Cloverfield
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50 pretty cool facts!!The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
Slugs have 4 noses.
Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
The average person laughs 10 times a day!
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
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gort
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I know.
LOL
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Cloverfield
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LOL
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frys_red_jacket
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it is actually possible to sneeze with your eyes open though cos ive done it, just makes your eyes pop though
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Cloverfield
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Doesn't it make your eyes pop out?
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frys_red_jacket
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well i still have mine LOL
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Cloverfield
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Then you must have closed your eyes at some point during it.
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gort
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Predy,1
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I LOVE facts and have volumes and volumes of 'research aids' (books) with little known facts. I don't like the term 'Trivia' however....knowledge is never trivial.
Just less neccessary to some than others.
It's still factual!!
Leonardo DiVinci could write with one hand while he drew with the other!!!
(I got a million of them!) 
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frys_red_jacket
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nope, was open the whole time, ive not done it since though as eye popping itsn't the best of experiences
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gort
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You must realise.....we don't believe you! LOL
It's a long established fact that it's not possible!!
But you are special, so........Hmmmm.....
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Cloverfield
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Yeah, i'm afraid you didn't FRJ 
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gort
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This has NOTHING to do with this, but my mom used to tell us..."Don't talk with your mouth open!!"
Speaking of open things, I guess....
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Cloverfield
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That was random...
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gort
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I know!!!
Wassup with that?? LOL More facts.....
An onion has more vitamin C than an orange.
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Cloverfield
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Who would have thought it.
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gort
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Onion scientists, that's who!! LOL
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1B-DI
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I feel bad for the guy who had hiccups for 69 years.
Thanks for sharing, Predy!
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Cloverfield
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No problem.
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Olikunmissile
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interesting stuff  lol
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Cloverfield
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Sure is.
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Olikunmissile
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lol, i love random facts!
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1B-DI
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Me too.
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Olikunmissile
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yea, great stuff eh? lol
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Cloverfield
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They sure are!!
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gort
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How come nobody is adding new facts??
C'mon folks....!!
The creator of Wonder Woman invented the first polygraph machine....
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1B-DI
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I'm trying to think of something.........my brain is broken!!
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gort
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The cause of EVERY recorded death in history was caused by one thing.
Lack of oxygen to the brain.
So, if your brain is broken....you must be safe!!
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1B-DI
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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.
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gort
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Why are there buttons on mens' sport coat sleeves?
Napolean.
His troops stationed in Russia were all dying of colds and flu...wiping their runny noses on their uniform sleeves. The uniforms were rotting, so Napolean ordered buttons to be sewn all around the sleeve area. The dis-comfort caused by the buttons on raw noses solved the problem, and the uniforms could be passed from the dead to the new soldiers....
That's off the top of my head.....to this day, we have a row of pointless buttons on coats.
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1B-DI
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Ew, that's kinda gross, lol.
Here's one you probably already knew, but I think is kinda cool anyway: The inventor of White-Out, Bette Nesmith Graham, was the mother of The Monkees' Michael Nesmith.
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gort
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I did know that!!
And a member of No Doubt also animates for Futurama....
Let's see......The term 'Ten Gallon Hat' comes from a spanish word for a braided knot....and has been mis-used by americans for years....has nothing to do with how much liquid the hat can hold!! It's about the hat-band...
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1B-DI
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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.
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gort
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Heinz 57 actually had over 80 varieties, but the owner of the company thought '57' sounded better!!
WD 40 is named after the number of attempts it took the inventor to perfect it....40 trys!!
(WD means water displacement...)
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1B-DI
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I heard that the '57' was a reference to the number of pickle varieties the company originally had...hmm...
Anyway, 11% of the world is left-handed.
And that would include me
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gort
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That was my point....they ACTUALLY had more varieties.....but chose a lower number!
And the word 'sinister' means left handed. Presumably because it was the 'evil' hand used for....um....toilet duties...before paper was invented.
Assassin comes from the hash-hish smokers of the mid-east and 'thug' comes from the tribe Thugers or something close. Can't remember!!
The military salute comes from knights being required to raise the visor of their armour before addressing a superior.
I could do this all day.
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1B-DI
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In India they still use the left hand for "unclean" duties: bathroom stuff, removing shoes, etc. Imagine the awkwardness when I arrived...
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gort
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Why?
You're left handed!!
LOL
sorry.....
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1B-DI
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Hehe, I was at one of the schools teaching, and as I turned my back and began to write on the chalkboard, I heard a bunch of little whispers...
Another time, I was handing out candy to some kids, and by instinct used my left hand. One of our hosts had to remind me to use my right hand for that.
And my grandfather, I guess, just about went ballistic when I started showing a preference for my left hand. 
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Guest
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Pretty interesting things there.
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gort
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The same doctor who invented/discovered aspirin invented/discovered heroin.
Jimi Hendrix OPENED for the Monkees once.
Yikes.
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Cloverfield
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I'm left handed
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1B-DI
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Awww.....
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Gurman169
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That was great because Knowledge is power
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Gazereths
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What happens if you bite a pencil?
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gort
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It becomes infected with 'left hand vampire juice'....RUN AWAY!!!
Hendrix was a lefty, too.....
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1B-DI
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I knew that! The Hendrix thing, I mean....
Gort is weird.
So, Gaz...what does happen if you bite a pencil?
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gort
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Thanks.
I can stop being weird if you want me too....I choose to try and entertain!!!
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1B-DI
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Continue with the weirdness!! Yay!!
