Africa is the second biggest continent on Earth.

Africa is the second most populous content, home to roughly 12 percent of all humans or 840 million people.

Cairo is the largest city with over nine million inhabitants.

The largest country in Africa is Sudan.

The coastline of Africa is 18,950 miles long.

The longest river is the Nile with a length exceeding 4,150 miles.

The Nile is the longest river in the world.

Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and feeds the Nile.

Africa has eight percent of the world’s oil reserves.

Africa produces nearly 50 percent of the gold in the world.

Africa produces 50 percent of the diamonds in the world.

The largest mountain is Mount Kilimanjaro at over 19,317 thousand feet.

With over 11 million square miles of land, it accounts for 5.7 percent of the Earth surface and over 20 percent of the total land surface of the earth.

The Sahara Desert is the largest in the world.

The Sahara is more than 3.5 million square miles in size.

Africa was connected to South America millions of years ago before the tectonic plates moved away from each other.

Africa is currently moving slowly in a northeast direction.The Romans termed the continent “Africa Terra”, which evolved into Africa.

Africa is the place where humans first existed.

Fossil remains show humans existed in Africa over 4 million years ago and perhaps as long as 7 million years.

The first recorded dominant civilization in Africa was the Egyptians in 3,300 B.C.

Egypt remained the dominant culture until 343 B.C.

Phoenicians established Carthage in the north around the 9th century B.C.

Romans conquered the Phoenicians in 146 BC and ruled much of North Africa until the 4th Century A.D.

Arabs put their mark on Africa starting in the seventh century A.D. and spread Islam throughout the country.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, European powers began to dominate and eventually colonize much of Africa.

In the mid to late twentieth century, most African nations gained independence.

Africa is currently considered the poorest continent on Earth.

Jesus Fucking Christ Joffa.....

Weird Wyoming Laws



All new buildings that cost over $100,000 to build must have %1 of funds spent on art work for the building.

If one is drunk in a mine, he or she could land in jail for up to a year.

Junk dealers may not make any business transactions with drunk persons.

It is illegal to wear a hat that obstructs people's view in a public theater or place of amusement.

Using a firearm to fish is strictly forbidden.

Any person who fails to close a fence is subject to a fine of up to seven hundred and fifty dollars.

It is illegal for women to stand within five feet of a bar while drinking.

You may not take a picture of a rabbit from January to April without an official permit.

Skiing under the influence of alcohol is prohibited.

In Cheyenne - It is illegal to spit on the steps of a school.

Weird Wisconsin Laws


Butter substitutes are not allowed to be served in state prisons.

Whenever two trains meet at an intersection of said tracks, neither shall proceed until the other has.

As people used to smuggle it in from Illinois, all yellow butter substitute is banned.

Condoms were considered an obsene article and had to hidden behind the pharmacist's counter.

At one time, margarine was illegal.

State Law made it illegal to serve apple pie in public restaurants without cheese.

The state definition of rape stated that it was a man having sex with a woman he knows not to be his wife.

While all cheese making requires a license, Limburger cheese making requires a master cheese maker's license.

It is illegal to kiss on a train.

It is illegal to cut a woman's hair.

Margarine may not be substituted for butter in restaurants unless it is requested by the customer.

The government may not prohibit manual flushed urinals.

One may not camp in a wagon on any public highway or risk a fine of up to ten dollars.

It is a class A misdemeanor to wave a burning torch around in the air.

It is illegal to throw rocks at a railroad car.

Livestock have the right-of-way on public roads.

In Brookfield - Tattooing is illegal unless it is done for medical purposes.

In Brookfield - It is unlawful for one to allow another to use the first person's telephone in order to make prank phone calls.

In Hudson - Screens are required on all windows from May 1 to October 1.

In Hudson - You are not allowed to put litter into someone else's trash receptacle without express permission.

In Hudson - No one may sit on another's parked vehicle without expressed consent of the owner.

In Kenosha - No male is allowed to be in a state of arousal in public.

In La Crosse - It is illegal to tie up your horse along Third Street (Now a major bar strip).

In La Crosse - It is illegal to display an unclothed mannequin in a store window.

In La Crosse - It is illegal to play checkers in public.

In La Crosse - You cannot "worry a squirrel.

In Milwaukee - An old ordinance forbids parking for over two hours unless a horse is tied to the car.

In Milwaukee - It is against the law to play a flute and drums on the streets to attract attention.

In Milwaukee - If one is thought of as offensive looking, it is illegal for him to be in public during the day.

In Milwaukee - It is illegal to purchase or use Sparklers in the city, yet you can buy fully disassembled automatic machine guns.

In Racine - Missiles may not be shot at parade participants.

In Racine - It is illegal to wake a fireman when he is asleep.

