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1. almost 11 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   The Empire State Building has two relativity effects. General relativity says you age slower in a stronger gravity field. Special relativity says you age slower if you are travelling faster. The monkey is travelling a bit faster because of earth’s rotation. The math is difficult. It’s not clear which effect wins, unless we trust that they have done the math correctly.

2. about 11 years ago on Beardo

   What’s the thing in the box? Is it a wad of paper?

3. about 11 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   The oldest is 105, the youngest is 78. It will be fun to watch this number go up or down.

4. about 11 years ago on The Born Loser

   Another version: Owed two a spell check her.I have a spelling check her, 
It came with my pee sea. 
It plane lee marks four my revue
 Miss steaks aye can knot sea.Eye ran this poem threw it,
 Your sure reel glad two no.
 Its vary polished in it’s weigh.
 My checker tolled me sew.A checker is a bless sing, 
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
 It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
 And aides me when eye rime.Each frays come posed up on my screen 
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
 The checker pours o’er every word
 To cheque sum spelling rule.Bee fore a veiling checker’s
 Hour spelling mite decline. 
And if we’re lacks oar have a laps,
 We wood bee maid too wine.Butt now bee cause my spelling
 Is checked with such grate flare,
 Their are know fault’s with in my cite, 
Of nun eye yam a wear.Now spelling does knot phase me, 
It does knot bring a tier.
 My pay purrs awl due glad den 
With wrapped word’s fare as hear.To rite with care is quite a feet
 Of witch won should bee proud,
 And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
 Sew flaw’s are knot aloud.Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
 Such soft wear four pea seas,
 And why eye brake in two averse
 Buy righting want too pleas.

5. about 11 years ago on The Born Loser

   I think truecanadianliberal was just declaring his Canadian-ness with “coloured/coloried” correction

6. about 11 years ago on The Born Loser

   Typing in Word can make it so misspelled words are automatically colored. Also try typing your word into google and it will suggest corrections to. The major mistakes it doesn’t catch our the mistakes made when you spell another correct word but not the won you mean. hehe

7. about 11 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   The left handed thing is based on a flawed study that noted that the number of older people who are left handed is less than the number of young people who are left handed. It turns out that if you are older you were likely trained at a young age to be right handed because being left handed was considered wrong.

8. over 11 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   What size and type of font is used for that calculation?

9. over 11 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   If he never wore them twice, why did he keep them?

10. over 11 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    The moon has two relativistic situations going. First the gravity, less gravity speeds time, but then it is revolving around the earth. Artificial satellites that do that have slower clocks than Earth, so I wonder if Ripley’s was ignoring the second. I don’t know which one wins.