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ManOfWicklowOriginal Poster
Dec 2, 2014Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.
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ManOfWicklowOriginal PosterJan 10, 2015[quote] [quote]The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.[/quote]At the time this was invented, cigarettes had not yet come into existence. Therefore it could not have been called a cigarette lighter.[/quote]One of the first lighters was invented by the German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Dbereiner in 1823.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 10, 2015[quote][quote]
[quote]The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.[/quote]At the time this was invented, cigarettes had not yet come into existence. Therefore it could not have been called a cigarette lighter.[/quote]One of the first lighters was invented by the German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Dbereiner in 1823.[/quote]The earliest forms of cigarettes were similar to their predecessor, the cigar.
Cigarettes appear to have had antecedents in Mexico and Central America
around the 9th century in the form of reeds and smoking tubes.
The Maya, and later the Aztecs, smoked tobacco.ReactReply - LA
Lakeman221Jan 10, 2015[quote]If you drilled a tunnel through the Earth and jumped in, it would take you 42 minutes and 12 seconds to get to the other side.[/quote]I would tend to disagree with this. Once you passed the centerline of the tunnel, you would then be falling UP. Gravity would only be pulling to the middle of the tunnel, after passing that point you would be getting pulled back to the middle.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 10, 2015Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.ReactReply - MA
ManOfWicklowOriginal PosterJan 10, 2015[quote]Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
[/quote]Ouch !! that's enought to make anyone do the moon walk.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 10, 2015[quote][quote]Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
[/quote]Ouch !! that's enought to make anyone do the moon walk.[/quote]The first person to walk on the Moon was Neil Armstrong.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 12, 2015[quote][quote][quote]
[quote]The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.[/quote]At the time this was invented, cigarettes had not yet come into existence. Therefore it could not have been called a cigarette lighter.[/quote]One of the first lighters was invented by the German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Dbereiner in 1823.[/quote]The earliest forms of cigarettes were similar to their predecessor, the cigar.
Cigarettes appear to have had antecedents in Mexico and Central America
around the 9th century in the form of reeds and smoking tubes.
The Maya, and later the Aztecs, smoked tobacco.
[/quote]John Walker invented the matches in 1827. He was British.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 18, 2015The wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana would have cost nearly $70 million in today’s dollars.ReactReply - NU
nudeydanJan 19, 2015The bali mynah is believed to be one of the rarest birds on earth.
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Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 19, 2015The first frozen meals were introduced in 1945 for use on airplanes.ReactReply - NU
nudeydanJan 20, 2015And frozen meals are full of crap haha.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 20, 2015[quote]And frozen meals are full of crap haha.
[/quote]That's an opinion. not a fact.ReactReply - NU
nudeydanJan 20, 2015Actually I was referring to the various additives that are found in most frozen mealsReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 20, 2015[quote]Actually I was referring to the various additives that are found in most frozen meals
[/quote]THAT is a fact.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 20, 2015To get back the baseball he hit for his 700th career homer in 1934, Babe Ruth gave a fan $20 and a signed ball.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 21, 2015The surface area of Russia is bigger than that of Pluto.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 22, 2015A study showed that tennis players who grunted when serving hit the ball 5 mph faster than if they had remained silent.ReactReply - MA
ManOfWicklowOriginal PosterJan 22, 2015Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 22, 2015In Japan, 90% of mobile phones are waterproof because people use them in the shower.ReactReply - MA
ManOfWicklowOriginal PosterJan 22, 2015A mobile phone has more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 moon landing?ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 22, 20151989 baseball rookie, Ken Griffey Jr. was honored with a candy bar in his name--despite being allergic to chocolate.ReactReply - MA
ManOfWicklowOriginal PosterJan 22, 2015The first baseball uniforms were worn by the Knickerbockers in 1849 and included straw hats.ReactReply - T=
Tom === Thomas S. TierneyJan 22, 2015Sleep drunkenness is a recently discovered sleep disorder affecting 1 in 7 people.
Sleep drunkenness is a real sleep disorder, officially referred to as
confusional arousal. It is characterized by episodes in which a person
awakes and remains in a state of disorientation, and occurs in one out of
every seven people, according to a 2014 study from the National Institutes
of Health. Sleep drunkenness is most likely to occur when a person is in
the deeper state of the sleep cycle known as non-rapid eye movement (REM)
sleep, and gets woken up suddenly. Over 60% of all reported episodes of
sleep drunkenness last over five minutes, and 84% of people with the
disorder also reported having other sleeping disorders or using drugs that
alter brain chemicals, such as antidepressants.ReactReply - MA
ManOfWicklowOriginal PosterJan 23, 2015Humans spend a third of their life sleeping.ReactReply
