I Didn't Know That

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:53 pm

A penny sells for $1.38 million at a Florida auction.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/sto ... 52440226/1

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:18 pm

Beyond wrote:A penny sells for $1.38 million at a Florida auction.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/sto ... 52440226/1

A penny saved is a penny earned; or 1.38 million big bucks!

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:21 pm

That's one golden copper!

Ann

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:27 pm

Let me add something on my own...

Ordinary house in Malmö is a "palace" on the inside

Click on "Starta bildspel" to see the deceptively normal house that looks like a castle when you come inside. I guess I should add that this isn't a common thing at all here in Sweden!

Ann

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 5:44 pm

It looks more like a museum. Does anyone actually live there??

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 5:50 pm

The owners are selling it. But a lot of people want to buy it - to live in it!

Ann

TNT · Post by **TNT** » Sun Jan 08, 2012 6:32 pm

If I gave you a penny, would you give me over a million dollars

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:48 pm

The smallest vertebrate in the world is a frog. Isn't it cute?

http://bowshooter.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... earth.html

Ann

Ann · Post by **Ann** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:11 pm

Wait, I found something perhaps even better. What about this?

The Predictor Who Got It Right (Mostly)

Ann

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:13 pm

Ann wrote:The smallest vertebrate in the world is a frog. Isn't it cute?

http://bowshooter.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... earth.html

Ann

Shouldn't it still be the fish? The frog may contain a smaller maximum dimension but it seems more massive than the fish.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:49 am

Robots are getting more human like all the time. Watch this one for a little over a minute.
Alpha Dog robot is right below the human one.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/b ... its-spooky

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:22 pm

A Plantimal

According to Zoologger, this unique life form is half plant and half animal.

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Read all about it.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... nimal.html

There are a few more 'strange' things listed below this story.

TNT · Post by **TNT** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:12 am

I'm surprised the Venus Flytrap isn't in there.

The Alien · Post by **The Alien** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:25 am

Did you know that pneumonosuperultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English dictionary?

Chris Peterson · Post by **Chris Peterson** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:44 am

TNT wrote:I'm surprised the Venus Flytrap isn't in there.

All animals are motile in at least some phase of their life cycle. Venus Flytraps are not.

TNT · Post by **TNT** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:01 pm

I'm still surprised, because they, unlike many other plants, "eat" insects and the like for nutrition, while other plants depend on nutrients in the ground. Kinda animal-like, if you ask me.

geckzilla · Post by **geckzilla** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:14 pm

So do pitcher plants and sundews, but it's a lot harder to think of them as being animal like because of the lack of "teeth." The mechanism is very similar, though. If you consider a venus fly-trap as being animal-like then you must also consider the others.

TNT · Post by **TNT** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:22 am

The Alien wrote:Did you know that pneumonosuperultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English dictionary?

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutaminylserylleucylphenylalanylalanyl...sylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine is the largest printed English word with a whopping 1,909 letters. It is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8, a Tryptophan synthetase A protein, an enzyme that has 267 amino acids. I got this from my dictionary.

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:25 am

TNT, you must have one-hellava-big-dictionary

TNT · Post by **TNT** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:57 am

It's a lot smaller than you may think, Beyond.

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:40 pm

Fotoshop, the world’s best beauty product

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:20 pm

bystander wrote:Fotoshop, the world’s best beauty product

Maybe, but it's only good in cyberspace

orin stepanek · Post by **orin stepanek** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:10 pm

bystander wrote:Fotoshop, the world’s best beauty product

Might be a great beauty maker; but could be an ugly maker also!

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:10 pm

Sometimes accidents can be good for you.

http://www.khq.com/story/16582813/man-a ... 3m-lottery

Beyond · Post by **Beyond** » Fri Jan 27, 2012 8:56 pm

Chinese boy can see in the dark and eyes glow like cats.
Story is mostly video.
http://www.emirates247.com/videos/chine ... 7-1.439824

Starship Asterisk*

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