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  • Did you know...
     OP - May 14, 2012, 04:04 PM
    English is a West Germanic language?  (ty Clubs lol)

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    Historically, English originated from the fusion of closely related dialects, now collectively termed Old English, which were brought to the eastern coast of Great Britain by Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) settlers by the 5th century – with the word English being derived from the name of the Angles, and ultimately from their ancestral region of Angeln (in what is now Schleswig-Holstein).[12] A significant number of English words are constructed based on roots from Latin, because Latin in some form was the lingua franca of the Christian Church and of European intellectual life.[13] The language was further influenced by the Old Norse language due to Viking invasions in the 8th and 9th centuries.

     - Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

    So thought a fun thread might be for anyone to post random interesting facts about whatever, geography, famous people, academic subjects etc etc. Keep it short and snappy Tongue
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #1 - May 14, 2012, 04:08 PM
    .
    You need to read this book.
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #2 - May 14, 2012, 10:56 PM
    Sometimes tumours have teeth and hair and stuff in them, cuz all the genes are activated.
    Self ban for Ramadan (THAT RHYMES)

    Expect me to come back a Muslim. Cool Tongue j/k we'll see..
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #3 - May 14, 2012, 11:11 PM
    1/ Yup, knew that. The word "English" comes from "Angles", which in this context weren't the bits between the sides of a triangle.

    2/ Hey cool. That's a good innings. I'm gonna see if I can beat her. dance

    3/ Yup, knew that too. Yucky, huh? Tongue

    Anyway.......................................

    did you know, that the largest penis ever measured was 8 feet long? It belonged to a blue whale. Smiley

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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #4 - May 14, 2012, 11:16 PM
    Quote from: osmanthus on May 14, 2012, 11:11 PM
    3/ Yup, knew that too. Yucky, huh? Tongue

    Yeah! I looked up pics on Google, it was gross. I don't recommend it to anybody.
    Self ban for Ramadan (THAT RHYMES)

    Expect me to come back a Muslim. Cool Tongue j/k we'll see..
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #5 - May 14, 2012, 11:22 PM
    Hey this is awesome (about the woman Godot mentioned):

    "Calment's remarkable health presaged her later record. At age 85, she took up fencing, and continued to ride her bicycle up until her 100th birthday. She was reportedly neither athletic, nor fanatical about her health.

    <snip>

    She smoked until the age of 117, only five years before her death. Calment smoked from the age of 21 (1896), though according to an unspecified source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day.

    Calment ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to olive oil, which she said she poured on all her food and rubbed onto her skin, as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilogram of chocolate every week."
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #6 - May 15, 2012, 06:27 AM
    Lol, sounds like a nutter.

    1 kg of chocolate, she certainly didn't have all her teeth when she died, that's for sure.  Cheesy
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #7 - May 15, 2012, 09:03 AM
    Quote from: osmanthus on May 14, 2012, 11:22 PM
    Hey this is awesome (about the woman Godot mentioned):

    "Calment's remarkable health presaged her later record. At age 85, she took up fencing, and continued to ride her bicycle up until her 100th birthday. She was reportedly neither athletic, nor fanatical about her health.

    <snip>

    She smoked until the age of 117, only five years before her death. Calment smoked from the age of 21 (1896), though according to an unspecified source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day.

    Calment ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to olive oil, which she said she poured on all her food and rubbed onto her skin, as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilogram of chocolate every week."


    OMG this is my type of woman!  Afro I like her already.

    I have absolute respect for her chocolate diet!  dance dance dance
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #8 - May 15, 2012, 09:53 AM
    About 1 in every 1,000 people are born intersex, with XXY chromosomes.
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #9 - May 16, 2012, 08:14 AM
    Quote from: Abood on May 15, 2012, 09:53 AM
    About 1 in every 1,000 people are born intersex, with XXY chromosomes.


    D:

    I've heard of that there are people (men) with extra X chromosome, I wonder what affect it has...on physique and mind
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #10 - May 16, 2012, 08:15 AM
    Quote from: osmanthus on May 16, 2012, 07:20 AM
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru


    Quote from: osmanthus on May 16, 2012, 08:03 AM
    It's even more amazing when you look into how it was formed. Originally the sand that makes up Uluru was laid down as a river delta. That then got buried quite deeply over millions of years, and partially metamorphosed by the heat and pressure. The layers were then bent in a U shape so that they run vertically where Uluru is, before the surrounding rock was eroded away.

    There's a good little article about it here: Kata Tjuta - the forgotten sibling

    (Clicky for piccy!)

    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #11 - May 16, 2012, 08:21 AM
    Geology is pretty awesome when you get into it.
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #12 - May 16, 2012, 08:22 AM
    Quote from: Stardust on May 16, 2012, 08:14 AM
    D:

    I've heard of that there are people (men) with extra X chromosome, I wonder what affect it has...on physique and mind

    XXY people are born hermaphroditic. Most go through "correctional surgery" when they're born and are assigned as either male or female, and raised as such.

    The intersex rights movement advocates recognizing the existence of more than two sexes.

    http://www.isna.org/faq/history
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #13 - May 16, 2012, 08:24 AM
    There are also other chomosome combinations:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYY_syndrome

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_X_syndrome
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #14 - May 16, 2012, 08:25 AM
    Quote from: osmanthus on May 16, 2012, 08:21 AM
    Geology is pretty awesome when you get into it.


