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Diana Asked (in the past):

Why isn't there another word for synonym.

Diana,

There actually there is a synonym for synonym, and it's poecilonym, actually there's two the other one is metonym.




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Kimosabi

Anonymous Asked:

I recently saw the Lone Ranger (new version) in which Tonto explains Kimosabi means "wrong brother". However in the old Lone Rangers I don't remember the Lone Ranger being the wrong brother, so what does kimosabi really mean? And if it really does mean wrong brother, then why did Tonto give this name to the Lone Ranger in the original series?

Whoever you are,

Originally when they were casting for the lone ranger they wanted to cast Clayton Moore (the original lone ranger) but he was dead so they couldn't cast him. So they wanted to go with the next best guy Viktor Hammer but he we not available, so the they went with his brother Armie Hammer whom is the wrong brother.

Pun

Three guys are on a boat and they have four cigarettes, but no lighters or matches or anything to light it with. What do they do?
They throw one cigarette over board and the whole boat becomes a cigarette lighter.





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Novel vs Book

M.H. brealey Asked:

1. What's the difference between a novel and a book? 

2. How old are you before it can be said you died of old age? 

3. If nobody buys a ticket to a movie do they still show it? 

4. If someone owns a piece of land, do they own it all the way to the center of the earth? 

5. Do penguins have knees? 

M.H. Brealey

1. A book, a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
A novel, a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.

2. Old age is of the mind, so if you die when you think you are old (of natural causes) you die of old age.

3. I will answer with a question, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it does it still make a sound.


4. I answered this question in the Braille Olympics post.

5. Yes, penguins have knees there just hidden by feathers.

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Albert Einstein Day

Diana Asked:

Hi Tanner,

What did Albert Einstein do to become so famous? Was it a really hard math problem he solved? 

How did Groundhog day become a national holiday? 

Diana

Albert Einstein became famous when he came up with the theory of relativity, which is actually two theories - Special Relativity and General Relativity.

General Relativity

Says that large objects cause space to bend in the same way that putting a tennis ball on a thin sheet would cause the sheet to bend. The larger the object, the more space bends.

Special Relativity

Says it's impossible to determine if you're moving unless you can look at another object.   It also shows that measurements of distance and time depend on how fast you are traveling. This means that if someone your age goes into space for ten years and travels millions of miles, that person will come back looking two years younger than you!

Groundhog Day

Started in America among the Pennsylvania German communities in the 18th and 19th centuries as a traditional celebration to predict the beginning of spring.

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Just Twelve

John Asked:

John ....if you take the numbers 1 - 24 how many number combinations will you get if you pick just 12 of them


John,

The answer is,
39,916,800
Thirty nine million nine hundred sixteen thousand eight hundred

Pun

A man walks into a doctor's office and asks the doctor to inspect his leg. The man says, "Here, put your ear to my knee."

The doctor puts his ear to the man's knee and hears very faintly, "Come on, can I have five bucks, just five bucks?"

The doctor steps back in horror, and the man says, "I know, but it gets worse. Put your ear to my shin."
The doctor puts his ear to the man's shin and hears very faintly, "Come on, can I have ten bucks, just ten bucks?"

Once again, the doctor stands up, very perplexed. The man then says, "If that surprises you, put your ear to my ankle." The doctor puts his ear to the man's ankle and hears oh so faintly, "Come on, can I have twenty bucks, just twenty bucks?"

The doctor then stands up and says, "Well, I can I make just one conclusion. Your leg is broke in three places."




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Doshamosa-Teri

Flakitaaa Asked:

Hi Genius!
I have a massive geography curiosity that plain google has been unable to solve!
Apparently there is a place called Doshamosa-Teri somewhere on earth, can you find out where this actually is please? Thank you very much in advance!

Flakitaaa,

I have come to the conclusion that no such place exist on earth, sorry to disappoint.

Einstein's Riddle

Einstein wrote this riddle last century and said that 98% of the world's population would NOT be able to solve it.

Are you a part of that 98%?

There are 5 houses that are each a different color.

There is a person of a different nationality in each house.

The 5 owners drink a certain drink. They each smoke a certain brand of cigarettes and also have a certain pet. No owner has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigarettes nor drinks the same drink.

The question is. "Who has the fish?"

CLUES

1. The British man lives in the red house.

2. The Swedish man has a dog for a pet.

3. The Danish man drinks tea.

4. The green house is to the left of the white house.

5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.

6. The person that smokes Pall Mall has a bird.

7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

8. The person that lives in the middle house drinks milk.

9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.

10. The person that smokes Blend, lives next to the one that has a cat.

11. The person that has a horse lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill.

12. The one that smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.

13. The German smokes Prince.

14. The Norwegian lives next to a blue house.

15. The person that smokes Blend, has a neighbor that drinks water.

Do you think you are in the top 2% of the world's population?



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For Five Year Olds

Someone Asked:

Can you explain this to me like I'm 5:
moderate ethanol consumption results in higher levels of antiviral cytokines and an expression profile of microRNAs linked to CD8 T cell differentiation.

person,

Small amounts of alcohol drinking means higher levels of virus attacking cells that split apart, and the measurement of the movement of thousands of genes at once, to create a worldwide picture of cells functions of non-coding genes connected to a kind of white blood cell that kills cancer cells, cells that are infected (particularly with viruses), or cells that are damaged in other ways.





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New Years

Caleb Asked:

Why do we celebrate new years?? I'm mean, I love it & its a ton of fun. but why?

-Caleb

Caleb,

There is not really any reason why we celebrate new years, other then it to be another day to get off work, party, get a hangover, gain a few pounds and stay up late.

Joke

A curious child asked his mother: “Mommy, why are some of your hairs turning grey?”

The mother tried to use this occasion to teach her child: “It is because of you, dear. Every bad action of yours will turn one of my hairs grey!”

The child replied innocently: “Now I know why grandmother has only grey hairs on her head.”



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