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donotkidme
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 11:40 AM      
Psychopath
Registered: Dec. 01
quote:

- The average chocolate bar has eight insects' legs in it.



i really didn't want to know that. one more reason not eat chocolate, but hey maybe that's what makes it so orgasmic for britney




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posted on 02-01-2002 @ 11:42 AM      
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Registered: Sep. 01
quote:

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

new experiment!


In the memory you'll find me,Eyes burning up,The darkness holding me tightly,Until the sun rises up

CEBOLLA
GonzoStyle
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 12:02 PM      
Hanger-On
Registered: Jan. 70
quote:

i really didn't want to know that.



- McDonalds is the largest purchaser of cattle eyeballs in the world.




I'm Deep Inside Your Children.
They Will Betray You In MY Name.


Drusilla
fag-hag
JYD-4-LIFE
Hey, smell my head!
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 1:19 PM      
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Registered: Aug. 01
quote:

quote:

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40% of women have hurled footwear at a man

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I never hurled footweat, but I threw a right cross that gave the guy a black eye and me a broken hand that required surgery to fix - does that count or am I a part of the other 60%?





i've never thrown a shoe at a guy, but i did kick one in the head cause he pissed me off.


quote:

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.




mmmm, ostrich.



have some chuckles

you'll rue the day you crossed me trebek

If you perceive others as failures, it makes you feel better about yourself
Banana_juice
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 1:31 PM      
O&A Board Regular
Registered: Jan. 01
here is some absolutely useless stuff..

The balance beam used in Olympic gymnastic competition is four inches wide.

Florence Nightingale spent the last 40 years of her life in one room, never leaving.

In the United States, 85% of couples use the "missionary position" exclusively.

Giraffes were at one time referred to by Europeans as "cameleopards," believing giraffes were the offspring of camels and leopards.

Among the world’s recognized languages, 184 are spoken by fewer than 10 people.

Stalin holds the world record for erecting the most statues to himself.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

In ancient Athens, every third man worked with marble.

Yellow tennis balls were used at Wimbledon for the first time in 1986.

Mel Gibson earned $5,000 for his role in Mad Max.

Every day, 2,700 Americans are told they have gonorrhea.

The middle stall in a public bathroom is the most contaminated. The first stall is the least contaminated.

Childbirth can spur hair loss.

Surveys report men prefer smooth peanut butter, while women prefer crunchy.

A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.

Woody Woodpecker’s hometown was Puddleburgh.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, was the first writer to incorporate himself.

The space between your nostrils is called the "columella."

Johnny Carson did 4,531 opening monologues during his 30 years on The Tonight Show.

Franklin Pierce is the only President to have said, "I promise" instead of, "I swear" at his inauguration. He did it for religious reasons.

It’s estimated that the French eat an average of 200 million frogs each year.

70% of Americans driving on the highway are speeding.

In the National Football League, the home team is required to provide 24 footballs for each game.

Another word for a guitar pick is "plectrum."

The leaf on the Canadian flag has 11 points.

Astronaut John W. Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard the five-hour Gemini 3 flight on March 23, 1965. Consumed by mission mate Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, the contraband sandwich resulted in a Congressional investigation and the first official reprimand of an astronaut.

You can get 7.5 million toothpicks out of a cord of wood.

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, is the novel that contains the longest sentence in literature. The sentence has 823 words.

Woodrow Wilson allowed sheep to graze on the White House lawn during World War I—their wool helped raise money for the Red Cross.

Pandas in China have been given Viagra to help them mate.

Alaska doesn’t have any counties.

The address of Big Bird’s nest on "Sesame Street" is 123 ½ Sesame Street.

In the English language, no other word has more synonyms than "penis." There are more than 1,500 other words for the male sexual organ, with "copulation" having more than 450 synonyms and "breast" more than 350.

The five most stolen items in drugstores are batteries, cosmetics, film, sunglasses and Preparation H.

Soldiers in the Netherlands are not required to salute officers.

The "left bank" of a river is the left side as you look downstream.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) created the "X" rating for sexually explicit and excessively violent films on November 1, 1968.

