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SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
-The most common letters in English are R S T L N E
-'Able was I ere I saw Elba' is a palindrome written by Napoleon
-The number one most popular dog name is Brandy
-Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada
-The average housefly lives for one month
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
-The perfect pickle should have 7 warts per square inch
-There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll
-There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened
-You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah
-'Able was I ere I saw Elba' is a palindrome written by Napoleon
-The number one most popular dog name is Brandy
-Each month, there is at least one report of UFOs from each province of Canada
-The average housefly lives for one month
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
-The perfect pickle should have 7 warts per square inch
-There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll
-There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened
-You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah
Johann MacLeod
Duc de Lorraine
-The Danish Royal Family's Dynastic name has never changed.
-The word Russia comes from a Swedish Tribe of Vikings that traded in the area.
-Kentucky has the worlds largest Buckeye Tree, and Ohio has the worlds largest Kentucky Coffee Tree.
-In WWI Halberiers, and Lancers were used.
-In the 18th century the only countries whose national colors were on thier uniforms were England and Sweden.
-The Inquasition wasn't disbanded until the 1850's
-The Swedish Royal Family is French.
-In San Marino it is illegal to grow Tobbacco.
-All Swedish Queens have Abdicated.
-The last reaming peice of Galileo is his middle finger (a fitting last message to the world
)
-The word Russia comes from a Swedish Tribe of Vikings that traded in the area.
-Kentucky has the worlds largest Buckeye Tree, and Ohio has the worlds largest Kentucky Coffee Tree.
-In WWI Halberiers, and Lancers were used.
-In the 18th century the only countries whose national colors were on thier uniforms were England and Sweden.
-The Inquasition wasn't disbanded until the 1850's
-The Swedish Royal Family is French.
-In San Marino it is illegal to grow Tobbacco.
-All Swedish Queens have Abdicated.
-The last reaming peice of Galileo is his middle finger (a fitting last message to the world
)
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
-By the time you reach grade 12, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours
-When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks
-It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop
-It it illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California
-There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'purple'
-If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns
-The year 1987 was the 50th anniversary of Spam
-It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan
-51% of turns are right turns
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute
-In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home
-The average American has $104 in their wallet
-More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever made
-March 9th is Useless Facts and Trivia day.
-When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks
-It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop
-It it illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California
-There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'purple'
-If done perfectly, any rubix cube combination can be solved in 17 turns
-The year 1987 was the 50th anniversary of Spam
-It is illegal to frown at cows in Bladworth, Saskatchewan
-51% of turns are right turns
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute
-In Jasmine Saskatchewan, it is illegal for a cow to moo within 300km of a private home
-The average American has $104 in their wallet
-More bullets were fired in 'Starship Troopers' than in any other movie ever made
-March 9th is Useless Facts and Trivia day.
"The average American has $104 in their wallet"
*looks in wallet*
Crap....I'm not even average...no wonder people avoid me!
*looks in wallet*
Crap....I'm not even average...no wonder people avoid me!
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
-Lemons have more sugar than oranges
-3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second
-The eyes of some birds weigh more than their brains
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
-Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre
-A duck has three eyelids
-Australia is the only continent without an active volcano
-A rat can go longer without water than a camel
-In the Philippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon
-One year contains 31,557,600 seconds
-All porcupines float in water
-Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box
-In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
-Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason
-3.6 cans of Spam are consumed each second
-The eyes of some birds weigh more than their brains
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
-Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre
-A duck has three eyelids
-Australia is the only continent without an active volcano
-A rat can go longer without water than a camel
-In the Philippine jungle, the yo-yo was first used as a weapon
-One year contains 31,557,600 seconds
-All porcupines float in water
-Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box
-In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
-Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason
Plexus
Architeuthidae puericomedentis
--If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? One thousand.
--Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gatsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E.
--The international dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
--In the state of Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket.
--The billionth digit of Pi is 9.
--Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
--If Bill Gates put all of his money under his matress and then fell out of bed.. It would take him 18 minutes to land.
However if the interest on all of his cash was added under the mattress, he'd never land!
--12 Hong Kongers are killed a year by falling trash.
--Glass is actually a slow moving liquid. You can tell how long it's been since it was broken by how sharp the edges are - they grow less sharp over time as the molecules are reabsorbed.
--The first paper notes printed in the United States were in denominations of 1 cent, 5 cents, 25 cents, and 50 cents. The U.S. Department of the Treasury first issued paper U.S. currency in 1862 to make up for the shortage of coins and to finance the Civil War.
--Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.
--10% of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
--All words ever spoken by human beings can be fit on a 5 Exabyte drive. (5,764,607,523,034,234,880 bytes [46,116,860,184,273,879,040 bits])
--Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gatsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E.
--The international dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
--In the state of Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket.
--The billionth digit of Pi is 9.
--Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
--If Bill Gates put all of his money under his matress and then fell out of bed.. It would take him 18 minutes to land.
However if the interest on all of his cash was added under the mattress, he'd never land!
