Author Topic: Useless Facts  (Read 8526 times)

PaulW

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« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2009, 03:15:02 PM »
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

PaulW

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« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2009, 03:15:17 PM »
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

PaulW

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« Reply #17 on: February 03, 2009, 03:15:50 PM »
All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

PaulW

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« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2009, 03:16:34 PM »
Cat's urine glows under a black light.

PaulW

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« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2009, 03:18:24 PM »
Almonds are members of the peach family.

PaulW

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« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2009, 03:19:12 PM »
The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes

PaulW

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« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2009, 03:19:43 PM »
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

PaulW

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« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2009, 03:20:40 PM »
On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.

PaulW

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« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2009, 03:21:35 PM »
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural.

PaulW

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« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2009, 03:21:57 PM »
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...

PaulW

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« Reply #25 on: February 03, 2009, 03:23:05 PM »
The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".

PaulW

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« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2009, 03:23:23 PM »
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

PaulW

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« Reply #27 on: February 03, 2009, 03:23:44 PM »
The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.

PaulW

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« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2009, 03:24:14 PM »
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave

PaulW

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« Reply #29 on: February 03, 2009, 03:24:34 PM »
A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge