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Ordo Ab Chao
Ordo Ab Chao

Mar-5-2011 03:11

Share fun funny facts covering all of subjects...

- A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement.

- A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

- The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.

- Rain contains vitamin B12.

- Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.





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Peter O'Neil
Peter O'Neil
Old Shoe

Nov-17-2011 10:36

The archangel St. Gabriel is the patron saint of telecommunications.

The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.

The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.

Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.

ATLANTISREALM
ATLANTISREALM

Nov-20-2011 06:47

If you yelled for eight years, seven months, and six days, you will have generated sufficient sound energy to heat up a single cup of coffee.

It was actually considered the mark of a leader in ancient Rome when one was born with a crooked nose.

The Mayans tried to make their children fit into their conception of beauty by flattening their heads with a board since birth, as well as walking around perpetually cross eyed.

Relatively speaking the strongest muscle in the human body is ... the tongue!

Your body has enough fat to make approximately 7 bars of soap.



ATLANTISREALM
ATLANTISREALM

Nov-20-2011 06:53

Toothbrushes as we know them were invented in China and used hog bristles or horse hair on ivory handles.

Antifreeze contains the same chemicals that are found in a number of deodorants and toothpastes.

The wealthy were the only people to use underwear hundreds of years ago.

The Valentine’s Day tradition of sending cards was established in 1840 when the Penny Post made sending messages much cheaper.

The Mayflower was actually deconstructed and recycled into a barn once it was no longer in use.

ATLANTISREALM
ATLANTISREALM

Nov-20-2011 06:56

The speed at which termites eat wood doubles when they listen to heavy metal music.

Elephants are the only land based animals incapable of jumping.

Bananas are not only the favorite fruit of many monkeys and humans, they're also the favorite fruit of reindeer.

The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain. (Much like that of octopi).

Turtles are able to breathe through their butts.

More people are killed every year by donkeys than by plane crashes.

ATLANTISREALM
ATLANTISREALM

Nov-20-2011 07:02

Leonardo Da Vinci spent 12 years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

During the 1600's, both boys and girls in England wore dresses until they were about seven years old.

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

If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The larger and more brightly colored the flower is, the more desperate she probably is.)

Every time you lick the back of a stamp, you absorb roughly one tenth of a calorie.

If you want to sell your home faster, paint it yellow.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.



ATLANTISREALM
ATLANTISREALM

Nov-27-2011 03:27

Marie Currie, who twice won the Nobel Prize, and discovered radium, was not allowed to become a member of the prestigious French Academy because she was a woman.

John D. Rockefeller gave away over US$ 500,000,000 during his lifetime.

John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion.

Sir Winston Churchill rationed himself to 15 cigars a day.

Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply …' if you were my wife, I would drink it ! '.

One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 metre diameter, half tonne cheese.

Catherine the First of Russia, made a rule that no man was allowed to get drunk at one of her parties before nine o'clock.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men's beards.

Queen Elizabeth I passed a law which forced everyone except for the rich to wear a flat cap on Sundays.

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