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I'll start:
makeup has bat [censored] in it

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There was another famous/semi-famous person in the pickup basketball game in which Pistol Pete Maravich dropped dead. Dr. James Dobson, right-wing nutjob and head of Focus on the Family was playing also. Wow, did the wrong person ever drop dead there.

--Scott

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Didn't know when? Before I found out about them, or... don't know... now?

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Batshit? That's crazy.

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It's well known that Jimmy Hoffa was last seen alive in the parking lot of a Detroit restaurant in 1975. What's less well known and rarely mentioned is the -name- of that restaurant. Machu's Red Fox.

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the amount of people bitten by New Yorkers each year is more than the amount of people bitten by sharks
(according to the most recent National Geographic)

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Batshit? That's crazy.

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Batshit is guano. The stuff used in makeup is guanine, no connection.

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7-11 sells an X-treme Gulp, which contains more liquid than the average human stomach.

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7-11 sells an X-treme Gulp, which contains more liquid than the average human stomach.

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before or after you drink an x-treme gulp?

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7-11 sells an X-treme Gulp, which contains more liquid than the average human stomach.

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before or after you drink an x-treme gulp?

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The stomach can hold about 1 liter of fluid. The x-treme gulp is about half again that much.

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The white strip in the Mexican flag stands for religion.

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1 liter =33 ounces
Extreme Gulp= 52 ounces

I've drank more than a liter of liquid before, what happens to it?

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7-11 sells an X-treme Gulp, which contains more liquid than the average human stomach.

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before or after you drink an x-treme gulp?

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The stomach can hold about 1 liter of fluid. The x-treme gulp is about half again that much.

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my buddy can drink a gallon of milk in an hour.

that's about 4 litres. or half again as much as you said.

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my buddy can drink a gallon of milk in an hour.



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not without puking it out he can't.

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1 liter =33 ounces
Extreme Gulp= 52 ounces

I've drank more than a liter of liquid before, what happens to it?

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You know that stuff that comes out of your wank several times a day? It's called pee. Even my 17-month old kid knows that.

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Nothing rhymes with "orange"

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1 liter =33 ounces
Extreme Gulp= 52 ounces

I've drank more than a liter of liquid before, what happens to it?

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You know that stuff that comes out of your wank several times a day? It's called pee. Even my 17-month old kid knows that.

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Right, so if I drink 1.1 litres of water .1 litres instantly comes shooting out of little mosdef.

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Honey is the only food that doesn't go bad. Even when it crystalizes it can be heated up and it's good as new.

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apparently 25% of americans believe christ wll be reborn during their lifetimes.

pour alcohol on a scorpian, and it will sting itself to death

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Right, so if I drink 1.1 litres of water .1 litres instantly comes shooting out of little mosdef.

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No, but you didn't guzzle the entire 1.1 liters all in one shot either.

Non-dairy liquids go through the stomach pretty fast. The moment the first drop lands down there it's being processed out. Even most foods are through your stomach in an hour or less. By the time you get to the end of that first liter, half of it has already left your stomach.

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apparently 25% of americans believe christ wll be reborn during their lifetimes.

pour alcohol on a scorpian, and it will sting itself to death

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yes, but how many scorpions believe Christ will return?

and futhermore, if you pour alcohol on a Christian will they sing themselves to death?

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pour alcohol on a scorpian, and it will sting itself to death

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?!
is this fact or urban legend?

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Black people hate [censored]-sexuals....

"Dr. Burke & Tim Hardaway" -2007

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Nothing rhymes with "orange"

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Never been to Blorenge?

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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is!)

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people who could do this too.)

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

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10% of all Americans have worked at McDonald's at some point in their lives.

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The only animals that typically mate face to face are humans and two-toed sloths.

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Has anybody noticed that in threads like this (and in this thread about quotes/aphorisms that have helped your life someway ) that there is always a recently new poster who will just spew out a list that is obviously copied/pasted from a website, thinking that he's being smart or helping everybody out by massing them altogether?

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Has anybody noticed that in threads like this (and in this thread about quotes/aphorisms that have helped your life someway ) that there is always a recently new poster who will just spew out a list that is obviously copied/pasted from a website, thinking that he's being smart or helping everybody out by massing them altogether?

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anyone who reads that knows i copied and pasted it from an email [censored]. i wasn't trying to pawn it off as my own stuff

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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that's about what my memory span is!)

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people who could do this too.)

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

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Many of those are not true.

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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.


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No, only 26 states are listed. I counted!

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This post should be titled post some random stuff you heard somebody say once, or maybe you saw it in an email with the subject "FW: FW: fwd: Fwd: FW: FW: OMG THIS IS AWESOME"

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anyone who reads that knows i copied and pasted it from an email [censored]. i wasn't trying to pawn it off as my own stuff

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I couldn't care less if you tried to pawn it off as your own stuff. What makes threads like these interesting though is when people come in, give an example or two of some obscure fact they didn't know, and then everybody else can come back and mock them for not knowing it.

Seriously though, it bothered me alot more in the other thread, I just happened to look at this one second, and felt the need to post after looking at this one. In a thread like this what you did isn't so bad, but in the quotes thread in the El D forum, what makes that thread interesting is the way that people give a quote that's helped them, and then give a bit of background as to how/why it pertains to their life. Just giving off a huge list doesn't do that, and it just looks bad IMO.

So my apologies if I sounded like a douchebag in my first comment, I really was just making an observation about the way newcomers might post before they get the feel of the place.

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nobody has really addressed patrick's quality post.. facts you didn't know when?

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I'd always thought that an Almond is a nut and just recently found out that it is a fruit.

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I heard 40% of published stats are BS but 70% of Americans believe 50% of those BS stats???

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Nothing rhymes with "orange"

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this is a great one!

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Minnesota has more shoreline than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined.

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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

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I don't know about the others, but you're wrong about the eyes - they grow. I asked my friend who is an optometrist. She said growth is what sometimes makes the eyes go near or far-sighted.

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Minnesota has more shoreline than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined.

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i don't care if there really are 10,000 lakes in Minnesota, this can't be true.