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Random Facts:d:d

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I'm bored so I'm looking for cool facts and different things. If you have any please post them. (I'm trying to get to 1000 cool facts...I'm REALLY bored...)



1. 1874 Levi Strauss begins selling blue jeans for $13.50 per dozen



2. Throughout history, cosmetics made from mercury and lead disfigured faces and sometimes poisoned people to death.



3. There are more than 2,700 languages in the world. In addition, there are more than 7,000 dialects. A dialect is a regional variety of a language that has a different pronunciation, vocabulary, or meaning.



4.Ring of Fire: This is where the land plates of Asia and the Americas meet the Pacific Ocean plate. Some 60 percent of the world's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur along this line.



5.In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!



6.Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!



7.Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!



8.Napoleon constructed his battle plans in a sandbox



9.The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses

II who fathered over 160 children.



10.Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school



11.The world's greatest lover was King Mongut of Siam. He had 9,000

wives. Before dying of syphilis, he was quoted in saying he only

loved the first 700.



12.law in the State of Kansas: When two trains approach each other at a crossing, they should both stop, and neither of them can go until the other one has gone.



13.More than 50 percent of the people in the world have never made or received a phone call



Hmmm....I'm already bored of facts so heres some funnie quotes:



"If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."-Brooke Shields



"I have opinions of my own --strong opinions-- but I don't always agree with them." -George Bush



The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

-Joe Theisman, quarterback and sports analyst



"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."

-Dan Quayle



It's time for the human race to enter the solar system!

-- Dan Quayle, on the concept of a manned mission to Mars



"It isn't pollution that is hurting the environment,

it's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

-Dan Quayle



Found some more facts:



A perfect SAT score is 1600 combined. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill's partner in Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600. Bill Cosby scored less than 500 combined



G-rated family films earn far more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.



Costco is the largest wine retailer in the United States. Annual wine sales are about $700 million.



The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student, and purchased by Nike for $35.



There is a new television show on a British cable called "Watching Paint Dry". Viewers watch in real-time. Gloss, semi-gloss, matte, satin, you name it. Then viewers vote out their least favorite.



A party boat filled with 60 men and women capsized in Texas after all the passengers rushed to one side as the boat passed a nude beach.



Oslo, Norway is the world's most expensive city. A gallon on gas costs almost $5, and it costs $1.32 to use the public restrooms.



Hostess Twinkies were originally filled with banana filling. The filling was changed during World War II when the United States experienced a banana shortage.



All polar bears are left handed



Pope John Paul II is the world's Scrabble champion in the over-70 category



In 1998, more fast-food employees were murdered on the job than police officers.



A blind chameleon still changes colors to match his environment.



A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.



A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6.



A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.



A snail can also sleep for three years.



100% of all lottery winners gain weight



If you were to spell out numbers, you would you have to go until 1,000 until you would find the letter "A".



In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees



Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.



In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.



In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.



A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.



Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
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"Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand."



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Re: Random Facts:d:d

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"I have opinions of my own --strong opinions-- but I don't always agree with them." -George Bush


Haha, you just gotta admire that man for the fact he gets away with his stupidity....
Woman can not live on tea or chocolate alone.... but she can give it a damn good try.
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Re: Random Facts:d:d

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*pulls up old e-mails*



Not really random facts, but absolutely hilarious:



1.Good: Your wife is pregnant.

Bad: It's triplets.

Ugly: You had a vasectomy five years ago.



2. Good: Your wife's not talking to you.

Bad: She wants a divorce.

Ugly: She's a lawyer



3. Good: Your son is finally maturing.

Bad: He's involved with the woman next door.

Ugly: So are you.



4. Good: Your son studies a lot in his room.

Bad: You find several porn movies hidden there.

Ugly: You're in them.



5. Good: Your hubby and you agree, no more kids.

Bad: You can't find your birth control pills.

Ugly: Your daughter borrowed them.



6. Good: Your husband understands fashion.

Bad: He's a cross-dresser.

Ugly: He looks better than you.



7. Good: You give the "birds and bees" talk to your daughter.

Bad: She keeps interrupting.

Ugly: With corrections.



8. Good: The postman is early.

Bad: He's wearing fatigues and carrying a shotgun.

Ugly: You gave him nothing for Christmas.



9. Good: Your son is dating someone new.

Bad: It's another man.

Ugly: He's your best friend.



10. Good: Your daughter got a new job.

Bad: As a hooker.

Ugly: Your coworkers are her best clients.

Way ugly: She makes more money than you do.











Alright, HERE'S some facts:



In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with

animals, but the animals must be female. Having

sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by

death.

(Like THAT makes sense.)

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In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a

woman's genitals, but is prohibited from looking

directly at them during the examination. He may only

see their reflection in a mirror.

(Do they look different reversed?)

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Muslims are banned from looking at the genitals of a

corpse.

This also applies to undertakers; the sex organs of

the deceased must be covered with a brick or piece of

wood at all times.

(A brick??)

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The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is

decapitation.

(Much worse than "going blind!")

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There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel

the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay

them for the privilege of having sex for the first

time...

Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for

virgins to marry.

(Let's just think for a minute; is there any job

anywhere else in the world that even comes

close to this?)

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In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to

kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with

her bare hands. The husband's lover, on the other

hand, may be killed in any manner desired.

(Ah! Justice!)

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Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England -

but only in tropical fish stores.

(But of course!)

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In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her

husband, and the first time this happens, her mother

must be in the room to witness the act.



(Makes one shudder at the thought.)

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In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to

have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same

time.

(I presume this was a big enough problem that

they had to pass this law?)

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In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from

vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may

be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places

where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on

the premises."

(Is this a great country or what? Not as great as

Guam!)

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A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

(In my next life I want to be a pig)

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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an

hour.

(Still not over that pig thing)

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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex

for pleasure.

(Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)

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The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hummm....I won't touch THAT one!)

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The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30

times its own weight and always falls over on its

right side when intoxicated.

(From drinking little bottles of...? -- did the govt.

pay for this research??)

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Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(In my next life I STILL want to be a pig ...

quality over quantity)

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Butterflies taste with their feet.

(Ah, geez)

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

(I know some people like that.)

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Starfish don't have brains.

(I know some people like that too)

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Beautiful:I thought this was helping teens.. not i wanna be a whore, profit my videos?
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