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  1. 29-Sep-2004, 10:37 AM #1
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    Fun facts- List I got in my e-mail today, enjoy

    Did you know???
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    ...if you start walking from any point of Earth, you will eventually reach water and have to stop walking?

    ...if all the cars in the world, were placed end to end, they would reach all the way to the moon and back...and some idiot would still try to pass

    ...04% of people polled believe Elvis is still alive

    ...that 53.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot

    ...the shortest complete sentence in the English language is "I am."...and the longest "I do."

    ...that aircraft engines can run on diamond dust ...but no one has actually tried it yet

    ...that oil and water can mix, but choose not to for economic reasons

    ...it is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not down. (Which explains all those cows on roofs)

    ...that rattlesnakes don't rattle, but actually hum.

    and finally, did you know that Buffalo Bill Cody has no actual buffalo ancestry[/list]
    A little something extra

    A helping hand---
    One night, a man and his wife are awakened at 3 a.m. by a loud pounding on the door. The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger standing in a pouring down rain is asking for a push. "Not a chance" says the husband - "It's three o'clock in the morning!" He slams the door and returns to bed.

    "Who was it?" asks the wife.

    "Just a drunken stranger asking for a push," he answers.

    "Did you help him?" she asks.

    "NO, I didn't - it's three in the morning and raining like cats and dogs out!"

    "Well you've got a short memory" says his wife. "Can't you remember about three months ago when we broke down on vacation and those two guys helped us?" I think you should help him."

    The man considers for a moment, then gets dressed and goes out into the pouring rain and calls out into the dark. "Hello- are you still there?"

    "Yes," comes the answer.

    "Do you still need a push?" calls out the husband.

    "Yes, please!" comes the reply from the dark.

    "Where are you?" asks the husband.

    "Over here on the swing" the drunk replies.



    Hope this brought a smile

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  • 02-Nov-2004, 08:30 AM #2
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    More totally useless stuff for you to know
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    Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories.
    (This number is an average, individual results may vary)

    There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
    (and you can't get any of them from an ATM)

    A duck's quack does not echo and no one knows why.
    (quack-quack)

    Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
    (Or so we are lead to believe )

    The word "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms that are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
    (interesting)

    The average American eats 2 donuts a day.
    (Someone is obviously eating a lot of my donuts...Randy!)

    Surveys show 3 out fo 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.
    (Hmmmm)

    Every year in the fall, Niagara Falls is shut down for 24 hours. The flow is diverted using a massive series of pipes built in 1895.
    (Don't say it, just included to see if you're paying attention. )

    On average, a 4-year-old asks 492 questions a day.
    (and usually they are sitting right behind me)

    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel "Gadsy" with over 50,000 words, none of which contained the letter "e".
    (Obviously Ernest Vincent didn't sign his book )[/list]

    -Unbelievably, a goldfish can kill a gorilla. However, it does require a substantial element of surprise
    --- George Carlin

    Hope this brought a smile

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  • 03-Nov-2004, 12:16 PM #3
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    ...and some more interesting, useless facts:

    If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (You’d want to enjoy that cup!)
    On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
    Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
    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.
    No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
    The electric chair was invented by a dentist!!!!!
    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
    Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
    Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
    On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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