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Did you know....

1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
0 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
A whale's pen15 is called a dork.
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.


God im so freaking bored. :tisk:


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leesredgt wrote:Did you know....


A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Gene splicing anyone?

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See, being bored can be fun. Some of those were pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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leesredgt wrote:Did you know....

A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
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^ ololololololololloololol

i see your farts and raise you i just shat my pants


damn could u imagine living till your 30? One helluva life, brah

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I couldnt imagine living only 24 hrs. I think a house fly has the same life span.

Hit puberty by morning, midlife crisis at lunch, and dying after sunset.... sucks

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alms24sebring wrote:See, being bored can be fun. Some of those were pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing.

My pleasure :naughty: lol

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ROFL. Yeah, there's no way a 160 lane highway could actually function. Yes, you can have 160 cars side by side, but 95 percent of those cars would be on the median. The Monumental Axis has 12 lanes, something plenty of US roads manage to best.

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leesredgt wrote:....160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
Myth Busters to the rescue!:
"A common urban legend persists that the Monumental Axis is the widest road in the world, where "[100 to 160] cars can drive side by side". This is untrue, as the road consists of two avenues with six lanes on either side; a total of twelve lanes. However, it was in the Guinness Book of Records as having the widest median of a divided highway in the world." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_Axis

So that being discredited, the flatulence challenge IS ON! :chuckle:

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SCOTTY WHAT R U DOING IN HERE





























i think ur cute

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Amays U G37S wrote:SCOTTY WHAT R U DOING IN HERE





























i think ur cute
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:inoutgay: :sissies:

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:squint: Ew.
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hey now this thread just got really interesting :wavey:

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There are sections of US interstate where the gap is over a mile wide.

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alms24sebring wrote:I couldnt imagine living only 24 hrs. I think a house fly has the same life span.

Hit puberty by morning, midlife crisis at lunch, and dying after sunset.... sucks
Pretty sure they mean the adult life is only 24 hours- I believe they live a bit longer as larvae.
I'm wondering why the measurement of choice for a hippo's mouth was a 4' child. I mean, couldn't you just say 4'?

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Oh yeah I guess thats what I meant, I didnt even think about larvae stage.

Easy, Hippos eat people

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...close enough

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The funniest thing about that article is that they sent the trampoline in for forensic analysis...what are they going to do? Test it for semen?


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