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   donotfearposted 8 years ago

   Lyme Disease is the fastest growing infectious disease in the country with over 300,000 cases reported yearly.  That's not accounting for the thousands misdiagnosed or unreported.  You think Zika is a threat, think again.

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      DrMark1961posted 8 years agoin reply to this

      At least 4000 children have been born in my country with microencephaly secondary to Zika virus infections. Those children are disabled and will never lead normal lives. They may die young, or may just go on suffering for the next 70 years or so.
      You are concerned about Lymes disease? Fine. You feel it necessary to downgrade the pain that all of those mothers felt when their children were born in pain. Not so fine.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 8 years ago

   Eddie and Alex Van Halen's father Jan Van Halen was an accomplished jazz musician who played the clarinet and saxophone. He toured professionally throughout the "big band" era of the '40s and '50s.
   
   His final recorded performance prior to his death in 1986 was on the 1982 Van Halen song "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" the "Diver Down" album.

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   Copper Manposted 8 years ago

   Winter will arrive before you know it, so remember: a full cord of wood measures out to 4'x4'x8' — no more, no less.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 8 years ago

   Steve "Police Academy" Guttenberg was offered the lead role in 2013's "Sharknado," but he turned it down and the part went to Ian Ziering.
   When "Sharknado" became a surprise hit he realized he'd made a mistake, and when SyFy channel came knocking again to offer Guttenberg the lead role in another potential creature feature franchise - "Lavalantula" - he gladly signed up.

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   ddsurfscaposted 8 years ago

   People only grow and heal when they are sleeping.
   
   Cats do not meow with one another, they only meow to humans when they want something.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 8 years ago

   All of the characters on "The Simpsons" have four fingers - except for God and Jesus, both of whom are depicted with five fingers.

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   ddsurfscaposted 8 years ago

   various species of cats can either purr or roar, but never both

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   Yossarian22posted 8 years ago

   Barak Obama did NOT "found" ISIS! Trump tells another whopping lie.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 8 years ago

   Ray Davies of The Kinks wrote their 1982 song "Come Dancing" as a tribute to his older sister Rene, who had died in 1957 at the age of 31. She had been dancing at the local "Palais" (dance hall) - her favorite pastime  - when she suffered a sudden heart attack. Ray was 13 years old at the time.
   
   The Kinks' American record label didn't want to release "Come Dancing" as a single in the U.S. at first, because they thought the subject matter was too "British" and wouldn't connect with American audiences, however, thanks to heavy rotation on MTV, the song became the band's biggest U.S. hit in more than a decade.

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    ddsurfscaposted 8 years ago

    People over the age of 8 should not drink milk, as our digestion changes and it becomes difficult to digest and is not good for us.

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    gmwilliamsposted 8 years ago

    According to the calibrations of the late Dr. David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., in his book  TRUTH vs FALSEHOOD :
    (1) Hollywood calibrates at a consciousness of 190.
    (2) In New York City- Upper East Side calibrates at a consciousness level of 430
                                      West Side calibrates at a consciousness level of 245
                                      Inner City (low income areas) calibrates at a consciousness level of 135
    (3)Regions of the United States-East Coast calibrates at a consciousness level of 360
                                                       West Coast calibrates at a consciousness level of 290
                                                       Midwest calibrates at a consciousness level of 440
    
    (4) Distributions of the consciousness levels of humankind- 78% have calibration levels below 200 while 22% have calibration levels above 200.
    
    According to the late Dr. Hawkins, anything at 200 & above is truthful & positive while anything below 200 is a falsehood & negative.

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    ddsurfscaposted 8 years ago

    Three year old children believe that if they close their eyes, they become invisible, for if they cannot see you, you cannot see them.

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    UnnamedHaraldposted 8 years ago

    When the Americans used shotguns to clear trenches in World War One, the Germans protested that they were inhumane weapons.

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    FatFreddysCatposted 8 years ago

    British actor Christopher Lee and James Bond creator Ian Fleming were step-cousins and they frequently played golf together. During pre-production for the 1962 film version of "Dr. No," Fleming suggested Lee for the villain role, but the part had already been cast.
    
    Lee would eventually play a Bond villain in the film adaptation of "The Man With the Golden Gun" (1974).

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    Newsodyposted 8 years ago

    My fact is :
    
    I have been cooking a corn for more than 4 hours ....

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    bluesradioposted 8 years ago

    Fact: I am at work and tired.......and one of my co-workers woke me up to be at work otherwise I might still be in the comfort of my bed...SMILE...

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    paradigmsearchposted 8 years ago

    Don't mess with old people.
    
    An old prospector walks his tired, old mule into a western town one day. He'd been out in the desert for about six months without a single drop of whiskey. He walked up to the first saloon he came to and tied his old mule to the hitch rail. As he stood there brushing some of the dust from his face and clothes, a young gunslinger walked out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other.
    
    The young gunslinger looked at the old man and laughed, saying, "Hey old man, have you ever danced?"
    
    The old man looked up at the gunslinger and said, "No, I never did dance. I just never wanted to."
    
