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A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
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Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.
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A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
What do I call a blessing? Answer : Sarah_webinc :) |
I have an 11 inch penis.
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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
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When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
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January Is National Soup Month
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If You Need To Remember Pi, Just Count The Letters In Each Word Of The Sentence: "may I Have A Large Container Of Coffee?" If You Get The Coffee And Are Polite Say "thank You", Get Two More Decimal Places. [3.141592653...].
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January 23 Is National Pie Day (the One You Eat)
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Boys have penises, girls have vaginas
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A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.
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In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
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February 9-15 Is National Kraut And Frankfurter Week
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The dot over the letter "i" is called a Tittle.
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A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery
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There Are 2,598,960 Five Card Hands Possible In A 52 Card Deck
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Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
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The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.
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There Are 1,929,770,126,028,800 Possible Colour Combinations On A Rubik's Cube
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The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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There Is Enough Brick In The Great Pyramid Of Gizeh To Build A Wall 10 Feet High And 1 Foot Thick Around The Entire Border Of France.
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The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
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On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of
Independence Hall is 4:10. |
44% of men tailgate to speed up the person in front of them.
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The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill. |
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
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Queen Anne had a transvestite cousin, Lord Cornbury, whom she assigned to be governor of New York and New Jersey. The colonists were not amused.
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In the United States, deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people nationally.
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Nicole Kidman has a morbid fear of butterflies.
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The St. Louis Gateway Arch Is Not A Parabols, As Most People Think. Rather It Is A Hyperbolic Cosine. That Way It Is More Stable.
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Kerimeski Church In Finland Is The World's Biggest Church Made Of Wood.
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# The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
# Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star. # On the new hundred-dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. # The vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note depicts a likeness of the front of the Lincoln Memorial as it appeared in 1922 when it was first dedicated. At that time, there were only 48 states that made up the United States of America. The names of 26 states were engraved on the front of the Memorial. This is why only the names of 26 states appear in the vignette on the reverse of the five-dollar note. In the upper frieze of the façade in the vignette the states are from left to right: Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, and North Dakota. In the lower frieze from left to right the names of the states are: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Carolina, Hampshire, Virginia and New York. # All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. # Almonds are members of the peach family. # If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050 # The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. # The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz. # The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. # Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse." # Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again. # Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. # The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes. # In many cases, the amount of storage space on a record-able CD is measured in minutes. 74 minutes is about 650 megabytes, 63 minutes is 550 megabytes. # Charlie Brown's father was a barber. # Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. # Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.) # Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union. # If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. # Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time. # The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean. # Ingrown toenails are hereditary. # The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan. # On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15. # In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role. # Only humans and horses have hymens. # The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. # The state with the longest coastline in the US is Alaska. # We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.) # Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries. # Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats. # The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California... # The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars (20th Century Fox, 1977) is 3263827. # "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." # A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer. # If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. # The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. # Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus. # In the movie "the Right Stuff" there is a scene where a government recruiter for the Mercury astronaut program (played by Jeff Goldblum) is in a bar at Muroc Dry Lake, California. His partner suggests Chuck Yeager as a good astronaut candidate. Jeff proceeds to bad mouth Yeager claiming they need someone who went to college. During the conversation the real Chuck Yeager is playing a bartender who is standing behind the recruiters eavesdropping. General Yeager is listed low in the movie credits as 'Fred.' # Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. # There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. # The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural. # The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatan- gihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukup okai- whenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill. # Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A." # A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. # An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. |
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South
Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." |
Pearls melt in vinegar.
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
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