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Heres a list of facts for you.
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!
The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Porcupines float in water!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
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"Historical commonplace" is the term for "something that everyone knows, but nobody looks up".
A group of crows is called a murder.
Your eye is pretty hard. Toenail hard. The white of it is called the sclera. Sclera is Greek for hard. Like Arteriosclerosis, hardened arteries. Each layer of the eyeball is called a tunic. The sclera yields gelatin upon boiling.
Your eyes are also full of aneurysms. An aneurysm is simply a cul-de-sac of sorts. If one bursts, you're in trouble.
In-Sink-Erator brand garbage disposals don't use blades.
At sea, the national flag is called an ensign.
The moon is falling.
The moon doesn't orbit Earth, it orbits the sun.
IDEAS software doesn't have an "undo" feature. Hmm.
Heikki Lunta is the Finnish snow god. "Heikki" means "Hank". The Finns here would know more--that's my UP history there.
Custer wore a custom velvet uniform with a crimson ascot. After he gained the respect of his men in the Civil War, they took to wearing their own improvised red ascots--usually bandannas or kerchiefs. That was the origin of the term "redneck".
Sources say that the hillbillies in the Appalachians speak the closest thing to an English accent as English sounded 400 years ago. That's some historical commonplace.
Grains, Troy Ounces, Avoir 0.00229 uhhh, you can do it
Sea mines used to be called torpedoes
If you grow a narcissus plant and it won't straighten up, give it a shot of vodka. Literally, pour a shot of vodka on the new stalk. It'll respond well. I suppose that's because potatoes are related to the narcissus.
Horses can't throw up
A horse-acre is smaller than an acre, it measures how much grazing land one horse needs. An acre is 43560 sq. ft, a horse-acre is 4*10^4.
The most dangerous volcano in N. America is Mt. Rainier. Rainier was some obscure white guy. The Indians called it Tacoma, which means "Big white rock". Now the Tacoma is a truck, and Rainier is a shitty beer.
Freeway overpasses were originally designed with clearances of 16 feet, so the military could transport missiles.
Bone bonds well with titanium, which is why it's a good insert material. Metal bone inserts are sprayed with a thin (in microns) layer of hydroxylapatite, a synthetic bone ceramic.
This family of galaxies is called the Virgo Supercluster.
HG Wells invented the time machine, but Jack the Ripper used it to travel to 1980's San Francisco and Wells had to track him down. Oh wait, that was a movie.
Johnny Wad Holmes died of AIDS, but we all know that. What's less known was that he was involved in a mass murder. See, he used to hang out and do drugs at this one house in Hollywood. The owner of the house ripped off this Arab supplier, who then sent henchmen to the house. They found Johnny Holmes outside and grabbed him, then forced him to watch as they beat everyone else in house to death with pipes.
Bismuth is the only metal that expands when it cools. Or was it the only liquid besides water that expanded when it froze? Or was it both?
You can supercool purified water in your freezer. I've duplicated that experiment, only now that I want to show the folks back home, it always freezes before I can show them the spontaneous freezing. I also hear you can superheat water in the microwave, and make it boil spontaneously by disturbing it (like throwing in a teabag).
Corporations have some of the same rights as people, by some gross misapplication of the 18th Amendment made by the Supreme Court in some railway dispute a hundred years ago.
You can turn a diamond directly into CO2 gas by heating it til black with a propane torch then dropping it in liquid oxygen.
That diamond ring you got your wife is turning to graphite. Every day it gets a little closer to pencil lead.
Some nuke reactors use a molten bismuth/tin coolant.
A group of crows is called a murder.
Your eye is pretty hard. Toenail hard. The white of it is called the sclera. Sclera is Greek for hard. Like Arteriosclerosis, hardened arteries. Each layer of the eyeball is called a tunic. The sclera yields gelatin upon boiling.
Your eyes are also full of aneurysms. An aneurysm is simply a cul-de-sac of sorts. If one bursts, you're in trouble.
In-Sink-Erator brand garbage disposals don't use blades.
At sea, the national flag is called an ensign.
The moon is falling.
The moon doesn't orbit Earth, it orbits the sun.
IDEAS software doesn't have an "undo" feature. Hmm.
Heikki Lunta is the Finnish snow god. "Heikki" means "Hank". The Finns here would know more--that's my UP history there.
Custer wore a custom velvet uniform with a crimson ascot. After he gained the respect of his men in the Civil War, they took to wearing their own improvised red ascots--usually bandannas or kerchiefs. That was the origin of the term "redneck".
Sources say that the hillbillies in the Appalachians speak the closest thing to an English accent as English sounded 400 years ago. That's some historical commonplace.
Grains, Troy Ounces, Avoir 0.00229 uhhh, you can do it
Sea mines used to be called torpedoes
If you grow a narcissus plant and it won't straighten up, give it a shot of vodka. Literally, pour a shot of vodka on the new stalk. It'll respond well. I suppose that's because potatoes are related to the narcissus.
Horses can't throw up
A horse-acre is smaller than an acre, it measures how much grazing land one horse needs. An acre is 43560 sq. ft, a horse-acre is 4*10^4.
The most dangerous volcano in N. America is Mt. Rainier. Rainier was some obscure white guy. The Indians called it Tacoma, which means "Big white rock". Now the Tacoma is a truck, and Rainier is a shitty beer.
Freeway overpasses were originally designed with clearances of 16 feet, so the military could transport missiles.
Bone bonds well with titanium, which is why it's a good insert material. Metal bone inserts are sprayed with a thin (in microns) layer of hydroxylapatite, a synthetic bone ceramic.
This family of galaxies is called the Virgo Supercluster.
HG Wells invented the time machine, but Jack the Ripper used it to travel to 1980's San Francisco and Wells had to track him down. Oh wait, that was a movie.
Johnny Wad Holmes died of AIDS, but we all know that. What's less known was that he was involved in a mass murder. See, he used to hang out and do drugs at this one house in Hollywood. The owner of the house ripped off this Arab supplier, who then sent henchmen to the house. They found Johnny Holmes outside and grabbed him, then forced him to watch as they beat everyone else in house to death with pipes.
Bismuth is the only metal that expands when it cools. Or was it the only liquid besides water that expanded when it froze? Or was it both?
You can supercool purified water in your freezer. I've duplicated that experiment, only now that I want to show the folks back home, it always freezes before I can show them the spontaneous freezing. I also hear you can superheat water in the microwave, and make it boil spontaneously by disturbing it (like throwing in a teabag).
Corporations have some of the same rights as people, by some gross misapplication of the 18th Amendment made by the Supreme Court in some railway dispute a hundred years ago.
You can turn a diamond directly into CO2 gas by heating it til black with a propane torch then dropping it in liquid oxygen.
That diamond ring you got your wife is turning to graphite. Every day it gets a little closer to pencil lead.
Some nuke reactors use a molten bismuth/tin coolant.
I have being given A's for depleting Dragon ball Z the way it should be.
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As a British expatriot living in West Virginia, I can say Hillbillies in this region do, indeed, speak very closely to Middle English. It's downright freaky.
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Out Of Context theatre: Ron Paul has repeatedly said he's not a racist. - Destructinator XIII on why Ron Paul isn't racist.
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From the website:
The Parliment buildings on the back of the old 2$ bill (we now have the Toonie coin) were supposed to depict the buildings back before we had the Maple Leaf.
Back then, Canada had a flag that was mostly red with the Union Jack in the corner (sort've like Australia and New Zealand's flags)
Wait here it is on snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/canada2.htm
(Apparantly the 2$ bill actually had the Maple Leaf, but the 5$ and 10$ bills had the Red Ensign)
This is an urban legend (I don't have time to check it out on Snopes though).On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
The Parliment buildings on the back of the old 2$ bill (we now have the Toonie coin) were supposed to depict the buildings back before we had the Maple Leaf.
Back then, Canada had a flag that was mostly red with the Union Jack in the corner (sort've like Australia and New Zealand's flags)
Wait here it is on snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/canada2.htm
(Apparantly the 2$ bill actually had the Maple Leaf, but the 5$ and 10$ bills had the Red Ensign)
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Let's see what I can come up with at the top of my head:
-"Stewardresses" is the longest word that can be typed using only one side of the keyboard.
-Out of the four words in the English language that don't rhyme with anything, three are the names of colors.
-"Screeched" is the longest one-syllable word in the English language.
-Mexico leads the world in Coca-Cola consumption per capita.
-In India, fast-food outlets serve burgers made from lamb.
-I don't know much out of the top of my head.
-"Stewardresses" is the longest word that can be typed using only one side of the keyboard.
-Out of the four words in the English language that don't rhyme with anything, three are the names of colors.
-"Screeched" is the longest one-syllable word in the English language.
-Mexico leads the world in Coca-Cola consumption per capita.
-In India, fast-food outlets serve burgers made from lamb.
-I don't know much out of the top of my head.
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The 'no clock in casinos' thing is to make people spend more time, and thus, more money there. I believe some casinos forbid watches on the premisis.
I can personally attest to that.In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
During the middle ages, the English long bow required the middle finger to use it. When the french captured the archers, they would cut off the middle finger. To taunt the french before battle, the english used to show their middle finger. Well this lead to just flipping anyone off in modern day traffic.
In Australia they call sprite and 7up lemonade. The milk shakes down under are also very running compared to the American counterparts.
In korea it is also impoliet to tip. They see it as "you are not doing your job good enough, heres some money to get more training." The also eat squid in movie theatres instead of Pop Corn.
In Australia they call sprite and 7up lemonade. The milk shakes down under are also very running compared to the American counterparts.
In korea it is also impoliet to tip. They see it as "you are not doing your job good enough, heres some money to get more training." The also eat squid in movie theatres instead of Pop Corn.
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Here are some facts regarding celebrities roles in WW2.
