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Did you know a man in America is hit by a car every 15 seconds, I feel bad for that guy! X=O

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  • 04.17.2008 6:33 PM PDT
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did you know that it was considered evil if you were left handed during the mideval times.

  • 04.17.2008 6:54 PM PDT
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Japan is cool

  • 04.17.2008 6:55 PM PDT
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Aurora Swims in the Ether
Emerald fire taints the twilight

hitler was a corprol going into WW2
youre wrong


theres also an atm in antarctica

  • 04.18.2008 3:10 AM PDT

NO ITS UR MOMZ PLACE

Farting in ancient rome was illigal at the time(in public)

  • 04.18.2008 12:41 PM PDT
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In physics, quantum mechanics is the study of the relationship between quanta and elementary particles. Among other relationships the valence shell electrons and photons are quantized. Quantum mechanics is a fundamental branch of physics with wide applications in both experimental and theoretical physics. Quantum theory generalizes all classical theories, including mechanics, electromagnetism (except general relativity), and provides accurate descriptions for many previously unexplained phenomena such as black body radiation and stable electron orbits. The effects of quantum mechanics are typically not observable on macroscopic scales, but become evident at the atomic and subatomic level.

The word “quantum” came from the Latin word which means "what quantity". In quantum mechanics, it refers to a discrete unit that quantum theory assigns to certain physical quantities, such as the energy of an atom at rest (see Figure 1, at right). The discovery that waves have discrete energy packets (called quanta) that behave in a manner similar to particles led to the branch of physics that deals with atomic and subatomic systems which we today call quantum mechanics. It is the underlying mathematical framework of many fields of physics and chemistry, including condensed matter physics, solid-state physics, atomic physics, molecular physics, computational chemistry, quantum chemistry, particle physics, and nuclear physics. The foundations of quantum mechanics were established during the first half of the twentieth century by Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck, Louis de Broglie, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Born, John von Neumann, Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli and others. Some fundamental aspects of the theory are still actively studied.

It is currently necessary to use quantum mechanics to understand the behavior of systems at atomic length scales and smaller. For example, if Newtonian mechanics governed the workings of an atom, electrons would rapidly travel towards and collide with the nucleus. However, in the natural world the electrons normally remain in an unknown orbital path around the nucleus, defying classical electromagnetism.

Quantum mechanics was initially developed to provide a better explanation of the atom, especially the spectra of light emitted by different atomic species. The quantum theory of the atom developed as an explanation for the electron's staying in its orbital, which could not be explained by Newton's laws of motion and by Maxwell's laws of classical electromagnetism.

In the formalism of quantum mechanics, the state of a system at a given time is described by a complex wave function (sometimes referred to as orbitals in the case of atomic electrons), and more generally, elements of a complex vector space. This abstract mathematical object allows for the calculation of probabilities of outcomes of concrete experiments. For example, it allows one to compute the probability of finding an electron in a particular region around the nucleus at a particular time. Contrary to classical mechanics, one can never make simultaneous predictions of conjugate variables, such as position and momentum, with arbitrary accuracy. For instance, electrons may be considered to be located somewhere within a region of space, but with their exact positions being unknown. Contours of constant probability, often referred to as “clouds” may be drawn around the nucleus of an atom to conceptualize where the electron might be located with the most probability. It should be stressed that the electron itself is not spread out over such cloud regions. It is either in a particular region of space, or it is not [citation needed]. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle quantifies the inability to precisely locate the particle.

The other exemplar that led to quantum mechanics was the study of electromagnetic waves such as light. When it was found in 1900 by Max Planck that the energy of waves could be described as consisting of small packets or quanta, Albert Einstein exploited this idea to show that an electromagnetic wave such as light could be described by a particle called the photon with a discrete energy dependent on its frequency. This led to a theory of unity between subatomic particles and electromagnetic waves called wave–particle duality in which particles and waves were neither one nor the other, but had certain properties of both. While quantum mechanics describes the world of the very small, it also is needed to explain certain “macroscopic quantum systems” such as superconductors and superfluids.

