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Old 01-08-2004, 03:11 PM
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Useless Facts!!!

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

Chicha, an alcohol beverage which has been made for thousands of years in Central and South America, begins with people chewing grain and spitting into a vat. An enzyme in saliva changes starch in the grain to sugar, which then ferments.

In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

The Bible has been translated into Klingon.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.


The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale.

It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.
**Now "REALLY?!" why would you be eating in a place that is on fire anyway???
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Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two helpless protesters to death.

More food is thrown out each day in the United States than is needed to feed its hungry . . . by McDonalds.

Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

One acre of hemp will produce as much paper as four acres of trees (and can be replaced next season).

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Bill McCoy was a bootlegger well known for selling quality imported goods: the "real McCoy."
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In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.


Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms

The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland has a six thousand year lease.

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.


It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left.
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In California, it's against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dust rag.

One lady had her husband's ashes made into an egg timer so that even in death he can still "help" in the kitchen.
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Chewing gum while cutting onions will prevent crying
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You can't sleep with chickens in Clawson City, Mich.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.


In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

A bung hole borer bores the hole in the keg for the spout
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"The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale."

thats friggin hilarious!
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their inst 4 cars on a 10 dollar bill, i just looked, maybe on the old ones...
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