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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:27 am    Post subject: Irrelevant Facts Reply with quote

In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are
teenagers.

Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought
he might be retarded.

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still
sitting on it.

You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any
other weather.

An average person laughs about 5 times a day.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have
recently eaten bananas.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early
500s.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in
2000 B.C.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give
her coffee.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones -
Bhutan.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the
pets in their wallets.

Bubble gum contains rubber.

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in
Jello.

Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of
people.

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over
his head.

In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the
bills.

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South
Bend, Indiana.

About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more
money.

It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres.
Bush in 99. And, rightfully so.

Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the
western Pacific.

There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

Mosquitoes have teeth.

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard
Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless
existential hell."

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when
patients would die.

Aztec emperor Montezuma had nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant
"plenty of excrement."

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

Emus cannot walk backwards.

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY.

There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

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

David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

Camel's milk does not curdle.

"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.

The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulateDEModulate)

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Olympics.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

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

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

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

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.

Roger Ebert is the only film critic to have ever won the Pulitzer prize.

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four 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 most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver".

In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but
only 6 people were injured

Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in
the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition.

The only two days of the year in which there are no North American
professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and
the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

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

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A 2 X 4 is really

1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

well close but they are closer to...

1 9/16 x 3 9/16


here in California
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

an ostriches eye is bigger than their brain! I had another but i forgot it.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.


ya know this one haunts me.. but not this year!!!! wooooooooooo
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. wow nature is so cruel... and also theres other species when after mating, the female eats the male that its just sooooo wrong
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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No NFL team which plays it's home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl.


ya know this one haunts me.. but not this year!!!! wooooooooooo





St.Louis won the superbowl they play home games in a dome so that one is bogus..
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rep ill haunt u forever...muawahahahahahahaha #Vamp
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Irrelevant Facts Reply with quote

Very nice find! These are just a few of many that I liked:
Kahlan Amnell wrote:
In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when
patients would die.

That's kind of wrong lol...
Kahlan Amnell wrote:
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

We should addopt this law, jking.
Kahlan Amnell wrote:
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

Hope my stomach never stops making mucus.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:59 pm    Post subject: Re: Irrelevant Facts Reply with quote

crackhead_fred wrote:
Hope my stomach never stops making mucus.


That's why I still eat my boogers
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought Charlie Chaplin came second?
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