Day 4.1: Almost facts of life

It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

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A snail can sleep for 3 years.

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Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

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Chrysler built B-29's engines that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.

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If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

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Only humans and horses have hymens

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Macguyver's first name was Angus.

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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

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The only Dutch word to contain eight consecutive consonants is 'angstschreeuw'

Day 4: The missing link....

so i forgot to post yesterday...sorry, i thought day 3's would be confusing enough...j/k today you get a double post.

Mae West never said "Come up and see me sometime." She said "Come on up sometime and see me." Cary Grant never said "Judy, Judy, Judy," and Cagney never said "You dirty rat..."

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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina

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In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat....gotta love the south

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In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.

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It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma. wtf...really? there goes my plans this summer

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In the Mario Brothers movie, the Princess' first name is Daisy, but in Mario 64, the game, her first name is Peach. Before that, it's Princess Toadstool.

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Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

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The first toy product ever advertised on television was Mr. Potato Head. Introduced in 1952, Mr. Potato Head took advantage of TV's explosive growth to gain access to tens of millions of newly "plugged-in" households.

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Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original PREDATOR in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.

Day 3: The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

yeah, if you have trouble reading this then i'm sorry, you must be a human spell checker like my friend wolfie.

Day 2: The Insanity Continues

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.

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The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.

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Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

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A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

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A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.

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Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When He died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.

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All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20

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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

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The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural, making "antidisestablishmentarianism" the second longest word in the English language (which is funny because spell check says they are all wrong :P )

Day 1: A hodgepodge of Uselessness

I think i'll start this with a small collage of useless information.

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In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."

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Dennis the Menace's favorite drink is Root beer.

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Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.

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A teenager in Belmont, New Hampshire robbed the local convenience store. Getting away with a pocket full of change, the boy walked home. He did not realize, however, that he had holes in both of his pockets. A trail of quarters and dimes led police directly to his house.

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When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole".

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tune in for more :D