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Post by Lupin_IV on Sept 9, 2008 20:06:43 GMT -5
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Post by Rotary on Sept 10, 2008 1:43:32 GMT -5
OMGWTFBBQ
Wow. That's awesome, actually.
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Post by Pegasus on Sept 10, 2008 8:55:57 GMT -5
Here's some weird factoids (www.strangefacts.com):
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis! (WTF?)
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist! (this one always creeped me out.)
The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television! (I know I have!)
In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits! (again, WTF?)
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Post by Nemesis on Sept 10, 2008 12:46:44 GMT -5
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation! And they are also the first living creatures that colonize heavily bombed areas |
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Post by Pegasus on Sept 10, 2008 13:48:24 GMT -5
LOL, tough little bastards they are!
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Post by Nemesis on Sept 10, 2008 17:27:56 GMT -5
While I was scrolling around I went on the Internet... ...and I found this:  If that's not disturbing, then I don't know what it is |
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Post by ½ A Gram on Sept 10, 2008 21:28:24 GMT -5
Mythbusters proves you wrong, IIRC
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Post by Lupin_IV on Sept 11, 2008 1:31:26 GMT -5
Mythbusters disproved cockroaches surviving radiation, not rehabition of radiated areas.
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Post by ½ A Gram on Sept 11, 2008 20:37:58 GMT -5
that's what it was. dammit, I just got tons of wrong facts today!
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Post by Lupin_IV on Oct 19, 2008 13:11:16 GMT -5
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Post by nightmare75 on Oct 19, 2008 14:23:26 GMT -5
Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?
THAT COULD BE US!!
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Post by Lupin_IV on Oct 19, 2008 15:01:29 GMT -5
Yeah, we'd only have to raise twelve million dollars in 30 days.
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Post by ½ A Gram on Oct 19, 2008 15:40:53 GMT -5
Well, anyone good at craps? there is a foolproof method of getting straight 7's.
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Post by Pegasus on Oct 19, 2008 17:38:38 GMT -5
We can raise a lot of money quickly by winning lots of ooberleet canyun rayses, y0!!1 All we need is an ooberleet hella-kool diferenshul equipped Scivik wit Tipe ARRRGH ownage stikerz and assblast cannon!!1
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Post by nightmare75 on Oct 20, 2008 19:08:26 GMT -5
Pff twelve million isn't so hard to raise. We just need some people to stand on some corners for a while.
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