--12 Hong Kongers are killed a year by falling trash.
--Glass is actually a slow moving liquid. You can tell how long it's been since it was broken by how sharp the edges are - they grow less sharp over time as the molecules are reabsorbed.
--The first paper notes printed in the United States were in denominations of 1 cent, 5 cents, 25 cents, and 50 cents. The U.S. Department of the Treasury first issued paper U.S. currency in 1862 to make up for the shortage of coins and to finance the Civil War.
--Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.
--10% of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
--All words ever spoken by human beings can be fit on a 5 Exabyte drive. (5,764,607,523,034,234,880 bytes [46,116,860,184,273,879,040 bits])
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
-The only insect that can turn it's head is a praying mantis
-Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day
-The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred
-You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss
-Mosquitoes have teeth
-The penguin is the only bird that can swim but not fly
-Slugs have 4 noses
-Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue
-Honeybees have hair on their eyes
-Horses and rabbits cannot vomit
-A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't
-Dumbest dog: Afghan
-Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox
-Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso
-Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally ********
-Alexander the Great was an epileptic
-Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
-Charlie Brown's father was a barber
-Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
-Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.'
-The youngest pope was 11 years old
-Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school
-Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns
-Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States,and Zabriskie Point (in Death Valley) , the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart
-The state of Florida is bigger than England
-Mexico's east coast is sinking into the sea at the rate of one to two inches per year
-The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher
-Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors
-A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee
-Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day
-The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred
-You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss
-Mosquitoes have teeth
-The penguin is the only bird that can swim but not fly
-Slugs have 4 noses
-Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue
-Honeybees have hair on their eyes
-Horses and rabbits cannot vomit
-A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't
-Dumbest dog: Afghan
-Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox
-Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso
-Einstein couldn't speak fluently until after his ninth birthday. His parents thought he was mentally ********
-Alexander the Great was an epileptic
-Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
-Charlie Brown's father was a barber
-Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
-Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.'
-The youngest pope was 11 years old
-Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school
-Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns
-Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States,and Zabriskie Point (in Death Valley) , the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart
-The state of Florida is bigger than England
-Mexico's east coast is sinking into the sea at the rate of one to two inches per year
-The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher
-Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors
-A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
-Female lions do 90% of the hunting
-We spend about 6 months of our lives waiting at red lights
-Smoky the Bear's zip code is 20252
-We have about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left
-The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters
-Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes
-Oysters can change from male to female and back again
-There are 2,382,500 Smiths in the U.S.
-The shortest war lasted 38 minutes
-You have enough red blood cells to circle the planet
-Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday
-The English language makes over 600,000 words out of 26 letters
-We spend about 6 months of our lives waiting at red lights
-Smoky the Bear's zip code is 20252
-We have about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left
-The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters
-Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes
-Oysters can change from male to female and back again
-There are 2,382,500 Smiths in the U.S.
-The shortest war lasted 38 minutes
-You have enough red blood cells to circle the planet
-Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday
-The English language makes over 600,000 words out of 26 letters
Nad
Known Troublemaker
I don't believe that one.
RoddyVR
Veteran Board NESer
that's prety pathetic considering that with just words of 5 letters or less you could do twenty times that many combinations.
Loaf Warden
(no party affiliation)
That's an understatement, to say the least.
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
-Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother
-"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand
-Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump"
-If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
-"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
-You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world
-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
-No president of the United States was an only child
-Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans
-40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
-Every person has a unique tongue print
-During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance
-On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
-John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son
-Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps
-Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
-Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
-Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood
-There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
-The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial
-Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips
-Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings
-The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses
-The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing
-There are more chickens than people in the world
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey
-All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
-Half the world's banana crops are grown in Africa
-The word banana is African
-A man in India holds the record for eating bananas- 81 in a half-hour
-Kindergarten lasts for 3 years in Japan
-It is illegal to grow or sell pork in Israel
-Kiwis are the about the same size as chickens, but their eggs are almost as big as ostrich eggs
-Palm trees don't have annual growth rings
-A single bat is said to be able to eat 600 mosquito-sized bugs in one night
-Deer have no front teeth
-Dr. Pepper is the oldest major sort-drink brand. It was introduced at the 1904 World Fair Exposition
-Cats are among the very few animals that do not prefer a sweet taste
-The human eye can see 7,000,000 colors
-In 1971 a hen in NY laid an egg that had 9 yolks
-Poison Ivy belongs to the same family as cashews and mangoes
-Arachibutyrphobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth
-In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1
-The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards
-The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
-Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
-Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
-Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence
-When the Titanic was sinking, someone died of a heart attack because they were reading a book about a luxury cruise liner called the Titan, which sunk because it hit an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic ocean
-People originally said "Bless You" when people sneezed because they thought the person was possessed by the devil
-If you feed a pigeon or a seagull an Alka Seltzer, the bird will explode. This because it cannot burp
-By the time a child is 5 or 6 they have learned about 5,000 to 6,000 words
-There is a word that rhymes with orange. The scientific word sporange
-"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand
-Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump"
-If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
-"Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
-American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class
-You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world
-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
-No president of the United States was an only child
-Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans
-40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
-Every person has a unique tongue print
-During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance
-On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
-John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son
-Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps
-Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
-Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
-Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood
-There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
-The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial
-Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips
-Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings
-The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses
-The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing
-There are more chickens than people in the world
-Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey
-All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
-Half the world's banana crops are grown in Africa
-The word banana is African
-A man in India holds the record for eating bananas- 81 in a half-hour
-Kindergarten lasts for 3 years in Japan
-It is illegal to grow or sell pork in Israel
-Kiwis are the about the same size as chickens, but their eggs are almost as big as ostrich eggs
-Palm trees don't have annual growth rings
-A single bat is said to be able to eat 600 mosquito-sized bugs in one night
-Deer have no front teeth
-Dr. Pepper is the oldest major sort-drink brand. It was introduced at the 1904 World Fair Exposition
-Cats are among the very few animals that do not prefer a sweet taste
-The human eye can see 7,000,000 colors
-In 1971 a hen in NY laid an egg that had 9 yolks
-Poison Ivy belongs to the same family as cashews and mangoes
-Arachibutyrphobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth
-In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not renumber the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1
-The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards
-The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
-Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
-Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
-Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence
-When the Titanic was sinking, someone died of a heart attack because they were reading a book about a luxury cruise liner called the Titan, which sunk because it hit an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic ocean
-People originally said "Bless You" when people sneezed because they thought the person was possessed by the devil
-If you feed a pigeon or a seagull an Alka Seltzer, the bird will explode. This because it cannot burp
-By the time a child is 5 or 6 they have learned about 5,000 to 6,000 words
-There is a word that rhymes with orange. The scientific word sporange
Johann MacLeod
Duc de Lorraine
btw Venice is not sinking, the water level is rising because of build up of silt and mud in the canals.
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
Close enough.
Johann MacLeod
Duc de Lorraine
-The Falun Copper Mine is the oldest company in the world, they have a stock certificate from the mid 1200's.
-Theres a catherdral in Scotland with carvings of Ears of Corn and a Cactus, both new world plants, yet the cathdral as completed more than a century before Colubus discovered America.
-I am the King fof Lorraine.
-Denmarks flag is the oldest national flag still used.
-Attila the Hun died of a nosebled.
-The largest Empire ever was the Mongol Khanate during the reign of Kublai Khan, stretching for Japan to Germany.
-The Shortest battle ever was 46 seconds, between Egland and Scotland. Scotland won.
-Kentucky was the only state where the Emancipation Proclomation never took effect.
-Bourbon Whiskey was invented by a Southern Baptist Minister.
-Theres a catherdral in Scotland with carvings of Ears of Corn and a Cactus, both new world plants, yet the cathdral as completed more than a century before Colubus discovered America.
-I am the King fof Lorraine.
-Denmarks flag is the oldest national flag still used.
-Attila the Hun died of a nosebled.
-The largest Empire ever was the Mongol Khanate during the reign of Kublai Khan, stretching for Japan to Germany.
-The Shortest battle ever was 46 seconds, between Egland and Scotland. Scotland won.
-Kentucky was the only state where the Emancipation Proclomation never took effect.
-Bourbon Whiskey was invented by a Southern Baptist Minister.
Sims2789
Fool me once...
San Franciscan men are least likely to pick up the cost of a date and San Franciscans(men and woman) who are educated stand a better chance of getting a date than any other city in the United States.
The city I live in, Alameda, consists of 2 islands, Alameda and Coast Gaurd Island, as well as a penensula. The penensula is called Bay Farm Island, while the main island, called Alameda, means "penensula" in Spanish.
In my city, it is legal to J-walk yet it is illegal to post anything on a telephone pole withput a permit.
I heard that in the last battle of the so-called Californian-American War in 1848, between people who supported California being part of Mexico and the US Government, a US Army of 2 companys defeated a larger Californian army in the last battle. The Americans lost only 16 people.
In my city, Alameda, there are 2 highschools, Encinal High and Alameda High. Encinal is in the city of Alameda, while Alameda High is on Encinal Street.
There is a herd of wild Buffolo on Catalina Island, California. Because of this, 85% of the island is a National(or maybe State) Park.
The city I live in, Alameda, consists of 2 islands, Alameda and Coast Gaurd Island, as well as a penensula. The penensula is called Bay Farm Island, while the main island, called Alameda, means "penensula" in Spanish.
In my city, it is legal to J-walk yet it is illegal to post anything on a telephone pole withput a permit.
I heard that in the last battle of the so-called Californian-American War in 1848, between people who supported California being part of Mexico and the US Government, a US Army of 2 companys defeated a larger Californian army in the last battle. The Americans lost only 16 people.
In my city, Alameda, there are 2 highschools, Encinal High and Alameda High. Encinal is in the city of Alameda, while Alameda High is on Encinal Street.
There is a herd of wild Buffolo on Catalina Island, California. Because of this, 85% of the island is a National(or maybe State) Park.
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