corey11
Elite Veteran
Location: Bay Area, California
| its llllllloooooooooonnggggggg(very random also)By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot
Sink into quicksand. (GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER?? )
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Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
Look-alike contest.
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Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
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The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from Public Libraries.
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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. (Not to mention the
other drawbacks to farting in such a confined space....)
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!
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The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred
and Wilma Flintstone.
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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
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Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
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The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
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The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
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The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
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The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
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The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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The youngest pope was 11 years old.
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The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
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Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from
history:
Spades - King David
Hearts - Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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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.
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Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John
Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2,but the
last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them
looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
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No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
Super bowl.
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The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports
games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major
League all-stars Game.
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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.
When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed Firmer
to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".
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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month
after the! wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all
the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was
lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we
know today as the honeymoon.
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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England,
when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own
pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your
P's and Q's"
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Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the
rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used
the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired
by this practice.
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In ancient England a person ! could not have sex unless you had consent
of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to
have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that
they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had
F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where
that came from.
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In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only
Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English
language.
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Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.
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Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
A. No theme song
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Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
A. Their birthplace.
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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat Name
requested?
A. Obsession
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you
would find the letter "A"?
A. One thousand
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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and
laserprinters all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
A. Honey
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Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
A. Father's Day
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Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the Most
ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
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Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
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60 % of statistics are made up.....
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Dragon boat racing is the 8th most popular sport in the world!
(What the funk is Dragon boat racing)
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998 million people play Volleyball
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If you yelled for 8 years ,7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.
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Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour!(ouch)
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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood out to the body
it could squirt blood 30 feet!
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There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
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Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
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There are more chickens in the world than people.
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A typist fingers travel over 12 and a half miles in an average day.
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2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
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The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the
sun until the mid 1990’s.
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The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
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One googol written out is:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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The world’s most common non-contagious disease is tooth-decay
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The only words in the English language to contain two "U’s" back to back are: vacuum,
residuum, and continuum.
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The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double
letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
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The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
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Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
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A can of SPAM™ is opened every 4 seconds.
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The McDonald’s™ at Toronto’s ‘SkyDome’ is the only McDonald’s™ location
that sells hot dogs.
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An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
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The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
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A novel with 50,000 words, non of which contained the letter ‘E’ was
written by Ernest Wright.
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You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you lick a stamp.
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A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
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Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
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The average speed of Heinz™ ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
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In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
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4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
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Little more than half of the people living in the U.S. would rather fold,
than wad their toilet paper.
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The short phrases of organ music played at a baseball game is called a tucket.
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Dungarees is another word for Denim
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If a word has two consecutive vowels, and both are pronounced, a diaeresis
[dy-AIR-ih-sis] is used. Diaeresis are two dots over a vowel. Example: ä or ö.
For instance; the word noel. Noel is actualy spelled Noël. This is used in
English, though it is not commonly written.
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Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys.
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Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.
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In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.
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There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates
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There have been fewer people below 2km in sea than have been on de moon
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In 50 million years, it is likely that Mars will have a ring around it.
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A deltiologist is someone who collects postcards
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One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton
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People descended from the Scottish clan of Kerr are more likely to be left
handed than any other ancestrial group.
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The sortest war ever recorded lasted only 38 minutes. (Britain vs. Zanzibar in 1896)
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Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names
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If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying
there were 1,800 of them in China
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In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12
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In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.
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In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow
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In the Scottish Hebrides, an island is defined as being an island
only if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep
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New York City has 570 miles of shoreline
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Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear
in the name of any of the United States.
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The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a
boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane
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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in
every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable
as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies
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The most remote island in the world is Tristan da Cunha,
which is above the subantartic zone
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The number of births in India each year is greater
than the entire population of Australia.
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The smallest 'country' in the world to have its own
top-level domain name is Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia.
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The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour.
It was set in a lunar rover.
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There is a city called Rome in every continent.
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Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy
a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck
regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.
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Up to three thousand species of trees have been cataloged
in square mile of the Amazon jungle.
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We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both
cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a
relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period.
Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred
from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly
begun freezing up again.
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A jogger's heel strikes the ground 1,500 times per mile.
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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
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A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.
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