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saintKlopp said:
Of course there are plenty of highly intelligent, well-educated people in the States- however, its worldwide rankings are dire considering the wealth and advanced technology of the country. 29th (last time I looked) on the global schools ranking is frankly embarrassing.
Even the UK on 20th is pretty dismal- in my view largely because we've chosen to follow failing US models. Something we've done in many areas- not just education.
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In 1531 in the fields near Mexico City, a peasant named Juan Diego claimed to see an apparition of the Virgin Mary, who asked that a church be built in her honor. The Virgin also asked the man to gather flowers on a hillside, which he did and placed in his cloak. Afterwards, the cloak appeared to hold the imprint of the Virgin Mary. Though there have been a few scientific analyses of the so-called Our Lady of Guadalupe miracle over the years, no one has come to a definitive conclusion as to whether or how the image was painted, and if so, how it has been preserved so well.

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In 1973, a statue in a little church in Akita, Japan, allegedly began to bleed soon after Sister Agnes Sasagawa at the church had an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The statue continued to cry, sweat and bleed for several years and was even captured on national television. The Sister Agnes, who was deaf prior to the apparition, also regained her hearing about a decade later.
 
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In 1531 in the fields near Mexico City, a peasant named Juan Diego claimed to see an apparition of the Virgin Mary, who asked that a church be built in her honor. The Virgin also asked the man to gather flowers on a hillside, which he did and placed in his cloak. Afterwards, the cloak appeared to hold the imprint of the Virgin Mary. Though there have been a few scientific analyses of the so-called Our Lady of Guadalupe miracle over the years, no one has come to a definitive conclusion as to whether or how the image was painted, and if so, how it has been preserved so well.

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Crying statue
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In 1973, a statue in a little church in Akita, Japan, allegedly began to bleed soon after Sister Agnes Sasagawa at the church had an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The statue continued to cry, sweat and bleed for several years and was even captured on national television. The Sister Agnes, who was deaf prior to the apparition, also regained her hearing about a decade later.
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I prefer Del Boys crying statue.
 
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In 1531 in the fields near Mexico City, a peasant named Juan Diego claimed to see an apparition of the Virgin Mary, who asked that a church be built in her honor. The Virgin also asked the man to gather flowers on a hillside, which he did and placed in his cloak. Afterwards, the cloak appeared to hold the imprint of the Virgin Mary. Though there have been a few scientific analyses of the so-called Our Lady of Guadalupe miracle over the years, no one has come to a definitive conclusion as to whether or how the image was painted, and if so, how it has been preserved so well.

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Crying statue
Credit: danielo | Shutterstock
In 1973, a statue in a little church in Akita, Japan, allegedly began to bleed soon after Sister Agnes Sasagawa at the church had an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The statue continued to cry, sweat and bleed for several years and was even captured on national television. The Sister Agnes, who was deaf prior to the apparition, also regained her hearing about a decade later.
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Apparition eh...........it's amazing what you can see when your wacked out your skull on peyote :confused:
 
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  1. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
  2. A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
  3. Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
  4. A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
  5. The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
  6. The only dog that doesn’t have a pink tongue is the chow.
  7. Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
  8. Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
  9. On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colourful.
  10. Deer have no gall bladders.
  11. There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
  12. Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small mammals.
  13. In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting.
  14. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
  15. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
  16. Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
  17. The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human females.
  18. The chicken and fish are the only animals that are eaten before they are born and after they die.
  19. A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
  20. For every human in the world there are one million ants.
  21. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
  22. If you keep a goldfish. in a dark room, it will become pale!
  23. Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
  24. The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.
  25. The average fox weighs 14 pounds.
  26. The scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes vulpes.
  27. Alligators can live up to 100 years.
  28. A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
  29. The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America.
  30. A housefly hums in the key of F.
  31. During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
  32. Canis lupus lupus is the scientific name for a grey wolf.
  33. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
  34. It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.
  35. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
  36. Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”
  37. The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
  38. Animals generate 30 times more waste than humans which is 1.4 billion tons every year.
  39. Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.
  40. A group of owls is called a parliament.
  41. Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
  42. Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.
  43. Cows have four stomachs.
  44. An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
  45. The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
  46. A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
  47. A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
  48. At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long – no bigger than a large water bug or a queen bee.
  49. The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
  50. There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!
 
#18 is a lie. Any animal that the egg is eaten this would apply to. In various parts of the world ducks and geese have their eggs eaten. Ostridge too.

Also bugs that inadvertently get ground up in our food...
 
Treble said:
Easy mistake to make <whistle>

How are bugs eaten before they're born? I think I'm going to regret asking this.
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The same way chickens are: eggs. Lay eggs in the grains that we eat. Get ground up with the grain we eat.


Flour is notoriously full of weevil eggs. There are weevil eggs in your bread, cakes, and biscuits.
 
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saintKlopp said:
Of course there are plenty of highly intelligent, well-educated people in the States- however, its worldwide rankings are dire considering the wealth and advanced technology of the country. 29th (last time I looked) on the global schools ranking is frankly embarrassing.
Even the UK on 20th is pretty dismal- in my view largely because we've chosen to follow failing US models. Something we've done in many areas- not just education.
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Unfortunately this is the same for much of the western world, Ireland too. How can kids actually learn when they are being dumbed down.
Jewish academies are not only for religion, most Jewish people recognise the sorry state of European and US education so they won't send their kids to public schools, and I don't blame them to be totally honest. Create a wide education level gap between public and privately educated people, that will be the end result. A desired one if you ask me.

