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  1. Oscar Leigh

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    Um, titanium is explosive. Might not be safe in a gun with miniature explosions going on inside it.
     
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    From what I have found is that it must be in molten or dust particulate form for such a thing to occur. Otherwise I would have blown most of my hand off lighting a cigarette years ago. So it would technically work as long as it was treated and cured properly when it was cast, making it no more than a high tensile strength light weight metal. And all gas powered weapons outside of air pistols/rifles, have an explosion in the chamber and the gasses propel the projectile ejecting it from the barrel.

    Here is a video that will demonstrate just how tough titanium is when it is shot with varying caliber weapons.

     
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    You could fit the entire human population into Rhode Island.
     
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    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    Is the "stuff the phone booth challenge" but on a global level? O_O
     
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    It would take a person, drinking 2 liters of water a day, 443 quadrillion years to drink all of the Atlantic Ocean alone.
     
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    Presumably if they didn't die from the salt/water overdose first. That's why you don't drink salt water, kids.
     
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    Long as they had somewhere to pee that wouldn't drain back into the Atlantic basin. Like the guy in Ringworld, walking to the base of the Arch...
     
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    While the "poisonousness" of salt may have been overstated, the "poisonousness" of saltwater still remains. Drinking seawater will kill you.
     
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    It is illegal to go whaling in Oklahoma
     
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    When I make my first billion, I'm going to make the necessary arrangements to get arrested for that...
     
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    It’s illegal in Alabama to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
     
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    Selbbin The Moderating Cat Contributor Contest Winner 2023

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    Salt water will kill you through dehydration, as it takes more water to break down and dilute the salt water that you're taking in. The best way to survive on salt water is to inject it rectally, with the intestines used as a salt filter. You absorb the water and poop out the salt. True story.
     
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    Shattered Shields Gratsa!

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    Thats the clearest explanation of an enema I've ever heard.

    And @Selbbin, even though you hate me, I still love you. Just FYI
     
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    Selbbin, now that you bring that up, i feel unable to restrain myself for this little fact: In the medieval ages people believed that when you could no longer keep food that by eating it the conventional method, then they would introduce it to your digestive system by the slightly less convenient rear entrance using what looks like a massive funnel with a colander attached to the end. They would put the food in the tunnel/entrance of the funnel and use a metal, or wooden, stick to erm. 'ram it home'.
     
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    Corn kernels in your poop? Moderately amusing.

    The whole cob? Ouch.
     
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    Cats have kidney's efficient enough to be able to survive on seawater. (although I'm not if that's indefinitely or just short term.)

    If you took all the ants on the planet and weighed them, they would produce a greater mass than all the humans.
     
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    In Arizona it is illegal to have more than 2 dildos in a house.
     
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    Is there a dildo patrol? Do rookie state police officers earn their marks on the sex toy taskforce? STT? Do forensic scientists, anlayiz the contraband? So many questions!
     
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    No it is like the law in Washington that says if you plan on committing a crime within the limits of a city, you must alert the local authorities of your illegal venture, before entering a city. :p
     
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    Did you know that cashews come from a fruit?
     
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    There are multiple states in the US that do not ban...intimate relations...with a corpse (please, let this fact be of no use to anyone here)
     
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    How in the world did that law ever get passed?

    "Gentlemen, we need more dildo control. They are a threat to the public."
     
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    In Georgia you need a prescription to own one.
     
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