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Gotta love the Discovery channel
Dogs have a different number of toes protruding from the leg structure depending on leg (4 + 1 on forepaws, 4 on the back)
Raccoons wash their hands before and after eating (sort of)
Giant pandas' thumb is in fact an enlarged wrist bone (they have five digits plus the pseudo-thumb)
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Let's see...other morbid facts...
Fingernails don't in fact continue to grow when you're dead. The flesh at the root of your nails draws back which gives the illusion of it.
Everyone knows about the witch burnings tied to the church in Europe and North America, but not many know about the so-called "Vampire Heresies" of Eastern Europe. Most vampiric lore ties into one of two causes: Demons inhabiting a corpse or (more commonly) improper burial rites. The "burial rites" issue cropped up in the 1600's when the Catholic Church came into a conflict of dogma with the Eastern Orthodox Church prevalent in slavic-controlled eastern Europe. The Catholic Church declared the burial practices of the EO Church heretical, and sure enough the number of alleged "vampires" exploded in the 1600-1800's, leading to hundreds of officially-sanctioned exhumations of bodies to destroy the alleged vampires.
While we're on the topic of vampires, let's talk about the most famous would-be vampire: Vlad Tepes (AKA "Vlad the Impaler"). While Abraham "Bram" Stoker based his Dracula character extensively on Tepes, the real Tepes was a very interesting person. Keeping in mind that Tepes was Eastern European, he fought on the side of the "heretical" EO Church (mentioned above), and was actually renowned (and still is known in parts of Eastern Europe) primarily for being a vampire killer rather than a mass-murderer. Also there's no evidence that Tepes ever really did impale the thousands of people he was attributed with killing; the only records that record the information are records from Western Europe. While no scholar questions his ferocity in holy war, many question exactly how vicious he was in the realm of torture, especially given that so many locals to this day see him as a local folk hero.
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
If you take a look at REALLY old buildings, 60 years and greater, you will notice that the glass on the bottom is thick, fogged, and rippled, while the glass on the top is thin and slightly rippled.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
quote:This post struck me as damn funy. Must have been the timing.
Karnaj had this to say about the Spice Girls:
If you stick your thumb up your ass while you're ejaculating, you'll go to the moon!
