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ChEsHiReKaT
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posted June 13, 2006 03:26 AM |
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The vignette on the back of the $100 note is Independence Hall in Philadelphia. There are three people depicted in the engraving. Two (a man and a woman) are in front of the hall close to the building; the third person is a man pictured looking toward the building. There is no record that the man and woman are embracing.
The hands of the clock are set at approximately 4:10. Although the time is not readily identifiable to the naked eye, it may be verified if examined under twenty-fold magnification. There are no records explaining why that particular time was chosen.
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Iris
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posted June 14, 2006 12:55 AM |
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-On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
-Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-Butterflies can taste with their feet.
-A cat's urine glows under a black light.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-Polar bears are left-handed.
-A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long.
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ChEsHiReKaT
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posted June 14, 2006 03:21 AM |
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Rapper Ice Cube’s real name is O’Shea Jackson.
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Wacks
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posted June 16, 2006 07:49 AM |
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Most of the humands in the universe reside in Indo-China.
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okiesolidarity
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posted June 16, 2006 09:02 PM |
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Most of the humands in the universe reside in Indo-China.
addendum: most of the humans in the universe reside on the planet earth
seriously, though...can't really follow this fact. Placing aside the possibility of humans existing somewhere else in the universe, this fact isn't even true when applied to the planet earth. What is your reference? unless over 3.25 billion people live in IndoChina, this fact isn't true (last I checked it was closer to about 2.7 billion). If you had said Asia, this fact would be closer to correct.
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LadyMeryl
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posted June 17, 2006 12:41 AM |
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
There are more chickens in the world than people
Pinocchio was made of pine.
Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.
The hundred billionth Crayola crayon ever produced was Periwinkle Blue.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.
More people in China speak English than in the United States.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
A prune is a dried plumb.
Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes
If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream.
After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp.
45% of dollar bills you'll ever own have been in a stripper's g-string.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
It was so cold that in the winter of 1932, Niagra Falls froze completly solid!
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients.
Most productive day of the workweek: Tuesday.
The higher the income, the more likely an American man will cheat on his wife.
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
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friendofgunnar
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posted June 17, 2006 12:50 AM |
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Miru
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posted June 17, 2006 01:08 AM |
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-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
I proved that one wrong. It hurt, and I had to hold my eyes open with my fingers, but I did it
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n 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
No. Just no.
(more thread killing,  )
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Lith-Maethor
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posted June 17, 2006 01:24 AM |
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hmmm
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
just a guess here... that's what you get if you inhale volcano dust?
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
and native speakers of english are generally worse at it than others
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40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
okay... this begs the question... How the Frell???
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Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty and her full name means "the Goddess Cleopatra, the Beloved of Her Father" ...and according to Asterix, renowned for her nose (don't ask me)
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Iris
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posted June 17, 2006 03:18 AM |
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
just a guess here... that's what you get if you inhale volcano dust?
Yeah, it's a lung disease caused by inhaling silicon dust from a volcano. However, there are discrepancies on whether it's actually a word or not.
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ChEsHiReKaT
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posted June 17, 2006 03:40 AM |
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-Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
- The name for Oz in “The Wizard of Oz� was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.�
-Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
-Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.
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okiesolidarity
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posted June 17, 2006 06:20 AM |
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
this one i find funny because i mentioned the one word that rhymes with orange in another thread: sporange (the contracted form of the word "sporangium"). I also received a couple of purple nurples in my day (regardless of whether oxford considers nurple a word).
that said, many of your "facts" seem questionable.
Fun Fact #7: the world record for most bowling balls stacked vertically, without the aid of adhesives, is 10.
Fun Fact #8: Former US President, Calvin Coolidge, slept an average of 12 hrs a night during his term as president.
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MightyMage
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posted June 18, 2006 01:02 AM |
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My Turn
Now for some Insane Facts from the self proclaimed god of insanity:
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison (or is that venom) to kill about 2,200 people!
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age!
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'!
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match!
A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why!
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders!
If an octopus gets hungry enough, it'll eat its own arms, besides it has eight it can spare one or two!
