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Old 21-July-2006, 04:36 PM
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our fingernails are the same substance as a turtles shell-kelatin
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There is no medical name for the 'back of the knee'.
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Old 21-July-2006, 04:45 PM
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Put a mentos freshmaker in a bottle of diet coke and you'll get an explosion!
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set fire to a saltpeter & sugar mix and you'll get smoke and something that looks like elephant dropping.
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13 people a year are killed by falling vending machines
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Old 21-July-2006, 05:07 PM
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Birds actually prefer to crap on humans if they have the chance.
throughout our life a human will eat 7 bugs while sleeping
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In Poland it is illegal to drive without your headlights on, day or night, during winter months.
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Old 21-July-2006, 05:21 PM
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If we had ham we could have ham and eggs if we had eggs.
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Old 21-July-2006, 05:22 PM
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This statement is false
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The Zip Code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.
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Old 21-July-2006, 05:33 PM
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No other Moon orbits it's planet closer then Phobos of mars. (that we know of)
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We had several power outages today in Stow, Ohio
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Some of the oldest rocks in the world are in Barberton, Mpumalanga.
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The area code 321 is assigned to the part of Florida containing the Kennedy Space Center.
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13 people a year are killed by falling vending machines
What a horrible fate to meet while trying to shake that $1.00 bag of chips free.

St. Peter: "And what brings you here?"

Me: "That machine ate my dollar!"

My fact. The Detroit Tigers have the best record in Major League Baseball right now.
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In Africa, hippos kill more people per year than any other animal (except perhaps some insects). Don't become a statistic -- don't feed the hippopotamus!
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The Ostrich is actually a very deadly bird, more then capable of clawing a human to death.

The Cassowary, in Australia, is, if anything, more dangerous as it doesn't particularly fear humans but is of a similar size to the ostrich. They're actually considered dangerous enough that people are warned against approaching them. (Mind you, that seems to be true for everything with a mouth, or tentacles, in that part of the world...)
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The forecast high for this day for Victoria, BC, is cooler than the forecast low for Houston, TX.
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More people die from beestings in Australia than sharks, crocodiles or cassowarys put together. (Probably because the sharks, crocodiles and cassowarys are too busy fighting each other to kill people when put together.)
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There is only one American state with a one-syllable name.
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A nanosecond is 17 inches long.
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The Apollo-13 RTG, loaded with plutonium, is currently located at the bottom of the Tonga Trench, one of the deepest points in the Pacific Ocean.
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In 1884, National League Pitcher Charles Radbourn had an ERA of 1.38, 441 strikeouts, and a record of 60 wins 12 losses, which is possibly the best year any major league pitcher ever had. His team, the Providence Grays, won the pennant that year.
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Old 22-July-2006, 03:50 PM
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The seed bearing device of an oak tree is what is commonly refered to as an "oak ball"
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I live there. The state was named after a province in France centered around the city of Le Mans.
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The word "sabotage" came from the practice (by French peasant laborers) of throwing wooden shoes (sabots) into the wooden cogs of factory machinery to wreck them. The industrial revolution did not benefit everybody.
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Here's a good one:
Thousand Oaks, CA is the safest city in the country to live in. and i happen to work there.
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The air in a sneeze leaves your body at over 200 mph.
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