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Jaymee Fox Site Owner
Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 582 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:24 am Post subject: Interesting Facts !! |
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Okay, i am so interested in actual truth that no one ever knew , and things that makes everyone wonder with no answer. *course there's answer to some but let's share * ^^
Did you ever wonder why NO 2 Pencil can't be NO 1 pencil if it's the popular pencil in the world? ha ha
Why does a sour cream have expiration date when it is already sour
Los Angeles the city of California's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula
I have much more!! I wanna everyone else to share facts _________________ ~JF
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Superlagg Registered User
Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 224 Location: Place of Place Place Union
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:16 am Post subject: Re: Interesting Facts !! |
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Jaymee Fox wrote: | Okay, i am so interested in actual truth that no one ever knew , and things that makes everyone wonder with no answer. *course there's answer to some but let's share * ^^
Did you ever wonder why NO 2 Pencil can't be NO 1 pencil if it's the popular pencil in the world? ha ha NO 1 never showed up for work, so No 2 won by default.
Why does a sour cream have expiration date when it is already sour That is when it goes REALLY sour.
Los Angeles the city of California's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula Another reason that California is such a great state.
I have much more!! I wanna everyone else to share facts |
You got any more? _________________ http://superlagg.rappy.org/ |
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Rozy Registered User
Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 52 Location: Oklahoma
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:24 am Post subject: |
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i think the No. 2 means the size (or the quality) of the graphite, kinda like .7 lead for mechanical pencils (forgive me for being a smartass)
when sour cream expires it becomes double-sour cream lol
i didnt know that about LA
my factiods:
the more clear your urine is, the more healthy your drink (>.< i can thank my friend for that)
if DNA was to be coded and turned into one long word, which is what they are trying to do) it would be an easy 1 million letters long
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Jaymee Fox Site Owner
Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Posts: 582 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:26 am Post subject: |
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That's correct Rozy ( on number 2 pencil ) _________________ ~JF
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Jaymee Fox Site Owner
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 4:27 am Post subject: |
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Superlagg (no 2 won by default.. HAHAHA that's great!! ^^ ) _________________ ~JF
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hikaru Administrator
Joined: 20 Nov 2000 Posts: 1581 Location: Kansas City, KS, USA
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Sigurd Volsung Registered User
Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 3216 Location: The Twin Cities
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:15 am Post subject: |
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The pencil lead of a number 2 pencil or a mechanical pencil is the same as an HB sketching pencil. _________________ Bad moods are like hangovers, they eventually go away. - A. Sigurd Olson |
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mwalimu Registered User
Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 782 Location: Normal, IL
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:35 am Post subject: |
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'Uncopyrightables' is the longest word in the English language that doesn't use any letter more than once.
'Bedroom' and 'Boredom' are anagrams.
Anybody know what the largest set of anagrams is? The largest I've been able to think of is {opts, post, pots, spot, stop, tops}.
What do you call the white stuff from pimples? _________________ mwalimu
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Nameless Site Owner
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 1368 Location: Vienna, Austria
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:58 am Post subject: |
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mwalimu wrote: | 'What do you call the white stuff from pimples? |
Yucky! _________________ I'm a nut, but there are those who appreciate me for it. |
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Maelstrom Registered User
Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Paris, TN
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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Excessively long holds by customer call centers have been cited as the primary cause of at least 3 violent rampages in the last 2 years.
Pepsi Cola vending machines are three times as likely as Coca-Cola machines to tip over and injure someone.
The average age of children living with their parents after the age of 18 has risen from 21 to 25.5 in the last 40 years.
Recent news from North Korean reports that the North Korean government has banned post-it notes due to fears they will be used by dissident groups in order to undermine the regime and further dissent.
"Hi My Name is..." name tags are the industry's most popular name tag.
(All taken from www.gullible.info without permission. Ooooh, I'm a bad boy.) |
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shroom Registered User
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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All U.S. Presidents before Ronald Reagan (who only just narrowly escaped this fate and seems to have broken the cycle unfortunately *thinks about the current misfit in charge*) elected in a year ending in "0" has died or was assonated before his term was completed. _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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Tygon Site Owner
Joined: 03 Apr 2001 Posts: 2497 Location: Isernhagen, Lowersaxony, Germany
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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Rozy wrote: | if DNA was to be coded and turned into one long word, which is what they are trying to do) it would be an easy 1 million letters long |
I can add to that.
Fully decoded and saved to a computer a single mammal DNA takes between 30 and 40 GB of space.
If you could take a human DNA from a cell and untwirl it completely it would be about 2 meters long.
And a few random ones:
The average computer user spends over 11 days of his life waiting for his/her computer to boot.
If you could recyle a single, complete edition of the Sunday's New York Times it would save about 75,000 trees.
If you could take the Sun's entire mass and use it to build cars and put all these in a line that line would reach out of our glalaxy.
The Internet was originally created by the CIA with the intend to have a communication network that not even a nuclear strike could not destroy. Only after the the universities picked it up to use it to share data sets.
I'll post more when I can remember them _________________ Tygon Panthera - name and species
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Nite Administrator
Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: Purgatory
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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From www.hookedonfacts.com...
Quote: | Minnows have teeth in their throat.
Neanderthal man had a brain capcity 100cc larger than modern man's.
Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's.
22% of people leave the glob of toothpaste in the sink.
The odds of getting a hole-in-one in golf are estimated at about 18,000-to-1
Jean -Claude Van Damme learned to speak English by watching the cartoon 'The Flintstones.'
99% of people cannot lick their elbow.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.
If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.
All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room!
People who are modestly overweight have a lower risk of death than those of normal weight
Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
15 percent of Americans secretly bite their toes.
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By the way Superlagg, I love the avatar XD |
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PrincessB Registered User
Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 3070 Location: south of Nashville, Tn
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Styx wrote: | All U.S. Presidents before Ronald Reagan (who only just narrowly escaped this fate and seems to have broken the cycle unfortunately *thinks about the current misfit in charge*) elected in a year ending in "0" has died or was assonated before his term was completed. |
Thats a rather rude and thoughtless remark. Please do not try to sell your opinions off as being factual. There are many who consider it a blessing that a president isn't killed durring term, and wishing anyone to be murdered is horrible, specially if you don't really know the person you want killed. Please think before you speak, you comment was excesivly rude. _________________ http://www.bukisa.com/people/AmberBarnes check it out!
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