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please note this is seriously long and is totally useless information only read if you have nothing better to do........like me


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• It Takes At Least Half An Hour To Read This Page.

• In Chess, There Are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 Ways To Play The First Ten Moves.

• More Than 60 Million People Annually Visit France, A Country Of 60 Million People.

• It Only Takes 7Lb (3.2Kg) Of Pressure To Rip Your Ear Off.

• A Fathom Is 6ft (1.8m).

• You Use More Calories Eating Celery Than There Are In The Celery Itself.

• There Are 250,000 Miles Of Tarmac-ed Road In The UK

• An Elephant Can Smell Water Three Miles Away.

• There Are 1 Million Ants For Every Person In The World.

• Odds Of Being Killed By A Dog - 1 In 700,000.

• Odds Of Dying While In The Bath Tub - 1 In 1 Million.

• Odds Of Being Killed By Space Debris - 1 In 5 Billion.

• Odds Of Being Killed By Poisoning - 1 In 86,000.

• Odds Of Being Killed By Freezing - 1 In 3 Million.

• Odds Of Being Killed By Lightening - 1 In 2 Million.

• Odds Of Being Killed In A Car Crash - 1 In 5,000.

• Odds Of Being Killed In A Tornado - 1 In 2 Million.

• Odds Of Being Killed By Falling Out Of Bed - 1 In 2 Million.

• Odds Of Being Killed In A Plane Crash -1 In 25 Million.

• Electric Cars Were Introduced In 1896 And By The End Of The Century Almost 50% Of The Cars In The World Were Electric. Yet, By 1905 80% Of Cars Were Petrol Driven And By 1920 The Electric Car Was, Well, Almost History.

• If You Played All Of The Beatles' Singles And Albums That Came Out Between 1962 And 1970 Back To Back, It Would Only Last For 10 Hours And 33 Minutes.

• If You Fart Consistently For 6 Years And 9 Months, Enough Gas Is Produced To Create The Energy Of An Atomic Bomb.

• Termites Eat Through Wood 2 Times Faster When Listening To Rock Music.

• Apollo 11 (First Men On The Moon) Only Had 20 Seconds Of Fuel Left When It Landed.

• 13 People Are Killed Each Year By Vending Machine's Falling On Them.

• There Is A 1/4 Pound Of Salt In Every Gallon Of Seawater.

• While Humans Have 639 Muscles, Caterpillars Have Over Four Thousand.

• The Average Talker Sprays About 300 Microscopic Saliva Droplets Per Minute, About 2.5 Droplets Per Word.

• The Average Smell Weighs 760 Nanograms.

• The Earth Experiences 50,000 Earthquakes Each Year And Is Hit By Lightning 100 Times A Second.

• Skin Temperature Does Not Go Much Above 35°C, Even On The Hottest Days.

• Venus Fly Traps Only Live In The Wild In North And South Carolina And Nowhere Else In The World.

• Annual Growth Of WWW Traffic Is 314,000%. 60% Of All People Using The Internet, Use It For Pornography.

• Experts Say That Microprocessor Speed Will Double Every 18 Months For At Least 10 Years.

• The Earth's Day Increases 0.0001 Seconds Annually.

• The Moon Is Moving 1.5" (3.8cm) Away From Earth Every Year.

• When The Moon First Formed A Day On Earth Was 6 Hours, Since Then The Moon Has Been Slowing Our Days Down.

• Driving At 75 Miles (121Km) Per Hour, It Would Take 258 Days To Drive Around One Of Saturn's Rings.

• Driving 55 Miles (88Km) Per Hour Instead Of 65 Miles (105Km) Per Hour Increases Your Cars Petrol Consumption By About 15%.

• Airbags Explode At 200 Miles (322Km) Per Hour.

• If We Had The Same Death Rate Now As In 1900, More Than Half The People In The World Today Would Not Be Alive.

• 1/3 Of All Cancers Are Sun Related.

• The Average Person Flexes The Joints In Their Finger 24 Million Times During A Lifetime.

• There Are More Than 1,000 Chemicals In A Cup Of Coffee.

• It Would Take 7 Billion Particles Of Fog To Fill A Teaspoon.

• TIP Is The Acronym For "To Insure Promptness".

• The Average Iceberg Weighs 20 Million Tons.

• Your Brain Weighs Around 3 Pounds, All But Ten Ounces Is Water.

• A Can Of SPAM Is Opened Every 4 Seconds.

• The Word "Christian" Appears Only Three Times In The Bible: Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16.


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• There Are 336 Dimples On A Regulation Golf Ball.

• Only One Person In 2 Billion Will Live To Be 116 Or Older.

• More Than Five Thousand Hummingbird Eggs Can Fit Inside One Ostrich Egg.

• Right Handed People Live, On Average, Nine Years Longer Than Left Handed People.

• More Monopoly Money Is Printed In A Year Than Real Money Throughout The World.

• 1/4 Of The Bones In Your Body Are In Your Feet.

• Fingernails Grow Nearly 4 Times Faster Than Toenails.

• You Blink Over 10 Million Times A Year.

• There Is A Species Of Shrimp, Inhabiting Rivers In Texas, That Measures Nearly 2ft Long (61cm).

• Sneeze Travels Out Of Your Mouth At Over 100 Miles (161Km) An Hour. During This Time, All Bodily Functions Stop, Including Your Heart, Contributing To The Impossibility Of Keeping One's Eyes Open During A Sneeze.

• If The Population Of China Walked Past You In Single File, The Line Would Never End Because Of The Rate Of Reproduction.

• The Earth Weighs Around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Tons.

• The Average Person Has Over 1,460 Dreams A Year.

• The Average Person Laughs 15 Times A Day.

• It Has Been Calculated That In The Last 3,500 Years, There Have Only Been 230 Years Of Peace Throughout The Civilised World.

• The Average Person Spends About 2 Years On The Phone In A Lifetime.

• When Glass Breaks, The Cracks Move At Speeds Up To 3,000 Miles (4827Km) Per Hour.

