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Weird facts that you would rather not know....

Did you know?...It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Did you know?...Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Did you know?...Coca-Cola was originally green.

Did you know?...23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

Did you know?...In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Did you know?...If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contactwith extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

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

Did you know?...More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Did you know?...The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Did you know?...The Eiffel Tower in Paris weighs over 1000 elephants.

Did you know?...there are actually two types of humans? The slightly larger and less intelligent kind, males, have protruding external genitalia called "penises" that are used for making important life decisions. Meanwhile, females have these nifty things called "vaginas" that no one understands yet, especially males

Did you know?... In 1879, a mail service in Belgium employed 37 cats to carry bundles of letters to villages around the town of Liege, this experiment was shorted-lived as the cats proved thoroughly undisciplined. Just plain weird...even by my standards.

Did you know?... The greatest recorded number of children that have been born by one mother is 69! The poor lass gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and a measly 4 sets of quadruplets. Even in the days before IVF!

Did you know?...Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.

Did you know?... Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus

Did you know?...13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese...yummy

Did you know?...The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Did you know?...If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in celcius degrees... How do they know that?

Did you know?...Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes. Eeewwwwww

Did you know?...Hydrogen is an explosive gas. Oxygen supports combustion. Yet when these are combined it is water which is used to put out fires.

Did you know?...Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo he was also impotent. Bwahahahahahaha!

Did you know?...The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways-

1. Leeuwaarden
2. Leewaarden
3. Leewarden
4. Leuwarden
5. leuwaardenn
6. Leuuwarrden......
224. Bradford

Did you know?...Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Go on, try it then

Did you know?...The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

Did you know?...Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Did you know?...Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
  • Spades - King David
  • Hearts - Charlemagne
  • Clubs - Alexander the Great
  • Diamonds - Julius Caesar

    Did you know?...In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

    Did you know?...If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

    Did you know?...Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

    Did you know?...The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

    Did you know?...101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die during the movie.

    Did you know?...To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

    Did you know?...You're most likely to win the National Lottery (UK) if you buy your ticket on a saturday rather than a wednesday. Because you are more likey to die before the number draw than win.

    Did you know?... In York, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow (except on Sundays)

    Did you know?...On average, 90% Dutch teenagers can speak fluent English whereas only 80% American teenagers can speak fluent English. (Just incase you didnt know, English is not the first langauge of The Netherlands.)

    Did you know?...In Texas, a recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed. Only in Texas....

    Did you know?...No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times

    Did you know?...The people who make school kitchens, also make electric chairs.

    Did you know?... The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

    Did you know?..."Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

    Did you know?...The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

    Did you know?...1 in every 200 people are a psychopath and they look just like everyone else......

    Did you know?...An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

    Did you know?... All the chemicals in the human body have a combined value of approximately £4.00 (6.25 Euro)

    Did you know?...In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.

    Did you know?...You are most likely to be murdered or raped by a family member or a close friend (98% of all murders). Whereas being murdered by a derranged lunatic down a dark alley is very rare.

    Did you know?...Bill "Four eyes" Gates has enough money to buy every house in Alaska, greedy bastard!

    Did you know?...Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year

    Did you know?...It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open? Next time you feel a sneeze coming try it!

    Did you know?...The expression "to get fired" comes from long, long ago. When clans wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down.

    Did you know?...The word 'corr' actually means 'odd' in Irish.

    Did you know?...Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". In English this means 'The City of Angels'

    Did you know?...In France, a five year old child can buy an alcholic drink in a bar
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    Did you know?...Chocolate is healthy!
    Chocolate is a vegetable; Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar BEETS.Both of them are plants, in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.
    To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So chocolate bars are a health food. Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

    Did you know?... During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.

    Did you know?...
    Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.Another interesting fact about Donald Duck - never wore pants but always wore a towel when he came out of the shower!

    Did you know?...Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

    Did you know?... The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per sidein a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

    Did you know?...The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

    Did you know?... 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.

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

    Did you know?...Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

    Did you know?... Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

    Did you know?...An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

    Did you know?...The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

    Did you know?... The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

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

    Did you know?...In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

    Did you know?... On average,100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

    Did you know?...Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

    Did you know?...The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

    Did you know?... The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (coincidence? )

    Did you know?...In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

    Did you know?...Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.

    Did you know?... Channel 4's Ali G's favourite chatchprase "Boyakasha" actually translates to "Death to all white people." And Ali G is, in fact, white.

    Did you know?... Sticking your two middle fingers up dates back from the middles ages. When archers were caught they had their two middle fingers cut of so that they couldn't shoot any more arrows. So when an archer was shooting people he would stick his fingers up to say "look I still have them, "hahaha".

    Did you know?... In some eastern European countries shaking your head means "yes". Whereas nodding your head means "no"

    Did you know?...December is the most popular time for Conception.

    Did you know?...Over 75% of people who read this page will try to lick their elbow.

    Did you know?...You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you cant pick your friends nose.

    Did you know?...
    Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

    Did you know?...This is why I hate Barbie. If she was of real life size, this is what her portions would be-

    Height: 7ft 2 inches (average woman: 5ft 4in)
    Neck: Twice the size of a normal human female which would make it very unable to support the weight of her head.
    Boobs: 39 inches (or approximately an FF cup: average woman 36B)
    Waist: 18 inches (which is only possible if you remove 2 ribs and carry both kidneys around in a bag)
    Hips: 33 inches
    Shoe Size: 5
    Also Ken and Barbie are brother and sister!

    Did you know?...Modern records do not compare with that of St Simeon the younger (C AD 521-97) called stylites a monk who spent the final 45 years of his life living at the top of a stone pillar on the hill of wonders near Antioch in Syria! What the fuck?.....

    Did you know?...14% of all facts and statisticts are made up and 27% of people know that fact.

    Did you know?...Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

    Did you know?...Eskimos have over 15 words for the english word of 'Snow'

    Did you know?...Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.... each

    Did you know?...Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

    Did you know?...Contray to popular belief, the British flag is not called "The Union Jack" its actually called "The Union Flag". Its only called the Union Jack when out at sea on navy ships

    Did you know?... You are most likely to get murdered at Christmas time due to more alcohol being drunk. Merry Christmas.

    Did you know?...If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

    Did you know?... TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

    Did you know?...On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament buildings is an American flag.

    Did you know?... Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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