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I think......................this guy...............makes **** up
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Don't believe a lot of those random posts
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Honestly with some of the DEEP stuff he actually saying
I don't think he would be able to cite sources
And real talk that's why people get played nowadays
They can't take somebody just tryna put them up on something
They always want proof
Not talking about u specifically but just in general
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So riff raff is phil knight's son???
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LOL. his last post is gonna be gullible isn't a real word.
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Whoever said the thread title reminds them of the Eminem song has made that happen to me now.
Every time I see the thread title I hear "I never knew I...." followed by that fire *** beat.
Every time I see the thread title I hear "I never knew I...." followed by that fire *** beat.
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and i used to think baseball wasn't cool
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paulprince3730
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most of that stuff has already been said or is semi-common knowledge
A mini ice(na its just cold rain) day......so I am bored. I will post some things between my GRE studying
Coming from Google Plus a few years ago
1) The moon smells like gunpowder.
2) The creator of the Nike Swoosh symbol (Caroline Davidson) was paid only $35 for the design.
3) You can't create a folder called "Con" in Microsoft Windows.
4) The formula for Coca-Cola has never been patented.
5) Al Capone once said, I am like any other man, all I do is supply a demand.
6) There are five states in United States with no sales tax. They are Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
7) Calcium in bones absorbs X-Rays the most, so bones look white on the radiograph. Fat and other soft tissues absorb less, and look gray.
Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong 'cha cha' dance champion in 1958.
9) Erotica is sexually oriented material that is not considered "pornographic" to the viewer.
10) Elvis Presley was a black belt in karate.
11) Amphetamines are similar to cocaine, the main difference being that they are synthetic, longer acting, and cheaper to buy.
12) A DVD has an about 100 year life span.
13) Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
14) It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce, and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
15) The words "naked" and "nude" are not the same thing. Naked implies unprotected. Nude means unclothed.
16) James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, was a real spy for the British Navy during the World War II.
17) You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206, why? Because they fusion one to another.
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19) All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
20) A lump of pure gold, the size of a matchbox, can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
Edit ok so I am going to do 20 each since this is NT
but 20 is interesting, how thick is said sheet? i have a feeling its like that gold leaf bs
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The 86' Mets have to be up there with the Pitates 
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deep web or first hand witnessi would love to read up on the vick / schaub thang
but when someone asked dude where they could find info he said
"the same place u'll find out about joe montana's drug problem-- not on google"
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Its a lot that why I was going to do 20 at a time until I also realize a lot was common sense.
I will post the rest maybe someone will look through everything and post come good stuff.
21) Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
22) Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they are not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
23) The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and possessions.
24) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
25) Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
26) The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it.
27) The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.
2 Identify a fake: The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves smoothly.
29) Pluto is no longer considered a planet, it is now known as a 'Dwarf Planet'.
30) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th.
31) The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight.
32) Alcohol can be detected in the blood as quickly as 40 minutes after your 1st drink.
33) The Olympic gold medal must contain at least six grams of gold.
34) Breasts contain no muscle tissue, so there’s no exercise that can change their shape.
35) A Boeing 747 airliner contains 6,000,000 parts.
36) U.S. bills are 2. 61 inches wide, 6. 14 inches long, and are . 0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.
37) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
3 Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
39) Believe it or not but during the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders as you sleep.
40) Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
41) Cellulitis is a bacterial infection of the deepest layer of your skin.
42) Warm up before exercise. Cold, stiff muscles and ligaments are more susceptible to injury.
43) Footprints of the astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
44) Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button as it was eliminated during surgery.
45) The Titanic was the first ship to use the S.O.S signal.
46) It cost $7 million dollars to build the Titanic, and $200 million to make a film about it.
47) Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
4 In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
49) Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
50) Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, is responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy.
51) The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
52) Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.
53) Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.
54) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
55) It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
56) One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
57) Heavy marijuana use lowers men's testosterone levels and sperm count and quality.
Pot could decrease libido and fertility in some heavy smoking men.
