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  1. Cave Troll

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    Well that sucks. :(
     
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    This should make you feel better.

     
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    Mister Rogers was actually a ordained presbyterian minster who`s mother knitted most of the sweaters he would wear on the show. Most of the puppets used in the show where originally though up when he was working as a puppeteer on a local Pittsburgh children's show The Childrens Corner. His hometown also happens to be a neighboring town to the one I live in.
     
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    Armadillos carry more diseases then bloody racoons, and they get into the trash just as bad. Had one when we were house sitting in Florida that was a absolute nuisance.
     
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    Fordyce spots are named in honor of John Addison Fordyce, the first person in human history not too shy to ask "Hey, anybody else got these?"
     
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    There was at least 3 genocides commited by the Ottoman empire during World War 1. To this day, the turkish government's stance on these events have been generally negative with a general refusal to accept them as genocides or at all.

    The English invented the idea of concentration camps as known today a long time before the nazis where even thought of. Though mass-imprisonment was already a 'thing'.

    The gauls where the far cleaner the the average roman. For they used, and where indeed the inventor, of soap. The roman used oil, primarily from olives, to wash themselves.

    The Roman and the Han Dynasty of china actually had diplomatic ties. Therefore, the romans knew quite well what lay beyond in terms of geography. They also knew of Zanzibar and other south-african nations. The Chinese called the romans "Daqin".

    The Celts and primarily the Gallic [Gaul] armies where composed of both men and women according to archeological finds. It seems that either women had specialized roles or where part of the 'front line infantry'. Either way, female warrior burials are common enough to substantiate this.

    Gaius Julius Ceasar commented that the average Gallic warrior was far superior than the average roman soldier in combat prowess. Noting that he only won his campaign due to superior unit-wide cohesion and discipline and the fact the Gallic people where primarily not unified and Gaius Julius played tribes against each other.

    Yesternight is, despite common misconceptions, still a correct word of enligsh. It is simply rarely used and archaic. A bit like using Betwixt.

    There are very few societies that can claim to be 'slave societies' in that they really on slaves as their majority portion of their population. Rome and Classical Athens are two, the vikings may have been a third though estimate usually vary between 30 to 50% slave population estimates (i.e how much of their total population are slaves).

    Spartan Women where allowed to vote while Athenian women could not. Also, it is commonly said that only two people could have a marked grave in sparta: A woman who died in childbirth or a man who died in battle.
     
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    History is an accumulation of news stories.
    News stories sensationalize events in order to catch the reading public's eye.
    Events are usually mundane and not worth reading about.
    Therefore, history is an accumulation of sensationalized stories filled with exaggerations and half-truths written to sell newspapers.
    One could conclude from all this that history, as written, is a crock.
     
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    While true this is a bit of a red herring - the use of camps to concentrate the civilian portion of ones enemy was invented by the English during the boer war, but these weren't liquidation camps in the same way the Nazi camps were with gas chambers and medical experimentation etc
     
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    Well I guess as a species we have some rather gruesome hobbies, outside of shooting/stabbing/blowing up one another. :p
     
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    A used, 30+ year old Lamborghini Countach still costs around half a million dollars.
     
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    The Boxer, by Simon and Garfunkle, is just a little over five minutes long, but took over a hundred hours to record, with recording taking place in several different locations. The famous and much analyzed chorus of "lie-la-lie" is, in fact, a meaningless placeholder that Paul Simon used when he couldn't think of any words to fit that section of the song.

     
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    Rock salt miners, because of all the salt they are breathing in during work, either stop salting their food or need to salt it excessively to even taste it.

    This and much more from a documentary I found on YouTube:
    Discovery How Stuff Works: Salt
     
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    I put this here not to inspire debate, but just out of a certain wry amusement.

    President Trump actually took his oath on a stack of Bibles.

    A small stack.

    Well, two, but nevertheless a stack.

    I have no idea how common this is.

    [​IMG]
     
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    Perhaps it's subtle speech for: "Dear God, please...please help America!!!!"
     
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    Common misconception, that's actually one bible with a booster underneath to accommodate his tiny hands.
     
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    Or maybe Slovenia's trying to tell us they want us to become 'Greater Slovenia'?

    TAKE ME, SLOVENIA!!! D:
     
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    :superlaugh::superlaugh::superlaugh:
     
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    Oh yeah, thanks for reading my book and leaving a much better review than it deserved. You're good people @Cave Troll, I don't care what anyone (mostly @Iain Aschendale ) says about you.
     
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    Yeah not a prob. I was just being honest. :)
    Iain A. and I are are cool. :supercool:
     
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    The outer shells of walnuts, ground to a powder, were used to clean the space shuttle after reentry
     
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    Useless fact... this thread isn't stickied.
     
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