In Racine - Women may not walk down a public street at night without being accompanied by a man.

In Sheboygan - Only police officers may shoot birds in the city.

In Sheboygan - No person may water his lawn in such a way as to annoy his or her neighbor.

In Sheboygan - It is illegal to swim in the Fountain Park fountain.

In St. Croix - Women are not allowed to wear anything red in public.

In Sun Prairie - Nuclear weapons may not be manufactured in the city limits.

In Sun Prairie - Persons may not ride a bicycle with their hands off the handlebars.

In Sun Prairie - Cats are forbidden from entering cemeteries.

In Sun Prairie - Even if one gets his/her change "stolen" by a vending machine, hitting the machine violates a city ordinance.

In Sun Prairie - Unremoved snow on one's property is considered a public nuisance.

In Wauwatosa - Reserving a city meeting room under a false name is prohibited.

In Wauwatosa - Spitting on the sidewalk is prohibited.

In Wauwatosa - If a person shall fail to return books he/she has checked out from the library, that person should return their library card to the library until the books are returned.

In Wauwatosa - Swimming in water fountains is prohibited

Weird West Virginia Laws





No children may attend school with their breath smelling of "wild onions.

Unmarried couple who live together and "lewdly associate" with one another may face up to a year in prison.

When a railroad passes within 1 mile of a community of 100 or more people in it, they must build a station and stop there regularly to pick up and drop off passengers.

Any person who commits adultery shall be fined at least twenty dollars.

It is legal for a male to have sex with an animal as long as it does not exceed 40 lbs.

A tax of 1 cent is levied for every 16 and 9 ounces of coke sold in a store.

A person may be placed in jail for up to six months for making fun of someone who does not accept a challege.

It is illegal to snooze on a train.

A person may not hold public office if he or she has ever participated in a duel.

For each act of public swearing a person shall be fined one dollar.

According to the state constitution, it is unlawful for anyone to own a red or a black flag.

If you wear a hat inside a theater, you may be fined.

Roadkill may be taken home for supper.

Whistling underwater is prohibited.

In Alderson - One may not walk a lion, tiger or leopard, even on a leash.

In Huntington - Firemen may not whistle or flirt at any woman passing a firehouse.

It is legal to beat your wife so long as it is done in public on Sunday, on the courthouse steps.

In Nicholas County - No member of the clergy is allowed to tell jokes or humorous stories from the pulpit during a church service.

I'm sorry I can't remember the entirity of the enormous slabs of text that Joffa copies and pastes.

Actually, it was only the 5th post. And it was the only thing he posted in that post.

If anything that affirms my statement, it's an older post, thus since there have been massive slabs of text posted since I am less likely to remember it.

So if you can't remember the slabs of text. And you can't remember the normal posts from before them. Do you actually pay attention to anything that's posted before you?

*Remembers your Post Count*

Nvrmind.

Imagine Joffa's post count if he had posted them all seperatly, actually, it's best not too.

Just because I read it, doesn't mean that I can remember it two days later.

In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first radio factory was opened five years later. Today, there are more than one billion radio sets in the world, tuned to more than 33 000 radio stations around the world. He also predicted that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible. The Wright Brother's first flight covered a distance equal to only half the length of the wingspan of a Boeing 747. He also said, "X-rays will prove to be a hoax."

In the 6th century BC Greek mathematician Pythagoras said that earth is round - but few agreed with him. Greek astronomer Aristarchos said in the 3rd century BC that earth revolves around the sun - but the idea was not accepted. In the 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Erastosthenes accurately measured the distance around the earth at about 40,000 km (24,860 miles) - but nobody believed him. In the 2nd century AD Greek astronomer Ptolemy stated that earth was the centre of the universe - most people believed him for the next 1,400 years.

In the early 20th century a world market for only 4 million automobiles was predicted because "the world would run out of chauffeurs." Shortly after the end of World War II (1945), the whole of Volkswagen, factory and patents, was offered free to Henry Ford II. He dismissed the Volkswagen Beetle as a bad design. Today, more than 70 million motorcars are produced every year. The Beetle became one of the best-selling vehicles of all time.

The telephone was not widely appreciated for the first 15 years because people did not see a use for it. In fact, in the British parliament it was mentioned there was no need for telephones because "we have enough messengers here." Western Union believed that it could never replace the telegraph. In 1876, an internal memo read: "This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." Even Mark Twain, upon being invited by Alexander Graham Bell to invest $5 000 in the new invention, could not see a future in the telephone.

Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner (1793 - 1859) didn't believe that trains could contribute much in speedy transport. He wrote: "Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers ' would die of asphyxia' [suffocation]." Today, trains reach speeds of 500 km/h.

In 1927, H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, asked, "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" In 1936, Radio Times editor Rex Lambert thought "Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine."

