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by kuyakev on March 3rd, 2007

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What are some interesting/unique facts that you know?

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  • by Anonymous on March 3rd, 2007

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    In the 18th century Meissen the German porcelain factory used brown for the eyes of their figures, and in the 19th century they switched to blue.

    My car can go from 0-60 in about 7.5 seconds. And it still gets good gas mileage.

    A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat!!

    A dentist invented the electric chair.

    Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.

    Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words. lol

    A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers.

    Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers. (I bet that's where the expression "Montezuma's Revenge" came from!) lol

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  • by Amphetamine is alone again on November 9th, 2007

    Amphetamine is alone again

    A moment is 1 millionth of a second (so saying I'll just be a moment is a HUGE lie)

    The droplets of water in fog are so small, it would take 70,000 to fill a teaspoon

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  • by altgirl84 on November 8th, 2007

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    Ok I'm unable to sleep and am bored lol so here's a bunch of facts I browsed online (if any of them are wrong it's not my fault lol I don't claim them):


    -A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
    -The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
    -The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
    -The 'King Ranch' in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
    -Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
    -You weigh less at the top of a mountain than at sea level.
    -The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.
    -Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
    -It is illegal for unmarried couples to have sex in a hotel room in North Carolina.
    -Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.
    -Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
    -Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S.
    -Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
    -The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
    -With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.
    -It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it's surface.
    -A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
    -7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day.
    -Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
    -During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
    -Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.
    -In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week.
    -First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older.
    -Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under' than other hair colors do.

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  • by Cyndi Ninja on November 8th, 2007

    Cyndi Ninja

    You can't lick your elbow and there are 200 miles of blood vessels in every pound of excess fat on your body.

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  • by gamergirl on March 3rd, 2007

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    The mineral Onyx actually starts out as the color of white. But when your body sweat touches it, it turns black...So onyx is actually white...

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  • by Slipshod Wombat and Co. on March 3rd, 2007

    Slipshod Wombat and Co.

    Zenzizenzizenzic is the 8th power of a number

    thats about it

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  • by cunninlynguist on November 8th, 2007

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    Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth the cocaine once.

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