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Offline Skadi

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Re: Post a fact here
« Reply #150 on: December 01, 2009, 10:24:46 AM »
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Ultrarunning (whose signature event is the 100-mile race) takes such a degree of commitment that 5 percent to 10 percent of participants are said to have permanently removed their toenails to eliminate one of the potential sources of runners? discomfort. A sports podiatrist told the New York Times in October that many ?ultras? consider their toenails ?appendages, remnants of claws from evolutionary times,? but on the other hand, one ultrarunner said, ?You know any sport has gone off the rails when you have to remove body parts to do it.?
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« Reply #151 on: December 01, 2009, 03:59:05 PM »
Next there will be the Ultra Javaline Throw when female contestants remove a breast. ( Amazons used to do that)

As for Ultra Runners,, I think they need a life.
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« Reply #152 on: December 02, 2009, 04:41:01 PM »
7 out of 10 people believe in life after death.
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« Reply #153 on: December 03, 2009, 02:29:09 AM »
pity they wont be able to confirm it  ;)
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« Reply #154 on: December 03, 2009, 07:54:10 AM »
The great Redwood Forest in California is actualy one plant. It shares a common root system.
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« Reply #155 on: December 03, 2009, 09:15:29 AM »
Quote from: goldshirt*9 on December 03, 2009, 02:29:09 AM
pity they wont be able to confirm it  ;)

hahahahahahhahahaha :D
  In Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word death.
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« Reply #156 on: December 03, 2009, 02:37:29 PM »
Oh dear Lord,, Id hate to play golf there.
What do they yell when they drive a ball off the tee?
"THREEEEEEEEEE!!!!" * whack!*
Nope,, not the same efect
Quote from: Geemonster on December 03, 2009, 09:15:29 AM
hahahahahahhahahaha :D
  In Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word death.

Um,, which dialect?
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« Reply #157 on: December 03, 2009, 04:25:45 PM »
There's a temple in Sri Lanka dedicated to a tooth of the Buddha. The name of the temple is "Temple of the Tooth."
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« Reply #158 on: December 04, 2009, 09:16:21 AM »
Flies take off backwards
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« Reply #159 on: December 05, 2009, 06:40:01 PM »
Giant flying foxes, which are a type of bat, that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet.
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« Reply #160 on: December 06, 2009, 06:31:59 PM »
And make cool pets.


Jellyfish arent a single entity, but a collection of specialized single cell animals doing specific jobs in the colony.
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Re: Post a fact here
« Reply #161 on: December 07, 2009, 06:40:20 AM »
Quote from: Geemonster on November 01, 2009, 02:51:23 PM
WTF is soccer.
We invented it,it's called football. ;)

Our "football" is technically called Association football and over a hundred years ago we (with a penchant for making up slang words for things) started calling it "soccer" as a currupt abbreviation of the word "Association".  It was popular up until I was a kid but then fizzled out only to be revived when America hosted the world cup and used the term as a way of differentiating it from their own homegrown "football", a move that was completely valid considering it was us Brits who had given the sport the name soccer in the first place.

Here's a comic that was about when I was a nipper and you can clearly see the term was well in use then:

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« Reply #162 on: December 07, 2009, 09:38:42 AM »
Soccer is a yuppie game here in the states.
 It has nothing like the excitement you guys have there.
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« Reply #163 on: December 07, 2009, 01:00:54 PM »
Quote from: Robin-Graves on December 03, 2009, 02:37:29 PM
Oh dear Lord,, Id hate to play golf there.
What do they yell when they drive a ball off the tee?
"THREEEEEEEEEE!!!!" * whack!*
Nope,, not the same efect
Um,, which dialect?

Don't know mate!
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« Reply #164 on: December 07, 2009, 02:15:55 PM »
Frog-eating bats identify edible frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls.
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