The Useless Facts Game!

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I will start.....

The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span

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In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

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Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.

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Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down

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not sure how accurate this is today but....

In most American states, a wedding ring is exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. This means that a wedding ring cannot be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.

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The end of a hammer, oppostie the striking end, is called a peen

[EPVQ30]

i'm gonna have to google some shit here.
i'm not too good with facts.
plus i'm drunk.

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The revolving door was invented in 1888

[Pepsi Man]

The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

[Himself™]

97% of Canadians say they would not borrow a toothbrush if they forgot to pack their own.
I wonder if the other 3% were originally from Britian. ;)

[mick4394]

Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.

[Himself™]

-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
-In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home
-There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo
:lol:

[blackraven]

"A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes."

[mick4394]

"A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes."

Lucky bastards.

[mick4394]

The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

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Abo elementary school, built in 1976 in Artesia New Mexico, was the first ever underground school

[FamousActor143]

the little nbc jingle "dooo DOOO dooo" was thought of because it's G, E, C, on a keyboard: that's the name of their parent company, General Electric Company.

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A group of goats is called a trip

[djdownhill]

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

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Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.

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It takes about 40 muscles to smile, but only 4 to pull the trigger of a decent rifle.

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Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have 10

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The “57″ on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.

[TelecomZombie]

Crocket l can Ban you while l pick my nose! :lol:

[EPVQ30]

people add salt to water when boiling spaghetti to make the water boil faster, rather than enhancing flavour.

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Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

[Deckster]

Red Lake ON had the world's busiest airport in 1936 with more flights landing and taking off every hour than any other.

Red Lake also has the highest grade gold deposits in the world with ore containing up to 2 troy ounces/tonne

[Deckster]

Sudbury is the largest city in Ontario. It was the first city in Canada to install parking meters in 1940. Sudbury is also the Nickel Capital of the World.

In Sudbury it is illegal to spit, in the presence of a female, on Sunday.

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A whale's penis is called a dork.

[Himself™]

Hahaha crocket is a whales penis :lol: :lol:

[NUDAY8]

in my hometown (oneida, tn) its illegal to sing the song "it ain't 'gon rain no more" in public.

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Men fart an average of 17 times a day, and women fart an average of 9 times a day.

[Himself™]

Crocket is a consummate postwhore and is currently leading the board in terms of whoryness, followed closely by his protege EPVQ30.

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Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot

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The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 Oz.

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The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

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The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

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In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'.

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Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

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Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

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Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

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Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

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The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.

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Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

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Only female mosquitoes bite.

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The continents names all end with the same letter with which they start.

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Cat's urine glows under a black light.

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Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.

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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

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A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened

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The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

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Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.

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# Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

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A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

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During conscription for WWII, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.

[EPVQ30]

so here's where you kicked in high gear huh?

you little pw.. i'm going to get you one day!:explosive smiley:

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so here's where you kicked in high gear huh?

you little pw.. i'm going to get you one day!:explosive smiley:It's not me you have to worry about, It's the one word post whore W4lker! :lol:

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US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

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Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

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Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.

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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

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All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

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Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse."

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The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.

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A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

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Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.

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If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

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In Redondo Beach, Calif., a police officer arrested a driver after a short chase and charged him with drunk driving. Officer Joseph Fonteno's suspicions were aroused when he saw the white Mazda MX-7 rolling down Pacific Coast Highway with half of a traffic-light pole, including the lights, lying across its hood. The driver had hit the pole on a median strip and simply kept driving. According to Fonteno, when the driver was asked about the pole, he said, "It came with the car when I bought it."

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So many visitors were taking his cigars, so Thomas Edison devised a plan to discourage the practice. He had several boxes of cigars custom-made with cabbage leaves. But when the offensive smelling stogies were delivered to his office, his secretary sent them on to his home where his wife went ahead and packed the items in his luggage, and the offensive items accompanied Mr. Edison on his business trip. This just goes to show you that even a genius can't outsmart his wife.

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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.

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Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.

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In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes.

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The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

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Although the combination of chili peppers and oregano for seasoning has been traced to the ancient Aztecs, the present blend is said to be the invention of early Texans. Chili powder today is typically a blend of dried chilies, garlic powder, red peppers, oregano, and cumin.

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Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

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At last check, the governor of Arkansas makes $60,000 a year. His salary is the lowest of all 50 states. A dozen or so states pay their governors more than $100,000 year, generally the more populous states. California pays its governor $131,000. Illinois comes in second at $130,000 and change, with New York, a close third at $130,000 even.

