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iSuXOr
United States606 Posts
On September 25 2003 07:10 RowdierBob wrote: It's a fken KOALA. KOALA's are NOT bears!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Since we're giving useless facts. My car's speed maxes out at 205. :7 I'm assuming that's kph not mph  But if it's mph then you are pretty leet. ^_^ | ||
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KiD[ReD]
Canada2103 Posts
On September 25 2003 06:48 ProudToBeANoob wrote: ilnp was joking, since 87% of statistics are false, there are 87% chances that this statistic is false too...Just a logical joke. You think? | ||
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RuGbUg
United States2347 Posts
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LaptopLegacy
Netherlands602 Posts
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Amnesty
United States2054 Posts
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Eliminator
Netherlands681 Posts
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ProudToBeANoob
Thailand54 Posts
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sword_siege
United States624 Posts
On September 25 2003 04:21 Shockey wrote: he wasn't contributing, saying "the media skiews our view of reality" isnt contributing. Hey Shockey, chill out man. You sound a bit too angry. The topic of the thread is Useless info we should know, which is a bit of a misnomer in and of itself. If it is useless info than why should we know it. If the topic was useless info that is funny than I see your point but it's not. You sound angry Shockey (are you a shock jockey (radio for all you noobs) who is part of the Shock media?). Perhaps the media of fear, see the post on Bowling for Columbine for Michael Moore's take on the media for more info, perhaps the media of fear has got you all pissed off because you think the world is a horrible place. Of course the media skews our view of reality. That's like saying our parents skew our view of reality, they do. Reality is a huge place and we can hardly know what's going on everywhere all the time so naturally our perception of reality is distorted by who and where we got our information from. In my humble opinion, I feel that prime time news in the US is primarily about war, murder and politics, hardly a peaceful or optimistic view of the world, but that's just my opinion what's yours? Lighten up man, give a friend a hug, pick a flower, tell your girlfriend you love her (you do have a girlfriend right?). Don't let the media get you down  | ||
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baal
10541 Posts
All animals have aprox the same amount of heart beats allong their life, so a mouse and a elephant live the same in "muscular" terms. | ||
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chobopeon
United States7342 Posts
On September 25 2003 15:06 sword_siege wrote: Hey Shockey, chill out man. You sound a bit too angry. The topic of the thread is Useless info we should know, which is a bit of a misnomer in and of itself. If it is useless info than why should we know it. If the topic was useless info that is funny than I see your point but it's not. You sound angry Shockey (are you a shock jockey (radio for all you noobs) who is part of the Shock media?). Perhaps the media of fear, see the post on Bowling for Columbine for Michael Moore's take on the media for more info, perhaps the media of fear has got you all pissed off because you think the world is a horrible place. Of course the media skews our view of reality. That's like saying our parents skew our view of reality, they do. Reality is a huge place and we can hardly know what's going on everywhere all the time so naturally our perception of reality is distorted by who and where we got our information from. In my humble opinion, I feel that prime time news in the US is primarily about war, murder and politics, hardly a peaceful or optimistic view of the world, but that's just my opinion what's yours? Lighten up man, give a friend a hug, pick a flower, tell your girlfriend you love her (you do have a girlfriend right?). Don't let the media get you down It was a downer, but you're telling him to lighten up? | ||
Mynock
4492 Posts
PS.: KiD, expert of BAD threads? -_- -Mynock | ||
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SpuniasauR
Australia1500 Posts
lol i have a friend who uses that nick o yeh, the statistic, 3 out of four people make up 75% of the population... | ||
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baal
10541 Posts
yet americans are more afrid of the dust than a zeppelin  | ||
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Micron
United States208 Posts
On September 25 2003 11:24 ProudToBeANoob wrote: the sun will crash within 5 billion years... The sun will first turn to a red giant, engulfing venus and mercury, as well as making the seas of earth boil, anything that is flamable will catch fire and explosives will discharge by themselves, then it will spend a period as a white dwarf, making the earth a frozen tundra, assuming that the earth has any form of an o-zone left due to the great heat.Then it will pretty much die out. The cool thing is that the suns mass will remain the same (with expection for engulfing the planets) for the whole time it exist, planets will still revolve around it even though it has shrunk to a smaller size | ||
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sword_siege
