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Fact: Biden is the first POTUS to have a scented candle with his name available for sale.

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  • #94345

    Arjan Dirkse wrote:

    I learned today that horses like drinking beer (and it isn’t bad for them.)

    Did a horse tell you that?

    A horse walks into a pub and sits at the bar. The bartender looks at him and says “Why the long face?”

    Thank you, please hold your applause…

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  • #94346

    Did a horse tell you that?

    No just a random website. Could be a website run by a horse though…

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  • #94356

    Could be a web site run by a smart brewery owner in an area with a lot of horses.

     

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  • #94637

    It may be an apocryphal story, but near the end of WW2, editor of Astounding Stories magazine John W Campbell published a story he commissioned about a team of scientists inventing an atomic bomb that was so close to the actual top secret Manhattan project that he was visited by the FBI.

    Campbell then went point by point through the story to show them how any reasonable person could put the information together with no access to secret information. Then he told them that if such a secret project did exist, then it would likely be at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

    At this, the agents were sure he must have gotten hold of classified information. However, he explained that it was a guess because an unusual number of his subscribers from around the nation – a lot of scientists and engineers – had recently changed their subscription addresses to Los Alamos.

     

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  • #94752

    I’ve heard the story before and I believe it is true. I hadn’t heard the Los Alamos though, that’s pretty funny.

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  • #95689

    Back on topic please:

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  • #101723

    Some prehistoric dude loved his dog and gave him/her a mammoth bone to carry into the afterlife.

     

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  • #120564

    The word humility comes from the Latin humus, meaning earth or soil. Meaning a humble man is close to the Earth. The word is also related to homo meaning man.

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  • #120613

    Palm trees are botanically monocots, meaning they are more closely related to grass and corn than to trees like pines and oaks.

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  • #120638

    Koala bears are not actually bears; they are marsupials. They would like to be considered bears, but they don’t have the right koalafications.

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  • #120640

    Much of life on Brazil’s Marajó Island centers on the water buffalo, which slightly outnumber the human population there. Police use them as mounts because, as their name suggests, they are adept at navigating the island’s many flooded areas.

  • #124431

    Boney M. member Bobby Farrell died in the same city (St. Petersburg) and on the same date as Rasputin.

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  • #124432

    Although their bladders vary greatly in size, all mammals larger than 7 pounds take roughly 21 seconds to urinate.

  • #124433

    Although their bladders vary greatly in size, all mammals larger than 7 pounds take roughly 21 seconds to urinate.

    Unless you’re talking about an elephant with an enlarged prostate.

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  • #124441

    Boney M. member Bobby Farrell died in the same city (St. Petersburg) and on the same date as Rasputin.

    Rubbish, they lived decades apart.

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  • #124983

    There are several species of birds that get drunk of fermented fruits.

  • #124984

    There are several species of birds that get drunk of fermented fruits.

    Typically it’s those birds that are in loveless marriages or have a crummy job.

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  • #125131

    Squirrels forget 74% of the nuts they hide.

    That’s a good thing as this is how trees are planted!

    Squirrels- 10 Things You Must Know About These Nutty Creatures

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  • #125156

    Hegesias the Death Persuader was forbidden from teaching by the King of Cyrene because his message that death was preferable to life caused many of his students to take their own lives.

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  • #139631

    The cynic philosopher Menedemos dressed up as a demon to tell people he had come from hell to record the sins people had committed so he could report those to the deities below.

  • #140258

    An infant rabbit is called a ‘Kit’

    When I had a bonded pair, they were ‘bunnies’ from the day they walked in the door and took control (and the female takes that seriously) until the day of that fateful trip (because we seem to be only cruel to other humans).
    Anyways…

    “An infant rabbit is called a kit, which is short for kitten. The term “bunny” is also commonly used, but “kit” is the more formal and accurate term for a baby rabbit. A female rabbit is called a doe, and a male rabbit is called a buck.”

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  • #140710

    There is more demand for sherry casks,  which are to be used for maturing whisky, than there is for the actual sherry. This leads to sherry cask producers making sherry filled casks solely for the whisky industry. The sherry that used to be in the casks is descarded or used for other purposes like vinegar.

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  • #140711

    There is more demand for sherry casks, which are to be used for maturing whisky, than there is for the actual sherry.

    Yeah, there are strict regulations in the Scotch whisky industry regarding the barrels used. Per the Scotch Whisky Association:

    Previously, Scotch Whisky could only be matured or finished in casks that had been traditionally used in the industry – bourbon, sherry, rum , wine, beer to name just a few. Such casks will continue to be used but some flexibility has been introduced which potentially allows for the use of casks previously used to mature other spirits, as long as a number of conditions are met.
    Scotch Whisky can only be matured or finished in new oak casks or oak casks which were previously used to mature wine, beer/ale or spirits but not if those casks were previously used to mature:
    – wine, beer/ale or spirit produced from, or made with, stone fruits
    – beer/ale which has had fruit, flavouring or sweetening added after fermentation
    – spirit which has had fruit, flavouring or sweetening added after distillation

    The American bourbon industry has even tougher standards, including limits on how many times a barrel can be used.

    Who knew?

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  • #140712

    What’s better, Scotch matured in bourbon casks or bourbon matured in scotch casks?

  • #140721

    Scotch matured in bourbon casks is a pointless exercise: Scotch is already perfect and cannot be improved. This is known.

  • #140723

    Scotch is already perfect and cannot be improved.

    Yet it’s the same with a lot of things.
    “Everything in Moderation”

    Edit: removed the silly part.
    Plus I just ordered the first of a few, so no serious talk here!

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  • #140735

    Scotch matured in bourbon casks is a pointless exercise: Scotch is already perfect and cannot be improved. This is known.

    There’s a lot of scotch that is matured in sherry casks. Seems like a fashionable thing.

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  • #140739

    njerry wrote:
    Scotch matured in bourbon casks is a pointless exercise: Scotch is already perfect and cannot be improved. This is known.

    There’s a lot of scotch that is matured in sherry casks. Seems like a fashionable thing.

    Oh, I know that, Arjan; I was just trying to be funny. In fact, my favorite go-to Scotch is The Balvenie 14-year Caribbean Cask whisky, which starts out in bourbon barrels and then finished in Jamaican rum casks.

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  • #141238

    Some spiders eat only once a year (or once in their lives since they don’t live that long)

     

    There are butterflies who never eat at all, they lack the organs to process food.

  • #141401

    Sharks have existed as a species for tens of millions of years longer than trees.

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  • #141665

    In Europe 8 times more people die from the cold than from heat.

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