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MageB420666 · 01-04-2005, 07:18 PM

The moon is moving away from the Earth at 3.8 centimeters per year.

The original color of bubblegum was pink, not white.

Christopher Columbus was not a genius because he thought the world was round, the idea had already been accepted by scholars of the day, Christopher Columbus thought he could make it to India because he was incredibly bad at math, he miscalculated the circumfrence of the earth, shrinking it by almost 8,000 nautical miles. Other people thought he was crazy because they new the actual circumfrence of the earth* and beleived it to be all sea from Europe to China, a journey that ships of that day would not have been able to make over open ocean. If the Western Hemisphere had actually been ocean Columbus and his crew would have starved on the journey, they only brought enough food for a one way, 3,000 mile trip, which incidently happens to be roughly the distance from the Canary Islands to America.

*approximatly the correct circumfrence, but much closer than Columbus' estimate.

You shed your skin once every three months.

01-04-2005, 07:18 PM	#95 (permalink)
MageB420666 <Insert wise statement here> Location: Hell if I know	The moon is moving away from the Earth at 3.8 centimeters per year. The original color of bubblegum was pink, not white. Christopher Columbus was not a genius because he thought the world was round, the idea had already been accepted by scholars of the day, Christopher Columbus thought he could make it to India because he was incredibly bad at math, he miscalculated the circumfrence of the earth, shrinking it by almost 8,000 nautical miles. Other people thought he was crazy because they new the actual circumfrence of the earth* and beleived it to be all sea from Europe to China, a journey that ships of that day would not have been able to make over open ocean. If the Western Hemisphere had actually been ocean Columbus and his crew would have starved on the journey, they only brought enough food for a one way, 3,000 mile trip, which incidently happens to be roughly the distance from the Canary Islands to America. *approximatly the correct circumfrence, but much closer than Columbus' estimate. You shed your skin once every three months. __________________ Apathy: The best outlook this side of I don't give a damn.