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Amazing Facts
« on: May 21, 2010, 12:40:12 AM »
Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.

More than 50% of the world have never made or received a telephone call.

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.

Snails breathe through their feet!

Its illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.

The first CD pressed in the USA was Bruce Springsteen 'Born in the USA'.

The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)

2 out of 5 people live in China or India.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

90% of people who read that will attempt it...

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.

Annually, the amount of garbage dumped in the worlds oceans, is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

What's the most shoplifted book in the United States? The Bible!

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine.

More than 10 people a year are killed by vending machines.

In America in 1977, the punishment for smuggling marijuana was 15 years less than the punishment for smuggling coffee!


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Re: Amazing Facts
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2010, 01:18:08 PM »
It is impossible to lick your elbow.

90% of people who read that will attempt it...


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Re: Amazing Facts
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2010, 05:51:08 AM »
Hoy, kataas ba ug dila ana niya  :o
 
Nice facts to know

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Re: Amazing Facts
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2010, 04:26:05 PM »
Amazing Facts:

     It takes 8 minutes 17 seconds for light to travel from the Sun’s surface to the Earth.

     The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph.

     Every year lightning kills 1000 people.

     On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

     Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

     No word in the English language rhymes with”MONTH”.
   
     In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
     
     “Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.



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