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I have a friend who lives in Magnitogorsk
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Malawi has a patient to doctor ratio of 88,321 to 1 which translates to 173 doctors for a population of over 15 million.
Bryan Adams's hit "Summer of 69" is not about the year,but about the sexual position. Brazil has more Lebanese people than Lebanon. |
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The largest grower of Brazil nuts is Bolivia.
Brazil nuts contain enough radium to set off a radiation alarm in a nuclear power station, if you had a pocket fuil of them. |
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The black spots on french fries are small pockets of excess sugar.When the potato is fried,these darken faster than the rest of the fry.They are completely safe to eat.
Oscar Wilde's reputed last words were,"Either that wallpaper goes,or I do." The Washington Monument is the tallest stone structure in the world. |
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Sales of vinyl records have increased since 1993 and continue to increase.
The movie "This is Spinal Tap" is the only movie on imdb rated on a 1 to 11 Rating Scale due to the joke in the movie about the Amps going up to 11. Tongren, China -- For some 20 years now, Buddhist monk Hua Chi has been praying in the same spot in the temple he lives in. Over so many years, the soles of his feet have become perfectly ingrained in the wood of the floor, and have now reached a depth of 1.2 inches in some places [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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Did you you know CYCLEPHOBIA is the fear of Bicycles
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There's an underground city beneath Beijing that covers 85 square kilometres.Built in the 70s in preparation for nuclear war it's described as being "dark,damp and genuinely eerie."
When Hitler forced the French to surrender during WW2 he did so on the site where the Germans were forced to surrender in WW1.Not only that but he found the same train carriage used in WW1 and forced the French to sign a surrender in that same train carriage. In 1976 a prop "mannequin" hanging from the gallows of a dark amusement park ride was discovered to be the mummified body of a train robber,shot in 1911 after stealing $46 and a few bottles of liquor |
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Grumpy cat's permanently grumpy face is due to feline dwarfism.Her real name is Tardar Sauce.
North Korea is the only nation to currently have a US Navy ship captured. This year,the Hornsleth Deep Storage Project will lower a vast iron sculpture into the Marianas trench full of human blood,hair samples,and animal DNA,to be used to bring people and endangered species back to life in the future. |
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There is a drug,called DNP,which causes the human body to effectively burn body fat at an extremely fast rate.The downside? Most of the energy stored in the fat is released as heat when it is metabolized.Take too much DNP and you will literally cook yourself to death.
Insano Waterslide,Brazil is the highest water slide in the world at 41 meters. In Japan there is a family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1,300 years...or 46 generations. |
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Samuel L Jackson has a clause in all his movie contracts stating that he gets 2 days off a week to play golf and the producers have to pay for it.
Just before boarding the vessel that he was attacking,Blackbeard would take slow burning fuse matches and,with bright red ribbon,tie them in his hair and beard.When lit,these smoking matches gave him the appearance of the Devil. After the french revolution,France briefly used a new calender based on a decimal system;10 days a week,10 hours a day,100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute,and starting at Year 1. |
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Jennifer Lopez's parents told her becoming a movie star was "really stupid" and that "no Latinos did that".Fifteen years later,she became the first person to have a number one album and film in the same week.
In the UK you are legally required to stop if you run over a dog,but not a cat. Approximately 25-30% of drinkers are resistant to hangover symptoms. |
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Marie Curie works & papers are to this day still kept in lead lined boxes as they are still too radioactive to be handled unless you wear protective clothing even 80 years after her death.
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Porn is illegal in Ukraine,unless it is for medical use.
If you live long enough,you will eventually develop Cancer. In Japan,trains are so punctual that any delay over 5 minutes usually incurs an apology over the tannoy and a "delay certificate"for passengers on their way to work.When trains are delayed for an hour or more,it may even make the news. |
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A Chinese man sued his wife for delivering an "extremely ugly" baby and won the case.
During Argentina's dictatorship,opponents to the regime were drugged,flown out over the Atlantic,and pushed out of planes alive with weights attached to their feet so no bodies would be found as evidence. There is evidence of an underground river 4 km beneath the Amazon,that may be as long as the Amazon (6,000 km) and hundreds of times wider. |
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A man spent 3 years designing and creating "the perfect city" using Sim City 3000.The
city named Magnasanti had the game's maximum population,no crime and no pollution. When you chew and talk,it cleans your ears. In 1474,a rooster in Basel,Switzerland was sentenced to burn at the stake for committing the "heinous and unnatural crime of laying an egg". |
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bigmo
03 May 13 15:52 In the UK you are legally required to stop if you run over a dog,but not a cat. You had to as a dog was a licensd animal. But at 7s/6d a throw it was more costly to produce the license than the revenue they gave. I believe thy have been scrapped, so no need to stop and report it now if you don't want to. |
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50.8% of the current US Federal Prison population is serving a sentence for a drug crime.
An art forger who,dressed as a Jesuit priest,would donate his fakes to museums all around the country.Since he accepted no money,there has been no crime committed. "Fido" is a common dog name because it was the name of Abraham Lincoln's dog;the pooch outlived the president,but was eventually stabbed by a drunk man. |
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The famous Sherlock Holmes actor, Jeremy Brett, was Martin Clunes uncle, and offered to pay for his ears to be pinned back to improve his chances of getting acting parts.
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Nice one treble.
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Do you think i'm joking?
