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When in heat, female hippopotami secrete an oil with a flavor similar to strawberries. Kalahari bushmen use the oil to make flat-bread treats for children.
If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed out, it could hold a basketball.
Ingesting small doses of ink over an extended period of time will change your eye color slightly.
To commemorate ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, U.S. playing card manufacturers replaced "staffs" with "hearts" as the fourth suit in the deck. The world soon followed.
In 1960, a then-unknown Dan Rather auditioned for the voice of cartoon character Dudley Do-Right but was turned down by animator/director Jay Ward.
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| September 19, 2008, 07:27 |
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!!!Tica, are you making this stuff up? Strawberry hippopottami, stretched scrotums and heartless playing card?! The thing about Dan Rather I can believe.
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| September 19, 2008, 11:03 |
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QUOTE (69oak69 @ September 19, 2008, 11:03)!!!Tica, are you making this stuff up? Strawberry hippopottami, stretched scrotums and heartless playing card?! The thing about Dan Rather I can believe.
I sent you an email pertaining to the site I use.
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| September 19, 2008, 11:51 |
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QUOTE (Goody @ August 30, 2008, 08:59)There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Do you mean teh fish goldfish or teh snack?
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| September 19, 2008, 20:05 |
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| September 20, 2008, 08:58 |
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The U-S Park Service says the older Old Faithful gets, the more the geyser at Yellowstone National Park slows down. In the 1950s, it erupted every 62 minutes. Lately, it's been erupting every 77 minutes. Some experts say Old Faithful may someday just stop.
In Bavaria, beer isn't considered an alcoholic drink but rather a staple food.
The rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd took their name from a high school teacher named Leonard Skinner who had suspended several students for having long hair.
The Mexican Jumping Bean is not a bean. It is actually a thin-shelled section of a seed capsule containing the larva of a small gray moth called the jumping bean moth (Laspeyresia saltitans).
The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1515.
The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.
Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.
People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
At age 14, George Harrison joined his friend Paul McCartney's band, the Quarry Men, led by John Lennon.
The ZIP in zip code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
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Florida is the lightning capital of the United States.
A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
The Australian $5,$10,$20,$50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.
The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the he/she graduates from high school.
Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.
Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
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Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at 8848 meters and 29,028 feet.
The world's largest palace has 1788 rooms. It was built for the Sultan of Brunei.
Abraham Lincoln went to school for less than a year. He taught himself to read and write.
The longest recorded swim was 2938 km down the Mississippi River in 1930. The swimmer spend 742 hours in the water.
Levi Strauss made the first pair of blue jeans in 1850. They were intended as work trousers for American miners looking for gold.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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| September 22, 2008, 20:45 |
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If you fill a standard 750ml wine bottle with live hornets, their angry buzzing will resonate at precisely the right frequency to shatter the glass.
During his famous "Blue Period," Pablo Picasso invented the substance that eventually became known as Play-Doh.
Every year in the fall, Niagara Falls is shut down for maintenance for 24 hours. The flow is diverted using a massive series of pipes and spigots built for this purpose in 1837.
The rare Chilean hummingbird has been known to suck blood from animals like a giant mosquito.
Tap dancers frequently forget to breathe normally during difficult routines, resulting in an average of 200 tap dancing-related tragedies per year.
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| September 24, 2008, 23:07 |
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QUOTE (ticaD @ September 24, 2008, 23:07)Music:
Jon Bon Jovi used to be a janitor at the recording studio his cousin owned.
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his famous last name is originally spelled Bongiovi....
KISS supposedly stands for "keep it simple stupid" as opposed to "kids (or knights) in Satan's service"
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Inventors and Inventions:
Charles Wheatstone & W.F. Cooke Telegraph 1838
Nikolai Tesla Telegraph (wireless) 1893
Lewis Edson Waterman Fountain pen 1884
Ruth Wakefield Chocolate chip cookie 1933
L N Thompson Rollercoaster 1884
Levi Strauss Blue jeans 1850
Percy LeBaron Spencer Microwave oven 1945
Sony Walkman (personal stereo tape- replayer) 1979
Dr Washington Sheffield Toothpaste tube 1892
John Rock, Gregory Pincus, Min- Chueh Chang Birth control pill 1960
Regency Electronics Transistor radio 1954
Mary Quant Mini-skirt 1965
Akio Morita Walkman 1979
Wilhelm Maybach & Gottleib Daimler Motorcycle (petrol engine) 1885
Kirkpatrick Macmillan Bicycle (pedal) 1839
J C R Licklider Internet 1962 (concept)
Ray Kroc McDonald's restaurant franchise 1954
Richard James Slinky c1945
Bartolommeo Cristofori Piano (Hammerklavier) 1709
Ralph Baer Video games 1967
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95% of the entire lemon crop produced in the U.S. is from California and Arizona.
Bananas trees are not really trees. They are considered to be giant herb plants.
An egg shell can have up to 17,000 tiny pores on its surface.
An average person consumes the equivalent of 26 gallons of milk a year, including almost 28 pounds of cheese.
Americans consume the most peanut butter in the world.
An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.
Another name for licorice is "Sweet Wood" or "Spanish Juice."
All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a dough nut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.
850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter.
Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
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The most deadly fires that occur in the home happen between 6pm and 10pm.
The world's lowest number of road accidents occur in Malta.
There are are roughly 100 million single adults living in the USA.
Over $7 billion a year is spent on chocolates by consumers.
Over 1,600 people in North America have been victims of trunk entrapment (being locked inside of a car trunk).
Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot.
People in France own more pets in the world per person than any other country.
Someone gets divorced every ten to thirteen seconds.
The amount of aluminum that Americans throw out in three months is enough to rebuild all American commercial planes.
The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world.
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In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made of nothing but chocolate.
Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
People who studies laughter are called a "gelotologists."
The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men.
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament.
Little Miss Muffet was a girl from the 16th century whose name was really Patience.
Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while host of Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom.
Mary Hart, the co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight, has each of her legs insured for one million dollars.
Ralph Lauren's real name is Ralph Lifshitz.
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| September 28, 2008, 21:33 |
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If when making ramen noodles ya mix the chicken and beef flavorings, it tastes better 
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Janis Joplin, Jim Morrrison, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Kobain all died at the age of 27. Other famed musicians who died at age 27 include Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, country singer Hank Williams, and Blues pioneer Robert Johnson.
In addition to being an avid hunter, gun and weapons enthusiast, and Michigan Deputy Sheriff (since 1980), Ted Nugent makes and sells his own line of beef jerky called "Gonzo Meat Biltong".
Rob Zombie is the musician who founded the band White Zombie. He is also the writer and director of the horror films "House of a thousand corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects". Rob Zombie's first job in the entertainment field was as a technician on the children's TV show "Pee Wee's Playhouse".
Clint Eastwood wrote many of the themes songs of his movies. He also sang a number of them
Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song "Happy Birthday".
At age 15, Jerry Garcia swapped his birthday accordion for an electric guitar.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years.
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QUOTE (ticaD @ September 30, 2008, 23:13)
Most toilets flush in E flat. xox
you sure it's not E SPLAT? 
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I haven't really OCTIV-ATED it yet?! 
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| October 1, 2008, 00:31 |
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Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient Egypt , priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
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