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Postby LadySnape » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

The center of a super massive black hole is the size of a spec of dust. But, that spec of dust weighs 3 million times more than our sun. There is also an expired super nova that weighs one billion pounds per teaspoon.

You have enough microorganisms in your mouth to equal a cockroach.

A sneeze leaves your mouth a 100 miles per hour.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist. And the first one was built partly by a prison inmate. He later died in it for murder.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

If ribbon worms can't find any food, they will eat themselves.

The oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

"Pants" used to be considered a bad word in England.

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

Americans choke on toothpicks more that anything else.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Reindeer enjoy eating bananas.

The man who played the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots.

Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie.

Di Vinci spent 12 years painting Mona lisa's lips.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton look-alike contest.

Toto was paid $125 a week during the filming of the Wizard of Oz.
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Postby the-rabid-chocobo » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

that's some old gum
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Postby Quicksilver » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

:lol: Where did you find these? They're funny!
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Postby LadySnape » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

Do a web search on Google or Yahoo or whatever for "Weird Facts". :smile:
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Postby Wedge » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

noice!
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Postby the-rabid-chocobo » Thursday 1 January 1970 1:00:00am

did you know the first video game was designed by a nuclear scientist to attract exhibiters to a demonstration?
it's a fact
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Postby Gryffindor Student » Thursday 29 August 2002 10:21:44pm

Cool. 8-)
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Postby Wedge » Thursday 29 August 2002 10:31:36pm

cool choco! I'd like to take a look at that game... hmm do you think it'd run too fast on my Win2k 1 gig processor and 512 meg ram? and my hercules 64meg graphics card? Sorry but i like bragging about my pc. I bet some of you have better tho.
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Postby the-rabid-chocobo » Friday 30 August 2002 1:12:10am

i dun even have one...but pong...um...daaaamn...i have the playstation version...it's gotsys penguins in it so it's really cool
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