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Old Sep 20, 2006 | 11:10 PM
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In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver inside a toll booth.

Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, and fail to receive medical attention, you still have a 50% chance of survival.

Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.

Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk!

It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

Pound for Pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars!

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

If you were to roll a lung from a human body out flat, it would be the size of a tennis court.

The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!

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

Given the opportunity, deer will chew gum and marijuana.

The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main engredients.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.

In the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust.

The warmest temperature ever recorded on Antarctica was 3 degrees F.

i got plenty more but don't want to post toooooo much.


EDIT: eh screw it


California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.

Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!

There are three golf ***** sitting on the moon.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

Adult movie star, Ron Jeremy, has a master's degree in Special Education.

The G in 'g-string' stand for groin.

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while having sex.
 
Old Sep 21, 2006 | 01:07 AM
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[quote]ORIGINAL: Fiirkan

Tyranosaurus Rex is considered the King of the dinosaurus even though it was one of the last of the carnivourous species and there are otyher carnivours that were larger.[/qoute]




and the present closest relative of it is a chicken..........
 
Old Sep 21, 2006 | 01:13 AM
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The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.






i thought that that mask was molded based on william shatner's face, cuz his face has absolutely no emotion when he wants to and they got him to look emontionl;ess and molded the mask....lol sorry i was watching some kinda movie trivia thing and seen that...


sex is like church, you hear clapping, screaming and sometimes crying, but you still "come"




 
Old Sep 21, 2006 | 03:00 AM
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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.

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 leg front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

During World War II, IBM built the computers the ***** used to manage their death/concentration camps.

The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

2,500 lefties die each year using products designed for rightists.

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

Nondairy creamer is flammable.

The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."

The most common speed limit sign in the United States is 25 m.p.h.

The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.

The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.

Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it.

Hope you like these...

 
Old Sep 21, 2006 | 03:58 AM
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well i just have one right now. the bayan tree is the worlds largest tree heres one in india its 420 meters wide. the first and third pic is one tree

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Old Sep 21, 2006 | 04:52 AM
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And I think I heard somewhere that you spend 3 years of your life at red lights.

ONLY IF U STOP........... LMFAO

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Old Sep 21, 2006 | 12:56 PM
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The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.
That's just crazy.

Moving your toes actually activates neurones that go from the "tail" of your spinal cord all the way to the muscles in your feet.
 
Old Sep 21, 2006 | 04:36 PM
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Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
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False. Skin recedes after death so it makes hair and finger nails look bigger.


 
Old Sep 21, 2006 | 04:44 PM
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More people in China speak english then in the USA.
Now thats hardly suprising now is it.
 
Old Sep 21, 2006 | 04:50 PM
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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
i dunno...i've seen some dogs and other shiz start humping the most random crap ever. horny bastards lol

A toothbrush within 6 feet of a toilet can get airborne bacteria from flushing.
mythbusters proved that the feces from the toilet can get about anywhere. they put toothbrushes everywhere and even put a couple in a closed cup away from the toilet and they still found some crap on it....
 



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