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Not all chicks are yellow when they hatch, some are white and others are brown.
We each produce at least 2 gallons of saliva each week If a real woman were to have Barbie's proportions (in ratio to human measurements) she would have to walk on all fours in order to move. Long, long ago, women used to put beeswax on their faces (as a cosmedic) often times, they would sit too close to the fire and the wax would melt. From this came the term (mind your beeswax) The lowest total of any denomination of coin produced by the U.S. Mint is the $4.00 coin, produced from 1879 to 1880. Just slightly over 450 were produced in gold, aluminum, and other metals. There is no specific 'flesh-eating bacteria'. Necrotizing fasciitis can be caused by virulent strains of several infectious organisms, including strep, staph, and E.coli. Female turtles can store sperm up to four years before laying viable eggs Peter Cushion (a well-known Politics lecturer) has clapped his hands during Politics lectures at Cornwall College, England more than any other person alive, an amazing 29,021 times in two months. He also stammered an estimated 2.63 million times in the 1997/1998 academic year. 'Big' Ron Atkinson, former soccer manager and now commentator, makes uncomprehendible statements per football match than any other commentator in the World. I have said 'Don't throw those bloody spears at me!' more emphatically than anyone on Earth. M.C. Ben Chandler is the UK's most notorius criminal. He has been arrested over 100 times for crimes including drunk and disorderly, grand theft auto, murder and drug dealing, he has even got a cell in Camborne Police Station with his name on the chalk board all the time. He is only 17 years old!!!! when dogs have upset stomachs,they eat grass to make it come up to get out of their system,in other words (throw up) The slipper-shelled snail starts life as a male then gradually turns female as it grows up. In response to a fact read on this page regarding the Egyptian use of pi as a mathematical measurement in the creation of the pyramids:Its believed that they marked off measurements by means of a measuring wheel which would inadvertantly relates to the pi factor. Although the prefix 'kilo' means 'one thousand', one kilobyte is NOT 1000 bytes; it is 1024 bytes. A megabyte is 1K kilobytes, or 1048576 bytes. And one gigabyte is 1K megabyes, or 1073741824 bytes. It is properly pronounced 'JY-guh-byte' rather than the more common 'GIG-uh-byte', the same root as the word 'gigantic'. Going on, 1K gigabytes is a terabyte; 1K of those is usually given as a 'petabyte', and 1K of those(!) is usually given as an 'exabyte'. Another way to look at this is that 1 exabyte is a giabyte's worth of gigabytes! Cows navigate by looking at the ground. If the field the cows are in is flooded, they are not able to find their way home ! It would take 13 years and eight months to stay one night in every room at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes Between 1952 and 1996, the artist who spent the most weeks on the British Singles Charts was Elvis Presley with 1149 weeks. The word 'news' comes from the pural form of 'new.' In 1900, the third leading cause of death was diarrhea. The country that produces the most food next to the United States is Brazil. Nike, in Greek mythology, is the goddess of victory. There is more protein in a normal discharge of semen than in a porkchop. JFK was not the only one to die that day. CS Lewis, the writer, also died. In ancient Egypt, Ninkasi was the goddess of beer!!! The longest french fry in a bunch is called a loomster Actually, the longest non-medical word in the English language is not antidisestablishmentarian, but floccinaucinihilipilification - the act of estimating as worthless. On the same note, the longest word is pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis which is an inflammatory lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust. The first KFC is NOT in Utah, but near Corbin, Kentucky. minute rice can be prepared in 46 seconds. bumble bees use twenty one muscles to sting. If a cow has twins, a bull and a heifer, the heifer will never be able to reproduce. There are only five Mersen's numbers between 1 and 10000. Chickens and turkeys are known to cross-breed. My friend has some and he calls the 'turkins'. Former Broward County FL Sheriff, Nick Navarro, is responsible for manufacturing and selling more crack cocaine in Broward County than anybody else in history. The crack was to be sold by undercover officers to crackheads in reverse sting operations, but a large portion of it is unaccounted for. At $115.00 a pound, the