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Mon, Apr 23rd, 2012, 05:35 AM #166
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where was insulin discovered?
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Mon, Apr 23rd, 2012, 07:54 AM #167
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At the University of Toronto in 1921-22.
In the Bible, what is the only domestic animal not mention?DANGER
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Mon, Apr 23rd, 2012, 08:15 AM #168
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cats - and why would the bible mention them?
What band had the hit 'Green Eyed Lady'?I can't profess to understand God's plan. Christ promised the resurrection of the dead. I just thought he had something a little different in mind.
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Mon, Apr 23rd, 2012, 02:32 PM #169
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Which word in the English is spelled using each of the five vowels (a-e-i-o-u) twice?DANGER
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Mon, Apr 23rd, 2012, 02:32 PM #170
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what is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end?
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Mon, Apr 23rd, 2012, 02:34 PM #171
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Mon, Apr 23rd, 2012, 04:33 PM #172
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how many dimples are on a regulation golf ball?DANGER
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Tue, Apr 24th, 2012, 08:21 AM #174
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Most balls on sale today have about 300 to 450 dimples.
There were a few balls having over 500 dimples before. The record holder was a ball with 1,070 dimples -- 414 larger ones (in four different sizes) and 656 pinhead-sized ones. All brands of balls, except one, have even-numbered dimples. The only odd-numbered ball on market is a ball with 333 dimples.
Officially sanctioned balls are designed to be as symmetrical as possible. A ball can have six rows of normal dimples on its equator, and very shallow dimples elsewhere. This asymmetrical design helps the ball self-adjust its spin-axis during the flight. The USGA did not sanction it and changed the rules to ban aerodynamic asymmetrical balls. The ball supplier sued the USGA and the USGA paid U.S. $1.375 million in an out of court settlement.
The number of dimples on a golf ball varies, depending on the manufacturer and may even be different for different models made by the same manufacturer. The dimples are usually the same size as one another, but some golf balls have several different sizes of dimple on the same ball. Any number between 300 and 500 dimples is reasonable, and 336 is a common number. Not just any number will do. Golf balls are usually covered with dimples in a spherically symmetrical way, and for many values of N, it is impossible to cover the golf ball uniformly without gaps. Symmetry is important or the ball will wobble or its flight will depend on which part of the ball is forwards or sideways as the ball spins. You can get an idea of how to space dimples uniformly around a sphere by thinking about the "platonic solids" -- the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron, and placing a dimple at the corners of an inscribed platonic solid. Variations on this theme give the corners of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, and also the possible symmetrical locations of dimples on a golf ball.
what is the city of toronto's nickname?
I can't profess to understand God's plan. Christ promised the resurrection of the dead. I just thought he had something a little different in mind.
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Tue, Apr 24th, 2012, 08:42 AM #175
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very nice, thorough response.
Way back when...:
Muddy York
Little York
Dirty Little York
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In the English language, what female form of this term is shorter than the male version? (Most words for have the male form as the shorter version, for example Actor and Actress)DANGER
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Tue, Apr 24th, 2012, 12:46 PM #176
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what is the color of a tiger's skin?
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Tue, Apr 24th, 2012, 12:50 PM #177
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What is the longest word in the English language in which each letter is used twice?DANGER
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Tue, Apr 24th, 2012, 01:05 PM #178
esophagographers
what is the only planet that rotates clockwise?
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What food item contains the letters "abc" (in that order) it its spelling?DANGER
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Tue, Apr 24th, 2012, 01:27 PM #180
crabcakes
what is the most shoplifted book in the world?
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