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I thought I could design a desalination plant that would run in perpetuity for no power by sliding the left over salt down a really long chute with a bunch of turbines that would power the coils and evaporator turbines and poo poo and also the pump to bring in more sea water if the chute was long enough. before dumping the brine or whatever back into the sea. and that would give water to all the thirsty people in Africa or whatever
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I thought that wolverines were female wolves until I was 20
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Mar 24, 2017 22:05
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thought i could catch airplanes if i stood on a chair
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I thought if I fell through the the insulation in my grandma's attic it would transport me to a random location on Earth. Idk why parents tell their kids poo poo like this.
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i thought that sex was just putting the penis into the vagina and holding it still until something happened. i later found out that this was a thing that unmarried mormon kids would do because it wasn't technically "sex"
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:i thought that sex was just putting the penis into the vagina and holding it still until something happened. i later found out that this was a thing that unmarried mormon kids would do because it wasn't technically "sex" 
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Mar 24, 2017 22:12
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I had a classmate from one of those families that has a billion kids and watched a birth once. He had all of us convinced babies come from the butt. Why wouldn't we believe him? We were like 8 and he watched it happen.
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Mar 24, 2017 22:19
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I thought growing up would be neat
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I thought broccolis were tiny trees. That you could withdraw infinite money from ATMs. One of my earliest memories so I was really young. That tomatoes caused nosebleeds. First time I remember eating one I was already skeptical, then added the association to the color red and getting a spontaneous nosebleed when actually having to eat one, yeah.
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Mar 24, 2017 22:38
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Falukorv posted:First time I remember eating one I was already skeptical, I feel like everyone has this experience with tomatoes
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Mar 24, 2017 22:52
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its like "this is like an apple but savory instead of sweet? sounds fake but ok..."
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Mar 24, 2017 22:53
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why can't a tomato be a hand fruit??
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:why can't a tomato be a hand fruit?? It... it can't?
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Mar 24, 2017 22:58
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If the wealthy have more money, it will trickle down to the poors and everyone will be better off.
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Mar 24, 2017 23:00
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:why can't a tomato be a hand fruit?? Because it has to-ma-toes (too many toes)
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Mar 24, 2017 23:01
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I thought babies came out of a woman's butt. Still not totally convinced they don't.
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I used to think feet were just weird hands that you walk on, but now I realize that hands are just weird feet that you grasp with.
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smug n stuff posted:My friend told me if you went to a place in Neopets at exactly midnight you could get a special Neopet thing, so I stayed up late to try it like three times before my mom told me that kid was a fuckin liar. That probably actually did happen, neo pets loved doing poo poo like that and your mom just lost you like, a poo poo load of neopoints
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Arrhythmia posted:That probably actually did happen, neo pets loved doing poo poo like that and your mom just lost you like, a poo poo load of neopoints lmao i thought so. I'll bet that person's mom was a pro neopets player and didn't want them knowing her secrets
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Mar 24, 2017 23:20
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:why can't a tomato be a hand fruit?? grape and cherry tomatoes! I think the bigger ones would be too messy as handfood.
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Mar 24, 2017 23:23
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I eat tomatoes like apples all the time. Believe in yourself
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Mar 24, 2017 23:25
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Fresh tomatoes are fantastic to eat by themselves. Try growin' some tomato plants and eating em. It's real good.
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Windshield wipers are dumb why not just have compressed air jets blow off the windshield? There are many reasons why this is both impractical and an overcomplicated solution to a simple problem. I think there's a reason Boeing uses wipers to this day.
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Arrhythmia posted:That probably actually did happen, neo pets loved doing poo poo like that and your mom just lost you like, a poo poo load of neopoints gently caress is neopets still around? maybe I'll try it and prove mom wrong 
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So my brother and I used to watch The Rocketeer all the time and we come from a classic aviation family so at the beginning when the mechanic guy tells the pilot that his girlfriend is "gonna fly the coop" we were confused because there was a plane called a Monocouope was parked in the background and we couldn't find a reason why Jennifer Connelly flying "the 'coupe" would ever be a bad thing
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Mar 25, 2017 00:12
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Does light slow down when it goes thru glass vs when it goes thru air? Maybe you could make a material that slows it down by like 5 hours and leave it in the sun. Then at night you could bring it in the house and the photons would slowly come back out. You could prob do something completely insane with it too but i'd use it to keep natural sunlight for a while
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Mar 25, 2017 00:21
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You'd need some very thick glass.
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Rivers flowed inland from the ocean
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smug n stuff posted:gently caress yeah but it's poo poo now sorry
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Mar 25, 2017 01:16
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When my much-older-than-me big sister was fired from Orange Julius, my mother said it meant she didn't work anymore. For years I thought that meant my sister would never get another job.
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how did your sister get fired
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Mar 25, 2017 02:40
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cool new Polack jokes posted:Rivers flowed inland from the ocean This reminds me of one: I literally could not comprehend how the nile flowed towards the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is above the nile!!
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i thought that vaginas were in the same location as penises, so it confused me why you couldn't see an opening when a woman was standing up
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Khazar-khum posted:When my much-older-than-me big sister was fired from Orange Julius, my mother said it meant she didn't work anymore. For years I thought that meant my sister would never get another job. "Willkommen auf Orange Julius!" 
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Mar 25, 2017 02:56
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As a child I thought moustaches were very long nostril hair.
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I had a Snoopy encyclopedia/facts book. It stated that the average human breathed enough to fill a Goodyear blimp, in their entire lifetime. So I thought that if I didn't breathe as much I would live longer. Ironically my organic chemistry professor recently said "Every breath is a step towards death" so maybe I wasn't COMPLETELY stupid?
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Osric posted:As a child I thought moustaches were very long nostril hair. There's no rule saying they can't be Docahedron posted:I had a Snoopy encyclopedia/facts book. It stated that the average human breathed enough to fill a Goodyear blimp, in their entire lifetime. heh I bet this dope thinks oxidative stress is the cause of all aging
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There was an ad on tv for a home air filtering device that showed cigarette smoke curling into it and clean air coming out. All you have to do is make really big ones of those and put them on top of every smokestack and you get rid of all air pollution. I can't believe adults haven't thought of this yet.
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Ralph Hurley posted:There was an ad on tv for a home air filtering device that showed cigarette smoke curling into it and clean air coming out. that's actually p much exactly what they do in countries with regulations.
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i thought vampire teeth had holes in them and they sucked blood up through their teeth like lil sharp pointy straws i have since learned that they just bite your flesh open with their pointy fangs and then slurp the blood with their mouth and swallow it like normal 
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