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Karlon

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Post a little known fact (has to be true), about anything, anyone or anywhere. i'll start in: there are 2 billion insects for every square mile.
 

Mem

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there are 2 billion insects for every square mile.
Well, that bugs the hectare outta me.

According to Reader's Digest, sarcasm boosts creativity. :oops:
 

Billyd

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Post a little known fact (has to be true), about anything, anyone or anywhere. i'll start in: there are 2 billion insects for every square mile.
It takes one nest of fire ants to hold a square mile's quota of insects.
 

Lynx

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You can just buy a cable with a guitar plug on one end and a headphone plug on the other end. They sell them at the store.

This is important because it can connect your phone to a guitar amp. And even a modest little 40 watt amp can blast music you can hear for more than a mile. Party on!
 

CarriePie

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The Horsehead Nebula is so large, that if we were able to, it would take 129,500 years to travel across it.
 

Karlon

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The Horsehead Nebula is so large, that if we were able to, it would take 129,500 years to travel across it.
interesting because i was walking my black lab at night once back in 88' & while looking up in the sky i noticed orion the hunter. so, along with that, the horse head nebula was the 2nd skysight that got me started on an astronomy hobby.
 

gb9

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in south georiga ( u s ), there is a small town ( 204 people) named santa claus. and it's motto is " the town that loves children".
 
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A one-hump camel makes a one-hump poop & a two-hump camel makes a two-hump poop
 

Lynx

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According to Reader's Digest, sarcasm boosts creativity. :oops:
It's a balance thing. The more sarcastic a person is, the fewer friends he has, so he has to be more creative to survive.

It's like someone losing his sight and his hearing gets better.
 

Mem

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It's a balance thing. The more sarcastic a person is, the fewer friends he has, so he has to be more creative to survive.

It's like someone losing his sight and his hearing gets better.
Because it boosts creativity in the hearer as much as the sarcaster, I think it's well worth the risk.
 

Lynx

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Because it boosts creativity in the hearer as much as the sarcaster, I think it's well worth the risk.
New vocabulary word: Sarcaster.

A dungeons and dragons character with a charisma of natural 20. Able to defeat even the strongest wizard with wit and wordplay alone.
 

Magenta

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According to Reader's Digest, sarcasm boosts creativity. :oops:
I have heard said of sarcasm that it is the lowest form of humour...

What I dislike about sarcasm (aside from that ^) is that it often employs a false statement.
 

Mem

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I have heard said of sarcasm that it is the lowest form of humour...

What I dislike about sarcasm (aside from that ^) is that it often employs a false statement.
I will have to retrieve the article which does happen to address this particular concern.

When a logic and critical thinking classmate objected to my use of sarcasm as serious scholarship, my professor defended it as a legitimate, and effective, form of expression.
 

Mem

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I will have to retrieve the article which does happen to address this particular concern.
An excerpt from the Jan 13 2013 article

And as if that weren’t enough of a reason to embrace the snark, sarcasm can also boost the creativity of the recipients, too! Using it involves making connections between opposing ideas, and interpreting it also requires your brain to reason beyond the literal.
 

Lynx

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I will have to retrieve the article which does happen to address this particular concern.

When a logic and critical thinking classmate objected to my use of sarcasm as serious scholarship, my professor defended it as a legitimate, and effective, form of expression.
Sarcasm is a powerful tool. As a weapon it can cause a lot of damage.

The validity of its use depends, as with anything that can be used as a weapon, on where it is being aimed, and with what intent.

It is most commonly known for being used for evil, and it is very easy to use it that way. It takes a lot more care and precision to use it for good.

The ease of use for evil makes it all the more troubling that it can cause so much damage. Almost anybody can use it to hurt somebody.
 
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Bumblebees beat their wings 200 times a second, which is 10-20x as fast as nerve impulses can fire :oops:
 

Lynx

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An excerpt from the Jan 13 2013 article

And as if that weren’t enough of a reason to embrace the snark, sarcasm can also boost the creativity of the recipients, too! Using it involves making connections between opposing ideas, and interpreting it also requires your brain to reason beyond the literal.
[citation needed]

Reckon did he cite any studies to support this theory?
 

Mem

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[citation needed]

Reckon did he cite any studies to support this theory?
She, did provide a link "studies that show" or similar wording, but I didn't follow the link, and neither does my browser save my history but searching, I use bing, 'facts you didn't know' together with 'reader's digest' should retrieve the article as one of the top results pretty readily.

Here is the article