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Post by Enemy of the State on Jun 2, 2005 13:44:16 GMT
so there are 100,000,000,000,000 cells ft long in our bodies!!!! ?
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Post by Fitzsimons on Jun 2, 2005 13:55:24 GMT
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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Post by anand on Jun 2, 2005 13:59:55 GMT
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
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Post by Fitzsimons on Jun 2, 2005 14:00:41 GMT
Porcupines float in water.
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Post by anand on Jun 2, 2005 14:03:26 GMT
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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Post by Fitzsimons on Jun 2, 2005 14:05:59 GMT
The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
Armadillos can walk underwater.
Only humans sleep on their backs.
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Post by anand on Jun 2, 2005 14:07:48 GMT
Turtles can breathe through their arses.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
I like the octupus one!
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Post by Fitzsimons on Jun 2, 2005 14:10:22 GMT
In your lifetime, you'll shed over 40 pounds of skin.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.
October 10 is National Metric Day. (lmao!)
The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).
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Post by anand on Jun 2, 2005 14:19:17 GMT
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows." (!)
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Post by Fitzsimons on Jun 2, 2005 14:21:31 GMT
A large sunspot can last for about a week.
If you could throw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. (useful if in that situation I think you'll find. thank me if i save your life because of this)
North Dakota is the only one of the 50 states not to have had an earthquake
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Post by Enemy of the State on Jun 2, 2005 14:21:44 GMT
erm tell me how you choke on a ball point pen
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Post by anand on Jun 2, 2005 14:23:01 GMT
I'm not entirely sure I want to know. One assumes it depends on a dare of sorts or extreme office stress.
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Post by Fitzsimons on Jun 2, 2005 14:25:11 GMT
or it could be the fact that ballpoint pens taste soooooooo lovely! mmm
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Post by anand on Jun 2, 2005 14:30:46 GMT
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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Post by Fitzsimons on Jun 2, 2005 14:34:05 GMT
Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two. (lmao)
The United States consumes 25% of all the world’s energy. (greedy f***ers)
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