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  1. Etsnuffy

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    Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries
     
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    The oldest word in the english language is "town"
     
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    The father of the pink flamingo (the plastic lawn ornament) was Don Featherstone of Massachusetts. Featherstone graduated from art school and went to work as a designer for Union Products, a Leominster, Massachusetts company that manufactured flat plastic lawn ornaments. He designed the pink flamingo in 1957 as a follow-up project to his plastic duck. Today, Featherstone is president and part owner of the company that sells an average of 250,000 to 500,000 plastic pink flamingos a year
     
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    THERE IS ENOUGH BRICK IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZEH TO BUILD A WALL 10 FEET HIGH AND 1 FOOT THICK AROUND THE ENTIRE BORDER OF FRANCE.
     
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
     
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    all organic compounds contain carbon
     
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    THE ST. LOUIS GATEWAY HAD A PROJECTED DEATH TOLL WHILE IT WAS BEING BUILT. NO ONE DIED.
     
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    The sale of chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt
     
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    The number of Twinkies that Twinkie inventor Jimmy Dewie ate in his lifetime was 40,177
     
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    A GOLDEN RAZOR REMOVED FROM KING TUT'S TOMB WAS STILL SHARP ENOUGH TO BE USED
     
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    Sound travels through water much faster than air. Around 4 times as fast. Through steel, it can travel roughly 15 times faster than air.
     
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    during his entire lifetime,Vincet Van Gogh sold only one painting,red vineyard at Arles
     
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    166,875,000,000 PIECES OF MAIL ARE DELIEVERED EACH YEAR IN THE US.
     
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    the average womans handbag weighs three to five pounds
     
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    so thats four?
     
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    :D :D :D :cool:

    Good to see you're up on the new math Gerard.
     
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    It is physically impossible to lick your elbow
     
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    Everybody trying to lick his elbow right now? :D
     
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    i can almost do it :D
     
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    888,000 CREDIT CARDS IN CIRCULATION WILL TURN OUT TO HAVE INCORRECT CARDHOLDER INFORMATION ON THEIR MAGNETIC STRIPS.
     
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    The diameter of the wire used to make a paperclip is about a millimeter or 0.04 of an inch
     
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    The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
     
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