The "Did You Know?" Thread

This is the Did you know? thread. A thread about stuff that you know or found during web searches, and want to share it with this community, but not long enough for a thread of it's own.

I'll go first: Did you know that ...


a planetary alignment of the planets Mercury, Venus, and Saturn will take place Dec 3, 2012 which is a dead-on alignment with the Pyramids at Giza?

Night Sky in Giza, Egypt on December 3, 2012, local time … one hour before sunrise compared with the Pyramids at Giza...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DEjYfaMA4n...15188286_n.jpg

did you know eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing?

this thread reminds me of a thing one of my elementary teachers did in the mornings before class.. altho he called it useless information for the day

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Originally Posted by tipperary1

did you know eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing?

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I did not know that.

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Originally Posted by MechHead

Did you know? ...this thread reminds me of a thing one of my elementary teachers did in the mornings before class.. altho he called it useless information for the day

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^corrected to follow thread format ;)

Did you know hot dogs were created in 1484 in Frankfurt, Germany...known as the frankfurter

Did you know that NHL is in LockOut? :P

did u kno that "Weird" Al Yankovic received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture in 1981. He also served as valedictorian of his high school at age 16.

Did you know man came from Apes?

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Originally Posted by Fresh420

Did you know man came from Apes?

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No I did not 'know' that. Do you have any proof?

Did you know that the USA spends more on 'defence' than the next dozen nations put together? Do you feel safe yet America?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...290055617d.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_expenditures

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Originally Posted by Rodri

Did you know that the USA spends more on 'defence' than the next dozen nations put together? Do you feel safe yet America?

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Dante's Inferno Yeah!!!!

http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/Everyon...69_3985461.gif



Did you know that NASA ....

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Goo...95_3983569.jpg ?

Yes I did know NASA has top secert stuff :)

Did you know in Vermont, At one time it was illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.

http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/vermont

Did you know, aliens built the pyramids? Not only did they build the pyramids with the help of human slave labor, but they positioned the pyramids so that they lined up with other planets (supposedly their home planets).

Were they illegal aliens?

Cuz surely they were not aliens from outerspace, cuz that's just silly.

Did you know that the pyramids are not the only monolithic structures to line up with the heavens? Angkor Wat, in Cambodia, lines up with the constellation Draco, that is if you turn the star chart to 10,000 years in the past.

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Originally Posted by King Alboin

Were they illegal aliens?

Cuz surely they were not aliens from outerspace, cuz that's just silly.

Did you know that the pyramids are not the only monilithic structures to line up with the heavens? Angkor Wat, in Cambodia, lines up with the constellation Draco, that is if you turn the star chart to 10,000 years in the past.

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Yes, illegal aliens. ;)

:soapbox: That is certainly interesting lol :soapbox:

I thought so too. given the evidence ....

http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_M...o/dracangx.jpg

http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_Messenger/draco.html

It seems that with the other monoliths that align 10,000 years ago, something definately was going on.

What it was, it is anyone's guess.

For instance,

Did you know that the Nazca lines in Peru, only make sense when aligned to the star chart of 10,000 years ago also?

http://www.2travel2.nl/images/storie...-lines-092.jpg

Do you suppose that the iconagraphic pictoids were your alien's way of mapping what they considered their constellations?

http://blogdoplastico.com/wp-content...mapa_nasca.jpg

King Albion, you need to watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooy2LTJoMVM

Did you know that in Alaska, it is illegal to throw a live moose out of an airplane?

Did you know it is legal to have sexual relations with horses in a majority of the states?

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Originally Posted by Sheppeh

Did you know it is legal to have sexual relations with horses in a majority of the states?

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Yes, yes I did but I didn't want to say anything because I have seen how upset New Zealanders get when I mention sheep.

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Originally Posted by Rodri

King Albion, you need to watch this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooy2LTJoMVM

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Did you know, I did watch that video, and learned many a new thing, yet I come back to praise and thankyou, yet what do I find in my absence?

An abhorant display of vulgar obscenities with horses and sheep!

I liken it to the old white haired gentleman who came down the mountain with knowledge most profound, to share amongst his friends new meanings and understandings to the ancient puzzles, and finds them, his friends, cupping the testicles of bull calves.

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' The age of evil has come to the world . Everyone steals and hoards great wealth, and sensual sin rules the day. The end of the world is at hand - yet men are hard and cruel, and listen not to the doom that is coming . No one heeds the cries of his neighbour, or lifts a hand to save. ' - The Ragnarok ( Ancient Norse prophecy, C 1000 CE )

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Yet I, King Alboin will not be as rash as the white haired gentleman, for I find those kinds of things, odd albeit humorous, and had myself a slight chuckle.

So, gratitudes are in order Sir Rodri, for your link. I know now, not only how the world will be destroyed, but when.

and no it is not when the gaze of the sphynx lands upon Regus, they have the wrong lion.

On a lighter note...


http://static.themetapicture.com/med...-know-fact.jpg

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Originally Posted by ChukNoris

On a lighter note...


http://static.themetapicture.com/med...-know-fact.jpg

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so light you cant see it :rolleyes:

beware such mediocrity will not be tolerated in this thread.

Sorry King A.

I find I need to try to balance the profound with the profane and the serious with the ridiculous sometimes. It keeps me from taking things, including myself, too seriously. But no golden calves here boss, no sir.

Did you know that in the Temple of Osiris near The Great Pyramid, these symbols are etched into the rock?

http://sinearch.com/wp-content/uploa...er-of-Life.jpg

Did you know that nobody knows how these symbols were etched onto the rock as they seem to be somehow burnt into the very stone?

