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    A cut-down Giant Sequoia with humans for scale...



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    Orbital mechanics is weird.

    You accelerate to become slower. You brake to become faster.

    You fire your engines at the highest point of the orbit to change the altitue at the lowest point.

    You fire your engines at the lowest point to change the altitude at the highest point.

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    Before performing at Wembley Stadium, Michael Jackson decided to scratch "Dirty Diana" from his setlist out of respect for Princess Diana. When Diana heard, she personally requested to keep it as it was one of her favorites. Diana danced away while Prince Charles remained seated...

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    ...unless, of course, the tree had already died before the carving began...
    All trees are something like 98% dead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VocalNeal View Post
    98% dead
    ...please: leave Latin Karen out of this...

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    Quote Originally Posted by VocalNeal View Post
    All trees are something like 98% dead.
    All facts spouted on the internet are plucked out of thin air.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    All facts spouted on the internet are plucked out of thin air.
    I believe it's "99.37% of facts are made up on the spot".

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
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    A cut-down Giant Sequoia with humans for scale...


    Noticed that the saw is actually 2 saws welded together to get enough cutting length.

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    A mummified piece of dinosaur skin from an Edmontosaurus. It was dug up from the famous Hell Creek Formation in Montana, US.



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    The skull of a little girl buried with a crown of ceramic flowers from the North Cemetery in Patras, 300-400 B.C.

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    Was Tax her dentist?

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    ...^555...

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    I'll see your baby girl skull and raise you one!
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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    The skull of a little girl buried with a crown of ceramic flowers from the North Cemetery in Patras, 300-400 B.C.
    Looks like she sucked her thumb.

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    • One-quarter of all your bones are located in your feet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    All facts spouted on the internet are plucked out of thin air.
    That’s the way that SA works anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    • One-quarter of all your bones are located in your feet.
    50 per cent of Backspin’s brains are located in his head

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    Jim Carrey and Tupac had an unlikely friendship. Carrey even wrote letters to Tupac whilst he was in prison. The letters were funny stories that would cheer Tupac up and have him in fits of laughter according to prison guards.



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    DAF Daffodil could go the same speed in forward and reverse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VocalNeal View Post
    DAF Daffodil could go the same speed in forward and reverse
    ...0 mph?...

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    Crikey.
    Sounds like some cowboy saying... "We got BOTH types of music here : Country AND Western"..



    The DAF 600 was the first car to have a continuously variable transmission (CVT) system - the innovative DAF Variomatic.,[2] the same system was carried over to the 750 and its variants. The DAF Variomatic employs centrifugal weights to control the drive ratio of the transmission and is enhanced by the engine manifold vacuum. The action of the bob weights and inlet vacuum combined to pull together the cheeks of two, variable diameter, driving pulleys, driven directly from the engine. These were connected, by rubber 'V' belts, to two similar driven pulleys, connected to the drive wheels. The cheeks of the driven pulleys were held together by spring tension, which was progressively overcome as the drive pulleys expanded and the tension of the belts increased. The DAF Variomatics were thereby the only cars ever produced which went faster by the simple expedient of gently and gradually releasing the accelerator once top engine speed had been reached, as the increased vacuum took over from the reducing bob weight speed. The Variomatic also permitted increased engine braking by operating a switch on the dashboard which reversed the action of the vacuum on the pulley's diaphragm, seeking a lower ratio with increased manifold vacuum. Two separate transmissions ran the two driving wheels, eliminating the need for a differential since belt slippage allowed for the different speeds of the inner and outer wheels. The duplication also provided redundancy, if one belt broke the vehicle could still be driven. An incidental feature was that in reverse, at least for earlier examples, the same top speed could be achieved as forwards. Later cars locked the transmission in the lowest ratio when reverse was selected.

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    Honey badgers are as hard as fucking nails.


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    music is just wiggling air.

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    The first man to urinate on the moon was... Buzz Aldrin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    ...0 mph?...


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