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More Monopoly money is printed yearly than real money throughout the world.



"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.



"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.



A Baboon called "Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.



A fly hums in the middle octave, key F.
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1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.



2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or

it will digest itself.



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



4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and

down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.



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



6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.



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



8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen

in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).



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

(That explains a few mysteries....)



11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II

were made of wood.



12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per

side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.



13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,

purple and silver.



14. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never

a recorded Wendy before.



15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II

killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.



16. 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??)



17. 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.



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

the USA."



19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.



20. 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.



21. 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 the called themselves Motorola.



22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.



23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot

sink into quicksand.



24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a

piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.



25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin

look-alike contest.



26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.



27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."



28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman



to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!



29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.



30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book

most often stolen from public libraries.



31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space

because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.



32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!





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Experience enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.



(Franklin P Jones)



If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.



(William A Orton)



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on this day:



The Comet (first jet-propelled airliner) flew for the first time, 1949.



Insulin was isolated in Canada by Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best at the University of Toronto, 1921.



...Yep, that really was the most interesting I could find... sorry!




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Post by ProfessorF »

There is no medical term for the back of your knee.
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Post by Big_Adam »

lozenge is a word that almost kinda rythms with orange,



A giraffe can clean it's own ears out with it's 21 inch long tongue



More people are killed by vending machines falling on them than in plane crashes,



A pigs orgasum can last upto half an hour,



A woman's breast swell about 25% larger when aroused.



A Pc's 3.5inch bay is infact 4inch wide, and the 5.25inch bay is more around 6inch,



You can't lick your own elbow,



about 30 % of people try it when told though




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That's really good... 30% inluding me :P



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I liked the vending machine one too - nearly happened to me once.




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this thread was last active (before this post) on Jul 28 2005




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Post by Freebo »

lol wut



ok gotta have a fact... urm;



Pools closed due to aids or swordfish (think its sword fish)



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