Silly facts

[prtygirl17]

I take no responsibility for the truthiness of these facts. Some of them seem too silly to be true.


** Pearls melt in vinegar

** It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's
supply of footballs.

** Thirty-Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.

** The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: MARLBORO, COCA-COLA, and
BUDWEISER, in that order.

** It's possible to lead a cow upstairs. . .but not downstairs.

** Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their
hands.

** Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of
vodka.

** "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

** No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and
purple.

** "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

** Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

** A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

** The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore
when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground
floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

** The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie" (thus the name of
the Don McLean song).

** Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
** 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

** Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without
killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "To get
fired."

** Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, John
Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the
last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

** Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks
like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

** The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

** The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General
Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

** The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in
Colorado.

** Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

** If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19.
You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make
change for a dollar.

** No NFL team which play its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
Super Bowl.

** The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports
games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major
League All-Star Game.

** The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" movie was
actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

** If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the
top and sinking to the bottom.

** Snails can sleep for three years without eating.

** Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates
at Harvard.

** The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those
of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

** Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

** James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott (Scotty) on Star
Trek, is missing the entire middle finger on his right hand (lost it on
D-Day).

** The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must
be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war
or other emergencies.

** There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
[SIZE=+1]75 people die each year playing Twister.
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[SIZE=+1]To have your picture taken by the first cameras you would have to sit
still for 8 hours.
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[SIZE=+1]In England during Queen Victoria's reign it was illegal to be a
homosexual but not a lesbian. The reason for this is that when Queen Victoria was approving the law she would not believe that women would do that.
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[SIZE=+1]Cockroaches do not like cucumbers.
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[SIZE=+1]Hawaii has the largest consumption of Spam in the United States.
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[SIZE=+1]Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
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[SIZE=+1]Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.[/SIZE]

 

[wakeuphappy]

** No NFL team which play its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a
Super Bowl.

Well we know this one isn't true as New Orleans won the last superbowl.

 

[The Godfather]

It depends on they are saltwater snails or freshwater snails. But still studies have not proven %100 yet




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[Kellana]

Do you where Steely Dan (band in the 70s-90s. It's a dildo

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_steely_dan_get_their_name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArQtVcM7w5Q&feature=fvst Peg

The original drummer for Steely Dan was comedian Chevy Chase.

The UK band 10CC chose their name as 10CC's is the average ejaculate a man expells during orgasm!
http://music.msn.com/music/artist/10cc/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rgepWg4rzw I'm not in love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgptvsHHYK4&feature=related The things we do for love.

 

[Ninja Genius]

The St Louis Rams also won the Super Bowl, in 2000, Super Bowl XXXIV .

 

[Ox CHERRYLiCiOUS* xO]

More people in China speak English than in the United States.

 

[Senor Cardgage]

I have been lied to. Always thought She was Alexander the Great :grrrrrr:

 

[Collie]

** Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Who is that stupid.:neutral:

 

[koking103]

But does it clear the system quickly so it won't show on the autopsy?

Just wondering. :tongue:

 

[Nate[Coder]]

Easy there sillygirl. :

 

[ikbatters]

Sorry. I really was just kidding.

I would never ask a real question like that online, that would be completely stupid.


:tongue:

 

[Bill]

Makes no sense how "silver' got on the list:neutral:. Offhand,

salver

fiver

liver

quiver (2 meanings)

 

[yuehan]

Salver, and fiver do not rhyme with liver, or quiver, let alone silver, at least the way people in S.W. Ontario speak.

 

[CHATZILLA]

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

:::

 

[Krazy]

Lived all over the province from far north to south, SW and S-Central, plus N Alberta. Visited the Rock and V Island. Obviously hard to discuss phonetics with text, but:


As trivial offense, from bloody pocket he lifted the fiver,
Then with his knife, excised the liver,
On lovely silver salver,
depraved delight, made the monster quiver.:shock:


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[fghi594]

So, what you're saying is... you don't really know what a rhyme is.

 

[Pompal 09.]

Well Lou, generally agree with you on most issues, so I am just more baffled. Not saying I am like a 'real' poet, but won awards as a kid. Time for a poll!

 

[Pompal 09.]

+1

 

[Nev]

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[gymnast]

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Snopes.com will dispell some of these misleading facts like a duck's quack most certainly echo's and the plane Buddy Holly died in didn't have a name but only a registration number .

Funny how quick we are to believe urban legends .