most expensive beverage in the world is Kopi Lewak coffee. Kopi is the Indonesian word for coffee. A lewak is a catlike rodent notorious for eatng the only the ripest of coffebeans. Nobody knows how or when it was discovered, but coffeebeans taken from lewak turds remain intact and the enzymes from the lewak ferment the coffee and give it a unique flavor. The flavor has been described as 'carmel-like, uncomparable to to anything I've ever tasted'. On average, 80 people shoot at the Goodyear blimp each year. Micky Dolenz from The Monkees was the voice of Scooby-Doo. The world's largest cheese was manufactured by the farmers in and around the Ottawa Valley in an effort to promote Canadian Cheese. It was transported to the Chicago World's fair where after display was cut up and sold in small pieces to patrons of the fair. In NYS it is illegal to have consentual sodomy with anyone unless you are married to them. Elmo from Sesamestreet is 3 years old!!!! The Quint's boat in the movie 'Jaws' named the 'Orca', was orginally a lobster boat named 'The Warlock'. More capital cities begin with B than any other letter: Berlin, Berne, Bonn, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Baghdad, Bratislava, Brussels, Belgrade, Bogato and of course Belfast. In Japan meat from the 'Fugu' or spiny puffer fish is considered a rare delacasy, however the liver and intestines contain a powerfull neurotoxin and the slightest contamination during preperation can be deadly. Restaraunts who serve fugu must have 'Fugu certified' chefs. In japan about one hundred people on average die annualy from fugu poisoning. A Snickers bar weighs 62 grams Stiegl beer (a beer from Salzburg, Austria) was first made in the same year that Columbus discovered America. If a hockey puck traveling at over 50 mph hits you in the shoulder, it will hurt and leave a mark for over a week. The longest non-medical term in the english language is antidisestablishmentarianism which means opposition to the disestablisment of a church or religious body The word Orang Utang means 'jungle man' in Bahasa, the indigenous language to Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and much of the Phillipines. There are so many regional dialects, that people living 5 miles apart in Sarawak, the largely jungled area of island Malaysia often cannot understand each other. The world famous traditional British clothing & department store, Marks & Spencers, was started in the covered market in Leeds, West Yorkshire as Marks & Spencer's Penny Bazaar, with a catch line of 'Don't ask the price, it's a penny' It is very common for young budgie birds to suffer from strokes. If the bird does not die, it will often have paralysis most commonly in it's legs and feet. The one millionth digit after the decimal point in the definition of pi is a 1... i.e 3.141.............1 celery has negative calories. It takes more energy to eat it than celery has to begin with. The Citibank building in New York City had a structural flaw, and had the potential to fall down. There was a misunderstanding between the Engineer and the Contractor and the building was not built right. When the flaw was caught in 1978 (a year after completion) it was found that there was a 50% chance of collapse during winds over 78 mph. (typical in a hurricane). At the same time there was a hurricane heading up the East Coast heading straight for NYC. The Engineer and building owner secretly had the flaw corrected in the middle of the night (some of the bracings were bolted instead of being welded). There were rumors about the 'glowing Citibank building' because the welding could be seen across the skyline. It was estimated that 156 blocks would have been demilished due to the domino effect the building would start had it fallen over. Betsy Ross had a fully formed set of teeth when she was born. RULE OF THUMB: Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb or finger into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold, and the yeast wouldn't grow. Too hot, and the yeast would die. The thumb in the beer is where we get the phrase 'rule of thumb'. HONEYMOON: It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the brige'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 (the 'honey month') was often referred to as the 'honey moon'. P'S and Q'S: Long before computerized cash registers, records of beer purchases were posted on a board indicating 'P' for pints and 'Q' for quarts. Tavern owners would remind the barmaids to 'mind their P's and Q's' in order to recieve proper payment. Abe Lincoln and JFK had a lot in common. So much in fact, that it's a little scary. Here goes. 1. Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. JFK in 1946. 