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TylersProphecy4.0 said:
Hmmmmmm. Well I know at least 150ish years back, during civil war times, people used weird sitting beds. Like, half the length, and you sit up while sleeping. I figured it was a way to save real estate inside of small homes lol. They had one set up in Licoln's old apartment, before he became president. My history teacher said all beds before a certain point were like that.

Clearly, my teacher was full of shit. Thank you for the knowledge so I dont keep spouting that nonsense.
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No worries. Hope you don't mind another round ;b

TylersProphecy4.0 said:
Listerine was originally used as a hair regrowth product.
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It was originally used as a surgical disinfectant:

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Listerine - Wikipedia

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Inspired by Louis Pasteur's ideas on microbial infection, the English doctor Joseph Lister demonstrated in 1865 that use of carbolic acid on surgical dressings would significantly reduce rates of post-surgical infection. Lister's work in turn inspired St. Louis-based doctor Joseph Lawrence to develop an alcohol-based formula for a surgical antiseptic which included eucalyptol, menthol, methyl salicylate, and thymol (Its exact composition is a trade secret). Lawrence named his antiseptic "Listerine" in honor of Lister.[2]
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Long after its adoption as a mouthwash, it was advertised as a dandruff treatment:

From the 1930s into the 1950s, advertisements claimed that applying Listerine to the scalp could prevent "infectious dandruff".[13]
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TrainedRage said:
Figs are made by wasps going in them having babies then dying, all inside a fig...

Don't eat figs.
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IKEA is an acronym which stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, which is the founder's name, farm where he grew up, and hometown.
 
Tesseract said:
monster energy drink is bull cum

thanks ho jogan for the pro tip
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Rather than deal with the existential crisis that I need bull semen to stay alive, I choose to believe this article, real or not. :messenger_neutral:

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Humor & Whimsy

Indulge your curiosity and have a little fun with these stories about the weird and the wonderful. With articles on aliens, cats, cartoons, and hoaxes, this collection is guaranteed boredom-basher.
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There are more stars in the Universe, than there are grains of sand on Earth.
 
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Tesseract said:
monster energy drink is bull cum

thanks ho jogan for the pro tip
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I remember it's a chemical called taurine that's found in bull cum or some part of the bull, but it's synthesized chemically and not actually extracted from cum.

I don't wanna look it up

meant Red Bull. I don't know if monster contains it
 
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A diamond anvil can generate higher pressure than at the earths core. With lasers they hope to generate more pressure than the core of Jupiter.
 
EviLore said:
No worries. Hope you don't mind another round ;b



It was originally used as a surgical disinfectant:

en.wikipedia.org

Listerine - Wikipedia

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Long after its adoption as a mouthwash, it was advertised as a dandruff treatment:
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When I was a kid, my dad used to buy Listerine. And of course back then, it was only the brown version.

It was like gargling acid.

I swear if you left some of that on a piece of metal overnight, it would burn right through it!
 
In WW2, fighter pilots from Germany, US, Britain, and Japan reported orbs of light in formation following them on missions throughout the war. Sometimes, the pilots would pursue the orbs only to be toyed with in aerial maneuvers.

Incredibly similar reports are still filed to this day, making huge news recently with several US F18 pilots and UK forces. The Pentagon admitted they had no understanding of the objects, but it was in fact a real phenomenon. The objects were deemed to operate in a manner "above our understanding of physics."
 
Romulus said:
In WW2, fighter pilots from Germany, US, Britain, and Japan reported orbs of light in formation following them on missions throughout the war. Sometimes, the pilots would pursue the orbs only to be toyed with in aerial maneuvers.

Incredibly similar reports are still filed to this day, making huge news recently with several US F18 pilots and UK forces. The Pentagon admitted they had no understanding of the objects, but it was in fact a real phenomenon. The objects were deemed to operate in a manner "above our understanding of physics."
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they were called foo fighters, just like when you use foo as a fake file name
 
  • Mosquitos have contributed to more deaths than any animals on earth.
  • An octopus has 3 hearts, 9 brains & blue blood.
  • The hair on a polar bear is actually not white but clear. They appear white because it reflects light.
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales.
  • Most ice-cream contains pig skins (Gelatin).
  • Due to extreme pressure and weather conditions, it literally rains diamonds on Neptune and Uranus.
  • Your cellphone carries up to ten times more bacteria than a toilet seat
  • Statistically, you are more likely to die on the way to buy a lottery ticket than you are to win the lottery itself.
 
Nicolas Cage & Jason Schwartzman are the nephews of Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather.

John Krasinski interned for Conan O' Brian:

 
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Did you know that the Tokyo subway network comprises of 300 stations? In this there are a total of thirteen lines covering 300km in total. For comparison, a blue whale - the biggest animal in the world - comes in at just over 25m. That means the entire Tokyo subway system covers the same length as 12,000 of these ocean traversing mammals.

There's also one I know about Japan having only 20,000 sheep in the entire country despite it having the one of the highest consumption of wool in the world. I recently used this to try and impress a knitwear designer I met (didn't work).
 
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Cybrwzrd said:
In other penis related facts, there hasn't been a measuring device found yet that can measure the average GAFer's penis.
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That's exactly how Gaffers penises are measured - relative to the average.
 
InterMusketeer said:
There's a town in the US that is (in)famous for having killed an elephant by hanging. The elephant, which was part of a circus, killed her trainer and it was decided they'd put her down by hanging because shooting didn't work. They used a large crane to hang her. The wounded elephant cooperated with her 'punishment' as she was very docile and well-trained. The first attempt failed when the chain she was hung from snapped, breaking her hip. Hundreds of people were watching and cheering as the elephant screamed out in pain, and finally died after another attempt. There's even a picture of it.
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Been there.

My useless fact. If you could constantly accelerate at 1 gee, it would take a year to get to lightspeed.
 
Saying "double U double U double U..." uses 3x the syllables that saying "world wide web..." does.
 
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