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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 07:22 PM
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I'm pretty sure I'm bringing this post back from the dead but here it goes...... did you know that elephants only sleep 2 hours in a day?
 
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 10:05 PM
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Did you know that the first Diesel engiens ran on coal dust
I would have to fuel up on that stuff
 
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Old Apr 22, 2003 | 10:24 PM
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So, You want useless Information?

Not all of this but it is interesting


Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

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

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Almost everyone who reads this, will try to lick their elbow.

 
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Old Apr 23, 2003 | 12:44 AM
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Well i kinda noticed the king of hearts is stabbing his self in the head with his sword.. lol
 
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Old Apr 23, 2003 | 05:12 AM
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Originally posted by bigblue250
Does anybody know where I can get a jug of blinker fluid???
I can get you a can of powdered blinker fluid. You'll have to add water and stir it up.

I was at the boating store getting realative bearing grease when I saw it. They had a sale on shore line and I got some of that while I was there.
 
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Old Apr 23, 2003 | 09:35 AM
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all set with the blinker fluid I bought a 55 gallon drum it should last me a while,you mguys need any. My new problem is finding a set of muffler bearings for a 76' 390 with hedders all I can find is the stock ones.
 
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Old Apr 23, 2003 | 12:25 PM
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Other words that do not have the a rhyming word in the english language :

Silver

Orange

Purple
 
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Old Apr 23, 2003 | 01:08 PM
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Did you know that the same company that makes Q-Tip brand cotton swabs also makes the Walmart Equate brand cotton swabs? How's that for a monopoly.
 
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Old Apr 24, 2003 | 01:27 AM
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I ,and I alone, have invented powdered water, it is a very inginous way of giving people water, just tear open the powder crystals, add water, stir, then U got water. I AM GONNA BE A MILLIONAIRE!!!!
 
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Old Apr 24, 2003 | 01:28 AM
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I ,and I alone, have invented powdered water, it is a very inginous way of giving people water, just tear open the powder crystals, add water, stir, then U got water. I AM GONNA BE A MILLIONAIRE!!!!
 
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Old Apr 24, 2003 | 01:28 AM
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I ,and I alone, have invented powdered water, it is a very inginous way of giving people water, just tear open the powder crystals, add water, stir, then U got water. I AM GONNA BE A MILLIONAIRE!!!!
 
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Old Apr 24, 2003 | 02:44 AM
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oh no...i dehydrated water long befrore you did....but when i came back it was all gone. You probably stole it.....thats it i'm calling the patent office and my lawyer.
 
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Old Apr 24, 2003 | 07:42 AM
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Better than powdered water, I have an idea for an invention to recycle water in arid locales. Your septic tank would be drained off periodically and the effluent passed throught a treatment process and into a holding tank where it could be pumped back to the kitchen faucet. Also, there would be a belt pack individual unit for folks trecking throught the desert where the water is directly recycled back to a canteen. This could go over really big in water starved areas like California. Will market it first to environmentalists to see how true they are to their stated beliefs. Just think, they can save water and reduce pollution at the same time.
 
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Old Apr 24, 2003 | 12:25 PM
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.


(Hardly seems worth it.)


If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

(Now that's more like it!)


The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

(O.M.G.!)



A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)



A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)

(I'm still not over the pig.)


Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

(Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)


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.

("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")


The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

(30 minut es... lucky pig... can you imagine??)



The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)



Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)


The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

(Hmmmmmm........)


Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people.

(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

Starfish have no brains.

(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.

(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)



Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
pleasure.
 
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Old Apr 24, 2003 | 12:45 PM
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Useless information....

the distance around the equator is approximately 25,000 miles.

Next time someone asks you how many miles you have on your ride, you can say...

It's been around the world 6 times, etc...
 
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