tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79003116769946561992024-03-13T13:55:24.033-07:00FUN FACT FRIDAYSMy head is filled with random facts of God knows what. People always seemed amazed by the pointless knowledge so I started putting them down on my facebook on Fridays. Then I decided why not have somewhere to post them for others to share and see on days besides Fridays.jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-70649166848355964312015-05-08T08:57:00.001-07:002015-05-08T08:57:42.200-07:00So Cute...So Thirsty.... K. So we can go like 3-5 days on average without water before we croak. And we all know that camels are sooooo superior to us and can go like two weeks without water using their humps, their humps, their lovely camel humps.<br />
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The Kangaroo Rat says big effing deal to the camel. They have developed a way to produce a metabolic water within their own body and have specialized kidneys. This gives them the ability to last their entire lives (roughly 5 years) without a single drop of water.<br />
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So it's another creepy Fun Fact Friday the 13th. The last one I did was about Michael Myers his mask, and today it is all about Jason Voorhees. </div>
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Originally Jason back in 1980 in the first movie you just saw him for a split second and could barely make out his disfigured face. In the second movie he had a sack with eye holes over his head. </div>
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<br />jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-4910696610713102792015-02-27T09:37:00.001-08:002015-02-27T09:37:32.041-08:00Marge Simpson... the "woman" behind the tall hair. So we all know who Marge Simpson is from The Simpsons. And if you don't your life has kind of lacked meaning.<br />
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I recently found out a few months ago that the reason she has that tall hair was because Matt Groening (the creator of the show) had a long time running prank he was going to play on all of us and reveal on the last show that she was in fact a rabbit from another show of his Life Is Hell. So behind all that hair is a set of tall bunny ears.<br />
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He later ended up giving up on that idea because the show will never clearly end.<br />
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<br />jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-86566741231461246412015-02-20T10:58:00.001-08:002015-02-20T10:59:18.569-08:00Spider Web... You Are The Weakest Link....So the Golden Orb spider doesn't produce the worlds strongest biological material anymore. Sorry spider fans.
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Scientists have recently discovered an even stronger material. The tiny teeth of the Patella Vulgata Limpet in Southampton U.K. The teeth are on something resembling a tongue which the gastropod uses to scrap the rocks for algae.
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The tensile strength needed to break these teeth is 3-6.5 gigapascals (GPA). If you're having a hard time relating that to the everyday (as I did), it is in the order of a strand of spaghetti holding up 3,000 pounds.
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The teeth get their strength from being made by a mineral called goethite which contains iron in a fiborous structure and are encased in a protein.
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jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-42982437611674280972014-10-03T13:02:00.001-07:002014-10-03T13:09:41.438-07:00Earth Is Getting Fatter Every Day....So the earth is constantly being bombarded by space dust and meteors every single day. How much might you ask (or maybe you didn't ask ever or don't care, but I'm gonna tell you anyways).<br />
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The earth gets hit by three metric tons every day. So 300,000 kgs or 660,000 lbs. That is an insane amount of weight every single day. Well to you and me it is anyways. But lets consider that the earth weighs roughly 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kgs or 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 lbs. Now 660,000 lbs is basically nothing compared to that.
