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Post one interesting fact!In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who in a town could fart the loudest and longest. Winners were awarded many prizes and received great recognition.
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The speed of light is well documented by scientists but who knows what the speed of dark is?
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A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.
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When a male zebra and a female donkey mate the offspring is called a ‘zedonk'
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Had my mother kept her maiden name then i would have been named "Warren Warren"
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Warren, thats not interesting
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if you was to get a spider pissed it will always fall to its right (common house spider)
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Cristiano Ronaldo owns a mint low mileage Orion 1600E
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ok maybe not to the rest of the world maria, but it was to me
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cosworths always blow up eventually
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cosworths always blow up eventually
Thats not an interesting fact, its a well KNOWN fact!
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe!
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ok maybe not to the rest of the world maria, but it was to me
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Not at all, because I would have been Grant Grant had my mum kept her maiden name...
Cheers,
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When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
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When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
are youuuuuuuuuu sure???
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The common garden worm has two small stabiliser antennae (sp?) that allow it to know which way is up and which way is down... if these are damaged then the worm becomes disorientated and rather than burrowing into the ground it will go north and stand up straight.
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The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.
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Thats class!! i genuinly laughed out loud !!!
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In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who in a town could fart the loudest and longest. Winners were awarded many prizes and received great recognition.
The temperature of a fart at time of creation is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
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It's illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.
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Johnny Cash's song "Ring of Fire" was refused by his family to be in a hemorrhoid-relief commercial.
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the Chuckle Brothers had some input into the concept of the Ford Probe
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The difference between a cake and a biscut is, cakes go hard when theyre off and biscuts go soft.
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the Chuckle Brothers had some input into the concept of the Ford Probe
that genuinley wouldnt surprise me!
The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
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if you was to get a centipede pissed it will do the hokey dokey
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David Bowie invented Connect 4
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Cannabis was first cultivated in China around 4000 B.C. and the U.S. Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper
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Jeremy Clarksons mum invented Padington bear
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REAL FACTS PLEASE PEOPLE! not just ones you think sound impressive!99% of people cannot lick their elbow.
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the average chocolate bar in the U.S. contains at least 8 pieces of an insect in it?
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1. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
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Only female mosquitoes bite humans
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Murray Walker came up with the slogan
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