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- canuck0
The world is not flat, as commonly believed.
- Tiina_G0
Between 1939 and 1945 the 'Heinz' company produced swastica shaped spaghetti hoops
- BuddhaHat0
1. It is not possible to lick your elbow.
2. If you live to be 65, you spend approximately 54 days on the toilet.
3. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
4. I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll.
5. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
6. There are 336 dimples on a standard golf ball.
- BuddhaHat0
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
- PolaroidMan0
if you bite the ear off of a grown man, he will scream like a bitch.
http://www.guzer.com/videos/tyso…
- agentfour0
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
- kelpie0
haven't read through this so apologies to anyone who' already said this, but I have it on good authority that the Fuck one at least is an urban myth, I have heard people scoff at the Golf one too. Don't know myself for sure though...
- Baskerville0
The average American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span.
JazX
(Jan 16 06, 12:03)Why does that not surprise me?
The average for every other country in the world: 200 cookies
- kelpie0
that's a low estimate on average cookie consumption (by cookies do we mean all biscuits?)
I've eaten a lot more than 200 biscuits and I'm skinny as a rake...
- Dancer0
The natural colour of Coca-Cola before they put colouring in it is green
- ********0
18. The Hulk from the comic book series was a character loosely developed after Stan Lee's retarded cousin Joey, who was a bit stronger than the rest of the kids in the 8th grade. Probably because he was 48.
kOna
(Jan 16 06, 13:34)hahahaha
- Baskerville0
all this stuff is trivia:
the word trivia comes from the latin for a crossroads where 3 different roads met – tri meaning 3 and via meaning road.
People would meet at this crossroads in acient times and discuss and gossip about things.
the word stuck.
- ********0
ha
- CanHasQBN0
One gram of gold (less than 1/25 oz.) can be made into a wire that is 1.6km (or one mile) long.
- ********0
The two-fingered salute or V sign (not a victory/peace sign) derives from a gesture made by longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. According to the story, the French were in the habit of cutting off the arrow-shooting fingers of captured English and Welsh longbowmen, and the gesture was a sign of defiance on the part of the bowmen, showing the enemy that they still had their fingers, or, as a widespread pun puts it, that they could still "pluck yew".
- pango0
10OSFA!!
- pango0
10OSFA!!