• The First Millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, Consisted Of 365,250 Days. Our Current Millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, Will Consist Of 365,237 Days. The Third Millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, Will Consist Of 365,242 Days. The Reason For The Differences Is The Calendar System That Was In Use During The Millenniums.

• Most Car Horns Sound In The Key Of F.

• The Name Wendy Was Made Up For The Book Peter Pan.

• Barbie's Full Name Is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

• Donald Duck's Middle Name Is Fauntleroy.

• Every Time You Lick A Stamp, You Consume 1/10 Of A Calorie.

• The Average Person Falls Asleep In Seven Minutes.

• Studies Show That If A Cat Falls Off The Seventh Floor Of A Building It Has About Thirty Percent Less Chance Of Surviving Than A Cat That Falls Off The Twentieth Floor. It Supposedly Takes About Eight Floors For The Cat To Realise What Is Occurring, Relax And Correct Itself.

• Your Stomach Has To Produce A New Layer Of Mucus Every Two Weeks Otherwise It Will Digest Itself.

• The Egyptians Trained Baboons To Wait On Tables.

• 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady And The Tramp, And Mulan Are The Only Disney Cartoons Where Both Parents Are Present And Don't Die Throughout The Movie.

• A Pig's Orgasm Lasts For 30 Minutes.

• 'Stewardesses' Is The Longest Word That Is Typed With Only The Left Hand.

• To Escape The Grip Of A Crocodile's Jaws, Push Your Thumbs Into Its Eyeballs- It Will Let You Go Instantly.

• Reindeer Like To Eat Bananas.

• The Word 'Samba' Means 'To Rub Nipples Together.'

• Mel Blanc (The Voice Of Bugs Bunny) Was Allergic To Carrots.

• The Japanese Throne Has Been Occupied By A Member Of The Same Family Since The Sixth Century. The Present Emperor Is The 125th In Succession.

• The Very First Bomb Dropped By The RAF On Berlin During WWII Killed The Only Elephant In The Berlin Zoo.

• More People Are Killed Annually By Donkeys Than Aeroplane Crashes.

• A 'Jiffy' Is A Unit Of Time For 1/100th Of A Second.

• A Whale's Penis Is Called A Dork.

• Because Of The Rotation Of The Earth, An Object Can Be Thrown Farther If It Is Thrown West.

• The Average Person Spends 6 Months Of Their Life Sitting At Red Lights.

• Albert Einstein Was Offered The Presidency Of Israel In 1952.

• Caesar Salad Has Nothing To Do With Any Of The Caesar's. It Was First Concocted In A Bar In Tijuana, Mexico, In The 1920's.

• Crocodiles And Alligators Are Surprisingly Fast On Land. Although They Are Rapid, They Are Not Agile. So, If Being Chased By One, Run In A Zigzag Line To Lose Him Or Her.

• The Height Of The Eiffel Tower Varies By As Much As Six Inches, Depending On The Temperature.

• Ten Percent Of The Russian Government's Income Comes From The Sale Of Vodka.

• Charles Lindbergh Was Not The First Person To Fly Across The Atlantic In 1927. He Was The first To Make It Alone. Two Britons Did It In 1919, And A Fortnight Later American Navy Pilots Did The Same Thing! What Is Amazing Is That Nobody Remembers Them!

• A Giraffe Can Go Without Water Longer Than A Camel.

• A Person Cannot Taste Food Unless It Is Mixed With Saliva. For Example, If A Strong-tasting Substance Like Salt Is Placed On A Dry Tongue, The Taste Buds Will Not Be Able To Taste It. As Soon As A Drop Of Saliva Is Added And The Salt Is Dissolved, However, A Definite Taste Sensation Results. This Is True For All Foods.

• Nearly 80% Of All Animals On Earth Have 6 Legs.


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• In The Marriage Ceremony Of The Ancient Inca Indians Of Peru, The Couple Was Considered Officially Wed When They Took Off Their Sandals And Handed Them To Each Other.

• 90% Of All Species That Have Become Extinct Have Been Birds.

• There Is Approximately One Chicken For Every Human Being In The World.

• Nicaragua Had 396 Different Rulers Between 1839 And 1855, Their Average Reign Lasting Less Than 15 Days.

• The Tuatara Lizard Of New Zealand Has Three Eyes- Two In The Centre Of Its Head And One On Top.

• Each Of Us Generates About 3.5 Pounds Of Rubbish A Day, Most Of It Paper.

• In Pubs, Ale Is Ordered By Pints And Quarts. So In Old England, When Customers Got Unruly, The Bartender Would Yell At Them To Mind Their Own Pints And Quarts And Settle Down. It's Where The Phrase "Mind Your P's And Q's." Comes From.

• A Rainbow Can Be Seen Only In The Morning Or Late Afternoon. It Can Occur Only When The Sun Is 40 Degrees Or Less Above The Horizon.

• It Has NEVER Rained In Calama, A Town In The Atacama Desert Of Chile.

• It Costs More To Buy A New Car Today In The UK Than It Cost Christopher Columbus To Equip And Undertake Three Voyages To And From The New World.

• The Plastic Things On The End Of Shoelaces Are Called Aglets.

• An Eighteenth Century German Named Matthew Birchinger, Known As 'The Little Man Of Nuremberg,' Played Four Musical Instruments Including The Bagpipes, Was An Expert Calligrapher, And Was The Most Famous Stage Magician Of His Day. He Performed Tricks With The Cup And Balls That Have Never Been Explained. Birchinger Had No Hands, Legs, Or Thighs, And Was Less Than 29 Inches Tall.

• Windmills Always Turn Anticlockwise- Except For The Windmills In Ireland.

• Ants Closely Resemble Human Manners: When They Wake, They Stretch & Appear To Yawn In A Human Manner Before Taking Up The Tasks Of The Day.

• Bees Have 5 Eyes. There Are 3 Small Eyes On The Top Of A Bee's Head And 2 Larger Ones In Front.

