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Old 11-27-2002, 12:40 AM   #1
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Default Three useless facts...

1) The lowest point on land is the shore of the Dead Sea, which is 1310 feet below sea level

2) It takes approximately 142 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop (average)

3) Spinach will not make you strong to the "finach"(Thought to contain more iron than it does due to a math error)
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Old 11-27-2002, 01:00 AM   #2
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What? Am I the only one playing?

1) The oldest business in the United States of America is the cymbal company Zildjian which was founded in Constantinople in 1623.

2) In 1966 the highest-scoring NFL game ever, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41

3) There has been a dog in space. His name was Laika
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Old 11-27-2002, 01:08 AM   #3
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1) There are no words in the English language that rhyme with purple.

2) The index finger is the most sensitive finger on your hand.

3) Istanbul, which sits half in Asia and half in Europe, is the only city on two continents.
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Old 11-27-2002, 01:08 AM   #4
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What happened to that dog in space is just horrible. The russians just released the "true" story of what happened to it

Strawberries are the only fruit with their seeds on the outside

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Old 11-27-2002, 01:09 AM   #5
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A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall down.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
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Old 11-27-2002, 01:12 AM   #6
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3) Istanbul, which sits half in Asia and half in Europe, is the only city on two continents.
Istanbul not Constantinople ?




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Old 11-27-2002, 01:13 AM   #7
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1) A snowstorm becomes a blizzard when the temp drops below 20* and wind speed hits 35mph.

2) There are three colors of blood; red, blue (lobsters) and yellow (insects).

3) John Quincy Adams once said, "There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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Old 11-27-2002, 01:19 AM   #8
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1) There is enough salt in the world's oceans to cover the entire U.S. with a layer 1 1/2 miles deep.

2) William Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words.

3) There are one trillion atoms in a grain of salt.

and, I'll see your 3 and double it:

4) The life span of a tastebud, in days: 10.

5) Alaska is bigger than Texas and California combined.

6) On average, twins are born 24 days earlier than single babies.

I have one of the Uncle John's Bathroom Readers. Over 600 pages of useless facts. I could go on for days. This particular book is volumes 5, 6, and 7 in one large book. Great reading material when you are dropping the kids off at the pool.
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Old 11-27-2002, 01:49 AM   #9
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1) There are no words in the English language that rhyme with purple.
areyou serious>? there are a few just came out of my head within 5 seconds:
turtle, gurgle, askhole
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Old 11-27-2002, 01:54 AM   #10
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2) There are three colors of blood; red, blue (lobsters) and yellow (insects).

blue lobster blood? of all the hundreds of lobsters i kill i never spotted one drop of blood from lobster???
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Old 11-27-2002, 01:59 AM   #11
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isnt it no word in the english dictionary rhymes with orange?


10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment

The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph


Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch






and i got plenty more!
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Old 11-27-2002, 04:40 AM   #12
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What happened to that dog in space is just horrible. The russians just released the "true" story of what happened to it

Strawberries are the only fruit with their seeds on the outside

/\rcanum
Anybody ever had Cashew fruit? Its seed is on the outside too.
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Old 11-27-2002, 07:43 AM   #13
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Istanbul not Constantinople ?

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul ?
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Old 11-27-2002, 09:57 AM   #14
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1) A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water

2) A normal raindrop falls at about 7 miles per hour

3) 1 in three americans lives within 15 miles of an Apple store



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Old 11-27-2002, 10:01 AM   #15
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The statistic I heard (and I could believe it) was that 50% of all human beings ever born are alive today
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Old 11-27-2002, 10:08 AM   #16
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1) If you have 1 planck mass taking up a volume of space one of one planck length cubed, it will generate a black hole

2) nearly everything you do in a given day that is not a direct result of gravity (falling, not flying away, etc) is a result of an electromagnetic interaction.

3) cheap sunglasses can damage your eyes. If they darken incoming light but do not screen UV rays, your pupils wil dialate because of the darkness and your retinas will get a very unhealthy dose of UV radiation.

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Old 11-27-2002, 10:37 AM   #17
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1) My spoon is too big.

2) The banana would hit it.

3) IggDawg is cool.
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Old 11-27-2002, 10:41 AM   #18
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areyou serious>? there are a few just came out of my head within 5 seconds:
turtle, gurgle, askhole
Are you serious? None of those words rhyme with purple.
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Old 11-27-2002, 10:47 AM   #19
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areyou serious>? there are a few just came out of my head within 5 seconds:
turtle, gurgle, askhole
Uhh....no.


Unless "murple" is a word.
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Old 11-27-2002, 10:53 AM   #20
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so nurple isn't a word for nipple?
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Old 11-27-2002, 10:54 AM   #21
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Uhh....no.


Unless "murple" is a word.
Uhhh... light urple?
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Old 11-27-2002, 10:55 AM   #22
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1) the largest nuclear weapon ever produced was a 100Mt bomb produced by the USSR - 6500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb

2) In 2000, 72 people were killed by pirates
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