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  • Now you know everything.

    The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

    No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.

    Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

    You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

    Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

    The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

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

    American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.

    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

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


    The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first "MarlboroMan."

    Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

    Pearls melt in vinegar.

    The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

    It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

    A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

    Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

    (I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)

    Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson Clinton. (Please don't tell me you're SURPRISED!?!!) sure doesn't surprise me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the best for last.....

    Turtles can breathe through their butts.

    Now you know everything there is to know

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  • #2
    Re: Now you know everything.

    Originally posted by Oerdin
    A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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    Aha, a scientist with far too much time on his hands disagrees! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3086890.stm

    As far an 'interesting' fact of my own..?

    Ducks quack in regional accents... giving you ducks that speak in 'Cockney' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3775799.stm

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    • #3
      No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.

      The record is twelve.


      As for several of the rest...somebody hasn't been watching Mythbusters.
      "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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      • #4
        Somebody cut and paste this from an e0mail.
        Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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        • #5
          A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.


          AFAIK Mythbusters did a test on this, but it still echo'ed... I didn't see that episode myself though so I might be mistaking

          Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.


          Mythbusters did a test on this too, but even the toothbrushes placed far far away from the toilet (in a differnet room) had some particles on it... you shouldn't worry though
          This space is empty... or is it?

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          • #6
            No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.


            I did 8 with a large and thin paper. And I see above someone claims 12.
            So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Adagio
              Mythbusters did a test on this too, but even the toothbrushes placed far far away from the toilet (in a differnet room) had some particles on it... you shouldn't worry though
              I wouldn't worry about it. There'll be more particles in your mouth than there are on the toothbrush anyway!

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              • #8
                Are you sure that "Exxon" isn't the most valuable brand name on Earth?

                BTW, good to see you back Oerdin.
                "I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!

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                • #9
                  Turtles can breathe through their butts.
                  Next, on mythbusters!
                  Monkey!!!

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                  • #10
                    Re: Now you know everything.

                    Originally posted by Oerdin
                    The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
                    It's Coca Cola, Microsoft, IBM, in that order.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Now you know everything.

                      Originally posted by Oerdin
                      Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
                      Bull****

                      You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.


                      Bull****. You burn 15% more per hour watching TV

                      Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.


                      Uranus and Pluto also have retrograde rotation

                      Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.


                      I don't know whether or not dentists have reccommended it, but it has no basis in scientific fact. The only people I know of to have done any such experimentation (Mythbusters on Discovery) found fecal coliform bascteria on toothbrushes no matter where they were placed in the bathroom.
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                      • #12
                        Oerdin's list of trivia sucks.
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                        • #13
                          pigs can't look up

                          the little depression under the middle of your nose is called the filtrum
                          Monkey!!!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Colon
                            Oerdin's list of trivia sucks.
                            Well thats one thing we've leant

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                            • #15
                              I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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