5 Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
59) Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
60) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
61) The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "The king is dead".
62) You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
63) The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.
64) The word "sex" was coined in 1382.
65) The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.
66) "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
67) Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
6 The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music, but lose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.
69) Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
70) Having HIV does not mean you have AIDS. Even without treatment, it takes a long time for HIV to progress to AIDS, usually 10-12 years.
71) The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
72) The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
73) The youngest letters in the English language are j, v, and w.
74) A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
75) The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
76) A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
77) The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
7 The name of our galaxy is the Milky Way.
79) Gandhi once covered the Olympics as a newspaper reporter.
80) The 1912 Olympics was the last time that gold medals were solid gold. Ever since, they've been silver with gold plating.
81) The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
82) The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
83) Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
84) In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
85) The Chinese language does not require punctuation.
86) An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
87) Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.
8 Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.
89) Believe it or not but in 1989, Americans threw away enough aluminum cans to build 6,000 DC-10 airplanes.
90) The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body.
91) Of the 34,000 species of spiders, only 27 species are known to have caused human fatalities.
92) Getting laid is slang for having sex.
93) When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.
94) According to an old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
95) The highest flight by a bird was by a Ruppell's vulture at 37,000 feet. The bird hit a plane at this height.
96) If the Earth were the size of a quarter, the Sun would be as large as a 9 foot ball and would be located a football field distance from the Earth.
97) According to one survey, 44% of adults have had a one-night stand.
9 Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world.
99) You would have to milk 260 cows for an entire year to fill a space shuttle's external fuel tank with 529,000 gallons of milk.
100) The three most recently discovered planets were Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.
101) The Earth’s core is a ball of Iron-Nickel at 7,000 C and is 80% the size of the moon.
102) If you dig in your backyard, don't worry about running into the Earth's core. You'd have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep.
103) “Stressed” is Desserts spelled backwards.
104) "Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
105) A male duck is called a drake, a female is called a duck. Babies are called ducklings.
106) Ostriches can run up to 70km/hr (40 mph) and can outpace most pursuers, such as lions, leopards, and pumas.
107) Red blood cells live about 120 days, platelets 6 days and white cells less than a day.
10 Tachophobia is the fear of speed.
109) Believe it or not but we know more about space than we do about our deep oceans.
110) The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.
111) Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
112) Count Alessandro Volta invented the first battery in the 18th century.
113) In 1894 Thomas Edison and W K L Pickson introduced the first film camera.
114) Darker green vegetables contain more vitamin C than lighter green vegetables.
115) The paperclip was invented by Norwegian Johann Vaaler.
116) If you stack one million US $1 bills, it would be 110m (361ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.
117) The last note of a keyboard is C.
11 The largest movie theatre in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York, opened in 1932 and it seats almost 6,000 people.
119) The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year.
120) 454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.
121) Earth is not round, it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
122) The Crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h (2 mph).
123) Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years but so does winter.
124) You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss. (Use this as a pickup line in the gym.)
125) Believe it or not but since 1495, no 25 year period has been without war.
126) The doors that cover U.S. nuclear Silos weigh 748 tons and opens in 19 seconds.
127) Global spending on defense total more than $700 billion. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion.
12 In 1620, Dutch inventor Cornelius van Drebbel launched the world's first submarine in the Thames.
129) About a quarter of the world still drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies.
130) In 1955, the Ford Thunderbird outsold the Chevy Corvette 24 to one.
131) Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
132) Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.
133) The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. There were 311 male but no female competitors.
134) Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.
135) Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.
136) A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivalent used by two hour light bulbs, to operate.
137) The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.
13 The 12 disciples were not allowed to carry food, money, or extra clothing.
139) Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
140) America's 5 most common cosmetic surgeries are: liposuction, nose reshaping, breast augmentation, eyelid surgery, and tummy tuck.
141) India is the world's largest democracy with more than 600 million voters.
142) One in 10 people have never had sex.
