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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 20:26:28 )

Yes it's time for some interesting things you might not know! Feel free to leave your own.

  • When the Mona Lisa was stolen Picasso was one of the suspects.
  • The chances of dying on your birthday are 14% higher then any other day.
  • Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin [1]
  • Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel.
  • Froot Loops loops are all the same flavor.
  • The Empire State Building has its own ZIP code.
  • “Fancy riding” on bikes is illegal in Illinois. That includes riding without hands or taking your feet off the pedals when you’re on the street. [2]
  • Before toilet paper was invented, Americans used to use corn cobs.


[1]
In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson hated that Americans were tempted by hedonistic places like saloons and brothels. So he set out to straighten up one of the most immoral places he could think of: Coney Island in New York. There, he built America’s first roller coaster to give New Yorkers some good, clean fun—away from seedier pastimes.

[2] Dumbest laws in America
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 20:36:01 )

@Hazer: Actualy: A 2012 study in the journal Annals of Epidemiology found a much higher probability (about 14 percent) that people over 60 will die on their birthdays. That study, which analyzed more than 2 million deaths, found that strokes and heart attacks rose 18.6 percent and 21.5 percent, respectively, on birthdays.
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Donator — She/Her Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 21:50:03 )
Wow those are pretty cool. I have to think of some random facts that I know...
You have your best ideas in the shower
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-get-their-best-ideas-in-the-shower-2016-1
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:01:27 )

@Taffy: That is interesting. My best idea's always seem to come when I am in bed XD
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:11:35 )
Corn cobs... I don't think I wanna try that...
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:21:12 )

@Ixora: You sure about that? XD
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:23:17 )
@vengeance: yeeeeah no XD
I'm more of a bidet person anyway XD
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Donator — She/Her Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:26:37 )
@Ixora: bidets for life!
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Donator — She/Her Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:26:49 )
@vengeance: That happens to me too
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:29:41 )
@Taffy: yes! idk how people live without them D:
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:30:55 )

@Taffy: I always get design idea's and I am like dammit XD I'm sure by the time I get up I have forgotten them again.
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:31:20 )

@Ixora: I have never used a bidet.
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:33:32 )
@vengeance: tryyyyy theeeeem XD
But not the confusing one with all the buttons. I've tried them but there was a... uhmm... learning curve lol
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:41:52 )

@Ixora: I know no one who has one.
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:45:01 )
@vengeance: awww if only you could come over DX
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:52:42 )

@Ixora: I would but I live to far away.
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 22:55:48 )
@vengeance: that's true. I need the world to be a bit smaller.
I'd invite y'all over for some pasta XD not here tho cause small space in Toronto XD
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 23:00:10 )

@Ixora: Pasta is always good.
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 23:02:13 )
@vengeance: I don't make great pasta but I mean... it's hard to mess up, I think.
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Donator Posted 5 years ago ( 2019/01/23 23:09:31 )

@Ixora: I am sure everything can be messed up XD
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