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offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2002-05-18 23:47 [#00225163]
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...and more!


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-19 00:03 [#00225177]
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Heh.But did you know:

Rubber bands last longer when but in the fridge?

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar?

Cats have 32 muscles in each ear?

Winston Churchhill was born in a
women's restroom at a dance?

Peanuts are an ingredient in dynamite?

There are more chickens than people in the world?

2/3 of the worlds egg plants are grown in New Jersey, USA?

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes?

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on
4:20?

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the
Parliament building is an
American flag.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, or purple.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is
10:10.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to
speak.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only
the left hand.

Now you know.



 

offline spoonz from Edmonton, AB (Canada) on 2002-05-19 00:05 [#00225179]
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About the 10:10 watch thing, I heard it was because the
hands looked like a smile on the face of the clock...

weird


 

offline CORTEX from Canada on 2002-05-19 00:12 [#00225187]
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The methane gas produced by 10 cows, if captured, would
provide heating for a small house for a year.

The average human needs 18,250 gallons of water to keep
going in an 80- year lifetime? That's enough to fill 2 1/2
tanker trucks!

The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car?

The Bible, the world's best selling book, is also the
world's most shoplifted book?

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy
metal music?

The days between October 4 and October 15, 1582 did not
"exist," they were skipped, due to a decree from Pope
Gregory XIII, who changed the official calendar from the
Julian model to the Gregorian.

The brain is surrounded by a membrane laced with nerves that
transmit sensations to the organ. However, the brain itself
has no feeling; if it is cut into, the person feels no pain.


A crocodile's digestive juices are so strong that it can
digest a steel nail.



 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-19 00:13 [#00225188]
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Couldnt tell you, I just got that stuff in an email, there
are others its just that their stupid.However this one I
find intersting:

Its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

I dont think its true. You could tape your eye lids up. When
I suggested this to a couple of freinds, they said your eyes
would pop out. I think that is also not true, only freaky
people on Jerry Springer can do that. Just put tape across
your eyes to keep them in!

"If tape cant fix it, it aint broken"


 

offline Phatbert 000 from Augsburg (Germany) on 2002-05-19 00:17 [#00225190]
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I don't think I want to try that though.


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-19 00:19 [#00225193]
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A blue whales heart beat is louder than a submarine's total
noise. It is also the loudest animal sound, it can be heard
from over 2 miles away and was often mistaked for an enemy
sub.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
"screeched."

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters
"mt".

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln
Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

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.

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
dealer.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named
after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank
Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a
radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.



 

offline CORTEX from Canada on 2002-05-19 00:23 [#00225198]
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about that sneezing thing:

if you sneeze, there's a chance you eyes will pop out. if
you try to stop sneezing, you can blow a vein in your brain
and die.

so you're all screwed! i decided to just stop sneezing ;)


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-19 00:32 [#00225205]
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I heard if you are about to sneeze you say "scat cat" over
and over agian and it will go away. I tried it once and it
seemed to work.


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-19 00:48 [#00225216]
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Wait a minute, you mean to tell me more people steal the
bible than any other book?Damn!Im gonna have to watch the
religious section at Barnes and Noble a little bit closer!


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-19 00:51 [#00225217]
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Oh, and one more little personal thing, the only song Ive
ever been able to crank my stereo all the way to without
overloading the system is "Whip it" by Devo. VERY strange.


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2002-05-19 00:58 [#00225219]
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Yeah... I always thought that song was pretty weak as well.


 

offline Thelonious Punk from *fap fap fap* on 2002-05-19 00:59 [#00225220]
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Scat cat.


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-05-19 01:07 [#00225224]
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The only way I can overload the system is to crank the bass
and volume all the way. And it depends on the song. The more
complex the song, the less the system is able to process it.
It cuts off at a certain level to keep from blowing out the
speakers and burning itself up. As you could imagine, Aphex
has to be EQed very precisely to be able to be played at max
volume because there are alot of sounds.

I did manage to overload it with that song but only after
running it through 3 different EQs and 3 volume levels.


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2002-05-19 07:47 [#00225404]
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some fascinating factoids there


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2002-05-19 10:13 [#00225433]
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Yeah... certainly more than I needed to know. Nothing to do
with taxidermy. But interesting none the less.


 


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