Useless but interesting knowledge

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Keanu Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Maddonna\'s Full or real name is Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone

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Pinks real name is Alecia Moore

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Stings real name is Gordon Matthew Sumner

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Elton John real name Reginald Kenneth Dwight

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A cats pur can also help to heal its bones

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wow, that is useless!

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The phrase "mind your p\'s and q\'s" is an old English bartender\'s saying, meaning "mind your pints and quarts" when customers got too rowdy.

The "real McCoy" was a self-oiling mechanism for steam locomotives invented by a black man in the 1800\'s. People everywhere copied his device, (which eliminated the need to stop the train every so often to oil parts) but his was the best. Hence:
"is that the real McCoy"

The term "Hip" as in "He\'s a hip cat" originated in Chicago during the golden age of jazz. It came from a bartender named John Hep who knew where all the hot bands were playing. Saying you were "hep to that" meant you were in the know...

most copper is a by-product of gold-mining.

Geoge Washington had vast Marijuana fields, and slaves.

The beat in "staying alive" by the Bee Gees was inspired by a clunking sound Maurice Gibb\'s car made. He wrote the song mostly in his car.

Ringo Starr was almost killed in the blitz.

Hitler had advanced syphillis, which causes mental problems.

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Wolverine from xmen purrs to heal himself.

no wait....

Soulgrind is a Grils name !

no wait...

hold on i was right the first time .

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ooseven is a secret agents name, of a series done to death.

I guess that\'s nothing new.

- Red is the most commonly colored vehical involved in accidents each year.

- Cows have four stomachs.

- Cows and horses sleep standing up.

- If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.

- The average family will spend $250,000 (thats a quarter million dollars) on each child from the time he/she is born until he/she turns 18.

- The oldest person to live was Jeanne Louise Calment, she lived for a whopping 122 years until she died of smoking related complications. Don\'t Smoke!

- If your like Jeanne Calment and live over 100, you are considered a Centurian.

- Christopher Columbus was the greatest explorer NEVER to discover America. In fact, he didn\'t even come close.

- There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran.

- There is no ice covering Iceland.

- MacDonalds fries are made with beef flavoring. mmmmmmm.

- The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.

- Latin is a dead language.

- Dolplins are the only other mamals besides humans that have sex for fun.

- Dogs can\'t decifer size. Thats why little dogs are mean.

- The swastika was origionaly a symbol of peace and honor and is still used by Buddhists today.

- Bart Simpson\'s voice on the Simpsons is actually done by a woman, Nancy Cartwright.

- Giraffe\'s tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots.

- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

- The average person\'s left hand does 56% of the typing.

- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

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

- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. ... Ok a lot of people have been bustin on me with this one since North America and South America obviously don\'t start with the same letter as they end with. I duno how to rephrase it but just assume i am referring to "America." FYI The reason this took so long to correct was because i lost the program/files i used to make this site (hence no updates) and had to learn to read html to write this.

- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with a population of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres.

- QD mean once a day
- BID means twice a day
- William Henry Harrison served the shortest term of any U.S. president. He served only 32 days, from March 4 to April 4, 1841
- More than 100 species of bacteria, and hundreds of species of fungi, protozoa, and viruses that have taken up residence in our mouths.
- Your nose makes nearly a cupful of snot every day
- A fart is a combination of gases (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, and hydrogen sulfide)
- The value of an average person\'s skin is about $3.50.
- The best way to avoid getting an ice cream headache is keep the chilled foods or beverages you eat on the side of your mouth, away from the roof of your mouth.
- It is hard to manufacture butter from goats because the cream is dispersed in the milk.
- The Dead Sea is not a sea, but a landlocked salt lake, 45 miles long by 9 miles wide.
- Elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day.

james bond is actually named after the \'famous\' ornithologist James Bond

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Originally posted by Cyrus

- The best way to avoid getting an ice cream headache is keep the chilled foods or beverages you eat on the side of your mouth, away from the roof of your mouth.

U know what causes that. Your blood vessels swell to heat your brain. It\'s a over reaction the nerve in the top of your mouth makes.   stupid nerve.

Alot of these i already knew.

but still good stuff to start conversations.

Some food facts:

Buttermilk does not contain any butter, but is a cultured milk product which is usually made from fat free milk.  new
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By federal law, for a noodle to actually be a noodle it must have 5.5 percent egg solids in it, otherwise it cannot be called a noodle.  new
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In 1994, 7-Eleven coined the term "brain freeze." The word was developed to explain the feeling people get when drinking a Slurpee.  new
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A can of Pepsi has 41 grams of sugar. This amount to about seven teaspoons of sugar.
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A drink used to be made by the Aztecs for the gods which had the ingredients of ground cocoa mixed in with spices and corn.
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According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
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According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of bread, they are bound to fall in love.
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Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
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After the "Popeye" comic strip was launched in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.
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All the Krispy Kreme donut stores collectively could make a doughnut stack as high as the Empire State Building in only 2 minutes.
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Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.
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Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.
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An American chews an average of 300 sticks of gum in a year.
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An average American eats approximately 60 hot dogs per year.
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An average American eats approximately 60 hot dogs per year.
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