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The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
The king of hearts is the only king in a deck of cards that does not have a mustache and its true
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
Ewan McGregor was offered, but turned down, the part of Neo in the Matrix. Will Smith was also approached to play Neo but turned it down in order make Wild Wild West.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Orangutans warn people to stay out of their territory by belching.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
More than half of women in the United States will not leave their home without makeup on.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
In 2004, there were about 36 million people in the US aged 65 and over.
There are over 58 million dogs in the US.
If you eat a bar of chocolate every day for 36,500 days, you'll live to be 100 years old.
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."
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
In 32 years there are about 1 billion seconds!
Men get hiccups more often than women.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
The average person laughs 15 times a day.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Mosquito's are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line in The Terminator 'I'll be back' was originally scripted as 'I'll come back'.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Nearly 90% of American teens used the Internet in 2005.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
The king of hearts is the only king in a deck of cards that does not have a mustache and its true
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
Ewan McGregor was offered, but turned down, the part of Neo in the Matrix. Will Smith was also approached to play Neo but turned it down in order make Wild Wild West.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Orangutans warn people to stay out of their territory by belching.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
More than half of women in the United States will not leave their home without makeup on.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
In 2004, there were about 36 million people in the US aged 65 and over.
There are over 58 million dogs in the US.
If you eat a bar of chocolate every day for 36,500 days, you'll live to be 100 years old.
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."
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
In 32 years there are about 1 billion seconds!
Men get hiccups more often than women.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
The average person laughs 15 times a day.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Mosquito's are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line in The Terminator 'I'll be back' was originally scripted as 'I'll come back'.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Nearly 90% of American teens used the Internet in 2005.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.


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Are you serrious?! *grabs some hersheys*If you eat a bar of chocolate every day for 36,500 days, you'll live to be 100 years old
Irony at it's best.Walt Disney was afraid of mice
Fact: It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than it has in it.
90% of all species that have gone extinct are birds
A person living to the age 75 will have spent 23 years sleeping.
Mel Blanc, the man who did the voice of Bugs bunny, was allergic to carrots
"Ough" can be pronounced eight diffrent ways in the english language
tHE Ski-doo snowmobile was originally to be caLLED THE sKI-DOG, THERE WAS A TYPO
Tigers have striped skin and striped fur
Ursalia and Efisga were two of the many names for the country that became the dominon of canada
There are no billboards in the state of vermont
"No sir, I am not Insane, I just have Anger issues..." ~ The First words i said to my Counselor after I got kicked off the bus.
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That, was from Tum0, not me.Niko, about half those stats are new to me. Of those that aren't, I still take exception to one:
What about snails? Or jellyfish?Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
"No sir, I am not Insane, I just have Anger issues..." ~ The First words i said to my Counselor after I got kicked off the bus.
Wait, you want to see my Art? It ain't much to look at...
Titanic fans rejoice! I have a Titanic RP board. Only... not on the Titanic... and kinda on the Teen side...Nothing real gratuitous though!
"Evil isn't doing bad. It's doing bad and not Feeling bad about it afterwards." ~ Avaric, Wicked. Think about that the next tiem you call someone evil.
Wait, you want to see my Art? It ain't much to look at...
Titanic fans rejoice! I have a Titanic RP board. Only... not on the Titanic... and kinda on the Teen side...Nothing real gratuitous though!
"Evil isn't doing bad. It's doing bad and not Feeling bad about it afterwards." ~ Avaric, Wicked. Think about that the next tiem you call someone evil.
You will note that I never wrote the word "Fact" in my post.Niko, about half those stats are new to me. Of those that aren't, I still take exception to one:
What about snails? Or jellyfish?Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

I knew most of those could be misproven, I just thought they were funny.


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Oh, I see what happened. I scrolled down to see who posted last, and yours had just been added. Sorry.That, was from Tum0, not me.
About that "OUGH" item... I can think of only six pronunciations offhand, found in the following list:
rough
through
though
cough
bough
ought
Was this meant to be a debunkable "fact," or can you supply more?
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Its a fact, I just don't know tham all.
"No sir, I am not Insane, I just have Anger issues..." ~ The First words i said to my Counselor after I got kicked off the bus.
Wait, you want to see my Art? It ain't much to look at...
Titanic fans rejoice! I have a Titanic RP board. Only... not on the Titanic... and kinda on the Teen side...Nothing real gratuitous though!
"Evil isn't doing bad. It's doing bad and not Feeling bad about it afterwards." ~ Avaric, Wicked. Think about that the next tiem you call someone evil.
Wait, you want to see my Art? It ain't much to look at...
Titanic fans rejoice! I have a Titanic RP board. Only... not on the Titanic... and kinda on the Teen side...Nothing real gratuitous though!
"Evil isn't doing bad. It's doing bad and not Feeling bad about it afterwards." ~ Avaric, Wicked. Think about that the next tiem you call someone evil.
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Fact: When your trying to lose weight, It is very hard to Go up a hill on a bike.
"No sir, I am not Insane, I just have Anger issues..." ~ The First words i said to my Counselor after I got kicked off the bus.
Wait, you want to see my Art? It ain't much to look at...
Titanic fans rejoice! I have a Titanic RP board. Only... not on the Titanic... and kinda on the Teen side...Nothing real gratuitous though!
"Evil isn't doing bad. It's doing bad and not Feeling bad about it afterwards." ~ Avaric, Wicked. Think about that the next tiem you call someone evil.
Wait, you want to see my Art? It ain't much to look at...
Titanic fans rejoice! I have a Titanic RP board. Only... not on the Titanic... and kinda on the Teen side...Nothing real gratuitous though!
"Evil isn't doing bad. It's doing bad and not Feeling bad about it afterwards." ~ Avaric, Wicked. Think about that the next tiem you call someone evil.
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Since there are quite a few Sonic fans here, a few facts you may or may not have known about your favorite blue hedgehog...
- The original design for Sonic had him as a rabbit.
- Tails was originally going to be female until someone came up with the name "Miles Prower", a spoof of "miles per hour".
- Knuckles may be an echidna in the games, but in the original anime movie he was thought to be a mole!
- In the game "Sonic the Fighters", there's a hidden character based on a fighter from another Sega fighting game, Fighting Vipers.
- Scratch, Grounder, and Coconuts from AoStH were based on certain enemies you might face in Sonic 2.
- Sonic may have more of a connection to Nintendo as you might think...as many people have often compared the team in SatAM to the team in Captain N. (Sonic = Cap. N, Sally = Lana, etc.)
- Despite the resemblance, Cream the Rabbit's design was NOT based on Bunnie's design.
- Despite being three different characters in Sonic Underground, Sonic, Sonia, and Manic were ALL voiced by Jaleel White.
- Listen closely to Knuckles in Sonic X and you should hear someone familiar. Namely...Atem (Yami Yugi) from Yu-Gi-Oh. The two characters have the same voice actor. Same with Sonic and Usopp from One Piece.
- The original design for Sonic had him as a rabbit.
- Tails was originally going to be female until someone came up with the name "Miles Prower", a spoof of "miles per hour".
- Knuckles may be an echidna in the games, but in the original anime movie he was thought to be a mole!
- In the game "Sonic the Fighters", there's a hidden character based on a fighter from another Sega fighting game, Fighting Vipers.
- Scratch, Grounder, and Coconuts from AoStH were based on certain enemies you might face in Sonic 2.
- Sonic may have more of a connection to Nintendo as you might think...as many people have often compared the team in SatAM to the team in Captain N. (Sonic = Cap. N, Sally = Lana, etc.)
- Despite the resemblance, Cream the Rabbit's design was NOT based on Bunnie's design.
- Despite being three different characters in Sonic Underground, Sonic, Sonia, and Manic were ALL voiced by Jaleel White.
- Listen closely to Knuckles in Sonic X and you should hear someone familiar. Namely...Atem (Yami Yugi) from Yu-Gi-Oh. The two characters have the same voice actor. Same with Sonic and Usopp from One Piece.
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