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Discussion in 'Non-Vegas Chat' started by Breeze147, Jul 8, 2017.

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    Due to a trademark registration foul-up, anyone can legally publish a "Webster's Dictionary", although only the Merriam-Webster Company, which descended from Noah Webster's original publishing company, can use the name Merriam-Webster in the book's title.
     
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    The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
     
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    Modern Asian elephants are more closely related to extinct mammoths than they are to modern African elephants.
     
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    In 2019 the most expensive tuna sold in Japan for $3.1 million dollars!

    The tuna weighed 612 pounds. This price beat the 2013 highest price for a tuna, which was $1.8 million. But both tunas were bought by the same person.


    The high price is based on a number of things.

    They say that Japanese tuna have superior fat content, better qualify and handled and cut better than in the US. The tuna was sold at the beginning of the year and is mostly a symbolic gesture. When you have a bunch of money guess price isn't an issue.
     
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    "Proof By Assertion" is a logical fallacy where a proposition is repeatedly stated and restated regardless of merit. Those familiar with brainwashing techniques know that this can, indeed, be convincing.
     
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    It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
     
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    That's kind of like the silly myth that hot water freezes before cold.

    And before someone goes and digs up the "Mpemba effect", I'm talking about everyday real life situations, not some weird situation involving a three legged, southern facing goat, caught in the eye of a hurricane, during a solar eclipse.
     
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    Flatbush Avenue, the primary thoroughfare of Brooklyn, began long before Colonial times as a series of native paths. In the 1800s a private Flatbush Plank Road, paved with wooden planks, followed the current route between the town of Flatbush and downtown Brooklyn. In the early 1900s the Flatbush Avenue Extension completed the route to the roadway of the Manhattan Bridge.
     
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    On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
     
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    The market for pay-per-view infomercials is very limited.
     
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    Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
     
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    According to 23andMe, fear of speaking in public may be inherited, with over 800 genetic markers associated with this trait.
     
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    The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
     
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    The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
     
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    If I recall correctly, when Mandalay Bay was built, it sunk something like 12-18 inches. I believe it was expected.
     
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    Slow-motion photography was first used by August Musger, an Austrian priest, in the early 20th. century. Among cinematographers, a slow-motion shot is known as an "over-crank" shot, dating from the time that motion picture cameras were manually cranked, with a fast cranking speed resulting in a slow-motion effect when viewing at normal speed.
     
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    The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
     
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    "Browser Fingerprinting" is a technique used by some web sites to identify, with a high degree of confidence, specific users. Proponents of the technique claim a minimum 90% rate of positively identifying unique web users.
     
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