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there are a bunch of facts (of varying accuracy) which i posted a few months ago in this thread:
Interesting history you all should know
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Posted: 2004-05-28 07:37:55
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On 2004-05-19 09:20:31, gelfen wrote:
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are
read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
I belive that if you sneeze with your eyes open they will fall out.
I have always imagined the word "Timbuktu" as hard to find a rhyming word to in English.
In Norwegian it is considered impossible to find a rhyming word to "pølse" (sausage).
In Norwegian the sentence "Agnes i senga" (Agnes in the bed) is palindromatic.
In Norwegian we write compound words as one, which makes interesting things happen:
"Angstskrik" (distress howl/fear shout), six consonants in a row. The word is a compund of "angst" and "skrik".
"Saueøyeeier" (sheep eye owner), nine vowels in a row, a compound of "sau", "e" (to bind the words) "øye" (ø is a vowel) and "eier".
Norwegian, Danish and Swedish have 29 letters in the alphabeth. The 26 latin and in addition 'æ', 'ø' and 'å' (Swedish use 'ä' and 'ö' for 'æ' and 'ø', but with same background) in the end of the alphabeth.
Icelandic have 36 letters, in this row:
a á b c d ð e é f g h i í j k l m n o ó p q r s t u ú v w x y ý z þ æ ö
The first artificial object to be sent into Earth orbit was as everybody know Sputnik 1. But for some reason I know that it weighed 83.6 kg.
Kristian André
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Posted: 2004-06-01 11:30:18
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The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second.
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Posted: 2004-06-04 14:44:44
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or...
The speed of light in vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second)
also interesting is
In 1983 the SI (Systeme International) defined a metre as:
The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
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Posted: 2004-06-04 14:48:29
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I have to take a leak...
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Posted: 2004-06-04 15:03:22
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On 2004-06-04 14:48:29, masseur wrote:
The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
That's because the metre stick in France was discovered to be influenced by temperature and was unreliable.
The metre was originally defined to be 1/10,000,000 of the distance from equator to the north pole.
Later defined as the lenght of the metre stick at 20(?) degees C. Now as you say.
The foot was originally defined to be the lenght of the upper (or lower?) arm of some king. Wonder why they call it foot then. It is longer than most people's feet. But:
My feet are exactly one foot. Or 30.48 cm. Or size EUR47.
Kristian André
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Posted: 2004-06-05 00:30:38
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Youll have a happy life if you do the things you like
No matter how hard you try you CANNOT poop from your nose
Now I need a leak sausage
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Posted: 2004-06-05 13:40:03
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i joined esato on the 2nd day of the 2nd month of the 2nd year of the 2k
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Posted: 2004-06-05 17:16:00
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I cant sniff coke because the ice cubes block the straw
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Posted: 2004-06-05 17:19:19
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The foot was originally defined to be the lenght of the upper (or lower?) arm of some king. Wonder why they call it foot then. It is longer than most people's feet. But:
My feet are exactly one foot. Or 30.48 cm. Or size EUR47.
Kristian André
That would be because if you put your heel in the crease of your elbow, your foot will reach exactly to your wrist! So by conclusion it must have been the measurement of the lower arm of some king!
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Posted: 2004-06-07 16:41:17
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