143) 14 of the 45 vice presidents have become president.
144) Only Richard Nixon served two terms as Vice President and also was elected to two terms as President.
145) A Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince.
146) When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.
147) Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.
14 To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.
149) The Kama Sutra details techniques on ten types of kisses, 64 different caresses, eight variations on oral sex, and 84 positions for intercourse.
150) The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
151) The "$" sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock.
152) The first neon sign was made in 1923 for a Packard dealership.
153) Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.
154) The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
155) The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
156) Blood is 6 times thicker than water.
157) Dogs judge objects first by their movement, then by their brightness, and lastly by their shape.
15 Traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, light take 6 hours to travel from Pluto to the Earth.
159) Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.
160) The planet Venus does not tilt as it goes around the Sun therefore it has ho seasons.
161) In August 2006, NASA announced that it had lost all the original tapes of Apollo 11's TV transmission.
162) A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest.
163) If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.
164) The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.
165) Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
166) Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".
167) According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
16 In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
169) Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.
170) Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools.
171) There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
172) The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
173) A human brain weighs about 3 lbs.
174) The body stores more than 99% of its calcium in the bones and teeth to help make and keep them strong.
175) The average raindrop falls at 7mph.
176) Most scientists agree that sexual orientation is the result of a combination of environmental, emotional, hormonal, and biological factors.
177) Despite its bump camels has a straight spine.
17 Your new baby can see best at a distance of only 8-14 inches, and focus when gazing up from the arms of Mom or Dad.
179) Elvis once said, "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to".
180) An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1.7 million years.
181) On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
182) Assuming you could walk to the sun it would take about 2000 years.
183) 92% of pay cable TV programs contain violence.
184) While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
185) The big "Hollywood" sign cost $21,000 to build.
186) The star Sirius is 23 times more luminous and about twice the mass and diameter of the Sun.
187) The letter "L" in the Hollywood sign was once on fire in 1978.
18 The Good News is: You are 96% more likely to a die a natural death.The Bad News is: You are still going to die.
189) Some calculators can spell out "G02HELL" after typing in 1134206, then looking at it upside down.
190) Eating a poppy seed bagel before a drug test, will make you test positive for opium usage.
191) Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the US.
192) There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.
193) Gold is so rare, only 90,000 tons of it have been taken from the earth in recorded history.
194) Mesothelioma, lawyers consolidate loans, and refinancing mortgage are three of the most expensive keywords in the search engine world.
195) 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
196) Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." 197) Certain foods are said to be good for boosting ones sex life: Lean meat, oysters, grains, wheat, seafood, etc.
19 If the population of China walked past you in single life, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
199) If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
200) The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
201) Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
202) The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility currently being assembled in Low Earth Orbit.
203) Sexual dysfunction is more common in people who abuse drugs and alcohol.
204) Eskimos have over 100 words for ice.
205) There is no cure for schizophrenia, but many people can effectively manage their symptoms with medicines and professional counseling.
206) Stress is a physical, mental, and emotional response to life's changes and demands.
207) The planet Uranus has more than 20 moons.
20 35% of women say that their confidence is their main weapon to attract men, while 20% of women say they just use their looks.
209) The sport of sur?ng originated in Hawaii.
210) Oil tycoon, Rockefeller, was the world's ?rst billionaire.
211) Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.
212) A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days.
213) The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 "lead" pencils.
214) Gold is so heavy that one cubic foot of it weighs one half a ton.
215) The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
216) Dishabiliophobia is the fear of undressing in front of someone.
217) The Titanic's whistles could be heard from 11 miles away.
21 Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963.
219) Gold and Copper are the only two non-white metals.
220) The term "mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS) comes from the French "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MAYDAY" and means, "Help Me."
221) The ?rst commercial microwave oven was called the "1161 Radarange" and was the size of a refrigerator.
222) The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands.
223) France is known as the perfume capital of the world.
224) The Taj Mahal was once scheduled to be torn down in the 1830's.
225) Even though a red rose looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses.
