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Reply Tue 16 Sep, 2008 06:37 pm
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Unnecessary Knowledge

just keep refreshing the site, for endless unnecessary knowledge


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Reply Tue 16 Sep, 2008 06:43 pm
For anyone who always wanted to know who was on the $10,000 bill!


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The first U.S. federal currency was printed in 1862, during9 Salmon P. Chase's tenure as Secretary of the Treasury. Thus, it was his responsibility to design the notes. In an effort to further his political career, his own face appeared on a variety of U.S. paper currency. Most recently, in order to honor the man who introduced the modern system of banknotes, Chase was on the $10,000 bill, printed from 1928 to 1946. Salmon P. Chase was instrumental in placing the phrase "In God We Trust" on United States currency.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_P._Chase

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Reply Tue 16 Sep, 2008 07:34 pm
Cool djjd! That site is fun but this one nearly made me cry:

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70% of the poor people in the world are female.
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Reply Tue 16 Sep, 2008 11:44 pm
That's because all the poor men are dead.
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 12:20 am
That reminds me of comedian Brendon Burns observation that gay men lived in well todo areas of cities but lesbians rarely did, clearly male homeosexuals were better off economically and he figured it was because "THEY DON'T HAVE FRIKKIN GIRLFRIENDS!!!"
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 12:26 am
There have been over fifty million Mr. Potato Heads sold since it came out in 1952.

Dang more potatoheads than Australians!
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 07:36 am
And, given that male earnings are still considerably above those of females, and biology, they are way more likely to be wealthy dink couples than lesbians are!


Mind you, I know some very well off female dinks!
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 09:27 am
NickFun wrote:

That's because all the poor men are dead.


The single male always dies POOR...
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 10:16 am
I see that Internet disinformation continues to be propagated.

"Paper can't be folded more than eight times, no matter the size of the paper" is false.

Debunked in 2002 by a high school student (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Gallivan).

She even developed a formula which says that in order to fold anything in half, it must be π times longer than its thickness.
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 10:34 am
There's a lot of disinformation on that website, because any user can submit their "fact".
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 12:14 pm
Robert Gentel wrote:

There's a lot of disinformation on that website, because any user can submit their "fact".


"I'd far rather be happy than right any day." —Slartibartfast
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 04:04 pm
Some of my favourite coffee table books are the Uncyclopedia of Rock and The Book of Incorrect Facts.

'Windows fog up on cold mornings because of all the fish in the atmosphere...'
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 04:31 pm
Supposedly they fact-check before adding new items, but I suspect it's less fact-check and more spam filter.
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Reply Wed 17 Sep, 2008 04:39 pm
did you know that 50% of all facts are at least 20% wrong



Wink



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