Well, it looks like I'm the last and first poster for this day.
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Well, it looks like I'm the last and first poster for this day.
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This doctor is an idiot.
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In Grand Theft Auto, sleeping with prostitutes gives you a health bonus.
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I think that the formula for specific gravity demonstrates a clue to the nature of gravity.
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The cosmic microwave background makes up 1 percent of the static on your TV screen
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There are 17 identified indigenous language families in Australia, most of which are located around the central northern coast. The largest Aboriginal language family is the Pama–Nyungan, which comprises 160 of the 228 identified languages.
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Asphalt paves best, when the asphalt being poured and the surface being paved both have the same chemical valence.
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For the musician playing a B flat instrument to play it in Concert C while reading music written in Concert C, play one note above the written notes and add two sharps.
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It's not only the little things that count but also they generally get lost in the hurly-burly of events.
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Civilizations come and go, but bureaucracies abide.
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Richard Dawkins was 25,000 days old on September 5, 2009 which was also my 58th birthday.
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Today, I am 23,963 days old.
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Taylor Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania.
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Hawaii is moving toward Japan four inches every year.
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The Hawaiian Emperor Seamount Chain, which marks the path of the hotspot across the Pacific, has a strange "spearpoint" in its trajectory, which suddenly shifts the chain away from Japan and towards Sakhalin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hawaii_hotspot.jpg
Speculations as to why this should be have ranged from the Pacific plate changing direction, or the hotspot itself moving.
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There's a dormant supervolcano in SE Texas, near the Louisiana border.
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The North Atlantic gets one inch wider every year.
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It's been four days since anybody other than me has posted a fact.
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The word "I" only has one letter.
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Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth's crust, atmosphere and waters: about 49.5%.
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Oxygen is the only one of the four "life elements" (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen) to be present in the Earth's crust to any great degree.
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The eel population has been devastated, continues to shrink at an alarming rate.
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A stroke of lightning discharges from ten to 100 million volts and 30,000 amperes of electricity.
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When Archaeopteryx was first unearthed in the 19th century, quarry workers believed it was a fallen angel.
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September 23 2011 is Bruce Springsteen's 62nd birthday.
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It is also the autumnal equinox
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A bolt of lighting is about 54,0000 F (30,0000 C); six times hotter than the sun.
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The surface of the Sun.
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That thought came to mind as I typed, but I didn't include the word 'surface' as I typed; does that make the omission a typographical error? Or, just me in a hurry?
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There are more than 30,000 needle like quills on the back of an African porcupine.
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