Tag: weird fact
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June 18, 2008 09:05 PM EDT --
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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June 17, 2008 04:20 PM EDT --
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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June 17, 2008 04:14 PM EDT --
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
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June 17, 2008 08:28 AM EDT --
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!
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June 18, 2008 02:31 PM EDT --
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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June 18, 2008 09:21 AM EDT --
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off !
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June 19, 2008 06:13 PM EDT --
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote the novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E !
It seems impossible, but he did it by trying the letter . . .
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June 19, 2008 07:52 PM EDT --
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
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June 16, 2008 10:37 PM EDT --
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
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June 19, 2008 02:12 PM EDT --
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! I wonder what else it can do with that thing?...
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June 22, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
Some of Ghandi's ashes are at the Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles.
These were the only ashes allowed outside of India when he died
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June 16, 2008 04:04 PM EDT --
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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June 21, 2008 12:58 AM EDT --
There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
I wonder if these two will get together and create a new breed (shape)....
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June 21, 2008 10:41 PM EDT --
Try to rhyme something with Orange.....an english word.... If you can, you might be able to make some money...
As for the picture... Its an Orange... what? why do you think I put it there?
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July 02, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --
Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.
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July 04, 2008 09:43 AM EDT --
As the nation celebrates its birthday, the number of Fourth of July Cookouts is estimated to be huge with approximately 150 million hot dogs to be consumed. That's one frankfurter for every two people . . .
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June 17, 2008 05:30 PM EDT --
Race car is R-A-C-E-C-A-R spelled backwards and forwards.
Do you know anything bigger... a real word(s)? A common word.. nothing far fetched.
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June 16, 2008 06:48 AM EDT --
The average person has 7 hairs on their big toe... I have 12, I'm above average!
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June 17, 2008 09:02 PM EDT --
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
Also, the slots closest to the door "hit" more often.
You know why right? The bells and whistles makes people gamble more and bring . . .
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