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Post by Paul Hogan on Mar 26, 2005 5:20:16 GMT -5
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Mar 26, 2005 5:26:22 GMT -5
It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Mar 27, 2005 9:54:43 GMT -5
The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
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Post by Paul Hogan on Mar 27, 2005 9:56:41 GMT -5
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing
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Post by Paul Hogan on Mar 27, 2005 21:15:45 GMT -5
The Earth is the only planet not named after a God
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Post by Paul Hogan on Mar 28, 2005 21:29:47 GMT -5
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Mar 29, 2005 22:52:51 GMT -5
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Mar 29, 2005 23:04:21 GMT -5
The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 1, 2005 1:30:22 GMT -5
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbook can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court. Tennis anyone
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 1, 2005 1:44:43 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300][/glow]The graffiti in ancient Pompey, which was preserved very nicely by being buried in ash from the volcano Vesuvius in 79 A.D., included graphic pornographic poetry.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 1, 2005 1:57:17 GMT -5
The average human body contains over 100,000 km (60,000 miles) of arteries, veins and capillaries.
For every extra kilo of weight you cary you have an extra Kilometer of capiliries.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 1, 2005 2:19:14 GMT -5
Oak trees are struck by lightning more often than any other tree. It has been theorized, this is one reason that the ancient Greeks considered oak trees sacred to Zeus, god of thunder and lightning.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 1, 2005 3:48:18 GMT -5
Only 6% of the autographs in circulation from members of the Beatles are estimated to be real.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 1, 2005 7:15:22 GMT -5
The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.
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Post by Paul Hogan on Apr 2, 2005 9:39:50 GMT -5
La Paz, Bolivia is the world's most fireproof city. At 12,000 feet above sea level, the amount of oxygen in the air barely supports a flame.
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