United States624 Posts
It was a downer, but you're telling him to lighten up? Depends on how you perceive the info. More people dying from suicide is bad if you think most of the world is depressed on the other hand if all you hear about is war,terrorism and murder only to find out that more people die from suicide than the above three than that is an awesome statistic. It's awesome because when the news is telling us the world is a horrible ugly place with war, murder and terrorism the reality of the fact is you have a greater chance of killing yourself than being shot in a war, dying from an act of terrorism or getting sliced and diced via a homicide. I find that good news. It makes me think the world isn't as horrible as the news I watch makes it out to be. | ||
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BlackJack
United States10568 Posts
On September 25 2003 17:14 sword_siege wrote: It's awesome because when the news is telling us the world is a horrible ugly place with war, murder and terrorism the reality of the fact is you have a greater chance of killing yourself than being shot in a war, dying from an act of terrorism or getting sliced and diced via a homicide. ummm... no i don't.. use some common sense please. | ||
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ZyMotiC
103 Posts
Centipedes don't have 100 legs. Orchids are named from the Greek word for testicles (orchis) because of the resemblance of their bulbs to a man's testes. There were 132,432,044 automobiles registered in the United States in 1999. The largest pearl ever found weighed 14 pounds (6.4 kg). Dalmatians are born without spots. There is no salt water in salt water taffy. http://mistupid.com/facts/ | ||
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sword_siege
United States624 Posts
On September 25 2003 16:18 baal wrote: a kind of fox (dunno its name in english) can listen the steps of an ant at over 100 yards. All animals have aprox the same amount of heart beats allong their life, so a mouse and a elephant live the same in "muscular" terms. This is the same statistic for mammals as well baal. There is an average number of beats in hearts for mammals before they die. Mice have hearts that beat really fast so they don't live as long, elephants hearts beat slower so they live longer. The only exception to the rule is . . . . you guessed it. Humans. | ||
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sword_siege
United States624 Posts
On September 25 2003 17:16 BlackJack wrote: ummm... no i don't.. use some common sense please. Hahah, then you must think there's a greater chance of you killing yourself than the above three I mentioned. Cheer up depressed boy. The point is that not that many people die from suicide, but even less die from murder, war and terrorism combined. The world really isn't as bad as the media portrays it. We're actually relatively peaceful people. | ||
Liquid`Drone
Norway28675 Posts
im going to rape this thread now. you may all surrender. In 1977, Napoleon's penis was sold in Paris for about US $3 800 to an American urologist. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. Victorian women tried to enlarge their breasts by bathing in strawberries In 1982, Englishman William Hall committed suicide by drilling holes into his head with a power drill . . . it took 8 holes. Clinophobia is a fear of beds. A human sheds a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks. The crystalline quartz, Amethyst was once believed to prevent drunkenness. Sigmund Freud brought his first sample of cocaine for $1.27 per gram. There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being that there are human beings on the surface of the earth. The opposite of 'cross-eyed' is 'wall-eyed'. The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court. In the English hospitals of the seventeenth century, children were entitled to two gallons of beer as part of their weekly diet. During the fifteenth century,sick people were often dressed in red and surrounded by red objects because it was though to help them get better. The Black Death claimed roughly forty million lives in the thirteenth century. In 1562 a man was dug up six hours after his burial, after he had been seen breathing by someone at the funeral - he lived for another 75 years. If 80% of the human liver was removed, it could still function and would eventually restore itself to its original size. Nutmeg, if injected intravenously, is fatal. The Eskimo language has over twenty words to describe different kinds of snow. The southwestern tip of the Isle of Man is called 'The Calf of Man'. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun. Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'. In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette. The background radiation in Aberdeen is twice that of the rest of Great Britain. About 2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover the full stop at the end of this sentence. The tower of London, during its lifetime has served many purposes, including a zoo. There is a village near the Somme in France which is simply called Y. The United States, which accounts for six per cent of the population of the world, consumes nearly sixty per cent of the world's resources. The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia. Based on various cosmological techniques the universe is estimated at 10 - 18 gigayears old. (1 gigayear = 1 000 000 000 000 years) The Future's Museum in Sweden contains a scale model of the solar system. The sun is 105 meters in diameter and the planets range from 3.5 mm to 6 km from the 'sun'. This particular model also contains the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, still to scale situated in the Museum of Victoria ... in Australia. Scientists at Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions where traced to a microwave oven in the building. 'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu' is the name of a hill in New Zealand. The number of UFO sightings constantly increase when Mars is nearest the Earth. So far in the twentieth century, two objects have hit the earth's surface with enough force to destroy a medium size city. By pure luck both have landed in sparsely populated Siberia. On Picarn Island, it is a criminal offence it shout ' ship ohoy' when there is in fact no ship in sight. The statue ' The thinker ' by Rodin is actually a portrait of the Italian poet Dante. X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one. Pope Paul IV, who was elected on 23 May 1555, was so outraged when he saw the naked bodies on the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel that he ordered Michelangelo to paint garments on to them. Roger Ramjet's American Eagle Squadron consists of Yank, Doodle, Dan and Dee. In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing . The 'Mona Lisa' was once brought by Francis I of France in 1517 to hang in a bathroom. The 'Over the rainbow' scene from 'The Wizard of Oz' was originally cut from the film because it was 'slow' and added nothing to the plot. It was added again at the last moment. Salvador Dali once arrived to an art exhibition in a limousine filled with turnips. The B'52's, were named after a Fifties Hairdo. During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance. Over 400 films has been made, based on the plays of Shakespeare. There are 256 semihemidemisemiquavers in a breve. When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings. 'I am a Walrus', by John Lenon, was inspired by a police two tone siren. Charles Baudelaire, preferred to Wagners music, the sounds ' of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws'. One of Britain's most famous composers, Sir Michael Tippett, composed pieces notoriously difficult to play, At the premiere of his 'Symphony No. 2', the orchestra got lost in the middle of the piece and the conductor had to start again. The French equivalent of 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog', a sentence which contains every letter of the alphabet (useful when learning to type), is 'Allez porter ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume un Havane', which translates to 'Go and take this old whisky to the fair-haired judge smoking the Havana cigar'. In the story of Cinderella, her slippers were originally fur, but they became glass because of an error in translation. Pablo Picasso was abandoned by the midwife just after his birth because she though he was stillborn. He was saved by an uncle. About half the piano's in England are thought to be out of tune. The phrase ' The 3 R's ' ( standing for 'reading, writing and arithmetic' ) was created by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate. Monaco's national orchestra is bigger than its army. During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50 000 in Germany 'in case the little bastard wins'. The French composer J.B. Lully, while conducting a concert, pierced his foot with a pointed baton, and died from the resulting gangrene. The most commonly sung song in the world - Happy birthday to you - is under copyright, the copyright runs out in 2010. Fred Astaire's first screen notes read: 'Can't act, Can't Sing, Can Dance a little'. The Nazi-sympathist song 'Don't Let's Be Beastly to the German's', was sung seven times in one evening by Noel Coward, at the request of Winston Churchill. According to Genesis 7:2, God told Noah to take 14 of each kind of 'clean' animal into the ark. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg. The original title for the best seller 'Gone with the wind' was 'Ba! Ba! Black sheep'. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from British Public Libraries. Some hotels in Las Vegas have gambling tables floating in their swimming pools. Clay pigeon shooting was once known as Inanimate bird shooting. Cricketer Dennis Lillee once tried to use an Aluminium bat of his own design called 'The Combat'. Darts is the most popular sport played in Britain. Garry Chapman scored 17 runs off a single delivery (all run with no overthrow) in a game of cricket on 13 October 1990. (he hit the ball into a patch of 10 inch high grass) The Roman Emperor Nero killed his wife after she 'scalded' him for going to the races. In the 1950's the hula hoop was banned in Tokyo due to the large number of traffic accidents it caused. The yo-yo originated in the Philippines, where it was used as a weapon in hunting. When kicked in the groin, a soccer player has been 'banjoed'. The board game Monopoly was originally rejected by Parker Brothers, who claimed it had 52 fundamental errors. An American aircraft in Vietnam shot itself down with one of its own missiles. Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. In Ancient Peru, when a woman found an 'ugly' potato, it was the custom for her to push it into the face of the nearest man. Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor. In the 1970's, the Rhode Island Legislature in the US entertained a proposal that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse in the State. John Glenn, the American who first orbited the Earth, was showered with 3,529 tonnes of ticker tape when he got back. American Red Indians used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees subsequent to the birth. Hence such strange names as Sitting Bull and Running Water. Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the occult and the supernatural. One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 metre diameter, half tonne cheese. Peter the Great had the head of his wife's lover cut off and put into a jar of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed. The car manufacturer Henry Ford was awarded Hitler's Supreme Order of the German Eagle / Iron Cross. Henry Ford was the inventor of the assembly line, and Hitler used this knowledge of the assembly line to speed up production, and to create better and interchangable products. Charles the Simple was the grandson of Charles the Bald, both were rulers of France. The mad Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random. The Ecuadorian poet, José Olmedo, has a statue in his honour in his home country. But, unable to commission a sculptor, due to limited funds, the government brought a second-hand statue .. Of the English poet Lord Byron. The childrens' nursery rhyme 'Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses' actually refers to the Black Death which killed about 30 million people in the fourteenth-century. Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing. John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion. Iceland is the world's oldest functioning democracy. Adolf Eichmann (responsible for countless Jewish deaths during World war II), was originally a travelling salesman for the Vacuum Oil Co. of Austria. The Matami Tribe of West Africa play a version of football, the only difference being that they use a human skull instead of a more normal ball. The great Russian leader, Lenin died 21 January 1924, suffering from a degenerative brain disorder. At the time of his death his brain was a quarter of its normal size. When shipped to the US, the London bridge ( thought by the new owner to be the more famous Tower Bridge ) was classified by US customs to be a 'large antique'. It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term 'testimony' is derived from this tradition. The study of stupidity is called 'monology'. Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marring a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again. More money is spent each year on alcohol and cigarettes than on Life insurance. A firm in Britain sold fall-out shelters for pets. During the seventeen century , the Sultan of Turkey ordered his entire harem of women drowned, and replace with a new one. Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply …' if you were my wife, I would drink it ! '. There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos. A parthenophobic has a fear of virgins. In 1939 the US political party 'The American Nazi Party' had 200,000 members. St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is the patron saint of thieves, virgins and communist Russia. Dublin is home of the Fairy Investigation Society. Fourteen million people were killed in World War I, twenty million died in a flu epidemic in the years that followed. People in Siberia often buy milk frozen on a stick. Princess Ann was the only competitor at the 1976 Montreal Olympics that did not have to undergo a sex test. Ethelred the Unready, King of England in the Tenth-century, spent his wedding night in bed with his wife and his mother-in-law. The two highest IQ's ever recorded (on a standard test) both belong to women. President Kaunda of Zambia once threatened to resign if his fellow countrymen didn't stop drinking so much alcohol. Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 German marks were worth 1 US dollar. During the Medieval Crusades, transporting bodies off the battlefield for burial was a major problem, this was solved by carrying a huge cauldron into the Holy wars, boiling down the bodies, and taking only the bones with them. A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon. George Washington grew marijuana in his garden. Joseph and Etienne Montigolfier, inventers of the hot air balloon, first believed that their balloon didn't rise due to hot air but an invisible gas given off by fire. They named it Montigolfier Gas. Pedals were added to the bicycle in 1839. The early personal computer, the Sinclair ZX80, had 1 kilobyte of internal memory. Joseph Swan invented a light bulb in 1879, one year before Thomas Edison. But Swan didn't patent his idea and was accused of copying by Edison ( who did patent the idea and is therefore recognised as the inventor ) until it was shown both bulbs were produced in different processes. They then formed a joint company using the best of both technologies. Allied bombers were issued with Biro pens as fountain pens leaked at high altitude. The bicycle was first introduced to British roads in 1888, but the rider had to ring a bell continuously to warn others of their approach. The first computer was built in 1823. The steam driven calculating machine, built by Charles Babbage, failed to work due to poor workmanship in the intricate parts. When rebuilt by the Science Museum of London in 1991 it worked. The Dotmatrix printer was developed for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games by the Japanese company Seiko. Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878. Edison tried to invent a gun-powder powered engine for a helicopter . . . he blew up his lab, and decided to stop work on that project. Laser means Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The tip of a rotary mower travels at over 200 km/hr. The first public radio broadcast was on the 23 February 1920, in June 1920 Dame Nellie Melba sang on the radio, immediately the Post Office banned 'Entertainment'. Broadcasting lifted the ban in 1921 for 15minutes per week. The 'Screwdriver' was invented by oilmen, who used the tool to stir the drink. Gunpowder is formed after mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur. Pearls melt in vinegar. For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off. A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering a hundred square feet. To 'crack' a whip, the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound. Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 . . . by a dentist ( William Semple) Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of 'space junk' (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the earth's surface. Paper was invented early in the second century by a Chinese eunuch. Tomato ketchup was once sold as a medicine. Waves"break" when their height is more that seven-tenths of the depth of the water. The power of the first hydrogen bomb tested in 1952 was equal to the combined power of all the bombs dropped on Germany and Japan in World War Two - including the atomic ones. 75% of the chemical energy contained in petrol is wasted by a combustion engine. The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700. A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC. No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes. For reasons of security, only people who were illiterate were considered for more routine jobs at the first atomic bomb construction centre in New Mexico. The Electric chair was invented by Dr. Alphonse Rockwell, and first used on 6 August 1890 to execute William Kemmler. The first hot air balloon was invented on 5 June 1783, it was made of paper and not entirely successful. The mathematician Cardano was imprisoned for doing the horoscope of Jesus Christ. There are more nutrients in the cornflake packet itself than there are in the actual cornflake. Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years. Each increase of five decibels will half the amount of time requires for a sound to cause permanent hearing loss. Leonardo da Vinci invented an alarm clock that woke the sleeper by rubbing their feet. The Biro pen was invented by George and Lazlo Biro. Soda water does not contain soda. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died on 4 July 1934 of radiation poisoning. Minus forty degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus forty degrees Fahrenheit. The screwdriver was invented before the screw. Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave. The energy released in the ten minutes of a normal hurricane is roughly equivalent to the energy contained in all the nuclear stockpiles of the world. The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889. "To prevent violence," it was at one time customary at certain phases of the moon to chain and flog inmates of England's notorious Bedlam Hospital. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath once a year. Impotence is grounds for divorce in twenty-four states in the United States. In 1838 the city of Los Angeles passed an ordinance requiring that a man obtain a license before serenading a woman. In Alaska it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an airplane or any other flying vehicle. In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp. In Hazelton, Pennsylvania, there is a law on the books that prohibits a person from sipping a carbonated drink while lecturing students in a school auditorium. In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds. In London, it is a 24 hour detainment if caught sticking gum under a seat on the upper deck of a bus. In Milan, Italy there is a law on the books that requires a smile on the face of all citizens at all times. Exemptions include time spent visiting patients in hospitals or attending funerals. Otherwise the fine is $100 if they are seen in public without a smile on their face. In San Salvador drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad. In seventeenth-century Japan, no citizen was allowed to leave the country on penalty of death. Anyone caught coming or going without permission was executed on the spot. In Somalia, Africa, it's been decreed illegal to carry old chewing gum stuck on the tip of your nose.] In the U.S., federal law states that children's TV shows may contain only 10 minutes of advertising per hour and on weekends the limit is 10 and one-half minutes. In Turkey, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death. Prior to the adoption of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804, the candidate who ran second in a presidential race automatically become vice-president. Thomas Jefferson became