Aristotle, Sir Isaac Newton, Moses and Charles Darwin were all stutterers.

40% of people killed by falling off a horse are drunk.






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GonzoStyle
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 1:42 PM      
Hanger-On
Registered: Jan. 70
Ahh not too bad...

- The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

- The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

- Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.

- The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." Prisoners in the state prison in Concord manufacture these license plates.

- The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu; it is a hill in New Zealand.

- According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light.

- There is a particle called tackyon, which is supposed to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it.

- If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by two times it's height, you get pi to the fifteenth digit.

- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

- Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

- Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eyes.

- Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.

- Your brain is 80% water.

- 10% of Star Trek fans replace the lenses on their glasses every 5 years whether they need to or not.

- Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox.





I'm Deep Inside Your Children.
They Will Betray You In MY Name.


Banana_juice
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 1:46 PM      
O&A Board Regular
Registered: Jan. 01
damn those were good.i wonder why someone would even do a study though to see when trekkies change there glasses. but who knows. haha

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete. A left-handed pitcher, Castro was later given a tryout by the Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
A soccer ball has 32 panels
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a by a poisonous spider



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GonzoStyle
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 1:57 PM      
Hanger-On
Registered: Jan. 70
Not bad..

- Lee Harvey Oswald's body tag was auctioned off for $6,600.

- Dan Aykroyd's conehead from Saturday Night Live was auctioned off at $2,200.

- Hrand Araklein, a Brinks's car guard, was killed when $50,000 worth of quarters crushed him.

- Donald Duck's sister is called Dumbella.

- Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches.

- Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

- Between 25% and 33% of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.

- The sun is not the biggest star in the universe or the galaxy.

- Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.

- The first audio CD's appeared in the USA in 1984.

- (For Froy) The first audio CD manufactured in the US was Bruce Springstean's "Born in The USA".

- Cows have four stomachs.

- When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, including you heart.

- A human's mucus membrane, used to smell, is the size of a postage stamp.

- A dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps.

- A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body.

- Brachiosaurus had a heart the size of a pickup truck.

- The most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla.




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They Will Betray You In MY Name.


Banana_juice
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 2:00 PM      
O&A Board Regular
Registered: Jan. 01
damn those were good

Of all the potatoes grown in the United States, only 8 percent are used to make potato chips. Special varieties referred to as "chipping potatoes" are grown for this purpose.

Official FDA guidelines allow whole pepper to be sold with up to 1 percent of the volume made up of rodent droppings.

Synesthesia is a rare condition in which the senses are combined. Synesthetes see words, taste colors and shapes, and feel flavors.


The simple act of walking requires the use of 200 muscles in the human body. 40 or so will lift your leg and move it forward.


The African bushman lives in a quiet, remote environment and has no measurable hearing loss at age 60.


The size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm.

The average adult stands 0.4 inch (1 cm) taller in the morning than in the evening, because the cartilage in the spine compresses during the day.


The skeleton of an average 160 pound body weighs about 29 pounds.


The skin is only about as deep as the tip of a ball-point pen. First-degree burns affect only the very top layers of the skin; second-degree burns, midway through the skin's thickness. Third-degree burns penetrate and damage the entire thickness of the skin.


The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearm, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch.

You're just as likely to die by falling out of bed then you are to get struck by lightning; each is a 1 in 2,000,000 chance. You have a 1 in 3,000,000 chance of being killed by a snake.



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HyBriD
I AM THE KILLER
FN Moron is an indian giver!!
I had my cool status for about 10 min. then it was gone. GONE!
G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S.
Agent WD40 Licensed to Kill
My spoon is TOO BIG. (finally)
WORD UP KIDDIES! This is Poop Dog, the gangsta specta of defeat!
Hanger-on to the JYDs for LIFE
I INVENTED ORANGE MOTHERFUCKER
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posted on 02-01-2002 @ 2:00 PM      
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Registered: Sep. 01
quote:

A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.


so do i.


