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Posted Dec 2, 2014

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ManOfWicklow
ManOfWicklowOriginal Poster
Dec 2, 2014
Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.
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    ManOfWicklow
    ManOfWicklowOriginal Poster
    Jan 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.
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 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.


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    Lakeman221
    Lakeman221
    Jan 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.
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 10, 2015
    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    ManOfWicklow
    ManOfWicklowOriginal Poster
    Jan 10, 2015
    [quote]Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
    [/quote]Ouch !!  that's enought to make anyone do the moon walk.
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 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.
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 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.



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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 18, 2015
    The wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana would have cost nearly $70 million in today’s dollars.
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    nudeydan
    nudeydan
    Jan 19, 2015

    The bali mynah is believed to be one of the rarest birds on earth.

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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 19, 2015
    The first frozen meals were introduced in 1945 for use on airplanes.

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    nudeydan
    nudeydan
    Jan 20, 2015
    And frozen meals are full of crap haha.

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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 20, 2015
    [quote]And frozen meals are full of crap haha.

    [/quote]That's an opinion. not a fact.
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    nudeydan
    nudeydan
    Jan 20, 2015
    Actually I was referring to the various additives that are found in most frozen meals
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 20, 2015
    [quote]Actually I was referring to the various additives that are found in most frozen meals
    [/quote]THAT is a fact.
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 20, 2015
    To get back the baseball he hit for his 700th career homer in 1934, Babe Ruth gave a fan $20 and a signed ball.
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 21, 2015
    The surface area of Russia is bigger than that of Pluto.
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 22, 2015
    A study showed that tennis players who grunted when serving hit the ball 5 mph faster than if they had remained silent.
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    ManOfWicklow
    ManOfWicklowOriginal Poster
    Jan 22, 2015
    Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was considered a distraction from the serious pursuit of archery.
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 22, 2015
    In Japan, 90% of mobile phones are waterproof because people use them in the shower.
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    ManOfWicklow
    ManOfWicklowOriginal Poster
    Jan 22, 2015
    A mobile phone has more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 moon landing?
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 22, 2015
    1989 baseball rookie, Ken Griffey Jr. was honored with a candy bar in his name--despite being allergic to chocolate.

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    ManOfWicklow
    ManOfWicklowOriginal Poster
    Jan 22, 2015
    The first baseball uniforms were worn by the Knickerbockers in 1849 and included straw hats.
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    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Tom === Thomas S. Tierney
    Jan 22, 2015
    Sleep 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.

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    ManOfWicklow
    ManOfWicklowOriginal Poster
    Jan 23, 2015
    Humans spend a third of their life sleeping.
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