Did you know that this symbol is called the flower of life?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YTJBDUN8iS.../FOL-&-SOL.jpg

I did not know that.

Did you know that , they discovered a Super Earth and maybe its habitable!! and I start packing ;)

Here is the link for you :)

http://www.space.com/18393-alien-pla...hd-40307g.html

WOW!!

*gets out backpack, and starts packing items of need and necessity

1) Smart phone so smart, it knows futuristic trends and will polymorph into the next best thing, before the next best thing is the next best thing.

2) Seeds for colonial agricultural fields

3) Embryos, fertilized, frozen, of domestic husbandry livestock

4) Tolstoy's War and Peace. [42 lys, I should have plenty of time to finish it]

5) Survival Knife

6) Cold Beer

Okay, I'm ready to go

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Originally Posted by King Alboin

5) Survival Knife

6) Cold Beer

Okay, I'm ready to go

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Most important things! I packed my Swiss knife, you never know when you need it!!! However , we Need a Truck :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Nammy

Most important things! I packed my Swiss knife, you never know when you need it!!! However , we Need a Truck :rofl:

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At your service ....

http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/...k-1280x960.jpg :D

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Originally Posted by King Alboin

At your service ....

http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/...k-1280x960.jpg :D

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Just what we looking for, Perfect!

yep, although it only gets 6 light years to the gallon, it does have Steller Satelite Network, with 3,000 holographic channels, [mostly shopping and food, but features an online gaming consortium], a built in self replenishing minibar, exploration science package, a robot butler named ... Butler, an onboard sentient artificially dynamic intellegent infrastructure named ... Sadii, a compact necessity closet, kitchenette, anti-atrophy workout bench, Nordeck Gravity plates, upper and lower queen size bunks, Strobe's Navi'Pack navigation system, a Wolfington High Gain Subspace Communication array, and much much more.

Maybe rich people aren't evil

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/...ng-facts-8.jpg

and about the song Friday (Rebecca Black)

The song is about the JFK assassination.
- The driver of the car that JFK was assassinated in's name was Samuel Kickin (Kickin' in the front seat, sittin' in the back seat).
- He was assassinated on Friday
- When he was shot, the Secret Service yelled "Get Down!" to everyone (Gotta get down on friday)
- In the hotel that morning, Kennedy declined a sausage, eggs, and toast for breakfast and wanted a bowl of Bran Flakes (Got to have my bowl of cereal)
- The following monday, he was supposed to sign a bill that said that all public schools must provide bus transportation for the students (Got to catch my bus)

Did you know that in Alabama putting salt on a train track can be punishable by death?

http://dsjvpv76ko1eo.cloudfront.net/...37db98f7f.600x

Did you know?

During the filming of "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", Arnold Schwarzenegger was awarded $15 million for his role which given the 700 words he spoke in the film, averaged out to $21,429 per word.

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Originally Posted by ChukNoris

Maybe rich people aren't evil

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/...ng-facts-8.jpg

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Maybe they are evil and use their money to further their evil plans?

Did you know the the Federal Reserve Bank is a private company that prints it's own money and loans it to the US Treasury, at interest?
Read the very top line on the dollar bill.

http://www.us-cash.info/one_dollar_bill_front.JPG

It was the 1895 bailout that allowed J.P. Morgan to get control of the Federal Reserve and privatise it.

did you know the giant tortoise is the most edible creature man has ever encountered?
not surprisingly theyre now endangered. every aspect of them, their bones, the fat the liver the eggs, are completely digestible and delicious. Records from ppl who had eaten them compare them to beef, chicken sirloin steak but only to say how much nicer the tortoise is than all of those things.

not only that but they are slow moving and can live for months without food or water which was dicovered by sailors who used them as a food supply. on top of this they could store large amounts of perfectly drinkable freshwater at a time too in their special bladders which just added to their doom.

apparently it took 300 years to give the tortoise a scientific name because they were so delicious, they were never taken back to britain becuase on the journey someone would eat them

that's a interesting fact about the money

Did you know that the average human swallows 3 spiders while asleep per year?

Did you know that the Irish created Halloween?

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Originally Posted by Mr.Domino

Did you know that the average human swallows 3 spiders while asleep per year?

Did you know that the Irish created Halloween?

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did you know your first did you know is an urban legend?

At Newgrange, near Drogheda, in Ireland, stands the oldest intact building in the world, older than Stonehenge, or the pyramids of Egypt, and the spirits sensed here are also among the worlds oldest. Built over 5,200 years ago, the structure is a large stone temple dedicated to immortality and a higher spiritual reality.The entrance to the chamber is covered in five hundred pure white, white quartz stones.Inside the walls have strange spiral carvings symbolic of the evoling soul. At sunrise on the Winter Soltice, a shaft of light pinpoints a triple spiral carved on the rear wall. The triple spiral symbolizes the soul traveling through eternity.

http://www.megalithia.com/newgrange/newgra1.jpg

http://www.juleswatson.com/images/triplespiral.jpg

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Originally Posted by Rodri

Did you know the the Federal Reserve Bank is a private company that prints it's own money and loans it to the US Treasury, at interest?
Read the very top line on the dollar bill.

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Did you know that:
The Penny was the first currency ever to be released by the U.S. Government.
Large cents have earned a spot in history as the first US coins ever minted by the United States government on its own equipment and premises. They were minted from 1793 to 1857 at the mint in Philadelphia, the only U.S. Mint at the time.

http://websitepicturesonly.coinaucti...ainrev_rev.jpg

And are no longer in production?
The US Mint announced that they will phase out the production of new pennies beginning in late 2010, and mint the last batch of pennies on April 1, 2011.