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    Talking Hey looky, useless facts!

    Number one jukebox song of all time : Crazy, by Patsy Cline

    Otters can catch herpes

    Rome was the first city in the world to have a population of more than one million.

    A kangaroo shows it is nervous by licking its forearms

    Ducks have six eyelids

    Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on TV, green makes you look smaller.

    Hawaii's unofficial state fish is the Humuhumu-nukunuku-ap-ua'a

    Human beings and Koshima Island monkeys are the only creatures that intentionally salt their food

    The weight of an average human's cremated ashes : 9 pounds

    Constipation kills more fruit flies than any other ailment

    Queue is the only word in the English language that is pronounced the same when the last 4 letters are removed

    Honeybees can reach speeds of 30mph

    Pierre Michein, inventor of the safer (for the time) Michelin tyre, died in a road accident.

    An average of of 20,900 gallons of water flow from the Amazon into the sea every minute

    In a recent study, 38% of Americans said they loved their car more than they loved their partner

    30% of people asked to take part in polls refuse

    The English horn was invented in Austria

    In her entire life, Queen Berengaria of England never once visited England

    Odds of anyone on the planet being hit by a meteor : 1 in 5 billion

    Genetically, a guinea pig is more closely related to a cow than to any other rodent

    Only female mosquitoes suck blood, the males suck sap

    For a bet in 1948, four men took a cow to the top of the Matterhorn. They won the bet but then all froze to death during the descent.
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    Nice one Deckard, I never get bored of reading these lists

    Honeybees can reach speeds of 30mph

    No wonder they hurt so much when you are on a bike and they smack into you.

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    heh having flashbacks swafeman?

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    do you think a guinea pig ever came from [New] guinea?
    and if perhaps it's name is derived from the cost of one guinea (i.e. one guinea for the animal - back when ever guineas were money) what was its name before it cost this much?
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    alternatively these small furry animals were used as legal tender e.g. a tener = ten guinea pigs...

    thus when buying goods everyone had to carry around large cages attached to their belts containing small furry animals. a hampster would be half a guinea pig where as a mouse is a tenth.
    of course this all got terribly confusing and people were forced into poverty when they could no longer feed their money. It was at this point when all small furry animals were given to young girls and boys as pets and the monetary note came into being. this was by far the most effective medium in which one's riches could be counted and traded, they fit in your pocket easily, they didn't eat your pocket, you never got confused when you had to pull one out of your pocket and choose which one to use and they never ran off around the house costing you a fortune...(literaly)
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    Originally posted by KniFenForK
    heh having flashbacks swafeman?
    god damn it, only 57 useful posts?

    yeah yeah

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    Pmsl @ shiato...

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    In a recent study, 38% of Americans said they loved their car more than they loved their partner

    this is shocking!

    ...especially considering what most americans drive

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    Hey looky, useless facts!
    or, Hey looky, useless SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM SPAMSPAMSPAM

    sorry

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    Oooh, you accusing me of spam?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dareos View Post
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    I don’t think that posting useless facts is anymore spam like than some of the other threads "fly boy" , e.g. what digital camera’s have people got (not having a dig at that thread, just illustrating a point ). Personally I'd much rather read useless facts than what digital cameras people have.
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    on average 100 people choke 2 death on a ball point pen every year

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    Re: Hey looky, useless facts!

    Originally posted by Deckard

    Only female mosquitoes suck blood, the males suck sap

    same with humans???

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