{"id":457,"date":"2010-03-29T06:20:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T04:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-04-01T19:08:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:08:39","slug":"what-i-learned-last-week-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonmeister.ca\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/29\/what-i-learned-last-week-38\/","title":{"rendered":"what i learned last week"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. in order for a british train to be oficially “late”, it must arrive more than 10 minutes after it should have. in order for a japanese train to be oficially “late”, it must arrive more than 1 minute after it should have.<\/p>\n

2. apparently, in some parts of canada, you can stop your mom from being an idiot by throwing a knife at her. link<\/a><\/p>\n

3. you can’t bribe people into going to church any more. link<\/a><\/p>\n

4. you should never try to go head-to-head with a giraffe. link<\/a><\/p>\n

5. in saudi arabia, in 2009, at least 69 people were executed by either beheading or crucifixion. (in saudi arabia, a crucifixion is performed by beheading the person, sewing his head back on his body, and then hanging the re-assembled corpse on a pole for public display for a while.) link<\/a><\/p>\n

6. saudi arabia is not a recommended vacation destination for self proclaimed psychics. link<\/a><\/p>\n

7. toads don’t like earthquakes. link<\/a><\/p>\n

8. shakespeare might have been half-french – but only on april 1… link<\/a><\/p>\n

9. facebook was someone else’s idea. link<\/a><\/p>\n

10. magnets can be used to disrupt moral judgements. link<\/a><\/p>\n

11. dr. seuss usually wrote in anapestic tetrameter, although he occasionally slipped into amphibrachic tetrameter or trochaic tetrameter.<\/p>\n

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