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1. The largest planet in the Solar System is Jupiter.
2. Latin plays were comedies, tragedies and pantomimes.
3. There are frozen lakes on Mars.
4. The phrase 'Co Za Asy' means what is ace.
5. All polar bears are left - handed.
6. Seahorses are extremely slow.
7. A giraffes neck can reach the treetops, but not the ground.
8. Microstomiichthyoborousbashforddeani is a fish with a name longer than its body.
9. The sphinx is not a sphinx. It is a statue or Harmachis, a Egyptian god.
10. Honey can be liquid and fragrant even after thousands of years.
11. Make - up was originally used to protect women against the plagues of flies.
12. The oldest hat in the world has been passed down from generation to generation for 1300 years.
13. Disney thought King John was a greedy, evil man which is in fact an error, as he was proven not to be.
14. Tibetan people would greet each other by pointing their thumb up and sticking their tongue out. This was a very friendly greeting.
15. Hydrophobia is a phobia where people are scared of water.
16. Sandwiches were invented by the Earl of Sandwich, who enjoyed eating meat between toast.
17. Liu Ch'ung had two pupils in each eye.
18. There is a tree that can grow letters on it's leaves.
19. In chinese, the symbol for 'peace' is a pig under a roof.
20. Chop Suey is unknown in China.
21. 'Robot' came from a Czech word meaning someone who is forced to work.
22. A pig man - ate from a trough and walked on all fours.
23. A monkey man - would walk and act like a monkey.
24. There is a signpost on Pacific Beach in Washington which says 'USA, left, China, right'.
25. In the Siam, siamese cats were sacred. Hence siamese cats.

[Edited on 06.10.2011 5:11 PM PDT]

  • 06.10.2011 4:48 PM PDT

Don't LOL if you aren't L'inOL.

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26. Whereas dreams are found in another part, nightmares are found in the same part of real memories in the brain. Creepy!
27. The largest statue in the world is the Sleeping Buddha of Bangkok. It is 170 feet long and covered with plates of solid gold.
28. Japan had tailess chickens and chickens with tails up to 18 feet long.
29. Stouts have white fur in the winter.
30. A 1000 year old tree is so unstable that it is supported with crutches.
31. Lanterns are usually paper and other normal materials. Japan, however, inflate puffer fish, dry them and make them into lanterns.
32. The International Moustache Club. Yes. It exists.
33. Sharks and crocodiles go through thousands of teeth in their lifetime.
34. There is a species of turtle which only one left. He is called Jack, and he is over 100 years old and well looked after. Unfortunatly, when he dies, the species will be extinct.
35. New Guinea babies eat grasshoppers.
36. Kookaburra is a bird that laughs like and man and eats snakes. Look it up for its interesting nickname :D
37. If a bulldog ant is cut in two, a fight will begin between the head and the tail.
38. 'Merman' was a trick in around 1842 where a man put a monkey and a fish together and claimed it was a Merman.
39. Volcanos used to be available for purchase.
40. Snakes have hips.
41. Spider webs are stronger than steel.
42. Crickets do not 'sing' with their mouths. They rub their hind legs together to make the sound.
43. You thought a rattlesnake loves the sun? It can die in 20 minutes if it spends 20 minutes in the hot sun.
44. A pelican can hold more in its mouth than in it its stomach.
45. A bee travels 40,000 miles to gather a pound of honey.
46. Water is the most powerful explosive known. It is composed of oxygen and hydrogen. When turned into liquid and mixed, is makes the most powerful explosive known to science.
47. Once a person made a crack in the wall. The crack was the perfect shape of a human head.
48. The 'hedgehog cactus' stores enough water to last 5 years.
49. The travellers tree - a tree that grows and middle of deserts and collects water that people can drink.
50. The following statements are false:
Blind as a Bat
Proud as a Peacock
Quiet as a Mouse
Mad as a Hornet
Wise as an Owl




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  • 06.10.2011 5:10 PM PDT

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1. The Universe is Flat,

2. The Universe has no center,

3. It is Impossible to do Nothing,

4. The brightest astronomical event in History occurred in 1054 via supernova. This Supernova was so powerful, it was bright enough to see in daylight and cast a shadow at night,

5. Estimating, 25% of the Universe consists of Dark Matter and about 70% consists of Dark Energy, leaving only 5% of the Universe visible to us.

