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Subject: Say the most random fact to win prizes!
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Posted by: CAPTAIN SARGE
i have to stop because my moms making me get off

Ohhh, that's a good fact.

  • 06.30.2008 2:42 PM PDT
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In Miami, it's illegal to imitate an animal.

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Bungie Studios has been satisfying your mom`since 1991.

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British Columbia Provincial Laws

· It is illegal to kill a sasquatch.

  • 06.30.2008 2:45 PM PDT

Dance, Ye merry fools, Dance. For ye doth not know it yet, but thee tis about to be PWNT at Halo 3 FTW.

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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
what about a very skinny sword??? how about that?? huhhh????

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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.

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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.

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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.

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All my socks are the same colour in order to avoid odd-sock mishaps.

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CNN International produces more than 40 hours of original programming a week

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Sweden has good songs

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In America, more people are killed in incidents involving teddy bears than grizzly bears.

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The popular frog known as Kermit is left handed.
Creamer, the non-dairy kind, is flammable.
It is estimated that 15% of people chew on their toenails.
Dreamt is the only English word ending in the letters mt.
You have to have your back to the sun in order to see a rainbow.
The first use of toilet paper was by the Chinese.
Christmas was not made an annual holiday until 1890.
Koala’s fingerprints are the most like humans than other animals.
The identity of Jack the Ripper is still unknown.
It is estimated that 100 million messages are sent to your brain every second.
318 miles is the speed of the fastest wind ever recorded.
The carrying of a comb in your pocket is illegal in the state of Alabama.
More males are killed by lightening than females.
The shortest sentence in the English language is “I am.”
A crocodile can not move its jaw from side to side.
An elephant can smell water from an amazing 3 miles away.
The leader in brains is the leech, with 32!
Every 45 seconds in the United States a home fire starts.
The leader in noses is the slug with 4.
Ironically the fear of long words is a phobia by the name of hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Vincent Van Gogh sold only a single painting while he was alive.
The Mona Lisa is not signed or dated by Da Vinci.
Everyone knows that a lowercase I has a dot above it, but did you know it’s called a tittle?
The little circles of paper that are left after the use of a hole puncher are called chad.
The Webby Award is the award given to the best web sites.
Punctuation wasn’t used until the 15th century.
Barney, the famous purple dinosaur, comes from Dallas.
On the Hollywood walk of fame, 6 stars belong to fictional characters.
Michael Jackson was the first black artist to have a video appear on MTV.
Only 38% of people in the United States eat breakfast on a daily basis.
The olive tree has a life span of up to 1500 years.
About one trillion tons of water evaporates every day because of the sun.
The average yawn is six seconds long.
Betty Rubble wasn’t included as a Flintstones vitamin until 27 years after they started making them.
The flu vaccine works only 70% all the 90% of the time
Women are blessed with more taste buds than males.
The average home creates more waste products than the average car.
The ‘Times’ man of the year was none else than Adolf Hitler in 1938.



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The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.

More people in China speak English than in the United States.

The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

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A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds (ive put this in but i don't think this is true)

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours (lonely little bugger lol)

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey

There are more chickens than people in the world

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes

The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. (what happens if you have no left hand?)

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon

Every year the sun loses 360 million tons

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "e."

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#151 The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 mph in 1963

#152 In 1985, the fastest bicyclist was clocked at 154 mph

#153 The speed limit in NYC was 8 mph in 1895

#154 Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls

#155 In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC

#156 Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco

#157 The first TV soap opera debuted in 1946

#158 The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles

#159 The first TV show ever to be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger"

#160 One alternative title that had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Cafe"

#161 The first TV network kids show in the U.S. was "Captain Kangaroo"

#162 The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees fahrenheit

#163 The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business"

#164 The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses

#165 Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise

#166 Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers

#167 You have to play ping-pong for 12 hours to lose one pound

#168 One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns

#169 The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip

#170 In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names

#171 The most sensetive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips

#172 The eye makes movements 50 times every second

#173 Chinese is the most spoken language in the world

#174 The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico

#175 In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland

#176 The first bike was called a hobbyhorse

#177 The first sailing boats were built in Egypt

#178 The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00

#179 The first lighthouse to use electricity was the Statue of Liberty in 1886

#180 The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano

#181 The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899

#182 A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon

#183 The Capitol building in Washington DC has 365 steps to represent every day of the year

#184 The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N

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5/4 Americans has a problem with fractions.

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I iz nt uh cllge stoodant.

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Every 8 seconds someone dies of cancer. I give 'em props.

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I've made the most posts so far.

  • 06.30.2008 3:15 PM PDT

when written the numbers one to nintynine do not contain the letters A,B,C or D

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My life revolves around fighting.

  • 06.30.2008 4:50 PM PDT

Do you like Star Wars? How 'bout Sci-Fi in whole?
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fact:im back

  • 06.30.2008 4:58 PM PDT

Do you like Star Wars? How 'bout Sci-Fi in whole?
If you are looking for a great established group ( we have over 700 members ! ) that you would like to have a great time in then come
Join The KOTOR group! Join Now

i love halo

  • 06.30.2008 4:59 PM PDT