1. In 1998 the NSA(National Security Agency) Banned furbies from their headquarters, for fear they could over hear what was being spoken about.
2. In January of 2010, Pres. Obama signed Executive order 13526, which released a number of highly classified government documents to the public. I would suggest you give them a cursory glance, the ones surrounding "Area 51" are interesting.
3. The US National Debt increases by about $4 Billion dollars a day.( Actually 3.86, trend has held steady since september of 2008)
4. Project Ornothopter and insectothopter were two government projects which tried to mount cameras on insects and pigeons to conduct surveillance.( Insectothopter was a completely mechanical gas-powered insect, was given up because of instability in crosswinds)
5. According to the Department of Agriculture, the US government owns 34% of all land in the country.
Edited by FC Wings on 01/08/2013 15:31:59
The slang term for dollars 'bucks' originates to early colonial America where colonists would trade deer skins (bucks) in return for goods and services. Hence the term 'buck'.
- Michael Jackson was surprisingly once black in the distant past.
- If the entire history of the universe was compressed into one year, the dinosaurs wouldn't have existed until December 25th and Human existence wouldn't happen until December 31st at 11:55 pm.
- The statistically happiest year in existence was 1954, which was also the year the very uplifting song "Sh-Boom" by the Crew Cuts was released. I suggest you check it out.
- It is possible to synthesize a form of hallucinogenic drug from a banana, "Bannadine" with household objects.
- Global reserves of Indium are expected to run out by 2028.
- My 100th birthday will be on April 23rd, 2096. My goal is to live to be 104, or to the year 2100.
- The oldest person ever recorded was Jeanne Calment, who died in 1999 at the age of 122.
- I fucking love this thread, it's totally my type of random factoids. Thanks Moony!
- All of these facts I came up with off the top of my head.
theatticus wrote:
- Michael Jackson was surprisingly once black in the distant past.
Holy shit, I didn't know that! (Yes everyone knows that Atticus, well except the people who are into Licki Tinaj And Pustin Lieber, or babies, which don't know much anything.)
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The Sharp toothed zombie
Brains, the sharp toothed zombie(zombie), had a verysharp tooth! And if you ever saw him, you better turn the hell around and run! All of the other zombies, wouldn’t let poor Brains play any zombie games. Then one foggy Christmas eve, santa came to say “oh brains, with your tooth so sharp, wont you eat my wife tonight. And all of the zombiesloved him and shouted out with glee.
Driving through the snow-
Driving through the snow, in a one turret hog, shooting noobs all the way hahhaha. Making spent cartridges ring! Oh jingle bells and shotgun shells, running over noobs all the way. Blasting through the snow, in a one turret hog, pwning noobs all the way hahaha
- It is possible to synthesize a form of hallucinogenic drug from a banana, "Bannadine" with household objects.
Guys, before you post something (possibly) lucrative, make sure you research it. Bannadine/Bananadine is fictional.
Most of the stuff in the Anarchist Cookbook is wrong anyway. A lot of it is urban myth.
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Lol okay let me rephrase, it was a joke because I was stating the obvious
- The axolotl, an amphibian found in Mexico, has no adulthood, it never passes the tadpole stage. Scientists have recently given an axolotl a hormone that triggers this transformation manually, thus creating the first adult axolotl in who knows how many millions of years.
Never judge a book by its movie.
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