Mel Brooks served as a combat engineer in the Army during WW2. He was at the Battle of the Bulge.
Walter Cronkite parachuted into the Netherlands with the 101st Airborne in operation Market-Garden. He also flew along in several bomber missions over Germany.
Charlton Heston was a radio operator on a B-25 in the Aleutians.
Eddie Albert saw action commanding a casulty evacutation boat at Tarawa.
Arthur C. Clarke was aradar instructor in the Royal Air Force.
Mel Brooks served as a combat engineer in the Army during WW2. He was at the Battle of the Bulge.
Walter Cronkite parachuted into the Netherlands with the 101st Airborne in operation Market-Garden. He also flew along in several bomber missions over Germany.
Charlton Heston was a radio operator on a B-25 in the Aleutians.
Eddie Albert saw action commanding a casulty evacutation boat at Tarawa.
Arthur C. Clarke was aradar instructor in the Royal Air Force.
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Here's some Trek-related WWII Veterans:TrailerParkJawa wrote:Here are some facts regarding celebrities roles in WW2.
James Doohan - Member of the Royal Canadian Artillery. Lost his right middle finger on D-Day.
Gene Roddenberry - Air Force Pilot. In 1943, two crewmembers were killed when a mechanical failure caused his plane to crash during takeoff.
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For other famous pilots, Ted Williams (baseball) was a fighter pilot in Korea. He later said he never liked flying the Panther jet because he was really too large for it, and he knew he'd never pry himself out in time to eject if necessary.
For other famous pilots, Ted Williams (baseball) was a fighter pilot in Korea. He later said he never liked flying the Panther jet because he was really too large for it, and he knew he'd never pry himself out in time to eject if necessary.
BattleTech for SilCoreStanley Hauerwas wrote:[W]hy is it that no one is angry at the inequality of income in this country? I mean, the inequality of income is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Why isn’t that ever an issue of politics? Because you don’t live in a democracy. You live in a plutocracy. Money rules.
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Some advice: do not believe anything you read on an internet list of "weird facts." Most of it is BS, and the rest is likely to be distortions and inaccuracies.
And before someone posts it, da Vinci did not invent scissors! For some reason, I have encountered this myth several times lately, and if I see or hear it one more time, someone is going to suffer.
And before someone posts it, da Vinci did not invent scissors! For some reason, I have encountered this myth several times lately, and if I see or hear it one more time, someone is going to suffer.
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Weird facts of various celebrities
John Denver once lost a toe in a lawnmover accident. Because of this, he was automatically excluded from military service in the Vietnam War.
Shirow Masamune has never appeared in public, has never been photographed - and by the way, Shirow Masamune is a pseudonym.
The man suspected to have been the infamous serial killer "Jack The Ripper" was a Freemason.
William Shatner once lost a William Shatner impersionation contest.
Sylvester Stallone's first major film role was in a cheap porn flick.
There's actually a religious movement who believes that the Messiah promised in the Bible was not Jesus, but the infamous moviemaker Ed Wood. It's called the "Church Of The Heavenly Wood."
Shirow Masamune has never appeared in public, has never been photographed - and by the way, Shirow Masamune is a pseudonym.
The man suspected to have been the infamous serial killer "Jack The Ripper" was a Freemason.
William Shatner once lost a William Shatner impersionation contest.
Sylvester Stallone's first major film role was in a cheap porn flick.
There's actually a religious movement who believes that the Messiah promised in the Bible was not Jesus, but the infamous moviemaker Ed Wood. It's called the "Church Of The Heavenly Wood."
"Hi there, would you like to have a cookie?"
"No, actually I would HATE to have a cookie, you vapid waste of inedible flesh!"
"No, actually I would HATE to have a cookie, you vapid waste of inedible flesh!"
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That would explain why when someone fart he say bombs away.Raoul Duke, Jr. wrote:I'm not entirely certain of the validity of this "fact", but it is reported in this month's issue of Easyriders that if a single human being were to fart consistently for 6 years, 9 months, the energy produced would equal that of an atomic bomb.
Oh boy,is this that cultural relativism thing again? How stupid: "Here's some free money, thanks" "Why, I never! You bastard, I spit on your money!"Sam Or I wrote:During the middle ages, the English long bow required the middle finger to use it. When the french captured the archers, they would cut off the middle finger. To taunt the french before battle, the english used to show their middle finger. Well this lead to just flipping anyone off in modern day traffic.
In Australia they call sprite and 7up lemonade. The milk shakes down under are also very running compared to the American counterparts.
In korea it is also impoliet to tip. They see it as "you are not doing your job good enough, heres some money to get more training." The also eat squid in movie theatres instead of Pop Corn.
I have being given A's for depleting Dragon ball Z the way it should be.
Re: Weird facts of various celebrities
"Party at Kitty and Stud's"Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Sylvester Stallone's first major film role was in a cheap porn flick.
I have being given A's for depleting Dragon ball Z the way it should be.
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