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The Last man to be condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition was a village schoolmaster named Cayetano Ripoll. Ripoll, accused of being a deist and a Freemason, was garrotted in a square in Valencia in July 1826.
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The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.
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That the Salem witch trials were held when Halley's comet came back?
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That the Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different combinations? (or about 43.25 quintillion)
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That the 5 by 5 (professor's) cube has 282,870,942,277,741,856,536,180,333,107,150,328,293,127,731,985,672,134,721,536,000,000,000,000,000
Different combinations? (or about 100 billion times 1 vigintillion)
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That honey is made of bee saliva?
That the Salem witch trials were held when Halley's comet came back?
Did you know
That the Rubik's Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different combinations? (or about 43.25 quintillion)
Did you know
That the 5 by 5 (professor's) cube has 282,870,942,277,741,856,536,180,333,107,150,328,293,127,731,985,672,134,721,536,000,000,000,000,000
Different combinations? (or about 100 billion times 1 vigintillion)
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That honey is made of bee saliva?
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Rainswept wrote:DYK...
There are vending machines in Japan which sell used panties of schoolgirls ?
Doesn't everyone know that?
DYK,
that S. pyogenes, which causes strep throat, can cause necrotizing fasciitis?
[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.
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DYK,
that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a factitious lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust?
that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a factitious lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust?
[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.
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EarthRise wrote:that S. pyogenes, which causes strep throat, can cause necrotizing fasciitis?
Everyone well who has read The Short History of Nearly Everything (which should be everybody) knows that.
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That there are actually 22 naturally occuring amino acids, not only the 20 commonly said to exist?
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Dr Dagger wrote:EarthRise wrote:DYK,
that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a fIctitious lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust?
Fixed
DYK
That the word was only made to be the longest word, and that the
p at the beginning is silent?
Actually, it's factitious, not fictitious. It's a real word; it's origins are questionable.
Doesn't need fixing.
[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.
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that "stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with your left hand on a qwerty keyboard?
that "stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with your left hand on a qwerty keyboard?
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Malcolm Reynolds is my co-pilot.
"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill
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Capellini wrote:DYK
that "stewardesses" is the longest word you can type with your left hand on a qwerty keyboard?
Phbbbt.
I can hold my right hand behind my back and still type "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"
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