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post Oct 9 2004, 06:15 PM
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i don't know if this forum already had a "did you know" topic, but i couldn't find one, so i made one ;x here's the place to share the lesser known facts about life... no matter how insignificant or trivial.

did you know that our calendar's (gregorian calendar) months were named after greek numbers 1-10? the only reason we have 12 months is because julius ceasar wanted a month named after him, and so did augustus, which is why we have july & august.
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 06:17 PM
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damnit. i want a month named after me.
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 06:18 PM
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interesting..

Did you know Coca-Cola was originally green?
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 06:30 PM
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Got this from a buddy profile..

Random Fact:
An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 06:34 PM
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Fact: You can never sneeze with your eyes open.
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 07:01 PM
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Did you know that skunks only produce that bad odor when they think they're in danger?
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 07:03 PM
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QUOTE(LiLEthiopian @ Oct 9 2004, 6:18 PM)
interesting..

Did you know Coca-Cola was originally green?

thats not true. its an urban legend.

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Fact: You can never sneeze with your eyes open.

and if u try to keep them open with your fingers, they fall out.

Did you know that cows can go up stairs not down, John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes, and an average of 13 people a year die from vending machines falling on them?
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 07:41 PM
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yeah i knew. lols dats randdomm ;p
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 07:43 PM
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QUOTE(synkro @ Oct 9 2004, 6:15 PM)
i don't know if this forum already had a "did you know" topic, but i couldn't find one, so i made one ;x here's the place to share the lesser known facts about life... no matter how insignificant or trivial.

did you know that our calendar's (gregorian calendar) months were named after greek numbers 1-10? the only reason we have 12 months is because julius ceasar wanted a month named after him, and so did augustus, which is why we have july & august.

my teacher told us that last year. _smile.gif
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 08:44 PM
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I have the Biggest Ever Bathroom Reader book.

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Page 66:

Medically speaking, the correct order of intelligence is: Moron, imbecile, idiot.
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 08:54 PM
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The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.


More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.


im a lefty =[
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 08:57 PM
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Page 34


Squirrels lose half the nuts they hide-they forget where they put them.
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 09:01 PM
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^^ really....

did you know that in your life time you eat like a dozen bugs in your sleep...
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 09:04 PM
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lol..yea i heard that last year and started freaking people *cough, royalfreshness, cough* out ...

did you know the youngest mother was only 5 years old???..don't believe me???..
Click. ..i think i've already posted this somewhere tho... _unsure.gif
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 09:06 PM
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The longest word you can type with your left hand is "stewardess".
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 09:12 PM
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Page 236

#1 cause of depression in married people: Being married.
#1 cause of unmarried people: Being single.
 
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post Oct 9 2004, 10:49 PM
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yeah the youngest age of 5 got pregnant was pretty interesting but kinda scary...
 
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post Aug 11 2005, 06:38 PM
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Did you know that:

-The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

-More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

-The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

-Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.

-You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

-One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life!

-A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs.

-The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth

-The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

-The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

-Odds of being killed by a dog - 1 in 700,000.

-Odds of dying while in the bath tub - 1 in 1 million.

-Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.

-Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000.

-Odds of being killed by freezing - 1 in 3 million.

-Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million.

-Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000.

-Odds of being killed in a tornado - 1 in 2 million.

-Odds of being killed by falling out of bed - 1 in 2 million.

-Odds of being killed in a plane crash -1 in 25 million.

-13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them.

-Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour.

-A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.

-If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).

-Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.

-You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

-The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons

-In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.

-More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world.



Tell me what you think of these "useless" facts.
 
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post Aug 11 2005, 07:22 PM
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some of those are realy funny...like the monoply money one...altho it doesnt surpise me to much
 
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post Aug 11 2005, 08:26 PM
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QUOTE(aforce65 @ Aug 11 2005, 7:38 PM)
-More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products.

-More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world.
Tell me what you think of these "useless" facts.
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1.) that's because most power tools are made for right handed people so left handed people are killed by them. that's why left handed people don't live as long as right handed people.

2.) most of the real money in the world isn't even on paper or coins.
 
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post Aug 11 2005, 08:50 PM
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Wow some of these are really interesting.
 
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post Aug 11 2005, 08:56 PM
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QUOTE(aforce65 @ Aug 11 2005, 4:38 PM)
-A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
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Oh yeah, I contributed a lot to this.
 
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post Aug 11 2005, 09:59 PM
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QUOTE(aforce65 @ Aug 11 2005, 6:38 PM)
-The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

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Holy crap. GROSS. I so wish that I've never eaten a spider before.
 
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post Aug 13 2005, 11:50 AM
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You made 2 topics of the same thing?
 
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post Aug 13 2005, 11:57 AM
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woah those statistics are scary.. lols some where funny like the left handed one.. ew 8 SPIDERS ew ew ew !
 

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