• Count The Number Of Cricket Chirps In A 15-second Period, Add 37 To The Total, And Your Result Will Be Very Close To The Actual Outdoor Fahrenheit Temperature.

• One-fourth Of The World's Population Lives On Less Than £125 A Year. Ninety Million People Survive On Less Than £47 A Year.

• Butterflies Taste With Their Hind Feet.

• Boxing Became A Legal Sport In 1901.

• Only Female Mosquito's' Bite And Most Are Attracted To The Colour Blue Twice As Much As To Any Other Colour. A Mosquito Has 47 Teeth.

• If One Places A Tiny Amount Of Alcohol On A Scorpion, It Will Instantly Go Mad And Sting Itself To Death.

• It Is Illegal To Hunt Camels In Arizona, America.

• In Eighteenth-Century Gambling Dens, There Was An Employee Whose Only Job Was To Swallow The Dice If There Was A Police Raid.

• A Duck's Quack Doesn't Echo, And No One Knows Why.

• The Billionth Digit Of Pi Is 9.

• The First Product To Have A Bar Code Was Wrigley's Gum.

• In 1778, Fashionable Women Of Paris Never Went Out In Blustery Weather Without A Lightning Rod Attached To Their Hats.

• Sex Burns 360 Calories Per Hour.

• A Raisin Dropped In A Glass Of Fresh Champagne Will Bounce Up And Down Continually From The Bottom Of The Glass To The Top.

• Due To Earth's Gravity It Is Impossible For Mountains To Be Higher Than 15,000m.

• The Pop You Hear When You Crack Your Knuckles Is Actually A Bubble Of Gas Bursting.

• A Literal Translation Of A Standard Traffic Sign In China: 'Give Large Space To The Festive Dog That Makes Sport In The Roadway.'

• You Burn More Calories Sleeping Than You Do Watching TV.

• Larry Lewis Ran The 100m Sprint In 17.8 Seconds In 1969, Thereby Setting A New World's Record For Runners In The 100-Years-Or-Older Class. He Was 101.

• In A Lifetime The Average Human Produces Enough Spit To Fill 2 Swimming Pools.

• It's Against The Law To Doze Off Under A Hair Dryer In Florida, Against The Law To Slap An Old Friend On The Back In Georgia, Against The Law To Play Hopscotch On A Sunday In Missouri.

• Barbie's Measurements, If She Were Life-size, Would Be 39-29-33.

• The Human Heart Creates Enough Pressure To Squirt Blood 30ft (9m).

• On Two Occasions, Miss 'Rita Thunderbird' Remained Inside Her Cannon Despite A Lot Of Gunpowder Encouragement To Do Otherwise. She Performed In A Gold Lamι Bikini And On One Of The Two Occasions (1977) Miss Thunderbird Remained Lodged In The Cannon, While Her Bra Was Shot Across The River Thames.

• A Sex Change Has Never Been Performed In Ireland.

• Most Egyptians Died By The Time They Were 30 About 300 Years Ago.

• For Some Time Chopin, The Composer And Pianist, Wore A Beard On Only One Side Of His Face, Explaining: 'It Does Not Matter, My Audience Sees Only My Right Side.'

• London Bridge, Built About 160 Years Ago, Was Transplanted In 1968 To Lake Havasu, Arizona.

• Chances That British Men In The Age Group 16-24 Years Say That They Already Have Had 10 Or More Sexual Partners: 1 In 5.

• Chances That British Women In The Age Group 16-24 Years Say That They Already Have Had 10 Or More Sexual Partners: 1 In 7

• 70% Of All Boats Sold Are Used For Fishing.

• Studies Have Shown That Children Laugh An Average Of 300 Times A Day And Adults 17 Times A Day, Making The Average Child More Optimistic, Curious, And Creative Than The Adult.

• A Pregnant Goldfish Is Called A Twit.

• The Shortest War In History Was Between Zanzibar And Britain In 1896. Zanzibar Surrendered After 38 Minutes.

• You Were Born With 300 Bones, But By The Time You Are An Adult You Will Only Have 206.


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• If You Go Blind In One Eye You Only Lose About One Fifth Of Your Vision But All Your Sense Of Depth.

• Women Blink Nearly Twice As Much As Men.

• The Strongest Muscle (Relative To Size) In The Body Is The Tongue.

• A Boeing 747's Wingspan Is Longer Than The First Ever Aeroplane Flight.

• American Airlines Saved £25,000 In 1987 By Eliminating One Olive From Each Salad Served In First-Class.

• A Palindrome Is A Sentence Or Group Of Sentences That Reads The Same Backwards As It Does Forward: E.g.: 'Red Rum, Sir, Is Murder.' 'Nurse, I Spy Gypsies. Run!' 'A Man, A Plan, A Canal - Panama.' 'He Lived As A Devil, Eh?'

• The Thumbnail Grows The Slowest, The Middle Nail The Fastest, Nearly 4 Times Faster Than Toenails.

• The Human Eyes Never Grow, But Nose And Ears Never Stop Growing.

• The 57 On Heinz Ketchup Bottles Represents The Number Of Varieties Of Pickles The Company Once Had.

• Tom Sawyer Was The First Novel Written On A Typewriter.

• If California Were A Country, Its GNP Would Be The Fifth Largest Of Any Country In The World.

• Half The Foods Eaten Throughout The World Today Were Developed By Farmers In The Andes Mountains (Including Potatoes, Maize, Sweet Potatoes, Squash, All Varieties Of Beans, Peanuts, Manioc, Papayas, Strawberries, Mulberries And Many Others).

• The 'Golden Arches' Of Fast Food Chain McDonalds Is More Recognised World-Wide Than The Religious Cross Of Christianity.

• More People Are Killed, Annually, By Pigs Than Shark Attacks.

• The Oldest Word In The English Language Is Town.

• During A Severe Windstorm Or Rainstorm The Empire State Building Sways Several Feet To Either Side.

• The Black Death Reduced The Population Of Europe By 30% In The Period From 1347 To 1351.

