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EAS_Intrepid

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Simple. State a funny or interesting fact, like this:

Did you know, that the Swedish trust the furniture seller/producer Ikea more than their Church?
 
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Jess

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What a great idea! I'm going to love this, I'm the queen of useless information! LoL :lol:

Did you know that it is impossible for a pig to look up to the sky?
 

Jasoneagle

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Will post a few at one time:

Did you know:

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.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).

The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."

Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver's licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ

A perfect SAT score is 1600 combined. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill's partner in Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600. Bill Cosby scored less than 500 combined.

American made parts account for only 1% of the Chrysler Crossfire. 96% of the Ford F-150 Heritage Truck is American.

The entire fleet of Unicoi County Tennessee's salt trucks was rendered out of commission in one accident. All three trucks were badly damaged when one of them began skidding down a road, causing a chain reaction accident. Officials blamed road conditions

Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.

Many more can be foud by clicking this link.
 
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Jess

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A starfish can grow back any of it's limbs providing that it's body is not harmed.
 

Elrond

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Did you know that there was a man named Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov who single-handedly saved the world on September 26, 1983 during the Cold War? Look it up.
 

EAS_Intrepid

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^Petrov, Podpolkownik of the Soviet Missile Forces did not believe his computer, that indicated a US missile launch. Thus he refused to give order to launch the nuclear-tipped missiles upon the United States.

One might add, that it is rumoured that a similar event also happened in the US in the 70s.


Did you know that to produce a car, about 2.000 liters of water are necessary, while a citizen of a sub-saharan African nation has about 15 liters of water available per day, including drinking water?
 
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DarkPhoenix

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Did you know, that when you sneeze. particulates are ejected from your mouth at or around 100mph. (don't know the kph version) :eek:

did you know, that the color you see, is the color being reflected out of the light used to view the object. for example, you see green grass. the grass is absorbing every color except green. that is being reflected to your eyes as the color you see.

did you know, all mammals have seven neck bones. whales, giraffe, human, mouse. only seven neck bones.
 
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VenerableDread

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Elvis died on the toilet.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, was assassinated too.

Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."

People in China and Japan die disproportionately on the 4th of each month because the words death and four sound alike, and they are represented by the same symbol.

A Swiss ski resort announced it would combat global warming by wrapping its mountain glaciers in aluminum foil to keep them from melting.

Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.

Profanity is typically cut from in-flight movies to make them suitable for general audiences. Fox Searchlight Pictures has substituted "Ashcroft" for "A**hole" in the movie Sideways when dubbed for Aerolineas Argentinas flights.

There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes, compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.

Russian scientists have developed a new drug that prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication.

A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.

Fast food provider Hardee's has recently introduced the Monster Thickburger. It has 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat.

A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef.

The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.

George W. Bush, who presents himself as a man of faith, rarely goes to church. Yet he received votes from nearly two out of three voters who attend church at least once a week.

Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

CBS's fine for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" in the 2004 Super Bowl show was $550,000. This could be paid with only 7.5 seconds of commercial time during the same Super Bowl telecast.

A woman was chewing what was left of her chocolate bar when she entered a Metro station in Washington DC. She was arrested and handcuffed; eating is prohibited in Metro stations.

If you hook Jell-O up to an EEG, it registers movements almost identical to a human adult's brain waves.
 
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Dan1025

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Did you know....

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone

When dining with Royalty, it is customary to stop eating when they have finished whether you have finished or not.

Sigourney Weaver's dad, Pat, is said to be one of only two people who know the exact recipe for Coca Cola.

The acronym I.O.U. actually stands for 'Is Owed Unto'.

The only word in the English language that ends in '-MT' is 'Dreamt'.

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

If you dream about cucumber it is meant to foretell romance.

Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown further if thrown west.

Time magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1938 was Adolph Hitler.

Walt Disney holds the record for most Oscars won (26) and most nominations received (64).

Ringtones now account for 10 per cent of the world's music market, generating a staggering $3bn.

What do Sir Jimmy Savile, Garry Bushell, Jamie Theakstone and Carol Vorderman have in common? They're all members of Mensa.

Average number of Americans killed annually by vending machines falling on them: 13

James Bond is half-Swiss. According to Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice, Bond was the son of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix, both of whom died in a climbing accident.

The record distance for a human fired from a cannon is 57 metres.

It takes approximately two million flowers for a bee to make 1 lb of honey.

A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.

Your body contains 60,000 miles of blood vessels

Every year, parks in London alone are doused in one million gallons of dog urine.

The germs present in human faeces can pass through up to ten layers of toilet paper.

The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet...

The following celebrities were cheerleaders at college;
Teri Hatcher (Freemount High, San Francisco),
Sandra Bullock (Arlington, Virginia),
Raquel Welch (San Diego),
Cameron Diaz (Long Beach High)
And George W Bush (Phillips Academy, Massachusetts)!
 
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DarkPhoenix

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gosh, why ya gotta be a know-it-all? hehehehe.
that last GWB cheerleading thing.. yeah doesn't surprise me at all.
 

Dan1025

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:lol:, well this information doesn't really come in handy in day-to-day life so when this sort of thing comes up I put as much down as I can think of lol.
 
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DarkPhoenix

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did you know that cuba is home to the smallest hummingird in the world the bee hummingbird and also to the smallest bat in the world the butterfly bat. cuba is home to MANY unique species of animal found nowhere else on the planet.
 
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Harrie

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Well... with an estimated 10 million species of animal on earth that's not hard. ;)

Did you know that...

Alphabetically the last perfect square is: two vigintillion two undecillion two hundred two decillion two hundred eleven nonillion six hundred ninety-eight octillion two hundred ninety-seven septillion seventy-nine sextillion twenty-seven quintillion two hundred thirty-two quadrillion six hundred sixty-three trillion two hundred forty-nine billion sixty million one hundred sixty-seven thousand nine OR 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,002,202,211,698,297,079,027,232,663,249,060,167,009

The largest number that can be spelled using only the last 18 letters of the alphabet (I through Z) is 66,000,000,000,066,000,066,000,066,000,066. But disallow the letter I, and the largest that can be spelled with just the last 17 (J through Z) drops down to . . . 2.

Galatians 1:14 is missing the letter K and is the shortest verse with 25 of the 26 letters: "And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers."

HEPATICOCHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTENTEROSTOMIES (39 letters; surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder) is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary.

HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS (27 letters) is the longest word used by Shakespeare. It appears in Love's Labor's Lost, Act V, Scene I, and is spoken by Costard.

LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH is according to one source the longest placename in the world, with 58 letters. It is a town in North Wales meaning "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave" or "St. Mary's (Church) by the white aspen over the whirlpool, and St. Tysilio's (Church) by the red cave" in Welsh.

The longest place-name in the world is the full name for Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand: KRUNGTHEP MAHANAKHON BOVORN RATANAKOSIN MAHINTHARAYUTTHAYA MAHADILOKPOP NOPARATRATCHATHANI BURIROM UDOMRATCHANIVETMAHASATHAN AMORNPIMAN AVATARNS ATHIT SAKKATHATTIYAVISNUKARMPRASIT, meaning "The land of angels, the great city (of) immortality, various of devine gems, the great angelic land unconquerable, land of nine noble gems, the royal city, the pleasant capital, place of the grand royal palace, forever land of angels and reincarnated spirits, predestined and created by the highest Deva(s)."

The above word facts and more can be found here

The greek playwright, Aeschylus, was reportedly killed when an eagle dropped a live turtle on his head, the turtle survived.

Martin I of Aragon reportedly died from a lethal combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughing.

Jack Daniel, founder of the Tennessee whiskey distillery, died of blood poisoning six years after receiving a toe injury when he kicked his safe in anger at being unable to remember its combination.

And to finish out as a warning to all the diehard gamers out there: 28-year-old South Korean, Lee Seung Seop, collapsed of fatigue and died after playing Starcraft for almost 50 consecutive hours in an Internet cafe.

These and more unusual deaths can be found here
 
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Creed

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the shortest war in history... 45 minutes, Sultan of Zanzibar vs The British empire (who happened t already have a gunship in his port)

Pork is big business: it is the world's most widely-eaten meat. It therefor is rather apt that pigs are responsible for the naming of one of the world's leading financial centres. To stop free-roaming pigs rampaging through their grain fields, Manhattan Island residents built a long wall on the northern edge of what is now Lower Manhattan. The street that came to board the wall was named... Wall Street.

In Denmark, there are twice as many pigs as people.

Indonesia is the 4th most populous country in the world, with 216 million people. The 300 ethnic groups speak 365 different languages

there once was a Sultan of Sarawak, who was born in a farm on Dartmoor, and served most of his life as a civil servant before being posted there and rising to fame
 
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