John Lennon once saw a UFO.Lennon called his photographer who told him to ring the
police,but Lennon laughed and said,"I'm not going to call up the newspaper and say,
This is John Lennon and I saw a flying saucer last night.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Pang#.22Lost_Weekend.22

On the set of Rocky IV,Dolph Lundgren punched Sylvester Stallone so hard that the hospital
staff thought he was hit by a car.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph_Lundgren

If you add 37 to the number of chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds,you will get
an approximation of the temperature outside.

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http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/cricket.html

France's King Louis XIV was offered biological weapons by an Italian chemist.He not
only refused,but also paid the chemist an annual salary to never reveal the technology
to anyone else.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_biological_warfare#Europe

There's an experimental project in Stockholm,Sweden where you can sign up to receive
a SMS if there is a cardiac arrest nearby (500 m),so you can get there before the ambulance
and perform CPR.9500 people have signed up,and they reach the location faster in 54% of the cases.

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http://www.smslivraddare.se/

There is a town in the state of Washington called George.George,Washington.

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http://www.ci.george.wa.us/

bigmo     10 Nov 13 15:16 


There are depictions of Medieval Knights fighting snails in ancient manuscripts...and nobody knows why.



Brings a whole new meaning to the term " slugging it out "

Come on that's worth at least a 2.5/10

When you run at night,you run faster because you primarily sense your environment
using your proprioception instead of with your eyes.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/sport-active/night-moves-the-benefits-to-running-after-dark/story-fnc9wiz4-1226649478126

Sea Otters have the densest fur of any mammal in the world.

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http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/otters/physical-characteristics.htm

MI6 hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced instructions on how to make a bomb with a cupcake recipe!

http://www.omg-facts.com/category/5/Technology/50#YtoK4smerugLrDHA.99

The United Nations declared the Internet a basic human right in 2011!

http://www.omg-facts.com/category/5/Technology/54#yfFd5j0BjYLAJrei.99

A couple got murdered because they de-friended someone on Facebook

http://www.omg-facts.com/category/5/Technology/60#KwGYZGVtuSuGZTgp.99

If you do not have any cuts in your mouth or a bleeding ulcer, you can safely drink snake venom without any harm to you whatsoever.

Lego produced 381 million tyres in 2011,making them the world's largest rubber tyre
manufacturer by number of units produced.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_tire

The reason penguins waddle is because it'sw the most efficient way to move so they burn less fat.

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-penguins-waddle

Thankfully not had that problem treble.



It was a tradition in Ireland that if you donated a pint of blood,they'd give you a
pint of Guinness to return the favour.

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http://tourireland.com/blog/?article=19

In 1954,the city of Mumbai,India had such a bad rat problem that they began accepting
dead rats in place of taxes.This led to the mass breeding and killing of rats to use them
for payment.

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http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qwQkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7iMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3737%2C1894135

Canada's money is plastic and smells like Maple Syrup!

http://www.omg-facts.com/category/8/Business/52#giLJdrVg5k4C7lR2.99

There’s a knife fork hybrid called the knork!

http://www.omg-facts.com/category/8/Business/54#lBCWHCMlGpXXAltD.99

Safeway got its name from a policy of not letting you go into debt for buying groceries!

http://www.omg-facts.com/category/12/Fun%20Facts/3#KoI15kGvOcwiAZO4.99

There’s a town in Germany completely surrounded by Switzerland!

http://www.omg-facts.com/category/12/Fun%20Facts/3#KoI15kGvOcwiAZO4.99

Re Pumpy's German exclave:

I don't know whether this has been mentioned already on this thread (apologies if it has) but there's a spectacular series of exclaves and enclaves near the Dutch-Belgian border.

There's one parcel of Dutch territory entirely surrounded by Belgium, and several parcels of Belgian territory completely surrounded by The Netherlands - and, within those BElgian exclaves, a number of Dutch enclaves, termed counter-enclaves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog

If you go to Google Earth and enter the location  51.45,4.933333 in "fly to," you can see how complicated it all looks.

There was a TV show piloted in Germany where twelve contestants donated their sperm to a lab where
doctors observed their seed race towards an egg.The winner of The Sperm Race got a Porsche.

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http://www.tv.com/news/five-outrageous-reality-shows-from-around-the-world-16376/

In a number of cities in Texas,people on the sex offender registry have to keep their outdoor lights off on Halloween.

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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Some-sex-offenders-under-Halloween-restrictions-4940988.php

If you have sex with a woman who just had sex with a different man,the shape of your
peenis allows you to scoop out his semen and replace it with your own.

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http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2009/05/01/friday-weird-science-scooping-semen/

Marie Curie's research papers are still highly radioactive and to access them you
must sign a waiver and wear protective clothing.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/1107/Marie-Curie-Why-her-papers-are-still-radioactive

With my memory I'm astounded I've gotten this far.