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Interesting facts you know

If you swallow gum it stays in your body for several years (I think)

You can manipulate if a crocodile becomes male of female by the temperature.

Err, there were more but I forgot.
 
Pokemon Rocks! Ok real facts. Um...the world record for most babies born at a time and survived is seven. Wonder what they are called. Sevtuplets or something?
 
Depp is German for jack*ss.

I have 200 page book on weird facts. Shall I get it now? I've read this thing 20 times and it isn't old.

Let's see...

If you had a billion dollars and spent 1000 dollars a day, it would take 2,740 years to spend it.

Napoleon was afraid of cats.

Do you know how long it takes for Earth to go around the sun?Forty-six percent of Americans don't. (It's a year)

In her films, Shirley Temple had EXACTLY 56 curls in her hair.

Armadillos can get leprosy.

Pac-Man was Time Magazine's Man of the Year before.

Many restraunts in France allow dogs and have special menus for them.

George Washington was named after King George of England.

More later, Star Wars is on
 
Because I studied this for days and didn't get a question on it, I'm determined to use my knowledge for something.

A significantly higher proportion of people with shizophrenia were born in winter than any other season. Also, mothers of schizophreniacs are much more likey to have had some form of 'flu during pregnancy than mothers of non-schizophrenics.
 
It can get cold enough for your breath to freeze and fall on the ground... and shatter.

Ha! Beakman's World always suprises me!
 
Ambipom said:
Pac-Man was Time Magazine's Man of the Year before.
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Why does that surprise you? It's not hard to be person of the year in Time. I mean, I was person of the year in 2006, what's the big deal about it?

The genre of metal is believed to have been started by the Beatles song Helter Skelter.

The world record for masturbating is 17 hours +.

That's it, I think. :|
 
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. That's why people spend so much money at those places.

Fires move faster uphill than downhill. Something about the heat and the way they burn....

In Tennessee, a law exists which prohibits the sale of bologna (sandwich meat) on Sunday. It's a good thing I don't live there (not like I care about bologna anyway).

.....
 
In a 50/50 chance, there is a 90% possibility you will get it wrong.

Months that start with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.

If done correctly, any rubrics cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.

Apparently, there was also a newly elected Australian prime minister who went out for a swim one day and never returned oO
 
You probably know this already, but the reason there are leap years is because the year is six hours over our 24-hour day. Every four years, we just add another day to February to make up for it.
 
Dinru said:
You probably know this already, but the reason there are leap years is because the year is six hours over our 24-hour day. Every four years, we just add another day to February to make up for it.
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this is a simplified explanation. the solar year is actually slightly under 356.25 days, which means we need to account for this by making some years divisible by four not leap years; those divisible by a hundred aren't leap years, unless they're also divisible by 400.
 
In Greece a while back the government there accidentally passed a law banning all video games. I know more but I don't remember them.
 
Contrary to popular belief, the Japanese word "kuso" doesn't mean shit, but is closer to "damnit".
Sean Schemmel, the voice of Lucario, is also the voice of Goku.
Caramelldansen is often called the "Uma Uma Dance" in Japan, because of the mishearing of the part where they sing "U-u-ua ua".
 
Daddy Long Legs aren't the most poisonous spider in the world for two reasons:
1. It isn't poisonous.
2. It isn't a spider, it's a fly.

World War II technically only ended a few decades after 1945 when Germany became one country again (I can't remember the exact year).

There was apparently a law passed by King Edward the somethingth that said that it's illegal to eat a mince pie on Christmas day in England. Although this one might not be true.

Hitler was Austrian, not German. (I had to continue the Hitler ones)

April the fourteenth is both Pi day and Einstein's birthday.
 
They're crane flies, not daddy-long-legs~
(I've been telling this to people for years)

And, because I love this, the animal ursus arctos isn't the polar bear, but the brown bear. Arktos is Greek for bear, and the Arctic was named thus because they found polar bear (Ursus maritimus) there.

Which is why the Arctic has bears and the Antarctic has none :D
 
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