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  1. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico have successfully turned tequila into diamonds.
     
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    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Hey, now we're niggas too. I think I'll start spelling my name B'Engal 'b

    In a study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics in December 2014, researchers used the ancestry data compiled by the commercial genetic testing company 23and Me to measure the percentage of African ancestry of people who self-identified as white. It turns out that self-identified white people who live in the South have the highest concentrations of African DNA.

    (Read more: How a biracial woman grew up thinking she was white)

    In South Carolina and Louisiana — the states shaded the darkest green on the map above — researchers found that one in 20 people who called themselves white had at least 2 percent African ancestry. And in a lot of the South, about 10 percent of people who identified as white turned out to have African DNA.

    http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7431391/guess-where-white-americans-have-the-most-african-ancestry
     
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    A Thai delicacy called Mok Huak is made of fried tadpoles.
     
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    In 2014 minting a penny cost the U.S. Mint 1.7 cents. Minting a nickel cost 8.1 cents.
     
  5. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    I await the day when pennies become history. Huge waste of money.
     
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    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    They have been in Korea for a long time. They still spend but the Koreans will never give them back to you. If you are due back .99 they give you a dollar, They owe you .96 you get .95 Same way for the other way, if something comes out to $1.03 you give em the dollar and its good or $1.05 but your ass aint getting no change.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    That shit works for me. Chump change adds up to a huge waste.

    Currency itself will be history in another generation or two.
     
  8. COTiger

    COTiger 2010 Bowl Pick 'Em Champ

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    I'm glad we won't be around. My better half wouldn't be able to cope. :D
     
  9. Bengal B

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    I can't help it. If I see a penny while I'm walking across a store parking lot I pick it up. Probably good exercise.
     
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    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    I usually pick them out of the change and drop them. You've welcome.

    I certainly wouldn't pick one up. Reminds me of an off color joke from back in the day.
     

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