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Default Facts - 08-01-2004, 07:24 AM

] A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.[*] Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.[*] The dolphins that live in the Amazon river are pink. [*] In 1681, the last dodo bird died. [*] Polar bears are left-handed. [*] A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. [*] Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. [*] Oysters can change again. [*] The oldest goldfish lived 14,975 days. [*] Slugs have 4 noses. [*] The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws can't open wide enough.


about people
[-] The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.
[-] Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical.
[-] You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.
[-] Every person has a unique tongue print.
[-] The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
[-] It only takes 7 lbs. of pressure to rip your ear off.
[-] When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
[-] 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
[-] Our eyes never grow our nose and ears never stop growing.
[-] The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
[-] On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
[-] We spend one-third of our lives sleeping.
[-] You breathe 13 pints of air a minute.
[-] More people are killed by donkeys than plane crashes.
[-] There are 2,382,500 people with the last name "Smith" in the U.S.
[-] Women blink more than men.
[-] 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
[-] If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.


about food
[^] Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
[^] Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
[^] Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking up in the morning.
[^] In the summer, walnuts get a tan.
[^] Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
[^] Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
[^] The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
[^] Eating several small meals a day is healthier than eating 3 big ones.
[^] Hot dogs were never made of dogs, but when they first introduced to the United States, no one would touch them for fear that they were.


about places
[!] In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
[!] The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
[!] Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
[!] Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.
[!] In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
[!] The United States consumes 25% of all the worlds' energy.
[!] An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
[!] New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.
[!] Every year, Mexico City sinks about 10 Inches.


about other things
[+] Airbags explode at 200 mph.
[+] "Naked" means to be unprotected-"Nude" means unclothed.
[+] In the U.S. there is, on average, three sex change operations per day.
[+] The yo yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines.
[+] Coca-Cola was originally green.
[+] No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple.
[+] 1961 was the most recent year that could be written upside-down and rightside-up and appear the same. The next year that this will be possible will be 6009.
[+] Months that begin with Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th".
[+] Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
  
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Default Re: Facts - 08-01-2004, 07:29 AM

[quote="Short Hand":99c00][-] 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them. [/quote:99c00]

Vending machines! rock:
  
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Default 08-01-2004, 07:52 AM

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[-] shorthand is a faggot.


  
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Default 08-01-2004, 08:13 AM

[+] The yo yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines.

no wonder why i couldnt bring a yo yo to school in the 6th grade
  
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Default 08-01-2004, 08:52 AM

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[+] The yo yo was originally a weapon in the Philippines.

no wonder why i couldnt bring a yo yo to school in the 6th grade
really??? when i was in 6th grade everyone brought yo yos to school...but this was during the whole yo yo craze, remember those smart ones or whatever that all you did was just throw it down and it would bring itself up.
  
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Default 08-01-2004, 09:00 AM

Best post all week, cool find SH.
  
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Default 08-01-2004, 09:26 AM

half of them are bs

DONT YOU WAATCH MYTHBUSTERS????


MYTH DESIMETED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111
  
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Default Re: Facts - 08-01-2004, 09:30 AM

[quote="Short Hand":6b6e7][!] Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.[/quote:6b6e7]

Pennsylvania rules. beer:


  
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Default 08-01-2004, 10:07 AM

[^] The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

^BS
  
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Default 08-01-2004, 10:18 AM

[+] Coca-Cola was originally green.

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Default 08-01-2004, 11:49 AM

[quote:4c8e4][*] A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. [/quote:4c8e4]

we already found out that that is not true. Everything has an echo.


  
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Default Re: Facts - 08-01-2004, 12:48 PM

[quote="Short Hand":2d1e1] [-] 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.[/quote:2d1e1]
annoy:
  
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Default 08-01-2004, 05:33 PM

[i] New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.


.....Fuckscream, didn't know we were the only country in the world. That's cool.
  
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Default 08-01-2004, 05:39 PM

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[^] The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

^BS
How so?
  
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Default Re: Facts - 08-01-2004, 05:47 PM

[quote=Akuma]
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[!] Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.
Pennsylvania rules. beer:[/quote:84cde]

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