01-08-2012, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by saskflames96
All puck bunnies are named Madison.
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Madison was the most popular baby name in 1996.
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01-08-2012, 10:32 PM
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#42
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by Kybosh
Madison was the most popular baby name in 1996.
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Well, that explains a lot.
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If ever there was an oilering
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Connor Zary will win the Hart Trophy in 2027.
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01-09-2012, 12:15 AM
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#43
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Poster
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Calgarians pronounce Water as "Wadder"
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01-09-2012, 08:12 AM
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God of Hating Twitter
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Physicists will often say to people, everything you see around us is mostly empty space, but rarely do you get a great example of just what they mean...
If you took the Empire state building, removed all the space in the building between particles you could shrink it to the size of a grain of rice, and that grain would weigh 100´s of millions of pounds.
Thanks Brian Green!
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Allskonar fyrir Aumingja!!
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01-09-2012, 09:17 AM
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#45
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Franchise Player
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The term "tank" for the military vehicle was derived from the fact that builders thought they were creating "water-carriers" during construction. Their other development name (from the military side) was "landship"
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01-09-2012, 09:48 AM
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#46
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Originally Posted by Thor
Physicists will often say to people, everything you see around us is mostly empty space, but rarely do you get a great example of just what they mean...
If you took the Empire state building, removed all the space in the building between particles you could shrink it to the size of a grain of rice, and that grain would weigh 100´s of millions of pounds.
Thanks Brian Green!
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Who would've thunk?!
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01-09-2012, 09:50 AM
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#47
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First Line Centre
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Want useless facts? Follow the QI Elves on twitter @qikipedia https://twitter.com/#!/qikipedia Or just watch QI, it's all kinds of awesome.
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01-09-2012, 10:04 AM
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#48
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: YSJ (1979-2002) -> YYC (2002-2022) -> YVR (2022-present)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kybosh
Madison was the most popular baby name in 1996.
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More useless trivia: Madison wasn't a first name until recently. There's a scene in the 1984 Tom Hanks film Splash where Darryl Hannah's mermaid character chooses it for her human name after she sees a sign for Madison Ave. This prompts Hanks to remark that "Madison" is not even a real name.
Two decades later, it was the #1 most popular name for girls born in the United States.
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01-09-2012, 10:32 AM
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#49
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Originally Posted by Hanni
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Funny coincidence ,I just started to watch that show on YouTube yesterday.
Also, the universe is beige.
And James Cook was neither the first person, the first unaboriginal person, the first European or even the first Englishman to find Australia. He wasn't even a captain.
Plus, bugs by definition suck.
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01-09-2012, 04:05 PM
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#50
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First Line Centre
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Raw cashews have a toxic oil (or somethiing) on them, which is nutralized when the cashew is roasted.
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01-09-2012, 04:34 PM
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#51
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: SW
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Originally Posted by Sr. Mints
Raw cashews have a toxic oil (or somethiing) on them, which is nutralized when the cashew is roasted.
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^ That's Nuts! 
On another note:
A Peanut is a Legume
A Brazil nut is a seed
A Sunflower seed is a Fruit
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01-09-2012, 04:45 PM
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Methanolic
A Brazil nut is a seed
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Brought to you by QI. The brazil nut is the only nut that can be transmitted sexually. So if you plant your.... seed into someone with a nut allergy after eating brazil nuts it will trigger their allergy.
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01-09-2012, 04:56 PM
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Methanolic
A Brazil nut is a seed
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Weird... my grandfather still thinks they are a part of an African Americans foot......
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01-09-2012, 06:04 PM
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#54
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Franchise Player
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The titmouse is neither a tit, nor a mouse.
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01-09-2012, 07:12 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: SW
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Originally Posted by Gundo
Weird... my grandfather still thinks they are a part of an African Americans foot......
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^ Hilarious! There are likely a lot of younger people who have no idea!!!!
.....Nor should they
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01-09-2012, 07:18 PM
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#56
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Salmon with Arms
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Methanolic
^ That's Nuts!
On another note:
A Peanut is a Legume
A Brazil nut is a seed
A Sunflower seed is a Fruit |
Sunflower is an achene more appropriately
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01-09-2012, 08:45 PM
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#57
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Two similar metals without an oxidized surface/protective coating can weld to one another in space by merely touching each other.
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01-10-2012, 09:43 AM
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#58
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: the dark side of Sesame Street
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Don Simmons was the second NHL goalie to permanently wear a mask.
Oscar the Grouch was originally orange.
Gherman Titov was the first man to throw up in space.
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01-11-2012, 01:38 PM
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First Line Centre
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If global warming were to cause Antarctica's ice sheets to melt, ocean levels across the world would rise by 200-210 feet.
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01-11-2012, 05:06 PM
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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The highest elevation of the Trans Canada Highway is at the BC/Alberta border, which is the Great Divide at 1640m/5380ft. Roger's Pass is 300m lower.
Only three other highway mountain passes in BC surpass that elevation: Vermillion Pass on Highway 93 (1680m) which is also on the great divide, Pennask Summit on Highway 97C (1728m) between Kelowna and Merritt, and the Salmo-Creston summit (1775m) on Highway 3.
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