All over the United states there are parents fighting the school system and state govs over the education, not just common core, and not just recently, this is going on years. Most parents in the US do not want common core anywhere near their kids, it is a system of dumbing everyone down to the same level, I mean those that attend public schools. Dystopian almost

This dumbing down of kids is excluded from public discourse. It should be near top of the list of openly discussed problems, it is NOT accidental.
 
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#6. The Cursed Iceman
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Oetzi, or the Iceman as he is known, was discovered in the Alps between Austria and Italy back in 1991. In the 13 years that followed, seven people associated with his discovery died. In some cases, the deaths seem like your standard, run-of-the-mill demises, but four of them are creepily violent or odd enough to make the other three seem like maybe the 5,300 year old leather hunter may have a bone to pick with the people who unearthed him and then played Operation with his remains.
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Oetzi: made of evil. And Beef Jerky.
The first death occurred in 1992 when Rainer Henn, the forensic pathologist who put Oetzi in a body bag with his bare hands, was killed in a car crash on his way to a world conference to discuss the Iceman. Next, Kurt Fritz, the mountain guide who lead Henn to Oetzi, and subsequently uncovered Oetzi's face, died in an avalanche. Guy number three, the man who filmed the recovery of Oetzi, died of a brain tumor.
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These gentlemen are presumably boned as well
The list gets creepier: Helmut Simon, who with his wife was the person who actually found the Iceman in the first place, went missing for 8 days in 2004. When his body was found he was laying face down in a stream, where he had landed after falling off a 300 foot cliff. Dieter Warnecke, the head of the rescue team that found Helmut, dropped dead of a heart attack an hour after Helmut's funeral.
Dead guy number six, Konrad Spindler, bit the dust from complications arising from having Multiple Sclerosis six months after he was quoted as saying "I think it's a load of rubbish. It is all a media hype. The next thing you will be saying I will be next."
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While he may not believe in curses, Konrad would probably agree that irony is a scientific fact.
The seventh and final death (so far) was in 2005: Tom Loy, a scientist who discovered human blood on Oetzi's clothes and weapons, died of a hereditary blood disease. This would normally be considered nothing more than a natural death if it weren't for the fact that his condition was diagnosed in 1992, the year he started working with the Iceman. By all accounts you may be endangering yourself just by reading this article.
Evidence shows that the Iceman met with a violent end himself, having been shot with an arrow before having his head bashed in. So basically Oetzi was an ancient murder victim left in the mountains to mummify in an unmarked grave. We're pretty sure that if curses are real, that's the kind of **** that causes them.
#5. The Cursed Tomb
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Of course, if you want a true, large-scale Mummy-type curse, you need a really horrifying backstory. Which brings us to the cursed tomb of Timur.
After assuming the title of Great Khan in 1369, Timur launched a horrific campaign from Persia to Southern Russia that would have made his great grandfather Genghis proud -- right down to the pyramid of 70,000 human skulls he built in north India, presumably because he was tired of carrying them around.
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"Just pile them all here. Somebody will get them."
When Timur died in 1405, he was interred in the Gur-e Amir complex of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. A huge green jade slab which had once served as the throne for Kabek Khan was placed over his tomb and covered with Arabic text about how awesome it is to be *****l, and, just to make sure nobody messed with Timur's bones down the road, the words "When I arise from the grave, the world will tremble", which is eerily reminiscent of Vigo's prophecy in Ghostbusters II.
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Sure enough, in 1941, Stalin dispatched Soviet archeologist Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov to excavate Timur's gravesite, we're guessing to one-up the Nazis' recent archeological breakthroughs at Tanis and Iskenderun.
According to Kaumov, local Uzbek elders were understandably upset about the excavation: "These old men showed me a book saying that the tomb of Timur should not be opened, otherwise a war could be provoked. I was young at the time and not too wise. I did not pay too much attention to this event. On 21 June we removed the skull of Timur. Then, on the 22 June the war with the Germans began."
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Skull magic = World War II.
In other words, less than 24 hours after opening the tomb that threatened to "make the world tremble" if disturbed, Stalin's men saw Hitler launch Operation Barbarossa: the largest and most brutal invasion of WWII.
After losing millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians, the Russians finally returned Timur to his tomb with full Islamic burial rights on December 20, 1942. At the same time on the opposite side of the country, Operation Winter Storm, the last German attempt to escape destruction at Stalingrad, failed decisively.
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"GIVE ME BACK MY ****ING SKUUUUUULL!"
To be clear, it is the official position of Cracked.com that curses do not exist. Still, to be safe, stay the hell away from Timur's tomb. Oh, and maybe send some flowers to the archeologist who had the brilliant idea of restoring Timur's remains just in time to prevent the Nazis from winning WWII... whoever he may be.
 
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There are between 145 to 167 moons in our solar system. Ours is the ONLY one with the combination of the right size and right distance, to a planet, to create the perfect solar eclipse.
 
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There are between 145 to 167 moons in our solar system. Ours is the ONLY one with the combination of the right size and right distance, to a planet, to create the perfect solar eclipse.
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It's always seemed odd to me, that.
 
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