Another 50 facts...

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Because "Knowledge is Power"!!!

Oh Yeah, Check out fact #37... It brings a whole new (and frankly scary) aspect to a previous post of mine about "Suicide Bombers, Paradise, and Virgins".


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1. The Black Plague originated in Pakistan and was no more dangerous than a common cold, but had mutated by the time it took to reach europe, to become the famous Black Death.

2. The original character Shaft uses an ivory handled fork as an afro comb, as a tribute to slain Black Panther leader Jeremy Barnes.



3. The original Grimm Brothers' Snow White has an eighth dwarf called Touchy, who represents a lust driven, hormonally charged teenager, as a warning to young girls to remain chaste.

4. Over 70 per cent of the air trapped in bubble wrap is rendered toxic by the plastic fumes given off during the manufacturing process.

5. Ants will only eat other ants if they receive a pheromone signal from the queen, even across species.

6. Ten kilograms of rotting plant matter gives off enough energy to drive a medium sized sedan a full mile.

7. In France during the 1890s it was considered unlucky to see a clown, leading to the notorious underground circus culture that exists there to this very day.

8. During the filming of Apocalypse Now, both Martin Sheen and Laurence Fishburne were bitten by snakes on their left index finger exactly 1 week apart.



9. Marmite was originally produced as a smear on poultice for the british troops during WW1.

10. Singer Cher had over 300 cosmetic surgery procedures, with over half of them to the left side of her nose.

11. It is a present day Mongolian custom to spit into the hand of your host to show gratitude for their hospitality.

12. A pig in Canada was taught to recognise sign language and could understand nearly 50 words, communicating with scientists through grunts, blinks, and nodding of the head.

13. A study in Sweden found bacon to be the tenth healthiest meat, followed by carp.

14. In ancient Greece the largest communal toilet had place for 150 people, in the centre of Athens largest market.

15. In India, the poorest workers break rocks with their hands for less than one American Dollar a day, but outlive middle class Americans by an average of eight years.

16. The dance, the samba, comes from a South American form of martial arts used extensively during the colonial uprisings in the 1600s.

17. Actress Jayne Mansfield was allegedly curse by a satanic cult, and a week later decapitated and killed in a car accident and police had to identify her by her bust measurement as her head was never found.

18. Up to the age of two years, a child's dominant hand usually changes up to six times between left and right.

19. When the Egyptian (or spitting) cobra runs out of venom, which takes around five sprays, it picks up small stones in it's mouth and spits those.

20. The world's first blue guitar was a Fender telecaster made in 1952, when it was sprayed with the wrong paint and almost discarded as a reject, only for blue to go on to become the most popular colour for musical instruments.

21. Depeche Mode has been the most successful pop group from the musically fertile Essex area, which has spawned the Prodigy, Erasure, and Motorhead, and has gone from selling 10 thousand copies of debut single Telephone Sock to 50 million copies of Personal Jesus from the best selling Violator album.

22. Pigeons are the only creature capable of baring young that carry genetic material from neither parent.

23. Rap star DMX refuses to perform live until his entire band and stage crew have kissed his lucky four leafed clover, kept in a portable bullet proof nursery.

24. The gorilla is the only great ape to learn how to play drums in 3/4 (or waltz) time.



25. The biblical character Jesus Christ was invented in the middle ages to sell a brand of flour in Germany.

26. It is widely known that ants farm aphids for their ability to retrieve nutrients from plant sap, but it is less known that they race them for sport and have devised a primitive system of gambling.

27. English metal superstars Iron Maiden took 200 tons of amplifiers on their last European tour - which is twice the weight of the Eiffel tower, and enabling them to be heard in space.

28. The closest living relative to the elephant is the rock rabbit.

29. The original recipe for chocolate contained goat's milk, aniseed and cocaine.

30. The fastest airborne animal is the flying squirrel, with a speed of 40mph.

31. Best selling author Stephen King has been run down twice by a car while walking on the streets near his home in Maine, both times by the same car, with a different driver.

32. A white American 10 year old watches on average a staggering 500 hours of television a week, and sees at least ten full hours of Macdonald advertisments.

33. In 2001 America recycled more than 25 tons of mobile phones.

34. On average men walk three times the distance women do during their lives.

35. The geranium is the only flower that cannot be digested by any animal or insect.

36. The original purpose of the tie was to tether 2 men together for a bare knuckle boxing contest in which biting was allowed.

37. China ejaculates 400 thousand gallons of semen every week night, peaking at a fertile 700 thousand on fridays.

38. Slain Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn gained his glass left eye while working in a mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

39. The meat of the Guinea pig is toxic to human beings, causing vomiting, diarrhoea, and fainting if eaten.

40. If you remained motionless for an entire week, your legs would break as soon as you put any weight on them due to lack of oxygenation, which is caused by movement.

41. In parts of Africa, surgeons pack septic wounds with uncooked potato wedges, due to the medicinal properties of potatoes.

42. The record for long distance running was set by an indian woman who ran 1 123 miles over a week, believing that she was being pursued by the ghost of her recently deceased husband.




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43. The world's first contraceptive was a crude prophylactic made from the skin of a gorilla's finger, discovered in borneo.

44. England's most fertile man, was Michael "Chugsy" Harpendon, who fathered 59 children between 1958 and 1972 with 12 different woman.

45. America's most "haunted" house had 16 different owners over a 2 year period due to the unexplained noises and smells that frequently occurred, until 17th owner discovered a family of blind albino raccoons living in the dry walls.

46. For every kg of red meat you eat, the energy expended during it's digestion ages your heart and liver 2 days.

47. The rhythm of the waltz was originally based on the sideways movement of the hermit crab.

48. Adolf Hitler was born with only 1 testicle, while his stillborn twin brother was born with 3.

49. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page clinically died for two minutes when he was given an electric shock from his amplifier before a gig in Australia in 1975, causing the rest of the tour to be cancelled.

50. Grizzly bears have a tiny third lung, which regulates the oxygen flow to their epidermis during their hibernation.

Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable.

Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

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30. The fastest airborne animal is the flying squirrel, with a speed of 40mph.

I call bullshit on this one...

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>> 32. A white American 10 year old watches on average a staggering 500 hours of television a week, and sees at least ten full hours of Macdonald advertisments.


Must not get much sleep, since there are not 500 hours in a week.


There are several others obviously wrong. Wild guess is that most of them are.

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30. The fastest airborne animal is the flying squirrel, with a speed of 40mph.

I call bullshit on this one...

I call bullshit on all of them. Although they are technically "facts," they're false facts.

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I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names.

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The one I like telling people:

At the weddings of the Ingudo tribe in Botswana the ceremony ends with the male recieving felatio from his new wife. Injesting his semen represents his spirit passing into her.

"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

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It's Thursday.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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>> 32. A white American 10 year old watches on average a staggering 500 hours of television a week, and sees at least ten full hours of Macdonald advertisments.


Must not get much sleep, since there are not 500 hours in a week.

TIVO.

"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

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49. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page clinically died for two minutes when he was given an electric shock from his amplifier before a gig in Australia in 1975, causing the rest of the tour to be cancelled.

I saw JP perform in Tampa stadium a few years back. It started raining hard and the wind was blowing the rain all over the stage. You could see water dripping off his guitar.

They eventually cancelled the show.