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Post by The March Hare on Nov 22, 2006 8:48:49 GMT 1
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 23, 2006 8:53:34 GMT 1
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 24, 2006 8:46:18 GMT 1
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 25, 2006 9:00:14 GMT 1
There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 26, 2006 10:40:36 GMT 1
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 27, 2006 9:15:34 GMT 1
More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!
Rice paper does not have any rice in it!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 29, 2006 9:01:49 GMT 1
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
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Post by The March Hare on Nov 30, 2006 8:51:25 GMT 1
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
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Post by The March Hare on Dec 1, 2006 9:42:44 GMT 1
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Post by The March Hare on Dec 3, 2006 10:13:26 GMT 1
The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
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Post by The March Hare on Dec 5, 2006 9:35:51 GMT 1
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
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Post by The March Hare on Dec 5, 2006 15:29:05 GMT 1
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The ONLY animal that cannot jump is the elephant, {Thank Christ for that}!
"Q-Tip" Cotton Buds were originally called, "Baby Gays!!"
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee!! {There you go lads!!}
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear !!
In 16th/17th century Turkey, any-one caught drinking coffee could be put to death!!
In the U.K. some-one gets knocked down by a motor vehicle every 7 minutes!! {and by Christmas he's had a bloody guts-ful of it, Heh,Heh.}
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Post by The March Hare on Dec 6, 2006 9:13:22 GMT 1
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
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Post by The March Hare on Dec 8, 2006 9:20:36 GMT 1
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
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Post by The March Hare on Feb 20, 2007 9:02:25 GMT 1
The average person looks at 8 houses before actually buying one
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Dead Egyptian noblewomen were given the special treatment of being allowed a few days to ripen, so that the embalmers wouldn't find her too attractive
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The symbol is often referred to as a 'number sign' or 'pound sign'. It's real name is an Octothorpe
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Flying once around the moon is the equivalent with a round trip from New York to London. (Earth is about four times the size of the moon.)
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The Inca tribe in Peru created the decimal system hundreds of years before it was introduced in Europe
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Cat's urine glows under a blacklight
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Post by The March Hare on Feb 21, 2007 8:57:16 GMT 1
Sheryl Crow's front two teeth are fake -- she had them knocked out when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career.
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You cannot fold a piece of paper in half more than 6 times
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The Time Magazine Man of the Year for 1952 was a woman! It was Queen Elizabeth II -- 1952 was her coronation year
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Because of the rotation of the earth, you can throw a ball farther to the west then to the east
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A person weighs less at high tide
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Post by The March Hare on Feb 21, 2007 8:58:31 GMT 1
It wud take 100 million ants to kidnap 1 hybernating grizly bear
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Polar bears r left handed
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A Polar bears skin is black and its fur is clear
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A shark is d only fish dat can blink WI both eyes at d same time!
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Donald Duck comics were nearly banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
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Post by The March Hare on Mar 4, 2007 9:47:21 GMT 1
Most toilets flush in E flat
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If u put one drop of blood in 999,999 drops of water it can still be traced.
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Even if you cut off a thingyroach's head, it can live for several weeks
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Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. State capital without a McDonalds
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Post by The March Hare on Mar 5, 2007 8:56:37 GMT 1
There are only four words in the English language which end in '-dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
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St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers
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Nearly one-fourth of the world's population lives on less than 200 a year More than ninety million people survive on less than 75 a year.
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Post by The March Hare on Mar 6, 2007 8:32:41 GMT 1
Nearly one-fourth of the world's population lives on less than 200 a year More than ninety million people survive on less than 75 a year.
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Lightning is five times hotter than the Sun
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7'1' Basketball star Wilt Chamberlain's parents were 5'8'
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Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.
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