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Old 12-20-2006, 10:32 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by skindredluver View Post
Wow is there a place where you get this info or somethin?
uh yeah, they're called books. They're these funny things with all kinds of useful information so you can learn stuff about the rest of the world. neat huh?

more to the topic, here's some random useless facts for you all:

A jellyfish is 95 percent water

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks
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