Broadly speaking, quantum mechanics incorporates four classes of phenomena that classical physics cannot account for: (i) the quantization (discretization) of certain physical quantities, (ii) wave-particle duality, (iii) the uncertainty principle, and (iv) quantum entanglement. Each of these phenomena is described in detail in subsequent sections.

  • 04.18.2008 12:42 PM PDT
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In USA where parties are common, there is a higher chance of being killed by being hit by a champagne cork than being bitten by a venomous spider...

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants

Cat's urine glows under a black light

Hitler and Napoleon both only had one testical

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.


  • 04.18.2008 2:21 PM PDT
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Jesus gave me life. Mom gave me birth. VRGL(the almightay Bungie Lord) gaves meh Recon.

In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.

  • 04.18.2008 2:26 PM PDT
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Jesus gave me life. Mom gave me birth. VRGL(the almightay Bungie Lord) gaves meh Recon.

The McDonald's(R) at Toronto's 'SkyDome' is the only McDonald's(R) location

that sells hot dogs.


  • 04.18.2008 2:31 PM PDT
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

Coca-cola was originally green.

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (don't try this @ home!)

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfishes haven't got brains.

The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.



  • 04.18.2008 2:32 PM PDT
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Jesus gave me life. Mom gave me birth. VRGL(the almightay Bungie Lord) gaves meh Recon.

2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.

and

60 % of statistics are made up.....

I aM tHe WiNnEr
U ALL GOT PWND


[Edited on 04.18.2008 2:35 PM PDT]

  • 04.18.2008 2:33 PM PDT
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The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

  • 04.18.2008 2:44 PM PDT
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Do doo doo blah kell joy nada

  • 04.18.2008 2:48 PM PDT

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I am not a potato!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 04.18.2008 3:15 PM PDT
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homer simpson is yellow

  • 04.18.2008 9:52 PM PDT

Tims a wanker4 sure

turtles arnt slow people are just fast.. stop picking on the amphibians.. or reptiles....

moluscs??

  • 04.18.2008 10:00 PM PDT

Tims a wanker4 sure

and whoever said elephants are the only animals that cant jump id like to see your standard turtle jump.

  • 04.18.2008 10:05 PM PDT

1337 speak for "I am better than you." is "Z0mG!11!!!1 1 i5 4r3 c4N pWN uR f4C3!11!!!!!11!!1 n00B!!!11!!1

In some towns, its illgal to drag a dead cow behind your car down mainstreet on a sunday.

In some places its legal to kill someone if you tell them where and when, and give them 2 weeks notice.

I devour souls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • 04.18.2008 10:08 PM PDT

VALK0R

9 is a number

  • 04.18.2008 10:17 PM PDT

Signatures are for losers.

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the most random fact is this DANCING SPARTAN
Oh rly? http://youtube.com/watch?v=A8xz6JO0mSM

  • 04.18.2008 10:28 PM PDT
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I just got out of a 7=day ban!
YAY!

  • 04.18.2008 10:53 PM PDT
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Mules are sterile.

No lie. Look it up.

  • 04.18.2008 11:19 PM PDT
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The protists Diatoms... which are small, unicellular organisms that form a two part silica shell, were at one time used in tooth-paste... or atleast their shells atleast because the shells are abrasive and would scrape off anything... they are also good pest detterents because if an insect steps on a diatom shell, the exoskeleton will rupture, gushing out hemolymph and resulting in the dessication of the pest

  • 04.18.2008 11:22 PM PDT
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A kid in 5th grade suffocated himself by sticking his head into a foot of sand. he was trying to imitate a cartoon.

  • 04.18.2008 11:25 PM PDT

1423 people wasted there time replying to this...I am goooood

  • 04.18.2008 11:28 PM PDT