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Topic: Random facts.

Anonymous A started this discussion 15 years ago #16,121

Let's start one. Anything you can think of off the top of your head. +1 to who can be the most obscure.

I'll start:

McDonalds is one the largest private owners of real estate in the world.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 10 minutes later[^] [v] #278,486

Jews are not actually lizard people.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 33 minutes later, 43 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #278,494

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Dead !Pool7hVoC2 joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 26 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #278,498

Not everything is bigger in Texas

but God damn there must me something in the water because high-school girls are stacked and it makes me feel like a pedophile

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #278,499

@previous (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
growth hormones in the beef. for real

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 50 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #278,500

@previous (E)
Its God damn rediculous.

Anonymous E replied with this 15 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #278,503

@previous (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
no shit, right?

i don't even want to think about what they spray on corn.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #278,508

Image went missing@278,486 (B)

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 29 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #278,514

Biscuits and other quick breads rise due to an acid-base reaction between the baking soda and buttermilk, just like a tiny science-fair volcano.

(In contrast to regular breads, which slowly rise as the yeast ferments sugars in the dough, excreting tiny bubbles of CO2.)

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 4 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,530

In Chinese, Mao means cat. Therefore, if you translated Chairman Mao's name he would be Chairman Cat.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,532

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
猫 means cat. Zedong's name is 毛泽东.

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 15 years ago, 13 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,540

@previous (H)
Could just be a different sort of translation. Chinese often gets translated in different ways.

Mao has been used to refer to cats.

Anonymous H replied with this 15 years ago, 8 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,542

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
The article points out cat is '猫' in Chinese, but Zedong's name is '毛泽东'.

猫 and 毛 are both expressed in English as "mao", but they don't have the same meaning. Zedong's surname (Mao is his surname; Zedong is his forename) means 'wool', 'brush' or 'feather', but 猫 just means cat (I think it can also be used in a derogatory sense, but I'm not sure).

(Edited 1 minute later.)

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,577

Leonidas' head was put on a pike after the battle of Thermopylae.

squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 34 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,591

The melting point of chocolate is 98.6 degrees

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,618

@278,514 (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
this is probably why when they tried to make their seccond batch of hootch and used the top of the biscuits as a kicker it didn't work

@278,503 (E)
I see chemtrails here almost every other day. I'm not worried about the corn, I'm worried about what I breathe, that's why I smoke cigarettes, to counter balance anything their putting in the air

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 5 hours later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,819

@previous (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
Biscuit hooch! LMAO, indeed.
You very into fermentation? Ever brew your own?

Chemtrails freak me the fuck out. I understand why you smoke, that's half the reason I do too, lol. DFW felt totally suffocating to me, I don't know how people stand it. But I'm spoiled by forest, myself.

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,822

Cigarettes contain trace amounts of Polonium.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,825

@278,819 (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
Yeah, the first batch we made was decent, based on bread, drink mix with copious amounts of vitamin c, and oranges
not really, that was while I was in jail :/

Never been to DFW but a friend of mine from there is why I've begun noticing them, he would talk about them all the time
I spent the first 17.75 years of my life in the redwood forest on the coast of northern California, I hate the desert

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,828

@previous (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
> Never been to DFW
You aren't missing much.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,831

@previous (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
I've heard that before lol. I went to Houston back in 03 for a Nazarene Youth Conference (lol NYC 03 Houston) and i got left at the convention center. I literally cried. That event was the first reason I disliked Texas.
I was like 14, alone and scared...

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,832

@previous (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
Oh god and in Houston. I pity you so much.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,834

@previous (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
It was at the reliant center too :( I'm one of the few non natives that can say I've been to Astro World though!

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,835

@278,822 (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
No surprise really. Naturally occurring, or do they add it for some reason?
It's crazy what I rationalize putting into my body just to feel like James Dean. :3

(Edited 4 minutes later.)

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,837

@previous (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
That reminds me, my doctor once asked me why i smoked. "Because it makes me look cool!" He walked out wolololo

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o replied with this 15 years ago, 26 seconds later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,839

@278,834 (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
I've only been to Houston once, and through it a few times en route to visit family in N.O.

