Topic: Did You Know?
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Mon 04/23/12 01:01 AM
Edited by oldhippie1952 on Mon 04/23/12 01:04 AM
Did you know ambergris used to be a main ingredient in perfume until scientific breakthroughs replaced the expensive all natural product?


It can also be called "whale barf." They are still using it...remember that next time you muzzle a sweet smelling ladies neck!

laugh

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Mon 04/23/12 01:50 PM

Did you know ambergris used to be a main ingredient in perfume until scientific breakthroughs replaced the expensive all natural product?


It can also be called "whale barf." They are still using it...remember that next time you muzzle a sweet smelling ladies neck!

laugh
rofl lolll now that funny:)

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Mon 04/23/12 02:02 PM
Did you know?.......Japan’s ‘Geminoid F’ is most convincing ‘robot woman’ ever – she has 65 facial expressions, talks and even sings. It may only be a matter of months before boy bands and teen actresses are replaced by robots – after a talking, singing fem-bot with 65 facial expressions wowed crowds in China.

Geminoid F can produce smiles and even enigmatic, quizzical expressions, using mechanical actuators underneath her rubber ‘skin’.

Her creator says his goal is to create a robot that can fool people into believing it’s a human being.

Geminoid F was produced by Hiroshi Ishiguro, a renowned robot designer at Osaka University in western Japan, whose androids come with a steep $1.2 million price tag.

Geminoid F is cheaper – just $110,000, which Ishiguro hopes may take the technology closer to the mainstream.

She can smile, furrow her brows and move her mouth – although she often looks rather dazed. It can also talk and sing – playing recordings, or ‘mouthing’ other people’s voices.



Geminoid TMF is equipped with 12 motorised actuators, powered by air pressure, which allow her to ‘copy’ human facial expressions.

Prof Ishiguro has designed several robots made to look like humans in the past – even building one in his own image.

The professor has said that one day robots could fool us into believing they are human.

‘What is a human?’ he asks. ‘Please define, and we will make a copy. ........look her up on you tube looks so human lollllll laugh :banana: :thumbsup:

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Mon 04/23/12 02:09 PM
did you know?...Candy Canes were initially created to get kids to shut-up in Church. laugh biggrin :thumbsup:

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Mon 04/23/12 02:14 PM
Did you know?......Mr. Bean is an electrical engineer! Rowan Atkinson, who portrays the character of the world famous Mr. Bean has a masters degree in Electrical Engineering. An undergraduate from Newcastle University, Mr.Bean pursued his masters in EE from Oxford in the year of 1975. Thanks to this role and many others he got on the modus operandi of Mr.Bean, his net worth is at present that of $150 million.

Other notable characters done by Atkinson include: Zazu on Disney’s The Lion King; Johnny English; and various characters on the historical sitcom Blackadder, among many others. laugh :banana: :thumbsup:

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Mon 04/23/12 02:15 PM


Did you know the Mayan created the number 0
Cool you smarty pants you:)flowerforyou biggrin :thumbsup:


Actually, the 0 was created independently around the world. Babylonians 3rd Century, BC, Mayans 4th Century, BC.

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Mon 04/23/12 02:15 PM
Did you know? The words: "We, the people, to form a union, to establish peace, equity and order..." are from the constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy, composed prior to 1744.

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Mon 04/23/12 04:45 PM
Did you know Napoleon constructed all of his battle plans in a sandbox?

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Mon 04/23/12 06:28 PM


Did you know that you can use powdered cofee creamer or flour to make implosion bombs?

I proved it last week to my manager and he was stunned.
how do you do that? you serious? lolll shocked cheers bro :thumbsup:


Take flour or powdered non-dairy coffe creamer and render it airborn. For demos, I just take a handful and fling it into the air and immedieately strike a lighter beneath the cloud.....It burns like crazy so don't throw it at anyone. If you wanna see for yourself......SLOWLY shake out coffee creamer onto a waiting lighter.

2 pounds in an enclosed room will suck in the windows and doors from the oxyen deprivation vacuum the mass oxidization produces.....but, this is the internet and I don't trust most these kids with a nerf ball. I sure as hell ain't gonna drop details on improvised explosives or demolitions.

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Mon 04/23/12 09:15 PM



Did you know that you can use powdered cofee creamer or flour to make implosion bombs?

I proved it last week to my manager and he was stunned.
how do you do that? you serious? lolll shocked cheers bro :thumbsup:


Take flour or powdered non-dairy coffe creamer and render it airborn. For demos, I just take a handful and fling it into the air and immedieately strike a lighter beneath the cloud.....It burns like crazy so don't throw it at anyone. If you wanna see for yourself......SLOWLY shake out coffee creamer onto a waiting lighter.

2 pounds in an enclosed room will suck in the windows and doors from the oxyen deprivation vacuum the mass oxidization produces.....but, this is the internet and I don't trust most these kids with a nerf ball. I sure as hell ain't gonna drop details on improvised explosives or demolitions.
i know what you mean but its kind of interesting lolll :thumbsup:

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Mon 04/23/12 09:34 PM

Did you know giraffes have no vocal cords.
Well my friend your wrong on that 1 they do have:)Giraffes do have vocal chords, but can make very little noise with them, and
communicate primarily through body language.a biologist studying giraffes in Africa new research suggests that they do have vocal cords:):thumbsup:

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Mon 04/23/12 09:48 PM
Edited by Cheer_up on Mon 04/23/12 09:51 PM


Did you know giraffes have no vocal cords.
Didn't know that but now i do cheers :banana: biggrin :thumbsup:
after looking it up i found out they do have vocal cords:) Scientific Version...Invited to the Sept. 2001 American Zoological Association Conference, presented at the regional Acoustical.Society of America Conference 2001 von Muggenthaler, E., Baes, C., Hill, D., Fulk, R., Lee, A., (1999) Infrasound and low frequency vocalizations from the giraffe; Helmholtz resonance in biology, Published in the proceedings of Riverbanks Consortium:) :thumbsup:

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Mon 04/23/12 09:55 PM
Did you know ...An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts. :thumbsup:

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Mon 04/23/12 10:15 PM
Did you know, that sex after sixty is like shooting pool with a rope?

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Mon 04/23/12 10:42 PM
Did you know.....A tittle is a small distinguishing mark, such as a diacritic or the dot on a lowercase
i or j lolllllllll laugh :banana: :thumbsup:

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Mon 04/23/12 11:33 PM
Did you know that a dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

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Tue 04/24/12 02:53 AM
Did you know turtles can breathe through their butts? Some sort of extra "lung."

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Tue 04/24/12 03:41 AM
Did you know? That www is 666 in Hebrew.
Now. I have to wonder. Whoever came up with putting www infront of web sites couldnt have picked " aaa or " bbb " instead of www.

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Tue 04/24/12 06:42 AM
Did you know ...A snail can sleep for up to 3-4 years LOLLLLLLL they must be well rested laugh :banana: :thumbsup:

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Tue 04/24/12 07:07 AM

Did you know that a dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
awwwww poor dragonfly and they catch so many bugs:) flowerforyou waving :thumbsup: