Random Facts Thread!

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  1. ceci96
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    Post random facts or Did you know stuff!
    don't ask why, but yeah...

    random fact: No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times ...
     
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    Go Figure.
     
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    Maybe! haha

    random fact: Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
     
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    the plastic things on the ends of shoestrings are called aglets

    and the titanic cost $7.5 million to build and $200 million to make a movie about it
     
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    Cockroaches can live for up to 7 days without its head.
     
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    wendy's hamburgs are squard because it shows how they wont cut any corners to make their food.
     
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    Armpit odor is actually caused by bacteria's feces!

    :puke:
     
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    ewwwww

    The highest paid CEO in 2004 was Terry Semel of Yahoo. He earned $230 million, or approximately $630,000 per day
     
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    Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
     
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    Elephants dont die of old age, they go through 7 sets of teeth and after they looses their last set they starve......

    Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were pretty much besties, however it is still weird that Henry Ford caught Edison's last breath in a bottle.

    The Eiffel Tower grows and shrinks up to 6 feet from winter to summer

    The Bible is the most stolen book in the world
     
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    speaking of the Eiffel tower there are 1,792 steps to the top of it
     
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    the Bible is also the best selling book of all time.
     
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    the first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by the egyptians in 2000 b.c.
     
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    Lord of the Rings is second.

    Honey is the only food that never spoils.
     
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    the wingspan of a 747 is longer than the Wright brothers first flight.
     
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    Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
     
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    neat, didn't know that!
     
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    Fact I currently work on 747-8 monolithic ribs at work ( inner wing structure ribs, ties, extensions, spars ect.). All parts are machined out of billet, no longer rivet contruction. And yes it's fn big
     
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    Gerald Mellin, a U.K. businessman, committed suicide by tying one end of a rope around his neck and the other to a tree. He then hopped into his Aston Martin DB7 and drove down a main road in Swansea until the rope decapitated him.:eek4:
     
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    This wasn't that long ago, actually.

    And, Mr Derek; Do you have any job openings?
     
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    Gregory Hines died at 57. Hines57?
     
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    No job openings. We just downsized since most of the military work we used to do no longer has funding. Thanks Obama
     
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    I am at least a little puzzled how this might be used, was there a pill form or was it just used to build a entry denying wall?
     
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    No year divisible by 100 is to have have a leap year (Feb 29th date), except if it is divisible by 400.
     
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    A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
     
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    There are 56 herbs and spices in Jagermeister.
     
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    the word Jagermeister means "Master Hunter" in German
     
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    [FONT=Century Gothic,Technical,Tempus Sans ITC,Gaze,Kids,Comic Sans MS,Verdana]Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali. [/FONT]
     
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    lol

    I am known as infamous tux
     
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    Horses are the only animals that can't vomit.
     
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    SeanKelly can post hundreds of these from the book he bought
     
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    The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched".

    'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

    The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

    You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.


    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

    Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).

    In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

    Tiger Woods is the highest paid athlete. He makes around $80 million per year (or $219,000 per day). (lol idk for how much longer now!)
     
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    9 million people even if you were born on February 29. I call bs
     
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    Mathematically.

    (# of people in the world) / 365


    I suppose it would be 366 on a leap year. Whatev.
     
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    Evian is naive backwards
     
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    Chuck Norris is the only man that can slam a revolving door.
     
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    ha true.

    random fact: there is no word that rhymes with orange.
     
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    ^^^^ or vagina
     
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    Hairclub for men,
    isn't just for men.......
     
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    The half life of Cobalt 60 is 5.27 years.
     
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    Nope. It rhymes. It's good for a few minutes respite from the endlessness of the prairies on a road trip.

    Malting grains to make beer started in Egypt and was later brought to Europe by the Greeks. Before this, beer was made from regular old plain grain (primarily barley or it's predecessors) and was nowhere near as marvelous.:cheers2:
     
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    You want to start this?:laugh::laugh:

    Chuck Norris can make a snowball.... out of rain

    Chuck Norris doesnt wear a watch.... he decides what time it is

    Chuck Norris doesnt do push ups, he pushes the world down

    Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer, to bad he has never cried