In the memory you'll find me,Eyes burning up,The darkness holding me tightly,Until the sun rises up

CEBOLLA
GonzoStyle
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 2:18 PM      
Hanger-On
Registered: Jan. 70
Hybrid why don't I doubt it, lol.


- The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

- The average person over fifty will have spent 1 year looking for lost items.

- Yasir Arafat is addicted to watching television cartoons.

- The toothbrush was invented in 1498.

- The Earth orbits the sun at about 18.5 miles per second.

- The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles.

- Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.

- The number one most popular cat name is Kitty.

- The number one most popular dog name is Brandy.

- The average housefly lives for one month.

- Any colored gas is poisonous.

- There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll.

- In 1977, a 13-year-old kid found a tooth growing out of his left foot.

- Penguins can jump 6 feet.

- There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death.

- You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah.

- It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop.

- It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

- It takes an average of 48 to 100 tries to solve a Rubix Cube puzzle.

- If done perfectly, any Rubix Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.

- In Jasmine, Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300 kilometers of a private home.

- The average American has $104 in their wallet.





I'm Deep Inside Your Children.
They Will Betray You In MY Name.


Banana_juice
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 2:20 PM      
O&A Board Regular
Registered: Jan. 01
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!

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

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

Slugs have 4 noses!

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!

There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!

Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!

Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!

A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!





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donotkidme
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 2:55 PM      
Psychopath
Registered: Dec. 01
at this point i don't know if i'm repeating anyone, so if i did I'm sorry.

- it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telophone pole or street lamp in atlanta

- war is a conflict in which at least 1000 deaths have occurred in a given year

- dueling is legal in paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors

- in russia, during the time of peter the great, you had to pay a tax to have a beard

- it'l illegal in newcastle, wyoming to have sex in a butcher's meat shop freezer

- new jersey had a law allowing the castration of epileptics up until the 20th century

- lacrosse was invented by american indians

- dreamt is the only common english word that ends in "mt"

- chopsticks are called o-hashi in japanese

- in the middle ages, chicken soup was believe to be an aphrodisiac

- missouri means muddy water


Complaints? Too bad!

So I tried to back away from the stripper, but she kept on trying to touch me (O&A 1/31/02)
Banana_juice
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 3:14 PM      
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Registered: Jan. 01
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

» The average person laughs 15 times a day.

» It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

» The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

» When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles (4827 km) per hour.

Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
» Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), then multiply that number by 3. Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number

» The Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle. Margaret Herrick, librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made a remark that the statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and the name stuck.

» Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994.

» Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.

» Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.

» The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.

» Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings

» Odds of being killed by a dog - 1 in 700,000.

» Odds of dying while in the bath tub - 1 in 1 million.

» Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.

» Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.

» Odds of being killed by freezing - 1 in 3 million.

» Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million.

» Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000.

» Odds of being killed in a tornado - 1 in 2 million.

» Odds of being killed by falling out of bed - 1 in 2 million.

» Odds of being killed in a plane crash -1 in 25 million.

» If you played all of the Beatles' singles and albums that came out between 1962 and 1970 back to back, it would only last for 10 hours and 33 minutes.

» Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music




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posted on 02-01-2002 @ 3:54 PM      
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Registered: Oct. 00
here some useless tidbits...if they've been repeated... fuck it...
quote:

» One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.

» In 1933, Mickey Mouse, an animated cartoon character, received 800,000 fan letters.

» There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

» If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

» Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate.

» The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

» There are 2 credit cards for every person in the United States.

» The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

» More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

» Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.

» The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

» More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

» The only 2 days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.

» Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

» The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only 6 inches (15 cm) for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

» You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

» It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

» The tip of a 1/3-inch long hour hand on a wristwatch travels at 0.00000275 miles per hour.

» One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life!

» A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.

» A hair is 70% easier to cut when soaked in warm water for 2 minutes.

» Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair.

» It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.

» During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble.

» 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and dung.

» Less than 1% of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air; respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.

» The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.

» It took 1,175 animators working in Disney studios in Burbank, California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris, France to complete the animated Tarzan. Because of the time differences, production was able to occur around the clock for more than three years.