    A crowd had gathered by then and the gunslinger said, "Well, you old fool, you're a'gonna' dance now," and started shooting at the old man's feet.
    
    The old prospector was hopping around and everybody was laughing. When the gunslinger fired his last bullet, he holstered his gun and turned around to go back into the saloon.
    
    The old man reached up on the mule, drew his shotgun, and pulled both hammers back making a double clicking sound. The gunslinger heard the sound, froze, and everything got real quiet. The crowd watched as the gunslinger slowly turned around, looking down both barrels of the shotgun.
    
    The old man asked, "Hey, young fool, did you ever kiss a mule's ass?"
    
    The gunslinger swallowed hard and said, "No sir, but I've always wanted to."

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       jonnycomelatelyposted 8 years agoin reply to this

       Laughed so much I drove m'self horse

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    Newsodyposted 8 years ago

    The first time i hear of something called : WHITE RAINBOW !
    
    
    Well i was reading some daily news, as usual, crawling on the web ; so i found an article talking about white rainbow. It like like fog and called also Fog Bow .
    
    Looks like a giant was smoking something there haha.
    
    http://www.newsody.com/news/unbelievabl … to/616699/
    
    Cheers

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       lobobrandonposted 8 years agoin reply to this

       Cool. Never heard of these before.

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    ddsurfscaposted 8 years ago

    If riding on a train, you must obey all their rules.  I was on a train going from calif. to arizona, and the train actually stopped in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere and put four men off the train for smoking in the bathroom and being disruptive while others where sleeping.

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    RTalloniposted 8 years ago

    An ai is a three-toed sloth whose top speed is 0.3 miles per hour. Though an ai may briefly move at its highest rate, it lives out its life so slowly that algae grows on their fur which, as it turns out, is great camouflage for them.  Ais cannot walk on level ground, but they can swim well when not traveling through trees.  That their name makes a stupendous Scrabble word is reason enough to like them.

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    David Branaganposted 8 years ago

    Energy cannot be created or destroyed but merely changed from one form to another

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    FatFreddysCatposted 8 years ago

    Progressive rockers Yes named their 1983 album "90125" after its UPC catalog number.

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    FatFreddysCatposted 8 years ago

    On this date (Dec 17) in 1989, the first half-hour "Simpsons" episode - "Simpsons Roasting On An Ope Fire" aka "The Simpsons Christmas Special" premiered.

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    RTalloniposted 8 years ago

    Clear examples abound of design in living creatures. One is the tendon that emerges from a chest muscle in most birds. It is threaded through a hole in the bird’s bone, wraps around a “pulley,” and then is attached to the top of the humerus bone. This way, when the muscle flexes, the wing moves up. Each specification involved is exactly fitted to perform its needed function. If only one of them failed to work, the bird would not fly.
    
    In recent decades, the incredible world of tiny machines inside living cells has been revealed. It demonstrates a supremely efficient, and in many cases perfectly specified, collection of parts upon which each living cell depends. Large creatures were clearly designed, but it is even more certain that single cells must have had a Designer of unsurpassed engineering genius. There is no such thing as a simple living organism.
    
    (Source: ICR)

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    FatFreddysCatposted 8 years ago

    One of the thirteen articles in the 1781 U.S. Articles of Confederation states that if Canada wants to be admitted into the U.S., it will automatically be accepted. (Canada has yet to take them up on the offer.)

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    FatFreddysCatposted 8 years ago

    The hit Barbara Streisand/Neil Diamond duet "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" was originally two separate songs.
    
    Diamond created the song in 1977 for TV producer Norman Lear, as a potential theme for a sitcom called "All That Glitters."
    
    The show ended up using a different theme song but Barbra Streisand liked "Flowers" so much that she recorded a cover of it. A radio DJ spliced Diamond's and Streisand's versions together to create a "duet," and response to it was so positive that Neil and Barb quickly recorded an "official" duet version that went to #1 in 1978.

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    FatFreddysCatposted 8 years ago

    Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of ZZ Top are famous for their trademark long beards.
    
    ZZ Top's drummer is beardless, even though his name, ironically, is... Frank Beard.

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    asifahsankhanposted 8 years ago

    During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
    
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    You cannot snore and dream at the same time - Seriously!
    
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    Every year more than 2500 left-handed people are killed from using right-handed products.
    
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    Bikinis and Tampons - Both invented by Men.
    
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    Ithyphallophobia is the fear of getting an Erection. (Seriously!)
    
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    Pinocchio nose won't grow if he says “My Noes Will Grow Now”, it would cause a paradox. Means he ain't lying (which he can't) nor can he be telling the truth (which he isn't)
    

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       jonnycomelatelyposted 8 years agoin reply to this

       Nice to see you getting your facts straight, especially #5, such a big word... 

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          asifahsankhanposted 8 years agoin reply to this

          I see what you did there....

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    Jonas Levinposted 8 years ago

    The famous rock bang, The Who was originally named The High Numbers

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    Sed-meposted 7 years ago

    

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       limpetposted 7 years agoin reply to this

       God save our gracious Queen. May Her Majesty continue to reign over us.

