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Old 01-08-2005, 12:16 AM   #10
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You can't fold of piece of paper in half more than 7 times.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

There is a sea squirt (found in the seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

Rats can't vomit.

Giraffes have no vocal chords.

A giraffe and rat can go longer without water than a camel can.

The snail mates only once in it's entire life. (Kind of like me )

You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.

An oyster can change it's sex a number of times during its life.

Some lions mate 50 times a day.

All the swans in England are property of the Queen.

The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60MPH.

Twinkies have a shelf life of about 25 years.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

Franklin Pierce is the only President to have said "I promise" instead of "I swear at his Inauguration. He did it for religious reasons.

Ronald Reagan married his first wife, Jane Wyman, at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.

At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.

10 people die every minute from AIDS somewhere in the world. 9 of them are from Africa.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

The football huddle started at Gallaudet University (the world's only accredited four-year liberal arts college for the deaf) in the 19th century when the football team found that opposing teams were reading their signed messages and intercepting their plays.

The average life span of a Major League baseball is five pitches.

Shaqielle O'Niell [AKA Shaq] wears a size 22EEE shoe.

The first "puck" ever used in a professional hockey game was a frozen piece of cow dung.

The first woman featured on U.S. paper money was Martha Washington, on the 1886 $1 bill.

A dime has 118 ridges around its edge.

A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

China was the first country to use paper money.

83% of cheerleaders have a B average or better.


There's plenty more where these came from.


Quote: (Originally Posted by King X) I win
Wrong again, I win.

X, This one is for you!
On a Canadian 2 dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.


H-D
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Today I'm gonna try a little harder
Gonna make every minute last longer
Gonna learn to forgive and forget
'Cause we don't have long
Gonna make the most of it

Today I'm gonna love my enemies
Reach out to somebody who needs me
Make a change, make the world a better place
'Cause tomorrow could be one day too late


--lyrics from "One Day Too Late" by Skillet
from their new album "Awake"
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