20 facts.
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Thread Topic: 20 facts.
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1. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each others' shoulders.
2. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, not China.
3. A huricane releases more energy in 10min, than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
4. A cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
5. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spade- King David; Clubs- Alexander the Great; Hearts- Charlemagne; and Diamonds- Julius Ceasar.
6. The strongest muscle in proportion to its size is the tounge.
7. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
8. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palm of their hands.
9. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
10. Butterflies taste with their feet.
11. Starfish don't have brains.
12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into a shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
13. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
14. Coca cola was originally green.
15. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought that he might be retarded.
16. Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
17. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
18. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
19. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing then would burn their house down- hence the expression "to get fired".
20. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. -
_Pitch_ NewbieWhat the-
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I already knew a ton of those.
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I have that book.
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I got it off of ifunny.
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There's a book?
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Several, by the Useless Information Society.
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I learned something new!
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Yay indeed!!!!
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Cool, though I already knew several of them. :)
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Uh-huh.
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About the fountain cookie
number 18
Number 14
and the one about lipstick -
skyrim Newbie:.(
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3, 14, 18, and 19.
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