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Of course if we keep adding that up that's 110,000,000 kgs a year or 250,000,000 lbs. Which still doesn't even come close. It's about a 1/6 zillionth of its total weight. Still not that much. But lets keep going. If we say the earth is 4.5 billion years old then that really starts to add up. Close 495,000,000,000,000,000kgs or 1,125,000,000,000,000,000lbs. Now that is some substantial weight that can't be overlooked anymore. <br />
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The tardigrade is like no other creature on earth.<br />
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First of all, it's so small that it's very difficult to see without a microscope. It's only half of a millimeter in length when fully grown. And for those of you who are not smart enough to know how small half of a millimeter is, it's about 1/50th of an inch.<br />
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Secondly, they look like nothing you've seen. They have 8 legs, some have eyes, and some don't and just have a mouth at the front of their head.<br />
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Thirdly, they can survive just about anything you throw at them. They can survive being boiled alive for several minutes at temperatures of 150 celsius/300 fahrenheit, and they can be cooled down to below -458 degrees fahrenheit / -272 celsius. That's a single degree above ABSOLUTE ZERO. If you're not familiar with "absolute zero" that is the temperature where every single molecule stops vibrating and absolutely no thermodynamic energy exists anymore.<br />
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Fourthly, they can survive the empty vacuum of space and have been known to exist a 10 day trip to outer space on the shell of the space shuttle. They can also survive the pressure of 6,000 atmospheres. Even if you took them to the deepest trench in the ocean they could still go 6 times deeper.<br />
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Fifthly, they can dehydrate themselves into tardigrade jerky to the point of having only 3% water left in its body (beef jerky on average has 15% moisture level). Then after a decade or so of hibernation they can just rehydrate themselves and go back to business as usual. There has even been samples taken from Egyptian mummy samples that have been rehydrated after 1000 years.<br />
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Sixthly, they can survive 1000 times the radiation of other animals on earth. So don't count on them being in any up coming mutant comic book characters. They can survive levels of 5,000 Gy levels of Gamma Rays. A human would kick the bucket with just 5-10 Gy levels.<br />
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And Lastlyyyy.... They have survived all 5 of the major extinctions of species on earth.<br />
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And THAT is why they are the coolest creatures on earth.<br />
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<br />jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-17435162953832298742014-08-29T09:59:00.000-07:002014-08-29T09:59:14.934-07:00Frozen AliveThere are a couple creatures that can survive being frozen alive. One of them, the tardigrades, I will discuss next time. But another one is the North American Wood Frog.<br />
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These little buggers are fascinating. When they feel a deep freeze approaching their body kicks into preservation mode by producing cryoprotectants. It replaces all its glycogen with glucose and pumps urea through its body. This limits the amount of water in its body that can actually freeze and form crystals which is what causes damage in cells.<br />
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The frog can be frozen to a solid state with no heartbeat, no breathing, and no brain activity. It can be left out to thaw, and then the heart will kick in on its own and start pumping again. <br />
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<br />jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-41450839230460602852014-08-22T20:45:00.002-07:002014-08-22T20:45:32.276-07:00A Trunk By Any Other Name....So I was watching a show about elephants and they mentioned that the trunk of an elephant has over 40,000 distinct muscles. I thought that is fascinating and figured I would post about that.<br />
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Then I started to read up on elephant trunks and realized they are even more fascinating than that.<br />
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The elephant is 4 times more sensitive to smell than a bloodhound. And a bloodhound has 230,000,000 scent receptors in its nose (a human only has 6,000,000). So you do the math there. It's been said that an elephant can smell water from several miles away.<br />
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An elephant can also lift up to 770 pounds with its trunk as well as snorkel while staying submerged under water.
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jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-88555092331787089802014-06-20T15:07:00.000-07:002014-06-20T15:07:05.031-07:00TOYYYYSSSSSS!!!!!So today is gonna be short and sweet.<br />
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The longest continuous selling toy is BUBBLESSSSS<br />
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jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-55035778032799809762014-06-13T11:18:00.001-07:002014-06-13T11:18:41.546-07:00Does This Taste Rotten To You? That is one question I have never quite understood? Why would I want to taste something that is spoiled? Same thing with "Does my breath smell bad"?<br />
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Anyways. That is one thing someone can never ask you when it comes to honey. That's because honey is the one food that will never spoil. Sure there are some foods like dried rice, salt, and molasses that can last for a very long time. But not in its basic raw form. Archeologists have found pots of honey that are thousands of years old.<br />
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And the reason for that is that first off it is a sugar which contains very little water because it is hygroscopic. Due to the fact that all the little bee wing flapping dries out the nectar as the honey is being made. There for bacteria has a hard time thriving in there because there is no moisture.<br />
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Honey is also acidic. Even though it is so sweet it surprisingly has a pH value of about 3.5 which will destroy most living things trying to grow in it. <br />
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Also when bees regurgitate the nectar from their stomachs it's been processed by an enzyme called glucose oxidase which breaks the nectar down into the gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide. And as we all know hydrogen peroxide is not an easy place for bacteria to live.<br />
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So if you keep that jar sealed it will remain unspoiled FOR EVERRR.<br />
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One word that has always stuck out in my mind since high school has been the word "CLEAVE". It is one of the only few words in the English language that are a homonym, and a homograph, and an antonym at the same time. That is, it's a word that is spelled exactly the same, it's pronounced exactly the same, yet it has two meanings that are different. And not just different but they also happen to mean the exact opposite. It's a word called a CONTRONYM. <br />
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Cleave can either mean to adhere or stick together as well as it can mean to split or separate. And that is why the word (and the image itself) of "cleavage" is the best thing ever.<br />
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At this particular spot the entire United States of America is split in two. And I mean literally split into two parts. It's not a wall, it's not a road, but a creek.