John Adams' vice-president in this way. The second national city of the United States is Port Angeles, WA, designated by Abraham Lincoln. That's where they would move the capital if something happened to Washington D.C. The United States Supreme Court once ruled Federal income tax unconstitutional. Income tax was first imposed during the Civil War as a temporary revenue-raising measure. Wetaskiwin, Alberta from 1917: "It's against the law to tie a male horse next to a female horse on Main Street." There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants. Until the 1950's, Tibetans disposed of their dead by taking the body up a hill, hacking it into little pieces, and feeding the remains to the birds. Undertakers report that human bodies do not deteriorate as quickly as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the modern diet contains so many preservatives that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposition too rapidly after death. St. Miles Partridge once played dice with Henry VIII for the bells of St. Paul's church, won, and collected the bells. In 18th century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid. Voltaire considered Shakespeare's works so deplorable that he referred to the Bard as "that drunken fool." When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follow taste, smell, and touch. Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner. When using the first pay telephone, a caller did not deposit his coins in the machine. He gave them to an attendant who stood next to the telephone. Coin telephones did not appear to 1899. The average American sees or hears 560 advertisements a day. In 1950 at the Las Vegas Desert Inn, a anonymous sailor made 27 straight passes (wins) with the dice at craps. The odds against such a feat or 12,467,890 to 1. The dice today are enshrined in the hotel on a velvet pillow under glass. In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50-pound rock. the ceremony was witnessed by more than twenty people. In 1986, a guard in an armored car was killed when $50,000 worth of quarters fell on him. In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more that a hundred years before either moon was discovered. In India it is perfectly proper for men to wear pajamas in public. Pajamas are accepted as standard daytime wearing apparel. The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming a mean temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit. The bandaging of a mummy often took from 6 to 8 months and required a collection of special tools, including a long metal hook that was used to draw the dead person's brains out through his nose. The first operators employed by the Bell Telephone Company were young boys who worked standing up. Only after several years did it occur to anybody to provide them with chairs. The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. It was published in New Haven, Connecticut, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February, 1878 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. According to Gambler's Digest, an estimated $1 million is lost at race tracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets. It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls--phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine--are made every day in the United States. According to the federal Trade Commission. there are 20,000 television commercials made each year that are aimed exclusively at children. Of these, 7,000 are for sugared breakfast cereals. It is estimated that a plastic container can resist decomposition for as long as 50,000 years. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher. The name of the first airplane flown at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers was Bird of Prey. The maiden flight of the Bird of Prey, however, was less than a flight--the plane stayed in the air only long enough to sail 59 feet. Ancient Chinese artists freely painted scenes of nakedness and coition. Never, absolutely never, would they depict a simple bare female foot. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. On the Chinese written language, the ideograph that stands for "trouble" represents two women under one roof. A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler. The first commercial passenger airplane began flying in 1914. The first commercial passenger airplane with a bathroom began flying in 1919. When the first escalator, or "inclined elevator," was installed the department store Harrod's in London (near the turn of the century), brandy was served to passengers who felt faint. Tongue prints are as unique as fingerprints. Your brain is more active sleeping than it is watching TV. The heart beats faster during a brisk walk or heated argument than during sexual intercourse. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. If you are afraid that you might die laughing - you are suffering from cherophobia. It is a comparatively recent insight that light travels from the object to the eye. Until about 400 years ago, it was thought that there was "something" in the eye that went out and saw the object. After his infamous 1997 ear-biting attack on Evander Holygield, The Hollywood Wax Museum moved boxer Mike Tyson's figure to the Chamber of Horrors - next to Hannibal Lechter. The Olympic symbol is made up of five interlocking rings, standing for the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and America. Did you ever wonder what the WD in WD-40 stands for? WD is an abbreviation for Water Displacer 40th attempt. Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France. The first commercial vacuum cleaner was so large it was mounted on a wagon. People threw parties in their homes so guests could watch the new device do its job. The name of the Pilgrim's second ship that was to accompany the Mayflower to the "New World" was The "Speedwell". It had to turn back because it wasn't seaworthy. When Spain declared war on the U.S. in 1898, the U.S. in turn declared war on Spain but backdated the declaration by three days so it would look more heroic to have declared war first. Every queen named Jane has either been murdered, imprisoned, gone mad, died young, or been dethroned. In 1935, "Iran" became the new name for Persia, which was the new name for what had earlier been Iran. In feudal Japan the Imperial Army has special soldiers whose only duty was to count the number of severed enemy heads after each battle. In the 10th century, the Grand Vizier of Persia took his entire library with him wherever he went. The 117,000 volume library was carried by camels trained to walk in alphabetical order. It was the style among 18th century Englishmen to wear pantaloons so tight they had to be hung on special pegs that held them open, allowing the wearer to jump down into them. The Americans lost the Battle of Bunker Hill when they ran out of gunpowder and had to retreat. In 1822, Mary Ann Mantell of Sussex, England became the first person in history to discover a dinosaur fossil while correctly identifying it as something that was a part of a large reptile; earlier discoveries were identified as giant men, dragons, and other such large, dead things. However, her husband, Dr. Gideon Mantell, took credit for the discovery and identified the teeth that she found as part of an Iguanodon. Later, he wrongfully identified a body part as a horn, which turned out to be part of the creature's thumb. The first dinosaur to be the subject of a tavern song was Diplodocus due to the fact that tychoon Andrew Carnegie gave a replica of the animal to King Edward VII. The tune, which was popular around the turn of the century, went: "Crowned heads of Europe All make a royal fuss Over Uncle Andy And his old Diplodocus." If Americans reduced their meat intake by 10 percent, the savings in grains and soybeans would feed 60 million people, which is the number of people who starve worldwide each year. As president, George Bush made $548 a day, which is 3/10 of 1 percent of what Michael Jackson makes in a day ($164,384). Economics The new IRS employee manual includes provisions for collecting taxes in the aftermath of a nuclear war. In the days of manly filterless cigarettes, Marlboros were orginally marketed as a woman's cigarette. Homicide in the workplace is now the fastest growing form of murder. The increase in mass murders in offices in the last 10 years is about 200-300 percent. People to fear the most: middle aged, white males who are loners, angry, paranoid, and guarded. The current market value of a pap smear from Marilyn Monroe is $200,000. The London-based Council of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders is still trying to collect on loans made to the state of Mississippi in 1830 to finance cotton exports. English soldiers of the Hundred Years' War were known to the French as "Les Goddams" because of their propensity to swear. According to one amateur etymologist, the word "fuck" is an acronym for "Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge," a crime that people were hauled into jail for. The Anglo Saxon origin of "fuck" had something to do with poking a hole in the ground. Another theory states that the legend FUCK appeared over the doors of licensed brothels in the time of King George and stood for "Fornication Under Consent of the King." Yet a third theory states that it is from "file under cardinal knowledge" - an instruction written on folders in law cases. "Bubba" is Yiddish for "grandma." The word "chortle" was coined by "Alice in Wonderland" author Lewis Carroll. It is a blend of the words "chuckle" and "snort." Gay men who successfully joined the British Navy used to be called "reverse malingerers." Trobriand Islanders (off the coast of New Guinea) have euphemism for having sex that translates to "scraping the tapioca." The Greeks had a word that meant "with armpits smelling like a he-goat." A popular ad for a hamburger chain in France translates into English as, "If you are going to eat shit, then it might as well be this shit." The term for when dogs scratch their butts by dragging them across the floor is called "sleigh riding." The word "quiz" was supposedly invented in 1780 by a Dublin theatre manager who laid a wager that he would introduce a new word of no meaning into the language within 24 hours. "Melvin" means the act of getting your testicles crunched with accompanying jerking action of the head and neck. Agromania is a morbid passion for solitude, as well as for wandering in fields. n catspeak, "meow" is actually a combination of two distinctive calls: the "me" part is a friendly greeting, while the "ow" part means, "I'm willing to defend myself." Cats meow at humans, but rarely at other cats. Before they settled on "World War II," some nomenclaturists debated on using "The Return of the