226) Dry ice is actually solid carbon dioxide.
227) Less than 1% of the women in the world will ever be able to wear a diamond that is the size of a carat or more.
22 Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.
229) As of 2008, weapons-grade plutonium cost around $4,000/g (or roughly 150 times more than gold), and californium cost $60,000,000/g.
230) 10 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.
231) Construction on the White House began in October of 1792.
232) Ultraviolet (UV) rays are an invisible form of radiation. They can penetrate your skin and damage your skin cells.
233) One billion seconds is about 32 years.
234) In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.
235) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
236) California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
237) About 20% of the videos on YouTube is music related.
23 Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.
239) When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two months.
240) Liquid air looks like water with a bluish tint.
241) Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.
242) In medical ethics, the patient has the right to dignity.
243) There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, even though the ocean is farther than 50 miles away.
244) Eclipses can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are all in a straight line.
245) Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.
246) Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
247) 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
24 Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.
249) Americans will spend more on cat food this year than on baby food.
22) Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they are not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
23) The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and possessions.
24) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
25) Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
26) The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it.
27) The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.
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Identify a fake: The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves smoothly.29) Pluto is no longer considered a planet, it is now known as a 'Dwarf Planet'.
30) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th.
31) The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight.
32) Alcohol can be detected in the blood as quickly as 40 minutes after your 1st drink.
33) The Olympic gold medal must contain at least six grams of gold.
34) Breasts contain no muscle tissue, so there’s no exercise that can change their shape.
35) A Boeing 747 airliner contains 6,000,000 parts.
36) U.S. bills are 2. 61 inches wide, 6. 14 inches long, and are . 0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.
37) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
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Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.39) Believe it or not but during the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders as you sleep.
40) Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
41) Cellulitis is a bacterial infection of the deepest layer of your skin.
42) Warm up before exercise. Cold, stiff muscles and ligaments are more susceptible to injury.
43) Footprints of the astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
44) Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button as it was eliminated during surgery.
45) The Titanic was the first ship to use the S.O.S signal.
46) It cost $7 million dollars to build the Titanic, and $200 million to make a film about it.
47) Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
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In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.49) Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
50) Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, is responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy.
51) The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
52) Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.
53) Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.
54) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
55) It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
56) One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
57) Heavy marijuana use lowers men's testosterone levels and sperm count and quality.
Pot could decrease libido and fertility in some heavy smoking men.
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Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.59) Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
60) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
61) The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "The king is dead".
62) You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
63) The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.
64) The word "sex" was coined in 1382.
65) The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.
66) "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
67) Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
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The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music, but lose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.69) Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
70) Having HIV does not mean you have AIDS. Even without treatment, it takes a long time for HIV to progress to AIDS, usually 10-12 years.
71) The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
72) The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
73) The youngest letters in the English language are j, v, and w.
74) A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
75) The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
76) A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
77) The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
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The name of our galaxy is the Milky Way.79) Gandhi once covered the Olympics as a newspaper reporter.
80) The 1912 Olympics was the last time that gold medals were solid gold. Ever since, they've been silver with gold plating.
81) The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
82) The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
83) Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
84) In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
85) The Chinese language does not require punctuation.
86) An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
87) Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.
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Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.89) Believe it or not but in 1989, Americans threw away enough aluminum cans to build 6,000 DC-10 airplanes.
90) The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body.
91) Of the 34,000 species of spiders, only 27 species are known to have caused human fatalities.
92) Getting laid is slang for having sex.
93) When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.
94) According to an old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
95) The highest flight by a bird was by a Ruppell's vulture at 37,000 feet. The bird hit a plane at this height.
96) If the Earth were the size of a quarter, the Sun would be as large as a 9 foot ball and would be located a football field distance from the Earth.
97) According to one survey, 44% of adults have had a one-night stand.
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Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world.99) You would have to milk 260 cows for an entire year to fill a space shuttle's external fuel tank with 529,000 gallons of milk.
100) The three most recently discovered planets were Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.