That's all I got for now although I suppose I could google something.
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posted June 18, 2006 01:28 AM |
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There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
The reason for this is that the casino owners don't want their patrons to take notice of the time, and stay as long as they feel like it. This is stupid though as most people now have watches/cell phones which can tell the time for them.
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ratmonky
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posted June 18, 2006 08:25 PM |
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Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'!/quote]
iirc the word assassin is borrowed from the Arabic word hashish via the French language. maybe he invented the the word assassination, but assassin and assassinate have been in English language long before Shakespeare
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Lith-Maethor
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posted June 18, 2006 08:30 PM |
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bzzzt!
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Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'!
iirc the word assassin is borrowed from the Arabic word hashish via the French language. maybe he invented the the word assassination, but assassin and assassinate have been in English language long before Shakespeare
this theory has never been proven, yet it is true the word is of arabic origin and tied to the hashashin as well as mount Alamut and the old man of the mountain (also the basis of the story behind the VtM Assamites, but that's another issue)
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ChEsHiReKaT
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posted June 19, 2006 10:36 PM |
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# The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
# The blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest known animal ever to have lived on sea or land. Individuals can reach more than 110 feet and weigh nearly 200 tons_more than the weight of 50 adult elephants. The blue whale’s blood vessels are so broad that a full-grown trout could swim through them, and the vessels serve a heart the size of a small car.
# Hydrothermal vents, fractures in the sea floor that spew sulphur compounds, support the only complex ecosystem known to run on chemicals, rather than energy from the sun. Gigantic tubeworms and mussels thrive in densities of up to 65 pounds per square foot around vents.
# The oarfish, Regalecus glesne, is the longest bony fish in the world. With its snakelike body_sporting a magnificent red fin along its 50-foot length_horselike face and blue gills, it accounts for many sea-serpent sightings.
# Green turtles can migrate more than 1,400 miles to lay their eggs.
# A group of herring is called a seige. A group of jelly fish is called a smack.
# Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.
# Oils from the orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus, a deep-sea fish from New Zealand, are used in making shampoo.
# Bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, are among the largest and fastest marine fish. An adult may weigh 1,500 pounds and swim up to 55 miles per hour. Prized as sushi in Japan, bluefins are also among the most valuable fish: individual bluefins can bring as much as $20,000 at U.S. docks.
# Penguins “fly� underwater at up to 25 miles per hour.
# Since the architecture and chemistry of coral are very close to human bone, coral has been used to replace bone grafts in helping human bones to heal quickly and cleanly.
# Horseshoe crabs have existed in essentially the same form for the past 135 million years. Their blood provides a valuable test for the toxins that cause septic shock, which previously led to half of all hospital-acquired infections and one-fifth of all hospital deaths.
# Alginates, derived from the cell walls of brown algae, are used in beer, frozen desserts, pickles, adhesives, boiler compounds, ceramics, explosives, paper and toys.
# The remains of diatoms, algae with hard shells, are used in making pet litter, cosmetics, pool filters and tooth polish.
# One study of a deep-sea community revealed 898 species from more than 100 families and a dozen phyla in an area about half the size of a tennis court. More than half of these were new to science.
# Life began in the seas 3.1 billion to 3.4 billion years ago. Land dwellers appeared 400 million years ago_a relatively recent point in the geologic time line.
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friendofgunnar
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posted June 26, 2006 07:56 PM |
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from space.com
The universe is composed of all visible and invisible matter and energy. It is approximated that the universe began 13.7 billion years ago, but like much of what we know about the vast expanse of space, we are not certain.
Suggestion:
Please only list a few fun facts at a time. They absorb better that way. <Also> It might be even more fun if the fun facts had some type of relevance to your personal or professional life.
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russ
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blah, blah, blah
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posted June 26, 2006 11:56 PM |
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It would also be nice if those facts actually were facts.
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maretti
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posted June 27, 2006 12:08 AM |
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One type of fish (I dont recall its name) can accelerate from 0-160 km/hour in 0.1 second.
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