This particular creek splits in two and one end runs 1,353 miles, connecting to the Pacific Cree, Snake, and Columbia River, to the Pacific and the other runs into the Atlantic 3,488 miles later via the Atlantic Creek, Yellowstone, Missouri, And Mississippi River.<br />
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Might just have to travel there one day and drop two little toy sailboats going each direction.
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Non-charged particles called neutrinos are being fired through the emptiness of space from the sun, supernovas, and remnants of the big bang. These particles are traveling nearly the speed of light and basically unstoppable. They are so small that they travel right through anything in its path. Including your body.<br />
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Every single second 65,000,000 of those little buggers travel through every inch of your body tallying up to about 100,000,000,000,000 every single second passing right through you like some late night Taco Bell. <br />
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That's a trillion trillion of them passing through you in your life time. If you were to tally up every single one of those and collect them through your life it would weigh about 0.15 grams.<br />
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<span class="st">You may not realize this but you are only 10% human and 90% bacteria. Hard to believe but there are over 1,000 strains of bacteria living on or within your body upwards in the 100 trillions. We are more of a symbiotic organism than anything. </span><br />
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<span class="st">We wouldn't be able to live without these bacteria. The bacteria in our bodies help digest our food, fight off disease, break down vitamins, and give us x-ray vision (at least it does for me). </span><br />
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All matter is composed of mostly empty space. Atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space and the weight of all those quarks, nuclei, protons, and electrons makes up just 1-2% of its weight. That means that 98% of the weight of your body consists of the energy required to keep you from exploding basically.<br />
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So what does that mean really? Well if you were to remove all the empty space between atoms and the empty space between all that which makes up an atom you would be so small I couldn't even begin to make you understand. So let's just say this. If you removed all the space of the atoms of every single person that has ever lived on this earth, and I'm not talking about just living today, OF ALL TIME, then it would take up about the size of a sugar cube. All 110,000,000,000 of them that have ever lived. Now we could expand that. All the matter in of our solar system could fit inside a baseball. And all the matter of the entire gallaxy of the Milky Way could fit inside the city of London.<br />
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Of course if we were to remove all the space from the atoms of everything on earth then that would release such a ridiculous amount of energy all at once that the cosmic explosion of a star exploding would be a close proximity.<br />
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jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-47576740287377862122014-01-10T10:01:00.001-08:002014-01-10T10:01:17.443-08:00"A VOID" the E<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I don't read much of anything. In fact I have just read one book by choice since I graduated college and in college I didn't read much either. But I LOOOOOVE knowledge. I am a visual learner and don't have the attention span to finish a book, let alone a paragraph usually. <br />
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That said there is one book I absolutely want to read. It's called "A Void". It's a 300 page French noir novel written by Georges Perec in 1969 and it's written without using a single use of the letter E. The only time it is used in the entire novel is the authors name.<br />
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The plot revolves around a group of people looking for a missing person named Anton Vowl. There are several subplots within the story each one involving something lacking in their life.<br />
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Even writers who have critiqued this work have taken on the challenge of not using a single E.<br />
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<br />jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-64433550498781176082013-11-15T19:38:00.004-08:002013-11-15T19:38:42.902-08:00You can LICHTENBERG my balls.... The Lichtenberg Figure are the jagged branches of an electrical discharge usually through materials surrounding high voltage conduits. But not just in electrical insulation but other places in nature.<br />
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Obviously the most common example of what it looks like are lightning bolts. But even less common are "lightning flowers" which are the markings left behind on lightning strike victims. They are caused by ruptured capillaries under the skin that branch out from the location of the strike.<br />
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The on going master debate on the mysteries of "the morning wood" rages on and may just be one of the hardest and longest curiosities of all time. The technical term however isn't "my morning glory", but in fact is called "nocturnal penile tumescence." </div>
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There may be many theories that arise when searching for this pounding question of the male anatomy. Whatever the reason may be, there is one interesting fact that I have learned that may shed some light on the subject. An erect penis is in fact a completely relaxed penis while a flaccid penis is actually flexing. I know that is hard to grasp. </div>
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In a lot of other mammals, and primates, the erection is helped by the Baculum. (No, no , no... you're thinking of Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap). The baculum is an actual boner bone that allows for prolonged coitus (or banging) in these animal species. In humans, however, there is no bone, but only three compartments filled with blood vessels. During sexual arousal they fill with blood and provides the mans wang with enough of Popeye's spinach necessary for making a stiffie. </div>
