Did you know... [Curiosities]

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Bill Gates is richer than 140 nations.

No way he is richer than Zimbabwe..
I heard they have people there who gets paid 100 Trillion dollars an month..

[peewee_RotA]

The Titanic sunk on April 15th, a year before the IRS officially started processing income tax returns.

The first US income tax was originally only 3%

The collection of income tax was once declared unconstitutional.

[fdrjk]

Everybody dreams in their sleep; no exceptions.

[Zeppelin]

Ozzy Osbourne when asked in an interview "do you listen to Justin Bieber", responded "Who the Fuck is Justin Bieber?"

There is a beer pipeline in Germany.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

Uzbekistan still boils people to death as a form of capital punishment.

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Uzbekistan still boils people to death as a form of capital punishment.

sweet... free stew

[fdrjk]

The Turritopsis nutricula jellyfish is the only creature that is biologically immortal.

[|iR|Focalor]

The collection of income tax was once declared unconstitutional.

Fuck that, I still declare it unconstitutional. Especially since most churches are conveniently still exempt from it.

[peewee_RotA]

Fuck that, I still declare it unconstitutional. Especially since most churches are conveniently still exempt from it.

Bastards passed an amendment to get around it.

I like Thomas Paine's approach:
"Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated. When man ceases to be, his power and his wants cease with him; and having no longer any participation in the concerns of this world, he has no longer any authority in directing who shall be its governors, or how its government shall be organised, or how administered."

In other words the people who ratified it are dead. So lets repeal it and let it die with them.

[Zeppelin]

In May of 2007 Comcast aired Porn on the DIsney Channel by mistake (instead of Handy Manny).

[fdrjk]

Cocktail umbrellas contain hidden scrolls of Chinese newspaper which can be read like fortune cookies.

[VaeVictis]

in shell scripting you dont need to supply a shell interpreter after the #! you can supply any binary file, though the results may be quite chaotic or funny for example starting a script with #!/bin/rm will cause the script to delete itself when its ran, some things are useful like using cat can simply list the contents of the script

maybe not interesting to most people but i thought it was pretty cool when i read it

[fdrjk]

In the unaired series finale of "Angry Beavers" (which has only been release on audio): Dag and Norb realize they are cartoons, discuss that they are getting cancelled, and even end up both repeatedly calling each other by the voice-actors' names.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPP4zUDuo4c

The little boy who voiced Bambi became the youngest-ever drill instructor in the Marines and served three tours in Vietnam.

There is a tree in Bahrain called "The Tree of Life"; because it is the only living thing growing in the area of an extremely desolate desert.

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In the unaired series finale of "Angry Beavers" (which has only been release on audio): Dag and Norb realize they are cartoons, discuss that they are getting cancelled, and even end up both repeatedly calling each other by the voice-actors' names.

I Like Spongebob

[Sgt. Dick]

 

There are some people here that remind me of Patrick.

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There are some people here that remind me of Patrick.

Tubby?