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Some real trivia for ya - Posted on 2007-04-25 10:36:27

The_Drifter
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•111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 •The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. •Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. •If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. •The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. •The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. •In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. •On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag. •China has more English speakers than the United States. •The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. •A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. •The electric chair was invented by a dentist. •Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. •The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. •The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. •Cat's urine glows under a black light. •Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. •One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers-they saw it as competition. .The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." •If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. •In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. •The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. •Polar bears are left-handed. •Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. •Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. •If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. •A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. •Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. •On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. •The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz."

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	Some real trivia for ya - Posted on 2007-04-25 10:39:29
sprag 750cc Boy Racer Joined: Saturday, March 24, 2007 Posts: 183 Location: leicester United Kingdom	given long enough anyone can come up with this kind of daft information but dont worry about...... no one gives a ****.

	Some real trivia for ya - Posted on 2007-04-25 10:48:04
r1froog 1300cc Superstar Joined: Sunday, October 02, 2005 Posts: 4352 Location: aberdeen United Kingdom	i thot was cool,,,,,post us some more drift.

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