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Old 10-14-2010, 06:44 PM   #1
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Default random useless facts
heres 20 of them

1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
3. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don”t die throughout the movie.
4. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
5. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
6. More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.
7. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.
8. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
9. Seattle’s Fremont Bridge rises up and down more than any drawbridge in the world.
10. There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world.
11. It has NEVER rained in Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.
12. One-fourth of the world”s population lives on less than $200 a year. Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
13. It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
14. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
15. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
16. It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.
17. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared someway or another on television.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen”s ”Born in the USA”
19. On average, Americans eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.
20.Coca-Cola was originally green.

^^^^^ any thoughts?? lol
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Old 10-14-2010, 07:11 PM   #2
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Cola was green. huh, never new that.
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Old 10-14-2010, 08:51 PM   #3
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Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
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Old 10-17-2010, 08:00 PM   #4
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1.The "phobia" of palindromes is a palindrome, aibohpphobia.
2. Batman's color scheme was originally supposed to be like Superman's
3. Nicholas Brendon, the actor who was Xander on BtVS entered acting to fix a stuttering problem.
3. 1 episode of Pokemon caused hundreds or thousands of seizures.
4. Aladdin and The Magic Lamp and also Sinbad the Sailor were not originally part of the first Arabian Nights stories.
5. The Fact that fire doesn't just keep becoming a brighter orange, is a proof of Black Body Radiation, which helped Quantum Physics.
6. A kid won his science fair on the dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide (think about what that really is)
7.The Ancestors of modern Chihuahuas were ugly, mute dogs, that were later bred with dogs from China
8. 101 Dalmatians was the first animated film that used a xerox machine
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Old 10-18-2010, 03:41 AM   #5
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this is getting interesting....

1. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
2. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
3. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
4. A ”jiffy” is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
5. The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.
6. In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.
7. It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
8. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.
9. The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space.
10. The average North American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span.

^^^^ lol
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Old 10-18-2010, 04:31 AM   #6
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1. People can flatulate even in death.
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Old 10-18-2010, 04:43 AM   #7
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1.The name for Oz in “The Wizard of Oz” was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.”

2.Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
3.Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.

4.The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
5.The Mona Lisa is not really the Mona Lisa.
6.Galileo didn't invent the telescope. Mayans did
7.Did you know that a sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 mph
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Old 10-18-2010, 05:24 AM   #8
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5.The Mona Lisa is not really the Mona Lisa.
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Old 10-18-2010, 08:24 PM   #9
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the person in the painting is not that person

1. a cat has 35 muscles in each ear
2. donald duck comics where banned in Finland because he wears no pants!
3. Americans travel 1,144,721,000 miles by air in a year
4. 38% of american men say they love there cars more than women
5. only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older
6. the origanal mask worn by michael myers was a captain kirt mask painted white
7. it takes 3000 cows to supply the N.F.L with a years worth of footballs
8. every month that begins with sunday will have a friday the 13th
9. pearls melt in vinegar
10. the site with the most female visitors between the ages of 35 - 44 is alka-seltzer.com

more to come
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Old 10-20-2010, 06:40 PM   #10
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1: Thunder can literally scare a Shrew to death
2: Raccoons often wash there food before eating it
3: No one knows how a cat purrs
4: Termites keep there King and Queen Prisoners
5: The Earthworm can be taught to solve a simple maze
6: A taught Worm can be cut in halve and both haves can still finish the maze
7: During World War II, a Special army unit began training Bats to carry bombs into cracks and crevices of enemy buildings. the War ended before the project was ever put into operation
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Old 10-24-2010, 06:26 AM   #11
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10. The average North American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span.

^^^^ lol
We North Americans would eat more, but we will probably be dead from dieabetes by then
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