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Default 50 Useless Facts - 05-07-2007, 03:55 AM

1. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

2. “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.

3. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

4. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

5. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON’T TRY IT, DUMBASS)

6. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.

7. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
8. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

9. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.

10. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

11. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.

12. China has more English speakers than the United States.

13. There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

14. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies room during a dance.

15. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

16. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than every Nike factory worker in Malaysia combined.

17. For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.

18. Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.

19. Only female mosquitoes bite.

20. Raila Odinga will never ever become the president of Kenya.
 


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Default 05-07-2007, 12:54 PM

those are 20 useless facts, not 50 useless facts
 
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Default 05-07-2007, 06:40 PM

We demand the other 30 facts!
 
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Default 05-07-2007, 06:43 PM

I know the mosquito one to be a fact. That is why you need not worry about male mosquitoes spreading malaria.
 
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Default 05-08-2007, 04:34 PM

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I know the mosquito one to be a fact. That is why you need not worry about male mosquitoes spreading malaria.
Yeah because as the bugger bites me I'll turn it over and search the 'nads to ascertain it is indeed male. Then, I dont need to slap the crap out of it.
 
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Default 05-09-2007, 09:07 PM

21. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

22. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.

23. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.

24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

25. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

27. Until 1994, world maps and globes sold in Albania only had Albania on them.

28. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.

29. The average woman consumes 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.

30. All polar bears are left-handed.
 
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Default 05-10-2007, 12:24 AM

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25. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

28. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
30 continous mins... dang!!!!! the save icon looks pretty fine 2 me... plus it does its jobo!!!
 
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Default 05-10-2007, 04:28 AM

In my next life, I wanna be a pig!

 
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