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The Groob Posted Jan 21, 2004
31 people have died in the last four years by watering their christmas tree while the lights were still plugged on.
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The Groob Posted Jan 21, 2004
In England we write the sound a pig makes as 'oink oink'.
In France they use 'groin groin'.
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Baconlefeets Posted Jan 21, 2004
you can tell if something is real amber if you put it floats in water
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Fathom Posted Jan 21, 2004
And yellow plastic doesn't float?
The first flight made by the Wright Brothers was shorter than the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
All the members of the band ZZ Top have a beard except one - who's name is Beard.
The greatest source of error in an Ordnance Survey map is shrinkage of the paper as the ink dries. (Notwithstanding map conventions such as the width of roads etc.)
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Baconlefeets Posted Jan 21, 2004
i was watchin something the other night whne it did an amber demonstration...
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kalan ( sits in his tree playing a lute!!) Posted Jan 21, 2004
It was on the Antiques Roadshow.
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The Groob Posted Jan 21, 2004
Mickey Mouse's ears are a perfect circle from any angle.
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Fathom Posted Jan 21, 2004
The Old Grey Whistle Test was so called because the janitors at the studio wore grey uniforms and were known as the 'old greys'. If a song was catchy enough to have the janitors whistling it the next day it was said to have passed "the old grey whistle test" and was sure to be a hit.
90% of the people using this site haven't a clue what that last paragraph was about.
78% of statistics are made up on the spot.
Until it sank the Titanic was the largest man-made moving object on Earth (or indeed anywhere).
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dasilva Posted Jan 23, 2004
It was in an e-mail of bizare, useless facts that someone, totally unconnected with the guide, sent me this morning 
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Fathom Posted Jan 23, 2004
Almost anything anyone sends you in an e-mail of bizarre, useless facts will be untrue.
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The Groob Posted Jan 23, 2004
In Knoxville, Tennessee, it's against the law to lasso a fish
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dasilva Posted Jan 23, 2004
That like the legislation making it illegal to detonate a nuclear device within the city limits of Chicago?
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