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Mulreay

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Random facts
« on: August 16, 2009, 03:48:26 PM »
Don't know about you guy's but I love a random fact. Feel free to post up your more random facts  ;)

I'll start you off:

Your odds of living to 116 is 1 in 2 Billion.

Every thousand years, spring gets two-thirds of a day shorter.

The only tree of which we eat the flower is the fig.

Rabbit's and horses cannot vomit.

A kangaroo does not break wind.
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Re: Random facts
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2009, 04:36:41 PM »
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The only tree of which we eat the flower is the fig.

What about coconuts ? ?
Or Almonds ? ?
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Re: Random facts
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2009, 08:52:12 PM »
Novo-cloxin+cloxacillin sodium pills taste NASTY!!!
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    Re: Random facts
    « Reply #3 on: August 16, 2009, 10:57:57 PM »
    The Guinness Book of World Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from libraries.


    Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.

    Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.

    Ironically the fear of long words is a phobia by the name of hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

    Pearls melt in vinegar!
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    Re: Random facts
    « Reply #4 on: August 17, 2009, 01:14:34 AM »
    Quote from: patio on August 16, 2009, 04:36:41 PM
    What about coconuts ? ?
    Or Almonds ? ?

    There not flowers though. The cocunut is a seed and the almond is a nut.
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    Re: Random facts
    « Reply #5 on: August 17, 2009, 01:18:14 AM »
    Helium does not change the pitch of your voice by altering your voice box, it's just that sound travels through helium faster than normal air making it sound more high pitched.

    Dolphins have been known to gang rape females. (Dolphins of course)

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    Re: Random facts
    « Reply #6 on: August 17, 2009, 03:39:25 AM »
    The bible is the most bought book in the world.

    It is also the most defaced book in the world.

    Guiness World Records is 55 years old.

    The cake is a lie.
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    Re: Random facts
    « Reply #7 on: August 17, 2009, 03:43:01 AM »
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      Re: Random facts
      « Reply #8 on: August 17, 2009, 07:37:41 PM »
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      Every thousand years, spring gets two-thirds of a day shorter.
      That's so sad!

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      Dolphins have been known to gang rape females. (Dolphins of course)
      My fav animals happened to be Dog's and Dolphins!

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      Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.
      I wanna go to Finland! ;D
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      Re: Random facts
      « Reply #9 on: August 17, 2009, 07:54:58 PM »
      Google was originally BackRub.
       
      It got renamed to Google in 1997.
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      Re: Random facts
      « Reply #10 on: August 17, 2009, 07:59:07 PM »
      Monarch butterflies although never seen flying straight migrate over 4000 miles each season...
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      Re: Random facts
      « Reply #11 on: August 17, 2009, 08:09:35 PM »
      Monarch caterpillars eat milkweed, a plant poisonous to all animals except them.
      There is a non-toxic butterfly that pretends to be the monarch to avoid being eaten.
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        Re: Random facts
        « Reply #12 on: August 17, 2009, 08:26:23 PM »
        There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos

        The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows

        When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour

        Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people

        Clinophobia is the fear of beds

        The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches

        The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"

        Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

        The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)

        The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year

        The state of Florida is bigger than England

        Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day

        Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark
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        « Reply #13 on: August 17, 2009, 08:53:59 PM »
        President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline.


        Frank Sinatra's last TV appearance was on the sitcom "Who's the Boss?"

        Camel-hair brushes are made from squirrel tails.


        Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.


        Female wrestlers are known as "siffleuses".


        The United Kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world.


        There are $171 million worth of pennies in circulation.

        The largest bell on earth, the Tsar Kolokol, weighs 222 tons and has never been rung.

        One in 500 humans have one blue eye and one brown eye.

        The G in g-string stands for groin.

        The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.

        Diet Pepsi was originally called  "Patio Diet Cola" (really).
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        Re: Random facts
        « Reply #14 on: August 17, 2009, 08:59:30 PM »
        Europe spends more on ice creme than it would cost to completely remove world hunger.
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