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If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

When you place a seashell over your ear you are hearing the blood in your veins rushing.

The average human accidentally eats 8 spiders in their life.

The sun revolves around Chuck Norris.

Thanks for that info.I will use it wisly (or however its spelled)
And Jag,accidentially?

Such a good thread.

If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

false.

And Fantastico,that sounds a bit like Mr. Douglas Adams imagination.

everyone's best friend.

There is an almost perpetual lightning storm in Columbia, called Catatumbo lightning,
which provides for most of the worlds troposheric ozone. It was nearly "killed" last year during a drought.

when Chuck Norris donates blood, he brings a gun and a bucket.

And Fantastico,that sounds a bit like Mr. Douglas Adams imagination.

Shoot me a link, bud. Never heard of him..

Paintball is statiscally safer than sitting in your house watching TV.

Here:
http://en.wikipedia....i/Douglas_Adams

You're more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than actually win the lottery.

(no cool story this time :$)

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

Noord-Amerika
Zuid-Amerika
Europa
Azië
Australië
Afrika




So ... only 1 aka, it depends on the language you are writing in

^almost exactly my thougts though I got 2 continents..
AMERICA (is officially one continent)


There will be more movie sequels in 2011 than in any previous year.

This year, there will be a whopping 27 sequels - that’s nearly one-fifth of all the wide-release films! With Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Scream 4, Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part One) there will also be the most part fours ever released in one calendar year. Not only that, there will be an equal number of part fives, breaking yet another record with: Fast Five, Final Destination 5, Puss in Boots, X-Men: First Class, and Winnie the Pooh. There will also be 2 part seven films (The Muppets & Rise of the Apes) and one part eight (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2)! So much for originality...



The toaster was invented before pre-sliced bread.

Toasting bread has been a common practice since the time of the ancient Romans. However, it was not until 1853 that the first electric toaster was invented by a British firm called Crompton and Co. This original model only toasted one side of the bread at a time and required someone to stand by and watch to make sure the bread didn’t burn. The more contemporary pop-up timer toasters we are used to were not invented until 1919.

Nine years after this revised model and seventy-five after the original British toaster, a man by the name of Otto Frederick Rohwedder came along and came up with the coolest thing since sliced bread...mechanically sliced bread! His first machine incorporated hat pins to hold the sliced loaves together, but this did not work very well and the bread went stale quickly. Finally, in 1928 he finished a machine that sliced the bread and wrapped it in plastic! Pre-sliced bread and the electric toaster were a match made in heaven, and remain a staple of American breakfast food to this day!

The top is actually equal to the bottom. They just have different roles. Though it doesn't matter, because in the end, they're both eaten by the cookie monster.

The crime rate in Disneyland is worse then Canada

^wow, really?

A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds...

^
^Probably

The term "supercar" was first used to describe the Lamborghini Miura, in an automotive magazine article on the car.

The first ever time capsule made will not open until the year 8113.
Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, president of Oglethorpe University and inventor of the time capsule, proposed the date of 8113 in a 1936 edition of Scientific American. According to Jacobs, the earliest known date in history was 4241 B.C., a full 6,177 years before 1936. Getting to the year 8113 would take exactly the same amount of time. His capsule, the Crypt of Civilization at Oglethorpe University holds the Guinness World Record for “the first successful attempt to bury a record for any future inhabitant”.

If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

The average human accidentally eats 8 spiders in their life.

False, false, and false.