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A teacher in Zephyrhills, FL made her students wear a "cone of shame" instead of giving them tardies.

Anti-Putin protesters brought a cow to OccupyMoscow.
(They have a little nice camp in the Centre)

A standardized test in New Jersey asked third-graders to tell a secret.

The moon is actually not made of cheese.

Lemon squash is made from squashed lemons.

Springfield is located in Oregon.

Having 700 orgasms a year can add 8 years to your life.

http://www.mensjournal.com/3-orgasms (http://www.mensjournal.com/3-orgasms)

sounds like one of those space cults.

Ain't a space cult, it's a place, a spring, and one of the best brands of bottled water I've ever had: (). Didn't you grow up learning the alphabet? A a alligator, B b boat, C c conch shells they don't float, D d dolphin swimming oh so fast, E e Everglades sea of grass ..something.. N n Naples where the old folks go, O o Osceola Indian chief, P p Pennekamp coral reef ..something.. Y y yellowfly, ouch that stings, Z z Zephyrhills famous springs.

As for the cone of shame, they watched Up in class, so: ()

Here's something I found on Tumblr that I thought was interesting:

The red cape used in bullfights is not used to infuriate the bull, rather to hide the bull's blood. Bulls are colourblind.

The way to treat methanol poisoning if you cannot reach help is to drink ethanol (the type of alcohol you normally drink).

I would like to add than you have to drink MASSIVE quantity of ethanol.
And even if you reach help, they apply that "cure", too, at some places.

A fear of the number 13 is called Triskaidekaphobia.

The fact that this is the 13th reply to this thread is coincidental, but hopefully it'll scare the sh**t out of some triskaidekaphobics anyway.

Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

François Hollande is, apparently, a colonel of the military reserve force.

François Hollande's father voted for his son, but apparently won't vote PS in June; and I bet that he voted for Le Pen in 2002 and Sarkozy in 2007.

Oooooh scandalous!

had a moment, a wonderful moment, that cross-breed between nostalgia and the forward, a blending of elements of the past with the ability to imagine a fantastical future that sustains.  October, coffee, whiskey, but probably coffee: postseason baseball!  runners left on base, 11 innings, chill in the air.  nicotine.  sunny day, smells like fall, all about the scents.  listen to sports talk radio, get a hair cut.  get simple.  the closer you get to simple the search for meaning disappears and reappears as I put on that inexpensive zip-up hoodie, and stare for a couple minutes at the two feuding logos: Mets 2, Giants 1, Game 4, tonight, 807pm, FOX.

I have constant fear that bird is always there!

I'm not sure if this was your intent, but I kinda floated into another universe reading this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9j27KEiSM

WHAT

San Sebastián de los Reyes is the fastest-growing place in the province of Madrid :P7

And it's the town where I live, too.

An Iranian rapper living in Germany has a $100,000 bounty on his head for insulting a Shiite religious figure.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/15/iranian-rapper-has-100g-bounty-placed-on-his-head-over-song/

I have an interesting question:

How much of my current body came with me from America when I moved to Asia (say seven years ago), and how much of it has been made since?

Everyone calls the myki transport smartcard 'mikie', not 'my key'.

Ron Paul had a presidential campaign all set and ready to go in 1992, but declined to run and endorsed Pat Buchanan at the last moment.

Woodrow Wilson and Grover Cleveland were both sons of Presbyterian ministers.

Would've loved to see him debate HW :P

George Bush won only 80% of the vote in the 2004 New Hampshire Republican primary.

Santorini, 18/5/2012, 18.00 local time.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-anatomy-of-harpo-marx-by-wayne-koestenbaum/article2429818/

http://www.imageblog.co.nz/viewimage.cfm?image=7415

Life Hacks

This is honestly one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Many of the participating lower officers in the decembrist uprising/revolt assumed that the 'Constitution' in the battlecry 'Constantine and Constitution' referred to Constantine's wife.

And that's thanks to the magic of StumbleUpon.

In 2006, a guy called Chris Putnam hacked Facebook and made thousands of profiles look like Myspace pages. Facebook subsequently hired him. (bonus: if you're on facebook chat and you type in ":putnam:" (without the quotes,) a small picture of Chris Putnam will appear)

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazing-things-you-didnt-know-about-facebook-2011-5?op=1

I also should add that Walter Jones, of North Carolina, also was going to run for President this year, and did the exact same thing as Ron Paul did in 1992. If things go exactly as they did for Paul, Jones should be a candidate for President in 2028 and 2032.

I'm going to Long Island tomorrow

My friends mom is hot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4&ob=av3e


Gianna Distenca is hot too but nobody knows what happened to her after this video.

Before even clicking the link, I knew it'd be this song.

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My band's drummer is 5'4, which makes him 5 inches shorter than me...and he's 17.

I'm related to Spencer Compton, the second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The singer in my band is related to Eva Braun.

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (not a pro South song persay) was written by a Native American Jew born in Canada.

Ozzy Osbourne is related to Romanov dynasty.

President Obama and George W Bush are 10th cousins, once removed; they share a common ancestor from mid-17th century Cape Cod.

George W. Bush is my 8th cousin twice removed (IIRC); we share a common ancestor from 17th-century New Amsterdam.

My boss is Stephen Harper.

In fact, every US president is related to each other, at least by marriage.

Kennedy means "ugly heads" in gaelic.

She's 23 now. I am now legitimately curious in what she looks like today. Not even a half + 7 violation and I was an adult when that video came out, wow.

Chances are, we are related as well.DOWN WITH DA THE NEW WORLD ORDA!

Every US president is also directly related, except for Martin Van Buren (no wonder he was the best!).

The man who invented the theory of self esteem was Ayn Rands lover.

The universe's size in proportion to the mass it contains is equivalent to a building 20 miles wide on all sides and 20 miles tall that contains a single grain of sand.

Beheading with an axe was the sole method of executions in western parts of Prussia (including Berlin) until 1938.

Very interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority of Americans share common New World ancestry.

Some more interesting facts!

• Various studies indicate that around 30% of American whites have African ancestry.
• The average African American has ~20% European ancestry.
• Senator James Shields represented Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri in Congress at different points in his career, the only person to represent three different states.
• Sam Houston: the only person to ever be Governor of two different states, as well as the only person who was a US Governor and a foreign head of state.
• The Soiled Dove Plea (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Soiled_Dove_Plea) is one of the greated extemporaneous speeches ever made.

He also once challenged Abraham Lincoln to a duel, which was called off at the very last moment.

Alan Hull was the Secretary of one of the Newcastle CLPs in the 1980s.

John Barnes can rap better than Paul Gascoigne.

If this is the duel I'm thinking of, it was called off because Lincoln wanted to fight with, and I quote, 'cavalry broadswords of the largest size', in what would now be considered essentially a mud-wrestling pit with a board over it, and Shields realized how out of hand the situation had become and backed off.

Just yesterday I learned that he was removed from office for opposing secession in 1861.

Bacon King is a Young Earth Creationist. :P

I know a guy who worked for Heath Shuler. Ok, not that interesting, but I didn't know that a Swedish guy could go do that. 

Not sure about that, but their seconds convinced both men to call it off after Lincoln shot a tree branch clean off right over Shields' head, showing him what kind of marksman he was.

Studies show that 94% of people born on a day that ends with 'y' die sometime in their life.

And the 6% who don't?

If a gallon of water is dumped in the ocean and evenly diluted throughout all of the world's oceans, a random gallon scooped from the ocean will still have 17 molecules from the original gallon.

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Contrary to popular belief, the maximum break in snooker is 155, not 147.

I enjoy large women

Ayn Rand had a really creepy obsession with the brutal killer of a 12-year old girl. (Probably common knowledge round here, but still...)

German Catholics often were ticket-splitters in late 19th/early 20th century Minnesota politics.

Beppe Grillo, an Italian comedian-turned-politician who now leads what might become Italy's second party (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=150865.msg3304872#msg3304872), has been sentenced for culpable homicide following a road accident back in his youth.

She was also a germophobe, and terrified of going to Europe (as the KGB could get her).

Ayn Rand's name is an anagram for Dan Yarn.

Snoop Dog is a Muslim.

In the UK, 18.5 million watched Dennis Taylor defeat Steve Davis on the final black in the final frame of the 1985 World Championship snooker final at 12:23AM. 18.5 million is about a third of the UK population.

Bristol, CT has a Main Street and a North Main Street. The two north-south streets are parallel, with Main running one city block east of North Main. The two streets do not intersect.

There are a handful of constituencies which the Socialist Party won in 1993, when it won 60 or so seats out of 577 which it did not win in 2007, when it won about 190 seats out of 577. Similarly, I count 2 seats which voted PS in 1993 but not in 1997.

The word "vowel" has more consonants than vowels in it.

New Jersey is actually not named after the island of Jersey in the English Channel, but after the item of clothing you will need to purchase after vomiting upon entry to the state.

Thomas Hardy wrote a poem basically laughing about the Titanic.

My city hasn't been hit by a hurricane (ie: beyond flooding/power outages) since 1921. The reasons have been thought to include divine protection (from the St. in St. Petersburg) and a spirit of goodwill left behind by the Tocobagas.

What's so surprising ? It is quite common for people who hold insane views to be insane themselves.

The dictator of Equatorial Guinea had 150 opponents of the regime executed while his military band played  this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl-_4EDwmgM) on Christmas Day, 1975.

Here's a piece of sheet music that has been deemed impossible to play.

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Lowell Weicker had a walk-on role in a Connecticut Opera production of Madame Butterfly in his first year as governor.

Dude, that's awesome. I propose it be put into one of those computer composer programs (Finale?) & we see how it sounds.

I'd like to see how well Finale's midi sequencer handles "like a dirigible".

http://youtu.be/06yF2WNSiYs

Release the penguins?

Jesus Christ.

:D...

Wait...

That's UN Owen Was Her, isn't it?