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mixin
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Just because you can hear something doesn't neccessarily mean you'll hear the echo. If i whispered in your ear, you'll hear that but not the echo off a wall thats 50metres away!
Those people that tell you that a ducks quack has no echo, i bet they've never tested it. I'll stick by this test done by Salford Uni 
Heres my fact for the post:
You will rarely see a duck quacking in a tunnel.
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methylated_spirit
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On 2004-09-07 09:58:48, methylated_spirit wrote:
Maybe because they dont live in mountain ranges 
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I said this earlier, and was blithely ignored. MixiN, glad you agree with me!
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mixin
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I did actually read that, but for some reason it didn't register 
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absinthebri
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The winter of 1932 was so cold Niagra Falls froze solid.
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Several poison-dart frog species are bred at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. There, researchers gauge the toxicity of poisonous species by taste. No danger is posed, because frogs caught in the wild gradually become less poisonous, and captive offspring are nontoxic. The change may be due to diet. The frog's natural menu — mostly tropical ants and springtails — cannot be duplicated in a terrarium.
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absinthebri
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The first recorded number system used by humans was to base 60.
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Maricucho
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About 4.6 billion years ago, halfway out on one spiral arm of the galaxy we call the Milky Way, our developing sun emerged from a condensing molecular cloud. The star-to-be was surrounded by a disk of dust and ice, which over a period as brief as 100,000 years clumped together to form asteroid-size planetesimals.
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scotsboyuk
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Kenneth MacAlpin is regarded as the first King of Scotland.
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welsh uk
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On 2004-09-06 23:59:27, methylated_spirit wrote:
Pneumonoultramiscroscopicicsicovolcanoconiosis
Its a lung disease, 48 letters long.
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I counted 45 letters long
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methylated_spirit
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Well spotted Hercule Poirot, but for a bonus 10 points, can you tell the audience what the missing 3 letters are?
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Yep
They are space space space a bit like whats between my ears
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Jabe
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On 2004-09-06 23:59:27, methylated_spirit wrote:
Pneumonoultramiscroscopicicsicovolcanoconiosis
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I'm pretty sure its microscopic and not miscroscopicic and instead of sico there should be silico |
absinthebri
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It also appears to be Latin rather than English so it's probably not valid no matter how many letters it has. ;-)
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methylated_spirit
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Well i read it in a book and copied it myself, there are bound to be a couple of mistakes. Because its a disease, it is the English word for it. Its the word for it in any language, i think.
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mince-inside
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@abs How many medical terms are not derived from Latin?
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Posted: 2004-09-07 13:52
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