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[Voridan Atreides]

-More then ten people a year get killed by vending machines.
-Hippo milk is pink
-There is a town in Pennsylvania named Intercourse.
-Polar Bears have black skin.
-Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
-The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
-If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
-There is a poisonous plant that leaves the victim with a smile on their face at the time of death.
- For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
-If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
-In 1977 a 13 year old boy had a tooth growing out of his left foot.
-You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.
-In Nevada, it is illegal to ride a camel on the highway.
-The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
-Statistically you are more likely to being killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
-In New Jersey, it is illegal to wear a bullet-proof vest while committing a murder.
-The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
-One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.
-A full 12% of people dream in black and white. The rest dream in color.
-Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
-Manatees have vocal cords which give them the ability to speak like humans but don't do so because they have no ears.
-A F a g o t is a bundle of sticks to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature.

[Roadbeer]

There is a micro-nation in Nevada called Molossia.
It is basically a front yard, a house, and a back yard.

It also declared war on East Germany, when that was a 'thing'.

[Agent of Change]

The platypus is a mammal but lays eggs.

The "pits" in Pit vipers refer to an extra sensory organs that allows the snake to see in infrared.

The AoC Unit is the international measurement of Awesomeness

Baltimore was under military occupation by Union forces during the civil war to prevent successsion

Erwin Johannes Rommel Was never a **** and despised them by the late war but had been the head of Hitlers bodyguard prior to his taking power of Germany.

Jimmy Hoffa is not in fact buried under the end zone of the Meadowlands.

[blinkin]

i shall use this place as a refuge from the stupid that infests many other sections of the forums currently. morgan freeman.

Edited by blinkin, 29 April 2013 - 05:45 PM.

[Nathan Foxbane]

Voridan Atreides, on 29 April 2013 - 07:41 AM, said:

-In Nevada, it is illegal to ride a camel on the highway.

There is actually a reason for this. A camel race is held every year in Virginia City, and the only way to get up to Virginia City is a winding highway with a great many hairpin turns and blind corners. Camels walking up the highway would cause more than a few most assuredly fatal accidents.

Dogs and cats have no collar bone.
Lighting not only often strikes twice, but has been recorded to strike the same spot up to many times in a fraction of a second.
Sharks and rays have pits all across their body that enable them to detect the electric fields generated by anything with a nervous system (and some things without).
The Atlantic Torpedo (a type of ray that can grow up to 2 meters long) can generate up to 220 volts of electricity. In the U.S. the normal power outlet is 120 volts for comparison.
Most of the sea urchins harvested for food off the coast of California are shipped to Japan.
Tokyo has the world's largest fish market.
In Japan the traditional method of erecting structures made of wood and stone uses no nails. The nails in floor boards of some of the old castles were there as audio anti-intruder alarms only and provide no structural support to floors in any way.
There is a kind of frog that can survive being frozen solid for months or even years.

[Roadbeer]

Nathan Foxbane, on 29 April 2013 - 07:12 PM, said:

There is actually a reason for this. A camel race is held every year in Virginia City, and the only way to get up to Virginia City is a winding highway with a great many hairpin turns and blind corners. Camels walking up the highway would cause more than a few most assuredly fatal accidents.

I've been to it, it's a blast.

Old bar trick:

Give someone 3 Quarters, 4 Dimes and 4 Pennies (equals $1.19) and bet them they can't make change for $1.

Oh, and green gummy bears are strawberry flavored.

Edited by Roadbeer, 29 April 2013 - 07:31 PM.

[Straften]

A fun trick if you ever own an apiary. Male bees, also know as drones, have no stingers. They are slightly larger than a female honey bee though, making them look extremely hostile to people who don't recognize them.

Grab a jar full of them, and approach a friends car. While casually talking to them with the jar of drones in your pocket, pretend to trip, then open the jar into their window. Works every time.

Just make sure the car is off please.

[xenoglyph]

Tripping balls in public can lead to strange and unexpected situations. Fact.

Edited by xenoglyph, 29 April 2013 - 10:48 PM.

[blinkin]

hungry squirrels have been known to take down a fully grown deer:

[Agent of Change]

Language evolved as an extension of pack dynamics

The stupid measurement unit the "foot" was once determined by the length of the British Kings foot.

Vike is a verb that means to take by force or "to jack that sh#t" the vikings were simply the ones who jacked that sh#t

Hannibal (the elephant guy, not Lector) Failed to sack Rome after his epic march through the alps because of bureaucratic gridlock in Carthage failing to provide him men and supplies he needed after kicking the cr@p out of 3 roman legions, He spent 10 years wandering Italy with his army as a result.

Edited by Agent of Change, 30 April 2013 - 05:59 AM.

[Voridan Atreides]

Nathan Foxbane, on 29 April 2013 - 07:12 PM, said:

There is actually a reason for this. A camel race is held every year in Virginia City, and the only way to get up to Virginia City is a winding highway with a great many hairpin turns and blind corners. Camels walking up the highway would cause more than a few most assuredly fatal accidents.

Huh...ya learn somthing new every day.

[Agent of Change]

This is the fun facts thread.

Certain breeds of Parrots have been taught to not only speak but demonstrate understanding of the language and demonstrate the ability to recognize and indicate abstract concepts.

[Voridan Atreides]

-Car means Coc in Albania. Also....never say "Your Car is a Peach", "Your Car is very powerful", "That is a nice car you have", or "I love you car" when visiting.

Edited by Voridan Atreides, 30 April 2013 - 11:29 AM.

[blinkin]

Voridan Atreides, on 30 April 2013 - 11:18 AM, said:

-Car means Coc in Albania. Also....never say "Your Car is a Peach", "Your Car is very powerful", "That is a nice car you have", or "I love you car" when visiting.

he has some car envy.

[Voridan Atreides]

[MonkeyCheese]

Roadbeer, on 29 April 2013 - 07:48 AM, said:

There is a micro-nation in Nevada called Molossia.
It is basically a front yard, a house, and a back yard.

It also declared war on East Germany, when that was a 'thing'.

Kickassia will rise again.

[Cubivorre]

Voridan Atreides, on 01 May 2013 - 11:43 AM, said:

[Hawkeye 72]

Roadbeer, on 29 April 2013 - 07:48 AM, said:

There is a micro-nation in Nevada called Molossia.
It is basically a front yard, a house, and a back yard.

It also declared war on East Germany, when that was a 'thing'.

It also apparently exists on Google Maps, thus claming legitimacy

https://maps.google....=en&sa=N&tab=wl

[Agent of Change]

Here's a fun fact:

Internet robots are serious business

[Hawkeye 72]