» From 1840, every president elected in a year ending in the numeral "0" has been assassinated, died in office, or been severely wounded in an attempt on his life. Each event has taken place in an odd numbered year and each on an even numbered day. In each case, the number of terms the president was elected to has alternated between single and multiple (i.e. Harrison 1, Lincoln 2, Garfield 1, Mckinley 2, etc). Ronald Reagan was the first president who did not die because of this "curse." If this pattern continues, the person elected in 2000 will die in 2001 or 2003, or will be wounded in an assassination attempt. Let's hope that the "curse" was broken by Ronald Reagan's survival in 1981.

» The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

» About 17% of humans are left-handed. The same is true of chimpanzees and gorillas.

» Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

» The entire length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

» No president of the United States was an only child.

» The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

» The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.
» Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.

» A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

» If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).

» The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.


and now some info about a few of our states...
quote:

» California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ."

» The world's shortest river is the "D" river in Oregon. It's only 120 feet (37 m). It connects Devil's lake to the nearby Pacific Ocean.

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

» Nevada is the driest state in the U.S.. Each year it averages 7.5 inches (19 cm) of rain.

» In December 1997, the state of Nevada became the first state to pass legislation categorizing Y2K data disasters as "acts of God" protecting the state from lawsuits that may potentially be brought against it by residents in the year 2000.

» In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.

» Salt Lake City, Utah has a law against carrying an unwrapped ukulele on the street.

» Arizona was the last of the 48 adjoining continental states to enter the Union.

» It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

» The meteorite that hit/made The Barringer crater in Arizona weighed more than 50,000 tons.

» The amount of concrete used in the building of the Hoover Dam is equal to that of paving a 4-foot (1.2 m) wide footpath around the equator.

» Wyoming was the first state to give women the right to vote in 1869.

» Denver, Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger.

» Denver, Colorado consumes less prune juice per capita than any other city in the United States.

» The first license plate on a car in the United States was issued in Denver, Colorado in 1908.

» In Fruita, Colorado the town folk celebrate "Mike the Headless Chicken Day." Seems that a farmer named L.A. Olsen cut off Mike's head on September 10, 1945 in anticipation of a chicken dinner - and Mike lived for another 4 years without a head. Mike died from choking on a corn kernel.

» The state of Maryland has no natural Lakes.

» Illinois has the highest number of personalized license plates than any other state.

» Austin, Texas has the highest percentage of college graduates, 31 percent. Newark, New Jersey has the lowest, 6 percent.

» Residents of Houston, Texas lead the U.S. in eating out - approximately 4.6 times per week.

» The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

» Laredo, Texas is the U.S.'s farthest inland port.

» There is a town in Texas called "Ding Dong."

» Rugby, North Dakota is the geographical center of North America.

» Butte County, South Dakota is the geographical center of the U.S.

» "Home on the Range" is the state song for Kansas.

» It is illegal to get fish drunk in Oklahoma.

» The world's largest McDonalds is located on I-44 at Vinita, Oklahoma. It goes from one side of the interstate to the other, passing over the interstate.

» Louisiana's capital building is the tallest one of any U.S. state.

» Louisiana is the only state not to have counties. They are called Parishes.

» Mississippi is the poorest state.

» Hawaii is the only coffee producing state.

» New Jersey has a spoon museum.

» One in seven workers in Boston, Massachusetts walks to work.

» The Boston University Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

» The "Dull Men's Hall of Fame" is located in Carroll, Wisconsin.

» Gary, Indiana is the murder capital of the U.S. - probably the world.

» Alabama was the first state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday.

» The largest NFL stadium is the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, Michigan.

» Michigan was the first state to have roadside picnic tables.

» No matter where you stand in Michigan, you are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake.

» Marshall almost became the state capital of Michigan but lost by one vote in 1848.

» In 1997, Michigan became the 16th state to allow the blind to hunt.

» The official beverage of Ohio is tomato juice.

» "Hang on Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

» Georgia's state motto is "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation."

» The U.S. city with the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita is Clearwater, Florida.

» Florida was separated into two sections at one time, East Florida and West Florida. Pensacola was the capital of West Florida and St. Augustine was the capital of East Florida.

