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In 1631, a reprint of the King James Bible was burned because there was a typo of the Seventh Commandment; the typo being: "Thou shalt commit adultery."

Of course, the Seventh Commandment is "Thou shalt not commit adultery."

That no matter how many times certain incidents occur there are a certain group of people, whom think praying will cause such incidents to never happen again..

I learned to make a variant of the kamikaze knot, useful if you are repelling down a cliffside and want to loosen the knot and get the rope back, like Samwise and Bilbo in in the "Real Elvish Rope" scene in LOTR (see below). One can use a dual quick release knot and throw the loaded line and the quick release line down the cliff, but it halves the available rope length.

A few days ago, i learned to make a trap with a slipknot and a highwaymans hitch that could throw something up in the air, as long as you attach something heavier onto the loaded end, works better than the snare-trigger-tree version and can capture larger animals than rabbits. Have tried it (not with animals) - works well. You can even make a non snare version of it and use it to trigger when something walks past it.

I've been practising for over a month with knots and i'd say I'm getting rather good...

I don't need to impress my mum anymore.

that I can't do yardwork like I useta without paying for it later.

Not to make an April Fool's prank that I can't live up to.

Surfing will make its debut as an Olympic sport in 2020 during Tokyo Summer Olympics.

Coffee gives me a social buzz. I can't wait to show my family the social effect that my afternoon coffee will have on me.

that there is no bottom to the GOP's perfidy.

This was yesterday at Easter, but my dad said that in Australia people don't refrigerate their eggs. He said it's because when chickens lay eggs they have a coating that's like a natural preservative that keeps them fresh. In North America and I guess most western countries the eggs are cleaned and washed after they're laid, which is understandable because because it came out of a chicken's butt! But then they have to be refrigerated because it removes the coating and they have to be refrigerated and keep for about a month, but because eggs in Australia aren't washed and and keep without refrigeration for weeks or even months.

I know some people here are from Australia, so is this actually true?

It's not a good idea for me to challenge myself to eat an entire chocolate bunny in one sitting.

@lostonearth35 Eggs - to chill or not to chill.
Your Dad's pretty much right - there is a split between countries which wash and sterilize eggs (but which removes the protective layer), and those which don't. Here in the UK and most of Europe, eggs are not washed and they're not chilled when we buy them. But we also have another form of protection. After some very bad Salmonella outbreaks back when I was a child, they made it the law that our chickens are vaccinated against Salmonella, so there are very few germs for the chickens to spread. Because vaccination is optional in the USA, it would be illegal to sell your eggs in the UK.

The most important rule is this - once your eggs have been chilled, whether from the store or by yourself, you must keep them that way, so that the shells don't get wet with condensation which could soak into the shell, sucking in germs along with the water.

Perhaps Meatless Monday isn't for me. I'd be better off eating meat any day of the week, because I'm so used to it.

Canada never won a gold medal during the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

The best way not to be noticed by single creeps at the clubhouse is to be on the Internet the whole time.