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I'm working on a Windows Mobile version of Random Facts and I need you people to help me. Just show me some cool facts, tips and tidbits you know.

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Your Random Fact Site Propagates some Incorrect Information, or Myths.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
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See Here. http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/airstrip.asp
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian. [/FONT]
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Many people think this is true, but speaking to a Police Dog Trainer for the State of Oregon, I learned about this. There have been Trainers and Handlers that have done this. The Most common reason is to prevent the perps or a bystanders from giving a command.
The Police Trainer I spoke to says, Its easy to train the dog to react in German or another language, Its the Police Officer who you will have the most trouble with. So He trains dogs in English. But To prevent the Perp from giving a command the dog is trained to only respond to its handler. I saw this my very own.
The Police Dog and Handler that was there. The Handler Gave a Command and the Dog Followed. The Dog was then "released" for his sit command. I was then informed to instruct the dog to sit. I gave the command, Multiple times, the dog would not listen to me. The Handler then said "sit" and the dog sat.
[FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.[/FONT]
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The Television Show Mythbusters covered this in the early seasons. They found that no matter where you kept the toothbrush, on the toliet on the sink, in another room, you will get the same amount of bactria. This bacterial amount, however, is a safe amount and not harmfull.
So Dentist may recommend this, but there is no scientific reason to do so.
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More from the dentist......
I still cannot verify this information, hopefully someone can!

I know I only used those that
-Make sense
-Can be confirmed
Most of these seemed improbable AND I need 375 facts.

Ok, I think I've found some official stats:

TheChampJT said:
Ok, I think I've found some official stats:
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OMG another GraphJam fan???
Dave

Annoying Use Of The Vuvuzela Throughout History: A Video Retrospective
Here
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HAHAHAHAHAHA that is hilarious!!

lol, that is outstanding. I spit out my food when the moon one came around hahahaha

Most ever users online!!
Most users ever online was 11,980, Today at 10:31 AM!!

orb3000 said:
Most users ever online was 11,980, Today at 10:31 AM!!
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WOOT! We beat the June 29th record!!!! I can now officially say, I was online at that time....

they were averywhere but here

M_T_M said:
they were averywhere but here
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You mean..... "them".......!?!?!?!

no you fool *wink, wink* I meant that there was almost no activity here today

M_T_M said:
no you fool *wink, wink* I meant that there was almost no activity here today
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You mean......... G1 killed the thread so everyone (the "clan") left......?!?!?!!?!?!?

Random fact:
Dolphins are just gay sharks....
(I miss glee...)

Random fact
In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies.

A turtle can breath through its butt.

RANT @ Apple & Apple Product Users

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Before you read any further down in this thread, look HERE.
Imagine that! Apple is LITERALLY in denial. They're blaming the USERS for Apples ignorance in the Mobile Device World. When will the Apple users learn that their devices ARE HUGE PILES OF CRAP!?.. AND ACTUALLY ADMIT IT!?!?!?! FAIL.
Here's the Reality: *When Apple tells users not to hold their device as they see comfortably fit is the day that the sheep get prodded once more.. and all the sheep go back into their state of denial, following the trend of IDIOTS around the world who actually continue paying for Apples Stupidity. Apple has never been #1 in the world for anything besides failure, and that shall never change.
[*And hey, that happened TODAY... run along little mindless sheep... go back to your Apple Tree and cry]
Smart Choice: Buy something that doesn't have a FRUIT LOGO ON IT!!! And they day you do that is the day you'll look in the mirror and laugh at the previous you for falling for an over-budgeted advertising scheme and following the rest of the sheep. Forget Apple and you'll be human again, not an ignorant waste of [male mating juice].
God help all Apple users around the world, allow them to lose the blinding curtain of stupidity that floods their vision. And allow them to once-again think for themselves.
There, I feel better.
What are your thoughts on this issue? And be honest...
[At Staff: If this thread is simply TOO much, feel free to delete it. I just thought it was time for Apple Fans to step into reality.]

Agent Zach
I've been reading your posts for sometime now and in "some" occasions don't really approve or side with your opinions but this time...buddy...right in the nose.
I'm still in awe about the way Apple does business, taking advantage of people just because they are the company that once revolutionized the computer industry with personal computers. It’s like buying a cell phone from Fidel Castro using Hugo Chavez cell company…a marriage made to match.
Just like sheep I tells ya, sheep!!

I was shocked a flaw this big gets through product testing, and then they tell you not to hold it that way? That's it? A flaw that doesn't allow you to use the phone as a phone is a HUGE problem, and Apple won't acknowledge it.

Of course they won't. Why take the blame when they can blame at&t some more.
After reading some reviews, etc.. it seems even the WiFi loses signal when held in hand.
And I'm sure at&t isn't logged into every router in the world... or are they? [We already know Google was once. ]
It's just another fail strategy by the reincarnated Adolf Hitler {Zhe Fuhrer} [Steve Jobs].

if you dont like apple products then thats your problem why do you want the ppl to stop using apple???its a personal choice...not your choice....

All-in-all, I don't want people to stop using their Apple products, I just want them to stop lying to their friends, family, and even THEMSELVES.
Besides, when someone walks into my home with an Apple product, it makes me feel better about about my device, knowing that it works the way it should and they I want it to. Apples devices, on the other hand, work the way Apple wants them to, not how the user wants them to...

are you envy of your friends iphone dropping signals? theres an app for that! lol
http://uk.androlib.com/android.application.com-wmbest-iphone4-jzwBB.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLreo24WYeQ
Nuff said

Both the App and the Video just made my day.

Apple raised the bar for Mobil devices, we are all profiting from that and the competition that comes with it, that is a very good thing.
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jimlad said:
Apple raised the bar for Mobil devices, we are all profiting from that and the competition that comes with it, that is a very good thing.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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I thought they lowered the bars?

JAguirre1231 said:
I thought they lowered the bars?
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Oh God, I laughed so hard at that.

Drilling square holes - in metal

This is fantastic. This is the invention of a square-hole drill and machine. Completely different from the wooden square hole variety.
http://gizmodo.com/5849810/how-the-hell-can-this-magical-square-hole-drilling-machine-works

Saw this on wimp recently. Bloody clever stuff!

DirkGently1 said:
Saw this on wimp recently. Bloody clever stuff!
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It seems the saying might well be true: "There isn't anything humanity can't do".

This is mindblowing Next we'll need square screws and bolts

tito12 said:
This is mindblowing Next we'll need square screws and bolts
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Now that would be a trick, threading a square screw into a square hole! I figure if we could find a way to do that, the universe will be able to make square planets. Then the world really would be flat lol

I'll tell you what...
..if you watch all the Wimp.com videos from beginning to end it will be a greater mind-altering/learning experience, than all the LSD on the planet +/- ten years ivy-league education!
I've learned more about about the human condition in 6 months of watching these videos than i have in 38 years of my real life. If you want to see what people are really capable of creating, instead of being drowned daily by what people are are capable of destroying, this is the answer for you!
If this planet is being ruined by 99% of the population, it's the 0.1% that you see in these videos that make the continuation of this species worthwhile!
To do a thread-type inception...were i to bring a person from history back from the dead?.. i would pick Leonardo De Vinci. In an era where dogmatic practices were holding the world back from immense discoveries, the few that dared to challenge the 'accepted' facts, Copernicus, for example, who 'dared' to suggest that the Earth wasn't the centre of the universe..only a part of it, these people, these innovators, led the world into an new era of understanding..these are the people who have driven the advancement of mankind.
In a thousand years from now, who will the future historians be thinking back on as the 'greats' of our time? The Physicians like 'Hawkins'? The artists like 'Dali'? Perhaps the visionaries like 'Asimov'?
Who know's who it'll be...but i'm willing to bet that the first ones for consideration will be the same people who are currently pushing the boundaries, doing the things that that we consider unimaginable, and yet are out there doing the impossible for the enjoyment and betterment of mankind!
I personally have a deep-seated hatred for the ignorance of mankind, but an overwhelming optimism that a select few can make a wealth of difference for the many!
/FridayNightPhilosophy!
EDIT: God only knows, as i sit here ,pissed, listening to great tunes..that out of 7 Billion souls currently on this planet, that my contribution to the planet as a whole is next to useless.
In a million years from now, the best that i can hope for is that my skeletal remains are part of the 0000.1% that may become part of the geological fossil record, that future generations can study and glean an ounce of information from. (Their deductions being that i came from an era where DNA destroying substances, and a penchant for warefare led to the extinction of an entire race...and that we were all obsessed by self-destructive paradigms that ended with us donating nothing more than a few genes to the generations to come, rather than being the fathers of a new and enlightened epoch of history.
Homo-Sapien? Pfft..
..in a million years from now we'll be nothing more that an another branch of the evolutionary tree that suddenly became a bookmark in history! The only hope as i see it is if people wake up to the fact that all we have is what we are now! We're living at at a turning point..and if we don't do the right things now, we'll be expunged from the record books, forever.

That's impressive!

More to the point, a square drill bit boggles my primitive Mind.
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For those who came to this post from a Google search, it has been removed and in its place is a correction based on a new understanding.
That new understanding is the knowledge that macro evolution is a lie. Anything about the universe that contradicts what a certain belief system
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says is false based on new knowledge and understanding.
I apologize for spouting falsehood and haring the belief system
of anyone harmed by what I spouted as truth.
If you need to discuss this with me, PM me.

I do believe that if religion keeps being discussed here...these thread will now "evolve" into a closed one.
Just deleted some posts regarding religion....keep to drilling topic alive....or magnets, how do they work?
Cheers,

If someone had a copy of my deleted post, do me a favor and PM them to me.
Thanks.

Trolling Tech Support

Just wanted to post my tech support screenshots. Myself and fellow developer MarkHoj decided to troll tech support for HTC, Motorola, and Barnes&Noble. Got some funny stuff. Without further ado, the screenshots:
MarkHoj's Trollings:
-HTC: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25441818/Capture.PNG
-Motorola: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25441818/moto.PNG
My Trollings:
Barnes&Noble: http://oi40.tinypic.com/357rfk8.jpg
Motorola (Chat took 2 screenshots) Part 1: http://oi42.tinypic.com/2qtwgns.jpg
Motorola Part 2: http://oi39.tinypic.com/xqalhz.jpg
Gave all of us at MIUI.us a laugh.
Have your own tech support pranks? Post em!

New to the trolling game, eh?

jaszek said:
New to the trolling game, eh?
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Lol semi. You have any screenshots of some good ones?

jaszek said:
New to the trolling game, eh?
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New to smartphones, maybe.

Given the fact that I work at a computer repair shop, if a customer were to email me something along the lines of what you wanted, I would laugh. I wouldn't be surprised if the tech support people didn't care about what you had to write. they just had to write back to you because it's their job. I do not have any screenshots like that because I have better things to do than chatting with tech support about stupid **** like this. However, if I notice that te tech is "not so smart" while talking to them, I overwhelm them with technical details, until they are forced to connect me to the next level of tech support, where the people on the other side of the phone seem to be a bit smarter. I feel like you didn't troll the techs since you said what you wanted, they told you that they don't support that and explained that it voids your warranty, and then you thanked them. To them, you were seen as an asshole, and not as a troll. Thank you, good night, did I bump the drunk thread yet?

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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey...I was promised trolling and I ain't seen none...what gives?
false advertisement is false

M_T_M said:
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey...I was promised trolling and I ain't seen none...what gives?
false advertisement is false
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Good now? Finally this thread has something worth seeing
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They seem to handle this pretty well and be polite, But I think the Moto guy and Nook girl were trying to void your warranty? Sneaky

This unicorn farts rainbows.
Your trolling is irrelevant.

I complained to HTC the other day that they don't make decent sub 4" phones any more. They told me i should buy something called the 'HTC Rhyme', which is Purple!
PURPLE FFS!!
I'm offended!
I also complained to City Link about the asshole courier driver i keep encountering on my drive to work. The guy thinks he's Ayrton Senna whilst clearly being as skilled in driving a vehicle as Muffin The Mule! The three apologetic emails that i received back from the company brought a great deal of satisfaction to my week though.
I hope his need for racing his POS van was worth more to him than having a job!

DirkGently said:
I complained to HTC the other day that they don't make decent sub 4" phones any more. They told me i should buy something called the 'HTC Rhyme', which is Purple!
PURPLE FFS!!
I'm offended!
I also complained to City Link about the asshole courier driver i keep encountering on my drive to work. The guy thinks he's Ayrton Senna whilst clearly being as skilled in driving a vehicle as Muffin The Mule! The three apologetic emails that i received back from the company brought a great deal of satisfaction to my week though.
I hope his need for racing his POS van was worth more to him than having a job!
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What an insult, the rhyme but that courier driver sounds extremely talented
AOKP 4 LYF

I don't get it
I don't want to live on this earth anymore
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Like reselling your old stuff?? Not so fast!!!

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-right-to-resell-your-own-stuff-is-in-peril-2012-10-04
This includes phones

Whatever.
That article was horrible.
Sent from your mom.

unless it goes thru. Considering most of our phones etc are made abroad...
Besides, isnt this what some game companies are trying to put a stop to in regards to Gamestop etc reselling used games?

Wow, scaremonger much.......
Bulk buying and reselling to make huge profits = bad.
Selling your old crap = not an issue.
Both this thread and that article are bad and you should feel bad.

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So glad I don't live in America

Who are they gonna get to enforce that kind of stupid law?
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As there is no accepted law that forbids you I do not see why not, this case is because the person made 1.2 Million dollars profit and of course someone would want a piece of that cake I seriously doubt that someone would go after you fro 200$ of electronic that has parts in it from the entire globe. I would say the guy with the 1.2M could have spent a little bit more on a lawyer

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Who are they gonna get to enforce that kind of stupid law?
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Stupid people??
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....

m1l4droid said:
We can call it "gifting", instead of selling. I will "gift"my old phone to a random person, and he will "gift" me x amount of money in return, to repay my gift. You can't outlaw gifts.
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HA indeed!! Also not meant to scare..just inform

Not really applies to normal sellers
Luckily. When we sell out used one, it's not related to this article.

Ruin2580 said:
Luckily. When we sell out used one, it's not related to this article.
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I know.
This is a bad article and shame on the OP for posting it without checking something like this out. He/She is like the person that automatically forwards outrageous/inflammatory emails without checking them out.
There is a small amount of truth to the article though. This court ruling would only apply to copyrighted materials that were manufactured outside of the US AND the manufacturer did not give consent for the product to be shipped to, and sold in the US. Only after those conditions were met, then the mfg would then have to object to the second sale. This probably doesn't affect 99.9% of the goods you buy and already own.
ex. You buy something made overseas from Wal-Mart or the Verizon store or AT&T store.. This court case has no effect on that.
http://www.ipbrief.net/2012/06/12/first-sale-doctrine-kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley-sons/

actually I dont even read 99% of my emails since thats all the are

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Stupid people??
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I say, sirs, what is this goobledy-gop all about?
Alright, I just found that gif and wanted to use it. Who knew I'd only have to go to page 2 of OT to put it into action?