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IRiSHMaFIA
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 Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:28 am Post subject: Weird Facts |
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Here are some weird facts. Do you know any?
- Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
- Armadillos are able to contract leprosy.
- Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
- The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
- The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
- Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
- Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
- In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
- If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people.
- In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first. |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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-The longest recorded chicken flight is 13 seconds.
-Cleopatra wrote a book on cosmetics. One of the ingredients was burned mice.
-The average life span of a parrot is 120 years.
-Mexico had three presidents in a single day.
-Condors can fly ten miles without flapping their wings. |
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Ally
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Joined: 29 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: Weird Facts |
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| IRiSHMaFIA wrote: |
- Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
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But has anyone ever done it? 
| IRiSHMaFIA wrote: | - In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
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Erm what's the diff if they are still looking? 
Cheers for these weird facts, who knew!  |
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pirtybirdy
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Joined: 29 Apr 2006
Location: FL USA
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject: Re: Weird Facts |
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| IRiSHMaFIA wrote: |
- Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
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Oh!!! Say it ain't so!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanna live longer!! Hey! Does it say if one forces themselves to use their right hand from now on, their life span will once again increase??????   |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject: Re: Weird Facts |
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| Ally wrote: | | IRiSHMaFIA wrote: |
- Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
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But has anyone ever done it?
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My guess is if it's legal, it means yes! Of course, it's better at a tropical fish store than a tropical bird store! :grr: |
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eefanincan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: Re: Weird Facts |
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| Skylace wrote: | | Ally wrote: | | IRiSHMaFIA wrote: |
- Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
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But has anyone ever done it?
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My guess is if it's legal, it means yes! Of course, it's better at a tropical fish store than a tropical bird store! :grr: |
Groan! |
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IRiSHMaFIA
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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More facts ! lol 
- The light from your computer screen streams at you at almost - 186,000 miles a second.
- A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex. ( Russell from Big Mouth would call himself Rip Van Dinkle ye think Ally?) lol
- A flea can jump 350 times its own body length.
- In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies.
- Typewriter, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. |
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Ally
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| IRiSHMaFIA wrote: |
- A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex. ( Russell from Big Mouth would call himself Rip Van Dinkle ye think Ally?) lol |
Well we know what's on Russells mind now don't we? The Swine!! |
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eefanincan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| IRiSHMaFIA wrote: | More facts ! lol
- A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
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Hmmmmmmm........ kinda makes you wonder about guys with five o'clock shadow.............  |
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AHend09
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Omg LOL Must tell my son that one he hates shaving |
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faceless
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Most people believe outlandish stories if you tell them in the right tone.
(whistles innocently!) |
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IRiSHMaFIA
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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More fabulous facts !!
- Turtles can breathe through their butts. (isn't that just called a fart?)
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. (reminds me of the donkey chasing the man trying to have....erm no nevermind) lol
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Ye thought I was fibbing didn't ye? Neigh I say! lol
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maycm
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| IRiSHMaFIA wrote: | | - A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex. |
So that's all the time then?
That explains why the quiet ones never have to shave. |
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Skylace
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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-Uma Thurman's father was the first American to be ordained a Buddhist monk.
-Shakespeare invented 1,700 words (including assassination and bump).
-Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
-Rice paper contains not a single grain of rice.
-Prairie dogs aren't dogs, they're rodents
-The human body grows the equivalent of a new skeleton every 7 years.
-Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks or it will digest itself.
-When we blush our stomach lining also turns red.
-Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries.
-On average a drop of Heinz tomato ketchup leaves the bottle at a speed of 25 miles per year.
-A cockroach can live for several weeks after being decapitated. |
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faceless
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| Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Skylace wrote: | | -Shakespeare invented 1,700 words (including assassination and bump). |
"The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original. Below is a list of a few of the words Shakespeare coined, hyperlinked to the play and scene from which it comes. When the word appears in multiple plays, the link will take you to the play in which it first appears."
Assassin comes from "Hashashin" which was an Arabic group in the 12th century or thereabouts... he only made the verb in this case. Still, there's no doubt he did bring a lot. |
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