@278,835 (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
Tobacco plants accumulate polonium 210 which is found in fertilizers.
I started smoking because the head rush it gave me + smoking pot was fantastic. Then I just kept smoking...

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 37 seconds later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,840

@278,837 (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
Christ, that's fucking hilarious. I bet he gets that all the time.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 6 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,843

@278,839 (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
I'd like to go back, but only to get out of Midland.

@previous (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
He didn't seem like he did though. He was a weird Guy, back when i had a goatee he would ask my ex if it tickled her when i went down on her lol

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 6 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,846

@278,839 (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
I started by smoking cloves, not knowing they contained tobacco or were addictive, ha! Switched to unfiltered Lucky Strikes for ages; the ultimate badass cigarette. Loved the head rush too, I still (sort of) get it my first cig of the day.

Commercial fertilizers are fuckin' nasty. I'd really like to grow my own organic stuff some day, that'd be nice.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,849

@previous (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
You started smoking cloves too?!

I switched from cloves to Marlboros, then Wellbutrin made them taste bad so I'm a camel man who dabbled in pall malls(that's actually what I have now lol)

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,853

@278,843 (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
Ahahahaha Midland. Flat, brown, and full of hicks. Ugh.

@278,846 (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
I miss Lucky Strikes. They are really hard to find. I smoke American Spirits because they at least don't have the chemical treatment and all. Hipsters gonna hip.

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 48 seconds later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,855

@278,843 (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
> ask my ex if it tickled her when i went down on her lol

Wololol, what a creeper. :)

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,862

@278,853 (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
I hate this town SO MUCH

@previous (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
Yeah, he was always asking about our sexual habits, it was weird

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,866

@previous (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
But you are right about the high school girls in those parts. Why do you think almost all of them will be pregnant by their graduation day?

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,869

@previous (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)

> But you are right about the high school girls in those parts. Why do you think almost all of them will be pregnant by their graduation day?

I think Odessa has/had the highest high-school pregnancy rate in the states

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 9 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,872

@278,853 (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
Yeah, I can't ever seem to find Luckies either, so I smoke Spirits too, or roll my own from shag. I'd claim to not be a hipster myself, but chances are I qualify. :3

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,875

@previous (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
I'm a closet hipster. I don't dress the part, but I have the snobby taste in music down.

Anonymous L joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,876

Glass is a liquid.

squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,877

keyboard keys are actually buttons

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,879

@278,872 (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
@278,875 (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
Lol hipsters.

I was smoking weed with some hipsters last week and i do the whole snoop dogg thing from halfbaked where I take multiple hits and hold it, and they were all "studies show you don't get a better high from holding it in, its only from the oxygen deprivation" and i had to school them. After coughing I say "it is true that oxygen deprivation is a factor, but when you cough the trauma causes your blood vessles to open up, allowing more THC into your system"

I should be a weed doctor :/

I'm a pothipster though

Anonymous H replied with this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,883

@278,876 (L)
This is not true.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 47 seconds later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,885

@previous (H)
It actually is!

Anonymous H replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,888

@previous (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
http://dwb.unl.edu/teacher/nsf/c01/c01links/www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/florin.html

Glass is not a liquid; it is an amorphous solid. It is also not true that glass 'flows' in windows and falls to the bottom.

squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,889

horses hooves are actually their toenails

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 12 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,905

@278,862 (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
Ugh, yeah, I'd have been a little skeezed out if I were her.

Weirdest medical experience I ever had was getting an STD panel at the Health Department. The doctor assigned to me was this aging transsexual that turned out to be pretty radical (politically), so we hit it off really well during the background chat. There was definitely chemistry, so when it came time for the exam (pap smear, etc) I suddenly got really awkward, didn't know if it was appropriate for me to enjoy myself, lol. Afterwards, she not-so-subtly encouraged me to steal a whole bunch of the clinic's speculums,because she wanted me to do self-exams at home. I'm not making a word of this up. It was utterly bizarre, the whole experience.

squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc replied with this 15 years ago, 10 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,920

trees are mostly made from carbon-dioxide

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,927

@278,875 (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
@278,879 (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)

I'm a bit of a music snob, I guess, but make a crappy hipster. I'm particular about what I play, but way too lazy to keep up with the freshest stuff. Most of what I listen to is at least a decade old, some much older.

