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teapot37 wrote:
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9021amyers wrote:The end of the steroid era in baseball ruined my favorite piece of sports trivia: until 2008, the last player to lead his league in home runs while hitting less than 40 was Fred McGriff in both the American and National leagues. Now nobody gets to 40 homers in a year, and I don't know who the best players in baseball are.

I miss knowing that more than I'm going to miss knowing Affirmed.
At least the city of Cleveland not winning a championship since 1964 is not going to change. My wish is for the Bills to be alone as the 0-4 Super Bowl team.
What about the Vikings? They might not have them in a row like my Bills do, but they are 0-4 as well.
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I used to be AWSOP but wanted to be more theatrical.
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Here's one of my all-time favorite trivia questions/factoids: Current Seattle Mariners outfielder Seth Smith came up in the Colorado Rockies organization, where he and all-time Rockies great Todd Helton were teammates from 2007-2011. This is entirely coincidental, however, to what athletic distinction, unique among Major League Baseball players, that the two of them share?
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BigDaddyMatty wrote:Here's one of my all-time favorite trivia questions/factoids: Current Seattle Mariners outfielder Seth Smith came up in the Colorado Rockies organization, where he and all-time Rockies great Todd Helton were teammates from 2007-2011. This is entirely coincidental, however, to what athletic distinction, unique among Major League Baseball players, that the two of them share?
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They both were college football quarterbacks who backed up a Manning brother.
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georgespelvin wrote:Laugh of the day. http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/6/8 ... us-pitcher
Maybe it's a secret word revealed by a golden salamander.
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Interesting infographic on the world's languages. The full, zoomable graphic can be found here: Most Spoken Languages

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Thanks, Andy. There's a lot of interesting information there for a language junkie like me. For instance, Japanese is the biggest language "monoculture" (essentially all the speakers live in Japan). Next on that list is Tegelu, an Indian language I'd never run across before. More surprising is that, after Papua New Guinea, the countries where the most languages are spoken are Indonesia at #2 (707) and Nigeria (!!) at #3. In retrospect, Nigeria makes sense given the ethnic diversity present in many sub-Saharan African countries.
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But why do they have the United States under English?

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bpmod wrote:But why do they have the United States under English?

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Bigger questions why the UK is there. Have you heard some of the words they're passing off as language?
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If we can stand one more infographic for the day, animals that will kill you:
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alietr wrote:If we can stand one more infographic for the day, animals that will kill you:
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alietr wrote:If we can stand one more infographic for the day, animals that will kill you:
I can't wait to teach my daughter that cows kill more people per year than sharks, alligators, bears, snakes, and spiders, combined. And vegetarians are so set on saving them...

Bears really need to step up their game. You have to go to the shark's home court for them because they can't play road games and alligators are fairly confined. Also, does that mean that Grizzly Man is about the one guy, on average, who was killed by a bear in that given year? Because then it makes him seem even that much crazier.
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jfrumkin wrote:
alietr wrote:If we can stand one more infographic for the day, animals that will kill you:
I can't wait to teach my daughter that cows kill more people per year than sharks, alligators, bears, snakes, and spiders, combined. And vegetarians are so set on saving them...
That means now only have cows killed 20 people a year but they've brainwashed others into protecting them.

All the more reason to have a big juicy burger right now. Show those cows who's boss!
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alietr wrote:If we can stand one more infographic for the day, animals that will kill you:
I can't wait to teach my daughter that cows kill more people per year than sharks, alligators, bears, snakes, and spiders, combined. And vegetarians are so set on saving them...

Bears really need to step up their game. You have to go to the shark's home court for them because they can't play road games and alligators are fairly confined. Also, does that mean that Grizzly Man is about the one guy, on average, who was killed by a bear in that given year? Because then it makes him seem even that much crazier.
Crazy is the byword. He died because he did things that no one with a modicum of common sense and any knowledge of grizzlies would do. I've tried to instill in my son the idea that the deadliest animal on Earth is a human: in any encounter between a human and a wild animal, the animal comes out the loser in the vast majority of cases. If a shark had any sense, it'd turn and run the moment it saw a human because they're such bad news.
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What? Cows kill 20 people per year, but bulls don't kill any? So much for the fairer sex.

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I live near where the shark attacks happened this weekend and it was funny to see David Muir yelling about them yesterday. It's terrible what happened but I hope we're not in for another summer of that nonsense.
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bpmod wrote:What? Cows kill 20 people per year, but bulls don't kill any? So much for the fairer sex.

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Woof wrote:Tegelu, an Indian language I'd never run across before.
That's Telegu (which I'd only encountered previously as Telugu).
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seaborgium wrote:
Woof wrote:Tegelu, an Indian language I'd never run across before.
That's Telegu (which I'd only encountered previously as Telugu).
Right you are, Stefan.
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