Tuesday 6th Jan - Prior to the Ironman triathlon in Hawaii, an underpant run is held with people running through town in their underwear.

I don't believe it.

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Jan 7th - At his 80th birthday, Lou Dunst saw Bob Persinger for the first time since Persinger freed him from the Ebensee concentration camp at the end of WWII 60 years before.

That's quite believeable.

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Tenner says you can't keep this up for the whole year

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I am sad enough to. I definitely aim to.

If you do, this might be the greatest thread in the history of .org. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

*waves tenner in front of your face*

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Let's shift this thread business up a gear.

Has it got any information about the fella who wrote the Lords Prayer (52 words) twice on a grain of rice?

Šunt #1

Chairman_LMAO tells his Gran what happens on .org

We'll see.

Jan 8th - Chucky, a cat belonging to Kim Plancher of Jacksonville, FL, has two hearts.

Are they beating together?

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That strikes me as improbable

Jan 9th - The Canary Islands are named not after the birdies of the same name, but from the Latin for 'dog' due to the local population found there.

You're making this shit up now, which is even better :)

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What about Jan 1-5?

I binned them.

Also the weekends will be missing.

This is made of fail.

*folds up tenner, puts it back in pocket*


Well!

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January 10th- It has been proven that Scottish 18 year olds living in Aberdeen are considerably more intelligent than ALL ENGLISH PEOPLE.

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Oh, you've got green eyes
Oh, you've got blue eyes
Oh, you've got grey eyes
And Ive never seen anyone quite like you before.

12th Jan - a photo of an 'Octopus Tree', located on the Redwood Highway in California.

Does rule 1 also apply to trees?

You can google the tree. Personally I was unimpressed.

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Jackie Miley of Hill City, SD has collected 4190 teddy bears and no two are alike.

^^^ Jan 13th

14th Jan - 5 months after tossing a message in a bottle into the ocean, Harvey Bennett of Long Island NY got a response - telling him not to litter.

15th Jan - On Jan 27th 2006 Kevin Stephan of Buffalo NY saved a 'strangers' life with the Heimlich maneuver (sic) and later discovered she was Penny Brown who saved his life 6 years earlier.

Good stuff.

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Interesting. If he hadn't saved Penny, he would have died, too.

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Or the other way round

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Oh. Yeah.

It's 5:30 here!!

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Haha, whatever :)

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the fact about the person savin a life on 26th jan should have been 26th jan entry not 14th - fuckin amature on the part of the calender makers!

Yeah I know. There are loads on it that are like that.

Not that I've looked ahead, of course.

16th Jan - Koala fingerprints are so similar to human ones that they are often confused with them.

I've heard that before so I do believe it.

Actually, this believe it or not business would be better if some of the things were bullshit and you had to guess "believe it or not" and then look up the answer.

I'm gonna have to go on Dragon's Den and ask for help getting this to market.

They used to do that every ad break on the Ripleys... TV show.

So probably a koala could break into your house and murder you and a human would be blamed?

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Yes, but if a human broke into your house and murdered you a koala could get the blame. Swings and round-a-bouts.

I'm gonna buy a guilty-looking koala to take the fall for me next time i fuck someone's shit up

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^^^

anal boasting

19th Jan - Franz Spohn used nearly 13,000 gum balls to create a mosaic of American civil rights icons Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.

20th Jan - 400 skydivers from 31 countries shaped the largest mid air free fall formation ever created in feb 2006.

Ripley is a bit of a prick isn't he?

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i tossed a bottle with a note into the ocean about 1 and a half years ago and no one ever responded. i check the mail every day.

I only got this calender because The Far Side stopped doing them.

21st Jan - In 1955, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. built an inflatable airplane.

do you think you got your moneys worth with this calendar?

I like the idea of this, but the lack of facts correlating with dates is really irking me.

Each day has 3 AMAZING facts on it. Volumewise it checks out. Qualitywise it's gash.

And the drawings are shit.

