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Death before Dishonour.

The Floodonian Army

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

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The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

  • 03.11.2008 7:45 PM PDT

And the gears will spin.
And the sinners sin, but at least we'll give them hell.
And the righteous few will spit on you.
So bid them all farewell.

Posted by: Darth1Snyder
I have a hard time feeling sympathy for people who don't have the courage to take charge of their own lives.

75% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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Posted by: dajoe31
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.

The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).

The pancreas produces Insulin.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

World Tourist day is observed on September 27.

Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).

Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

There are more than 1,700 references to gems and precious stones in the King James translation of the Bible.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.

There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.

Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.

St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.

The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.

Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

Beatrix Potter created the first of her legendary "Peter Rabbit" children's stories in 1902.

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.

Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

Liberace Museum has a mirror-plated Rolls Royce; jewel-encrusted capes, and the largest rhinestone in the world, weighing 59 pounds and almost a foot in diameter.

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

Cats can hear ultrasound.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

Children grow faster in the springtime.

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

Paul Revere rode on a horse that belonged to Deacon Larkin.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"

Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

February is Black History Month.

Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.

The first drive-in service station in the United States was opened by Gulf Oil Company - on December 1, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.


This guy type "random facts" on Google and pasted it on to the page because he thought he would look smart. Consider that for your top 10 buddy

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Pudding tastes yummy

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Licorice doesnt acyually conatain any licorice flavoring

Sound traveles 52 times faster through steel

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.


According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun

Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.

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Posted by: masternaruto3
in the time it take you to read this post 20 people died 25 wore born and 40 people somke some sort of drung and 25 leard to read

Were you one of the last 25 people recently?

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Pickles are made from Cucumbers.

  • 03.11.2008 8:46 PM PDT

Posted by: X Rampancy X
JESUS CHRIST I'M COVERED IN BEES
Theme song tiem.
Pezz = win.
Lazer kitty says: PEW PEW PEW!

Drinking diet soda is actually worse for your health than drinking regular soda.

  • 03.11.2008 8:52 PM PDT

when the japanese used to go whailing if they ever caught a male grat whale the would cut of its -blam!- to use it as a rain coat!!!! =0

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-What doesn't kill us makes us who we are.
-Jesus tap dancing christ I feel so in the dark!
-Emo! Because homos exuality just wasn't ga y enough!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist

  • 03.11.2008 9:05 PM PDT

Death before Dishonour.

The Floodonian Army

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

  • 03.11.2008 9:20 PM PDT

Do what it takes to win, cause it's do or die and living aint a sin.


Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.

You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.

In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes.

Under the law of Mississippi, there’s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.

Anti-modem laws restrict Internet access in the country of Burma. Illegal possession of a modem can lead to a prison term.

Lawn darts are illegal in Canada.

In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma. (Think about it...)

A Venetian law decrees that all gondolas must be painted black. The only exceptions are gondolas belonging to high public officials.

In the state of Queensland, Australia, it is still constitutional law that all pubs (hotel/bar) must have a railing outside for patrons to tie up their horse.

According to law, no store is allowed to sell a toothbrush on the Sabbath in Providence, Rhode Island. Yet these same stores are allowed to sell toothpaste and mouthwash on Sundays.

Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.

Chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."

The handkerchief had been used by the Romans, who ordinarily wore two handkerchiefs: one on the left wrist and one tucked in at the waist or around the neck. In the fifteenth century, the handkerchief was for a time allowed only to the nobility; special laws were made to enforce this. The classical heritage was rediscovered during the Renaissance.

For hundreds of years, the Chinese zealously guarded the secret of sericulture; imperial law decreed death by torture to those who disclosed how to make silk.

