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July 31, 2007, 06:09:13 PM

Post your useless pointless Factoids!

I'll start.

Every U.S. bill, regardless of denomination, costs about 4 cents to make.

The song "Happy Birthday" brings in about $2 million in revenue to the people who hold the copyright.

Source: Fruit by the Foot. :D

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Reply #1 – July 31, 2007, 06:43:24 PM

Quote from: Ether947;164997

Source: Fruit by the Foot. :D

:giggle:

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called

Source: http://www.wambooli.com/fun/fyi/

Wow Antonio, you just found another way for me to kill downtime at work. :hick:

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Reply #2 – July 31, 2007, 06:48:05 PM

Heres some I heard a long time ago.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (dont ask)

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

Ill stop there I can go on for hours...

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Reply #3 – July 31, 2007, 07:00:30 PM

One more for the parents with kids or for the kids themselves who know about them.

pokemon= pocket monster

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Reply #4 – July 31, 2007, 07:14:59 PM

Nasa made some ball bearing for a satlite they are the most pefect spheres know to man. If you were to blow them up the size of earth the biggest mountain would be as tall as a sheet of paper is thick.

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Reply #5 – July 31, 2007, 07:26:22 PM

I got a few.....

- FORD MOTOR COMPNAY was founded on June. 16, 1903.

- IN 1916, 55% of all cars were Ford Model T's.

- The Ford Thunderbird was debuted on October. 22, 1954

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Reply #6 – July 31, 2007, 07:36:39 PM

Quote from: ipsd;165015

Nasa made some ball bearing for a satlite they are the most pefect spheres know to man. If you were to blow them up the size of earth the biggest mountain would be as tall as a sheet of paper is thick.

Not ball bearings, but rather gyroscopes for Gravity Probe B.

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Reply #7 – July 31, 2007, 07:40:00 PM

Elephants are the only animal in the world that can't jump.

Polar bears are not white. Their skin is black and their fur is actually clear (and hollow). The clear fur acts like millions of fiberoptic strands, carrying sunlight directly to their black skin which absorbs the heat,thus keeping them warm. The fur, being hollow, acts as an excellent insulation trapping that heat.

A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (in my next life I want to come back as a pig)

The Daddy Long Legs spider has the most potent venom in the world, however, its fangs are too short to penetrate human skin and is not capable of injecting a large enough dose to be fatal to humans.

Hippos fling their own dung with their tails as a sign they are angry.

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Reply #8 – July 31, 2007, 07:44:49 PM

Quote from: *MAYHEM*;165030

The Daddy Long Legs spider has the most potent venom in the world, however, its fangs are too short to penetrate human skin and is not capable of injecting a large enough dose to be fatal to humans.

Mythbusters proved that one to be false.

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Reply #9 – July 31, 2007, 07:54:35 PM

the mother of Monkee's bandmember Mike Nesmith invented liquid paper.

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Reply #10 – July 31, 2007, 07:58:55 PM

from:
http://arborwiki.org/city/Ypsilanti_Water_Tower

Located at the highest point of elevation of the city on Summit Street, the Ypsilanti Water Tower is no longer in practical use but remains an important local landmark. Long known locally for its suggestive shape, a recent article in Cabinet Magazine deemed it to be the World's Most Phallic Building. What did you see when you reached the summit?

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Reply #11 – July 31, 2007, 08:23:27 PM

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

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.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this @ home!)

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."

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Reply #12 – July 31, 2007, 09:14:35 PM

Quote from: CustomT;165049

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

That one is false. It was the subject of quite a bit of controversy in 1986 when the bill first came out, and at first glance it actually does look like an American flag, but in actuality it is the Red Ensign, Canada's flag before the maple leaf was adopted. the box in the upper left corner of the flag that everyone assumed was the stars is actually the Union Jack. It's all moot, though - the Canadian $2 was phased out of circulation in 1996 when the "toonie" coin came out.

*EDIT* It was actually the $5 and $10's that had the Red Ensign. The $2 had the maple leaf. A writeup about the urban legend on Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp

Some other strange facts:

The Thunderbird was the first domestic car to feature bucket seats and a full console.
It was also the first car to use sequential turn signals. The Cougar and Shelby Mustangs came later. The only other manufacturer to have used them was Chrysler, on the 1970 Imperial

I'll have to dig out my Thunderbird book for more, but there are a surprising number of modern conveniences in cars that made their debut on T-Birds...

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Reply #13 – July 31, 2007, 09:19:56 PM

Quote from: 5.0willgo;165006

There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called

Thundergrowl could probably add many more, but some other Newfoundland names that could be construed as shagual:

Placentia
Come By Chance
Blow Me Down
Lushes Bight

...and one in Nova Scotia:

Meat Cove

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Reply #14 – July 31, 2007, 09:31:50 PM

Quote from: CustomT;165049

The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."

That reminds me.

The toilet got the nickname "per" from the first guy to mass produced them. His last name was per.

Source: Modern Marvels (going off of memory)