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Offline Purple Raine

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Useless Facts!
« on: February 1, 2002, 12:23:20 PM »
I'm a big fan of useless facts, and upon seeing this post at a message board I visit often, here are some I pulled from there...

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!

You can save piles of $$$ by ordering your CDs online! Click Here for details.

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!



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Re:Useless Facts!
« Reply #1 on: February 1, 2002, 05:57:39 PM »
all over canada it's illegal to pay for a item 50 cents or more in pennys  ;D

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« Reply #2 on: February 1, 2002, 07:36:24 PM »
them keas will strip every bit of rubber off your car when you park in their area...

anyway
it is physically impossible to lick your own elbow.


on average, a human being will eat 70 insects and 10 spiders while asleep throughout their life...


A duck's quack doesn't echo (!!?? that's an odd one)


9 out of every 10 people will try to lick their elbow after reading that it can't be done. :D

It's impossible to commit suicide by holding your breath, as you willl fall unconcious & start breathing again...

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Re:Useless Facts!
« Reply #3 on: February 1, 2002, 08:32:47 PM »
Toilets on the North American continent flush clockwise, while in Australia they flush Counter-Clock wise


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Re:Useless Facts!
« Reply #4 on: February 1, 2002, 08:48:46 PM »
Did you know its not possible to eat 7 crackers in a miniute.


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« Reply #5 on: February 1, 2002, 09:42:07 PM »
The word "Wraithlord" elicits a psycotic response in some SM players ;D

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« Reply #6 on: February 1, 2002, 09:53:55 PM »
the words 'cod platter' (yes I have seen one in a supermarket) may be rearanged to write 'cold pet rat'...

anyway, how many of you have tried to lick your elbows?

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« Reply #7 on: February 1, 2002, 10:37:22 PM »
i did... but i can do a human pretzel!!
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« Reply #8 on: February 2, 2002, 08:46:28 AM »
I wouldn't suggest trying. I read a book once where a boy accidentally fell out of his bed and licked his elbow. He ended up changing into a girl. I'm assuming it would work the other way too. ???

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Re:Useless Facts!
« Reply #9 on: February 2, 2002, 12:26:52 PM »
Wah! I tried to lick my elbow. Now how on earth did that happen?!
Anyway, in some states, the penalty for jumping off a building in an attempt at suicide is execution.
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« Reply #10 on: February 2, 2002, 02:15:11 PM »
I´m proud to say that I didn´t try to lick my own elbow.

But I can´t say the same thing about my stuborn sister... She will ripp her arm off just to prove that I´m wrong.

Another pointless thing to know is latin... But it´s fun!

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« Reply #11 on: February 2, 2002, 06:13:03 PM »
WTF is that elbow thing?
Hmm here is one

In China Cock soup may actually be cock soup not rooster soup.(dont ask it was a baaad vacation overall)

Presidents Choice up here in Canada actually sells
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« Reply #12 on: February 2, 2002, 06:26:43 PM »
Wanderer i read that book to. when i was in grade 2. ;D

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« Reply #13 on: February 2, 2002, 06:33:27 PM »
Murphy's Law has some useless info.

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« Reply #14 on: February 2, 2002, 06:38:05 PM »
did u guys now this about alice from alice in wonderland, she's really on drugs and all of the "wonderland" is a headtrip. It make perfect sense. she eat "mushrooms" before all the things start happening. and dont forget the part where the caterpiller is smokeing his "pipe". all the things can be explaned. like the card people, she probaly ran into a deck of cards or something and they fell on her so she thought they were attacking her. it all make sense if u think about it.


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« Reply #15 on: February 3, 2002, 01:32:21 AM »
that reminds me...

old william shakespear owes his enginuity to smoking pot. How else did you think he got so creative?

heard that ages ago. THey found hhis pipe and ya guess what had traces in it....

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« Reply #16 on: February 3, 2002, 07:51:09 AM »
Yes, i read that book when i was quite young, but I still remember it for some reason ???

Another useless fact:

The letter e is the most commonly used letter in the english alphabet.

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« Reply #17 on: February 4, 2002, 04:14:40 PM »
The average human swallows six spiders a year in their sleep.


Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

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« Reply #18 on: March 1, 2002, 11:52:54 PM »
THe sun will burn out eventually
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« Reply #19 on: March 2, 2002, 12:21:30 AM »
In the distant future there have been calculated several possibilities...

1 Humans will destroy themselves, or almost so, enough to destroy our civilization.

2 Humans will destroy earth and leave

3 humans stay based on earth but colonize other places as well

I don't know where I heard that. But I did here it.

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When you have a song stuck in your head, you are suffering from 'the pink elephant syndrome'

 


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