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Eating large amounts of salt can give you headaches. I ate a whole bag on sunflower seeds in a couple hours and my head was killing me for the rest of the day.
 
I learned in class yesterday that professional coders are expected to program 100 lines of code a day. That doesn't seem like very much, but then again, I'm not a professional coder, so...

I don't know if it counts as "actual experience" but yeah.
 
My long haired cat has gotten some very tangled knots around his belly. Apparently, you can't just cut them out because you can cut your cat pretty easily. Luckily, I found this out before attempting. I got a de-matting brush with little blades in the teeth. Excellent product!
 
I very recently learned that the most expensive colleges in the US are more expensive than I thought they were.

Also Jesus multiplied the penises apparently.
 
BloodMoney said:
Niel Degrasse Tyson is a very smart person, but something must have been taken out of context.

It takes a photon (traveling at the speed of light) 8 minutes and 19 seconds to get to earth... the light illuminating the ground outside has spent 8 minutes and 19 seconds traveling from the source. Photos of deep space do not represent current images. The images of stars we see in the nights sky actually represent stars that are billions of years old because it's taken their light that long to travel the great expanse of space.

The speed of light is fast... but it's not teleportation.
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If movies, TV, and anime taught me anything, it's that time slows down for the traveler as they approach the speed of light. I guess once they reach light speed, it stops completely.
 
& used to be the last letter of the alphabet.

...TUVWXYZ&

So you would say "X, Y, Z, and, per se, And"

That's why it's called ampersand.
 
I learned last night that Hong Kong is connected by land to China and that the only country in Asia that has never been colonized was Thailand and that's because the emperor at the time could speak English and was able to negotiate.
 
Hideo Koyima is a Thalia (mexican soap opera "actress"/singer) fan.

That explains a lot of the wacky things in MSG lore.
 
An endfire antenna array cannot be accurately modeled as a passive periodic structure with regard to the electric field.
 
toweringinferno said:
You aren't meant to do flips on backyard trampolines. Did a backflip today and ripped the mat, fell through to the floor.
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Dude, you got lucky. You evaded a spinal cord injury. Outside of Motor Vehicle Accidents trampolines are the number two cause. Number one being Football/Rugby.
 
You can click both mouse buttons at the same time on the PC version of Super Hexagon to restart the stage (I always found it bothersome to have to keep my hand over the spacebar). I have over 11 hours of playtime, and I only found it out after watching a friend playing it for the first time 2 weeks ago. He discovered it after 40 seconds.

Yeah, I felt stupid afterwards.
 
I learned George Washington and his fellow soldier, just the two of them, had a gun pulled on them and were shot at by an indian they came across and trusted to lead the way safely back east. Neither was hit, and George's friend held a gun to the indians throat afterwards, about to shoot. George told him not to kill him, and before the trap was fully set they managed to run away.
 
The reason a man's penis gland is shaped the way it is, is to be able to pull out semen left in the vagina by other men.
 
"Revenge is a dish best served cold."

Only today did I realise that it means you bide your time until the right moment comes along to exact your revenge. And while biding your time, the 'dish' that is your revenge is what gets cold.

Beautiful. I love proverbs.

EDIT: Also, I'm no longer a junior. You may now picure me as the 'I hate sandcastles' kid.
 
Rocwell said:
Women use "Shark week" as a euphemism for being on their period. P.funny tbh.
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There's a bunch of those,
riding the crimson wave, attracting (sometimes lesbian) vampires, drowning Ramses, Wearing the Scarlet P, Aunt Flo's in town, Code Red etc.
Seriously there's a bunch.
 
There's a canyon under the ice in Greenland the size of the Grand Canyon.

BakedPigeon said:
I learned George Washington and his fellow soldier, just the two of them, had a gun pulled on them and were shot at by an indian they came across and trusted to lead the way safely back east. Neither was hit, and George's friend held a gun to the indians throat afterwards, about to shoot. George told him not to kill him, and before the trap was fully set they managed to run away.
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http://www.cracked.com/article_20334_6-most-heartwarming-stories-ever-happened-in-wars.html

In October of 1777, Washington and Howe met again at Germantown, Pennsylvania. Both sides fought hard, but Howe led a flood of British and Hessian troops and annihilated Washington's forces, killing over 100 and taking over 400 prisoner, winning the battle. Which is probably why you don't read so much about this one in the textbooks at school.

However, despite the loss, the Americans still managed to take a prisoner -- a dog. More specifically, General Howe's terrier managed to flee during the fight and ended up in the rebels' camp. On the other side, Howe worried for two days just what those barbaric Americans were doing to his pet.

But two days later, the dog came out of the woods and went right to Howe, with a note attached. It simply said, "General Washington's compliments to General Howe. He does himself the pleasure to return him a dog, which accidentally fell into his hands, and by the inscription on the Collar appears to belong to General Howe."
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Angry Grimace said:
Getting a foxtail removed from your dogs skin costs like $500 and is quite dangerous. I had my dog outside for 5 years until she got an abscess from one. Clear that shit out of your yard people.
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I learned this a couple years ago myself. Poor dog had one in his ear. My Vet only charged me $350 though. :P
 
I learned that when I'm calling down a MULE in Starcraft 2, I should cast it on a mineral patch so it'll start harvesting automatically.
 
The hippacampus will actually produce new cells to combat cell death

The best way to prevent Alzheimers is by using your brain (and mind if your a duelist) in new and interesting ways

the liver is made of the same cells as skin, and is acutally good at repairing itself

I cant spell worth a damn
 
terrdactycalsrock said:
The best way to prevent Alzheimers is by using your brain (and mind if your a duelist) in new and interesting ways
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I always figured playing Dota 2 would prevent Alzheimers. There's so much to constantly learn and if you're playing a micro-heavy character like Meepo you have to use some serious brain power.
 
Waxwing birds get drunk.
Dogs get OCD and anxiety disorders, SSRI's are available as treatments.
Congestive heart failure and diabetes also occur in other animals, not just humans.
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