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    Sed-meposted 7 years ago

    I was reading over this thread, I love facts and this thread is so interesting. Thank you all for having fun with me. I don't know what I was on though. Was I high on life? What a psycho. Lol. Anyway, thanks everybody for participating. Obviously a few of you enjoy crazy facts as well.

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       Solarasposted 7 years agoin reply to this

       So nice to see you!

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          Sed-meposted 7 years agoin reply to this

          And you too, Solaris. 

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    Sustainable Sueposted 7 years ago

    As their habitats shrink, tigers and lions are catching distemper from dogs. A beautiful young Siberian tiger walked into the middle of a town in Russia one day, plonked herself down and just sat there, staring. They tried to scare her away, but nothing was registering. A wildlife agency captured and cared for her until she died a few weeks later.

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    HalloweenRecipesposted 7 years ago

    Doesn't sound like there's a lot of action going on in Michel Thayer's book!

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    FatFreddysCatposted 7 years ago

    Useless rock trivia:
    
    Deep Purple's first album (Shades of Deep Purple, 1968) was first released in the U.S. on Tetragrammaton Records -- a label co-owned by comedian Bill Cosby.

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    FatFreddysCatposted 6 years ago

    Today I learned:
    
    "Pupper" (a popular internet/meme slang term for dogs) is also a Norwegian word for women's, errr... boobs.
    
    So if you're ever in Norway and you see a girl walking her dog, do NOT ask her "Can I pet your Pupper?" cuz you'll get smacked.

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       DrMark1961posted 5 years agoin reply to this

       So I guess Trump was just referring to women and their pet cats?

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    FatFreddysCatposted 5 years ago

    Andrew ("The Walking Dead") Lincoln's father-in-law is Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

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    Lovelli Fuadposted 5 years ago

    The nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" never once said that he is an egg.

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    jonnycomelatelyposted 5 years ago

    Maybe it refers to Donald.

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    Jovan Rawlsposted 5 years ago

    *FACT* Birthday's are being celebrated in this moment. #1LUV#

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    paradigmsearchposted 5 years ago

    Armadillos carry leprosy.

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       DrMark1961posted 5 years agoin reply to this

       Leprosy is still found in Bahia, the state where I live. (One of my good friends and his brother-in-law both have it.) It can be avoided pretty easily by not eating armadillos.

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          jonnycomelatelyposted 5 years agoin reply to this

          "Armadillos," are they a sort of health food snack, free of gluten?

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             DrMark1961posted 5 years agoin reply to this

             If I recall correctly they are part of the Atkins diet. (It may be South Beach. I have a hard time keeping those all those diets straight.)

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                paradigmsearchposted 5 years agoin reply to this

                As I understand it, it is only the 9-banded ones. I just know I'm staying out of Texas and their speed bumps.

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                   DrMark1961posted 5 years agoin reply to this

                   I just went outside to check on my ducks and sheep and found one of these guys in my compost pile eating worms and other little bugs. We have about 5 species of these critters around here, and they will not sit still long enough for me to count their bands.
                   As far as I am concerned they all have leprosy.

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    FatFreddysCatposted 5 years ago

    Before he took up acting, Ricky Gervais was one half of an early 80s new wave music duo called "Seona Dancing."
    
    Their song "More To Lose" became a big hit... in the Philippines. The band never caught on anywhere else.
    
    https://youtu.be/xez-FCn1fg0

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    DrMark1961posted 5 years ago

    I have reported the Indonesian spammers several times now but I fear that this board is ruined.

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    FatFreddysCatposted 5 years ago

    Fact: Indonesian spammers are sad people with extremely small wieners.

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    paradigmsearchposted 5 years ago

    Neither entropy nor reality is our friend.

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    ddsurfscaposted 5 years ago

    cats think that they own humans not the other way around

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    Castlepalomaposted 5 years ago

    Tardigrades Are the Earth's Toughest & cutest, and Almost-Immortal. As they have lived through all of our planet’s big five extinction events. They are also called water bears and also traveled to space.Tardigrades can live in boiling water or freezing 245-. They can live without food or water for 10 years. They can live to age 100. They survive radiation 100 times greater than chemo paitents without the side effects.

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       jonnycomelatelyposted 5 years agoin reply to this

       CP, you really think a Tardigrade can out-live a Retrograde like me?
       Someone get me an Avotar, quickly!

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    paradigmsearchposted 5 years ago

    I hereby declare this thread my-find-my-avatar thread. I've chosen the background and foreground colors. I just need to select the symbol.

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    paradigmsearchposted 5 years ago

    How is daylight world doing?

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    FatFreddysCatposted 5 years ago

    Indonesian President Joko Widodo is a heavy metal fan. Since taking office in 2014 he has  attended a Metallica concert in his country, and has been photographed while wearing Napalm Death and Lamb Of God t-shirts.

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    FatFreddysCatposted 5 years ago

    Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris' middle name is "Percy."

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