***STRANGE FACTS THAT MOST DONT KNOW

[Monty]

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Al Gore invented the internet. Monty

 

[diggummup]

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There are about 10,000 forest fires started by lightning each year


Lightning kills more people that tornadoes and hurricanes combined. It is the single most dangerous thing produced by a thunderstorm

In Maine, it's illegal for a police officer to tell you to have a nice day after giving you a traffic ticket

When possums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world

Reno, Nevada is west of Los Angeles, California

In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.

The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard

Paul Revere was a dentist

 

[diggummup]

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Okay alot of "us" may know this and "we" wouldn't consider it strange but-

Bill Wyman from The Rolling Stones metal detects and has his own brand of detector.
http://www.billwymandetector.com/

Nascar driver Sterling Marlin is an avid detectorist.

In 1881, Alexander Graham Bell invented the first metal detector. As President James Garfield lay dying of an assassin's bullet, Alexander Graham Bell hurriedly invented a crude metal detector in an unsuccessful attempt to locate the fatal slug. Bell's metal detector was an electromagnetic device he called the induction balance.

 

[mojjax]

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A duck's quack ...does not echo

 

[rockhound]

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In the early days of our country, a deers hide was worth a dollar, so that is why some still call it a buck.
Jello, and all gelatin, is made fom animals hoofs.

 

[WindHarvester]

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Fifty years ago, two furry friends named Belka and Strelka made history when they orbited Earth onboard a Soviet space capsule. The dogs preceded humans in space flight, and were the first living creatures to leave the planet and safely return again.

 

[packerbacker]

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A little known fact....

The first testicular guard, the "Cup",
was used in Hockey in 1874 and
the first helmet was used in 1974.
That means it took 100 years for men
to realize that their brain is also important.



Ladies.....Quit Laughing.

 

[Frankn]

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In 1875 they noticed that hocker players were speaking in deeper voices!

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[diggummup]

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A duck's quack ...does not echo

There have been scientific studies to prove this is just an urban legend.

 

[mojjax]

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A duck's quack ...does not echo

There have been scientific studies to prove this is just an urban legend.

Yea , I guess your right

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1090/is-it-true-a-ducks-quack-wont-echo

I read it on the wall at the redemption center , while they were counting my bottles .

There was a whole list of stuff , elephants not jumping , was at the top .

 

[Frankn]

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Lightning strikes in the same place many times!
There's a tree on my farm that has been struck at least 3 times. I think the next might be it's last. there is a 3" crack down the side.

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[Tony66]

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Arlington National Cemetery civil war dead are buried in Robert E. Lee's front yard. Monty

they buried the blacks in his wife's Rose garden so that Robert E. Lee and his wife would never return home again.

Please forgive me if this is an ignorant question or remark but I don't understand whythey would bury blacks in the wifes Rose garden. My understanding is that Robert E Lee was not a supporter of slavery and that he had no slaves even before the Civil War started and that (I'm not positive about this part) his wife was either assisting escaped slaves or was teaching escaped slaves (both against the law). I also thought that Ulysses S Grant was made to give up his slaves at the end of the Civil War and that Mary Todd Lincoln was very pro slavery. With that said, I don't understand why blacks buried in the garden would cause Mr and Mrs not to return home. Can anyone please explain this to me. Again, I mean no disrespect to anyone, I just thought maybe I understood some things wrong.

 

[stefen]

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Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine
All polar bears are left handed

A Polar Bear has never hunted or eaten a Penquin

 

[savant365]

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Al Gore invented the internet. Monty

And started global warming with it

 

[savant365]

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Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

 

[spartacus53]

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A little known fact....

The first testicular guard, the "Cup",
was used in Hockey in 1874

Yes that is true, too bad no credit was given to the French inventor Jacques Strop

 

[stefen]

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Al Gore invented the internet. Monty

Al Gorp probable taught a bear where to take a ...Charmin Break

 

[stefen]

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A little known fact....

The first testicular guard, the "Cup",
was used in Hockey in 1874 and
the first helmet was used in 1974.
That means it took 100 years for men
to realize that their brain is also important.



Ladies.....Quit Laughing.

Depends...the brain with the lower IQ always gets more protection

 

[Frankn]

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In most survival courses it is taught that the moss grows on the north side of the trees. White searching an area in central Pa. I was surprised to find that the moss grows around the entire base of the trees!

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[jeff741972]

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Jello, and all gelatin, is made fom animals hoofs.

It may have been at one time, for a few years now I have hauled table "scraps" from cow hide tannery's in the midwest to a Kraft plant in Massachusetts.