That's interesting about the blood vessel dilation; I've definitely noticed I get higher if I cough up a lung in the process. And I'm a weedsnob too I guess. The stuff I've been getting in the past year or so has actual names; I've gotten so spoiled! :)

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,930

@278,905 (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
Lol that IS interesting. I've only had two ST tests, and i think they just took blood both times, and/or a mouth tissue sample I dunno. The first time was after I visited my (now)[almost ex-]wife and my mom KNEW I had lost my virginity (lol couldn't hide that smile) it was kinda embarrassing.

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,931

@278,927 (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
> has actual names
The guy I buy from loves to go on and on about what his stuff is called.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 12 seconds later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,933

@278,927 (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
I prefer my stuff to have names also, the latest I smoked was Sour Diesil(sp?)

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o replied with this 15 years ago, 50 seconds later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,934

@278,930 (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
That sounds awkward as hell. My parents just assumed I had well before I actually did so I never had to actually discuss it with them.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,937

@previous (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
My mom is a conservative Nazarene single parent. We didn't talk about sex stuff

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o replied with this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,939

@previous (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
All I ever needed to know about sex I learned from my dad's Playboys and my older brother's porno stash. I guess they knew this because they never approached the topic with me.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,946

@previous (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
Lol, I was an only child and i learned from the internet. I guess I was a late Bloomer, and lost my V-card at 17.

But man, the internet gave me some fucked up ideas about sex.

I remember the first two erotic stories I read were about scat and snuff in that order. I was worried for the world after I read those :/

Ph !SQAJbBZk/o replied with this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,955

@previous (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
> at 17
I was 19 and was dumb enough to use her pleasure condoms (lol numb).

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 19 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,979

@previous (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
Lol, I think I've used those once. I've only used condoms like 3 or 4 times :/

Anonymous N joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 22 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,993

@278,876 (L)
Not true

edit: I see that anon h covered it

(Edited 50 seconds later.)

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 30 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #279,004

(Citing a deleted or non-existent reply.)
Brie, I love you, but, not here. Reported.

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #279,005

@278,930 (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
@278,931 (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)
@278,933 (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
@278,939 (Ph !SQAJbBZk/o)

A friend & I each lost our V at about 17, and were both spooked, despite using rubbers and everything. We made a tradition of going for a checkup yearly, a practice I've stuck with since. Assuming I've been getting any action, lol.

I don't mind dealers talking about the different strains, really. I'm into botany so sometimes it's educational. Never seen/tried Sour Diesel, but Star Trek is my current fave.

My folks had a Joy of Sex on the shelf that I'd sneak reads of whenever possible. (A pretty great intro, actually, it's straightforward and sincere.) Then I discovered my dad's National Lampoon collection, wololol, and that totally warped me. Hell, that's probably why I'm on the chans today. :3

squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #279,037

stars are actually made from gas

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 4 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #279,039

@previous (squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc)
Did you know that when a large hermit crab vacates its shell, other hermit crabs queue up next to it in order of size, so that they can transfer to the next (bigger) one in line? Musical shells, they play.

(Edited 53 seconds later.)

squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc replied with this 15 years ago, 3 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #279,041

@previous (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
did you know that there are 118 ridges on a dime?

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 26 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #279,048

@279,005 (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
If you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo replied with this 15 years ago, 16 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #279,061

@279,041 (squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc)
No! Wow. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair? Also the wheel cipher.

@previous (Dead !Pool7hVoC2)
I don't mind you asking, but I'll be short on the details- still savoring my pseudonymity, at the moment. ;)
Reagan's the first president I remember.

Dead !Pool7hVoC2 replied with this 15 years ago, 10 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #279,064

@previous (ruby !r1BTUpI1Eo)
Fair's fair, that gives me a good estimate :D
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