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seancwatson:
      [*]Most American car horns honk in the key of F.      
      [*]The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
      [*]Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
      [*]Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
      [*]The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
      [*]Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly    takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
      [*]Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks otherwise it will digest itself.       
      [*]The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
      [*]101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie.      
      [*]A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.      
      [*]'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
      [*]To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.      
      [*]Reindeer like to eat bananas.       
      [*]No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
      [*]The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
      [*]Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
      [*]The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
      [*]The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
      [*]More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.
      [*]A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
      [*]A whale's penis is called a dork.      
      [*]Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
      [*]The average person spends 6 months of their life sitting at red lights.
      [*]In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
      [*]More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money throughout the world.
      [*]Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.
      [*]One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
      [*]Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile. So, if being chased by one, run in a zigzag line to lose him or her.      
      [*]Seattle’s Fremont Bridge rises up and down more than any drawbridge in the world.
      [*]Right-handed people live, on average; nine years longer than left handed people.
      [*]Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
      [*]In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.       
      [*]A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.
      [*]A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods.      
      [*]Nearly 80% of all animals on earth have six legs.

There's tons more on this site

TheNightWatchman:
You would have to take a lot of these with a pinch of salt. They are interesting but (most) are unsourced and impossible to track. Some of them such as a duck's quack not having an echo has already been proved as myth.

Still, I have always loved random facts  :)

seancwatson:

--- Quote from: TheNightWatchman on February 16, 2008, 08:44:49 pm ---Some of them such as a duck's quack not having an echo has already been proved as myth.

Still, I have always loved random facts  :)

--- End quote ---
Ahh good ol' Mythebusters

death:
I shall remember these

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