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Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti played husband and wife in John Adams and the Nanny Diaries. I'm pretty sure this "fact" is not interesting.
More than 3 times as many states allow 1st cousins to marry as allow gay marriage. http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-ne...
Interesting to me how much time one can spend scrolling around this:http://www.vatican.va/various/cappell...
Some bookstores shelf The Necronomicon with religious texts even though H.P. Lovecraft created it himself.
There are around 200 corpses on Mt. Everest.No casinos floors in Las Vegas have clocks.
There are more telephones than people in Washington DC.
If you fly out of Tokyo in the morning you will arrive in Honolulu the previous afternoon, making you older and younger at the same time(?).
If you could survive the extreme cold on Titan, you could fly by flapping your arms (if you had a pair of wings attached to them).http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/
As long as a cat can fit its head through a hole in something like a box or fence, the cat can get its whole body through because cats don't have collarbones like humans do.
The reason the Simpsons animated TV show is based in Springfield, is because there is a Springfield in every state.
Sir James Matthew Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, stopped growing at the age of 15. He was also impotent, ambidextrous, and invented the name "Wendy".
The opposite of the placebo effect is termed the nocebo effect; it's when a person has an adverse reaction to a placebo because he believes that it will have a negative side effect.In one anti-depressant study, a participant tried to commit suicide by taking 26 of the placebo pills all at once.
There are no seasons at the equator :)
Michael wrote: "The opposite of the placebo effect is termed the nocebo effect; it's when a person has an adverse reaction to a placebo because he believes that it will have a negative side effect.In one anti-de..."
Placebo effects are amazing and confusing. This video summarizes the most entertaining phenomena:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRVCa...
A baby cannot taste salt until it is 4 months old. This may be because the kidneys cannot process sodium until about that age.
The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.
We digest an average of 77 insects while we sleep during our lifetime.
Facetious is the only word in the English language with a,e,i,o, and u in order in the word.
Rick wrote: "Interesting to me how much time one can spend scrolling around this:http://www.vatican.va/various/cappell..."
That was of of the coolest things I've seen. Thanks~
During the astrological sign of Leo the Milky Way and the Nile align. ;^) As do the pyramids with the stars.
You can stop a yawn by sticking your finger in your mouth.
Q. If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared today, what would be the most difficult thing to explain to them about life today?A. I possess a device, in my pocket that is capable of accessing the entirety of information know to man. I use it to look at pictures of cats and get in arguments with strangers.
Mark Twain´s favorite stove: "Take the German stove [Kachelofen], for instance … where can you find it outside of German countries? I am sure I have never seen it where German was not the language of the region. Yet it is by long odds the best stove and the most convenient and economical that has yet been invented.[...]"
http://www.timelyconstruction.com/?pa...
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Here a full copy of the webpage (referenced above):
Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote the following description in ‘Europe and Elsewhere’. Although he spoke of German fireplaces specifically, his words are now true (in proportion) for all of the Masonry Heaters that we install.
“Take the German stove, for instance … where can you find it outside of German countries? I am sure I have never seen it where German was not the language of the region. Yet it is by long odds the best stove and the most convenient and economical that has yet been invented.
To the uninstructed stranger it promises nothing; but he will soon find that it is a masterly performer, for all that. It has a little bit of a door which seems foolishly out of proportion to the rest of the edifice; yet the door is right; for it is not necessary that bulky fuel shall enter it. Small-sized fuel is used, and marvelously little at that. The door opens into a tiny cavern which would not hold more fuel that a baby could fetch in its arms. The process of firing is quick and simple. At half past seven on a cold morning the servant brings a small basketful of slender pine sticks – say a modified armful – and puts half these in, lights them with a match, and closes the door. They burn out in ten or twelve minutes. He then puts in the rest and locks the door, and carries off the key. The work is done. He will not come again until the next morning.
All day long and until past midnight all parts of the room will be delightfully warm and comfortable, and there will be no headaches and no sense of closeness or oppression. In an American room, whether heated by steam, hot water, or open fires, the neighborhood of the register or the fireplace is warmest – the heat is not equally diffused throughout the room; but in a German room one is as comfortable in one part of it as in another. Nothing is gained or lost by being near the stove. Its surface is not hot; you can put your hand on it anywhere and not get burnt.
Consider these things. One firing is enough for the day; the cost is next to nothing; the heat produced is the same all day, instead of too hot and too cold by turns; one may absorb himself in his business and peace; he does not need to feel any anxieties or solicitudes about his fire; his whole day is a realized dream of bodily comfort.
America could adopt this stove, but does America do it? The American wood stove, of whatsoever breed, it is a terror. There can be no tranquility of mind where it is. It requires more attention than a baby. It has to be fed every little while, it has to be watched all the time; and for all reward you are roasted half your time and frozen the other half. It warms no part of the room but its own part; it breeds headaches and suffocation, and makes one’s skin feel dry and feverish; and when your wood bill comes in you thin you have been supporting a volcano.
We have in America many and many a breed of coal stove also – fiendish things, everyone of them. The base burner sort are heady and require but little attention; but none of them distributes its heat uniformly through the room, or keeps it at an unwavering temperature, or fails to take the life out of the atmosphere and leave it stuffy and smothery and stupefying…”
from ‘Europe and Elsewhere’ by Mark Twain
Most Disney Animated Features do not use scripts. Instead after a general plot has been decided and scenes are chopped up and handed out to story-boarders to do as they will with individual scenes. Which are then knit back together into things like The Little Mermaid and Mulan. Some TV Shows such as Spongebob are board-focused as well, though other script-focused shows like Avatar the Last Airbender keep proper scripts.
Somebody already quoted one of them, but go read all of the XKCD "what-if"'s if you want some profoundly interesting and useless thought experiments. Two of my favorites:http://what-if.xkcd.com/9/
http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital is known internationally for receiving the rights from J. M. Barrie to his play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up in 1929, which have provided significant funding for the institution. Peter Pan still generates Millions of dollars a year that goes to sick kids. Ann-Marie wrote: "Sir James Matthew Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, stopped growing at the age of 15. He was also impotent, ambidextrous, and invented the name "Wendy"."
If you want to know if your breath smells bad. Lick your arm then smell it 10 second later.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.Dr. Seuss
The influence of Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" was so strong when it was first published that the logging industry created their own children's book called "The Truax" to improve their image. Also Dr. Seuss once claimed that his book "Marvin K Mooney will you please go now?" was actually written about Richard Nixon.
Pour enough energy into sand and it turns into glass!!!Imagine a lightning strike in a desert...
Using a meditation technique called Tum-mo, in an environment close to, at, or below freezing, Tibetan monks can *completely dry* soaking wet, ice cold sheets (at 49 degrees or lower) that have been wrapped around their naked bodies using nothing more than their body heat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytYEh9...
This is funny and interesting!