101) The Earth’s core is a ball of Iron-Nickel at 7,000 C and is 80% the size of the moon.
102) If you dig in your backyard, don't worry about running into the Earth's core. You'd have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep.
103) “Stressed” is Desserts spelled backwards.
104) "Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
105) A male duck is called a drake, a female is called a duck. Babies are called ducklings.
106) Ostriches can run up to 70km/hr (40 mph) and can outpace most pursuers, such as lions, leopards, and pumas.
107) Red blood cells live about 120 days, platelets 6 days and white cells less than a day.
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Tachophobia is the fear of speed.109) Believe it or not but we know more about space than we do about our deep oceans.
110) The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.
111) Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
112) Count Alessandro Volta invented the first battery in the 18th century.
113) In 1894 Thomas Edison and W K L Pickson introduced the first film camera.
114) Darker green vegetables contain more vitamin C than lighter green vegetables.
115) The paperclip was invented by Norwegian Johann Vaaler.
116) If you stack one million US $1 bills, it would be 110m (361ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.
117) The last note of a keyboard is C.
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The largest movie theatre in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York, opened in 1932 and it seats almost 6,000 people.119) The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year.
120) 454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.
121) Earth is not round, it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
122) The Crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h (2 mph).
123) Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years but so does winter.
124) You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss. (Use this as a pickup line in the gym.)
125) Believe it or not but since 1495, no 25 year period has been without war.
126) The doors that cover U.S. nuclear Silos weigh 748 tons and opens in 19 seconds.
127) Global spending on defense total more than $700 billion. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion.
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In 1620, Dutch inventor Cornelius van Drebbel launched the world's first submarine in the Thames.129) About a quarter of the world still drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies.
130) In 1955, the Ford Thunderbird outsold the Chevy Corvette 24 to one.
131) Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
132) Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.
133) The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. There were 311 male but no female competitors.
134) Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.
135) Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.
136) A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivalent used by two hour light bulbs, to operate.
137) The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.
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The 12 disciples were not allowed to carry food, money, or extra clothing.139) Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
140) America's 5 most common cosmetic surgeries are: liposuction, nose reshaping, breast augmentation, eyelid surgery, and tummy tuck.
141) India is the world's largest democracy with more than 600 million voters.
142) One in 10 people have never had sex.
143) 14 of the 45 vice presidents have become president.
144) Only Richard Nixon served two terms as Vice President and also was elected to two terms as President.
145) A Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince.
146) When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.
147) Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.
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To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.149) The Kama Sutra details techniques on ten types of kisses, 64 different caresses, eight variations on oral sex, and 84 positions for intercourse.
150) The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
151) The "$" sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock.
152) The first neon sign was made in 1923 for a Packard dealership.
153) Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.
154) The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
155) The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
156) Blood is 6 times thicker than water.
157) Dogs judge objects first by their movement, then by their brightness, and lastly by their shape.
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Traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, light take 6 hours to travel from Pluto to the Earth.159) Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.
160) The planet Venus does not tilt as it goes around the Sun therefore it has ho seasons.
161) In August 2006, NASA announced that it had lost all the original tapes of Apollo 11's TV transmission.
162) A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest.
163) If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.
164) The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.
165) Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
166) Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".
167) According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
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In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.169) Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.
170) Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools.
171) There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
172) The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
173) A human brain weighs about 3 lbs.
174) The body stores more than 99% of its calcium in the bones and teeth to help make and keep them strong.
175) The average raindrop falls at 7mph.
176) Most scientists agree that sexual orientation is the result of a combination of environmental, emotional, hormonal, and biological factors.
177) Despite its bump camels has a straight spine.
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Your new baby can see best at a distance of only 8-14 inches, and focus when gazing up from the arms of Mom or Dad.179) Elvis once said, "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to".
180) An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1.7 million years.
181) On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
182) Assuming you could walk to the sun it would take about 2000 years.
183) 92% of pay cable TV programs contain violence.
