Trivial Facts
Number of calories in a Hershey's Kiss: 25
Number of calories burned in a one-minute kiss: 26
On May 15, 1930, Miss Ellen Church became the first person to serve as an
airline hostess.
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The Laws of Nature
All things are subject to fixed laws.
- Marcus Manilius
Natural laws have no pity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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Lorenz's Law of Mechanical Repair
After your hands become coated with grease, you'll have to pee.
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Beach's Law
Identical parts aren't.
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Anthony's Law of the Workshop
Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
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Anthony's Law of Force
Don't force it, get a larger hammer.
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Lowery's Law
If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
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Muir's law
When we try to separate anything out by itself, we find it hitched
to everything else in the universe.
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Jake's Law
Anything hit with a big enough hammer will fall apart.
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Peer's Law
The solution to a problem changes the problem.
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William's Law
There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute
strength and ignorance.
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Handy guide to modern science
If it's green or wriggles, it's biology. If it
stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics.
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Leopold's Rule
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
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Ralph's Observation
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a
hurry.
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Cannon's Comment
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the
next morning you will have a flat tire.
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Law of inevitable consequences.
The newer the carpet the greater the likelihood that the bread will land
jelly side down.
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Cliff-hanger Theorem
Each problem solved introduces a new unsolved problem.
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Gumperson's Law
The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.
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Sevareid's Law
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
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Simon's Law
Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.
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McGurk's Law
Any improbable event which would create maximum confusion if it did occur, will
occur.
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Law of Probable Dispersal
Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed
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Law of Hydrodynamics
When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.
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Law of the Supermarket
The other line moves faster.
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Law of Machines
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.
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