Author Topic: Useless Facts  (Read 8533 times)

PaulW

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Useless Facts
« on: February 03, 2009, 03:06:38 PM »
The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.

PaulW

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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2009, 03:07:12 PM »
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

PaulW

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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2009, 03:07:32 PM »
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year

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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2009, 03:07:56 PM »
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

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« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2009, 03:09:56 PM »
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

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« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2009, 03:10:18 PM »
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world

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« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2009, 03:11:01 PM »
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night

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« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2009, 03:11:22 PM »
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

PaulW

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« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2009, 03:11:48 PM »
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2009, 03:12:18 PM »
According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.

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« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2009, 03:12:44 PM »
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.

PaulW

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« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2009, 03:13:05 PM »
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.

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« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2009, 03:13:32 PM »
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

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« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2009, 03:14:00 PM »
# Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep

PaulW

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Re: Useless Facts
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2009, 03:14:19 PM »
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.