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Shan, that's not true. Abraham & Sarah were the oldest parents (ok, at least in biblical account) with both past 100 years mark. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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That would suck if your Dad was 99 when you were like 7.
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You knew what I meant, mr. smartie. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
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heheh lews imagion it..
Dad , can i get some money for the arcade? What ? turn of the light, do you know how mutch money that costs? euh..forget it
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SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT KIDNEY STONES
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
The smallest kidney stones are microscopic crystals; it is possible to analyze stones weighing less than 0.1 mg.
Kidney stones come in virtually any color; most are yellow to brown.
The shape of the stone may tell something about how it was formed.
To date over 200 components have been found in calculi, however, the most common constituents of kidney stones are:
Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate (Whewellite) CaC2O4 Calcium Oxalate Dihydrate (Weddellite) CaC2O4-2H2O Magnesium Ammonium Phosphate Hexahydrate (Struvite) MgNH4PO4-2H2O Calcium Phosphate, Carbonate Form (Carbonate Apatite) Ca10(PO4-CO3OH)6(OH)2 Calcium Phosphate, Hydroxyl Form (Hydroxyl Apatite) Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2 Calcium Hydrogen Phosphate Dihydrate (Brushite) CaHPO4-2H2O Uric Acid C5H4N4O3 Cystine (SCH2CH(NH2)-COOH)2 Sodium Acid Urate NaH-C5H2O3N4-H2O Tricalcium Phosphate (Whitlockite) Ca3(PO4)2 Ammonium Acid Urate NH4H-C5H2O3N4-H2O Magnesium Hydrogen Phosphate Trihydrate (Newberyite) MgHPO4-3H2O Most stones are formed and excreted singly.
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-earth worms are hermaphrodites
-if a frog's mouth is open for to long it will suffocate
-sharks are immune to cancer
-after eating, a house fly regurgitates its food and eats it again
-an elephant can smell water 3 miles away
-an elephant can consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day
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-if a frog's mouth is open for to long it will suffocate <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> Euh... I think you're wrong on that point. Frogs breath partly (and completely during their "winter sleep") by their skin. I'll check back for sure and tell you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> Another (unsure? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> ) fact about frogs: If you make them smoke, it is said that they explode... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
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Titanic the movie takes 40 minutes longer to watch than it did for the actual boat to sink.
King Alfonso of Spain (1886-1931), was so tone-deaf that he had one man in his employ known as the Anthem Man. This man's duty was to tell the king to stand up whenever the Spanish national anthem was played, because the monarch couldn't recognize it.
The Aztec Indians in Central America used animal blood mixed with cement as a mortar for their buildings, many of which still remain standing today.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
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-anteaters prefer termites to ants
-armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy
-armadillos can be house broken
-armadillos can have up to 4 babies at a time and they are always all the same sex
-goat's eyes have rectangular pupils
-black lemurs are the only primates that can have blue eyes
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The TRUE Titanic's Mistakes: # The Titanic's speed was far too high because of the several warnings for icebergs. # The Titanic's should have slowed down her speed at least during the night. # The lookouts in the crowsnest did not have binoculars. # The outer British regulation required ships over 10,000 tons to have lifeboats for 962 people. The Titanic exceeded this regulation by carrying enough lifeboats for 1,178 people, however this was not enough for her 2,228 people aboard. # Religiously... People shouldn't have said things such as "Not even GOD Himself could sink the Titanic." # When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Captain Smith and the crew waited for a kind of long time, to start preparing the lifeboats and giving lifejackets to the passengers. # Some passengers didn't believe that the Titanic was sinking. # The radio operators aboard the Titanic ignored the 'Californian's' (and other ships) warnings about icebergs in the area. # The lifeboats were not filled to the max. Lifeboat #1 only had 12 women and children aboard. Even if there was no more women and children in that area, and the lifeboat wasn't full, they didn't let men get on; and they would let the lifeboat go just like that. Passengers believed that it was safer to stay on the Titanic. # The 'Californian's' radio operator was asleep and the equipment was turned off when the Titanic sent "CQD Titanic 41.44 N 50.24 W". # The people aboard the 'Californian' thought the passengers were partying on the Titanic because of the flares... They didn't realize they were distress calls. # The lifeboats would not return to the crying people to get more people aboard (only one actually did ! ! !). # The crew had the Third-Class passengers ("Steerage") trapped, until all the women and children of First-Class and Second-Class left in the lifeboats. Two components of the geography of the Titanic defeated the efforts of many of the Third-Class passengers to reach the Boat-Deck. The first was the design of the Titanic. There were only a handful of exits available to get to the upper decks - 7 to be exact. All of them by law had to be kept locked. Third-Class passengers were required by British Law to be kept separated completely from Second-Class and First-Class passengers. The second was the layout of the Titanic. The Third-Class passengers' cabins were in an area that abounded with dead ends and circuitous passages. # The Titanic had 16 watertight compartments. If 4 were filled, it would be OK but 5 were filled, one too many. # It has been said that if the Titanic would have hit the iceberg dead center, it would only have only filled the first water compartments. But because the Titanic turned, the iceberg destroyed the whole starboard side. # The watertight compartments at the bottom of the ship did not go all the way to the top. If one filled up, the water would just flow into the next one. # There never has been a lifeboat drill for the passengers. It was postponed because of a Church Service.
