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Sproul Hall
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 2/16/2012 10:34AM - in reply to coach bigfoot Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
My grandpa told me Aoki-san, a Japanese US Army Vietnam veteran, and UC Berkeley student, was one of the original founders of the Black Panther Party. He trained the Black Panthers on the use of firearms and martial arts. Aoki-san taught at a juco in Oakland and retired 10 years or so ago. He passed away from cancer a few years ago.
sobriety
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 2/16/2012 10:41AM - in reply to Sproul Hall Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
coffee lowers your blood alcohol content.
Wow man
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 2/16/2012 11:05AM - in reply to Sproul Hall Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

My grandpa told me Aoki-san, a Japanese US Army Vietnam veteran, and UC Berkeley student, was one of the original founders of the Black Panther Party. He trained the Black Panthers on the use of firearms and martial arts. Aoki-san taught at a juco in Oakland and retired 10 years or so ago. He passed away from cancer a few years ago.


Aoki deserves a Medal of Honor for that.
Curve Man
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 2/16/2012 11:20AM - in reply to Wow man Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The names of the first three men on earth (according to the Bible) were Adam, Abel and Cain (letters A,A,C). The last names of the men on Apollo 11, first spaceflight to land humans on the moon, are Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins (again letters A,A,C).
Wanganui Bill
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 2/16/2012 12:02PM - in reply to Curve Man Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Half the world is below average...
what is a fruited plane?
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 2/16/2012 4:21PM - in reply to Wanganui Bill Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
the other 68.3% post here
Wanganui Bill wrote:

Half the world is below average...
e coli
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 2/16/2012 5:05PM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
In some ways we are more bacterial than we are animal since there are more bacterial cells than human cells in/on a person. So be nice to your microbes :)
Yuma Hermano
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 2/18/2012 1:41PM - in reply to Sproul Hall Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Doug Padilla told me the same story so it must be true.
Wilbur
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 4/9/2012 1:28PM - in reply to Yuma Hermano Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
On this day in 1967 the first Boeing 737 took flight
voiceofreason
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 4/9/2012 1:33PM - in reply to coach bigfoot Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I am the youngest of 9 children.
Trying to keep up
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 4/9/2012 1:39PM - in reply to voiceofreason Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
voiceofreason wrote:

I am the youngest of 9 children.


Is that you, Steve-kid?
gc
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 4/9/2012 3:10PM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The New Zealand tuatara is a lizard-like creature that has been called a living fossil because its ancestors walked the earth with dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago. Although it looks like a lizard, it is not a reptile. It has a unique hemoglobin that allows it to be mobile in cold temperatures that would kill reptiles. Its heart is primitive and beats only once a minute in cold weather, much faster in hot weather. It has a vestigial third eye on top of its head. Its lifespan is about 200 years. It has no other living species in its evolutionary chain so it shares more in common with dinosaurs than it does with any living species today.
Howard and the Running Monkey
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 4/9/2012 3:27PM - in reply to coach bigfoot Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Only The Good Die Young by Billy Yoel is about sex not death.
Mr Manager
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 4/10/2012 12:02AM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The difference between the time periods of the stegosaurus and the triceratops is greater than the difference between the triceratops and now.
Howard and the Running Monkey
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 4/10/2012 12:55AM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Living Fossil wrote:

[quote]not a weetard wrote:

[quote]Living Fossil wrote:

Still, it should be added that your ancestors and mine also walked the earth with dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago.


Primates didn't even appear until several million years after dinos became extinct.

Arent you late for your church revival meeting? Better hurry over there becfore they suspend you from the deacons list.[/quote]

No offense but if you did not have any ancestors who walked with the dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago then it follows that your most distant ancestor spontaneously arose within the last 100 million years or so. I didn't know that we still had believers in spontaneous generation among us. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation for more information on what you have just claimed as your belief.

What? You don't believe in spontaneous generation? Oh, I am sorry to hear that you are too stupid to realize that your post implies that you do.

Please think before posting. That is, assuming that you have the capacity for thought processes.[/quote]

Actual photo rendering of a "Dancing with Dino" moment
http://www.kidsread.net/Iguano.jpg
C/M Runner
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 4/10/2012 9:10AM - in reply to Maranas Trench Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Maranas Trench wrote:

The deepest place in the ocean is The Challenger Deep with a depth of at least 10,900 and possiblly as much as 11,000 meters.

Jacques Piccard & Don Walsh rode The Trieste bathyscape to the bottom in 1960 the deepest under water man has ever gone.


Not anymore. James Cameron (director of the Titanic, Avator, The Abyss, and other films) recently did the dive and spent a longer time down there than Piccard and Walsh. In fact, Walsh served as an advisor for the dive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/science/james-camerons-submarine-trip-to-challenger-deep.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120326-james-cameron-mariana-trench-challenger-deepest-lunar-sub-science/
C/M Runner
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 4/10/2012 9:11AM - in reply to C/M Runner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
C/M Runner wrote:

[quote]Maranas Trench wrote:

The deepest place in the ocean is The Challenger Deep with a depth of at least 10,900 and possiblly as much as 11,000 meters.

Jacques Piccard & Don Walsh rode The Trieste bathyscape to the bottom in 1960 the deepest under water man has ever gone.


Not anymore. James Cameron (director of the Titanic, Avator, The Abyss, and other films) recently did the dive and spent a longer time down there than Piccard and Walsh. In fact, Walsh served as an advisor for the dive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/science/james-camerons-submarine-trip-to-challenger-deep.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120326-james-cameron-mariana-trench-challenger-deepest-lunar-sub-science/[/quote]

Oops, I meant Avatar.
Howard and the Running Monkey
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 4/10/2012 5:37PM - in reply to coach bigfoot Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Homer Simpson and family live in Springfield Oregon, Tim Culpepper does not.
Howard and The Running Monkey
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 5/11/2012 11:16AM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Quatar does not have a Daylight Saving Time program.
good eye blind
RE: Tell me a random fact about the world, I want to learn something new. 5/30/2012 2:20AM - in reply to Howard and The Running Monkey Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Howard and The Running Monkey wrote:

Quatar does not have a Daylight Saving Time program.


The majority of countries don't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png


That's because it's a stupid system.
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