• Length Of Beard An Average Man Would Grow If He Never Shaved 27.5ft (8.4m).

• Over 60% Of All Those Who Marry Get Divorced.

• 400 Quarter Pounders Can Be Made From 1 Cow.

• A Fully Loaded Oil Tanker Travelling At Normal Speed Takes At Least 20 Minutes To Stop.

• Coca-Cola Was Originally Green.

• People Visiting The British Museum Complained Of Getting Headaches. This Was Because Books Seem To Absorb Or "Breathe" In Air And "Breathe" Out Smells Of Their Own. There Was So Many Old Books In The Museum That There Was No Fresh Air Left Which Meant People Got Headaches From Breathing In Bad Air!

• Men Can Read Smaller Print Than Women; Women Can Hear Better.

• Hong Kong Holds The Most Rolls Royce's Per Capita.

• Average Number Of Days A West German Goes Without Washing His Underwear: 7

• The Standard British Army Mixim Gun Had A Ammo Round 9 Yards Long Hence The Term To Give 'The Whole 9 Yards'.

• The NATO Attack On Serbia In 1999 During The Kosovo War Killed More Animals Than People.

• Intelligent People Have More Zinc And Copper In Their Hair.

• Iceland Consumes More Coca-Cola Per Capita Than Any Other Nation.

• The Term 'Cop' Is British And Came From 'Constable On Patrol'.

• Firestations Have Circular Stairways Originating From The Old Days When The Engines Were Pulled By Horses. The Horses Were Stabled On The Ground Floor And Figured Out How To Walk Up Straight Staircases.

• All Black Swan's Are Property Of The Queen.

• 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

• War Memorials: If The Horse Has Both Front Legs In The Air, The Person Died In Battle; If The Horse Has One Front Leg In The Air, The Person Died As A Result Of Wounds Received In Battle; If The Horse Has All Four Legs On The Ground, The Person Died Of Natural Causes.

• The Expression 'To Get Fired' Comes From Long Ago Clans That Wanted To Get Rid Of Unwanted People, So They Would Burn Their Houses Instead Of Killing Them, Thus Creating The Term 'Got Fired'.

• The Phrase 'Rule Of Thumb' Is Derived From Old Law, Which Stated That You Couldn't Beat Your Wife With Anything Wider Than Your Thumb.

• The Longest Recorded Flight Of A Chicken Is Thirteen Seconds.

• The Name Jeep Came From The Abbreviation Used In The Army, G.P. For 'General Purpose' Vehicle.

• The Pentagon, Has Twice As Many Bathrooms As Is Necessary, Because When It Was Built In The 1940s, The State Of Virginia Still Had Segregation Laws Requiring Separate Toilet Facilities For Blacks And Whites.

• The Cruise Liner, QE2, Moves Only Six Inches For Each Gallon Of Diesel That She Burns.

• In Aspen Colorado, You Can Have A Maximum Income Of £65,000 And Still Receive Government Subsidised Housing.

• Based On Life Expectancies, Each Cigarette You Smoke Shortens Your Life By 11 Minutes..

• The Value Of Pi Was Officially 'Rounded Down' To 3.14 From 3.14159265359 On December 31, 1999.

• It Is Not True That The Great Wall Of China Is The Only Man-made Structure That Can Be Viewed From Space - Many Man-Made Objects, Including The Dutch Polders, Can Be Viewed From Space.

• The Great Barrier Reef Is Visible From Space.

• A Piece Of Paper Can Be Folded No More Then 9 Times.

• Internationally, Baywatch Is The Most Popular TV Show In History.

• Between 25% And 33% Of Britons Sneeze When Exposed To Light.

• The Most Common Name In World Is Mohammed.


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• Mount Olympus Mons On Mars Is Three Times The Size Of Mount Everest.

• Most Toilets Flush In E Flat.

• 2,000Lb (907Kg) Of Space Dust And Other Space Debris Fall On The Earth Every Day.

• Each Month, There Is At Least One Report Of UFOs From Each Province Of Canada.

• You Can Be Fined Up To $1,000 (£625) For Whistling On Sunday In Salt Lake City, Utah.

• It Is Illegal To Eat Oranges While Bathing In California.

• If Done Perfectly, A Rubix Cube Combination Can Be Solved In 17 Turns.

• More Bullets Were Fired In 'Starship Troopers' Than Any Other Film Ever Made.

• 60% Of Electrocutions Occur While Talking On The Telephone During A Thunderstorm.

• The Name Of The Woman On The Statue Of Liberty Is Mother Of Exiles.

• There's A Systematic Lull In Conversation Every 7 Minutes.

• The Buzz From An Electric Razor Plays In The Key Of G In Britain And The Key Of B Flat In America.

• There Are 1,575 Steps From The Ground Floor To The Top Of The Empire State Building.

• The World Record For Spitting A Watermelon Seed Is 65 Feet 4 Inches (19.9m).

• In The Philippine Jungle, The Yo-Yo Was First Used As A Weapon.

• Sword Duelling Is Legal In Paraguay As Long As Both Parties Are Registered Blood Donors.

• There Are 3,000 Quintillion Individual Living Things On This Planet Of Which, 75% Are Bacteria, And 0.00000000000000000000013% Of Which Are Human Beings.

• The Three Most Recognised Western Names In China Are Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, And Elvis Presley.

• There Is A Town In Newfoundland Called Dildo.

• The Boston University Bridge (On Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) Is The Only Place In The World Where A Boat Can Sail Under A Train Running Under A Car Driving Under An Aeroplane.

• In Space, Astronauts Are Unable To Cry, Because There Is No Gravity And The Tears Won't Flow.

• Chewing Gum While Peeling Onions Will Stop You Crying.

• Britain Was The First County To Issue Postage Stamps. Hence, Our Postage Stamps Are The Only Stamps In The World Not To Bear The Name Of The Country Of Origin.

• The Crack Of A Whip Is Actually A Tiny Sonic Boom, Since The Tip Breaks The Sound Barrier.