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In order for that to happen though the muscles around the blood vessels must completely relax for the blood to be able to chub up. Afterwards the muscles flex and restrict the flow leaving nothing but a limp noodle behind. </div>
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jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-80161732209144784082013-06-07T11:29:00.003-07:002013-06-07T11:29:45.799-07:00TODAY IS GOONIES DAY....28 years ago today was the debut of The Goonies. A movie that changed many peoples childhoods and has given us all dreams of finding a pirate ship or hidden treasure or pulling a fast one over on some bad guys. <br />
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I bet no one of you know The Goonies oath though? I sure didn't because it was cut out of the film so I found it.<br />
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"I will never betray my goon dock friends / We will stick together until the whole world ends / Through heaven and hell, and nuclear war / Good pals like us, will stick like tar / In the city, or the country, or the forest, or the boonies / I am proudly declared a fellow Goony."<br />
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Another little side note is that the pirate ship was in fact not a special effect. They constructed a full sized ship for the movie. None of the cast had seen the ship until the big scene where they zipped down the water slides. It had to be re-shot because most of them ended up swearing when they first saw the ship. <br />
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The pirate ship was offered to anyone that would take it off their hands after the movie was filmed but no one was able to take it so the ship had to be destroyed sadly.<br />
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<br />jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-22984013688535916652013-03-29T09:37:00.000-07:002013-03-29T09:37:15.858-07:00March Madnessssss (with 18 s's at the end) Unlike 98% of America right now, I am one of the few who does not have an NCAA Bracket filled out. I don't follow sports at all really and I hope you all forgive me for that.<br />
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BUT I am a huge geek when it comes to numbers and crap. So I was having a discussion with my room mate about the bracket and wondered if anyone had ever had a perfect prediction before. He said probably not very likely and I thought well there are so many people playing every year its bound to happen. Little did I think about the number of teams.<br />
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So I looked up the odds and almost dropped my phone when I saw the unlikely hood that you would ever get a perfect bracket predicted. Take a second to guess. I thought perhaps 1 in 5,000,000 or maybe even 1 in 50,000,000. I would have even considered 1 in 5,000,000,000. But I was so wrong.<br />
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The odds are 1 in 9.2 QUINTILLION. Thats 9 with 18 0's after it. The actual number is 9,223,372,036,854,775,808<br />
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When you cut an onion you release the amino acid sulfoxides from the cells . Those mix with the sulfenic acids to produce propanethiol S-oxide, a volatile sulfur that mixes with the air and enters your eyes. This reacts with the water in your eyes to form sulfuric acid. The burning sulfuric acid causes tears that create more sulfuric acid.<br />
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My solution is I put a plastic bag over my head and pull down over my eyes. Other wise some ski goggles will work if you got them.<br />
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After coming up with their name Muse the band came up with the title for their first song "Muscle Museum" by looking up the word Muse in the dictionary and taking the first word to come before and after and combining them.<br />
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Lead singer/lead guitarist/and pianist Matthew Belamy, holds the world record for smashing the most guitars in a single tour. 140 of them in total for the Absolution tour.<br />
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<br />jean-marcus strole photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748715045245263761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900311676994656199.post-34365890683410391012013-01-25T09:54:00.002-08:002013-01-25T09:54:49.011-08:00Kenny G..G..G.... G.. G.. G... G-Unittttt!Kenny G.....Back in my middle school and high school days of playing sax I couldn't get enough of this guy. Love him or hate him (you really have no reason to hate him because the man is damn talented) you gotta just dig on that hair. That ish is signature and so glad he has kept it and I don't see him getting rid of it ever. UNLIKE his last name.<br />
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Brace yourself. His real last name is Gorelick. Kenny Gorelick. Not quite the same ring as Kenny G. So don't blame him for shortening it.<br />
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On a side note did you know that he is Adam Levine's older brother. Check out a side by side below and picture Adam with his hair. It's uncanny. I know you agree with me on this. (okay maybe not really brothers at all but nothings impossible)<br />
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Since Die Hard 5 "A Good Day To Die Hard" is coming out soon I thought I would share a little fact that many Die Hard fans don't know. I sure didn't. Normally I write out my facts but this time I thought I would just quote the man who wrote the article where I read it. Daniel O'Brien wrote this for <a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-simple-rules-not-screwing-up-die-hard-sequel/">www.cracked.com</a> Click the link to read his fun thoughts on how to not screw up the latest movie.</div>
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Stig Severninsen of Denmark broke his last record of 20 minutes 10 seconds by dropping his heart rate down to 30bpm while submerged in 30 degree water.<br />
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