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twilitezone911 Saint Louis, Missouri | #1  Dec 20, 2011 @ 02:18:5017 remain dead in morgue shooting spree. antarctica in the only continent without reptiles. in the caribbean, there are otsters that can climb trees. 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. when george lucus was mixing the american graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of the film starring with an R and the numbered the dialogue starting with D sound designer walter murch asked george reel 2, dialogue 2 by saying " R2D2 ". george liked the way that sound so much he intergrated that into another project he was working on. the youngest pope was 11 years old. mark twain didn't graduate from elementary school. no piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half. a " jiffy " is an actually unit of time for 1/100th of second! slugs has 4 noses! the sentence " the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog " use every letter of the alaphabet! butterflies taste with their feet. a cockroach can live nine days without a head .... before it starves to death. in disney's fantasia, the sorcerer to whom mickey placed an apprentice was yensid, which is disney spelled backward. the first product to be scanned with a barcode was a packet of wrigley's gum on june 26th 1974. a duck quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. the most common suicide time is tuesday at 11am. men are 6 times more like to be struck by lightning than women. during your lifetime, you'll eat 60,00 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants. the world's oldest piece of gum is over 9000 years old. rice paper is not made from rice. gorillas are unable to swim. peniguins are able to leap over six feet into the air. avocado pears are the most fattening fruit. by raising your legs slowly and lying on your back,you cannot sink into quicksand. celery has negtive calories. it take more calaries to eat a piece of celery has in it to begin with. charlie chaplin once won third place in charlie chaplin's look-alike contest. an old law in bellingham, washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing! the guinness book of records holds the record for being the book must often stolen from public libraries. the life expentency of a cat has doubled since 1930 from 8 to 16 years. bamboo can grow up to 3ft in 24 hours. " bookkeeper " is the only word in english language with consecutive double letters. all the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except venus. it is the only planet that rotates clockwise. the only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. | ||||||
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Oisin Glasgow, United Kingdom | #2 Dec 20, 2011 @ 02:24:07"no piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half." - this is not true, they disproved it on mythbusters. i also think some kid aged about 15 came up with the formula that disproves it. "a duck quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why." this is also untrue | ||||||
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Pcptrvanion Howe, Texas | #3 Dec 20, 2011 @ 03:14:11 @Oisin Said  "no piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half." - this is not true, they disproved it on mythbusters. i also think some kid aged about 15 came up with the formula that disproves it. "a duck quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why." this is also untrue Well poo. I was intrigued by the duck thing and was trying to purchase one for experimentation. | ||||||
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| Oisin Glasgow, United Kingdom | #4 Dec 20, 2011 @ 03:18:24i never noticed that it said square in the paper one. if i remember correctly, the paper they folded more than 7 times was a long rectangle. it may well be true of a square. the duck one is definitely not true though. | ||||||
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| raditz Blah  Houston, Texas | #5 Dec 20, 2011 @ 04:18:50 @twilitezone911 Said " bookkeeper " is the only word in english language with consecutive double letters. And bookkeeping.  lol | ||||||
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| ThePainefulTruth Verum est Deus Deleted  Peoria, Arizona | #6 Dec 20, 2011 @ 09:14:37 @twilitezone911 Said 17 remain dead in morgue shooting spree. antarctica in the only continent without reptiles. in the caribbean, there are otsters that can climb trees. 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. when george lucus was mixing the american graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of the film starring with an R and the numbered the dialogue starting with D sound designer walter murch asked george reel 2, dialogue 2 by saying " R2D2 ". george liked the way that sound so much he intergrated that into another project he was working on. the youngest pope was 11 years old. mark twain didn't graduate from elementary school. no piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half. a " jiffy " is an actually unit of time for 1/100th of second! slugs has 4 noses! the sentence " the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog " use every letter of the alaphabet! butterflies taste with their feet. a cockroach can live nine days without a head .... before it starves to death. in disney's fantasia, the sorcerer to whom mickey placed an apprentice was yensid, which is disney spelled backward. the first product to be scanned with a barcode was a packet of wrigley's gum on june 26th 1974. a duck quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. the most common suicide time is tuesday at 11am. men are 6 times more like to be struck by lightning than women. during your lifetime, you'll eat 60,00 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants. the world's oldest piece of gum is over 9000 years old. rice paper is not made from rice. gorillas are unable to swim. peniguins are able to leap over six feet into the air. avocado pears are the most fattening fruit. by raising your legs slowly and lying on your back,you cannot sink into quicksand. celery has negtive calories. it take more calaries to eat a piece of celery has in it to begin with. charlie chaplin once won third place in charlie chaplin's look-alike contest. an old law in bellingham, washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing! the guinness book of records holds the record for being the book must often stolen from public libraries. the life expentency of a cat has doubled since 1930 from 8 to 16 years. bamboo can grow up to 3ft in 24 hours. " bookkeeper " is the only word in english language with consecutive double letters. all the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except venus. it is the only planet that rotates clockwise. the only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. The first specific definition for "jiffy", and the best IMNTBHO, is this one: "jiffy denotes the Planck time of about 5.4 × 10?44 seconds, which is the time it would take light to travel a Planck length if ordinary geometry was still relevant at that scale." Planck Time or Planck Length is the smallest possible division of space-time. I assume that it is Caribbean oYsters that can climb trees. I've got to call a general BS on "intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair." We don't even have a good measure of some certain elements of intelligence, much less an understanding of all of the types. "the most common suicide time is tuesday at 11am.".....WTF? "Rice paper usually refers to paper made from parts of the rice plant, like rice straw or rice flour. The term is also used for paper made from or containing other plants, such as hemp, bamboo or mulberry."--Wikipedia I expect penguins can only leap 6 feet with a swimming start, not from a standing, or running  , start."all the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except venus. it is the only planet that rotates clockwise." --or vice versa, from a "southern" viewpoint, from which they'd all appear to be orbiting clockwise. | |||||||
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