12-01-2006, 07:46 AM
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Useless Facts
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Pearls melt in vinegar. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a years supply of footballs. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola and Budweiser, in that order. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands. Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable". Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.) Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great Hearts - Charlemagne Diamonds- Julius Caesar 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 and just like that I´ve stealed precious seconds of ur life.. I keep them in a jar. |
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