184) While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
185) The big "Hollywood" sign cost $21,000 to build.
186) The star Sirius is 23 times more luminous and about twice the mass and diameter of the Sun.
187) The letter "L" in the Hollywood sign was once on fire in 1978.
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The Good News is: You are 96% more likely to a die a natural death.The Bad News is: You are still going to die.189) Some calculators can spell out "G02HELL" after typing in 1134206, then looking at it upside down.
190) Eating a poppy seed bagel before a drug test, will make you test positive for opium usage.
191) Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the US.
192) There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.
193) Gold is so rare, only 90,000 tons of it have been taken from the earth in recorded history.
194) Mesothelioma, lawyers consolidate loans, and refinancing mortgage are three of the most expensive keywords in the search engine world.
195) 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
196) Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." 197) Certain foods are said to be good for boosting ones sex life: Lean meat, oysters, grains, wheat, seafood, etc.
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If the population of China walked past you in single life, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.199) If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
200) The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
201) Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
202) The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility currently being assembled in Low Earth Orbit.
203) Sexual dysfunction is more common in people who abuse drugs and alcohol.
204) Eskimos have over 100 words for ice.
205) There is no cure for schizophrenia, but many people can effectively manage their symptoms with medicines and professional counseling.
206) Stress is a physical, mental, and emotional response to life's changes and demands.
207) The planet Uranus has more than 20 moons.
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35% of women say that their confidence is their main weapon to attract men, while 20% of women say they just use their looks.209) The sport of sur?ng originated in Hawaii.
210) Oil tycoon, Rockefeller, was the world's ?rst billionaire.
211) Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.
212) A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days.
213) The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 "lead" pencils.
214) Gold is so heavy that one cubic foot of it weighs one half a ton.
215) The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
216) Dishabiliophobia is the fear of undressing in front of someone.
217) The Titanic's whistles could be heard from 11 miles away.
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Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963.219) Gold and Copper are the only two non-white metals.
220) The term "mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS) comes from the French "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MAYDAY" and means, "Help Me."
221) The ?rst commercial microwave oven was called the "1161 Radarange" and was the size of a refrigerator.
222) The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands.
223) France is known as the perfume capital of the world.
224) The Taj Mahal was once scheduled to be torn down in the 1830's.
225) Even though a red rose looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses.
226) Dry ice is actually solid carbon dioxide.
227) Less than 1% of the women in the world will ever be able to wear a diamond that is the size of a carat or more.
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Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.229) As of 2008, weapons-grade plutonium cost around $4,000/g (or roughly 150 times more than gold), and californium cost $60,000,000/g.
230) 10 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.
231) Construction on the White House began in October of 1792.
232) Ultraviolet (UV) rays are an invisible form of radiation. They can penetrate your skin and damage your skin cells.
233) One billion seconds is about 32 years.
234) In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.
235) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
236) California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
237) About 20% of the videos on YouTube is music related.
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Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.239) When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two months.
240) Liquid air looks like water with a bluish tint.
241) Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.
242) In medical ethics, the patient has the right to dignity.
243) There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, even though the ocean is farther than 50 miles away.
244) Eclipses can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are all in a straight line.
245) Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.
246) Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
247) 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
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Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.249) Americans will spend more on cat food this year than on baby food.
21) Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
I stopped reading since I found some duplicate and some things I dont believe in the list.
191) Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the US.
67) Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
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if he cant back it up, just gonna take it as bull.
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Naw I get but sometimes u can't back up what's real
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YEAAAAHH JEEETS!!
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I was skeptical about the oj Simpson story so I googled and its been spoken about before. I know I'm not supposed to believe everything I online but I do understand that just because I never heard of it before doesn't mean its not true.
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Definitely Feasible
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contrary to popular belief there are correct ways to pronounce every word.
orange and those words do not rhyme due to that fact. as much as y'all want to
accept the challenge just deal with it.
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Homie said door hinge lol
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WOW I am a big Patrice Rushen fan and I cant believe I didnt see this earlier
