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It's due to all sorts of hormonal chemicals found in the water supply we drink...

 

 

Well all the chaps i know dont have lady boobs, i think it might just be the "water" your drinking.

 

Oh and famaily guy, hehehe

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When Simeon Poisson (the man behind the Poisson distribution) was a child, he often had his legs tied together and was hung over a hook by his nanny to stop him misbehaving when she went out. His constant swinging led to a lifelong fascination with the movement of pendulums.

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Go to this site and you'll get tonnes of random facts, just click new fact and read the information in the brown box. If its good post it:

http://www.hookedonfacts.com/

 

A blue whales heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle

 

A group of frogs is called an army

 

Up to the age of six or seven months a child (baby) can breathe and swallow at the same time. Adults can't do this. (try it cause i can't, it just stops you from breathing)

 

In it's ancient form, the carrot was purple not orange.

 

If under extreme stress, an octopus will eat its own arms (or tenticles lol)

 

You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs (probably something to do with the flexibility of their bones).

 

Bluebirds can not see the colour blue

 

The moon is moving away from the Earth at 1.5 inches per year

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You cannot lick any of your elbows.

 

I dunno, I can get pretty close, so maybe Gene Simmons and his freakishly long tongue would be able to!

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And 90% of people that are told this try it!

I got it off of Brainiac, it's true what you said!

 

Men cannot lay their hands on their shoulders flat (As in the left hand on left shoulder), but women can.

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Rats can't throw-up.

 

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

 

Nasty topical one: Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits. .

 

WTF: It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.

 

Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.

 

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

 

Pigs can run a mile in 7 ½ minutes

 

The shortest word in the English language to contain the letters A,B,C,D,E, and F is: ‘Feedback’

 

After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.

 

The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

 

The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.

 

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

 

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

 

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

 

There are 293 ways to make change for a (US) dollar.

 

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

 

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

 

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

 

The milk of a hippopotamus is bright pink.

 

The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.

 

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.

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^wow that's a big list of facts

Did you use the website I posted?

 

George Bush was once a cheerleader... (explains a lot)

 

A watermelon is a vegetable not a fruit (wtf)

 

A female pidgeon cannot lay babies if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, there must be another pidgeon in sight

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Did you know you can get a widget that counts down the days, hours and seconds till George Bush is no longer president, its great!


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