2. Lincoln was elected president 11-6-1860. JFK was elected 11-8-1960. 3. After their deaths they were both succeeded by southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808, Lyndon Johnson in 1908. 4. John Wilkes Booth was born in 1838, while Lee Harvy Oswald was born 101 years later. Both men were southeners and both men were shot before they could come to trial. 5. Booth committed his crime in a theater then ran to a barn. Oswald pulled the trigger in a warehouse, then ran to a barn. 6. Both had forebodings. 7. Lincoln and Kennedy were both historic civil rights campaigners and both were shot in the back in the head, on a Friday, with their wives. 8. Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater. Kennedy was shot in a Ford by the company Lincoln. 9. Kennedy had a secratary named Lincoln, and Lincoln had a secreatary named Kennedy. 10. Both had wives with dark hahair and the wives were 24 when they married their husbands. Isn't that weird? Nightmare On Elm Street (it is said) is based on a real story. The story goes that Wes Craven was in a coffee shop reading the newspaper when he stumbled upon a story. A boy was afraid to go to sleep because of nightmares. He tried to stay up. He failed. His dad found him the next morning, dead, with four razor type slahes on his chest. Police officials said that the wounds were not self inflicted, nor was there any sign of a break in. Weird huh? Think about this story while you go to sleep tonight. The only McDonalds with a turquoise 'm' is located in TX. All other McDonalds have to have yellow arches. In England (and possibly in America) the law on part-repayment of debt is very ancient. It dates back to a case called 'Pinnell's Case', from the 17th century. What it says is that if you make an agreement with someone to pay part of a loan as full payment, the person whom you are repaying can still sue you for the rest, even if he promised he wouldn't. What's the way out of this? Bizarrely, to pay him the agreed amount, plus something else which isn't money. Because courts don't look at whether a payment is worth the value that is claimed for it, you can pay off a £1,000,000 debt (if the creditor agrees) with £1 and a McDonald's fry, and the court will hold that the creditor valued the McDonald's fry at £999,999. What you mustn't do is just pay money: pay money plus something else. (Actually, I suppose this could be quite a useful fact). The legal principle that the King is subject to the law was a relatively recent invention in English law (from which American law has descended). In a 17th century case called 'the Case of the Proclamations', King James I decreed that London was getting too big, and so no more building would be allowed. He was taken to court by a (brave!) subject who claimed that the law wasn't valid because Parliament didn't agree. The King claimed that he was King, and so what he said went. The courts replied: 'The King hath no power nor prerogative in this realm save what the law of the land allows him.' and thus the principle behind the Separation of Powers was established. Rats can't vomit. In Greek mythology Europa was a mistress of Zeus to whom he appeared as a gentle white heifer. Zeus persuaded her to take a ride on his back, and then he carried her away across the sea. Hence the name for Europe. Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada is the largest Hamlet in the world. A hamlet is an urban area with 'a small cluster of houses and no mayor or central government'. Most hamelts have a population of around 20-30 people. Sherwood Park has over 45,000 people and no mayor or central government. If you were standing on the rim of a black hole, theoretically (if you were alive...) you would be looking at the back of your head. 182,000 of the 581,942 bridges in the United States are rated unsafe for traffic. That's 31.3%!! And there isn't enough money in the budget to replace ANY of them. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 The first J.C. Penney's was in Kemerer, Wyo. The LoDo region of Denver, Colorado stands for Lower Downtown. A blink of an eye lasts about one tenth of a second. We blink around 25 thousand times a day. A Del Monte bottle of mexican green chile salsa contains: Tomatillo, cebolla, chile jalapeño, agua,sal yodatada, cilantro, CMC, 0.1% de benzonato de sodio como conservador y ácido cítrico. The worlds first Kentucky Fried Chicken is in Salt Lake City, Utah. In a 1994 study conducted by Dr. Adam Cowburn of Deep Springs College, it was found that 3 out of 10 people believe that anal floss is an actual commercial product. 