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    Post any random facts you know that seemingly will never serve any purpose in your life.

    There was a much-quoted judge named Billings Learned Hand.
    nytimes: Every hr you have 10 minutes where you’re not doing anything productive at work, & you can’t look at porn. So you make a comment & fulfill this desire to show yourself off as a smarty-pants.

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    I should be studying but...

    A most distinguishing difference between humans and primates is the locking knee joint. It helps humans to walk upright. All humans should have it, but no type of ape should. That's why when chimps or gorillas walk on two legs, they like to hold their arms around them like helicopter wings for balance. Exceedingly funny.

    ...left over from when I wanted to study orangutans..
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    Great topic. It is fun to learn from random creative information. Hope to see more from everyone.

    My first contribution is:
    -If Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner married, they would both be named Taylor Lautner.
    忽见柳荫下两个小孩子在哀哀痛哭,瞧模样正是武敦儒、武修文兄弟。郭芙大声叫道:「喂,你们在干甚麽?」武 修文回头见是郭芙,哭道:「我们在哭,你不见麽?」

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    Did you know: Michigan has more coastline--3,200 miles to be precise--than the entire West Coast of the US combined?
    忽见柳荫下两个小孩子在哀哀痛哭,瞧模样正是武敦儒、武修文兄弟。郭芙大声叫道:「喂,你们在干甚麽?」武 修文回头见是郭芙,哭道:「我们在哭,你不见麽?」

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJ View Post
    Great topic. It is fun to learn from random creative information. Hope to see more from everyone.

    My first contribution is:
    -If Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner married, they would both be named Taylor Lautner.
    That's IF Swift decides to take Lautner's last name, otherwise, she can still keep her last name and still be married to him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Suet Seung View Post
    That's IF Swift decides to take Lautner's last name, otherwise, she can still keep her last name and still be married to him.
    or Taylor Lautner could take Swift's last name and then they'd both be Taylor Swift.
    nytimes: Every hr you have 10 minutes where you’re not doing anything productive at work, & you can’t look at porn. So you make a comment & fulfill this desire to show yourself off as a smarty-pants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pemberly View Post
    or Taylor Lautner could take Swift's last name and then they'd both be Taylor Swift.
    that would be very unorthodox.
    忽见柳荫下两个小孩子在哀哀痛哭,瞧模样正是武敦儒、武修文兄弟。郭芙大声叫道:「喂,你们在干甚麽?」武 修文回头见是郭芙,哭道:「我们在哭,你不见麽?」

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJ View Post
    that would be very unorthodox.
    but not unheard of.
    nytimes: Every hr you have 10 minutes where you’re not doing anything productive at work, & you can’t look at porn. So you make a comment & fulfill this desire to show yourself off as a smarty-pants.

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    I MUST remember that "hors D'oeuvre" is appetizer in french rather than desserts. -_-!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by remember_Cedric View Post
    I MUST remember that "hors D'oeuvre" is appetizer in french rather than desserts. -_-!!
    actually, appetizer is "apéritif." Hors d'œuvre means something else.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hors_d%27%C5%93uvre
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    When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

    George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

    A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.

    The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kay &!* View Post
    George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
    and many gwu students carry on that legacy.
    nytimes: Every hr you have 10 minutes where you’re not doing anything productive at work, & you can’t look at porn. So you make a comment & fulfill this desire to show yourself off as a smarty-pants.

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    If you want to choke someone, there are 2 main ways you can go about it.

    1. You could restrict the osophagus. Which causes a gag reaction, and stops them from taking a breath. This stops oxygen from entering the body, and eventually the brain is deprived of oxygen and goes unconscious as a defense mechanism. This can take anywhere up to a minute. Commonly referred to as an air-choke.

    2. Or you could restrict the 2 carotid arteries on the side of the throat. This restricts blood from reaching or leaving the brain, depriving it of blood until it goes unconscious as a defense mechanism. This takes up to around 10 seconds for a person to go unconscious, a few seconds more and they will have brain damage, then die. Commonly referred to as a blood choke.

    Clearly the blood choke is better in every way. It's safer if you don't want to kill, it's faster if you do. And you don't risk crushing the osophagus if you don't want to injure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pemberly View Post
    actually, appetizer is "apéritif." Hors d'œuvre means something else.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hors_d%27%C5%93uvre
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    Racetracks never use the number 13 for the horse stalls.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirt View Post
    Mandarin Chinese was democratically chosen by the people of China as their official language. The other dialect in contention was Cantonese.
    Cantonese should have won. *whistles innocently*
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    According to American historian Him Mark Lai, approximately 430,000 or 70% of Chinese Americans in the 1980s were Taishanese according to 1988 data. Currently some 500,000 Chinese Americans claim Taishanese origins.
    from wiki.

    tony leung, shawn yu, and some membs of beyond are all toisanese as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Banh Mi View Post
    And you don't risk crushing the osophagus if you don't want to injure.
    But a few seconds more and they'd have brain damage. Is injuring the osophagus a better option than having permanent brain damage?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jadebunny9 View Post
    But a few seconds more and they'd have brain damage. Is injuring the osophagus a better option than having permanent brain damage?
    Damaging the osophagus only happens in an air choke. It depends on what you want to do.

    In a training environment, you don't want to hurt your partner. You just want to put them in a blood choke that they acknowledge will kill them if it was a live situation. So they tap when they feel the choke and you let go. No one gets hurt.

    If you did an air choke, you might go a bit too hard, or they struggle too much, their throat might get injured. You don't want that.

    In a live situation or any situation, a blood choke is always better. Based solely on the fact that they will go unconscious much faster. Then you can let go and do whatever you want to them. Whereas if you did an air choke and crushed their throat, it might be hard getting the authorities on your side if you claim self defense.

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    Fact: if you buy a cow, the cow will be bought by you, you will be the buyer, and the cow will be the buyee.
    忽见柳荫下两个小孩子在哀哀痛哭,瞧模样正是武敦儒、武修文兄弟。郭芙大声叫道:「喂,你们在干甚麽?」武 修文回头见是郭芙,哭道:「我们在哭,你不见麽?」

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