An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing

1. Drunk drivers in Taiwan can choose their penalty?
2. You are not allowed to eat ice cream while standing on the sidewalk in Carmel?
3. In San Francisco it is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear?
4. A person classified as "ugly" in San Francisco may not walk down any street?
5. In Blythe, California you are not allowed to wear cowboy boots unless you own at least two cows?
6. In France there was once a law against selling dolls without human faces?
7. In Denver Colorado, it is illegal to lend your vacuum cleaner to your neighbors?
8. It is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey?
9. Al Capone was inmate No.85 in Alcatraz?
10. The first Arabic country to have women police officers was Oman?
11. It is illegal to import alcohol into the Maldives?
12. It's illegal to skateboard without a license in Florida?
13. In Quebec, Canada, it's illegal to make yellow margarine. It has to be white?
14. In Alberta, Canada, it's illegal to publicly remove bandages?
15. Bubblegum is forbidden in Singapore?
16. Between 1979 and 1988 chess was banned in Iran?
17. Alcatraz is named after a Spanish word meaning pelican?
18. Pirates almost never had their prisoners walk the plank?
19. To kiss in public was a crime in Naples in 1562?
20. Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, if they work in a tropical fish store?
21. The average criminal sentence length in Colombia is 137 years?
22. Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland?
23. It is forbidden for aircraft to fly over the Taj Mahal, India?
24. In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person?
25. You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt, at least in theory?
26. Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants?
27. It's against the law to sneeze or burp in a church in Nebraska, USA?
28. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer?
29. In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage?
30. Saudi diplomats are said to have 367 outstanding parking fines in Britain?
31. About 65 percent of US prison inmates are tattooed?
32. In Switzerland, it's was once against the law to slam your car door?
33. A law in Fairbanks, Alaska does not allow moose to have sex on city streets?
34. In Scotland, children as young as 8 can be guilty of crimes?
35. It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona?
36. It is illegal to sleep within vehicles in the City of Aspen in USA?
37. On average, each day about 20 banks are robbed in the world?
38. Swimming during the day was illegal in New South Wales from 1833 until 1903?
39. Talking on a cellular phone while driving is against the law in Israel?
40. Did you know that the LAPD had the very first policewoman?
41. Members of the armed forces and the police are not allowed to vote in the Dominican Republic?
42. It was for some time illegal to sell ET dolls in France?
43. 0.7% of Americans are currently in prison?
44. In September 2004, a Minnesota state trooper issued a speeding ticket to a motorcyclist who was clocked at 205 mph?
45. Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have their own bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter?
46. In Maine it is illegal to catch a lobster with your bare hands?
47. Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia?
48. You're 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA as in France?
49. In Quitman, Georgia it is against the law for a chicken to cross the road?
50. It is illegal to get fish drunk in Oklahoma?
51. In Iceland, it was once against the law to have a pet dog?
52. America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation?
53. More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people?
54. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors?
55. A Kentucky law specifies that if you come "face-to-face" with a cow on the road you must remove your hat?
56. Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China?
57. It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland?
58. Swimming during the day was illegal in New South Wales from 1833 until 1903?
59. In Nevada sex without a condom is considered illegal?
60. In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. Waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photo is a crime?
61. A person's chances of being mugged in London are much higher than in New York City?
62. Around 1 in 3 persons in Australia is a victim of crime?
63. 715 of every 100 000 people in America are imprisoned?
64. In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch a mice without a hunting license?
65. Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States?
66. In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death?
67. In Florida it's illegal to wear swimwear while singing in a public place?
68. A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking" stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard the vehicle and stopped him?
69. When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was arrested?
70. Former enemies, Americans and Russians, now have a great deal in common. They both lead the world in locking people up?
71. In Alabama it's against the law to play dominoes on Sunday?

  • 03.12.2008 12:54 AM PDT

Come get some.

Children in Russia are sometimes given a Birthday Pie instead of a Birthday Cake.

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Do what it takes to win, cause it's do or die and living aint a sin.

did you know that babies don't come from storks?

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Nothing to see here folks.


or is there?

When you fart you contribute to global warming.
Books are handleld objects. They have things called pages with "words" on. You Read these
Rhibeana tastes great cause 95% of all bwitish bwackcurrents make it.

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RRRIIIDDDGGGE RRRAAACCCEEERRRR!!!!

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HickChingChong Best gamertag ever

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Nothing to see here folks.


or is there?

Pooo comes out of your rear end. It smellz

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Destinypedia - The Wiki for Bungie's Destiny
Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

The Washington, DC Metropolitan Area has the most lawyers-per-person in the world.

The most commonly used word in the English language is "I." The second most commonly used word is "me." The third most commonly used word is "the."

Nobody knows for sure who invented the f-word.

If you have 23 random people in a room, the chances are better than 50% that two of them will have the same birthday. If you have 57 random people in a room, the chances are 99% that two of them will have the same birthday.

China's population is over 1.3 billion. But 85% of Chinese people share one of only 100 surnames (last names). 260 million Chinese people (1 in every 5) have the last name Li, Wang, or Zhang.






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Clinton really did have -blam!- relations with that woman hahaha

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dying is your latest fashion..

its illegal to spit against the wind in alabama.

Guys are 4 times more likely to get struck by lightning.

Yo Yo's were made to be used as weapons.

cups can hold water!

oh and taco bell is the -blam!- Chikin quesadillas FTW! x46374092834760293845702948572094856
mhmmm.. those things are like sex on my tounge and all the way down to my tummy.. man im hungry.. im going to taco bell.. byebye

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Americans consume about 600 hotdogs per second.

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