World War" or "Son of World War." In some parts of Africa, people say "Wake up living" instead of saying "Good night." In Spain, when there is one bit of food left on the plate that nobody will eat, it is referred to as the "embarassed piece." The Samburu tribesman who speaks in a recent Nike commercial isn't really saying the Nike motto "Just Do It." In his native tongue, Maa, he's actually saying "I don't want these. Give me bigger shoes." Portland, Oregon was named in a coin-toss in 1844. Heads "Portland," tails "Boston." "Squids" are kids who drive motorcycles wearing tank tops and shorts. The nickname comes from how they look after an accident. One ad for Pepsi used in China, "Come alive with Pepsi," actually translated to "Pepsi brings your ancestors back to life." German soldiers on the Eastern Front during World War II were issued a German-Russian phrasebook that contained more than 3,000 words and phrases. Tellingly, it did not contain the word "sorry." One cat-hating man in Seattle, Washington has recently invented the word "catmatic." He coined it as an opposite to "dogmatic" and it means "pussyfooting around." According to one etymologist, the word "barbecue" is derived from the Spanish word "barbacoa," which is derived from "barbecue," a word used by a cannibalistic tribe in the Carribean. The Ibo tribe of Nigeria had three punishments for adulterous couples, each increasingly ghastly. The least harsh involved tying the couple up, putting a stake through the man into the woman, and carrying them off to a pool filled with loathsome reptiles. Queen Anne had a transvestite cousin, Lord Cornbury, whom she assigned to be governor of New York and New Jersey. The colonists were not amused. Some Romanian villagers sing a song that accompanies a traditional goat dance. The lyrics to the song are so sexually suggestive that Cable News Network refuses to translate them. According to Blitz Magazine in Bombay, India, 28 year old Nagaba Jugalgiri pulled a car with his penis in front of Mahalakshmi Temple in protest of India's 1989 oil crisis. Kellogg's Corn Flakes were invented by a Dr. Kellogg in hopes that they would reduce masturbation. According The Solitary Vice, a book for doctors that came out in the 1890s, women who masturbate tend to eat a lot of foods containing mustard and vinegar. One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked. As late as 1940, a candidate for the U.S. Naval Academy was rejected if it was discovered that he masturbated. According to a couple of recent biographies, Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, was a repressed homosexual who was obsessed with looking at photos of naked young boys. Women were discouraged from having orgasms during the Middle Ages because it was thought that orgasms made women less capable of getting pregnant According to Runner's World magazine, two out of three runners say that they fantasize about sex while running. On the other hand, one out of 11 fantasizes about running while having sex. 20 million Americans watch pornography annually. The passage of the bible that discourages masturbation is Genesis 38:7-11, which is story about when Judah's son, Er, died childless and his brother, Onan, was required to impregnate Er's widow. During sex, Onan withdrew and "spilled his seed," which displeased God, who eventually killed him. Onanism means "male masturbation" and "coitus interruptus." According to Jewish law (the Mishnah), laborers were advised to have intercourse with their wives twice a week. Ass drivers, on the other hand, were directed to do it once a week. By the way, the unemployed were directed to do it every day. In the 10th century, it was ruled that a cleric who experienced a wet dream would have to sing 7 prescribed penitential psalms right after the fact and in the morning sing 30 more. St. Tertullian called women "the devil's gateway ... on account of you, even the son of God had to die." "Amy-John" is archaic slang for a "lesbian." "Hockey" is archaic slang for "semen." "Reltney" is archaic slang for "penis." "Scrump" is archaic slang for "the sexual act." Ben Franklin referred to prostitutes as "scrumpets." In the 17th century, Spain boasted that it was free of sexual deviance. When referring to bestiality, Spanish nicknamed it "the Italian vice." Around the turn of the century, British newspapers advertised brassieres as "patent bust improvers." The word "sex" was coined in 1382. Syphillis was known as "the French Disease" in Italy and "the English Disease" in France. Porn star Candida Royale was named after a yeast infection. The Inca enacted laws to prevent llama drivers from having sex with their animals and enforced the laws be requiring that the llama drivers be escorted by chaperones. Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females. The sea slug does little more than eat, sleep, and copulate--actually it copulates a lot, often in orgies. One researcher at the University of Miami has witnessed as many as 10 sea slugs at a time engaging in chain copulating. Lou Boudreau of the Cleveland Indians once blew a game when he blew his nose, forgetting that the "steal" sign was putting a towel to his face. During the player introductions before the 7th game of the 1992 National League playoffs, Jose "Chico" Lind of the Pittsburgh Pirates said something that sounded like "the chicken runs at midnight." 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