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Cats, unlike every other mammal, cannot taste sweetness. Poor things, more Snickers for me. |
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| From Wikipedia |
[Nov. 20th, 2006|12:31 pm] |
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616 (Six hundred sixteen in American English, Six hundred and sixteen elsewhere) is believed by some to have been the original Number of the Beast in Christianity, in the Book of Revelation. Different early versions of the Book of Revelation gave different numbers, and 666 had previously been widely accepted as the oldest and original number. In 2005, however, an early fragment of papyrus was revealed showing that the Number of the Beast may originally have been 616 (See The Other Number of the Beast), causing Peter Sagal of NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! to quip that Hell must be in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as Grand Rapids' area code is 616. 666 remains the most widely recognized number, however. |
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| They're madatory in California |
[Nov. 17th, 2006|03:39 pm] |
From www.mentalfloss.com
If you don’t like toilet humor, there’s no need to worry about today’s fact. We’ve removed all the humor (or most of it, anyway). What’s left is our query: Do those tissue-paper tush gaskets available in public restrooms actually provide any protection? And why don’t all restrooms have them?
Actually, those seat covers offer psychological comfort, but not much else. If the seat is already dirty or wet when you arrive, that thin piece of paper isn’t going to help. As for any other bacteria that might be teeming on the commode seat, unless you have an open wound on your backside or thighs, you’re not risking any sort of infection. Studies have shown that hotel bedspreads are crawling with many more germs than any public restroom, yet most folks don’t think twice about cavorting on those in the all-together. If you keep your toothbrush in the holder near your bathroom sink, it gets sprayed with microscopic fecal matter every time you flush the john. But, hey, that doesn’t bother you, does it?
Many facilities have stopped providing seat covers because they’re more trouble than they’re worth. Too many people either toss them on the floor after use, or, worse yet, attempt to flush them. This can clog the toilet, putting it out of order and resulting in expensive plumbing repair bills. Let’s face it, if tissue paper offered any sort of protection, we’d see more gloves and other protective clothing made out of it. It’s much cheaper than latex, Tyvek or Nomex.
By Sandy Wood & Kara Kovalchik |
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| Haiku |
[Aug. 25th, 2006|06:54 pm] |
Christmas
by Ron Loeffler
Glass balls and glowing lights.
Dead tree in living room.
Killed to honor birth. |
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| Isn't psychology fun! |
[Aug. 18th, 2006|08:46 am] |
From mental_floss.com on August 16,2006:
Do your family and friends feel like strangers – we mean, like real strangers? Well then, you could be suffering from Capgras’ syndrome, an extremely scary, and fairly rare condition in which family, close friends, or items of personal significance seem like imposters. How’s this possible? Well, when you see a familiar face, you don’t just recognize the face; you also experience some sort of emotional reaction to it. Capgras’ delusion, however, arises when there’s a disconnect between these two brain functions. For example, you might be able to identify your father’s face and know it’s familiar, but since there’s damage to the pathways between face recognition and emotional reaction, you experience no jolt of emotion. Hence, because it doesn’t feel like your father, the constant conclusion is that the man must be an imposter! |
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| Clemency, Pardons and Amnesty |
[May. 22nd, 2006|09:41 am] |
From MentalFloss.com:
Clemency (sometimes known as a "commutation") is a sort of forgiveness of past criminal activity and a reduction of an imposed sentence. When granted clemency, criminals are released from prison early and are credited with "time served."
A criminal who receives a pardon is forgiven for crimes committed. Some of the culprit's rights may be restored (depending upon whether it's a full or conditional pardon), such as the right to vote or own firearms. It does not expunge one’s criminal record, however.
Amnesty is generally the most favorable of the three. It involves a complete forgiveness of a crime, or "wiping the slate clean," so to speak. It's as if the crime never occurred in the first place, and can be given whether or not a person has been accused of, tried for, or convicted of an offense. |
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| Thought of the Day |
[May. 18th, 2006|08:47 am] |
Action is what separates a belief from an opinion.
(This I Believe May 18, 2006) |
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| War of 1812 ended in 1815 |
[May. 12th, 2006|08:27 am] |
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is set to the music of an older English song called "To Anacreon in Heaven". |
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| Missing: One sock. White, slightly worn. |
[Apr. 19th, 2006|02:39 pm] |
From Real Simple magazine May 2006 issue:
So Long, Sad Sock
Face it: Those lost socks you've been looking for are probably never coming back. But you do have a chance to mourn them. In honor of Lost Sock Memorial Day, on May 9, purge your sock drawer and throw out the mismatched and the mateless. Eulogize them if you must ("You were always soft and warm"), or swear an oath in their memory ("Lost socks be darned!"), then move on in peace. |
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| Modern Definitions |
[Apr. 17th, 2006|02:08 pm] |
Celebrities - People who are worshiped for doing absolutely nothing. |
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| Nice to see there is logic behind some things |
[Apr. 6th, 2006|08:09 am] |
From Mental_floss magazine:
Why were audio CDs made to hold a maximum of 74 minutes of music?
74 seems like an odd number, especially considering that the previous popular portable music medium, cassette tapes, came in nice round numbers like 30, 60 and 90-minute lengths.
When the audio CD was first being developed for the consumer market, both Sony and Philips each designed their own prototype system, and one wasn’t compatible with the other. The two companies agreed to work together on a standardized system that could be used industry-wide. The Philips model was an 11.5cm disc that held 60 minutes of music, or about two standard LPs. Norio Ohga, Sony’s president, was a graduate of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music as well as Berlin University of the Arts and was an aficionado of classical music. He insisted that a compact disc should be able to hold all of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Philips did some checking, and found that Ohga’s favorite version, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic (conducted by Herbert von Karajan), lasted 66 minutes. The longest recorded version that they found was conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler and lasted 74 minutes. The engineers found that they could fit 74 minutes on a 12cm disc, and still have it be “portable” enough to fit into a suit pocket (another of Ohga’s specifications).
Technology later provided for CDs that broke the 74-minute barrier, and 80 minutes is now the maximum length. |
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| Huh. |
[Apr. 4th, 2006|08:04 am] |
The Equal Rights Amendment is not an amendment. It has yet to be ratified by three-quarters of the states. Makes you wonder if it ever will. |
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| I wonder if you have be apart of "Focus on the Family" |
[Mar. 29th, 2006|08:35 am] |
Evangelical Christian Credit Union - The website is quite normal which is a little disappointing, but the fact that Evangelicals have their own credit union I find very funny. Now I have to see if there is a Methodist credit union or a Hindu credit union or a Zoroatrism credit union. I wonder if I can start my own Agnostic Credit Union or a Philosopher Credit Union. You have to debate with the teller that your money really doest exist in order to make a withdrawal. |
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| Inaugural Post |
[Mar. 27th, 2006|02:11 pm] |
Hello, welcome to my first ever post to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) simpleknowledge.
I'll share with you little things which I learn everyday. Right now, I taking "Women in American History" so you're going to get a healthy dose of feminism in these first couple of posts. Today, I will share with out a quote from the Declaration of Sentiments 1848:
"He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead." |
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