You beat me to it!
And why, yes, I did. Yesterday. Just once. For 20 minutes.
Fuck, now I’m doing it.
Cool. There’s two of you that presumably think the norweigans don’t have a word for snow or that duck’s farts don’t stink.
This one’s not true. Dragonflies and damselflies can live for years in their immature forms. They hang out in the silt and under rocks in the bottoms of bodies of fresh water. After metamorphosis, lots of dragonflies and damselflies can last for months in their mature forms.
Mayflies tend not to last for more than a few days–and sometimes even that’s pushing it–in their mature forms. But they can spend years as immatures, hanging out in the bottoms of lakes and streams.
It’s not their fault! I blame the Vicodin!
Specifically, Aesiron’s Vicodin!
Did you know…
…the forechecking system in hockey known as the “trap”, while being touted as a new system that smothers offense, has been in use in one form or another for at least the last 60 years.
[rant]
Why doesn’t anyone ask a GQ about hockey strategy
…back when goalies were getting paid ~$10 per week (early 1900’s), they would be fined $5.00 per offense for dropping to their knees to stop a puck.
I haven’t had an omelet recently. Which reminds me that I need to go buy some eggs.
And now I feel like a dork for saying, “That one’s not true” at the beginning of my post. That’s what I get for not reading the rest of the thread before responding. Ah, well.
The 59 Story Citicorp Building in NYC
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Is Built atop piers over a Church
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Due to faulty engineering detected too late by an MIT student, the steel structure came close to being blown down. During construction, a hurricane coming up the coast was powerful enough to topple the entire frame on the East side of Manhattan - but turned west @ MD.
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Has a huge slab oiled concrete in its top which slides back and forth to prevent sway on windy days
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Was once visited by a European tourist, in 1979, but only for 20 minutes
I was afraid of that, but instead of admitting to anything, I, as well, shall also blame Aesiron’s Vicodin.
Speaking of eggs;
Twelve eggs make a dozen. Twelve cows make a flink.
By the end of the Civil War, between one-third and one-half of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit.
There are more microbes on your body than there are humans on the entire planet.
The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was a woman, Anna Edson Taylor. She made the journey on October 24, 1901, and escaped unhurt.
An estimated 40,000 appendectomies are performed in the U.S. every year on patients who do not have appendicitis.
In 1967 the CIA fitted a cat with high-tech listening equipment. Was the feline spy a success? Ten minutes after the cat was released it was struck and killed by a taxi.
Of course.
In the book “Les Miserables”, there is a sentence that is 3-pages long, 823-words, and is divided by 93 commas, 51 semicolons and 4 dashes.
Researchers don’t know why, but people living in mountain states eat 30% more cookies than other people.
The Boeing Commercial Airplane factory in Everett, Washington is the largest building in the world. The entire Disneyland amusement park, including its parking lots, could fit inside of it.
Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.
A human with his/her mouth glued to a hose, and nostrils shut, can absorb approximately eight gallons of water before bursting. Heh.
That’s called a mass damper. They’re in many many buildings.
Well, I’ve posted this before, but I haven’t seen a thread like this in a while, so -
It is illegal for television commercials (in the U.S. at least) for alcoholic products to actually show alcoholic consumption. Just watch any beer or wine commercial, you will never actually see a person put a bottle/can/glass to his/her lips.
Cisco wrote
Of course not. It’s trinary.
Binary was used in the OP as part of the answer, not part of the question. The implied question was “how high can you count on your fingers?”, not “how high can you count on your fingers in binary?”.
Dang, I wonder who the first person to figure that out was???
RE: the counting binary on your fingers, there’s a really funny t-shirt at thinkgeek.com of a binary 4. (Think about it. 
It’s not the cat’s fault! I blame the Vicodin!
Hmm, I didn’t read the statement the same way you did. I just thought it was a “cool” fact about binary, not about how high you can count on your fingers.
In fact, I don’t think it even makes sense the way you posit it. I mean, I can count to 10 million on my fingers if each finger represents a million. Pretty pointless, huh?
You mean the person that made it up?
There are over 20 distinct words for snow in the Norwegian language.
The smallest national park in the U.S. is in downtown Seattle. It commemorates the Klondike gold rush and is contained entirely inside a single building.
And, yes, there is a real park ranger on duty.