• Jupiter Is Bigger Than All The Other Planets In Our Solar System Combined.

• The Sun Is 500 Times Larger Than The Total Mass Of The Whole Solar System.

• Hot Water Is Heavier Than Cold.

• The Common Idea That Only 10% Of The Brain Is Used It Not True As It Is Impossible To Determine The Actual Percentage Because Of The Complexity Of The Brain.

• There Are More Psychoanalysts Per Capita In Buenos Aires Than Any Other Place In The World.

• Between 2 And 3 Jockeys Are Killed Each Year In Horse Racing.

• In York, It Is Still Legal For People To Use A "Bow And Arrow To Shoot Any Scotsman Discovered Out And About After Sunset".

• The Average Woman Consumes 6Lbs (2.7Kg) Of Lipstick In Her Lifetime.

• Conception Occurs Most In December.

• Although Britain Has A Reputation For Having A Lot Of Rain, New York Has More Average Annual Rainfall Than London.

• 'Obsession' Is The Most Popular Boat Name.

• If One Spells Out Numbers, They Would Have To Count To One Thousand Before Coming Across The Letter 'A'.

• Honey Is The Only Food Which Does Not Spoil.

• 3.9% Of All Women Do Not Wear Underwear.

• This Common Everyday Occurrence Composed Of 59% Nitrogen, 21% Hydrogen, And 9% Carbon Dioxide Is Called A Fart.

• 'Evaluation And Parameterisation Of Stability And Safety Performance Characteristics Of Two And Three Wheeled Vehicular Toys For Riding.' Title Of A £200,000 Research Project Proposed By The Health And Safety, To Study The Various Ways Children Fall Off Bicycles.

• Babies Are Born Without Kneecaps. They Don't Appear Until The Child Reaches 2-6 Years Of Age.

• Meteorologists Claim They're Right 85% Of The Time.

• In 1980, A Las Vegas Hospital Suspended Workers For Betting On When Patients Would Die.

• Los Angeles' Full Name 'El Pueblo De Nuestra Senora La Reina De Los Angeles De Porciuncula' Is Reduced To 3.63% Of Its Size In The Abbreviation 'LA.'

• If You Went Out Into Space, You Would Explode Before You Suffocated Because There's No Air Pressure.

• The Only Real Person To Ever To Appear On A Pez Dispenser Was Betsy Ross.

• Mike Neismith's (The Guitarist Of The Monkeys) Mum Invented Tipex.

• Only 6 People In The Whole World Have Died From Moshing.

• In A Test Performed By Canadian Scientists, Using Various Different Styles Of Music, It Was Determined That Chickens Lay The Most Eggs When Pop Music Was Played.

• The Storage Capacity Of Human Brain Exceeds 4 Terabytes.


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• The Great Wall Of China At Its Peak, Was Guarded By More Than A Million Men.

• Any Free-Moving Liquid In Outer Space Will Form Itself Into A Sphere, Because Of Its Surface Tension.

• The Original Story From "Tales Of 1001 Arabian Nights" Begins, "Aladdin Was A Little Chinese Boy".

• In The Average Lifetime, A Person Will Walk The Equivalent Of 5 Times Around The Equator.

• Koala Is Aboriginee For 'No Drink'.

• Shakespeare Spelled His Own Name Several Different Ways.

• The First Contraceptive Was Crocodile Dung Used By The Ancient Egyptians.

• Only 2 People Signed The Declaration Of Independence On July 4. The Last Person Signed 2 Years Later.

• Arnold Schonberg Suffered From Triskaidecaphobia, The Fear Of The Number 13. He Died At 13 Minutes From Midnight On Friday The 13th.

• Mozart Wrote The Nursery Rhyme 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' At The Age Of 5.

• A Weatherman Was The First Original Ronald McDonald.

• The Volume Of The Earth's Moon Is The Same As The Volume Of The Pacific Ocean.

• Einstein Couldn't Speak Fluently Until After His Ninth Birthday. His Parents Thought He Was Mentally Retarded.

• Al Capone's Business Card Said He Was A Used Furniture Dealer. In The End He Was Only Found Guilty Of Tax Evasion.

• A Woman (Deborah Winger) Did The Voice Of E.T.

• Thomas Edison, The Second Inventor Of The Light Bulb, Was Afraid Of The Dark.

• You Can Sail All The Way Around The World At Latitude 60 Degrees South.

• Peanuts Are One Of The Ingredients Of Dynamite.

• Porcupines Can Float In Water.

• The Tallest Building In Great Britain Is Canary Wharf In London Docklands. It Is 800ft High (243.8m).

• A Shark Is The Only Fish That Can Blink With Both Eyes.

• The Average Person's Left Hand Does 56% Of Typing On A Keyboard.

• 'Dreamt' Is The Only English Word That Ends In The Letters 'mt.'

• The Longest One-Syllable Word In The English Language Is 'Screeched.'

• There Are Only Four Words In The English Language Which End In 'dous': Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, And Hazardous.

• The Word 'Set' Has More Definitions Than Any Other Word In The English Language.

• 'Underground' Is The Only Word In The English Language That Begins And Ends With The Letters 'und'.

• The Longest Word In The English Language, According To The Oxford Dictionary, Is: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis- Which Is A Pulmonary Disease Coal Miners Get Due To Fine Particles Collecting In Their Lungs.

• There Is A Seven Letter Word In The English Language That Contains Ten Words Without Rearranging Any Of Its Letters, 'therein': The, There, He, In, Rein, Her, Here, Ere, Therein, Herein.

• Shakespeare Is Quoted 33,150 Times In The Oxford Dictionary.

• No Word In The English Language Rhymes With Month, Orange, Silver And Purple.

• 'I Am.' Is The Shortest Complete Sentence In The English Language.

• All Of The Clocks In The Movie 'Pulp Fiction' Are Stuck On 4:20, America's National Pot-Smokers Hour.

• Almonds Are A Member Of The Peach Family.

