Tell me something I don't know...?

Question

Make it interesting and appropriate.

Answer 1

First you don't know my answer!

I'd like to tell you something about gemstones that you might not know. Diamonds come in all colors including black and they are cubic (one axis) minerals created by volcanic eruptions; not by millions of years of creation. Incredible pressure and heat create them and trace elements such as magnesium, iron, nitrates and others cause the different colors. The same is true of garnets.

These gems "grow" from a single simplistic crystal the size of a grain of sand and only stop growing when the environment ceases to exist. That is why a diamond is either small or large, depending upon how long it is exposed to the ideal conditions that collect the atoms that allow it to keep growing larger.

As one who worked with the Smithsonian Institution in identifying and assigning value to many gems, I viewed a 3 carat diamond that had a perfect garnet crystal in the very middle of it as an inclusion. Garnets are not cubic, but dichroic (two optical axis) and they have a tetragonal lattice and form as what is known as a dodecahedron, which has 12 sides if developed without being distorted by unequal pressure.

There is only this one cut diamond that has ever produced this perfect garnet crystal; the one I mentioned. The diamond grew around the garnet which makes it most unusual. The diamond was graded as D in color and SI2 quality. D - flawless would have made this diamond worth about $80,000, but since the inclusion was so unusual and measured to be exactly in the middle of this cut stone, the value we assessed to be $1,670,000.

The gem was given to the National Appraising Lab for identification and value. is in the possession of a private collector whom I am at not liberty to disclose.

I have not copied and pasted any of this information since I was one of the three who valued it. I doubt you will find it on the web, but you might. I pride myself on writing original material and only three people I know have ever held this stone. My professor Antonio Bonanno (a published gemologist who is now deceased) and a colleague, Brian Brown.

Another interesting fact is that diamonds melt at a higher temperature than they burn. With a low content of oxygen, they will melt at a very high temperature, 2200 degrees, but will burn in an oxygen environment of 1800 degrees.

Answer 2

A friend of mine told me this story. He was driving in town at a time when there's generally not much traffic. However this particular day had an inordinate amount traffic. The street he was on had a median and he stopped to let not just one, but two cars through. The car behind him let him have it with the horn. He rolled down his window lifted up his left arm and extended the traditional gesture of the middle finger to the driver behind him. This was met with another boisterous honk and another flip from my friend. He drove on and the car stayed behind. The closer my friend got to his destination, the more flustered he became. Then he took a right on to the sidestreet this fine Sunday morning to go to church. And the car followed. Now he was redfaced! "I just flipped a churchmember!" He wisely drove past the church and the car was still behind him, and he breathed a prayer that the occupants in the car were non-church goers as he parked 6 blocks past the church.

The moral? God does answer prayer.

Answer 3

Did you know that when you have a brain freeze, pressing your tongue to the top of your mouth will make it go away?

Heres another

Last year, the planet Pluto was found not to be a real planet but was replaced by another planet they found. They named this new planet after the Zuni god, Sedna.

Interesting? Heres a star for a cool question!

Answer 4

There are very few guidelines regarding security guards. Your life is probably in the hands of a 21 year old who has watched a job video in which the company puts all their faith. Let's try to get our security up to some kind of standard!!!

Answer 5

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I am the most beautiful person in the world.

Hmm.... I'll give you second place. I'm sorry but I am a hottie in a naughty body and there is no room for negotiation. My apologies :(.

If you were to ask a question on Y/A telling people to pick who's more beautiful and I guarantee I'd win.

lol


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Answer 6

Sort of inappropriate, but not really, and I'm pretty sure you didn't know this: A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

Also, did you know ancient Egyptian priests plucked every single hair from their bodies? Including pubic hair and eyelashes.

And finally, did you know that the human heart pumps blood at a pressure strong enough to spurt it 30 feet?

Answer 7

well..
when it was basketball season i got to deliver the nba game ball out to the ref on the floor of nets stadium!
courtesy of my dad

if tht doesnt tickle your fancy then taste this

Pete Wentz's whole name is
Pete Louis Kingston Wentz III
and he LOVES hotpockets and uncrustables
and stole a golf cart and rode down the stair with it on honda civic tour!

lol those r good rite?? XP

Answer 8

1.)chewing gum prevents your eyes from watering when peeling onions
2.)bats always turn left when exiting a cave
3.)the higher your iq, the more zinc in your hair
4.)charlie chaplin once took third in a charlie chaplin look a like contest.

Answer 9

As soon, as I get home from work, I get right on Yahoo answers and it is not like I am not on Yahoo for the most part while I am at work.

Answer 10

Q: What do you call a deer with no eyes?

A: No eye-deer!


Aw, shucks, I don't know either! ....I tried!..


Chilly Academic: Absolutely inappropriate.Well,
at least we know why they squeal, at last! Still, you disrepected rawrr!'s question.