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 Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:30 pm
Just post any random, useless, or interesting fact that you know.
Make sure it isn't something you'd really learn in school, unless your teacher gets off topic often.
Rules:
1-3 facts per post.
Example:
The average person laughs up to 13 times a day.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:32 pm
- The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Perriwinkle Blue.
- King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
- Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:55 pm
Begin transmission:
I know too many:
1)In 2001, St. Patrick's Day was banned in Ireland because of the scare caused by foot and mouth disease.
2)Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.
3)Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
End transmission.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:57 pm
Begin transmission:
4) Using tanning beds can actually fry your ovaries like eggs.
5) Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make.
6) Fires on land generally move faster uphill than downhill.
End transmission.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:04 pm
Begin transmission:
7) In 1907, on New Year's Eve, the original ball that was lowered in Times Square was made of wood and iron and had 100 light bulbs on it.
8] In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.
9) In Italy, Santa Claus is known by the name Babbo Natale.
End transmission.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:16 pm
Begin transmission:
10] In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually.
11] An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
12] Barbie's boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.
End transmission.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:21 pm
Begin transmission:
13) Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
14) Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna.
15) The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary.
I shall stop for now.....it's making my brain hurt.
End transmission.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:13 pm
Omg wow...
More people have been to the moon than the bottom of the ocean.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:37 pm
Wow, I learned more in three minutes, on this thread, than during a whole day at school XD
- 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.
- 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.
- Victorians believed that if you put a silver coin under your pillow on Valentine's Day Eve, your true love would propose to you by the end of the year.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:44 pm
- More people in China speak English than in the United States.
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- The youngest pope was 11 years old.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:46 pm
- The odds of you falling out of bed and dying is one in two million.
- In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.
- In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:30 am
Ouu this thread is great!
-In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.
-It's illegal to slurp soup in New Jersey.
-In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:03 am
Thanks :]
- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
- Coca-Cola was originally green.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:11 pm
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side
Most lipstick contains fish scales
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:15 pm
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
In the state of Washington, its illegal to carry a concealed weapon thatt is over six feet in length
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