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My mother has a third breast

  • 08.29.2008 3:36 PM PDT

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

  • 08.29.2008 3:52 PM PDT
Subject: Say the most RANDOM FACTS! (Now with Leaderboards)

In NY State, it is illegal to greet someone by putting one's thumb to one's nose and wiggling your fingers

  • 08.29.2008 5:14 PM PDT

We just need to instigate more elitism and Mythic shenanigans.

Parallel lines have a common point at infinity. It is one point that is in two directions.

  • 08.29.2008 10:04 PM PDT

We need a madness to the method!

Mt. Rainer has more Glaciers than Glacier National Park.

  • 08.29.2008 10:30 PM PDT
Subject: Say the most random fact to win prizes!

Skill BEATS Rank

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."


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.

Woot for Copy and paste. Do a barrel roll.
I eat babies.
Babies are tastey.
I i enjoy eating babies when they are doused in syrup and grilled on the bbq.
YUM YUM YUM.
if your still reading this your getting close to being the winner.

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You win! Cookie for you =]

  • 08.30.2008 7:18 AM PDT
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You are ugly.

  • 08.30.2008 7:35 AM PDT

RAGGLE-FRAGGLE

More people die from falling coconuts then shark attacks. and if somebody already posted this sry didnt feel like looking at every post.

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  • 08.31.2008 12:19 PM PDT
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Princess Leia was held in cell AA-23 in A new Hope.

  • 08.31.2008 12:22 PM PDT

Tertius Vicis lepor Cepos

I love Halo 2 with all of my heart.

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bush one rode a rolfcopter while wrestling a chille dog while wearing a sombraro on mars

  • 08.31.2008 12:25 PM PDT
Subject: Say the most RANDOM FACTS! (Now with Leaderboards)

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Pasta was first discovered by the chinese. (I think)

  • 08.31.2008 12:28 PM PDT

Go Underground
If you try to break Murphy's law, will you succeed, or will something go wrong?
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(Oo)__,_,BILLEH!!1!!1!11oneone!!
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In Georgia, it is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket on thursdays.

No joke.

  • 08.31.2008 12:35 PM PDT

- SpartanHunt3r60

Posted by: dahuterschuter
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.


First off, a fact is:
That guy has WAYY too much time on his hands.

Second, The Model T was not produced in just black, so you are therefore disqualified =P. Black was just the most common color.

  • 08.31.2008 2:05 PM PDT

- SpartanHunt3r60

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.

  • 08.31.2008 9:05 PM PDT

- SpartanHunt3r60

-It is impossible for it to hail when ground temperature is below freezing.

-Alaxender Graham Bell would not have a phone in his study because the ringing drove him nuts.

-The diamond is the only gem composed of a single element.

-Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars during his lifetime.

-Rod Stewart was once a grave digger.

-The game Simon Says was originally called Do This, Do That.

-Plants run fevers when they are sick.

-The bark of the giant sequioa can be up to 2 feet thick.

-There was never a portrant painted of Christopher Columbus.

-Vince Lombardi coined the term "game plan."

-The founder of Kodak, George Eastman, hated having his picture taken.

-Sweet N' Low was the one millionth trademark issued by the U.S. Patent office.

-More snow falls in February than in any other month on the United States.

-The Liberty Bell was made in England.

-Lemon Pledge has more lemons than Country Time Lemonade.

-More people die playing golf than any other sport, the leading cause of death is heart attacks and strokes.

-Each mile of a four lane freeway takes up more than 17 acres of land.

-Johnny Carson, Michael Douglas, and Clint Eastwood were all once gas station attendants.

-The kilt originated in France.

-El Paso, Texas is the largest city without a major sports team.

-In a 1936 ping pong tournament, the players volleyed for more than two hours on the opening serve.

-Alaska by itself has as much coastline as the rest of the U.S.

-If you work nights, you are almost twice as likely to have an accident than if you work days.

-A cubic foot of gold weighs more than half a ton.

-Monaco and Vatican City are both smaller than New York's Central Park.

-The geodesic dome is the only structure that becomes stronger as it increases in size.

-A plane uses less fuel the higher it flies.

-It was noted in King George III of England's diary on July 4, 1776 that "Nothing of importance happened today."

-Disney world is twice the size of Manhattan.

-A typical supermarket displays more than 25,000 items.

-A third of the Earth's land surface can be classified as desert.

-The seed cones of the cycad tree can weigh up to 90 pounds.

-Deion Sanders is the only man to play in the World Series and the Super Bowl.

-Floods cause more death and destruction in the U.S. than any other natural disaster.

-Las Vegas, Nevada is the brightest city when seen from space.Lightning bolts are only about two inches wide.

-The most popular reason for not voting in elections, according to the U.S. Census, was "Too busy."

  • 08.31.2008 9:14 PM PDT

- SpartanHunt3r60

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.



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A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually

clear.



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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.



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Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."



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If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.



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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.



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Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than

left-handed people do.



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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which

they start.



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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or

it will digest itself. (YUCK!)



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The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.



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A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and

down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.(who leaves

champers in their glass long enough to find out?)



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A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.



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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!



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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear

pants.



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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple

and silver.



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The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was

never a recorded Wendy before



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The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2

killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.



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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will

instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

(Who was the sadist who discovered this??)



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Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w the film down

so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.



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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???)



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By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot

Sink into quicksand. (GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER?? )



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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin

Look-alike contest.



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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.



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Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".



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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book

most often stolen from Public Libraries.



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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space

because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. (Not to mention the

other drawbacks to farting in such a confined space....)



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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!



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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred

and Wilma Flintstone.



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Coca-Cola was originally green.



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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.



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Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.



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The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska



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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%



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The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%



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The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400



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The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000



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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.



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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.



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The youngest pope was 11 years old.



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The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.



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Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.



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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from

history:

Spades - King David

Hearts - Charlemagne

Clubs -Alexander, the Great

Diamonds - Julius Caesar



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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321



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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in

the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the

air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse

has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.



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Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John

Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2,but the

last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.



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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.



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Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them

looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.



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No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a

Super bowl.



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The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports

games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major

League all-stars Game.



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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.

When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed Firmer

to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".



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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month

after the! wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all

the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was

lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we

know today as the honeymoon.



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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England,

when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own

pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your

P's and Q's"



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Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the

rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used

the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired

by this practice.



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In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent

of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to

have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that

they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had

F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where

that came from.



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In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only

Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English

language.



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Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?

A. Conception.



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Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?

A. No theme song


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78% of statistics are made up on the spot

81% of "facts" or statements posted on online message boards and/or forums are lies.

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get down get low im crossin these mammas like tic, tac, toe

Boogers keep you healthy i think.

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In Thailand, you can be arrested for chewing gum in public.

It is impossible to lick your elbow (follow up fact) 85% of people who here that fact will try to lick their elbow.

The 40 on WD-40 represents the number of tries it took to get the product right


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Posted by: LazlowRave
"Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground."



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Every 3 seconds someone dies of AIDS

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There are more cars in Southern California than there are cows in India.

The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

North Dakota has never had an earthquake.


In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.



More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.


All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job


Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too.



Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores

The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.

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