The Movie Titanic's mistakes (against what actually happened) At the end when Jack sinks you can tell the body looks nothing like him. The whole manner in which the upper class people speak has been dumbed down for the audience. High society people in the early part of the century had a very refined manner of speaking; whatever they truly meant was masked with something more socially appropriate. For instance, when Rose's mother says something to the effect of: "Here comes that vulgar Brown woman. Let's move before she sits with us," she would have been considered extremely ill-mannered. In reality, she would have given some knowing glances, and said something more like: "It's getting very warm in here. Perhaps we should take a turn on the deck." Her friends, seeing Molly Brown approaching, would know exactly what she really meant. Why oh why is one of the people getting on the life boats wearing a digital watch? Surely they weren't around in 1912? The lake that Jack told Rose he went ice fishing on when she was threatening to jump is a man-made lake in Wisconsin near Chippewa Falls (where Jack grew up). The lake was only filled with water in 1917, 5 years after Titanic sank.
When the ship is sinking, and Rose and Jack are running through the inside of the ship, you can blatantly see cameras and crew outside the window. There is a dancing scene in a ballroom with a lot of mirrors, and when you look closely, you can see the filmcrew in one of the mirrors. When Jack hands Rose the note at the dinner table the paper is yellow. Later when the note is read the paper is white. In the scene where Rose hands Jack a dime for drawing her, she hands him a Roosevelt dime, which were not minted until 1946. The correct dime would have been a Barber head dime. There's a scene where a woman from steerage takes her 2 kids to their room as the boat is sinking and tells them a happily-ever-after story which we assume means they're giving up hope of escaping and planning to go down with the boat. Also, in the same sequence, an old couple clutches each others' hands as water wells up next to their bed. Later, after we've all cried over the death of the woman and 2 kids, they are in a large scene in the background hopping on a lifeboat. In the banquet sequence on one of the far tables, only for a second, that's a nice pair of Nike Airs that 1912 man is wearing. Young Rose has green eyes, but Old Rose has blue eyes. Later in the film, there is a fade between the faces of young & old Rose and this time old Rose's have magically changed to match Kate Winslet's eyes. When Jack and Rose are going down with the ship, there is a man holding on to some sort of an anntena. The man's life jacket disappears and reappears. Rose mentions Freud's ideas on the male preoccupation with size to Bruce. However this is 1912, and Freud did not publish the work relating to this until 1920 in The Pleasure Principle. Also, up until 1919, Freud relied solely on data capture from females. Not only is the Statue of Liberty green, but the flame was replaced in 1986 with a gold flame. The film shows the Statue holding a torch with a gold flame, not the original. As the women and children are getting on the life boats there is a shot of a child crying, she is clearly wearing clear braces. A person of that time period could not have possibly had braces. Leo freezes and sinks into the ocean from the door. This wouldn't happen. Partially or even totally frozen human bodies float in water. Even fully-clothed frozen bodies have been shown to float. When Cal is chasing Jack and Rose through the dining room and shooting at them, the windows in the background have sunlight shining through. Since the Titanic sunk in the middle of the night, no light should be coming through the windows. Hard to believe the crew took hours to light a "night" scene and didn't notice the sunbeams in it. This mistake can also be seen in a still photo in various movie tie-in books. According to the film officer Murdoch murdered a passenger and then committed suicide, a point in the film that made his home town very angry and the film company donated £5000 to a charity but Cameron has never appologised. According to eye witness accounts he gave his lifejacket to a passenger and went down with the ship. After Rose has helped Jack to get loose from where he is handcuffed, as he is jumping over a bench one minute he has the handcuffs on, the next shot they're gone. Then they're back. In the scene where Jack enters the first class door for the first time in his tux if you look closely in the glass door you can see a cameraman behind him.