• Winston Churchill Was Born In A Ladies' Bathroom During A Ball.

• Maine Is The Only State Whose Name Is Just One Syllable.

• Tigers Not Only Have Striped Fur, They Have Striped Skin.

• Its 881 Miles By Road From John O'Groats To Lands End But 605 Miles As The Crow Flies.

• In Most Adverts, Including In Newspapers, The Time Displayed On A Watch Is 10:10.

• On The Ground, A Group Of Is A Gaggle, In The Sky It Is A Skein.

• The Worlds Largest Working Mill Steam Engine Is In Wigan.

• When The University Of Nebraska Cornhuskers Play Football At Home, The Stadium Becomes The State's Third Largest Town.

• The Characters Bert And Ernie On Sesame Street Were Named After Bert The Cop And Ernie The Taxi Driver In Frank Capra's 'Its A Wonderful Life'.

• A Dragonfly Has A Lifespan Of 24 Hours.

• The Blue Whale's Whistle Is The Loudest Noise Made By An Animal.

• The Name For Oz In The 'Wizard Of Oz' Was Thought Up When The Creator, Frank Baum, Looked At His Filing Cabinet And Saw A-N, And O-Z; Hence The Name 'OZ.'

• The Microwave Was Invented After A Researcher Walked By A Radar Tube And A Chocolate Bar Melted In His Pocket.

• John Lennon's First Girlfriend Was Named Thelma Pickles.

• The Scene Where Indiana Jones Shoots The Swordsman In Raider's Of The Lost Ark Was Harrison Ford's Idea So That He Could Go To The Bathroom.

• A Crocodile Cannot Stick Its Tongue Out.


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• A Snail Can Sleep For Three Years.

• All Polar Bears Are Left-Handed.

• China Has More English Speakers Than The USA Does.

• Elephants Are The Only Animals That Can't Jump.

• February 1865 Is The Only Month In Recorded History Not To Have A Full Moon.

• If You Yelled For 8 Years, 7 Months And 6 Days, You Will Have Produced Enough Sound Energy To Heat One Cup Of Coffee.

• In The Last 4,000 Years, No New Animals Have Been Domesticated.

• Leonardo Da Vinci Invented The Scissors.

• Nutmeg Is Extremely Poisonous If Injected Intravenously.

• On Average, People Fear Spiders More Than They Do Death.

• One Of The Reasons Marijuana Is Illegal Today Is Because Cotton Growers In The 1930s Lobbied Against Hemp Farmers They Saw It As Competition.

• Shakespeare Invented The Words 'Assassination' And 'Bump' As Well As 1,700 Others.

• Some Lions Mate Over 50 Times A Day.

• Starfish Haven't Got Brains.

• The Ant Always Falls Over On Its Right Side When Drunk.

• The Name Of All Continents In The World End With The Same Letter That They Start With.

• There Are Two Credit Cards For Every Person In Britain.

• The Longest Word Comprised Of One Row On The Keyboard Is: TYPEWRITER

• You Cannot Kill Yourself By Holding Your Breath.

• The Average Person Spends 12 Weeks A Year 'Looking For Summat'.

• The Symbol On The 'Hash' Key (#) Is Called An Octothorpe.

• The Dot Over The Letter 'i' Is Called A Tittle.

• The Pound Sign (£) Is A Stylised Letter L From The Latin Libra Meaning Pound.

• The And Sign (& Is Called An Ampersand And Was Once A Letter Of The Alphabet.

• Ingrown Toenails Are Hereditary.

• An Ostrich's Eye Is Bigger Than Its Brain.

• Alfred Hitchcock Didn't Have A Belly Button. It Was Eliminated When He Was Sewn Up After Surgery.

• Telly Savalas And Louis Armstrong Died On Their Birthdays.

• The Muzzle Of A Lion Is Like A Fingerprint - No Two Lions Have The Same Pattern Of Whiskers.

• Steely Dan Got Their Name From A Sexual Device Depicted In The Book 'The Naked Lunch'.

• The Ramses Brand Condom Is Named After The Great Pharoh Ramses II Who Fathered Over 160 Children.

• A Goldfish Has A Memory Span Of Three Seconds (Not Five).

• Cranberries Are Sorted For Ripeness By Bouncing Them; A Fully Ripened Cranberry Can Be Dribbled Like A Netball.

• The Male Gypsy Moth Can 'Smell' The Virgin Female Gypsy Moth From 1.8 Miles (2.9Km) Away.

• The Letters KGB Stood For Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

• The Word 'Dexter' Whose Meaning Refers To The Right Hand Is Typed With Only The Left Hand.

• To 'Testify' Was Based On Men In The Roman Court Swearing To A Statement Made By Swearing On Their Testicles.

• Facetious And Abstemious Contain All The Vowels In The Correct Order, As Does Arsenious, Meaning 'Containing Arsenic.'

• The Word 'Checkmate' In Chess Comes From The Persian Phrase 'Shah Mat,' Which Means 'The King Is Dead.'

• Rubber Bands Last Longer When Refrigerated.

• The National Anthem Of Greece Has 158 Verses. No One In Greece Has Memorised All 158 Verses.

• 60% Of The World's Aubergines Are Grown In New Jersey.

• The Giant Squid Has The Largest Eyes In The World.

• Giraffes Have No Vocal Cords.

• The Pupils Of A Goat's Eyes Are Square.

• 75 Countries, 36.1% Of The Worlds Population, Drive On The Left.

• Vincent Van Gogh Only Sold One Painting When He Was Alive.

• A Standard Slinky Measures 87 Feet When Stretched Out.

• If A Rooster Can't Fully Extend Its Neck, It Can't Crow.

• There Were Always 56 Curls In Shirley Temple's Hair.


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• The Eyes Of A Donkey Are Positioned So That It Can See All Four Feet At All Times.

• Ireland Has Won The Most Eurovision Song Contests.

• The Average Lifespan Of An Eyelash Is Five Months.

• A Spider Has Transparent Blood.

