http://www.nycgamer.net/archives/video/moSMB3.wmv
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At least 50% of all the people who read this post, tries to lick themselves on the elbow...
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Guilty!
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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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Did you see last week's re-run of MythBusters?
http://discovery.infopop.net/1/OpenT...6&m=1281931196
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Originally posted by Zandro
Super Mario Brothers 3 was once 100%'d in under 15 minutes (video available).
thats without codes right?
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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and look like it is stinging itself to death. It spasms a lot.
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Was that something you did once?
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The early personal computer, the Sinclair ZX80, had 1 kilobyte of internal memory.
The first computer was built in 1823. The steam driven calculating machine, built by Charles Babbage, failed to work due to poor workmanship in the intricate parts. When rebuilt by the Science Museum of London in 1991 it worked.
The Dotmatrix printer was developed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games by the Japanese company Seiko.
The fluorescent tube uses 20% of the power to produce an equal amount of light as a tungsten filament bulb.
Edison tried to invent a gun-powder powered engine for a helicopter . . .
he blew up his lab, and decided to stop work on that project.
The first xerographic copy (prelude to photocopy) was ' 10.22.38 Astoria '
John Dunlop invented the Pneumatic tyre from a section of garden hose, (for his sons tricycle)
The first public radio broadcast was on the 23 February 1920, in June 1920 Dame Nellie Melba sang on the radio, immediately the Post Office banned 'Entertainment'. Broadcasting lifted the ban in 1921 for 15minutes per week.
In an atom, the electron weighs 1/2000 th of the weight of the proton.
IBM started as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corporation.
The 'Screwdriver' was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink.
Polytetrafluoroethylene is more commonly known as 'Teflon'.
Magnesium was used in early flash photography because it burns with a brilliant light.
Near-sighted model, Grace Robin was the first to show off contact lenses in 1930.
The diameter of wool is measured in microns
Gunpowder is formed after mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.
Plutonium was developed by deuteron bombardment of uranium-238 in a cyclotron.
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
Alcohol is added to soap to make it clear.
The metre was originally defined as one 10-millionth of the distance from the equator to the Pole.
The first washing machine was marketed by Hurley Machine Co in 1907.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Twenty two carat gold has 916 parts per thousand pure gold.
A shadow of a four-dimensional object would have three dimensions.
Brimstone, referred to in the Bible and some Alchemy text, is sulphur.
George de Mestral invented velcro, after getting burrs stuck to his pants.
Turquoise was once called 'Turkey stone'.
The decimal system is based on the number 10 while the sexagesimal system is based on the number 60.
The month May was once known to Anglo-Saxons as Thrimilce, because during this month cows could be milked 3 times a day.
The hottest flame known is produced with carbon subnitride (C4N2), which can generate a temperature of 4988°C.
Calcium sulphate hemihydrate is more commonly known as Plaster of Paris.
The ship 'QE2' requires 25 litres to move 1 metre.
The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering a hundred square feet.
To 'crack' a whip, the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound.
Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 . . . by a dentist (William Semple)
Waves"break" when their height is more that seven-tenths of the depth of the water.
The power of the first hydrogen bomb tested in 1952 was equal to the combined power of all the bombs dropped on Germany and Japan in World War Two - including the atomic ones.
A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
75% of the chemical energy contained in petrol is wasted by a combustion engine.
Some soft drinks are made sweeter by adding coal.
Albert Einstein was thought to be suffering from dyslexia, as he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.
A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Just after the first moon walk, Pan-American Airlines announced that they were willing to take enquires about future commercial flights to the moon. They received 80,000 requests almost immediately.
When cutting a diamond with a laser, graphite dust is formed.
The metal Gallium will melt in the heat of your hands.
According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.
A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of petrol in its take-off climb.
Mummies, are so called because of the wax (or 'mum' ) which is smeared on to the bandages for waterproofing.
The study of soil is paedology.
A car travelling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
The red dye 'cochineal' comes from the dried bodies of the scale insects.
The first hot air balloon was invented on 5 June 1783, it was made of paper and not entirely successful.
Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years.
Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.
Light is electro-magnetic radiation.
The sound energy in a pin drop it one quadrillionth of a watt, and moves the ear drum less than the diameter of a hydrogen molecule.
Each increase of five decibels will half the amount of time requires for a sound to cause permanent hearing loss.
Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by rubbing their feet.
Soda water does not contain soda.
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died on 4 July 1934 of radiation poisoning.
Minus forty degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus forty degrees Fahrenheit.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
Rubber is an impertinent ingredient in the manufacture of bubble gum.
Pierre and Marie Currie's notebooks were sold in auction in 1984, after their radiation levels were checked.
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