Did You Know... - Page 23

If you spray a spider with deodorant the spider will become partly paralysed for a moment.

I found that out when I one day wondered if Deodorant would kill a spider.I sparyed Deodorant on a Red Back (pretty much an Aussie version of a Black Widow Spider) and half of it's body was paralysed and the other part of it's body was dragging the other half.After a second or two the spider walked off.


A Great White Shark's bite has basically the same force as a humans.It's the shaking of the head back and forth that does most of the damage.


You can dislocate your jaw by yawning.I have almost done it once.

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quote Steel Magnolia

There are only 46 states in the US...

lolwut

There's fifty. Should be fifty-one, but D.C. isn't recognized
as a state.

Four of them are commonwealths, not states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state

quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state

A U.S. state is any one of 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Four states use the official title of commonwealth rather than state. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._state)

quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._state)

Four of the constituent states of the United States officially designate themselves Commonwealths: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. This designation, which has no constitutional impact, emphasizes that they have a "government based on the common consent of the people" as opposed to one legitimized through their earlier Royal Colony status that was derived from the King of Great Britain. The word commonwealth in this context refers to the common "wealth" or welfare of the public and is an older term for "republic" (cf. the 17th century Commonwealth of England).

quote Steel Magnolia

Four of them are commonwealths, not states.

As Random pointed out, they are still states.

quote charlie_22

Is Pearl Harbor not a state?

Pearl Harbor is in the state of Hawaii.

quote charlie_22

Was it not a state after the Japs bombed it though?

Oh, I see what you're asking. Hawaii was not a state at the time, no. It was made a state around the same time as Alaska - 1949 or 1950, if I recall.

quote charlie_22

Bjesus.

State as in in a state as in a mess. Or are you taking the piss.

lol



Obama is the '44th' president. However, there have only been 42 different people that have been president before him.

Obama is branded as the 44th president. People say there have been 44 presidents.


One man was president in two different stints, and he's been counted twice so there have only been 43 different presidents


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