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# In 1969, the last Corvair was painted gold.

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A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

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# The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."

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315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.

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

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Octopi have gardens.

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Camel’s have three eyelids.

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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.

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The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).

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A group of geese is called a gaggle.

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Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

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Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

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Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.

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One in ten people live on an island.

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Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.

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Anne Boleyn (#2) and Catherine Howard (#5).

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Swans and Ducks are the only birds with penises.

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By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

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China has more English speakers than the United States.

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. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).

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India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

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A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

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A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

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An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

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Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.

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Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S.

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The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk.

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The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.

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an average office desk has 400x more bacteria than a toilet.

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Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.

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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

[MsButterfli]

a camel has 3 eyelids

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No president of the United States was an only child.

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Ants never sleep.

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Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.

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The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)

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Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.

[Himself™]

^^
You planning on gettin some? :eek:

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The human brain is 80% water.

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Guam has seven public elementary schools.

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In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

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The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

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The artist Vincent Van Gogh sliced part of his ear off in madness.

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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

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Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character.

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Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

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Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.

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The billionth digit of pi is 9.

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The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

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Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

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Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

that goes for cell phones too!

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There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.

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Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

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What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

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You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

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

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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

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It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

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The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

[EPVQ30]

this might be a useful fact.

the fact is that crocket and i are the only mowhores posting on slowfo!!

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When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."

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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

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The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.

[EPVQ30]

you amaze me with these facts!
where were you when i was single?.. i could have gotten a lot more ass with all this trivia a couple of years ago b4 i took the plunge!

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13 blimps in the world, nine in US

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The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

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The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.

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The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

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The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

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Two out of three people sleep on their sides, and they're about equally divided as to WHICH side. Of the remainder, slightly more sleep on their stomachs than sleep on their backs.

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Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. (The suits or the astronauts?)

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Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life.

[Kohkane]

Sound waves cannot be seen.

[Himself™]

Sound waves cannot be seen.

Unless in a Hollywood Movie

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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

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Polar bears are left-handed

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A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

[tearsonurcheek]

Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Try again. From Wikipedia:

The longest words whose letters are in alphabetical order include the eight-letter Aegilops (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegilops) (a grass genus), and the seven-letter addeems (from the archaic verb addeem, meaning to award), alloquy (an archaic or literary word for an address), beefily (in a beefy manner), billowy (like a wave or surge), dikkops (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dikkops&action=edit&redlink=1) (a South African bird) and gimmors (plural of gimmor, an old-fashioned word for a mechanical contrivance). Common six-letter words sharing this property include accept, almost, begins, effort and various others.

[CommJunkie]

dikkops sounds like when someone is choking on your dick. they get the dikkops.

[tearsonurcheek]

The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
And once again:

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon

Because the month of February has only 28 days (or 29 in a leap year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year)), there have been a few occasions during which this month has been without a full moon. In particular, there was no full moon in February of 1866, 1885, 1915, 1934, 1961 or 1999.[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon#cite_note-3) There will be no full moon during February of 2018.[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon#cite_note-4) In these years, there were instead either two full moons in January, March, or both (as in 1999). In the leap year of 1972, there was a full moon on February 29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_29). The previous February 29 full moon occurred in 1820 and before that in 1752.

[tearsonurcheek]

In Oklahoma, it's illegal to hunt whales. Guess that settles that dilemma.

[CommJunkie]

In Pennsylvania, you are not elegible to run for Governor if you have participated in a Duel.

Guess I'm out.

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And once again:

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moonGood work Tearsonurcheek, I put those in there to see if anyone would catch them! :rolleyes: :lol:

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On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

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In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

[Kohkane]

Jesus isn't I MEAN!
Air is a myth.

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Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesar. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.

[Kohkane]

Cum is not good for the face. :lol:

[Himself™]

Cum is not good for the face. :lol:

Why in the name of what you believe in, are you putting, or having cum put all over ur face??? :confused::eek::confused:
Wait, n/m! I really don't think I want to know!:tisktisk:

[Kohkane]

Why in the name of what you believe in, are you putting, or having cum put all over ur face??? :confused::eek::confused:
Wait, n/m! I really don't think I want to know!:tisktisk:

Oprah says its bad. :lol:

[Rocketmac]

George Washington Carver, while inventing over 300 uses for peanuts, didn't think of peanut butter.

[WorldIRC]

I like women....

[CommJunkie]

I love boobies