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Old 11-04-2010, 05:07 PM
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Interesting facts!

1. Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto Canada before he was an actor
2. The Soft toy 'Teddy Bear' was named after Teddy Roosevelt because he refused to kill an innocent bear cub in a hunting trip.
3. Only one book that has been distributed more than the bible is the IKEA catalogue
4. In Louisiana, there is a $500 fine to instruct a pizza delivery man to deliver a pizza to your friend without them knowing.
5. It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once to completely drain the human of blood.
6. When the divorce rate goes up in the USA, toy makers report that the sales of toys also rise.
7. On Average women say 7000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
8. William James Morrison, inventor of the cotton candy machine, was a dentist.
9. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using only on one row of the keyboard.
10. The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet
11. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
12. Camels milk does no curdle.
13. A kangaroo can only jump if its tails are touching the ground
14. It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the united states.
15. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and Vice-President Al Gore were freshmen room-mates at Harvard.
16. Wile E. Coyotes has only caught the Road Runner Once (May 21, 1980)
17. The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting tax after a nuclear war.
18. The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83
19. If you yelled for 8 yeas, 7 months, 6 days, you would have produced enough energy to heat one cup of coffee.
20. Termites eat wood twice as fast when they listen to heavy metal music.

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Old 11-04-2010, 05:44 PM
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Old 11-04-2010, 08:30 PM
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13. A kangaroo can only jump if its tails are touching the ground
What am i missing here.
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Old 11-04-2010, 08:56 PM
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Steve on a good day i might get out 400-800 p/day i Dont talk much.
Strange when you a supervisor.
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Old 11-04-2010, 10:47 PM
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2. The Soft toy 'Teddy Bear' was named after Teddy Roosevelt because he refused to kill an innocent bear cub in a hunting trip.

As opposed to all those guilty ones!!
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Old 11-04-2010, 10:50 PM
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those things are vicious you know!
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Old 12-04-2010, 09:14 AM
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2. The Soft toy 'Teddy Bear' was named after Teddy Roosevelt because he refused to kill an innocent bear cub in a hunting trip.

As opposed to all those guilty ones!!


Thanks Tony, but on #7 I think they forgot one of the zeros for the women,.... well my at least for my wife


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Old 12-04-2010, 12:40 PM
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Interesting stuff Tony.

Collecting tax after a nuclear war, why does that NOT suprise me.

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Old 12-04-2010, 01:11 PM
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Sounds like some of the trivia that kid from "Jerry Maguire" would quote
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