It was this or the Hunky Firemen calender.

22nd Jan - Charles Miller lived and travelled in a 'rolling home' which was 3 feet, 9 inches wide and 6 feet long, for two years eight months and eight days in 1933.

Bloke lives in small caravan shocker

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It's like even the calender thinks this is a shit thread.

You've made a huge mistake

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I will see this through.

They are less "AMAZING" facts and more "Oh, that's odd" facts.

Did they publish calendars in the prior years? They probably ran out of amazing ones.

Ok, today, what do you want - a goat fact, a whale fact, or a beard fact?

beard please

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23rd Jan - As part of his plan to promote western european ideas during his 1682 - 1725 reign, Peter The Great of Russia taxed facial hair to discourage long beards.

I would be quids in with my gay little beard. Take me back to the time of Peter The Great!

kazaaaam!

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Isn't yours technically classified as a moss?

I'm lychen your style.

26th Jan - The St. Bernard De Clairvaux Church in North Miami Beach, Fla. was moved stone by stone from Spain in 1925 by millionaire William Randolph Hearst and spent 27 years in a warehouse before being assembled.

I'm in the mood to fuck this up, for Tuesday 12th May 2009 at least:


http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/0b/d6/3029c060ada05206a2b6b110.L.jpg

That one looks much better. FFS.

"I'm lychen your style."

Isn't that a werewolf?

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27th Jan - The original name of Regina, Canada was 'Pile 'O Bones'.

The Sheriff's Department of Geauga County OH has aquired Midge, it's newest K9 recruit - a 2 pound Chihuahua.

This is getting depressing

But don't stop.

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28th Jan - In areas of rural China, some families with dead, unmarried sons purchase a dead woman's body and bury them together as a married couple.

This is starting to get good now.


Where da dead wimmen at?

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There were two others today too: a woman who tatooed the birthdays of her 5 kids on her arm (?) and hundreds of computer screens washing ashore from an unknown source in hong kong. Is it december yet?

29th Jan - a picture of a four eared cat owned by E. B. Johnson of Paris, Arkansas.

4 eared cat?

Good morning James.

A pussy with large flaps.

Hello dolly.

FINE

http://www.bandofcats.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/yoda-cat-four-ears.jpg

Got a lot of pictures of cats have you Lisa? On your mantlepiece? Do you? Hmm?

They are my life now.

30th Jan - Athansius Kircher, a 17th Century German Scholar devised a cat piano. And it has a picture of a piano with cats where the strings should be.

Sounds quite cruel.

This calendar is a bit of a letdown. Does it get good at any point?

The best daily calendar I ever had was a "Deep Thoughts" one by Jack Handey. It was fabulous.

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I don't mind it, but the thread is made of fail.

29th Feb - Emily The Cat ran away from Lesley McElhiney in Appleton WS and was found a month later in Nancy, France - over 4000 miles away.

"29th Feb"


You're not even trying any more, are you?

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It's terribley snowy here, I came into work especially for this thread.

The more interesting part of that story is not the distance, but that the cat would have had to get on a boat or a plane

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It's illustrated with a shit drawing a cat looking out of an aeroplane window.

There is a true story of a cat in London whose family were evacuated over 200 miles away during the war. A couple of months later this cat turned up at the family's new home.

My old dog got on the bus once and went to the next village, i thought that was quite cool.

And he came back with the weekly shop?

GOOOD BOY!!


*wags tail*

She was a rottweiler and she made her way to the primary school where she bounded into the playground. They had to evacuate the play ground and teachers were scared, but then my best mates mum recognised her as 'Jessie' the biggest poof of a rottweiler that ever existed - panic was over and we had to go and pick her up.

Paedo.

3rd Feb - Saccharin was discovered in 1879 by Ira Remsen when he forgot to wash his hands after experimenting with coal-tar.

5th Feb - a picture of the world's largest duck decoy.

Whats the need for a duck decoy?

