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  1. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Today I learned that: "In 1978, a French man named Michel Lotito began eating a Cesna 150 airplaine. He started eating dangerous objects when he was nine years old due to a condition known as pica. It took him two years to complete his metal-filled meal. He finished consuming the last of the airplane in 1980."

    Hahaha, that is COMPLETE bullshit I'm sure, but pica is a real thing. Ever hear about that guy Tarrare (also French, late 1700s), "the man who ate everything"? Also, pica. I'll leave you all to it.
     
  2. abyzmul

    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    Causes: Anemia; Autism; Culture-bound syndrome; Malnutrition; Schizophrenia
    Duration: Entire lifespan

    After looking it up, I think I now know less about pica.
     
  3. Dierking

    Dierking Well-Known Member

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    Who needs to eat dirt when you can just watch the jets?
     
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    We are just in a SIM and it's running on Windows 98[​IMG]
     
  5. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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  7. abyzmul

    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    I think Eugene Felsnic did a video here that approves of this.

     
  8. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Today I learned that there is a water color of King Henry VIII's tomb.

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  9. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Today I learned that real human skeletons were used in 'Poltergeist' in the pool scene.
     
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    TIL that if you were to light your farts on fire, an act called pyroflatulance, the resulting flame would be predominantly blue, as hydrogen and methane, the predominant flammable gasses in farts, burn blue.

    TIL that a type of Japanese water beetle can, when eaten by a frog, swim through the frog's digestive tract and escape through its anus
     
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  11. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Today I learned that Edward Snowden somehow managed to fly all over the place with a passport canceled mid-air while I can't drive to the next town without getting pulled over.
     
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    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Today I learned that a flock of Ravens is called a Conspiracy or an Unkindness.
     
  13. abyzmul

    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    Somebody was getting bored naming groups of animals I guess.
     
  14. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Well, I used to joke about Ray Lewis and a flock of Ravens being called a Murder. The terms vary.
     
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    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Frogs also vomit up their stomachs, clean them out, and re-swallow them.

    I would always get freaked out how tadpoles would just appear in stagnant pools. What is that?

    If the earth gets annihilated tomorrow, roaches, frogs, spiders, rats, and groundhogs won't have too much competition.
     
  16. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    I didn't learn this today, but there was a huge TV campaign going on in the late 60s-early 70s about kids eating peeling lead paint off of houses.

    This is why paint cans are labeled "lead free" today, but acrylic is hardly any better.
     
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    Ralebird Well-Known Member

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    To the first point - most guys learn that from middle school experience.
     
  18. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    Today I learned (not really, I knew) that almost all monetary awards in a Court of Law is posturing. Nothing is ever paid to an individual in the sum awarded and it gets reduced to peanuts in comparison.
     
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    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    Today I spent 7 hours in multiple financial branches of different banks and I learned that an idiot would be able to rob most of them blind.
     
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    Homeland Security subpoena to web hosting service incoming.
     

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