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Morton
from out (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-21 13:26 [#01341565]
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Let's all learn a bit while hanging around at this mb; pick and post one 'did you know' from this list
i'll start:
"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."
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hobbes
from age on 2004-09-21 13:29 [#01341572]
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"Welsh mercenary bowmen in the medieval period only wore one shoe at a time."
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Dannn_
from United Kingdom on 2004-09-21 13:31 [#01341578]
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Mustard was invented in the Smasmond Building on the American University campus. Additionally, preliminary work on the Second Manhattan Project is to be done in that building. The government used the Smasmond Building because of its phallic archtecture. If there would be any type of large explosion inside the building, the building would erupt, spraying litres of radioactive mustard on the campus. The building now houses the Dairy Science Department.
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hobbes
from age on 2004-09-21 13:32 [#01341580]
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that's just bollocks Dannn_ and you know it.
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-21 13:33 [#01341583]
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The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2004-09-21 13:34 [#01341585]
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"If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you'd be two miles tall."
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horsefactory
from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-21 13:34 [#01341586]
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"All porcupines float in water."
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deepspace9mm
from filth on 2004-09-21 13:42 [#01341595]
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During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
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earthleakage
from tell the world you're winning on 2004-09-21 13:45 [#01341596]
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crab sticks do not actually contain any crab, and from 1993 manufacturers have been legally obliged to label them 'crab-flavoured' sticks
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Ophecks
from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2004-09-21 13:51 [#01341601]
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"Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground it's rib cage absorbs most of the impact. So throw your cat off a building today!"
[keanu]Whoa.[/keanu]
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mrgypsum
on 2004-09-21 13:56 [#01341602]
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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
how times have changed
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qrter
from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-21 15:33 [#01341644]
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I love them "Fact of the Day"s.
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nacmat
on 2004-09-21 15:48 [#01341657]
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lol
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DJ Xammax
from not America on 2004-09-21 15:58 [#01341665]
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I've learnt that married men (except for evolume) and messageboards don't mix.
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mrgypsum
on 2004-09-21 15:58 [#01341667]
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?? what ??
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DJ Xammax
from not America on 2004-09-21 16:00 [#01341671]
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Sorry, that's what I've learned from being at this site.
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mrgypsum
on 2004-09-21 16:14 [#01341683]
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how did you learn that, what taught you that lesson.
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uzim
on 2004-09-21 16:23 [#01341689]
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"The infinity sign is called a lemniscate." > and the "&" is called an ampersand, in french "esperluette".
"The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts."
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uzim
on 2004-09-21 16:26 [#01341690]
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"throw your cat off a building today!"
> uh, yeah... i'm not sure the cat would like it o_O
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uzim
on 2004-09-21 16:27 [#01341692]
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"Residents of the island of Lesbos are Lesbosians, rather than Lesbians."
no shit sherlock ^^
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uzim
on 2004-09-21 16:29 [#01341696]
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"The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle." kinda cute : )
"M&M's stands for the last names of Forrest Mars, Sr., then candymaker, and his associate Bruce Murrie."
this made me hungry for m&m's now...
well, ok, i'll stop
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yann_g
from now on 2004-09-21 16:29 [#01341697]
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"Cat's urine glows under a blacklight."
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mrgypsum
on 2004-09-21 16:30 [#01341698]
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snufflufugus on sesame street was big bird's imaginary friend : (
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yann_g
from now on 2004-09-21 16:34 [#01341703]
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that should be cats' btw
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dariusgriffin
from cool on 2004-09-21 17:41 [#01341739]
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They Might Be Giants is the first modern band with an Accordion and a Glockenspiel
What.
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horsefactory
from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-21 17:50 [#01341744]
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"Shapes with more than 6 sides only exist in Europe"
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dariusgriffin
from cool on 2004-09-21 17:53 [#01341748]
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"Asia, North Africa and Europe -- and eotragus -- an antelope-like, Asian forest creature."
I am very confused.
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uzim
on 2004-09-21 18:43 [#01341783]
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so am i.
my extremely lucid and mighty powerful intuitive über-intelligence tells me that perhaps there might be an error in this sentence, maybe.
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KainiIndustries
from over the roof floats billy on 2004-09-21 21:36 [#01341863]
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all ducks can quack.
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Morton
from out (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-22 01:07 [#01341950]
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"The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters"
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Matvey
from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2004-09-22 02:00 [#01341960]
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The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".
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evolume
from seattle (United States) on 2004-09-22 02:11 [#01341965]
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"In the country of Tunesia, sneezing is considered quite taboo. If a woman sneezes in the presense of male children, she is obliged to lick a hot spoon. If her tongue blisters, she is proven pestilent and is subject to a caning."
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evolume
from seattle (United States) on 2004-09-22 02:16 [#01341974]
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"After mating, the female cricket will often eat the male cricket but it retains the male's head which is then fashioned into a crude helmet."
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Matvey
from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2004-09-22 02:38 [#01341985]
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The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
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bill_hicks
from my city is amazing it is calle on 2004-09-22 02:41 [#01341988]
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moron is heterosexual.
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Matvey
from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2004-09-22 02:41 [#01341989]
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Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
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Erronous
from Netherlands, The on 2004-09-22 04:31 [#01342045]
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"The chemical formula for Rubidium Bromide is RbBr. It is the only chemical formula known to be a palindrome!"
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horsefactory
from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-22 04:39 [#01342046]
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"Crabs can fly"
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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-09-22 04:47 [#01342047]
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John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-09-22 04:55 [#01342049]
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It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
bizarre
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Morton
from out (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-22 15:28 [#01342650]
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"A family of six died in Oregon during WWII as a result of a Japanese balloon bomb."
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horsefactory
from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-22 15:33 [#01342654]
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"The word 'biscuit' is a derivative of the Latin term 'i biscust' which literally means 'invincible disc of flavour'. By the early 19th century the term had mutated into 'biscuit' and although it was discovered in 1994 that the disc was not actually invincible, the name still stands to this day."
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KainiIndustries
from over the roof floats billy on 2004-09-22 21:30 [#01342976]
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it is illegal to have a pig in the bath with you anywhere east of gent in belgium. it intermittently starts to become legal again in various states along the east coast of america, becoming fully legal once again when international waters are reached.
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IronLung
from the 91fwy in soCAL (United States) on 2004-09-22 21:37 [#01342977]
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Orchids are one of the most suicidal flowers on earth. If you OVER WATER them they choke on thier own food and die off. They are very vulnerable to this commonly made mistake.
Especially Phaleonopsis.
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KainiIndustries
from over the roof floats billy on 2004-09-22 21:44 [#01342980]
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the term cannabis is derived from the early english ballad 'can i (have a) bis(cuit)?', the first song to have two subtitles.
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KainiIndustries
from over the roof floats billy on 2004-09-22 21:45 [#01342982]
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an orbital fan's shout does not echo, and nobody knows why.
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IronLung
from the 91fwy in soCAL (United States) on 2004-09-22 22:18 [#01342995]
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ha...that one is brilliant.
nice
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