Not his fault he didn't have Amanda Kellar or Matt Shirvington to provide him with the 411 on future technology. :P

Gold:lol:

In 1943, Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM forecast a world market for "maybe only five computers." Years before IBM launched the personal computer in 1981, Xerox had already successfully designed and used PCs internally... but decided to concentrate on the production of photocopiers. Even Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, said in 1977, "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

After the invention of the transistor in 1947, several US electronics companies rejected the idea of a portable radio. Apparently it was thought nobody would want to carry a radio around. When Bell put the transistor on the market in 1952 they had few takers apart from a small japanese start-up called Sony. They introduced the transistor radio in 1954.

In 1954, a concert manager fired Elvis Presley, saying, "You ought to go back to driving a truck." In 1962, Decca Records rejected the Beatles, "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

In 1966, Time Magazine predicted, "By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy." In that year too CoCo Chanel said about miniskirts: "It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming."

Sometimes a few decimal places make a massive difference. Investment banks rely on computer models to direct trading activity; in August 2007, Goldman Sachs’ hedge funds and other quant funds were left exposed by a series of market swings, each of which their software predicted would occur only once every 100,000 years. Goldman Sachs required a $3 billion (€1.9 billion) bailout, with other banks joining the hand-out queue.

Perhaps the guy who got it wrong most was the commissioner of the US Office of Patents: in 1899, Charles H. Duell, assured President McKinley that "everything that can be invented has been invented."

So, who invented the paperclip?
When Johann Vaaler patented his paper clip in 1901, therealready were similar designs on the books. William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut patented his design in 1899. Cornelius Brosnan of Springfield, Massachusetts patented his Konaclip in 1900.

So, who was first? Well, it is thought to be Johann Vaaler. Drawings of his design date to early 1899, but since Norway had no patent law at the time, he had to seek patent rights in Germany and the US in the following years.

Johann Vaaler was born on 15 March 1866 in Aurskog, Norway. Known as an innovator in his youth, he graduated in electronics, science and mathematics. He was employed by the owner of a invention office when he invented the paperclip in 1899.

Several designs followed the original. Only a few remain, such as the Ideal, Non-Skid, Owl and Gem.

The first double-oval clip, the Gem, was launched in early-1900 by Gem Manufacturing Ltd of England.

First submarine designed in 1578
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) made sketches of a submarine and William Bourne, a British mathematician, drew plans for a submarine in 1578. But it was only in 1620 that Cornelius van Drebbel, a Dutch inventor, managed to build a submarine. He wrapped a wooden rowboat tightly in waterproofed leather and had air tubes with floats to the surface to provide oxygen. Of course, there were no engines yet, so the oars went through the hull at leather gaskets. He took the first trip with 12 oarsmen in the Thames River - staying submerged for 3 hours.

The first submarine used for military purposes was built in 1776 by David Bushnell (1742-1824) of the US. His "Turtle" was a one-man, wooden submarine powered by hand-turned propellers. It was used during the American Revolution against British warships. The Turtle would approach enemy ships partially submerged to attach explosives to the ships's hull. The Turtle worked well but the explosives did not.

Two rival inventors from the US developed the first true submarines in the 1890s. The US Navy purchased submarines built by John P Holland, while Russia and Japan opted for the designs of Simon Lake. Their submarines used petrol or steam engines for surface cruising and electric motors for underwater travel. They also invented torpedoes which were propelled by small electric motors, thereby introducing one of the most dangerous weapons in the world.

Submarines are also called U-boats, which is short for Unterseeboot, the German word for undersea boat.

The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched in 1955. In 1958 the Nautilus made the first voyage under the polar ice pack, completing the 2945 km (1,830 miles) journey in 6 days.

The first submerged circumnavigation of earth was made in 1960 by the nuclear submarine USS Triton.

Who owns the moon?
The only place in the universe where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, never flies half-mast and does not get saluted, is the moon.

It is, of course, the American flag, the only country to have landed people on the moon even though British Interplanetary Society engineers had in 1939 designed a ship to carry people to the moon. Since Apollo 11 landed on moon on 20th July 1969 untill 1972, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon, spending 170 hours roaming over 60 miles (100 km), planting 6 flags in total. They brought home 880 pounds (400 kilograms) of soil and rock, and 30,000 photographs.

The 6 American flags on the moon were planted during the missions of Apollo 11,12,14,15,16,and 17. The flags of the European Union, Russia, and India are also on the moon but they are displayed on equipment or probes.

The first landing of the moon is celebrated in the festival of Evoloterra on 20th July.

