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| Ont_Excal | Nov 28 2010, 12:55 PM Post #1 |
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Coca-Cola was originally green. The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served first class was $40,000. City with most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong. State with highest % of people who walk to work : Alaska. % of Africa that is wilderness: 28% % of America that is wilderness: 38% Cost of raising a medium size dog to age of 11: $6400. # of people airborn over US at any time: 61,000. % of American's who have visited DisneyLand/World: 70%. Intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair. The youngest pope was 11 years old. Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other country. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet was developed by WesternUnion to test telex/twx communications. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-wayradios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re- number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ? The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie."(Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing."They actually pass out from sheer terror. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the Pacific.When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into thefuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target,it got "the whole 9 yards." Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for black and whites. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver". Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Every time you lick a stamp you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. Did you know that your are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? Right Handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. |
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| Perchdrifter | Nov 28 2010, 08:20 PM Post #2 |
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some interesting random facts to read! |
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| coon | Nov 29 2010, 12:32 AM Post #3 |
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interesting read |
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| bowhunter-57 | Nov 29 2010, 06:51 PM Post #4 |
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A lot of interesting info. |
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If it's got fur,feathers or scales it's in trouble Excal Exocet 175 Middleton DTM330 S/W 44Mag | |
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| shedherder | Nov 30 2010, 05:49 PM Post #5 |
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Great read thanks for posting.
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| justintime | Dec 5 2010, 09:11 PM Post #6 |
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interesting! |
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