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JuVeMaNia86

Junior Member
Jan 8, 2005
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Hey guys , i thought that we could do a thread about wierd and strage facts , write anything u have that is strange , wierd , or stupid , but it has to be a fact :p

i will start first:

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per

second!


· The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a

standard playing card!


· The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance

Florence to shave them off!
· The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

· Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is

considered an insult!


· Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money

in Siberia!


· The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their

hands on each other's shoulders!


· A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!


· Most lipstick contains fish scales!


· The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

· No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in

half!

· A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!


· The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

· Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

· A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!


· The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!


· Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

· The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!


· A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!


· In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!


It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in

Switzerland
 

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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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JuVeMaNia86 said:
Hey guys , i thought that we could do a thread about wierd and strage facts , write anything u have that is strange , wierd , or stupid , but it has to be a fact :p

i will start first:

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per

second!
Which says nothing of how many brain cells this 40 is killing right now. :pint: :D
 

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Jun 8, 2005
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swag said:
Dude, there are pictures on the Internet of me drinking 40s out of a paper bag! :p
xcuse my ignorance, but what's a 40? other than a number of course.
 

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ßömßärdiër said:
I bet you can do 8 or 9 with that paper.
try it. i used a small piece of paper but still can't get past 6, it becomes too small.
 

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Jun 8, 2005
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ßömßärdiër said:
i just did 8, a 40 is a bottle or beer that is 40 ounces, which is about ummmm, 1000 ml.
oh...nice. don't get those kind around here too often. except in some ridiculosly overpriced pubs.
 

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Jun 8, 2005
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ßömßärdiër said:
Here you go, on the left and right, the middle is a deuce-deuce, or a 22.
nice...we have 1.5 litres bottles, but they come in plastic bottles so you can imagine the quality.
 

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