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elie
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« Reply #30 on: March 13, 2008, 04:25:25 PM »

This post is so call... keep the interesting facts coming....

Slight info...

Longyearbyen, Norway is in total darkness from Mid November through January... Until recently... March 3, 2007... "The Sun brightly shines."
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« Reply #31 on: April 08, 2008, 06:06:26 PM »

hoot hoot!

i love trivias.
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singing softly as you fall asleep,
you wake up in the morning and it's still there,
adding up the things you'll never be." - s t a r s
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« Reply #32 on: June 12, 2008, 09:46:33 AM »



2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

5. Duck's quacks do not echo

2. This was busted in mythbusters in their 12th episode: Episode 12: "Break Step Bridge, Toothbrush Surprise, Rowing Water Skier".  They tested toothbrushes left in the bathroom and even had control versions located in the kitchen (more than six feet away) and they found that  "fecal coliforms bacteria can grow in toothbrush bristles, including the control ones. However, none were of a level high enough to be dangerous, and experts confirm that such coliforms were impossible to completely avoid."

4.Not true.  Busted in Mythbusters when they were able to fold a paper 11 times. The myth is originally that you cannot fold a paper no matter its size more than 7 times.  It was impossible to fold a piece of letter-sized (8.5" x 11", 216 mm x 279 mm) 20 lb (37 g/m2) copy paper with perpendicular folds more than seven times. The thickness of the paper exponentially grew with each successive fold, and after the seventh fold the paper was just too thick to fold without breaking. The MythBusters then laid out a football field-sized sheet of interconnected paper (170 ft x 220 ft, 51.8 m x 67.1 m), and due to the reduction of its thickness-to-area ratio, were able to perpendicularly fold the paper 11 times.

5.Another myth busted by Mythbusters.When examined by an audio-expert, it was found that the echo was "swallowed" by the original quack, due to the very similar acoustic structure between the quack and the echo. Because of this, it may be difficult to tell where the quack ends and the echo begins.

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elie
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« Reply #33 on: July 19, 2008, 12:16:11 PM »

i love mythbuster....

keep the trivias coming...

will just post about the mythbuster episode about

"plants having emotions"

it is true... hehehe... just post the topic
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« Reply #34 on: November 07, 2008, 05:48:42 PM »

This post is so cool
i really enjoy reading them
post more of these interesting facts
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« Reply #35 on: November 30, 2008, 05:34:03 PM »

were those for real?! hahaha!
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« Reply #36 on: January 06, 2009, 01:57:01 PM »

45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,

including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

OH! That's gotta hurt!
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« Reply #37 on: January 29, 2009, 12:06:22 AM »

Did You Know, Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.

Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie

Ants never sleep.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.

Murder is the only crime that does not increase during the full moon. Theft, disorderly conduct, larceny, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape all statistically increase dramatically during the full moon.

Sneezing may be a symptom of pregnancy. Expectant mothers often sneeze for no apparent reason.

Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian' spelled backwards is 'naive'.

The are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood's 'Walk of Fame'.

When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

The random symbols (#*!&@) used to indicate obscenities in comic strips are called "grawlix."

A male ballet dancer is a "ballerino."

A female orgasm is a powerfull painkiller (because of the release of endorfines), so headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex.

Anyone in England who reaches the age of 105 will receive a telegram from the Queen or King on every birthday.

If you keep a goldfish in a darkened room for long enough it will turn white.

The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 

To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.






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