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Fun Facts
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03/24/11 01:11 PM
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Let's play a little game here. There are a lot of interesting little facts floating around out there, for instance, did you know that people use their left hand 58% more than their right hand when typing?
So look up a fun fact or two and post them here and we can fill more people with useless knowledge.
I will start with:
Did you know that the first person who owned the Marlboro cigarette company died of lung cancer?
Ok, now it's your turn.
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/24/11 02:32 PM
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Angela J. Shirley
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Wow, how ironic - and many more to follow with "cancer" - sad to say. My boyfriend has smoked all his life. Great subject and I look forward to reading the neat contributions 
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/24/11 04:37 PM
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There are 118 ridges around the edge of a Roosevelt dime, 119 ridges around the edge of a quarter, 150 ridges around the edge of a Kennedy half dollar, & 133 ridges around the edge of a Susan B Anthony dollar. The edges of the penney & nickel are smooth. The edge of the Sacagawea & Presidential dollar are smooth with writing, that includes year, mint mark & E PLURIBIS UMUM / IN GOD WE TRUST.
-B- "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/24/11 08:28 PM
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There are only four words in the English that end in -dous.
stupendous, horrendous, tremendous and hazardous
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/25/11 01:39 AM
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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes after lying down for bed.
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/25/11 01:00 PM
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Did you know that the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear on the Periodic Table is the letter "J"?
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/25/11 04:40 PM
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Beetlemess
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The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.
-B- "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/28/11 12:34 PM
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Did you know that Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy?
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/29/11 09:00 PM
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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle;
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/29/11 10:11 PM
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During the American Revolution, many brides did not wear white wedding gowns; instead, they wore red as a symbol of rebellion.
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/30/11 08:51 PM
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35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/30/11 08:58 PM
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If you eat a bar of chocolate every day for 36,500 days, you'll live to be 100 years old.
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/30/11 09:36 PM
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"Rosie"
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
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Re: Fun Facts
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03/31/11 01:14 AM
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. lol thats funny Rosie. Good one.
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/03/11 01:35 PM
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Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name has all of the letters in the word criminal.
The second is William Jefferson Clinton.
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/03/11 04:47 PM
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Did you know that the average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/04/11 12:27 PM
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Did you know that ALL US Presidents wore glasses? A lot of them just didn't like to wear them in public.
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/04/11 12:36 PM
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Did you know that the average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
Oh yuk. Vance,I could have gone without knowing that.
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/04/11 12:42 PM
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Lynne - ChristianLiving
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f you eat a bar of chocolate every day for 36,500 days, you'll live to be 100 years old. Then again if you eat paste every day for 36,500 days, you will live to be 100 years old. 
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/06/11 12:10 AM
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Did you know that you consume 1/10 of a calorie every time you lick a stamp?
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/06/11 01:06 AM
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Lisa - Fiction Writing
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Another reason to purchase stamps that you don't have to lick. I don't need any extra calories.
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/23/11 05:37 AM
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Did you know that Wrigley's gum was the first product to have a bar code on it?
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/24/11 11:30 AM
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Gjetost is the national cheese of Norway, and its name means "goat" and "cheese," though it is now commonly made of cow's milk.
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/25/11 03:45 AM
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Did you know that the world's longest game of monopoly lasted for 660 hours?
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/26/11 10:27 PM
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It would take 27,000 spiders, each spinning a single web, to produce a pound of web.
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/27/11 01:43 AM
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Did you know that the cigarette lighter was invented before the match?
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Re: Fun Facts
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04/29/11 03:07 PM
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Of all strange customs, one of the more unusual was that of the "groaning cheese." Years ago in Europe, a prospective father would nibble on a huge chunk of cheese while awaiting the home birth of his child. Instead of pacing outside the bedroom door, the father would eat from the center of the cheese until a large hole had been gnawed out. Later, his newborn infant was ceremoniously passed through the hole.
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