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[Grollourdo]

Pink is the new blue

[americanbrit14]

Did you know that when lightning strikes, it leaves a trail of fire from the ground to the sky for a few seconds.

[Aregon]

To act confident is easier than being confident. 

[Rainbow_Sheep]

 

[Aregon]

Blue and red are bad colours to use on different opponents supposed to confront each other.

[Nightfirebolt]

The blue light that emanates from most computer monitors interferes with the body's circadian rhythm.

 

Installing a simple free program called f.lux onto your machine can fix this problem and potentially prevent insomnia.

Edited by Nightfirebolt, 25 June 2015 - 06:30 PM.

[hoghead]

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Edited by By by, 19 December 2015 - 07:09 PM.

[Rainbow_Sheep]

The blue light that emanates from most computer monitors interferes with the body's circadian rhythm.

Installing a simple free program called f.lux onto your machine can fix this problem and potentially prevent insomnia.

The mobile equivalent of this is called Twilight

I'm using it right now, it's pretty good

[Houruck]

Blue and red are bad colours to use on different opponents supposed to confront each other.

Care to elaborate?

[Miscellaneous]

Care to elaborate?

 

 

I think this is what he's referring to.

[MississippiFats]

In Russia there are approximately 5 women for every 4 men.

[KaylaClaire]

White and green mold found on citrus fruit is penicillium, used to make a myriad of cheeses and penicillin!

[Rainbow_Sheep]

It is possible to turn Platinum into Gold.

However it is completely useless as platinum is more expensive

[Aregon]

There exist a sub-reddit called /watchpeopledie.

[thedark20]

I'm spiky

[Hyginos]

"Rule of Thumb" Was derived from an old English law which stated that you could not beat your wife  with any thing wider than your thumb. 

 

"Rule of thumb" occurs in various languages also as "rule of fist" "finger tip's rule" and "rule of finger". It shows up in Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish as well as Germanic languages, suggesting it originates from rather far in antiquity.

 

From the wiki:

 

"It is often claimed that the term's etymological origin lies in a law that limited the maximum thickness of a stick with which it was permissible for a man to beat his wife. English common law before the reign of Charles II permitted a man to give his wife "moderate correction", but no "rule of thumb" (whether called by this name or not) has ever been the law in England. Such "moderate correction" specifically excluded beatings, allowing the husband only to confine a wife to the household."

[Panzermanathod]

In Mortal Kombat, Sektor and Cyrax's code names in the beta are Ketchup and Mustard, respectively, due to their colors. Sektor's main projectiles in the series were rockets/missiles while Cyrax's were grenades and nets.

 

Which is why I naed my Rocketeer Ketchup'Jizah and my Grenadier Mustard'Jizah.

[TronX33]

There had just been, on the 25th of April, which was also my Lil sisters b day and exactly one week from mine, there was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Nepal ... My friend really dodged the bullet while transiting Kuala Lumpur.... Tho I don't think his vacay was very pleasent seeing all the destruction after they arrived....

Interesting... the 25th of April is also my B-day

A giraffe can survive longer without water than a camel.

I kid you not.

Edited by TronX33, 12 August 2015 - 04:33 PM.

[Aregon]

Laughing gas burns because it is a gas.

 

Example:

[Hyginos]

Laughing gas burns because it is a gas.

Not so much because it is a gas, but because "laughing gas" is nitrous oxide.

Yes, that nitrous oxide. The one that people are always on about in drag racing movies. Applications include rocket motors, internal combustion, and anaesthesia.

Edited by Hyginos, 08 September 2015 - 12:44 PM.

[Aregon]

Not so much because it is a gas, but because "laughing gas" is nitrous oxide.

Yes, that nitrous oxide. The one that people are always on about in drag racing movies. Applications include rocket motors, internal combustion, and anaesthesia.

[Hyginos]

Due to a very high latent heat of fusion it is sometimes more economical to transport aluminum (aluminium) in molten form. 

[Aregon]

Vsauce. No more thing needed.

[SuupaaFly]

In Psychological Effects of Combat, a 2008 paper included in the book Stress of War, Conflict and Disaster, Dave Grossman and Bruce K. Siddle wrote that in surveys of soldiers during World War II, �a quarter of combat veterans admitted that they urinated in their pants in combat, and a quarter admitted that they defecated in their pants in combat.

[Nightfirebolt]

Did you know that if America had scrapped its problem-laden F-35 fighter fleet project, it would've saved approximately 1 trillion dollars? That's more than the entirety of Australia's gross domestic product, and enough money to do one of the following:

 

1) Provide free college to every student in America for the next 23 years

2) Buy every homeless person in america a home

3) Unilaterally support every humanitarian crisis

4) Feed every schoolchild in the country

5) Rebuild america's infrastructure

6) Fund peacekeeping missions

 

Sources: 1 2 3

Edited by Nightfirebolt, 30 December 2015 - 11:54 AM.

[DallasCreeper]

It is illegal for a UFO to land in Paris. 

[Flight1ess]

trymike4instance  is a good channel