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Not sure if its been done , but if not post up your did you knows ! Did you know everything in our solar system is visible with the naked eye at some point .
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Did you know......Lexus stands for Luxury EXports to the US?
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Did you know a ducks 'quack' doesn't echo
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OK, serious now .... did you know that, temporarily, the water goes down the plug hole the opposite way at around midnight on the Equinox (both of them).
Not sure why, or how, but drain the bath at midnight on the Equinox and watch the water stop rotating down the plughole - reverse direction - then revert to the normal state of affairs.
31 January 2011, 10:44 PM
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Did you know that custard is a non newtonian fluid?
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Did you know that Phi (1.61803), also known The Golden Ratio or The Divine Proportion has inspired thinkers in all disciplines like no other number in history, from Phidias, Euclid, Plato and Fibonacci through to Roger Penrose? It's not confined to mathmaticians, of course, it extends to biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics.
From the ratio of the bones in your fingers and the spiral of a Nautilus shell, through to the relationship of the Moon and Earth, and the spiral of the Milky Way itself, Phi permeates everything.
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Did you know that custard is a non newtonian fluid?
True ... so is, ketchup, toothpaste, starch suspensions, paint, blood, and shampoo.
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The square root of 2 is irrational.
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Jon Tickle can walk on custard.
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After certain types of organ transplant, your blood group will actually change.
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Orsen Welles voiced the character Unicron in the 1986 Transformers The Movie animation.
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You only use 10% of your brain in real life, really.
Rest is engaged in Scoobynet.
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Did you know some people take Dan Brown's novels way too seriously!
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Did you know that the front leaf springs on a LDV Pilot van are made of composite carbon-glass fibre?
Probably the only advanced thing on those pieces of crap (even though the technology was developed in the 1970s and took 15 years to make it into production)
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Did you know,that your mom,gives a cracking Blow Job?
Well someone had too.
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Did you know subarus 6 stars got there name from the taurus constilation
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Well someone had too.
It's not all she's good at
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Did you know as well as the USA , UK , Russia and Germany , Subaru also have an observatory in Hawaii .
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There are 240 white dots on a Pac-Man arcade game.
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Did you know subarus 6 stars got there name from the taurus constilation
...and that more specifically it's the star cluster Pleiades or, in Japenese, Subaru.
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If you measure the length of your outstretched arms, it's equal to your height. And from your elbow to your wrist is your shoe size.
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Did you know that the circumference of your fist is the same length as your foot - a tip from a woman who sold socks.
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Not sure if its been done , but if not post up your did you knows ! Did you know everything in our solar system is visible with the naked eye at some point .
Everything?
How about the dark side of the moon?
Or the moons of Jupiter? Or Pluto - has anyone ever seen that - it is not even a real planet!
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If you measure the length of your outstretched arms, it's equal to your height.
...and that this is depicted brilliantly in Da Vinci's Phi-rich,
Vitruvian Man (1487).
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Mitsubishi launched its Pajero 4WD without realising that 'pajero' is Spanish for '******'.
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Did you know a ducks 'quack' doesn't echo
It does echo.
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