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re: 77 true facts that sound like lies
Posted on 3/28/14 at 5:18 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 3/28/14 at 5:18 pm to hawgfaninc
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70. Peanuts are not nuts. They grow in the ground, so they are legumes.
This one is both true and "false" at the same time. They aren't considered legumes because "they grow in the ground." They are legumes because that's that plant family they belong to, Fabaceae. The fruiting bodies of many legumes don't develop underground, but they are still legumes. Also, since the word peanut is a compound word and not spelled "pea nut," it's not really claiming to be a nut according to the rules of naming things. Like how a sweetgum is not a true gum tree, but I digress.
This post was edited on 3/28/14 at 7:15 pm
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Posted on 3/28/14 at 5:38 pm to genro
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If someone said they'd give you a million dollars a day for a month, or they'd give you a penny on day one and double it every day for a month.... take the penny.
i could be wrong, but i just calculated that out and 1 penny a day doubled for a month would be like 10 million and change. so i would take the million a day
Posted on 3/28/14 at 5:57 pm to MasCervezas
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i could be wrong, but i just calculated that out and 1 penny a day doubled for a month would be like 10 million and change. so i would take the million a day
You're not.
Judging from some of the responses to this thread, I wonder how some people fricking remember to breathe and wish they wouldn't.
This post was edited on 3/28/14 at 5:58 pm
Posted on 3/28/14 at 6:04 pm to hawgfaninc
How many of you tried to hum while holding your nose? 
Posted on 3/28/14 at 6:05 pm to Meatball
I did.
Posted on 3/28/14 at 6:54 pm to hawgfaninc
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59. One in every 5,000 babies is born with a condition known as “imperforate anus.” This means the baby is born without an anus and has to have one created manually in the hospital.
My youngest daughter had this. Didn't think it is as common as 1 in 5,000
Posted on 3/28/14 at 7:01 pm to Sasquatch Smash
You are one serious agrarian.
Posted on 3/28/14 at 7:16 pm to Rebel
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You are one serious agrarian.
Haha. I do what I can.
Posted on 3/28/14 at 7:17 pm to hawgfaninc
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Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
This is very surprising
Posted on 3/28/14 at 7:17 pm to Sasquatch Smash
frickin aggie
Posted on 3/28/14 at 7:32 pm to Peazey
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One that I heard that seems fairly dubious is that there are more possible different games of chess than atoms in the observable universe.
I can believe that one.
Just look at how many different opening moves there are. White can move any of the 8 pawns one space or two spaces, or the king knight or queen knight to either of two different spots. So that's 20 possible opening moves. Black has the same 20 opening moves, so just 2 moves into the game you have 400 different possible positions.
Assuming White opened by moving the pawn in front of the king, White can now move any of the other 7 pawns 1 or 2 spaces, move the king pawn another space, move a knight to any one of five spaces (since the space in front of the king is now open), or move the king side bishop to any of five different spaces. That's 25 different possible moves (26 if Black countered with P-Q4 and White can capture). So (without working out every possibility for the third move), we're already over 10,000 possible games. Each move, at least in the early going, increases the number of possibilities for the subsequent move.
Posted on 3/28/14 at 7:46 pm to Bestbank Tiger
So 5 pages and nobody caught number 6???
Posted on 3/28/14 at 7:48 pm to hawgfaninc
Posted on 3/28/14 at 7:52 pm to Displaced
Congrats on both being wrong
Either way the penny is better
quote:
Day 1: $.01
Day 2: $.02
Day 3: $.04
Day 4: $.08
Day 5: $.16
Day 6: $.32
Day 7: $.64
Day 8: $1.28
Day 9: $2.56
Day 10: $5.12
Day 11: $10.24
Day 12: $20.48
Day 13: $40.96
Day 14: $81.92
Day 15: $163.84
Day 16: $327.68
Day 17: $655.36
Day 18: $1,310.72
Day 19: $2,621.44
Day 20: $5,242.88
Day 21: $10,485.76
Day 22: $20,971.52
Day 23: $41,943.04
Day 24: $83,886.08
Day 25: $167,772.16
Day 26: $335,544.32
Day 27: $671,088.64
Day 28: $1,342,177.28
Day 29: $2,684,354.56
Day 30: $5,368,709.12
Either way the penny is better
Posted on 3/28/14 at 7:58 pm to Python
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the ear-scratching Pacman noise
Yep. My co-workers are starting to look at me funny.
So is that what Les Miles was doing on the sideline that time?
Posted on 3/28/14 at 8:15 pm to My Daddy
so the cubs really do suck ...
Posted on 3/28/14 at 8:17 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
You have to add them up.
Posted on 3/28/14 at 10:07 pm to Meatball
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One in every 5,000 babies is born with a condition known as “imperforate anus.” This means the baby is born without an anus and has to have one created manually in the hospital.
My wife had this issue as a wee babe.
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How many of you tried to hum while holding your nose?
You can do it if you open your mouth.
Posted on 3/29/14 at 2:48 am to jimbeam
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frickin aggie
I'm an alumnus of LSU. You?
This post was edited on 3/29/14 at 2:49 am
Posted on 3/29/14 at 3:31 am to hawgfaninc
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46. Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.
Wow.
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