Last man on the moon
The Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon. With Ronald Evans in the command module, Commander Eugene Cernan and scientist Harrison H. Schmitt drove 34 km (21 miles) in the lunar buggy. On December 11, 1972 they left behind a plaque that reads: "Here Man completed his first exploration of the Moon, December 1972 A.D. May the spirit of peace in which we came be reflected in the lives of all mankind." Cernan was the last man to have set foot on another celestial body.

Last words spoken on the moon
The first words spoken on the moon, by Neil Armstrong, are well known, but what were the last words spoken from the moon?

"America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." - Commander Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Mission, 11 December 1972.

Just in case you forgot Neil Armstrong's words: "One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind." On returning to Earth, he explained that he thought he had said "one small step for a man."

Who owns the moon?
Planting a flag on the moon does not mean owning it or any part of it. The United Nations Outer Space Treaty (long name: Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies) of January 27, 1967 states that "outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of occupation, or by any other means."

Untimely inventions
In 1834, Charles Babbage (1792-1871) designed the Analytical Engine, the precursor of the computer. He was unable to obtain funding for it from the government, who thought it would be worthless.

The first fax process was patented in 1843 by Alexander Bain, but fax machines went into service only in 1964. In 1888, Frank Sprague completed an electric railway, but electric locomotives were introduced only in 1895. Eugene Ely landed a plane on a boat in 1911, but aircraft carriers weren't perfected for another 20 years.

The first parachute jump was made from a hot air balloon by Andre-Jacques Garnerinthe in France in 1793. Leonardo da Vinci made detailed sketches of parachutes in 1485. He also sketched studies for a helicopter, a tank and retractable landing gear. The first helicopter that could carry a person was flown by Paul Cornu in 1907. Tanks were first used during World War One in Cambrai, France in 1917. The first airplane with retractable landing gear was built in 1933. Da Vinci also suggested underwater breathing methods. Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnon introduced scuba diving only in 1943, 458 years later.

Although Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, it was only in 1938 that Howard Florey and Ernst Chain found a way to produce it, demonstrating it only in 1942.

Adolph Fick first suggested contact lenses in 1888, and although two companies manufactured lenses out of glass, it wasn't until 1948 when Kevin Tuohy invented the soft plastic lens.

Bar codes were invented by Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland in 1948. Their system used light to read a set of concentric circles, but they had to wait two decades before the advent of computers and lasers made their system practical. (However, the bar code system in use today is the Universal Product Code, introduced by IBM in 1973. The first bar coded item sold was a pack of gum in 1974.)

Modern technology... well, somewhat...
Heron of Greece suggested the used of steam power in 50 BC. But the leaders of the day thought that it would cause unemployment which may lead to unrest and the invention ran out of steam. Steam technology known to the Chinese by 800 BC. Plato, in his Hero of Alexandria of 150 BC, mentioned some 70 steam inventions. But the steam engine reappeared again only in 1698 when Thomas Savery invented a steam pump. The first practical steam engine was the atmospheric machine of Thomas Newcomen in 1701. It was used to operate pumps on coal mines. In 1769, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot drove his steam tractor, officially the first known motorcar, down a street in Paris. In 1804, English inventor Richard Trevithick introduced the steam locomotive in Wales. In 1815, George Stephenson built the world's first workable steam locomotive.

The computer was launched in 1943, more than 100 years after Charles Babbage designed the first programmable device. Babbage dropped his idea after he couldn't raise capital for it. In 1998, the Science Museum in London, UK, built a working replica of the Babbage machine, using the materials and work methods available at Babbage's time. It worked just as Babbage had intended.

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. Peter Carl Goldmark invented the LP record in 1948. The Compact Disc was invented by Joop Sinjou and Toshi Tada Doi in 1979. It took the CD fifteen years to replace the LP.

The first true aircraft carrier, HMS Furious, was converted from a battlecruiser into a flush-deck aircraft carrier in 1917, and it was the prototype of all flat-tops. The first aircraft carriers designed from scratch were HMS Hermes and IJN Hosho, which both were launched in 1920. HMS Furious is the only aircraft carrier which did combat operations in both World Wars. She was scrapped in 1948.

Douglas Engelbart experimented in the 1960's with light pens and steering wheels before deciding on a mouse for computer use.

Bird that barks instead of sings
The Antpitta avis canis Ridgley is a bird that looks like a stuffed duck on stilts and barks like a dog. The bird was discovered by ornithologist Robert S. Ridgley in the Andes in Ecuador in June 1998. Thirty of these long-legged, black-and-white barking birds were found. It apparently had gone undetected because it lives in remote parts and, of course, doesn't sing. The size of a duck, it is one of the largest birds discovered in the 20th Century.

There also are dogs that do not bark! The basenji, smallish dog with a silky copper coat, does not bark. Instead, it yodels when it get excited. Wild dogs like the African Wild Dog also do not bark