Like in Daffy Duck when Elmer Fudd has a toy duck on his head.

this is good

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d66/tjmagik/4-9.jpg

James it's not a leap year - there is no February 29.

What year is your calendar?

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It was a typo.

Oh. A hard won ton for this thread.

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Christ, is it only February?

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6th Feb - Students from Singapore Polytechnic have developed a plant that when crossed with jellyfish DNA, glows when it need water.

9th Feb - A US Defence Agency is investing in a method to remotely control Sharks with sonar signals.

10th Feb - 3 good ones - a fact about Methane, a fact about water, a fact about shearwaters.

Give us the methane one. And the other two as well

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This one has a new format:

Q- if a match was struck in a room 100% full of Methane gas, what would happen?

A- the match would not light due to lack of oxygen, and the person who struck it would suffocate

Water pressure at 2.5 miles is the equivalent of sitting under 14 fully loaded cemet trucks.

It's gone a bit demeneted hasn't it?

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Feb 11th - Scientists are still not certain why ice is slippery.

Hey, neither am i

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They can't even get the day it's icy right.

Its cos its really smooth innit. Any little bumps thatd cause friction would melt or be worn down, so its really smooth and theres no friction so its slipery. Next.

I thought for sure that fact had to be wrong but it turns out that it is correct. Weird.

*slips and falls over*

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It's coz itz made of glass

On this day:

Bob Dylan begins recording his second gospel-influenced album, Saved, in Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama. He records the song Covenant Woman. (1980)






^^ That's what my calender has.

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-30-2004-58620.asp

It is assumed that a smooth surface is slippery while a rough surface is not. However this is not true with ice. Ice is slippery not due to its being smooth but because its melting point decreases when pressure increases. An explanation.
One slips on a smoothly polished floor much more easily than on one that isn’t polished. So, shouldn’t smooth ice be much more slippery than bumpy ice? However, contrary to the expectation, a sled goes much more easily over bumpy ice than over smooth ice-, which is noticed by people all over the world who have pulled a sled. Ice is slippery not because it’s smooth but because its melting point drops when pressure is increased.

Let’s see what happens when we bring a sled or skate. On skates, we bring the whole weight of our body to bear down on a very small area, of but a few square millimeters. Due to this the skater exerts tremendous pressure on the ice. Under strong pressure, ice melts at a lower temperature.

For example, if the temperature of the ice is 5 deg.C below zero and the skaters pressure has lowered the melting point of the ice beneath the skates by 6 or 7 degrees, this ice will melt. It has been theoretically calculated that to lower the melting point of ice by one degree Centigrade we must exert the rather considerable pressure of 130 kg/cm square. Will the skater or the sled exert such a pressure? If we distribute the weight of skater (or sled) over the surface of skate blades (or sled runners) we find that the pressure is much less- which shows that there comes in direct contact with ice the far from full surface of the blades or runners. {In our theoretical calculations we must bear in mind that the process of melting both ice and water are subjected to the same pressure. In the instances described, though, the water, which the ice melted into, is subjected to atmospheric pressure- in which case pressure is required to lower the melting point of ice.} This gives rise to a thin layer of water between the blades and the ice. No wonder the skater slides, or rather slips, along. And as soon as he moves further, the same thing repeats itself. The skater continually slides over a thin layer of water. It is only ice that has this property. All other bodies are smooth but not slippery.

Coming back to our first point. Why is bumpy ice more slippery than smooth ice? We already know one and the same weight exerts a stronger pressure when it rests on a smaller area. When does a man exert more pressure? On smooth ice? Or on bumpy ice? It is quite obvious that he exerts more pressure on bumpy ice because in this case he is supported only by a few bumps of ice. The greater the pressure exerted, the more readily does the ice melt and consequently, the more slippery does ice become- provided the sled runners are wide enough (this will not apply to the thin skate blades as the energy of motion is expended to slice off the bumps).

