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Old 22-July-2006, 10:31 PM
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The most simple chinese character has just one stroke; the most complex 64, 36, 48, 57, or 84 (depends on what you allow as 'most complex').
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The word "gullible" isn't found in any dictionary.
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http://gullible.com/ "maybe for sale", but then again maybe it isn't.
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The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
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Old 23-July-2006, 07:09 PM
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The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
that woulds mean an average of 2.4 hours in line every day for the whole of the 50years!

edit-I suppose if that included traffic lines that would make sense.
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Old 24-July-2006, 01:33 AM
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The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
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Old 24-July-2006, 03:12 AM
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Forty is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. One is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.

Four is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.


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Old 24-July-2006, 03:24 AM
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The body of a human child contains nearly 300 bones. The body of a human adult contains only about 210 because the bones fuse as you grow.
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Old 24-July-2006, 04:11 AM
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Happy Birthday was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.


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The groundhog is also know as the woodchuck or the whistle pig (for their alarm call).
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Google has interfaces in 36 languages, including Klingon.
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Bananas are one of Icelands' major exports.
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23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks......



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Honorary U.S. citizenship has been conferred only four times--to British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill; Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved at least 20,000 Jews from the Nazis; Pennsylvania founder William Penn and his wife, Hannah; and to Mother Teresa for her work around the world caring for the sick and destitute.
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Old 24-July-2006, 05:17 PM
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Bananas are one of Icelands' major exports.
I thought these were supposed to be random facts, not random lies.
Or are bananas made from fish ?(LINK).
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Old 24-July-2006, 05:36 PM
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The actual fact is that Iceland don't have to import Bananas (which i'll mention again, are a berry from a herb) since they can grow all their own!
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The Washington Monument is sinking at a rate of 5.64 inches per century.
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The Washington Monument is sinking at a rate of 5.64 inches per century.
From which we can conclude that 4.5 billion years ago it would've been 635 000km above the surface of the Earth! Since that's silly the Earth obviously has to be much younger. :P

Anywho, There's a species of squid that can 'fly' through the air for 50 yards, they also leap 6 feet out of the water and can achieve speeds of up to 45 mph. I can just picture some early sailor standing on deck when all of a sudden a squid bullet flies alongside his boat and off into the distance...
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There are as many whole numbers as there are fractions.
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0.999... = 1
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Old 24-July-2006, 11:01 PM
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Over 10% of Lance's posts on this forum mention llamas.
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Inglind is moving away from Europe at 20cm per year. Is the channel tunnel built like a concertina?
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