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[ToxicTaco]

• During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
• There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world
• The seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus, is tipped on its side so that at any moment one pole is pointed at the Sun. The polar regions are warmer than the equator. At the poles, a day lasts for 42 Earth years, followed by an equally long night.
• Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in January, February, and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.
• The British salute (hand to the eye palm outwards facing) originates from the knights holding up their visas as the king passes
• The two fingered salute originates from one bow and arrows were used in wars. Those captured would have their middle and index fingers chopped off so sticking them up was a boast of not being captures.
• Starfish don't have brains whilst the eyes of some birds are heavier than their brains.
• Crocodiles cannot stick their tongues out
• The single dot over the lower case letter 'i' is called a tipple
• Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving
• Pigs physically can not look up.
  Cows can get up stairs, but not down.
• Goodbye come from the Middle Age phrase - god be with ye.
• The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.
  The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
  A single tree in the rainsforest can be home to thousands of different creatures
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  
  The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick"
  is said to be the toughest tongue twister
  in the English language.
  
  More than 50% of the people in the world
  have never made or received a telephone call.
  
  It is impossible to lick your elbow. (not sure about that one)
  
  23% of all photocopier faults worldwide
  are caused by people sitting on them
  and photocopying their butts.
• Prince Albert introduced Christmas trees to Britain.
  
  Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating...
  
  The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
  
  A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night! - Talk about a deep impact..
  
  A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside! - I wonder how they found that out
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• Human skulls had been used as drinking cups for hundreds of years. The muscles and flesh were scraped away, the bottom was hacked off and then they were suitable to hold any beverage.
• Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
• Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1938 was Adolf Hitler.
• Androphobia is a fear of men.
• Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women.
• Phobophobia is a fear of fearing.
• -When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year
  -The average person loses two ballpoint pens a week(thats true, for me it's more!)
  -An 1898 novel by Morgan Robertson foretold the sinking of the Titanic, 14 years before the great ship went down. In Robertson's book, the ship, which has a passenger list filled with wealthy and powerful people, is on its maiden voyage when it strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night and sinks. The Titanic was on its maiden voyage when it struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on the night of April 12. The two ships shared many other eerie similarities as well, such as: displacement (70,000 tons to 74,000) passenger capacity (about 3,000), top speed (75 knots), length (800 ft vs. 882) and a lack of sufficient lifeboats. The name of the ship in Robertson's book: the Titan.
• Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.
• Stupid Trivia: Everytime you learn something new, you get a wrinkle on your brain. So however many of these posts on this thread you actually remember is how many wrinkles you just got.
  
  Stupid Trivia: Your foot is the exact length from the fold of your elbow to the bottom of your wrist.
  
  Stupid Trivia: All Kalicoe cats are female and all organge tabby cats are male.
• Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
• No one knows where Mozart is buried.
• The Granny Smith apple was used as the symbol for the Beatles' Apple Records label
• Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
• All american car horns honk in the pitch of concert F

• Organised crime represents one tenth of the American national income

• You have 1/5 of an orgasm when you sneeze.

• Under the law of Mississippi, there’s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.
• Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
• Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
• More People use blue toothbrushes then red ones.
• Canada is the largest importer of American cars.
• The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
  There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos.
  Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse.
  A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
  "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
  A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
  The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
  If you're afraid of animals you have a sickness called zoophobia.
  Since its release in 1975, more people have died from heart attacks whilst watching the film 'Jaws' than have been killed in shark attacks.
  
  britain skipped 3 days in something like the mid 1700's when it was found out that the calendar was out by 3 days. so therefore there are three days where you won't find any events for.
  
  Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
  
  It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.
  • On a sunday in Salt Lake City you can be fined up to £1000 for whistling]
  • It is an offence in the UK to riotously damage a hovel - why you could be sent ot jail for 5 years for it.
  • The making on bottle caps in America uses more steel production than is used in building motor-car bodies
• 
  The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft
  -Speaking of laws, can you believe a law was made on July 16, 1969 saying that it's illegal for US citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
  -If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
  -More than 50 percent of the people in the world have never made or received a phone call.
  -A man in Arizona couldn't get over the death of his wife so he put her in an enclosed glass coffee table. She's in his living room now.
  -All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
  -The first Halloween card was created in the 1920s.
  -No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
  -Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
  -Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother!
  -kellogs cornfalkes was developed to stop masturbation in the morning
• The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.
• The longest word used by Shakespeare in any of his works is "honorificabilitudinitatibus," found in "Love's Labors Lost." Unfortunately he's no longer around to tell us what it means.
• OK is the most successful of all Americanisms. It has invaded hundreds of other languages and been adopted by them as a word. Mencken claims that US troops deployed overseas during WWII found it already in use by Bedouins in the Sahara to the Japanese in the Pacific. It was also the fourth word spoken on the surface of the moon. It stands for oll korrect, a misspelling of all correct.
• A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
• The ancient Romans often paid their taxes in honey
• Almonds are members of the peach family
• Cleopatra used squeezed pomegranate seeds for lipstick]
• * certain blood groups incubate virus's better
  * Tortoise shell cats are always female
  * Some twins can be completely mirror image and not just use opposite hands for writing but also have their internal orgas on opposites sides of their body.
• - 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day
  - Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
• The phrase "tips", meaning money given to someone doing a service for you, actually stands for "To Insure Promptness".
• - A moth has no stomach.
  - Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
  - A shrimp's heart is in its head.
  - The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
  - Girls have more tastebuds than boys.
  - Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek.
• 14% of americans can't locate the USA on a map.
• ~Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names
  -70 percent of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates.
• Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian. (Sprechen Sie Deutsch?)
• The US National Anthem is based on the Irish Drinking Song "To Anecron in Heaven"

[Flaunted]

So if you have 5 sneezes in a row, its a full on orgasm?
oh no wrinkles ):

[1angel3]

So if you have 5 sneezes in a row, its a full on orgasm?
oh no wrinkles ):

I don't think that's true, it didn't work for me :(

[sixfive]

I don't think that's true, it didn't work for me :(

you're a retard