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DieAutobahn

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Apr 24 08 7:45 PM

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Sega stopped making consoles after the DreamCast due to their tendency to catch fire.

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Apr 25 08 10:30 AM

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That wasn't quite the whole story :P That they were making a huge loss on each console was probably the MAIN thing.

Beavers' teeth are orange; they contain irona s well as calcium, because they're so hard.

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Apr 25 08 10:44 AM

I know I said this in a different chat.

There are 209 possible elemental type combos of pokemon.
I figured this out by using 20 types plus one "blank," and taking out the Flying-blank
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Apr 25 08 2:30 PM

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Actually, every gaming company loses money on every console. If you thought US$599 was bad for a PS3, imagine what they would have charged for them if they'd wanted to make a profit.

Video game companies make up for their losses in console sales, and make all of their total profits, on game sales. I guess Sega just failed to do that with Dreamcast. Too much of a per-console loss, perhaps?

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Apr 25 08 3:52 PM

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San Francisco group The Residents were reportedly sued by EMI and Capitol Records over their first released album Meet The Residents' cover art.

However, The Beatles themselves reportedly liked the album cover and bought a copy.
Dick Clark had the copy of yet another Residents album blown up and put on his wall.

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Apr 27 08 8:31 AM

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Now some facts about extinct animals!

The passenger pigeon, now extinct, was once the most common bird in the world.
The mammal-like reptile Lystrosaurus made up half of all animals on the planet during the late Permian period.
The prehistoric ancestor of whales and dolphins looked remarkably like a wolf.
A large ornithomimid discovered in New Mexico was named Gojirasaurus after the famous movie monster Godzilla.
During the Carboniferous period, the continent of Antarctica was on the equator.

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Apr 27 08 11:28 AM

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Platypodes have a poisonous spine on the back of their legs, making them one of the only species of poisonous mammal on the planet.

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Apr 27 08 2:01 PM

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They again, they ARE in their own subcategory of mammals, shared only with echidnas.

DieAutobahn

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Apr 27 08 8:00 PM

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Such a subcategory is defined by their capability to lay eggs.

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Apr 28 08 1:24 AM

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In part, yes; the reason it's not so clear is that mammals are so called because of our mammary glands (boobies!). Every mammal, otehr than the monotremes, has teats ofr the young.

So where doe sit come from on the platypus and echidna? They sweat it out of their skin.

They still have the glands, so they count as mammals, but they're unusual ones.

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Apr 28 08 2:33 AM

Why can't the platypus just be a furry duck?

DieAutobahn

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Apr 28 08 5:50 PM

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Sharks urinate through their skin.
Female spotted hyenas have appendages which resemble the reproductive organs of the males.

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Apr 29 08 2:44 AM

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One time, a cookie-cutter shark took a big bite out of a submarine.

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Apr 29 08 1:48 PM

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Shark's skeletons aren't made of bone, but cartilage.

Sharks can't suck air into their gills, they have to keep moving to stay alive. Lazy sharks in aquariums can be seen with their mouths over the pumps, getting high.

Sharks fall asleep if you turn them upside-down.

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Apr 29 08 3:04 PM

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Sea hags (a type of eel or something) can tie themselves into a knot.

Gelatop

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Apr 29 08 4:22 PM

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Antarctros will like this one. Albatrosses sleep while flying.

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Apr 29 08 4:30 PM

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@Gelatop: Whuzzat, a barnacle?

In topic-related news, there exists a finch in the Galapagos that feeds on blood.

New Hampshire, my home state, was the state to ratify the Constitution. You all would've been under Britain's rule if WE hadn't voted for independence!

Actually, would it have been any better if Britain ruled us?

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Apr 29 08 4:36 PM

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New Hampshire, my home state, was the state to ratify the Constitution. You all would've been under Britain's rule if WE hadn't voted for independence!

...ow. First, if New Hampshire hadn't, someone else would have. Second, wrong document. Constitution != Declaration of Independence. The Constitution wasn't finalized until 1787.
Nothing personal, but I'm a fellow New Hampshirite and I have to defend New Hampshire's honor.

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Apr 29 08 4:45 PM

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Oh, you must've never seen the drawing in the Garnet and Peridot thread. Come to think of it, you were completely gone until about a week or two ago! I see why you never saw it. That drawing is....Gelatop. Trapinch, that drawing is a drawing I DID IN PHOTOSHOP around SEPTEMBER or OCTOBER. That drawing is what my name is named after!

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Apr 29 08 4:46 PM

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Whoops. I read wrong.

Also, high five fellow New Hampshirite!

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