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Edited by
mightymoe
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1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto 2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire 3. France was still executing people by Guillotine when "Star Wars" hit theatres 4. Nintendo was originally a trading card company 5. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States 6. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world 7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants 8. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans 9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds 10.Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months 11. Shakespeare made up the name "Jessica" for his play Merchant of Venice 12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark 13. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg 14. Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets 15. Scotland's national animal is the unicorn 16. Apparently there are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos 17. John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today. 18. A strawberry is NOT a berry 19.A banana is a berry. 20. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid 21. An octopus has three hearts 22. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells 23. There is only one country between North Korea and Norway 24. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy 25. Maine is the closest US state to Africa! |
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 on number 7 and 8 I think your count might be off. I eliminated a few recently 
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on number 7 and 8 I think your count might be off. I eliminated a few recently grrr... now everything is messed up... 
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on number 7 and 8 I think your count might be off. I eliminated a few recently grrr... now everything is messed up... wait. how fast do ants reproduce? if they reproduce faster than humans your stats are right again 
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on number 7 and 8 I think your count might be off. I eliminated a few recently grrr... now everything is messed up... wait. how fast do ants reproduce? if they reproduce faster than humans your stats are right again woohoo! 
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Except 9, 20, 22,and 24 I can believe or agree they are plausible. 22 I'm on the fence about but until NASA retrives a capsule that returned from Saturn or Jupiter (not in our lifetime) with diamonds I can't believe it's anything other than frozen water. I have been to Rome and New York City and I can tell you for fact that New York is farther north.
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Except 9, 20, 22,and 24 I can believe or agree they are plausible. 22 I'm on the fence about but until NASA retrives a capsule that returned from Saturn or Jupiter (not in our lifetime) with diamonds I can't believe it's anything other than frozen water. I have been to Rome and New York City and I can tell you for fact that New York is farther north. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24477667 NYC - 40� 42' N / 74� 0' W Rome - 41� 54' N / 12� 29' E the rest I'll leave for you to look up... 
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Except 9, 20, 22,and 24 I can believe or agree they are plausible. 22 I'm on the fence about but until NASA retrives a capsule that returned from Saturn or Jupiter (not in our lifetime) with diamonds I can't believe it's anything other than frozen water. I have been to Rome and New York City and I can tell you for fact that New York is farther north. one i had an issue with is 25, never found a way to look it up yet |
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Edited by
IgorFrankensteen
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Sun 04/26/15 08:54 AM
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Except 9, 20, 22,and 24 I can believe or agree they are plausible. 22 I'm on the fence about but until NASA retrives a capsule that returned from Saturn or Jupiter (not in our lifetime) with diamonds I can't believe it's anything other than frozen water. I have been to Rome and New York City and I can tell you for fact that New York is farther north. one i had an issue with is 25, never found a way to look it up yet I tried too. Can't prove anything, but according to Google Maps, it takes longer to fly from Miami to The Western Sahara coast, than it does to fly from the coast of Maine to Casablanca. As for the Flamingos, that's no surprise. I'm sure there are more of LOTS of decorative fake animals, than real ones. Teddy bears come to mind. Did you know there are millions more fake Garden Gnomes, than real ones? |
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1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto 2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire 3. France was still executing people by Guillotine when "Star Wars" hit theatres 4. Nintendo was originally a trading card company 5. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States 6. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world 7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants 8. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans 9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds 10.Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months 11. Shakespeare made up the name "Jessica" for his play Merchant of Venice 12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark 13. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg 14. Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets 15. Scotland's national animal is the unicorn 16. Apparently there are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos 17. John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today. 18. A strawberry is NOT a berry 19.A banana is a berry. 20. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid 21. An octopus has three hearts 22. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells 23. There is only one country between North Korea and Norway 24. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy 25. Maine is the closest US state to Africa! |
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1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto 2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire 3. France was still executing people by Guillotine when "Star Wars" hit theatres 4. Nintendo was originally a trading card company 5. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States 6. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world 7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants 8. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans 9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds 10.Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months 11. Shakespeare made up the name "Jessica" for his play Merchant of Venice 12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark 13. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg 14. Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets 15. Scotland's national animal is the unicorn 16. Apparently there are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos 17. John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today. 18. A strawberry is NOT a berry 19.A banana is a berry. 20. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid 21. An octopus has three hearts 22. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells 23. There is only one country between North Korea and Norway 24. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy 25. Maine is the closest US state to Africa! no, whats that? |
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1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto 2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire 3. France was still executing people by Guillotine when "Star Wars" hit theatres 4. Nintendo was originally a trading card company 5. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States 6. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world 7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants 8. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans 9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds 10.Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months 11. Shakespeare made up the name "Jessica" for his play Merchant of Venice 12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark 13. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg 14. Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets 15. Scotland's national animal is the unicorn 16. Apparently there are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos 17. John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today. 18. A strawberry is NOT a berry 19.A banana is a berry. 20. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid 21. An octopus has three hearts 22. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells 23. There is only one country between North Korea and Norway 24. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy 25. Maine is the closest US state to Africa! no, whats that? |
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1. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto 2. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire 3. France was still executing people by Guillotine when "Star Wars" hit theatres 4. Nintendo was originally a trading card company 5. If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States 6. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world 7. For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants 8. The total weight of all those ants, however, is about the same as all the humans 9. On Jupiter and Saturn it rains diamonds 10.Ten percent of all the photos ever taken were taken in the last 12 months 11. Shakespeare made up the name "Jessica" for his play Merchant of Venice 12. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark 13. Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg 14. Armadillos almost always give birth to quadruplets 15. Scotland's national animal is the unicorn 16. Apparently there are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos 17. John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today. 18. A strawberry is NOT a berry 19.A banana is a berry. 20. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of liquid 21. An octopus has three hearts 22. There are 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells 23. There is only one country between North Korea and Norway 24. New York City is farther south than Rome, Italy 25. Maine is the closest US state to Africa! no, whats that? ok, thanks |
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No. 9 isn't a fact. It's a theory. If you read down from your source ...
""We cannot exclude the proposed scenario (diamond rain on Saturn and Jupiter) but we simply have no data on mixtures in the planets. So we do not know if diamond formation occurs at all." You must get your facts straight! 
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No. 9 isn't a fact. It's a theory. If you read down from your source ... ""We cannot exclude the proposed scenario (diamond rain on Saturn and Jupiter) but we simply have no data on mixtures in the planets. So we do not know if diamond formation occurs at all." You must get your facts straight! never been to either, can't say for sure... seems that a lot of scientists agree on it tho... |
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