8675309, Jenny's phone number from the 80's song of the same name, is prime. It is also a twin prime, meaning there is a number 2 digits less or great (8675311) that is also prime. It has been proven that there are an infinite number of 'twin primes.' To build strength the muscle fiber ruptures and the nerve fiber registers the pain, your body overcompensates and within 48 hours the fiber is made stronger. In the United States, Illinois has the highest number of personalized license plates than any other state. In a modern day airliner, using plastic for drink containers instead of glass, will save an average of $20 000 on aircraft fuel costs. Earth's equatorial circumference (40,075 km) is greater than its polar circumference (40,008 km). The name, 'HAL,' which was the misbehaving computer's name in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' was purposefully chosen: Each letter is exactly one backward from the letters 'I' 'B' 'M' In Hitchcock's film 'North by Northwest', during the scene with the gunshot towards the end, in the background a young boy put's his fingers in his ears because he knew what was comming up due to lots of retakes. An elephants penis is 5'4' long. The longest of any animal. The longest word in the English language is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' - which describes a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust. Houseflies have a lifespan of two weeks. Manhole covers are round so that they cannot fall through the opening of the hole when being removed. Cowboys wear high heels to keep their shoes from falling out of the stirrups. Charlotte Bartholdi, the mother of the designer of the Statue of Liberty, was the model for the face of the statue, while the sculptor's girlfriend, Jeanne-Emilie, was the model for the statue's arms and body. Every 28th year has the same calendar. As an example of coincidence: 1961, the year in which the Berlin Wall was put up, would have had the same calendar dates as 1989, the year in which it was torn down. Your twenty-eighth birthday falls on the same day as when you were born. Also, in a period of 28 years, the same calendar will reappear 3 more times in between, either in whole or in part, starting somewhere in this cycle: six years after the first, then eleven years later, then six years later, then five years later, totalling twenty eight years. This pattern has only been broken at the dawnings of the 20th, 19th and 18th centuries, because of a 15th-c rule declaring that years ending in 00 that are not divisible by 400 will not be leap years. But 2000 will have the same calendar as 1972. Toy Story, the first 100% computer-animated feature, created by PIXAR and directed by John Lasseter, is infamous for its meticulous attention to detail, which would include several subliminal references to PIXAR history. In one of the early scenes where Woody is holding a staff meeting with the other toys, the books in the bookshelf behind where Woody is standing have titles of previous PIXAR short films, such as 'Red's Dream,' 'Luxo Jr.,' 'Knick Knack', etc. The license plate number of the car that Andy and his family drive away in is the same as the room number of an animation department studio at the California Institute of the Arts, from which Lasseter and other staff members graduated. Las Vegas is the #1 most dangerous city--by crime. The city with the most unlisted phone numbers in the phone book is.....Las Vegas! The synthetic hormone estrogen has a Brand Name of ' Premarin'. It is named this because it is synthesized from PRegnant MARe's urINe. Synonyma to graffiti are:cave-art/petroglyphes/writing on walls/menetekel/dipinti/epigraph/murals/hot 110/con safos/placas/hobos signs/latrinalia/toilet graffiti/pilgrims graffiti/proskynemata/ostracise/dipinti/stigmata/signs/symbols/scratchin/scribbling/childrens drawings/obscene drawings/sky-painting/light-painting/writing/American graffiti/hip-hop graffiti/street art/memorial graffiti/titulus memorialis/chalking/ground painting/sand painting/aboriginal art/prehistorical art/religious inscriptions John Lennon's middle name was Winston. Michelangelo died at the age of 88. The first perfect nine innings baseball game (pitcher pitches 27 out, no hits, no runs) was achieved by John Lee Richmond on 12 June 1880. The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology. The first automobile racetrack in America was the 'Indianapolis Motor Speedway', which consisted of 3 million cobblestones. Draughts is older than chess. A soccer ball has 32 panels. Darts is the most popular sport played in Britain. The name of the reindeer in the 'Original Eight,' usually named as 'DONNER' is actually named 'DonDer'....
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