(now that my keyboard is smoking <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" /> , let me leave you guys & gals to a LONG bedtime story)
Your existence alone, is excuse enough for the creation of the entire universe… Il you my darling Jeanne-Dré
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More mistakes in Titanic (Boy i LOVED this movie..... in a fault finding kind of way)
Continuity Jack won his ticket by beating 2 pair with a full house. However, when we first see Jack's hand, he has nothihg that could be made in to a full house, and only draws one card.
Revealing mistakes A strip of desert is visible between the dock and the Titanic when docked at Southampton.
Anachronisms Jack claims to have gone ice fishing on Lake Wissota, which wasn't created until five years after the Titanic sank. Jacks claims to have visited the Santa Monica Pier, which did not begin construction until 1916. The pipe frames supporting the third class berths have set-screw speed rail fittings, not developed until 1946.
Continuity In the scene where Jack is teaching Rose to spit, there is no spit on his chin as he starts to turn around to face the ladies, but by the time he has completed his turn he has some on his chin.
The main characters have lunch in the Palm Court/Verandah on A Deck. These were not used for dining, although passengers could order tea or a small snack. Cal orders lamb with mint sauce for himself and Rose. Lamb was only available for dinner on the ship, while mutton was reserved for lunch. The lamb was prepared in the D-Deck galley and would not have been served in the Palm Court.
Revealing mistakes While Jack and Rose are walking on the promenade the day after he rescues her, a small hill with a building on it is visible over Jack's shoulder and above the ship.
Continuity Jack takes Rose and Molly's arms to go into dinner. They start walking, but in the next shot they are still standing apart.
Factual errors The worship services held at 10:30 on Sunday April 14th, 1912, in the First Class Dining Room were open to all passengers of the ship.
Anachronisms "Eternal Father Strong To Save" is sung during the worship service; the verse that begins "Lord, guard and guide the men who fly/ Through the great spaces in the sky" was written by Mary C. D. Hamilton in 1915.
Factual errors During the scene when Rose "flies" from the ship's bow, the sunlight is clearly falling almost exactly straight across the ship from left to right. On the evening of the 14th, the ship would be steaming somewhere between WSW and SW; the lighting in the movie would indicate that the sun is between SSE and SE, when it actually would have been between W and WNW.
Factual errors Workers in the Titanic's engine room had to wear thick protective clothing to shield them from the heat generated by the engines.
Anachronisms The gauges in the engine room are fitted with sweated tubing fittings, a plumbing technique not available when the ship was constructed. The fittings should have been threaded brass.
Factual errors There was no door between boiler room 6 and the cargo area (and no access to any but authorized crew). If there had been a door, it would have entered the third cargo area aft, not the one where the Renault was stored.
When Captain Smith enters the wheelhouse, the ship's telegraph is set to "Full Reverse" instead of "All Stop".
Factual errors First Officer Murdoch did not shoot anyone, including himself. It is impossible for voices to echo in the middle of the North Atlantic unless there is a large, flat object like a ship nearby.
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(now that my keyboard is smoking <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" /> , let me leave you guys & gals to a LONG bedtime story)
15 minutes later she posts another post on the same subject... Übereil
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<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> Euh... I think you're wrong on that point. Frogs breath partly (and completely during their "winter sleep") by their skin. I'll check back for sure and tell you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
Well, that will remain an unanswered life question because I didn't find it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> But frogs (and close animal classes) are very particular creatures. Here are a few other facts about them: - Their eyes are made so they can see at 360° - They become the quite exact opposite of what they were when they transform from tadpoles to adult frogs: tadpoles are herbivorous and exclusively aquatic; they have a long tail, no arms and legs, and breath by branchias adult frogs are excusively carnivorous and live mostly on the ground; they lost their tail and got arms and legs, and lost their branchias for lungs wich allow them to spend some time out of the water, and they breath greatly with their skin. - frogs and all “amphibiens” (sorry couldn’t find the english word for that) produce a mucus that cover all their body, because their cells are unable to stay hydrated alone. If their skin becomes dry, they dehydrate and it kills them. -Also because of their skin, they are very vulnerable to pollution and microscopic mushrooms, wich poison them at a very small quantity. Frogs are very good indicator of the contamination of water or soil. - Some big frogs eat other frogs, fishes, rodents and even birds. - There are about 150 frog species in the world. The biggest one is the Rana Goliath, wich is about 75 cm long and weights up to 4,5 kg; the smallest one is under 9 mm long. - The main differences between frogs and toads are the skin (flat for the frog, with warts for the toad) and the legs (frog’s are long, toad’s are short; so the frog jumps to move around but the toad only walks). <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain, was the first novel ever to be written on a typewriter.
