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Pastimes : Happy Hour: A thread for not so intelligent discussions

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To: FREAKAZOID who wrote (621)5/7/1999 12:20:00 AM
From: Vision21  Read Replies (1) of 2380
 
<< You'll sleep much better tonight knowing these things:
The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to
death.

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.

Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why
Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron-in honor of his brother.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear
pants.

More people are killed by donkeys every year than are killed in plane
crashes.

STEWARDESSES is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn
white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left
handed people do.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter in the English language.

The continents names all end with the same letter with which they
start.

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

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line
would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The words racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left
to right or right to left.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from
each salad served in first class.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population
of 1000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other
people in the world.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
No president of the United States was an only child.
When counting, the first time the letter 'a' appears is 'one
thousand'. >> >>
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