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strange facts

STARTED NOV 26, 2004 · 10 POSTSSome posts in this thread didn't survive.
faith69THREAD STARTER3 posts in this thread
#1 · Nov 26, 2004
come in here and tell us the weird and wacky facts that you know. i've got a few

1) more people are killed annually by teddy bears than by grizzly bers
2) in a study of 20 000 ostrages over an 80 year period not one of them was seen to burry their heads in the ground
3) at any one time 0.7% of the worlds population is drunk.
4) no peice of paper can be folded in half more that 7 times
5) hospital visits is the #1 killer of American's each year

your turn
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Kid_Vicious6951 post in this thread
#2 · Nov 26, 2004
a pig's orgasm can last 30 minutes!!!!
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#3 · Nov 27, 2004
Apropos of the second post, a lion can "arrive" 100 times a day.
MEmory is an odd thing, but when you think about it, what else do we have of anyone or anything, even when they're right here with us? Gee, I honestly didn't plan on typing that when I started this post.
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#4 · Nov 27, 2004
The wingspan of a 747 is three times longer than the Wright Brothers' original flight.
wretch2 posts in this thread
#5 · Nov 28, 2004
Faith 69 can't spell "ostrich". Wink
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#6 · Nov 28, 2004
this wasn't me shut up i just copied and pasted that from a thing me and my friends did ages ago, i didn't even really.

fact: faith69 never liked wretch and despises him now
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#7 · Nov 28, 2004
for every ounce of macaroni in a package, the FDA will allow one rat hair.

if you drop acid seven times in your life, you are considered legally insane whether you exhibit signs or not.

In Boise, Idaho's 1985 mayoral election, Mr. Potato Head got four write in votes.

'Leave it to Beaver' had the first televised toilet ever

an ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain

a starfish has no brain

Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels which were trained to walk in alphabetical order.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

if a man watches a woman undress in front of a window, he can be arrested as a peeping tom, if a woman watches a man undress in front of a window, she can have him arrested for indecent exposure.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

if counted by pound, hamburgers cost more than cars

Kentucky's leading export, bourbon, cannot be bought in the counties it is produced in.

In Shakespeares time, 'nunneries' were whorehouses, so everytime he spoke of a nunnery, he didn't mean convent

A German neurologist discovered a syndrome in the early 1900's. This syndrome, called Alien Hand, makes it impossible for a person to control their hand(s)

In New Hampshire, it is illegal for a citizen to releive themselves while looking up in Sundays.

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.

the lighter was invented before the match

a Detroit man claims that he and his wife were once beaten at a McDonalds.... for complaining about a watery milkshake

you have a higher chance of dying on your way to getting your lotto ticket than you have of winning (Paper call, not scratch.)

a police officer cannot tell you to have a nice day after writing a traffic ticket, if your in Maine

Elephants are the only mammals incapable of jumping

That's enough... for now
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wretch2 posts in this thread
#8 · Nov 28, 2004
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#9 · Nov 28, 2004
oh really so now you come crawling back. well too bad you've left yor mark and IT HURT!

just kidding i love u too wretch
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#10 · Nov 29, 2004
OOOH! I have a ton of these!!!!!

On average, a pair of human feet loses half a pint of water in perspiration each day.

You experience an average of four dreams a night, and in the course of that, your dreams become progressively longer. Your first dream of the night around ten minutes, but your final dream will invariably last as long as 45 minutes.

Cinderella’s slippers were originally made out of fur. A translator changed the story in the 17th century.

Lord Byron kept a pet bear at Cambridge University because dogs weren’t allowed.

The Empire State Building is hit by lightning some 500 times a year. It was once hit 12 times in 20 minutes.

At any given time, 1800 thunderstorms are taking place somewhere in the world.

In Florida, it is illegal to have sexual relations with porcupines… Just in case anyone was tempted.

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.

On average, every glass of London tap water has previously passed through nine other people.

Scorpions are not immune to their own poison.

It used to be against the law to slam a car door in Switzerland.

Right-handed people live nine years longer, on average, than left-handers.

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

When sticky envelopes were first introduced in the 19th century, they were unpopular because many people thought it was an insult to send their saliva to someone else.

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by poisonous spider.

You are more likely to be killed by a donkey than in a plane crash.

In Tulsa, you may not open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer.

In Michigan, a man legally owns his wife’s hair.

In California, it is illegal to peel an orange in your hotel room.

In West Virginia, no children may attend school with their breath smelling of “wild onions”.

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