Triarch
06-09-2005, 01:16 AM
Found more truths!
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- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
- Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
- The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% ( now get this...) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- The youngest pope was 11 years old.
- The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
- Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
- Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
Q.If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A,B and C"?
A. One Hundred
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
- This is where the "Eff" word came from: - In ancient England a person could not have *** unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having ***. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from. (Sorry about the "Language" but it explains where it came from! )
- In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The cruise liner, QE2 (Queen Elizabeth II), moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: abstemious and facetious.
- There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: indivisibility.
- The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.
- A "Jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- Pinocchio is Italian for pine eye.
- The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
-The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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Hope you enjoyed the second version!
__________________________________________________ _
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
- Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
- Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
- The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% ( now get this...) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- The youngest pope was 11 years old.
- The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
- Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
- Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
Q.If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A,B and C"?
A. One Hundred
Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the ironic?
A. He was allergic to carrots.
Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
- This is where the "Eff" word came from: - In ancient England a person could not have *** unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having ***. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from. (Sorry about the "Language" but it explains where it came from! )
- In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The cruise liner, QE2 (Queen Elizabeth II), moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: abstemious and facetious.
- There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: indivisibility.
- The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein.
- A "Jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- Pinocchio is Italian for pine eye.
- The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
-The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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Hope you enjoyed the second version!