    I KNOW! I had a module called 'Planet Earth' (free standing geology based module) during my UG studies, was really interesting.

    I bought a book called 'Beginners guide to geology' about a year back  Cheesy
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #15 - May 16, 2012, 08:26 AM
    Quote from: osmanthus on May 16, 2012, 08:24 AM
    There are also other chomosome combinations:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYY_syndrome

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_X_syndrome

    There are indeed, I just don't know how many people per 1,000 there are for each.

    Overall, there are at least five sexes, not two, as is commonly believed -- XX and XY just being the two with the highest probabilities.
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #16 - May 16, 2012, 08:29 AM
    Quote from: Abood on May 16, 2012, 08:26 AM
    There are indeed, I just don't know how many people per 1,000 there are for each.

    It's all in the links. Wink


    Quote from: Stardust on May 16, 2012, 08:25 AM
    I KNOW! I had a module called 'Planet Earth' (free standing geology based module) during my UG studies, was really interesting.

    I bought a book called 'Beginners guide to geology' about a year back  Cheesy

    I got into it a fair bit back when I used to try and debate Young Earth Creationists, which in practice meant them spouting a lot of idiotic BS and other people banging them over the head with reality. parrot

    They really do not like the Messinian Salinity Crisis. That one messes with their heads big time. Cheesy
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #17 - May 16, 2012, 08:29 AM
    Quote from: Abood on May 16, 2012, 08:22 AM
    XXY people are born hermaphroditic. Most go through "correctional surgery" when they're born and are assigned as either male or female, and raised as such.

    The intersex rights movement advocates recognizing the existence of more than two sexes.

    http://www.isna.org/faq/history


    It's funny how you have Islam separating the sexes as much as possible, then you have 'allah' having created such people  Cheesy
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #18 - May 16, 2012, 08:33 AM
    Yep. Intersexuality is actually recognized even in Saudi, and it's required for intersexual people to be either male or female. It's all about conformity.
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #19 - May 16, 2012, 08:40 AM
    Oh here's a good one. This is probably my all time favourite geology whoopee thing.

    Did you know grin12 that the world's biggest diamond deposit is found in a hemispherical shell that is one mile thick and has an outside radius of 8 1/2 miles?

    Reason: it was formed in a fraction of a second directly under ground zero of an asteroid impact. No shit.

    Outside an 8 1/2 mile radius the pressures weren't high enough to form diamond.

    Inside a 7 1/2 mile radius, pressures were high enough to destroy diamonds by regraphitization, conversion to SiC, melting, or vaporization.

    Ladies and gentlemen, meet Popigai Crater. Smiley
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #20 - May 16, 2012, 09:04 AM
    Hitler had an illegitimate father and was afraid he was part Jewish. When he drew the law defining "Jewishness", he explicitly excluded Jesus and himself.

    In 2010, a study found that he might have actually had Jewish ancestry.

    http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitlerjew.html

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/25/hitler-jewish-dna-tests-s_n_693568.html
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #21 - May 16, 2012, 09:11 AM
    He had an E1b y-dna haplogroup as well (passed on from the male lineage) which is often found in southern europe, parts of africa, the middle east and jewish groups. Even though y-dna is just proof of one single male ancestor, it disproves his ideas of aryan purity as it applies to himself.
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #22 - May 16, 2012, 09:15 AM
    Re that gene: "and is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia,"

    Would have found its way into Spain during the caliphate. Smiley
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #23 - May 16, 2012, 09:16 AM
    Ernst Röhm (one of the founders of Nazism and Chief of Staff of the Nazi brownshirts) was also quite openly gay.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-strange-strange-story_b_136697.html

    There's a joke among historians that Nazi leaders didn't represent their own ideals.
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #24 - May 16, 2012, 09:18 AM
    It could actually be way before that, IE during the phoenician empire, or the neolithic migrations to europe from the middle east

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1181965/?tool=pmcentrez

    Origin, Diffusion, and Differentiation of Y-Chromosome Haplogroups E and J: Inferences on the Neolithization of Europe and Later Migratory Events in the Mediterranean Area
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    What apple stores are like.....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QmZWv-eBI
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #25 - May 16, 2012, 09:19 AM
    Knew about Rohm. He ended up getting offed as soon as he became inconvenient.
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #26 - May 16, 2012, 09:19 AM
    Quote from: Sprout on May 16, 2012, 09:18 AM
    It could actually be way before that, IE during the phoenician empire, or the neolithic migrations to europe from the middle east

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1181965/?tool=pmcentrez

    Origin, Diffusion, and Differentiation of Y-Chromosome Haplogroups E and J: Inferences on the Neolithization of Europe and Later Migratory Events in the Mediterranean Area

    True, but al-Andalus would be a more recent source.
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #27 - May 16, 2012, 09:23 AM
    Did you know grin12 that Hitler had a vibrator made from a blue whale penis and his gay Jewish brother was killed by an asteroid impact?






    Ok, I made that one up. parrot
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  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #28 - May 16, 2012, 09:28 AM
    Pre-Islamic Arabian society was polyandrous, i.e. women married more than one man. When a woman gave birth, she decided who to be the father of the child.
  • Re: Did you know...
     Reply #29 - May 16, 2012, 09:31 AM
    ^Yep, but I didn't know it was 'pre-arabian', knew it was in some society way back when Tongue
    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor E. Frankl

    'Life is just the extreme expression of complex chemistry' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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