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Post Mon May 21, 2007 7:35 pm

50 Things you did not know.

1 - Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2 - Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
3 - There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4 - The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
5 - A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
6 - There are more chickens than people in the world.
7 - The longest one-syllable word in the English language is”screeched.”
8 - On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
9 - All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
10 - No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
11 - “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
12 - Almonds are a member of the peach family.
13 - There are only 4 words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
14 - A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
15 - An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
16 - Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
17 - In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
18 - Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
19 - The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra’s “It’s a WonderfulLife.”
20 - A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
21 - A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
22 - It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
23 - The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
24 - In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
25 - The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
26 - The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
27 - There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
28 - The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
29 - A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
30 - A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
31 - Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth,which is why
Elvis’ middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also
misspelled on his tomb stone.
32 - Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
33 - More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes. (Not any more!)
34 - Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
35 - Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.”
36 - Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
37 - If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
38 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
39 - Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
40 - The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language .
41 - The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
42 - TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
43 - The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
44 - A snail can sleep for 3 years.
45 - American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
46 - The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
47 - Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.
48 - “I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
49 - No president of the United states was an only child.



And last and definitely most important:
50 - The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it. (i really
needed to know that!!)
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Post Mon May 21, 2007 10:09 pm

10 - No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

silver = shiver? :D
edit....
or chilver....
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Post Mon May 21, 2007 10:11 pm

neither rhyme...
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 3:42 am

I knew some of those but this one.

"22 - It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. "

It is possible.
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 5:03 am

.Yunoko wrote:I knew some of those but this one.

"22 - It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. "

It is possible.


I seriously doubt it. Its said that when you sneeze all of your body stops including your heart thats why they say bless you. If you can do it send us a clip or something.
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 7:32 am

It is possible. I did it just the other day.

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Post Tue May 22, 2007 9:48 am

kingcoke wrote:
.Yunoko wrote:I knew some of those but this one.

"22 - It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. "

It is possible.


I seriously doubt it. Its said that when you sneeze all of your body stops including your heart thats why they say bless you. If you can do it send us a clip or something.


omg, i hate it when people say that.
The heart doesn't stop when one
sneezes; that's why people always
say "the heart never skips a beat."
If it did, the person would DIE.
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 11:06 am

They said that becuase when people staring sneezing back in the day when the plague was around bless you was said to give them hope they werent going to die.
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 2:55 pm

id hate to spoil the fun but i knew everything on that list....



well atleast sum :P


-Taco bell doesnt use real meat its a form of oatmeal i velive...
-Cigarettes have chocolate in them
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 3:06 pm

There are a few that are fake though.
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 4:46 pm

Yeah, I seriously doubt
the thing about bugs' legs
in chocolate; there would
be so many lawsuits and
the F.D.A. would a sh*t.
Not to mention C.D.C., and
tons of other health organizations.

Wouldn't there be a lot more
diseases spreading from chocolate
if there really WERE bug legs?
Unless the legs didn't contain
and pathogens (which i find
highly unlikely) people would
have millions of chocolate-related
illnesses.

Other than that one, some of
those seem kinda interesting.
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teenagers smoke pot, or have tried pot.
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 5:07 pm

PSP_man wrote:Yeah, I seriously doubt
the thing about bugs' legs
in chocolate; there would
be so many lawsuits and
the F.D.A. would a sh*t.
Not to mention C.D.C., and
tons of other health organizations.

Wouldn't there be a lot more
diseases spreading from chocolate
if there really WERE bug legs?
Unless the legs didn't contain
and pathogens (which i find
highly unlikely) people would
have millions of chocolate-related
illnesses.

Other than that one, some of
those seem kinda interesting.


actually that one is true....and bugs and stuff arnt bad for u in fact its pretty much the opposite....there is sumthing like a limit of some sorts that they will allow...(they meaning fda)
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 6:37 pm

number 24 is rather amusing lol
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 7:50 pm

kingcoke wrote:
.Yunoko wrote:I knew some of those but this one.

"22 - It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. "

It is possible.


I seriously doubt it. Its said that when you sneeze all of your body stops including your heart thats why they say bless you. If you can do it send us a clip or something.


i actualy tried that when i had a cold. i did it but i had to squint realy hard.
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Post Tue May 22, 2007 8:08 pm

Wonder how his inside's were after that.
25 - The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
----Wonder how his inside's were after that.


26 - The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
-----I must be an insomniac or something. takes me longer. maybe 1/2 an hour to an hour.
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