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TomC25

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1. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the
original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the
bubbles.

2. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

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

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

5. American car horns beep in the tone of F.

6. No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

7. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

8. 1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

9. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

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

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

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

13. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first
flight.

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

15. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

16. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the
USA."

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

18. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties
of pickles the company once had.

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

20. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

21. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

22. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

23. Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez
dispenser.

24. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike
factory workers in Malaysia combined.

25. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was
talked out of it by her doctor.

26. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on each foot.

27. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen
wearing them in public.

28. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

29. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in
jelly

30. Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.

31. Pearls melt in vinegar.

32. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's
supply of footballs.

33. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.

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

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

36. Average life span of a major league baseball: seven pitches.

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

38. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the
engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor
and figured out how to walk up straight staircases

39. Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains
all
the letters from the word "criminal."

40. The second? William Jefferson Clinton
 

DannyLove

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cool!:cool:


<< 20. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. >>


knew that one


<< 26. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on each foot. >>


NO WAY, i didnt know that one


<< 37. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. >>


wow, very interesting
 

TomC25

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I got this in an email from my wife

I have no idea where she got it from

 

rominl

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i just folded my paper 7 times but it is still here?!
 

dafatha00

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Did you know that...
1. On average, a chocolate candy bar contains 4 spider legs.
2. A human being eats 7 spiders in his/her lifetime. (Most of the time, when they are sleeping and the spider crawls in through their mouth.)
 

BigSmooth

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# 6 is incorrect. You can fold a piece of paper as many times as you want.

Folding it in half, now that's a different story... :)
 

thraashman

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know what dafatha. I could have gone my whole life without knowing that.

I'd heard all of those up through number 30. The rest were news to me. I love pointless trivia. It's interesting.
 

Yeeny

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1. On average, a chocolate candy bar contains 4 spider legs.
2. A human being eats 7 spiders in his/her lifetime. (Most of the time, when they are sleeping and the spider crawls in through their mouth.)


Did you have to share that with us? Now I have goosebumps all over my body, ugh. I hate spiders, darn you! :Q ;)
 

Spoooon

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Webbed, back when Cleopatra was in power, they used to have parties where they would drink pearls dissolved in vinegar. Talk about decadence! :)
 

dafatha00

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=)
and btw
3. The USDA allows a maximum of six maggot eggs or partial carcasses in every can of canned mushrooms.
 

Wow, good read.



<< 17. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the >>



Im going to try that tomarrow before work
:D
 

Plantanthera

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I knew 2, 4, 6 &amp; 31, but the rest was very informative.

Pearls melt in Vinegar, because pearls is compose of Calcium and Vinegar is an acid.

You can try puting a egg in vinegar over night to see if it is soften.

A trick I learned at third grade in Vietnam; is how to get an un-broken egg into a bottle.
Soften the egg in vinegar for 12+ hours, then drop a few burning matches into a bottle. Then, place the soften egg over the bottle opening. Once the air cool down in the bottle...it will suck the egg into the bottle. (Because of displace air volume in side the bottle, it will act as a vacuum pulling/pushing the egg into the bottle)
 
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duck link



<< . She held the duck by his body so that he could flap his wings, and ran up and down the length of the courtyard hoping to replicate the experience of flying. So much for being discreet. Incredibly enough, this wacky stratagem worked. The duck loved it and quacked like crazy for a minute. Yes, the quacks echoed. This was heard by the three of us and by an unidentified East Lansing High School teacher who came out to make sure we weren't engaging in duck torture. I was able to record the event but didn't get a good sound recording of the echo itself. But I do have a dandy clip of Shareen running up and down with the duck. I call it my 'duck tape.' >>

 

Retro2001

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Here's another one:
The &quot;$&quot; dollar sign was created by writing a &quot;U&quot; over an &quot;S&quot; and leaving out the bottom part of the &quot;U&quot;

Will