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Gonna have to try that because we have ants now .

Men have nipples because they are developed in the embryo before the X of Y chromosome is determined.

The Korean rapper PSY has actually sung songs other than Gangnam Style. [1]

Serious answer: Absolutely any Rubik's Cube position can be solved in twenty moves or fewer.

Hippopotamus leg bones are much denser than the other bones in their body. This prevents them from rolling on their backs and drowning.

Elephant leg bones, by comparison to both the hippopotamus and the rhinoceros, are extremely skinny for their weight. This is resource-efficient, but prevents them from running, galloping, jumping, or taking any other gait that would involve placing all of their weight on a single leg at a time. (From a physiological standpoint, an elephant 'charging' is simply walking very, very fast.)

Whaling- that is, the act of hunting whales- is illegal in Ohio. This is despite the fact that Ohio is nearly landlocked, with the only major body of water touching it being the Lake Erie, which, as you may notice, is a fresh-water lake.

In Australia, it is illegal to box with a Kangaroo.

Something interesting.

sorry had to

You're not the first person to make that joke. :P

...I'm not sure whether that's interesting or not.

TV Tropes is actually a Nonja Academy.

In 1992, the chess grandmaster Mikhail Tal beat then-World Champion Garry Kasparov in a tournament match while dying of kidney failure. He perished within a month afterwards.

edited 15th Apr '13 7:28:16 PM by EgregiousOne

Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492 with three ships, the largest of which was the Santa Maria. The combined tonnage of all three ships, fully loaded, was less than the maximum takeoff weight of the Antonov-225.

The Criterion Collection invented the letterbox format of home video you see today.

C. S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and John F. Kennedy all died on the same day.

I wonder if anyone has ever written a conspiracy theory linking their deaths.

They probably have.

Probably. I know there's a book that depicts the three of them having a conversation in Purgatory while they wait. ^* Or more accurately uses this as the premise to depict them in a conversation between archetypes of Eastern, Western Secular, and Western Religious philosophy.

Alfred Hitchcock had a lifelong fear of policemen after being sent to the local precinct by his father with a note. The sergeant locked him up upon reading it.

It would be great to read that.

Interesting. What's the name of the book?

edited 19th Apr '13 7:25:31 PM by Quag15

"Between Heaven and Hell", by Peter Kreeft. Kreeft is Catholic, so he has a bit of a bias, and I think I like some of his other books better, but all in all it was good nonetheless.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

Carmen Miranda is Brazilian, but she was born in Portugal, in Marco de Canaveses, near the Douro river.

Sigmund Freud was absolutely terrified of ferns.

"Laser" is an acronym, not an actual word. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

French toast was invented as a way of using up stale bread.

A lobster has about a one in one hundred million chance of being white colored.

Removing a shell from a snail does not make it a slug. It just makes it dead. They are both closely related lifeforms, though.

Contrary to popular belief, shaved hair doesn't grow in thicker, or any old tale like that. It's just no longer tapered at the end when it grows back, and thus looks different.

Terrence Malick had a walk-on role in his debut film, Badlands, due to the actor being a no-show. This is interesting due to his being a Reclusive Artist and never showing up anywhere nowadays.

Jessica Rabbit is shown not wearing any panties in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Protein is so inefficiently processed by the human body that only about 30% of the calories from it are actually stored; the rest are used up in the process of digestion.

Katheryn Bigelow was the first woman to win the "Best Director" Award at the Oscars.

Christopher Tin's "Baba Yetu", the main theme to Civilization IV, was not only the first video game song to be nominated for a Grammy ('Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)') but also the first to win.

...this despite the fact that the music itself is rather pedestrian, the song relies entirely on the accompanying music video for context and emotional impact, and the lyrics are simply the Lord's Prayer in Swahili, unaltered in any way. Nobuo Uematsu, people; forget this poseur.