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Hawk Dork said:
Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.




Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.

It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.
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Initially it was thought that Pluto was much larger than it was, about the size of Mars but due to older telescopes and the distance of Pluto from the Sun, what astronomers were in fact seeing were Pluto and Charon together. Charon, Pluto's sole moon is about half the size of Pluto and orbits very close. If Earth's moon was the same size in proportion as Charon is to Pluto and orbited as close, then it would fill over half the night sky.
 
No AFL player has ever kicked 9 goals in a game, despite 8 and 10 being kicked several times throughout the years.
 

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Kane Tanaka, current oldest living human, was born January 2, 1903. The Wright Brothers flew the Kitty Hawk on December 17 that same year.

With the successful take-off of the Ingenuity Helicopter, there is someone alive today who was around for the first powered flights on two planets.
 
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Everyone has a fear of something, and some people are unlucky enough to meet their ends courtesy of the things they fear most in life.

Linda Darnell was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, and throughout her life suffered from an intense phobia of fire. Darnell died in a house fire aged 42 in 1965.

Natalie Wood was also an actress, and was terrified of open water and drowning. Natalie Wood died in 1981, when she drowned in the sea off Catalina Island.
 
kickazz said:
Contrary to what crime fiction tells us, you'd need to inhale from a chloroform soaked rag for a good five minutes to become unconscious.
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I'm reasonably sure things like this and easily picking a lock with a credit card are done on purpose - wouldn't be a good thing presumably for the public to know how to silently and instantly render someone unconscious. Reminds me of that Frontline episode where they run a test of how easily a child could be fooled by a would be abductor and Alison Whyte's character sarcastically reacts to it with "If you'd like to learn more about how to abduct a child..."

Kind of like how I wonder how close the cooking meth process in Breaking Bad was to the real thing. I mean they never put the exact formula and process out in dot points for people at home to try, but I wonder if there were a few red herrings thrown in, or if it was pretty authentic.
 
MC Extra Dollop said:
I'm reasonably sure things like this and easily picking a lock with a credit card are done on purpose - wouldn't be a good thing presumably for the public to know how to silently and instantly render someone unconscious. Reminds me of that Frontline episode where they run a test of how easily a child could be fooled by a would be abductor and Alison Whyte's character sarcastically reacts to it with "If you'd like to learn more about how to abduct a child..."

Kind of like how I wonder how close the cooking meth process in Breaking Bad was to the real thing. I mean they never put the exact formula and process out in dot points for people at home to try, but I wonder if there were a few red herrings thrown in, or if it was pretty authentic.
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There are an awful lot of doors that are very easily opened with a card if you know the technique.

Obviously it doesn't work on deadlocks. And you need a catch with an angle - the sort that allows moves in and out as a door closes.

And you want a card with some give. Ironically the credit card is quite poor - a drivers licence or some sort of laminated card works best. A hard edge, but with enough give so you can work it through the door jam and get to the latch. I favour my scuba licence for the task. Not sure how many doors I've opened with it over the years. Probably fewer than 100.

Funnily enough the last time I did it was a place I worked. A new cleaner had locked all the internal office doors and the occupants didn't have the keys. So I decide to help him out - he was an ex-tradie in an estimator role. As I start working on the door, he gives his mates an eye-roll and starts to say "Nah, that only works in the movies mate". I had the door open before he finished, gave him a shit-eating grin and said "This must be a movie then".

It's all in the technique. Rattle them bones baby.

Locksmiths are the scary ones though. I reckon they can open locks just by glaring at them!
 

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kickazz said:
Contrary to what crime fiction tells us, you'd need to inhale from a chloroform soaked rag for a good five minutes to become unconscious.
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Ive heard stories of tourists waking up in their train carriage in the morning everything gone.
Similar stories with tourists waking up on the side of the road in your PJs with the combi van gone
 
In 1982, Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Missouri had student among their graduates that year who would become famous worldwide, a future Hollywood star in the form of Brad Pitt.

Ten years later, some members of the graduating class of 1992 would also become famous worldwide, but unfortunately not for good reasons. Early in the morning after the graduation held on Saturday 6th June 1992, two female students Suzie Streeter and Stacy McCall vanished without trace, along with Suzie's mother Sherrill Levitt. Not a single clue could be found to explain the bizarre case, which is known as The Springfield Three. It remains an unsolved cold case nearly 30 years later, and usually comes up in lists of creepy and inexplicable missing persons cases.
 
Street signs in some municipalities in Australian cities have colors that match the local sporting team.

In Adelaide, Port Adelaide street signs are black and white (as per Port Adelaide Magpies), West Torrens are blue and gold (West Torrens Eagles) and those in Woodville are green and yellow (Woodville Warriors).

In Perth, you will find blue and white street signs in East Fremantle (East Fremantle Sharks), dark blue and gold street signs in Claremont (Claremont Tigers) and maroon and gold street signs in Subiaco (Subiaco Lions).
 
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Street signs in some municipalities in Australian cities have colors that match the local sporting team.

In Adelaide, Port Adelaide street signs are black and white (as per Port Adelaide Magpies), West Torrens are blue and gold (West Torrens Eagles) and those in Woodville are green and yellow (Woodville Warriors*).

In Perth, you will find blue and white street signs in East Fremantle (East Fremantle Sharks), dark blue and gold street signs in Claremont (Claremont Tigers) and maroon and gold street signs in Subiaco (Subiaco Lions).
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*Peckers *snorts*
 

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