• Prince Charles Is An Avid Collector Of Toilet Seats.

• African Elephants Only Have Four Teeth To Chew Their Food With.

• There Are About One Billion Cattle In The World Of Which 200 Million Are In India.

• A Dog Was The First In Space And A Sheep, A Duck And A Rooster The First To Fly In A Hot Air Balloon.

• The Bee Hummingbird Of Cuba Is The Smallest Bird In The World.

The Worlds Smallest Dog Is The Chihuahua, Which Means "Tiny Dog In The Sky."

• India Is The World's Largest Democracy With 620 Million Voters.

• The Pig Is Rated The Fourth Most Intelligent Animal But Are Mentioned Only Twice In The Bible Sheep Are Mentioned 45 Times And Goats 88 Times In The Bible.

• Pork Is The World's Most Widely-Eaten Meat.

• In Denmark There Are Twice As Many Pigs As People.

• Dinosaurs Did Not Eat Grass: There Wasn't Any At That Time.

• The Coyote Is A Member Of The Dog Family And Its Scientific Name, "Canis Latrans" Means Barking Dog.

• A Giraffe Can Clean Its Ears With Its 20" (50cm) Tongue.

• The Longest Place Name In Great Britain Is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Pronounced Hlan-Vire-Poof-Gwin-Gihl-Go-Gare-U-Queenr-Drawb-Ooff-Hlandu-Silio-Gogo-Goch.

• In 1870 There Were More Irish Living In London Than In Dublin.

• It Is Impossible To Out-Swim A Shark - Sharks Reach Speeds Of 44mph (70Kmph).

•The Tallest Building In Great Britain Is Canary Wharf In London Docklands. It Is 800ft High (243.8m).

• Humans Can Run About 21mph (35kmph).

• The Sailfish Is The Fastest Swimmer, Reaching 109 Km/h (68 Mph).

• The Slowest Fish Is The Sea Horse, Which Moves Along At About 0.01 mph (0.016Kmph).

• The Heart Of A Blue Whale Is The Size Of A Small Car. The Tongue Of A Blue Whale Is As Long As An Elephant.

• A Snail Has Two Pairs Of Tentacles On Its Head. One Pair Is Longer Than The Other And Houses The Eyes. The Shorter Pair Is Used For Smelling And Feeling Its Way Around.

• The Giant Squid Has The Biggest Eyes Of Any Animal: Its Eyes Measure 40 Cm (16 In) In Diameter.

• Domestic Cats Purr At About 26 Cycles Per Second, The Same Frequency As An Idling Diesel Engine.

• There Are 701 Types Of Pure Breed Dogs, And Paris Is Said To Have More Dogs Than People.

• Some Bird Species, Usually Flightless Birds, Have Only A Lower Eyelid, Whereas Pigeons Use Upper And Lower Lids To Blink.

• Fish And Insects Do Not Have Eyelids - Their Eyes Are Protected By A Hardened Lens.

• There Are More Than 150 Million Sheep In Australia, A Nation Of 17 Million People. New Zealand Is Home To 4 Million People And 70 Million Sheep.

• Tehran Is The Most Expensive City On Earth.

• The UK Covers 94,525 Square Miles (244 820 Square Kilometres).

• The Sweat Drops Drawn In Cartoon Comic Strips Are Called Pleuts.

• Babies Are Most Likely To Be Born On Tuesdays.

• Not All Our Taste Buds Are On Our Tongue; About 10% Are On The Palette And The Cheeks.

• The Minneapolis Phone Book Has 21 Pages Of Andersons.

• A Person Can Live Without Food For About A Month, But Only About A Week Without Water. If The Amount Of Water In Your Body Is Reduced By Just 1%, You'll Feel Thirsty. If It's Reduced By 10%, You'll Die.

• Poland Is The 'Stolen Car Capital Of The World' (Worse Than South Africa!)

• The S In American President Harry S. Truman's Name Did Not Stand For Anything.

• If All Your DNA Were Stretched Out, It Would Reach To The Moon 6,000 Times.

• A Horse Can Look Forward With One Eye And Back With The Other.

• The System Of Democracy Was Introduced 2,500 Years Ago In Athens, Greece. The Oldest Existing Governing Body Operating Is The Tynwald, The Isle Of Man.

• You Spend 7 Years Of Your Life In The Bathroom.

• A Family Of 26 Could Go To The Movies In Mexico City For The Price Of One Ticket In Tokyo.

• 10,000 Dutch Cows Pass Through The Amsterdam Airport Each Year.

• Simplistic Passwords (I.e. Password) Contribute To Over 80% Of All Computer Password Break-Ins.

• The Top 3 Health-related Searches On The Internet Are (In This Order): Depression, Allergies, & Cancer.

• Dentists Have Recommended That A Toothbrush Be Kept At Least 6 Feet Away From A Toilet To Avoid Airborne Particles Resulting From The Flush.

• Most Dust Particles In Your House Are Made From Dead Skin.


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• Venus Is The Only Planet In The Solar System That Rotates Clockwise.

• Uranus Is So Cock-Eyed Its Daily Rotation Makes It Look Like It Roles Around The Sun Rather Than Spins.

• Oak Trees Do Not Produce Acorns Until They Are Fifty Years Of Age Or Older.

• There Are 62 Cities In The UK. 5 In Wales, 6 In Scotland, 1 In Northern Ireland And 50 In England.

• The First Owner Of The Marlboro Cigarette Company Died Of Lung Cancer.

• Cephalacaudal Recapitulation Is The Reason Our Extremities Develop Faster Than The Rest Of Us.

• Mosquito Repellents Don't Repel. They Hide You. The Spray Blocks The Mosquito's Sensors So They Don't Know You're There.

• Walt Disney Was Afraid Of Mice. When He Died He Was Cryogenically Frozen.

• The Site With The Highest Number Of Women Visitors Between The Age Of 35 And 44 Years Old: Alka-Seltzer.com

• The King Of Hearts Is The Only King Without A Moustache.

