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Old May 24, 2015 | 08:17 AM
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Old May 25, 2015 | 05:57 AM
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There are probably more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand in all the beaches of the world.

But there are more atoms in a single grain of sand than there are stars in the observable universe.

http://www.universetoday.com/106725/...nd-than-stars/
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Old May 25, 2015 | 10:00 AM
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There are probably more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand in all the beaches of the world.

But there are more atoms in a single grain of sand than there are stars in the observable universe.

http://www.universet...and-than-stars/

http://scaleoftheuniverse.com/
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Old May 25, 2015 | 11:00 AM
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Timeline of American Wars

It's time to toast.


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Old May 25, 2015 | 03:39 PM
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I call fraud. fltsfshr is trying to tell us there was a war about Winnebagos in 1827 and we all know they weren't making them for another 150 years or so.
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Old May 26, 2015 | 05:18 AM
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^^ Yeah, I had the same thought. Hope this thread stays alive for awhile. Some really cool stuff so far.
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Old May 26, 2015 | 07:07 AM
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Facts about pizza!

http://pizza.com/fun-facts

That's a lot of pepperoni!

I'll pass on the squid and Mayo Jaga!

Popular gourmet toppings are chicken, oysters, crayfish, dandelions, sprouts, eggplant, cajun shrimp, artichoke hearts, and tuna.
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Old May 26, 2015 | 07:11 AM
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Couple of years old data... but still...

Top 100 Chains: U.S. Sales

http://nrn.com/us-top-100/top-100-chains-us-sales

Starbucks beat out Burger King for 3rd?
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Old May 31, 2015 | 07:29 AM
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DNA as data storage

I remember the first episode of "Enterprise", "Broken Bow", had a Klingon storing data in his DNA.

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