» George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, all Virginians, were founding fathers of the United States and were among the first five U.S. Presidents. Virginia was also the birthplace of U.S. Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.

» The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as needed because when it was built the state of Virginia still had segregation laws.

» It's illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk, Virginia.

» There was a town in West Virginia called "6."

» The first streetlights in America were installed in Philadelphia around 1757.

» In Frackville, Pennsylvania a woman filed for divorce because her husband insisted on "shooting tin cans off of her head with a slingshot."

» The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

» If you were to take a taxicab from New York City to Los Angeles, it would cost you $8,325.

» New York cities administrative code still requires that hitching posts be located in front of City Hall so that reporters can tie their horses.

» The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.

» In New York State, it is illegal to but any alcohol on Sundays before noon.

» Queen Anne had a transvestite cousin, Lord Cornbury, whom she assigned to be governor of New York and New Jersey. The colonists were not amused.

» There were 240 pedestrian fatalities in New York City in 1994.

» Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

» The Citibank building in New York City had a structural flaw and had the potential to fall down. When the flaw was caught in 1978, a year after completion, it was found that there was a 50% chance of collapse during winds over 78 miles (126 km) per hour, typical in a hurricane. At the same time there was a hurricane heading straight for NYC. The building owner secretly had the flaw corrected in the middle of the night. There were rumors about the "glowing Citibank building" because the welding could be seen across the skyline. It was estimated that 156 blocks would have been demolished due to the domino effect the building would start had it fallen over.

» The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be seen on the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet (91 m) long by 23 feet (7 m) high.

» On the 25th anniversary of the New York City marathon, the world's longest urinal, 290 feet, (88 m) was installed at the beginning of the race.

» Customers who bought the first Kodak cameras had to mail them back to Rochester, New York for reloading.

» All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in New York City was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.

» On a clear day, you can see five states from the top of the Empire State Building - New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

» Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonalds.

» Maine is the only state that has borders with only one other state.

» Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

» Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.





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posted on 02-01-2002 @ 3:58 PM      
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Registered: Sep. 01
quote:

» Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

amateur. RACECAR SPELLED BACKWARDS IS RACECAR!! BEAT THAT!!!!!!! this is now the second time i mentioned this, the firs time in the ::sob:: carol thread.


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kindredbabe
posted on 02-01-2002 @ 4:42 PM      
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Registered: Aug. 01
quote:

- It is illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California.

Well, there go my plans for tonight....


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Banana_juice
posted on 02-04-2002 @ 11:06 AM      
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Registered: Jan. 01
Orangutans warn people to stay out of their territory by belching.

Public women’s restrooms are twice as germ-laden as men’s.

Seventy-three percent of Manila residents smoke.

There are more germs in the human mouth than in the anus.

Lyndon Johnson claimed to have had sex with five of his six secretaries, including one session on his desk in the Oval Office.

The maximum speed at which erotic sensations travel from skin to brain has been clocked at 156 miles per hour.

Nurses and doctors wash their hands between patients less than one-third of the time.

The Carpenters' signature song, We've Only Just Begun, was originally part of a television commercial for a California bank. Richard Carpenter saw the commercial and made it into a hit song.

When Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857, he had his name printed on each sheet.

For several centuries, women used to rub crushed strawberries on their breasts in the belief that it would enlarge them.

L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz, called his home in Hollywood "Ozcot."

TV’s Lieutenant Columbo did have a first name—Phillip.

A giraffe has a 20-inch tongue.

Babe Ruth has the record for career strikeouts—1,330.

Dentyne was the first gum marketed as being beneficial to teeth. It's a contraction of "dental hygiene."

Napoleon Bonaparte financed his invasion of Russia with counterfeit money.

When the first duck-billed platypus arrived at the British Museum, the curators thought it was a fake and tried to pull its beak off.

In the latter part of the 18th century, Prussian surgeons treated stutterers by snipping off portions of their tongues.

Thrity-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The number of left-handed men is double that of left-handed women.

The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci.

An average man on an average day excretes two and a half quarts of sweat.





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