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i have ollendorff for latin via english, ollendorff for latin via spanish, ollendorff for spanish via english, ollendorff for italian via spanish, but ollendorff for ancient greek via english is beyond reason! and yes, beyond octopus soup.

Humans have collectively spent 4 times as much time watching the Korean rapper Psy's music video "Gangnam Style" as they have building The Great Pyramid.

The Pentagon is unsuccessfully hacked 10 million times each and every day.

that's supposed to be rap? geeze, I'm totally out of modern music.

In the US, 210,000 people are injured by lawnmowers each year.

The 2nd most dangerous item in an average garden is a flower pot.

1 in 5 people in a 2005 survey admitted to taking Derbisol, a drug that doesn't exist.

Toothpaste is addictive to bears, but toxic to dogs.
Bears and dogs are distantly related; I wonder if there's a continuum of relationship between addictiveness and toxicity?

I think you can be excused for that one. There's clearly a significant amount of rapping in it, but it's more "musical" than most rap tracks.

....And, I just beat the trivia game, so now I'm all out of interesting trivia from it.

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didn't have a clue either

kyrgyz make around 1.1% of Tajikistan's population.

obscure fact. i accidentally broke a flower pot when i was ahem...'invited' to a new years party in 2012. never saw that guy again after the next summer.

I thought that was dance damn, i'm totally out of sinc

Human beings and mushrooms share 67% of their DNA.

Kip, you're not the only one to accidentally break something at someone else's house; I accidentally broke a china windmill once with a pool cue at my girlfriend's house, and that's not even the worst thing I've managed to do. The worst thing is slightly too embarrassing for me to want to mention just yet, so I'll leave it to your imagination.

Semi-related/unrelated, I once accidentally closed the garage door on top of the family van using the remote, as we were driving into the garage. I don't know what I was thinking either.

and apparently, around 55% with bananas. bananas are 55% us.

^ Sounds like a catchy name for a Fruit Stall!

Opinions on what music qualifies as which genre vary widely; I doubt there's a clear-cut standard, and probably most music straddles the line between a few different genres or smashes them completely. Eh, what can we do?

Trivia: That Gangnam Style music video became the first video to break YouTube's "viewed" counter by exceeding the number of times the variable's data type could increment in the web page coding. It has been viewed over 2.25 billion times, "liked" more than 9 million times and "disliked" more than 1 million times.

YouTube has apparently updated the code using a new data type that allows the variable to hold larger numbers, because I just watched the video again and the "viewed" count is still going up.

the earliest AM radio transmitter circuitry could not handle high-amplitude high frequencies, so that gave rise to a new genre of singing, that of soft "crooning" whose vocal output typically was soft in the treble range so as not to overtax the transmitters of the day.

Aunt Blabby is probably the most important poster on WP that I know

I have her told her things that I didn't want anybobody to know and she told everybobody!

The point is that Aunt Blabby has a blunt end!
I think I speak for everybobody that can't read, hear or write this

anybobody can whistle between behind the lemons