• Pearls Melt In Vinegar.

• 35% Of People Who Use Personal Ads For Dating Are Already Married.

• Humans Are The Only Primates That Don't Have Pigment In The Palms Of Their Hands.

• Months That Begin On A Sunday Will Always Have A 'Friday The 13th'.

• The Fingerprints Of Koala Bears Are Virtually Indistinguishable From Those Of Humans, So Much So That They Can Be Easily Confused At A Crime Scene.

• The Mask Worn By Michael Myers In The Original 'Halloween' Was Actually A Captain Kirk Mask Painted White.

• When The French Academy Was Preparing Its First Dictionary, It Defined 'Crab' As, 'A Small Red Fish, Which Walks Backwards.' This Definition Was Sent With A Number Of Others To The Naturalist Cuvier For His Approval. The Scientist Wrote Back, 'Your Definition, Gentlemen, Would Be Perfect, Only For Three Exceptions. The Crab Is Not A Fish, It Is Not Red And It Does Not Walk Backwards.'

• Fictional/Horror Writer Stephen King Sleeps With A Nearby Light On To Calm His Fear Of The Dark.

• It's Possible To Lead A Cow Upstairs But Not Downstairs.

• The Highest Pub In England Is The Tan Hill Inn, North Yorkshire About 8 Miles (12.5 Km) East Of Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria.

• It Was Discovered On A Space Mission That A Frog Can Throw Up. The Frog Throws Up Its Stomach First, So The Stomach Is Dangling Out Of Its Mouth. Then The Frog Uses Its Forearms To Dig Out All Of The Stomach's Contents And Then Swallows The Stomach Back Down.

• The Very First Song Played On MTV Was 'Video Killed The Radio Star' By The Buggles.

• William Marston Engineered One Of The Earliest Forms Of The Polygraph In The Early 1900's. Later He Went On To Create The Comic Strip Wonder Woman, A Story About A Displaced Amazon Princess Who Forces Anyone Caught In Her Magic Lasso To Tell The Truth.

• On The Simpsons Burns Answers The Phone With Ahoy Because People Didn't Always Say Hello When Answering The Phone. When The First Regular Phone Service Was Established In 1878, People Said Ahoy.

• Ramses II, Died In 1225 B.C. At The Time Of His Death, He Had Fathered 111 Sons And 67 Daughters.

• Robots In Japan Pay Union Dues.

• Scooby Doo's First Real Name Is Scoobert.

• Sigmund Freud Had A Morbid Fear Of Ferns.

• Since 1896, The Beginning Of The Modern Olympics, Only Greece And Australia Have Participated In Every Games.

• Some Toothpaste's Contain Antifreeze.

• South Africa Produces Two-Thirds Of The World's Gold.

• St. Stephen Is The Patron Saint Of Bricklayers.

• There Are 50 Cities In England. These Are: Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Coventry, Derby, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Preston, Ripon, Salford, Salisbury, Sheffield, Southampton, St Albans, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Truro, Wakefield, Wells, Westminster, Winchester, Wolverhampton, Worcester And York

• The Average Human Head Weighs About 8Lb (3.6Kg).

• The English Channel Is Growing 300mm Wider Each Year.

• The Dial Tone Of A Normal Telephone Is In The Key F.

• Watermelon Which Is Technically A Berry, Of Which There Are More Than 50 Varieties.

• The First City In Modern History To Reach 1 Million People Was London In 1881.

• The Glue On Israeli Postage Stamps Is Certified Kosher.

• The Moon Weighs 81,000 Trillion Tons.

• There Are About 150 Million Sites On The Web, With More Than Three Billion Web Pages.

• There Are 6,289 Islands And Outcrops Off The Coast Of Britain.

• Back In The 1800 The Houses In London Had Roofs That Had A Flat Top Instead Of Coming To A Tip, And Cats And Dogs Would Sometimes Go Sleep Up There And When It Rainned They Would Slide Off Which Is Where They Got The Saying "Raining Cats And Dogs".

• In The Medieval Times They Had Beds Made Out Of Hay Which Is Where The Saying "Hit The Hay" Came From.

• In A Standard Deck Of Cards There Are 52 Playings Cards, The Same Number Of Weeks In The Year. There Are 4 Card Suits, The Same Number Of Seasons In A Year And When The Value Of All The Cards Is Added (King= 13, Queen= 12 Etc.) It Adds Up To 365, The Same Number Of Days In A Year!

• 'Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite' Comes From The 1400s When Poor People Went To Bed And Would Often Get Bitten By Various Insects In The Night Resulting From Their Unsanitary Living Conditions.

• A Flash Is An Abandoned Mineshaft Which Partially Collapsed And Filled With Water.
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I actually read all that. How bored am I

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i didn't read it but thought i would reply
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Im bored but im not sure im bored enough to read that so maybe later
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quote:
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Im bored but im not sure im bored enough to read that so maybe later
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quote:
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i didn't read it but thought i would reply


mav you are such a gentleman
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You got that off a web site
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quote:
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Im bored but im not sure im bored enough to read that so maybe later


yep wait till you are totally desperate and have nothing else to do
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quote:
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You got that off a web site


no i never i typed it all by myself
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it took me 23 minutes to read that, not 30+
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quote:
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it took me 23 minutes to read that, not 30+


you are highly advanced though ally
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Edd do you have a job?
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i read it all too, verry interesting. although some of them a repeated
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Edd do you have a job?


of course,im just that good at it that i have plenty of spare time
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i read to bookmark 1, i have too much to do to read it all
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i read it ALL
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A Goldfish Has A Memory Span Of Three Seconds (Not Five).

not true
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quote:
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i read to bookmark 1, i have too much to do to read it all


Ditto. As long as this thread doesn't get trashed I'll read some more later
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i read it all!! lol
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Who else tried to pull their ear off
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Who else tried to pull their ear off


van gogh?
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i did know a few of those.. i still havnt finished reading them.. but i have things to do for once
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i got to bookmark 2

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