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  • kira
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2008
    • 2353

    DID YOU KNOW?



    A thread for fun facts. </p>

    Crickets are known for their chirp (which only male crickets can do; male wings have ridges or "teeth" that act like a "comb and file" instrument). The left forewing has a thick rib (a modified vein) which bears 50 to 300 ridges. The chirp is generated by raising their left forewing to a 45 degree angle and rubbing it against the upper hind edge of the right forewing, which has a thick scraper (Berenbaum 1995). This sound producing action is called "stridulation" and the song is species-specific. Hence, crickets do not rub their hind legs together as is commonly believed.</p>
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  • deuxmille
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2006
    • 688

    #2
    Re: DID YOU KNOW?

    They also are delicious when prepared well. Better than chips.

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    • kira
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2008
      • 2353

      #3
      Re: DID YOU KNOW?

      I have been told this. Two of my friends just ate them about two weeks ago. Not my cup of tea though...
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      • Diego
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2007
        • 1111

        #4
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        ---------</p>

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        • matthewhk
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2007
          • 1049

          #5
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          love that asian chick in the second pic (if thats a real person at all)

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          • Diego
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2007
            • 1111

            #6
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            redacted

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            • Hali
              Junior Member
              • Sep 2007
              • 24

              #7
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              HIV has a ridiculously high mutation rate, higher than basically all viruses. Aprx. 3.15 x 10<sup>-5</sup> forward SNP per base pair.</p>

              This means that even though modern genetics has tools that should be able to target HIV, it actually changes itself so fast that by the time we identify a sequence to traget, it has already changed. </p>



              </p>

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              • uparmoured
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2007
                • 455

                #8
                Re: DID YOU KNOW?

                Man who quickly walk into glass door is going to Bangkok...
                FS: M.A+
                FS: SIZE XS ANN DEMEULEMEESTER WAISTCOAT

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                • kira
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2008
                  • 2353

                  #9
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                  The TOMATO:</p>

                  Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: therefore it is a fruit or, more precisely, a berry.</p>

                  Most tomatoes today are picked before fully ripe. They are bred to continue ripening, but the enzyme that ripens tomatoes stops working when it reaches temperatures below 12.5 °C (54.5 °F). Once an unripe tomato drops below that temperature, it will not continue to ripen. Once fully ripe, tomatoes can be stored in the refrigerator but are best kept and eaten at room temperature. Tomatoes stored in the refrigerator tend to lose flavor, but will still be edible; thus the "Never Refrigerate" stickers sometimes placed on tomatoes in supermarkets.</p>

                  There is a competing hypothesis that says the tomato, like the word "tomato", originated in Mexico, where one of the two apparently oldest "wild" types grows. It is entirely possible that domestication even arose in both regions independently. Diversity data suggests the center of diversity for wild tomatoes is located in Peru, while that of cultivated tomatoes, in Mexico. Thus, it can be hypothesized that wild tomatoes were introduced from Peru to Mexico, where they were domesticated.
                  In any case, by some means the tomato migrated to Central America. Maya and other peoples in the region used the fruit in their cooking, and it was being cultivated in southern Mexico and probably other areas, by the 16th century. It is thought that the Pueblo people believed those who witnessed the ingestion of tomato seeds were blessed with powers of divination
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                  "Tomato" also has been used as a slang word for an attractive woman. This use was most common from the 1920s through the 1940s, and only within the USA.
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                  • #10
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                    [quote user="kira"]

                    "Tomato" also has been used as a slang word for an attractive woman. This use was most common from the 1920s through the 1940s, and only within the USA.</p>

                    [/quote]</p>

                    somehow i don't think this would fly today at, say, pegu club.</p>

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                    • mamaboy
                      Senior Member
                      • Mar 2008
                      • 415

                      #11
                      Re: DID YOU KNOW?

                      malo kto znaet shto samoe rasspostrannenoe imia v brazilii ---jose , a samoe redkoe---vasilii timofeevich....
                      but what started out as business has quickley turned to pleasure

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                      • #12
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                        [quote user="mamaboy"]malo kto znaet shto samoe rasspostrannenoe imia v brazilii ---jose , a samoe redkoe---vasilii timofeevich....[/quote]</p>

                        yer smarter than google, apparently -- "<i style="color: grey;">We are not yet able to translate from Slovak into English.".[/i]
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                        • kira
                          Senior Member
                          • Mar 2008
                          • 2353

                          #13
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                          The oldest tree. Sometime around 7542 B.C., a spruce tree started growing on Fulu Mountain in Sweden. It is still growing. Spruce trees can produce exact clones of each other, and while the currently visible part of the tree is not 9,550 years old, scientists found pieces of wood beneath it that are that old with exactly the same genetic makeup as the above-ground part of the tree.</p>

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                          • philip nod
                            Senior Member
                            • Aug 2007
                            • 5903

                            #14
                            Re: DID YOU KNOW?

                            yeah, i knew that.
                            One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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                            • Chinorlz
                              Senior Member
                              • Sep 2006
                              • 6422

                              #15
                              Re: DID YOU KNOW?



                              [quote user="uparmoured"]Man who quickly walk into glass door is going to Bangkok...[/quote]</P>


                              Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.</P>
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