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    I know - that's why I said hot enough for rivets to pop out and bolts to lose their threads, that is two separate things happening due to the heat
     
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    Apparently female kangaroos have 3 vaginas.
     
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    Damn, that sounds like a party waiting to happen.
     
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    If you like kangaroo snatch...:oops:
     
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    :blech::blech:
     
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    Maybe your brain wants you to play more?
     
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    That is true. I've been meaning to do one last playthrough for a faction I hadn't done yet...
     
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    When I was a child, I played Lemmings so much that I used to see them when I closed my eyes. I literally couldn’t sleep because I saw them walking along and floating down on their little parachutes.
     
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    Useless fact: The state fish of Hawaii is the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a.

    [​IMG]
     
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    Floccinaucinihilipilificatiousness is generally held as the longest non-technical word in the English language and means: having a propensity to estimate things as having little or no value.
     
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    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is an actual place, in Wales.
     
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    Dildo is an actual place in Newfoundland.
     
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    There's a list of four L's in a row in there! Is that really correct?

    "The one-l lama, he's a priest,
    The two-llama, he's a beast.
    And I'll bet you a silk pajama
    There isn't any three-l lllama!"

    - Ogden Nash
     
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    I've been to Hell. But just the Hell in Michigan.
     
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    Also what about the damn plane smashing into the building? And the kinetic energy of the initial, I'm presuming explosive, combustion? Surely that could break steel beams>
     
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    Yup, very. Watch this news anchor, he's like a vocal wizard,



    Heh. My friend lives there with his girlfriend. The icebreaker between us was "You live in hell? Bullshit, you don't live with my mother."
     
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    Yep. In Welsh (Cymreig), the double-l is a letter to itself, and the name is a compound (compound compound) word. This site here explains it very well.

    It means
    Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave.

    I can pronounce it, but not half so fast or so well as Mr. Dutton does.
     
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    Very informative, though being from the Midwestern part of the US I can say pepper's a lot more prevalent than caraway (which is used only in rye bread), and I wonder where "Norther" and "Easter" Europe are. Not to mention "Yamen."

    Oh, well!
     
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    John Adams, America's second president, wrote in a letter that:

    "Mausoleums, Statues, Monuments will never be erected to me. I wish them not——Panegyrical Romances, will never be written, nor flattering Orations pronounced to transmit my Character to Posterity in glorious Colours."

    His first, and to date only, national-level memorial is the 2007 Presidential dollar coin bearing his likeness.

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    Apparently, Elephants can move their skin to crush mosquitoes between their rolls. That'd be a cool party trick.
     
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    And they can use their... male members... to push themselves back up when they stumble...
     
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