  • 06.11.2011 7:18 PM PDT

Life is like a clogged toilet. It's full of crap until you do something about it.

I don't speak Karate!

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

  • 06.12.2011 10:09 AM PDT
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We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.

Fact:

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  • 06.12.2011 11:49 AM PDT

Zebras are black with white stripes, not the other way around.

  • 06.12.2011 12:24 PM PDT

"I was too beastly for my team."

-Slodogk

HOLY FRICK
THIS TRHEAD IS OVER 9000!

  • 06.12.2011 12:25 PM PDT

I must go now, my planet needs me.

I posted after this thread had over 400 pages

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  • 06.12.2011 12:25 PM PDT

The percentage of MLB players that have a degree is the same percentage as the amount of Jiffy Lube employee's that have a degree!

  • 06.12.2011 4:35 PM PDT


Posted by: Epicsm1ley
The last words of the Roman Dictator were "Et tu, Brute?" Before being killed by his friend,Marcus.

Thats Brutus, not Marcus. Learn your history! Learn your Shakespear! Cause they Quizzin eerbody out here!

  • 06.12.2011 4:37 PM PDT

Bears eat Beets

  • 06.12.2011 4:38 PM PDT

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spinage increases risk for parkinsons disease

  • 06.12.2011 9:51 PM PDT

The concept is all that really matters.


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spinage increases risk for parkinsons disease


Please, PLEASE dear opinionated God, tell me you don't mean Spinach.

  • 06.12.2011 10:01 PM PDT

Binladen Died in the year 2011

  • 06.13.2011 8:28 AM PDT

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90% of homeopaths are stupid people, and the other 10% are morally lacking smart people taking advantage of the stupid people.

  • 06.13.2011 8:36 AM PDT
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Over your lifetime, you swallow on average, 8 spiders in your sleep.

  • 06.13.2011 8:42 AM PDT

The average reaction time (in seconds) for an athlete is 0.18. Muhammad Ali could punch the distance of 20cm in 0.06; thus being able to punch you 3 times before you realised the first contact, if you were 20cm away from him.

  • 06.13.2011 8:48 AM PDT

“Who you are now, is not who you will be 10 years from now… who you will be 10 years from now... is up to YOU.”

I like Trains...

  • 06.13.2011 11:42 AM PDT

There are trees that live to be 5,000 years old.

  • 06.14.2011 9:40 AM PDT

''Hell is other people.''

Fact: The next statement is false. The previous statement is true.

  • 06.14.2011 9:41 AM PDT
Subject: Say the most random fact to win prizes!

1. According to Greek myth, Antiope, a daughter of Nycteus, fled from Thebes to Sicyon after she was raped by Zeus. Her sons by Zeus, Amphion and Zethus, later returned to Thebes and led a coup d'etat.

2. On November 19, 2006, Ammar al-Saffar, deputy health minister in the new Iraqi government, was kidnapped.

3. A car called La Marquise, created in 1884 in France, is thought to be called the oldest working vehicle.

4. Pulverized vinsol resin, extracted from pinewood stumps, is used as ink, in concrete and asphalt, and as an adhesive.

5. A paleothermometer is a method used by paleontologists to determine the approximate temperature of a past era. This is usually estimated by the ratio of oxygen 16 to oxygen 18 atoms in a sample of sediment.

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  • 06.15.2011 2:06 PM PDT

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The above statement is not original.

  • 06.15.2011 7:37 PM PDT