And Gaz, we're waiting!!!!
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Gazereths
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Well..it depends on what you think is inside a pencil
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1B-DI
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Uhhhhh...graphite?
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gort
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Dude!!! Tell us the answer Gaz!!!
(by the way...I know why pencils are yellow...)
C'mon Gazzy....
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Gazereths
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Well there are two things that can happen by chewing a pencil on a regular basis....Depending on how much graphite you ingest you can be become susceptible to electric shocks....Also...being one of the best lubricants in the world...graphite can prolong the life of your teeth..........Strange but true!!!...So chew away!!!!...or don't..if you think your gonna get struck by lightning... 
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1B-DI
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Weird!
*chomps on a pencil*
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Gazereths
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Tastes nice?????
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gort
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Happy lead poisoning birthday to you!!!
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Guest
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No No. Its graphite. Graphite!
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1B-DI
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Mmmm...my teeth are purty 
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gort
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Graphite, shmaphite.....................
Don't eat it!!!!!!!!!!
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1B-DI
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*CHOMP*
Mmm, graphite-y
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gort
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That's all I gotta say!
Happy Burfday, baby!!!!
G'Night.....!
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1B-DI
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Have a great night!
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frys_red_jacket
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| gort wrote: | You must realise.....we don't believe you! LOL
It's a long established fact that it's not possible!!
But you are special, so........Hmmmm..... |
yeah i gathered that lol, but im just one of a kind
ive also read that its meant to be impossible to lick your own elbow but with some people it is possible
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Pazuzu
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It's impossible to slam a revolving door!!!
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Guest
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Unless your a giant and you pick it up and Slam it on the ground
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jle1993
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Good one!
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Pariah
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Wow.
You really do learn something new everyday.
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frys_red_jacket
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you sure do
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1B-DI
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If you wet a sponge and stick it in the microwave on high power for two minutes, it will sterilize the sponge. Just watch that it doesn't catch on fire.
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MisterIncredophile
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Hitler didn't have one ball - he had two, they were just very, very small. It was Goring who lost his left testicle in an unfortunate smelting accident.
The photograph was invented in 1826. By 1827, before cameras were even being used to take family photos or pictures of other important events, there was already a series of beastiallity porno photos in circulation. Oh, the human mind...
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frys_red_jacket
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| 1B-DI wrote: | | If you wet a sponge and stick it in the microwave on high power for two minutes, it will sterilize the sponge. Just watch that it doesn't catch on fire. |
i certainly wouldn't want to try that out LOL
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1B-DI
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Sounds kinda dangerous, I know!
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frys_red_jacket
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you can guarantee at least one person has tried it though
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1B-DI
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Yeah, it was actually tried in a lab. They found that after two minutes, all germs and bacteria were sterilized, and after 10 minutes, spores were killed.
Hmm...I'll be right back.
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frys_red_jacket
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gort
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Mr. Incrediphile is giving me the creeps.....
And that's not good....I have an edit AND a delete button!!!
Hmmmm......
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gort
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Okay, here's one.....
Young turkeys have to be kept covered because they are SO stupid, if it rains they look up to see what it is.....and keep looking until they drown!!
And you can hypnotize a chicken by holding its' head on the ground sideways and draw a line in the dirt....they can't move!!
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1B-DI
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Wow. Birds are dumb.
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gort
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And delicious!!!!
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Pariah
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on sandwichs.
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frys_red_jacket
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and with a roast dinner
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gort
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I still love my hummingbirds, though.
And there's no point in eating them.....takes too many to fill ya up....
Here's another cool fact....toned down as best I can.....
Dragonflies.......the females are notoriously promiscuoius, and mate with MANY males in a row....so....the male dragonfly...erm..uh...wang...has a barb on the end.
Before mating with the female, he scrapes (yikes) the material out of the female before making a new deposit.....so only the last male is the one who concieves!!!
Trampy little dragonflies!!!
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Pariah
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There are some things that are ment to be left unknown.
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gort
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I disagree!!!
All knowledge should be sought after......
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Pariah
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Yes but at times you should take a break.
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gort
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That's what Family Guy is for.
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1B-DI
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That dragonfly fact was kind of cool, I thought. I like nature stuff.
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Pariah
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Meh yeah. Ill look around for some.
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gort
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I only post whatever I know.....anyone with a computer can research 1000s of facts.....
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Pariah
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Yup. Here you go.
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.
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gort
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See....now I won't post in this thread anymore.
No point.
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1B-DI
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Not everything you find on the net is accurate, either. I've seen many random factoids that are, in fact, just myth.
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gort
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That is true, but I can't post that because I don't post on this thread anymore!!!
LOL
Rats...only a billion other ones to choose from!!!
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Pariah
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Well then I believe it is time to lock this topic up then.
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1B-DI
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Nah, other people can still post interesting random stuff! I think I will from time to time!
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Pariah
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Sounds good I will post things I actually know. For right now though, I am gonna see what know.
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1B-DI
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Polar bears have black skin and their fur is actually transparent, not white. They also show a tendency to be predominantly left-handed (left-pawed?). Woohoo!
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Pariah
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Also there hair is hollow, like tubes, to lock in heat.
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1B-DI
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The average lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days.
Found that inside the cap on my Snapple the other day.
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gort
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And they die off as you age....
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frys_red_jacket
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| 1B-DI wrote: | The average lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days.
Found that inside the cap on my Snapple the other day. |
whats a snapple?
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