In the 1700's you could purchase insurance against going to hell, in London England.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.
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Britannic started life under the cloud of the Titanic disaster, from the start she was expected to be named "Gigantic" but she was built as Britannic, considered by White Star as a lucky name (the White Star Line had three ships named Britannic over the years - HMHS Britannic was the second).
In appearance the Britannic resembled the Titanic, having an enclosed promenade A-Deck, but one large difference was the lifeboat davits which were much more prominent on the Britannic.
Below decks, the Britannic was similar to her sisters, but additional safety features (such as a double skin) were "built in" rather than retrofitted. Although her service speed was not intended to be increased, she was fitted with a more powerful turbine capable of developing 18,000HP compared to the 16,000HP of the Olympic, it was the largest marine turbine in the world.
Launched on 26th February 1914, fitting out was delayed by WW1 and financial/industrial difficulties. On 13th November 1915 the Britannic was requisitioned as a hospital ship becoming HMHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) Britannic.
Receiving a coat of brilliant white paint, with huge red crosses each lit by 125 lights. On 11th December 1915 she left Belfast and started her short career.
On 8:12am on 21st November 1916 Britannic struck a mine (some still contest it was a torpedo) in the Kea Channel, Aegean Sea. Despite her improved safety features, the Britannic began to sink in a cruel copycat of her sister's end four years earlier.
Attempts were made to beach the ship on the nearby island of Kea, but it was not to be. Two lifeboats, launched without authority from the port side were sucked into the propellers and smashed to pieces....the occupants didn't stand a chance.
At 9:07 the stern disappeared beneath the ocean. From that moment the Olympic became the last survivor of White Star's dream of a three-ship New York shuttle.
In retrospect, the disaster could have been much worse. If the Britannic had been on a homebound journey with wounded aboard, the loss of life would have been unthinkable.
In 1976 the famous French explorer Cousteau discovered the wreck lying on her side at a depth of 110 meters and recovered a few small objects.
Considering the shallow water that the Britannic rests in and the length of time her position has been know it's perhaps ironic that the wreck of the Britannic is safer from would-be salvagers than the Titanic. As a requisitioned ship in the service of Crown, the wreck to this day belongs to the British Government.
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-it takes seven years for a lobster to weigh one pound
-you can tell the difference between male and female blue crabs by the design located on their belly. The male blue crab has something like the washington monument and the female blue crap's design is shaped like the USA capitol
-mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and men all have seven neck vertebra
-all porcupines can float in water
-when angered, the ears of the Tazmanian devil turn pinkish red
-a cat has four rows of wiskers
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-cats' urine glows under a blacklight
-an iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
-the memory spand of a goldfish is 3 seconds
-the 2 foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows
-the honey badger can withstand hundreds of african bee stings that would kill any other animal
-the cheeta is the only cat that can't retract it's claws
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-a female swine or sow will always have an even number of teats or nipples
-the sumatrian tiger has the most stripes of all yje tiger subspecies, and the siberian tiger has the least
-tigers' paw prints are called pug marks
-kiwi birds are blind, they hunt only by smell
-all elephants walk on tip-toe becouse the back portion of their feet is only fat, no bone
-giraffes have no vocal chords
-a fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse
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The national game of the United States, baseball, is a more complicated variety of the English game rounders.
An equinox, literally "equal night" from Latin aequinoctium, occurs twice a year when the Sun crosses the equator and day and night are equal in length - Spring and Autumn.
Chipmunk is an American English word, first written chitmunk, that was borrowed from Algonquian atchitamon, meaning 'one who descends trees headlong'.
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- 111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
-the first prime number after 1,000,000 is 1,000,003
-if you need to remember pi, just count the letters in each word of the sentence: "May I have a large container of coffee?" (and if you get the coffee, be polite and say "thank you" -> gets you two more decimals.) 3.1415926(53)
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