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1. Walter Cavanaugh, "Mr. Plastic Fantastic," has 1,196 different valid credit cards.

2. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

3. In 1987, a 1,400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed inIreland.

4. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

5. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time areteenagers.

6. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.

7. If an orangutan belches at you, watch out. He's warning you to stay out of
his territory.

8. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he
might be retarded.

9. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

10. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting
on it.

11. In 1984, a New Jersey man opened a summer camp for Cabbage Patch dolls.

12. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other
weather.

13. How can you tell when a gorilla is angry? It sticks its tongue out.

14. According to one poll, nearly 3/4 of all American women wear a bra that is
the wrong size.

15. In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.

16. The first sperm banks opened in 1964; they were located in Tokyo and Iowa City.

17. In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under
frozen foods.

18. Cold showers actually increase sexual arousal.

19. ,200 college students streaked at the same time in Boulder, CO in 1974.

20. In 1977, a 13-year-old boy discovered a tooth growing on his left foot.

21. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of
toast.

22. In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows instead of croaking.

23. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.

24. About 96% of all American children can recognize Ronald McDonald.

25. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

26. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently
eaten bananas.

27. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

28. The average human has seven sex fantasies in a day.

29. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

30. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

31. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

32. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.

33. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000B.C.

34. Watch out for flying hockey pucks - they travel at up to 100 mph.

35. America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.

36. % of American drivers think they drive better than anyone else.

37. When he's feeling amorous, the male sea otter grabs the female's nose with
his teeth.

38. In 1681, the last dodo bird died.

39. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.

40. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

41. An Indian woman can legally wed a goat.

42. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

43. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

44. Howdy Doody had 48 freckles.

45. What color was Christopher Columbus's hair? Blonde.

46. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.

47. The most extras ever used in a movie was 300,000, for the film Gandhi in 1981.

48. Every person has a unique tongue print.

49. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

50. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

51. When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

52. Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in
their wallets.

53. Bubble gum contains rubber.

54. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

55. In high school, Robin Williams was voted "Least Likely to Succeed."

56. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

57. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.

58. The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.

59. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

60. Chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.

61. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

62. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.

63. Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are. [Well, duh,
why do you think they go? The men drive them crazy!]

64. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

65. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

66. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend,
Indiana.

67. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The
rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]

68. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

69. An estimated 6,000 American teenagers lose their virginity every day.

70. Someone paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.

71. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

72. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

73. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as Pres. Bush in
1991.

74. Elvis's nickname for his sexual organ was "Little Elvis."

75. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western
Pacific.

76. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. [And most of them
are in Parma!]

77. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

78. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

79. Mosquitos have teeth.

80. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

81. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

82. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and
Elvis Presley.

83. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

84. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

85. Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards.

86. % of U.S. male college students believe life is "a meaningless existential
hell."

87. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients
would die.

88. An estimated one in five Americans - some 38 million - don't like sex.

89. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant
"plenty of excrement."

90. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

91. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
 
wow! not bad..... that must have taken u some time to type :D

92. If American Airlines took out 1 olive from each first class salad served, they would save over $40 000.
 
he didnt write them but amusing nonetheless

I found this one odd

5. In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
 
nah i didn't write it, just came across it and thought i'd share the knowledge :]
 
4. There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.

My Dad was in Newfoundland one time and found a newspaper with the headlines "Dildo factory closes down", it wasn't until he started reading the article that he found out it was reffering to the town.
 
Why is this a surprise???

53. Bubble gum contains rubber.

I dont get it......
 
42. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

That one is fake.
 
i wouldn't say its 100% fake, a pedipalp is a leg like limb. I don't think to many people know what a palp is, so leg is the next best thing :)
 
MaxiKana said:
42. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

That one is fake.
were, 'past' tense...i think :rolleyes:
from some site

1. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

2. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of
pickles the company once had.

3. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

4. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks,
otherwise it will digest itself.

5. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

6. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

7. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

8. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

9. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

10. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

11. A 2x4 is really 1-1/2" x 3-1/2"

12. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

13. Every person has a unique tongue print.

14. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was
albino.

15. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

16. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in
the distance.

17. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

18. John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's
son.

19. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

20. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and
nervous system, a few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

21. Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.

22. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured,
they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

23. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

24. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

25. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.

26. Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounded like
Sue-ice.

27. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

28. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other
at the same time.

29. During the California Gold Rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to
Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in
California during these boom years it was deemed more feasible to send the
shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

30. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first class.

31. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
were made of wood.

32. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side
in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

33. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because
in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the
'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that
stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

34. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

35. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,
and silver!

36. The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill
in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

37. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a
recorded Wendy before!

38. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War
II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

39. There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar
bill.

40. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.

41. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death.


42. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so
you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

43. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have
$1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being
able to make change for a dollar.

44. The first CD pressed in the U.S. was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the
USA'.

45. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually
a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

46. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

47. 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.

48. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for
automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the
Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

49. Roses MAY be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.

50. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in
quicksand.

51. Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.

52. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece
of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

53. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

54. In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars,
Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did
this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

55. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

56. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

57. An old law in Bellingham, WA, made it illegal for a woman to take
more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

58. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.

59. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

60. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
often stolen from Public Libraries.

61. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

62. Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't
considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

63. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
 
yahoooo

indeed i wouldnt mind knowin that aswell

do you both need to be in the shower??

Isnt that illegal in the state of oregon ?
 
- The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards.

-India has the most post offices in the world.

-One billion seconds is about 32 years.

-One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.

-In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans

-In the U.S. the most common excuse made to get out of paying a ticket is to say they missed the sign.

-The largest stamp was issued by China and measured 210 x 65 mm.

-The strike note of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is e-flat.


who finds out this stuff. Is useless-facts writer a profession?
 
A man was charged with death sentence in 1824 after giving his dog a kiss

I made that one up :)
 
An old Louisiana law states that it's illegal to whistle on a Sunday.
 
Romans used to believe that walnuts could cure head ailments during the Renaissance, since their shape was similar to that of a brain.

:D
 
41. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

lol, found that pretty funny :D
 
In the early '80s, a toad was discovered that meows instead of croaking.
you know that only one type of frog that croaks and there are over 3000 types of frog, the only reason you here frogs always croak is because you heard the american one near hollywood and you only take that fact that al frogs croak for granted because you hear them in films. f**ked up huh.

on another note you can still be killed in england for having a pirates flag on a ship... fecking navy
 
ewwww spiders have genitals on they're legs

/me now has arachnaphobia
 
I think number one up there would be more accurate if it read "AMERICAN money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton". But then, maybe the site that these came from was only supposed to be read by Americans...

<RJMC>: I wouldn't believe too much of it, if I were you...
 
solid snail said:
you know that only one type of frog that croaks and there are over 3000 types of frog, the only reason you here frogs always croak is because you heard the american one near hollywood and you only take that fact that al frogs croak for granted because you hear them in films. f**ked up huh.

on another note you can still be killed in england for having a pirates flag on a ship... fecking navy

come to wales and parade a pirate flag...

im assuming i wont get killed, cos you only mention england.

not scotland, wales and northern ireland. :angel:
 
the daddy longlegs has the most dangerous venom known to man but can not administer it as it has no teeth... poor bugger... god sucks at making things... sorry all christians.

about the pirate thing i ment the uk, sorry, and the navy are the ones who are alowed to do it.
 
sorry solid snail raziaar and i decided that wasnt a true fact he got proof and everything! :(
 
35. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple,
and silver!

and month!
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

If you place a glass over a scorpion, it will sting itself immediately. You don't need the alcohol at all.
 
solid snail said:
the daddy longlegs has the most dangerous venom known to man but can not administer it as it has no teeth... poor bugger... god sucks at making things... sorry all christians.

about the pirate thing i ment the uk, sorry, and the navy are the ones who are alowed to do it.

hehe were you watching that ricky gervais thing last night?
 
solid snail said:
the daddy longlegs has the most dangerous venom known to man but can not administer it as it has no teeth... poor bugger... god sucks at making things... sorry all christians.

about the pirate thing i ment the uk, sorry, and the navy are the ones who are alowed to do it.

That myth was busted on Mythbusters.
Their venom isn't the most potent, and they can bite humans. They don't very often though.
 
. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's
stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

I find that one a little weird.
 
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