stebh

Every Alaskan citizen over te age of 6months receives an oil dividend of around $1000 a year.

All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than the south.

Google gets its name from the word Googol, which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.

Garage19

The distance between the tip of your middle finger and the bottom of your hand (8.25" in my case) is the same as the length of your erect penis.

1098

pee vee

PMSL how you had to get that measurement in ther

ballin

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Tony : Woman have legs only so they won't leave tracks like snails.

rofl

Dub604

The rain in Spain falls mainy on the plane.

Thats what I have always been told.

Oh, and


you cannot see the great wall of China from space, that is bollocks!!

DanW@FastFord

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An internet site which presumably sources its data from other internet sites! The net is the worst place in the world to get 'facts' from, as people simply quote each other. Dig a little deeper and the myths are easily exposed.

Dust mites - That figure crops up, but only on 'fact websites'. Even companies offering to remove them quote 2 million on average.

David Bowie didn't invent Connect 4, much in the same way that Bob Holness never played the sax on Baker Street. It's just one of those funny sounding soundbites.

Insects in chocolate - Do you genuinely believe that a) the average chocolate bar has insects in, and b) that someone has counted them?

The Heinz 'Fact' is relatively common knowledge that it was a random number that sounded good. http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/heinz57.asp

Males on sex - http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/thinksex.asp

Ducks quack - http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp

There are a bunch of other 'facts' in this thread that are nothing more than internet circulars. All fun, but not all true.

Did you know that -

• Earwigs have wings, but choose not to fly

• The first person to pass the Advanced Driving Test was a woman

• Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora
la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture
dealer

• Out of all the car manufacturers approached by the makers of Grand Turismo 2 only two refused to help - Volvo and Saab

• If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating
to the top and sinking to the bottom

• Ettore Bugatti wore shoes with individually stitched toe compartments

• Adolf Hitler had a false floor fitted into his Mercedes 770K, making him look 5 inches taller, when he stood up in the car

• Butterflies taste with their feet

• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

• The only racing driver to have won the F1 World Championship, the Indy 500 and Le Mans was Graham Hill

• Peter Stevens whose credits include the McLaren F1, the Lotus Elan and the Impreza P1 also designed the sunroof handle for the original Ford Granada

• The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a six thousand year lease

• The second is defined as being 9,192,631,770 times the time it takes for a cesium-133 atom to swap hyperfine levels in its ground state

• The Greek national anthem has 158 verses

• When the Titanic sunk there was 7,500 lbs. of ham onboard

• Abdul Kassem Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persiain the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went.The 117,000 volumes were carried by 400 camels walking in alphabetical order

• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' head enables it to see all four feet at one time

• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

• The four rings of the Audi logo stand for Audi, Horsch, DKW, and the Wanderer Automobile Department

• A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout

• The word 'monosyllable' actually has five syllables in it

• Hippopotamus means river horse

• 1961 was the most recent year that could be written both upside-down and rightside-up and appear the same. The next year that
this will be possible will be 6009

• The speed of light is 1,802,617,500,000 furlongs per fortnight

• In Star Wars the "Land Speeder" was actually built around the chassis of a Bond Bug. The wheels were later masked out on the film to produce the hover-car effect

• The Mclaren F1, TVR Griffith, Aston Martin Virage, and the Citroen CX share the same door mirrors

• Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts

• Nicolas Cage's first car was a Spitfire

• Charles Goodyear accidentally discovered the rubber vulcanizing process. He patented the process, but couldn't come up with any practical uses for it and died penniless in 1860. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was named after him

Maria.

THIS i believe!!!

DanW@FastFord

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But... The 70mph motorway speed limit was imposed by a woman who didn't even have a driving license!

Maria.

WITCH!!!!

lead_foot

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A load of crap, my mates German Shepherd had gout.

GARETH T

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPmGxwcYAJE

charlie luciano

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The ship in that novel was called the Titan

Luciano

charlie luciano

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The name Cosworth comes from the two founders of the company taking a part of their surname each and putting it together

Keith DuckWORTH

Mike COStin

some how Ford Tinduck or Ford Ducktin just don't sound as good


Luciano

BigErn

Lexicography is the art of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries

B19 JUB

the porsche 911 was created because of peugeot.porsche were originally going to call it the 901 but peugeot had had the copyright for the 0 in the middle of the numbers

Fezza

This one is incorrect. The skin at the base of the hair follicles and nail beds recedes as it dries out, and as such gives the appearance of growth.

Fezza

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words...