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  1. atari2600land

    A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.

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    2. atari2600land

      atari2600land

      Naw, I just read my book of trivia.

    3. masschamber

      masschamber

      good enough, I'll take it

    4. DuggerVideoGames

      DuggerVideoGames

      So that's where my missing puzzle pieces go!

  2. atari2600land

    Power went out for a few scary seconds. It's 25 degrees right now and it's only going to get colder...

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    2. CyranoJ

      CyranoJ

      Its 40 here and we're all melting. 25 would be really nice.

    3. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      It was 78 degrees today where I live in North Carolina. We have the air conditioner on.

    4. Keatah

      Keatah

      Love it when the power goes out and it's storming. Just gotta cozy up with a book in our reading den and light the fire.

  3. atari2600land

    Portland's KPTV took off Family Feud for snow coverage. You wanna know how much snow we got here in Salem? 0 inches. Argh!

  4. atari2600land

    Found a mistake in today's "Cryptoquote." They spelled "WHENEVER" as "WENEVER." Really? It sort of screws me up when the letters are wrong.

    1. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      You know how to read? How 20th century. You keep on reading, professor squarepants. The rest of us will be waiting for the World War III bombs to fall so we can take selfies with the explosions behind us. The ultimate photobombing.

  5. atari2600land

    The @ has a name. It's called an "asperand."

  6. atari2600land

    A coal seam in Australia's Burning Mountain has been burning for 6,000 years, the world's oldest fire.

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      In Silent Hill there's a...umm,  Nevermind.

    3. Grig

      Grig

      I wonder how they know it's been burning for 6000 years? "Hey Joe, we gotta audit the logs." JOE: "Dadgum."

    4. Corby

      Corby

      fire peeing GIF by MFD

  7. atari2600land

    Does EPA stand for East Palestine Aggravator?

  8. atari2600land

    A spider's blood is pale blue. It gets that color from copper.

    1. SlidellMan

      SlidellMan

      So, it's akin to iron making blood red.

  9. atari2600land

    A nectarine is a peach with a recessive gene that prevents peach fuzz from forming.

  10. atari2600land

    I pulled a muscle in my throat and now it hurts.

    1. Corby

      Corby

      Martha Stewart Nod GIF

    2. RickR

      RickR

      Ouch!  That sounds painful.

       

    3. Keatah

      Keatah

      Just getting over one of those. 7 fucking weeks!

  11. atari2600land

    The site of Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC is now a no-kill animal shelter for cats.

    1. Rick Dangerous

      Rick Dangerous

      Just don't let in any cats named Brutus. 

  12. atari2600land

    Carrots and spinach have fewer nutrients in them than they did 40 years ago.

    1. jhd

      jhd

      Does that mean that we have to eat more? 😋 (I love carrots, spinach not so much.)

  13. atari2600land

    I got so fed up with Safeway's delivery. Their earliest time they could come was Saturday. So I tried Kroger's. Their earliest time was today. WTF?

    1. wongojack

      wongojack

      In my area, DoorDash will go to the grocery store and deliver on their "normal" delivery timelines.

  14. atari2600land

    The division symbol ÷ has a name: it's called an "obelus."

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    2. atari2600land

      atari2600land

      In case you're wondering, my lovely trivia comes from the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series.

    3. SlidellMan

      SlidellMan

      I was wondering what that was called years ago.

    4. Andrew Davie

      Andrew Davie

      @SlidellMan it was still called an obelus years ago.

       

  15. atari2600land

    Don't eat a polar bear liver - it contains so much vitamin A that it can kill you.

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    2. Atarian7

      Atarian7

      Why does it not kill the bear?

       

    3. carlsson

      carlsson

      @Crazy Climber Do you belong to the top 6% of the population?

      animal-fight.thumb.jpg.1c2d18f69ac8aaba6794179590cf2901.jpg

    4. Crazy Climber

      Crazy Climber

      @carlsson Would I be fighting Crocs in the water or on land? I think I would draw the line at Gorilla unless I get some time to train for it (Rocky IV style)

  16. atari2600land

    Banging your head against a wall burns 2.5 calories per minute.

    1. Corby

      Corby

      5 pounds per, if walking backwards into a basketball pole. Don't ask me how i know

    2. LS650

      LS650

      A Big Mac is 550 calories, so you'll need to bang your head for close to 4 hours to burn off them calories!

  17. atari2600land

    The first infomercial aired in 1949. It was for a blender. The whole thing is on YouTube.

    1. thanatos

      thanatos

      Good lord that background looks like my parent kitchen!  (House built in the 50's)  😮

       

  18. atari2600land

    In 2019, The NBA's Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors scored 43 points and only dribbled the ball 4 times.

  19. atari2600land

    Ghana banned sales of used underwear in 2010.

    1. jhd

      jhd

      This will just force the market for used underwear to operate in an underground, clandestine fashion where it will no longer be subject to any regulation or government oversight. Prices will probably also rise with fewer vendors participating in the marketplace. 

       

      In the alternative, those people who are unable to afford new underwear will just have to do without (or make do with some inferior, ersatz substitute).  

       

      Either way, this decision will undoubtedly result in a negative outcome for the majority of the population.    

    2. LS650

      LS650

      Um, well.  Good idea.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      When used underwear is outlawed,  only outlaws will have used underwear.

  20. atari2600land

    In the 1970's, Playskool made Gilligan's Island bath toys for toddlers.

  21. atari2600land

    First captioned TV show: Julia Child's "The French Chef."

  22. atari2600land

    There's enough concrete in the Hoover Dam for a two-lane road stretching from Seattle to Miami.

    1. Atarian7

      Atarian7

      Also, the concrete is still curing in the middle of it.

       

  23. atari2600land

    Switzerland has enough fallout shelters to house its entire population.

    1. r_chase

      r_chase

      Well, they're the most politically neutral country on the planet and they only use the military for self-defense, might as well protect their citizens and their well-being. :3

    2. LS650

      LS650

      Do they know something the rest of us don't...?  😟

    3. carlsson

      carlsson

      Also I just learned that Switzerland indeed has a navy (*), or at least a flotilla of patrol boats controlling lakes across the border.

       

      (*) Being a country with no sea borders, it has in some circles become an in-joke about the "Swiss navy" as something that doesn't exist. Apparently you don't need access to the ocean to have ships.

  24. atari2600land

    There are about 13 million more cats in the U.S. than there are dogs.

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    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      ^Ahhh!  Boats are too expensive as they are!, ... Maybe they oughta cut people some slack just this one time ;)

    3. carlsson

      carlsson

      Houses, summer cottages, luxury cars, caravans, motor homes.. all tend to have some form of yearly taxation. But anything that floats on water - nope, that is where the line has been drawn.

       

      The dog tax in Sweden can be traced back to 1812, where it was in effect for a short period. Another attempt was made in 1861, and the last period of dog tax was between 1923 and 1996. Dogs used for farming reindeer (specifically, not all farming dogs), lab animals, service dogs for the blind, dogs used by the military, fire department, police and customs were exempt of the tax.

       

      I don't know how up to date Wikipedia is, but it suggests dog tax still is in effect in Germany, India, parts of Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland (though not so much rest of the UK) and if I read the text correctly, also parts of the USA. California and Maryland supposedly have cat licenses?

    4. Zoyous

      Zoyous

      We have a dog license administered by the city where I live. It's $10 annually.

  25. atari2600land

    The venom from a Japanese giant hornet can dissolve human flesh.

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