Tag: facts
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November 06, 2009 07:52 PM EST --
till I hit triple digits...yea me!!!!
I started here about a month ago, so I guess that is good for one month....is it??!
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March 11, 2009 01:29 AM EDT --
1. The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.).
2. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
3. The parachute was invented . . .
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February 27, 2009 03:19 AM EST --
1. The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
2. Eggplants aren't vegtables they're really fruits.
3. Only one . . .
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May 14, 2008 11:36 PM EDT --
"Now what I want is, Facts."
My mother's cousin made this demand with her pencil poised to record the facts of WWII. I glanced to the hospital bed where my once giant grandfather . . .
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November 04, 2009 10:08 AM EST --
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because . . .
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March 14, 2009 02:59 AM EDT --
1. If you unfolded your brain, it would cover an ironing board.
2. The strongest human bite force ever recorded: 350 pounds. The strongest shark bite force ever recorded: 132 pounds.
3. Car accidents . . .
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July 13, 2007 10:25 AM EDT --
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. (This applies to most of my friends, as well.)
A whale's penis is called a dork.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all . . .
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November 27, 2008 02:02 AM EST --
1. Turkeys can have heart attacks: turkeys in fields near the Air Force test areas over which the sound barrier was broken were known to drop dead from the shock of passing jets.
2. Turkeys have . . .
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January 28, 2009 01:31 AM EST --
I got this from the "The Writer's Almanac" site.
Valentine's Day , the day on which we celebrate love and especially romantic . . .
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November 04, 2009 10:10 AM EST --
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 . . .
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December 14, 2008 04:50 AM EST --
1. Winter was a time of celebration to pre-Christian Romans and they decorated fir trees in honor of this seasonal change.
2. The use of a Christmas wreath as a decoration on your front door, mantel . . .
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January 10, 2009 02:02 AM EST --
Alcohol Trivia
President Lyndon B. Johnson's favorite drink may have been scotch and soda. He would ride around his Texas ranch in an open convertible in hot weather. He drank his "scotch . . .
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March 07, 2009 02:16 AM EST --
1. Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
2. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows. (poor birds)
3. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
4. Until . . .
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March 08, 2009 11:40 PM EDT --
1. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
2. A snail can sleep for three years.
3. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
4. The average person who stops smoking requires . . .
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December 10, 2008 03:56 PM EST --
The commom abbreviation for Christmas to Xmas is derived from the Greek alaphabet. X is letter Chi, which is the first letter of Christ's name in the Greek alphabet.
Christmas Carols were . . .
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March 12, 2007 06:53 AM EDT --
Here is my contribution to furthering your education. Of course much of this is totally useless, but I guess it's all how you look at it. If you walk away knowing something you didn't . . .
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July 29, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
1. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into spacebecause passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
2. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
3. Charlie Chaplin . . .
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November 28, 2008 09:16 AM EST --
Did you know:
The first comic book convention ever held was in 1964 in detroit!
Chaired by Robert brosch and Patterned after a sci-fi con, It pre-dated Phil Seulings first snow in new york by one year. . . .
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April 03, 2009 05:16 PM EDT --
This is a really neat website. You can enter the year you were born and get all sorts of interesting information.
http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
This is some of what . . .
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October 15, 2009 08:55 PM EDT --
some interesting facts for you...
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex.
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