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Subject: Useless Facts!
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for all my fellow crazy canucks in the T-Dot...

the world's longest street is in Canada, Toronto's Yonge Street runs 1,190 miles

  • 01.27.2005 10:59 PM PDT
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of really long words, not joking.

If you put your thumb against the middle knuckle of your index finger, it is the size of your nose.

Your forearm is the size of your foot.

Edit: A man was once killed in a restroom while taking a crap. He farted so much in a stall that when he let a match, he blew up.

[Edited on 1/27/2005 11:03:21 PM]

  • 01.27.2005 11:01 PM PDT
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When chicks pee standing up, they whished they would've done it sitting down...

  • 01.27.2005 11:23 PM PDT
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a telephone dial tone is an A note,

light is affected by gravity

A potato in a muffler of a V8 will not stall the engine,

pickles are actually cucumbers (sp?)

[Edited on 1/28/2005 3:33:17 AM]

  • 01.28.2005 3:27 AM PDT

Posted by: elite4ever
If you went out into space you would explode before you suffocated because there is no air pressure.

Without a pressure suit, your blood would boil before you even reached space.

  • 01.28.2005 3:33 AM PDT
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Unless you were in the space station or something, and then went out.

  • 01.28.2005 8:37 AM PDT

Posted by: TrogdorTB
Unless you were in the space station or something, and then went out.

[sarcasm] Oh, well la-de-freaking-da, we have someone here who can think logically. [/sarcasm]

  • 01.28.2005 8:40 AM PDT
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Posted by: Shishka
Everything will be gone long before me. When the first living thing was born, I was here, waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job is finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

I know a lot of stuff on the Titanic. Just ask me somethin and I'll probly know.
Same with skyscrapers, but not as much.

  • 01.28.2005 9:56 AM PDT
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The gestation period of an elephant is 22months.

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The average lifespan of a bee is six weeks.

29,000 kids die of hunger every day.

In Kenya they spend an average of $5 a year on health care.

In America we spend an average of $1,000 a year on health

[Edited on 1/28/2005 11:00:20 AM]

  • 01.28.2005 10:52 AM PDT
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Recently got an email at work...


A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

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

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial
on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2 to 6 years of age!

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about
10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have
a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the
line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will
spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand
and "lollipop" with your right.

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

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar
tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze
completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in
"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five
vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two
weeks; ! otherwise it will digest itself.


Sorry if there's repeats in there, I tried to filter them out.

  • 01.28.2005 11:00 AM PDT
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and the winner is Slayd722

  • 01.28.2005 11:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: PQZ
for all my fellow crazy canucks in the T-Dot...

the world's longest street is in Canada, Toronto's Yonge Street runs 1,190 miles


Also, for the canucks, it is illegal to drag a dead horse down Yonge Street on a Sunday. True.

  • 01.28.2005 11:53 AM PDT
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"Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?" Is the longest palindrome ever.


Yes, he wins.

  • 01.28.2005 12:02 PM PDT
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Ya, he wins. I think there are alot more useless facts out there, though.

  • 01.28.2005 12:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Link Lance
"Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?" Is the longest palindrome ever.


Yes, he wins.


Hmm. I'll make it longer.

Racecar! Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? Racecar!

Hah.

Edit: Bah, screwed it up.

[Edited on 1/28/2005 12:36:21 PM]

  • 01.28.2005 12:20 PM PDT
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Bow down to the master of uselessness.

  • 01.28.2005 12:31 PM PDT
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A giraffe has only seven bones in its neck, while a sparrow has 23!

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a Ranarium is a frog farm.

Pallendromes:

Doc, note, i dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.

A santa at N.A.S.A.

and this one is hella long:

Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben,Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned.

also, the lights you see when you close your eyes tight are called phosphenes

  • 01.28.2005 1:03 PM PDT
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The US Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.

The words 'assassination' and 'bump' were invented by Shakespeare.

Central Park is nearly twice the size of Monaco.

Researchers in Denmark found that beer tastes best when drunk to the accompaniment of a certain musical tone. The optimal frequency is different for each beer. The correct harmonious tone for Carlsberg is 510-520 cycles per second.

There was no such thing as punctuation until the 15th century.

Of all words in the English language, "set" has the most definitions.

Beijing has the world's largest KFC.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine for waking you up in the morning.

Humans and the two-toed sloth are the only land animals that mate face-to-face.

There are 3 golf balls on the moon.

It takes 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

Kermit the Frog is left-handed.

A can of Diet Coke will float in water, but a can of Coca-Cola will sink.

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The only two human organs that can regenerate are the liver and skin

Worms are Hermaphrodites.

Turkeys used to fly.

You can't walk if didn't have your big toe.

Males and Females both have Estrogen and Testosterone.

  • 01.28.2005 1:07 PM PDT
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There are miniature cows

If turkeys look up for long enough they choke on their tongue

........Why Can't I think of more?

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Bats are the only mammals that can naturally fly

Echidnas and Platypuses are the only mammals who lay eggs

The biggest fish is the Whale Shark, which eats plankton and krill

the sun is approximately five billion years old.

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Posted by: Cress48845
Acctually TrogdorTB I know a person who can lick his elbow.... weird huh......


Yah, that is pretty wierd.

  • 01.28.2005 1:33 PM PDT