This pressure-induced lowering of the melting point of ice explains many other things that we see around us. This is why separate lumps of ice freeze into one when strongly pressed together. Boys throwing snowballs unconsciously avail themselves of this property; the separate snowflakes stick together because the pressure exerted to form the snowball lowers their melting point. To make a snowman, we again apply the principle.

Also under the pressure of many feet walking along the pavement snow gradually turns into one solid icy mass.

"On this day:

Bob Dylan begins recording his second gospel-influenced album, Saved, in Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, Alabama. He records the song Covenant Woman. (1980)






^^ That's what my calender has."




Your calendar shits on James' one - start a thread!

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Ok, how about this one?

Feb 12th - The US Mint produced 1.5 million pennies made from aluminum in 1974 - but never used any of them.


oh.

This is gripping stuff

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13th Feb - 'Olfrygt' is a dutch word expressing fear at being unable to find a beer while travelling.

How do you pronounce it?


oll-FRITE?

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By the way, seeing as i'm the only one that responds to this shit thread, you might as well just email me every day to save cluttering up the board

calendarfan@yahoo.com

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WHO HAS PUT YOU UP TO THIS?

We all had a secret petition


Consider this like an intervention for a drug user


We all love you but this has got to stop


It'll be ok

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(if you stop, i'll cut you. And burn the tenner)

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I need this my heads goin bang bang bang you can't do this im ok arghhh my head bang bang bang every day like a gun in my head BANG BANG BANG EVERY DAY

I'll spice it up a little.

From Bob Dylan Remembered again...


Feb 13. On This Day

Dylan is in Columbia Records studios in Nashville, Tennessee, working on the songs I Threw It All Away & Lay Lady Lay for his album Nashville Skyline. (1969)

I dislike Bob Dylan, but I'd like that calender.


EVERYONE - if you have a daily calender, please feel free to add the entry to the thread.

My calendar:

13 February 2009
Friday

supplimentry fact:

Of all the Best Picture Oscars, guess which one has the most swears.

Yeah well


it's Platoon (329 swears)

No fucking way

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We're gonna need this reaction every morning until 2010 if that's ok? Cheers.

Feb 17th - 'Stan' a sculpture by British artist Banksy included 164 live rats.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_01/victormeldrew0410_468x493.jpg

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What about yesterdays?

Yeah, good spot Lisa - he's mugging us off

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I don't post when I'm not at work.

Feb 18th - Motorists in England today drive on the left because during the middle ages warriors rode on the left of approaching horsemen so thier swords would be aligned properly for combat.

Not if they were left handed.

^^ can't drive

So why dont other countries drive on the left too? Surely in Europe they also had horsemen with swords.

Because they have their steering wheels on the other side?

A change was carried out all over continental Europe by Napoleon. The reason it changed under Napoleon was because he was left handed his armies had to march on the right so he could keep his sword arm between him and any opponent.

From then on, any part of the world which was at some time part of the British Empire was thus left hand and any part colonised by the French was right hand.

In America, the French colonised the southern states (Louisiana for instance) and the Canadian east coast (Quebec). The Dutch colonised New York (or New Amsterdam). The Spanish and Portugese colonised the southern Americas. So The British were a minority in shaping the 'traffic'.

The drive-on-the-right policy was adopted by the USA, which was anxious to cast off all remaining links with its British colonial past

Once America drove on the right, left-side driving was ultimately doomed. If you wanted a good reliable vehicle, you bought American, for a period they only manufactured right-hand-drive cars.

From then on many countries changed out of necessity.

Today, the EC would like Britain to fall into line with the rest of Europe, but this is no longer possible. It would cost billions of pounds to change everything round.
The last European country to convert to driving on the right was Sweden in 1967. While everyone was getting used to the new system, they paid more attention and took more care, resulting in a reduction of the number of road accident casualties.

