obscure facts you didnt know

[neuroman]

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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!

[Badger]

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"

[Shenlong]

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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.

[daryn]

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

[Howard Beale]

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

[Bicycles_Biatch]

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

[Dominic]

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Nothing rhymes with "orange"

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this is a great one!

[Skoob]

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

[Dominic]

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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.

[Dominic]

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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.