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TexasImprovMassacre · Post by **TexasImprovMassacre** » May 23rd, 2009, 1:59 am

An octopus has 3 hearts.

TexasImprovMassacre · Post by **TexasImprovMassacre** » May 23rd, 2009, 2:39 am

a new pencil could draw a line 35 miles long

Chelley · Post by **Chelley** » May 23rd, 2009, 10:24 am

The word email is both singular and plural.

ChrisTrew.Com · Post by **ChrisTrew.Com** » May 23rd, 2009, 11:17 am

thread over

hujhax · Post by **hujhax** » May 23rd, 2009, 12:07 pm

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:An octopus has 3 hearts.

Octopuses and goats are two of the only animals that have rectangular pupils.

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York99 · Post by **York99** » May 23rd, 2009, 1:09 pm

A duck's quack does not echo.

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » May 23rd, 2009, 2:46 pm

by some sources, who put his age at 11, the youngest Pope ever was Benedict IX...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_IX

hujhax · Post by **hujhax** » May 23rd, 2009, 2:56 pm

York99 wrote:A duck's quack does not echo.

SNOPES'D!

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Telling someone, "You ought to watch The Wire -- it's worth the time," is like telling them, "You know what game you'd really enjoy? Chess."
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York99 · Post by **York99** » May 24th, 2009, 12:18 am

hujhax wrote:
York99 wrote:A duck's quack does not echo.
SNOPES'D!

Oh, you want TRUE trivia?

Revolving doors were invented to prevent horses from entering establishments.

[maybe]

Mike · Post by **Mike** » May 24th, 2009, 2:58 am

The Superior Vena Cava has 2 liters of blood flow through it every minute.

scook · Post by **scook** » May 24th, 2009, 9:36 pm

The opening four notes of Beethoven's 5th Symphony is the morse code for the letter "V" and therefore associated with "victory" of war.

EmilyBee · Post by **EmilyBee** » May 24th, 2009, 11:50 pm

While we're on music, the augmented 4th, or minor 5th, the TRITONE, was long considered to be the Devil's interval, and most music from the Baroque period until the late 19th/early 20th Century used the dissonance of the tritone to propel harmonic progressions to the tonic. Stay on a tritone, and your ears start to itch, aching for a resolution!

Of course, all that has changed since the traditional tonal system was set, so to speak, on its ear by the "modern" music trend, which embraced atonality and the influence of music from non-European cultures (with the increasing knowledge of the "orient" fostered by events such as the World's Fair, influencing music of the classical tradition as well as the infant art form jazz).

Long before Bach helped cement the Classical function of the tritone, Carlo Gesualdo, a nobleman composer of Renaissance motets, luxuriated in the crunchy ear-buzziness of the tritone, minor seventh, ninth, and other intervals--especially after he murdered his cousin/wife and her lover in flagrante delicto and left their mutilated bodies on display in front of his castle.

Geek out.

sara farr · Post by **sara farr** » May 25th, 2009, 12:36 am

Roly Poly "bugs" are land-walking (terrestrial) crustacean with modified gills ... and they carry their young in a pouch.*

(*Source: Beth Burn's kid, Sloane. She told me & Vines all about it today after her mom's show, "Hansel & Gretel".)

EmilyBee · Post by **EmilyBee** » May 25th, 2009, 9:02 am

sara_anm8r wrote:Roly Poly "bugs" are land-walking (terrestrial) crustacean with modified gills ... and they carry their young in a pouch.*
all about it today after her mom's show, "Hansel & Gretel".)

I heart this.

LuBu McJohnson · Post by **LuBu McJohnson** » May 25th, 2009, 11:07 am

Shits that I give = 0

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