Countries that drive on the LEFT include:-


Anguilla
Antigua & Barbuda
Australia
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Bermuda
Bhutan
Botswana
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cayman Islands Channel Islands
Cyprus
Dominica
Eire-Ireland
England
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Grenada
Guyana
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Isle of Man Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Lesotho
Macau
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritius
Montserrat
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
New Zealand
Northern Ireland Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Seychelles
Scotland
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
St Kitts & Nevis
St. Helena
St. Lucia
Surinam
Swaziland Tanzania
Thailand
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
Uganda
US Virgin Islands
Zambia
Zimbabwe
St. Vincent & Grenadines
Wales

I hope they never change it now I cannot drive on the other side of the road :(

Feb 19th - Pope John Paul II held an honorary position on the Harlem Globetrotters Basketball team.

Feb 20th - Duct Tape comes in a nuclear grade for use in nuclear reactors.

Feb 23rd - The Dead Sea is nearly 10 times saltier than any of the Earth's oceans.

That's a lot of salt

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Also, on that duct tape thing.. huh, i never knew that

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The Pope John Paul II one is interesting too - thanks for the info

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Thank you for your support.

I had thought about seeing how long you'd keep this up without reply, but didn't have the heart

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You know when Forrest Gump just kept running? That's me.

Post, James, POST!!!

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hahaha

Feb 24th - The city of Istambul, Turkey which spans the Bosphorus Strait, connects two continents -Europe and Asia.

Yeah? What of it?

Feb 25th - something about a leopard

Oh COME ON!!!


My heart did a little flutter of joy when i saw this thread near the top of the page, and that's it?! I can easily imagine "something about a leopard". I'm imagining a leopard eating an apple.

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A documentary film crew in Mombo, Botswana saw a leopard kill a mother baboon and then save the life of the baby baboon by moving it away from scavengers to a shelter in the trees.

Ha, he thinks he's people! See, that's actually quite moving.



It's only February James - don't give up on us now.

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What happened to the baby? Did it grow up as an orphan? in an orphanage? Is it in a zoo? Did it go to live with the leopard that killed its mother? So many questions!

Bob Dylan won a Grammy on this day.

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Feb 26th - Lemon trees in Psevdhas, Cyprus bore fruit the size of soccer balls in march 2006.

Woah.

"I had thought about seeing how long you'd keep this up without reply, but didn't have the heart"

It's one of his own threads. He'll bump it periodically whether anybody posts in it or not.

It's true.

Bump

Good thread - thanks for bumping it

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if there were lemons that big, there would be photos

Whatever you do, don't try to google it at work.

http://www.thepreismans.com/300%20lemon.jpg

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/giant_lemon032606.jpg

giant lemons: heart 22

Feb 27th - William Heldman of Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania had two thumbs on each hand and three webbed fingers, but could use his hands as well as anyone else.

2nd March - Scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute developed a "mental typewriter" allowing a user to type with thoughts alone.

Proper mental

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*refresh*

Hey, which do you reckon is the longest thread with the fewest regular posters in it?

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Sheets' 100 Club thread.

3rd March - The tooth of Buddha has rested in Kandy, Sri Lanka for over 1,500 years - locked away by four keys kept by two high priests, a relic custodian and a government official.

4th March - British explorer Karl Bushby left Chile in 1998 on an attempt to walk around the world and recently crossed the ice floes of the Bering Strait on foot. He expects to reach home by 2010.

My cat is called Mittens

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Does the Buddha's tooth do anything magical?

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I found out something mindblowing the other day on the cesspit of knowledge that is Wikipedia.

Turns out Guyana, in South America is like 45% Hindu because of all the Indians brought over there to work in camps, 30% black because of all the African slaves, and the biggest European descendant group is SWEDISH people, who were also slave labourers because of debts they owed.

BLEW MY FUCKING MIND.


Also, Venezuela is an observer in the Arab League and is looking for membership.

Fucking mental.

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5th March - Macrocheira Kaempferi, the giant Japanese spider crab, is the world's largest crustacean, with 8 legs that grow as long as 6 feet each - yet it's body is only 14 inches wide.

And there's a photo of it. It's quite big.