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Murphy

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Did you know that 100 people will choke to death this year after ingesting a ball point pen?

Dragonflies only live for one day. :(

Because of your stomach's acid, you have to reproduce a brand new layer of mucus every two weeks down there, or your stomach will digest itself.

Glue on Israeli postage stamps is kosher.

The last thing: Marsupials are from Earth, not Mars.
 

JLM

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Did you know that 100 people will choke to death this year after ingesting a ball point pen?

Dragonflies only live for one day. :(

Because of your stomach's acid, you have to reproduce a brand new layer of mucus every two weeks down there, or your stomach will digest itself.

Glue on Israeli postage stamps is kosher.

The last thing: Marsupials are from Earth, not Mars.


What kind of position would knowledge like that qualify you for?
 

Cliffy

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Murphy

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More Silly Facts

2. You are more likely to be captured by a space alien than fall into a volcano.
3. Almost every human on earth was born with two feet, yet they were shorter than that at birth.
5. Absence is the absence of presence. Presence is the absence of absence.
2. You cannot catch anything using a clari-net, but it is possible to break a trom-bone.
6. Rats can last longer without water than camels.

 

Blackleaf

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

82% of the world's people have never flown on an aeroplane.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

The preserved corpse of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of tea.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.