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Not at all. I just found it amusing.
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Quite ironic now seeing as his ears played a part in his success in MBB.
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Possession of 7oz of Marijuana in Malaysia is an automatic death penalty.
Snoop Dogg (lion) released a smokeable song book with the books content entirely printed on rolling paper. Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Augustus both decreed that only the Emperor could wear purple.When Nero became Emperor,the wearing of purple and even the sale of purple was punishable by death. |
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Nine crewmen survived when their plane crashed during World War 2.Eight were captured by the Japanese and eaten.One survived because he was picked up by a passing submarine.That survivor was... George H.W.Bush.
Nepal was the first country in Asia to introduce gay marriage.It has also outlawed the death penalty. There were 36 assassination attempts on Hitler. |
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The city of Dublin was founded by Vikings.
Everyone in the world has a common ancestor that lived 5000-10000 years ago. When asked by a kidnapper to get out of the car,Princess Anne replied "Not bloody likely!",before diving out of the other side. |
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In 1957,an explosion occurred at a plutonium plant in the USSR,resulting in the third worst nuclear accident in history.The government kept it secret for 19 years.
Sheared sheep don't recognize each other and fight for a few days to re-establish a hierarchy. Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke held a world record for the fastest drinking of a yard of beer. |
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British £1 coins reflect the age of the Queen at the time of their issue.
In 200 BC,when Sparta was at the height of it's power there were 20 slaves for every citizen. Germany prints paper currency for 60 different countries,and Canada makes coins for 62. |
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A man spent 67 years of his life sterioblind (without true perception of
depth).It was only after he watched the movie Hugo with 3D glasses that his brain suddenly rewired and he was able to normal 3D vision. While clinking glasses with others while saying "Cheers!" you're supposed to keep eye contact and not look elsewhere. There is a constructed language that can be spoken,signed,played musically,written as words or numbers,drawn as shapes,or painted.It's called Solresol. |
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"A man spent 67 years of his life sterioblind (without true perception of
depth).It was only after he watched the movie Hugo with 3D glasses that his brain suddenly rewired and he was able to normal 3D vision." That's very interesting, bigmo. I've been reading an awful lot, just lately, about how the brain works. |
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He certainly digs out some interesting things Makybe_Diva.
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The first item sold on ebay was a broken laser pointer,and when asked in an email by ebay founder Pierre Omidyar if he was aware that the laser pointer was broken,the buyer replied that "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."
There is a man in Germany who raises wolves and acts as their alpha male. The urine of redhead boys was prized in medieval Europe for making stained glass. |
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Andy Warhol owned over 40 wigs and when a girl snatched off his iconic hair at a book-signing,he noted in his diary,"I don't know what held me back from pushing her over the balcony."
1 in every 100 American adults are in prison,and the U.S has more people in prison than China. There is an experimental radio show called "A Call in the Night" that will call you once a week after 2am and connect you to a random person to discuss your dreams. |
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Nazis forged British Pounds with a total value of 134,610,810.Their plan was to destabilize the British economy.The notes are considered among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced,being almost impossible to distinguish from real currency.
Ancient Greeks believed that wearing amethysts would help prevent a person from getting drunk. A former professor with a PhD from Stanford University specializing in statistics has won the lottery 4 times. |
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bigmo 07 May 13 07:51
Nazis forged British Pounds with a total value of 134,610,810.Their plan was to destabilize the British economy.The notes are considered among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced,being almost impossible to distinguish from real currency. Unfortunately underneath the "I promise to pay the bearer" it is signed A Hitler. Ancient Greeks believed that wearing amethysts would help prevent a person from getting drunk. Unfortunately due to the relative high cost of Amethysts, brewers found they could get similar results simply by adding more water to the beer. A former professor with a PhD from Stanford University specializing in statistics has won the lottery 4 times. Unfortunately this is not so impressive when you realise the wins were 4 X £10. |
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Armadillos can inflate their stomachs and intestines with air and float across the water.
Theodore Roosevelt watched his mother die of typhoid fever and then immediately had to go upstairs and see his wife die of complications from childbirth. Bamboo can be used to make extremely soft yarn for weaving,twice as soft as cotton. |
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Earnest Hemingway's brother founded a nation off the coast of Jamaica that consisted of a raft and 7 citizens.It had currency,postage,and a constitution.
When a woman is attracted to a man,she speaks in a higher pitch than normal. In 1983 an amendment was proposed to rename the us to the United States of Earth. |
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According to Rotten Tomatoes,the Toy Story trilogy is the most critically acclaimed trilogy of all time.
Japan has over 50,000 people that are over 100 years old. The word "buck" as a synonym for dollar originates with the use of buckskins as a currency in the 18th century. |
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When US dollars were first produced,they did not have the presidents' faces.In fact,George Washington was against having his face on the currency because it reminded him of monarchy.
Boston University has a "People Watching Club." Members of the club meet at a different location once a week and stare at strangers. The FBI helped frame four men for a 1965 murder in order to protect an informant.Two died in prison;the other two served more than 30 years before being exonerated. |
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Before his success,James Franco would practice different accents on the
customers he served at McDonald's. In Tagalog (Philippines'main dialect) Mahal means love and "Mahal" also means expensive. Male giraffes use their long neck to hit female giraffes in the bladder,that causes the female to urinate.The male giraffe then proceeds to drink the urine to find out if the female is ovulating. |