UD's Useless Facts

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:42 am Post subject: UD's Useless Facts

The numbers “172″ can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget.

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

Back in the mid to late ’80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.

The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words “North” and “South).

The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.

Just a few "Useless Facts" to rap ur head around!!! Shocked

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:46 am Post subject:

OUCHY, Too much info my head is now hurting thanks UD!
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:54 am Post subject:

Some more...

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on. (For u Ren!)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.

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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: Re: UD's Useless Facts

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

- you are unable to lick your elbow Razz

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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:48 am Post subject:

Good one Amok... anyone got another one????
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject:

UD, those were really interesting. Cool

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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject:

I got some wacky laws.

In Florida, it is illegal to sleep under a hairdryer.

In West Virginia, it is illegal to put ice cream in your back pocket.

In the USA, the penalty for jumping off a building is death (so if you survive, you still die!)

It is illegal to enter Georgia with a duck on your head.

And Amok, I know someone that can lick their elbow. She has the longest tongue I've ever seen.
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject:

And Amok, I know someone that can lick their elbow. She has the longest tongue I've ever seen.

Uhhhh, is she dating anyone right now? Shocked

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject:

Those are great UD!!! Smile

I will have to try chewing gum next time i am peeling onions.

Very Happy

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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:01 am Post subject:

Those are great Spamitarium!!!! Very Happy

Here we go for today (FRIDAY! Very Happy

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If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck. (OK! Shocked

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Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually. (OK! Shocked

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Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.

Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

The February of 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

The Pentagon in Arlington Virginia has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. (There goes our tax money!)

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. Shocked

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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:06 am Post subject:

Here is one: It is IMPOSSIBLE to NOT be knifed by CG while she is online. She can even knife you on COD4 while she is playing WOW! Laughing

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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

Hehe Cyber.

Twisted Evil

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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:58 am Post subject:

Hey Cyber- I think CG carries a Saber not a knife! Very Happy

It can reach out and touch you from afar!!!!! Very Happy

Like ur fav acoustic song CG...
Mine is: "Good Riddance"- Green Day!

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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:06 am Post subject: