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hey guys i dont know about you but i love weird facts they make me laugh, here are 50.
please thanks this post, and give me rep as i will be posting 50 facts everyday (this is the third day been updated)
1)All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

2)Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

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

4)Almonds are members of the peach family.

5)The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

6)The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

7)Charlie Brown's father was a barber.

8)Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously

9)Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

10)Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

11)In Mel Brooks' 'Silent Movie,' mime Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.

12)Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

13)A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

14)Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

15)A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

16)An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

17)Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

18)Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.

19)In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.

20)Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

21)Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

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

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

23)Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.

24)The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

25)Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

26)A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

27)When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

28)Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

29)The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life"

30)A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

31)A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

32)A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.

33)A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

34)The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

35)It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The
frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's
mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's
contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

36)Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.

37)Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."

38)ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their first names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)

39)The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.

40)Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

41)The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

42)Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself..

43)Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of
Fraiser.

44)The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8
miles away.

45)In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

46)The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

47)Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

48)A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

49)Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

50)The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.


EXTRA JUST FOR TODAY:
1)Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries
2)Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
3)he average American uses 730 crayons by the age of 10
4)The Pentagon uses an average of 666 rolls of toilet paper each day
5)99% of Indias truck drivers cant read road signs
6)If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom
7)if you change all of Bill Gates money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from the earth to moon, 14 times back and forth.
8)The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896 zansibar surendeered in 38 minutes.
9)there are around 200 corpses on Mount Everest
10)The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had
11)Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear any pants
12)a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
13)its against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland
14)If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb
15)Some lions mate over 50 times a day
16)The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off
17)Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts
18)Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool
19)Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes
20)Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder
21)When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken
22)four separate instances between October 1987 and February 1988, small pink frogs rained down from the sky on to various parts of Great Britain
23)A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away
24)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
25)A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.


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23)right now 0.7 of the world is drunk.


Made me lul

Quite intresting post to read lol
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TTG_Adam256 wrote
23)right now 0.7 of the world is drunk.


Made me lul

Quite intresting post to read lol

thanks, it took alot of type to reasearch this
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thanks for the interesting post it has taught me more than i learn at school
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Some of these are funny lol
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techgamer1995 wrote thanks for the interesting post it has taught me more than i learn at school
hehe i know, thanks for saying thanks i guess
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TTGUnReal wrote Some of these are funny lol
yeah hehe i like the hitler one
thanks it pleasse, i will be posting 50 facts every day and thats a fact ;)
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PL_AS_MA wrote
11) you eat over 8 spiders in your sleep, in a life time.


Well that's nice to know.

But have I already eaten one?
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CyberSin wrote
PL_AS_MA wrote
11) you eat over 8 spiders in your sleep, in a life time.


Well that's nice to know.

But have I already eaten one?
hmm hopefully not but probably :/ whats your age and country il work it out ?
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keep this active i want all to see
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