Stuff You didn't know You didn't know!

[Gordie]

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Men can read smaller

print than women can; women can hear better.

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Coca-Cola was originally green.

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It is impossible to lick

your elbow.

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The State with the

highest percentage of people who walk to work:

Alaska

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The percentage of

Africathat is wilderness: 28%

(now get this...)

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The percentage of

North Americathat is wilderness: 38%

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The cost of raising

a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:

$ 16,400

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The average number

of people airborne over the U.S.

in any given hour:

61,000

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Intelligent people

have more zinc and copper in their hair..

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The first novel ever

written on a typewriter, Tom Sawyer.

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The San Francisco

Cable cars are the only mobile

National Monuments.

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Each king in a deck

of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades - King David

Hearts - Charlemagne

Clubs -Alexander, the Great

Diamonds - Julius Caesar

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111,111,111 x

111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321

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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse

has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

If the horse has one front leg in the air,

the person died because of wounds received in battle.

If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes

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Only two people

signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4,

John Hancock and Charles Thomson.

Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

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Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?

A. Their birthplace

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Q. Most boat owners name their boats.

What is the most popular boat name requested?

A.

Obsession

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Q.. If you were to spell out numbers,

how far would you have to go until you

would find the letter 'A'?

A. One thousand

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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes,

windshield wipers and laser printers have in common?

A. All were invented

by women.

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Q. What is the only

food that doesn't spoil?

A. Honey

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Q. Which day are there more collect calls

than any other day of the year?

A. Father's Day

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In Shakespeare's time,

mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.

When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened,

making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the

phrase...'Goodnight , sleep tight'

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It was the accepted

practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply

his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink.

Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month,

which we know today as the honeymoon.

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In English pubs, ale

is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England , when

customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them 'Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.' . . .

It's where we get

the phrase 'mind your P's and Q's'

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Many years ago in

England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked

into the rim, or handle, of their ceramiccups.

When they needed a refill , they used the whistle to get some service. 'Wet your whistle' is the phrase

inspired by this practice.

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[hoytshooter]

Here are some more that I found intresting

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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

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The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".

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The army's jeep was not always called that. Instead it was called a general purpose vehicle. It was then shortened to GP (jeep), and the car company just started to manufacture the general purposes vehicles under the name "Jeep."

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Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

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The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used

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Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of feudal rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortened to Sheriff.

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

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Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.

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Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots

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Reindeer like to eat bananas.

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A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

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Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

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A group of frogs is called an army.

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A group of rhinos is called a crash.

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A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

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A group of whales is called a pod.

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A group of ravens is called a murder.

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A group of larks is called an exaltation.

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A group of owls is called a parliament.

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No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.

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The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular

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All porcupines float in water.

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The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.

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A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

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You can tell a girl crab from a boy crab by their stomachs. A girl has a beehive and a boy has a lighthouse.

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The pH of cow's milk is 6.

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The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

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The Dalmatian is the only dog that gets gout.

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You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.

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The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet.

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Kiwi birds are the only birds with their nostrils at the end of their beak rather than the top.

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All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.

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Giraffes have no vocal chords.

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A fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse.

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When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

[Scott M]

I got that email...someone tried to check into some of those factoids to verify them and a bunch are flat out wrong.