily average you will inhale 1 liter of others anal gasses.

hehe.

I always get a sick feeling when I go into a public restroom and smell the lingering scent of feces. It's so nasty because
I know I'm inhaling scent molecules that escaped from someone else's ass. UGH!!!

[freakout0]

did you know when a whale ejaculates it releases 400 gallons of sperm into the ocean?

[pyke]

Ahaha, ew. D: Well, I certainly didn't know that. -tries to find another fact quite as disturbing, if not even more so-

Uhm, here goes.

Some Eskimos suck the snot out of their babies noses with their mouths.

Yeah, but they do that to keep their kids alive.

[Cyo]

i thought a sphincter was a contactable muscle ring...

Well isn't your mouth contractable ring?

did you know that pretty much everywhere, it's gonna be hot.

[hab]

did you know when a whale ejaculates it releases 400 gallons of sperm into the ocean?

Holy shit

That's a LOT of sperm LOL

Edited by hab, 07 May 2008 - 02:04 PM.

[Tailwind]

Did you know there's a reasonable chance grapefruit juice nulls (or at least interferes with) the pill. It's confirmed to hinder many other medications by making them work faster (I think) and since the pill has to be taken every day at around the same time, having it work faster would leave several hours where you are unprotected. That's the theory anyway.
Helpful link Ali found.

Wow, I'm glad I stopped eating grapefruit, that would have been a disaster once I moved in with my boyfriend.

It requires 63 feet of wire to make a Slinky toy.
On average, a Canadian girl owns seven Barbie dolls, whereas an American girl owns eight. (Pfft, I never owned ONE. Pass the Hot Wheels, please. <3)
In their lifetime, house cats spend approximately 10,950 hours purring.

[hab]

Did you know that there are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea

[ToxicS]

The ocean quahog clam, found in deep waters from Newfoundland and Labrador south to Cape Hatteras and around Iceland, the British Isles, and Norway, is also widely eaten. It is notable as one of the slowest-growing and longest-lived animals on Earth. A specimen of ocean quahog from Iceland was found to be more than 400 years old. Scientists can use growth rings and chemicals in the shells of ocean quahogs to study long-term climate and environmental changes.
Adult mayfly 1-3 days
Marigold 1 year
Mouse 3 years
Guppy 5 years
Large beetles 5-10 years
Swallow 9 years
Coyote 15 years
Giant spider 20 years
Toad 36 years
Lobster 50 years
Crocodile 60 years
Sea anemone 70 years
Elephant 77 years
Blue whale 80 years
Golden eagle 80 years
Sturgeon 100 years
Tortoise 100-150 years
Human 122 years
Bowhead whale 200 years
Quahog clam 400 years
Giant sequoia 4,000 years
Creosote bush 11,700 years

Edited by Toxic-Snipe, 23 June 2008 - 12:05 AM.

[digital_zero]

did you know when a whale ejaculates it releases 400 gallons of sperm into the ocean?

I could have lived without knowing that >_>

[Breadfan]

did you know when a whale ejaculates it releases 400 gallons of sperm into the ocean?

I think this one might not be true. To put this into perspective- Most Hot tubs are 400 Gallon capacity.


Did you know:
Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.

[themapples.]

about the glass being a liquid i think its actually both, meaning its a plastic, and plastic is a flowing solid which is like what the mantle is classified as inside the earth

[Sweeney]

about the glass being a liquid i think its actually both, meaning its a plastic, and plastic is a flowing solid which is like what the mantle is classified as inside the earth

You're incorrect.
I've already explained it fully:

Technically, glass is a glass. That's the name of the state it is in, as well as the material.
In my opinion, however, glass is closer to a supercooled liquid than to a solid, simply because it can still undergo a spontaneous change to a proper solid structure.

So if the choice for terminology was between solid, and liquid, I would choose liquid.

And a plastic isn't a flowing solid.
The mantle is described as plastic. Not a plastic.

[Breadfan]

Technically, glass is a glass. That's the name of the state it is in, as well as the material.
In my opinion, however, glass is closer to a supercooled liquid than to a solid, simply because it can still undergo a spontaneous change to a proper solid structure.

So if the choice for terminology was between solid, and liquid, I would choose liquid.

You say you explained it fully but you just quoted your own opinion. One could say YOU are incorrect, as Glass is rigid by our everyday standards, thus being a solid. I don't know that I personally agree with either. It's just a label that man gives it anyway.

The mantle is described as plastic. Not a plastic.

And where do you get off correcting someone for this? nitpicking in my opinion. You'd make a terrible housewife- I hope you know that. XD

Also, old windows tend to be thin towards the top and thicks toward the bottom. A liquid property, though extremely slow

Not really... (here's another Did you Know actually )

The way old glass was made was they would take a big ball of molten glass and roll it out, then it was Flattened and spun into a large disc and they would cut it into panes. The disc would be thicker around the edges, and the thicker edge would be installed on the bottom.

[themapples.]

huh that's interesting about the glass and pretty much solves most of it, and my plastic answer was just a guess to say its both even though i added an 'a' in there....

i might have to go with solid though and its only liquid under high heat, like most things

edit to save double post:
also you said that its a liquid that then goes to a solid form, but that's like saying steel is a liquid, because in order to make it you melt it and then cool it so it takes its shape and hardens
plus its never actually a liquid its just molten
wiki - in the scientific sense the term glass is often extended to all amorphous solids and melts that easily form amorphous solids, including plastics, resins, or other silica-free amorphous solids
so yeah, its just easily melted

further explanation
i say its a loosely condensed solid because it is subject to gravity and over time it will start to pull downward, most stuff does this, even cements, it just takes longer to notice

Edited by themapples., 16 July 2008 - 04:50 PM.

[Just Another User]

lol i love how you guys are both quoting the wikipedia article for glass (yes i looked it up too )

Did you know the Union Jack Flag is only called that when on a boat, and is infact called just the "Union Flag" when on land? 8D

[themapples.]

haha yeah one of my friends also gave me a line

did you know that if a chick smells a guys armpits the hormones could make them ovulate... my bio teacher told me that last year dont know if its true but i listened

[Just Another User]

haha yeah one of my friends also gave me a line

did you know that if a chick smells a guys armpits the hormones could make them ovulate... my bio teacher told me that last year dont know if its true but i listened

Make the armpits ovulate or the chick? LOL

[themapples.]

Make the armpits ovulate or the chick? LOL

haha good call they make the girl ovulate

[Sweeney]

You say you explained it fully but you just quoted your own opinion. One could say YOU are incorrect, as Glass is rigid by our everyday standards, thus being a solid. I don't know that I personally agree with either. It's just a label that man gives it anyway.



And where do you get off correcting someone for this? nitpicking in my opinion. You'd make a terrible housewife- I hope you know that. XD



Not really... (here's another Did you Know actually )

The way old glass was made was they would take a big ball of molten glass and roll it out, then it was Flattened and spun into a large disc and they would cut it into panes. The disc would be thicker around the edges, and the thicker edge would be installed on the bottom.

All explanations are opinion outside of mathematics. The difference is the education and information behind them.
I started off with a fact, that glass is a glass, and applied that fact to the question of whether glass is a liquid or a solid.

Correcting someone on the difference between plastic the noun, and plastic the adjective, was important in reference to his statement, because they mean completely different things.

And, I already explained why windows are thicker on the bottom, too

[Tetiel]

Did you know that the UK surprisingly enough as a very poor 5 year cancer survival rate compared to other western countries? The US has the best survival rate for breast and prostate cancers while if you're Japanese you're most likely to survive colon cancer. Very odd imo.

[iargue]

Did you know paul Revere never completed his trip (And they wrote a song about him)

Did you know diamonds simply vanish when heated to 763 degrees Celsius (1405 degrees Fahrenheit).

Did you know during the 6th Century, it was customary to congratulate people who sneezed because it was thought that they were expelling evil from their bodies. During the great plague of Europe, the Pope passed a law to say "God bless you" to one who sneezed.

Did you know in 1313, King Edward II enacted that "You are forbidden from dying in parliament."

Did you know the Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog.

Did you know that in September 1752 the Julian calendar was replaced with the Gregorian calendar in Great Britain and its American colonies. The Julian calendar was 11 days behind the Gregorian calendar, so 14 September got to follow 2 September on the day of the change. The result was that between 3 and 13 September, absolutely nothing happened!

You gotta love this stuff.

Now you know.

[Cyo]

Did you know diamonds simply vanish when heated to 763 degrees Celsius (1405 degrees Fahrenheit).

noting just vanishes
this is not neopets
it just turns into gas form like co2 or something or turns into energy like with coal when its burned

Edited by Cyo, 25 July 2008 - 08:45 PM.

[iargue]

noting just vanishes
this is not neopets
it just turns into gas form like co2 or something or turns into energy like with coal when its burned

Yeah, it turns into a small amount of C02...which is vanishing. Once you could see it, now you cant.

van·ish
–verb (used without object)
1. to disappear from sight, esp. quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
2. to go away, esp. furtively or mysteriously; disappear by quick departure: The thief vanished in the night.
3. to disappear by ceasing to exist; come to an end: The pain vanished after he took an aspirin.
4. Mathematics. (of a number, quantity, or function) to become zero.
–verb (used with object)
5. to cause to disappear.

Edited by Elfonso, 26 July 2008 - 12:24 AM.