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Daft but true - Micky Mouse, in Disneyland, Florida, has two cases of racism going against him at the moment. He is said to have ignored two black families and walked on to cuddle and pose for photos with white families.
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bigmo 25 Feb 13 19:28
In Chico,California there's a $500 fine on anyone caught detonating nuclear weapons in city limits. In North Korea they receive a $500 reward if they can do the same. Franklin D.Roosevelt died while sitting for a painting that remains unfinished. Peter Roosevelt died while painting my apartment and my dining room remains unfinished. Coffee doesn't taste like it smells because saliva wipes out half of the flavour. Aah! That's what the Barista was doing when I caught her spitting onto my coffee in Starbucks. |
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Seagulls can drink saltwater,since they have special glands which filter out salt.
Scientist are working on a "GPS" that works in space. It uses x-ray's emitted by pulsars to get a position anywhere,accurate to 5km.It's called XNAV. There is a tree that grows fruit directly on the trunk.  |
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The space extending from your nose to the centre of your lips is called the Philtrum. It serves no function in humans but allows other mammals to carry moisture from the mouth to the nose pad to keep it wet which traps odor particles better than a dry nose pad.
Japan used$30 million of their Tsunami relief funds to support whaling. The most successful female sniper in history,Lyudmila Pavlichenko,couldn't pull the trigger on her first kill,until she saw a German shoot a young Russian soldier."He was such a nice,happy boy...""After that,nothing could stop me."She went on to record 309 confirmed kills in WWII  |
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The male cat has over a hundred tiny spikes on its peeniss which cause the female to howl in pain.
Usain Bolt broke the world record in the 100 meters event with his shoelace undone. The world record for having a ferret in your pants is 5 hours and 30 minutes.  |
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Everytime you visit Dictionary.com,it installs 159 3rd party cookies on your computer to track your habits
There is a charity in the United States which offers discounted tattoo removal for former gang members. Snake fish can live for 3 days out of the water and can rip the flesh from your bones on land.  |
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bigmo 01 Mar 13 10:26
Everytime you visit Dictionary.com,it installs 159 3rd party cookies on your computer to track your habits Ahh! That explains the letter they sent to me. Wondered how they knew I picked my nose. There is a charity in the United States which offers discounted tattoo removal for former gang members. For the ones who aren't gang members they call it amputation. Snake fish can live for 3 days out of the water and can rip the flesh from your bones on land. Women can live for years out of the water and can remove every penny from your bank account. |
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At Abraham Lincoln's first presidential speech,when he saw a supporter in the crowd being attacked,Lincoln grabbed the assailant by the "neck and the seat of his trousers" and threw him.
Fake smiling causes real happiness. The only head coach in University of Kansas basketball history with a losing career record is James Naismith,the inventor of basketball. |
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The Dalai Lama said that if science proves an aspect of Buddhism wrong,Buddhism will change.
An artist in Mexico created a series of underwater sculptures that double as art and artificial reefs. There is a Buddhist temple in Thailand constructed of an estimated 1.5 million beer bottles. |
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Buzz Aldrin celebrated his Moon Landing anniversary by cutting a track with Snoop Dogg.
Johnny Depp has played guitar for Marilyn Manson,Oasis and Aerosmith. There is a proposed system of government in which intelligence is the criteria for governance. |
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The USSR liberated more concentration camps than the rest of the allies combined.
People who stay up late are more likely to experience nightmares. Sea monsters on maps were originally put there to indicate that it was uncharted.  |
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In one of his comics,Punisher kills every single superhero and super-villain in the Marvel Universe including himself.
When Kolo,the gorilla famous for knowing sign language,was asked where gorillas go after death,she responded by signing "Comfortable hole,bye." Most of the smoke billowing up from a space shuttle launch is not exhaust.It is water vapor from the pool of water under the shuttle designed to absorb the acoustic shock waves that could otherwise tear the shuttle apart. |
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Google intends to scan all known existing 130 million unique books by the end of the decade.
If Manhattan had as many people per square mile as Alaska,there would be 14 people in Manhattan. If you put a lit match in your microwave and turn it on you can create a plasma ball or balled lightning. |
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Kolo,the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, does not appear in Wikipedia
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Probably because her name was Koko
Sexual harassment Three female former employees have claimed that they were pressured into showing their breasts to Koko. They alleged that Patterson encouraged the behavior, often interpreted Koko's signs as requests for nipple display, and let them know that their job would be in danger if they "did not indulge Koko's nipple fetish". The parties eventually reached a settlement when the women dropped suit based on a judge ruling based on lack of evidence. Patterson claimed that Koko uses the word "nipple" to refer to humans because it sounds like "people" |
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Facial hair is as strong as copper wire of equal diameter.
There is a disease where a person is blind but they don't know it and will (unconsciously)make up excuses to cover it up.It's called Anton-Babinski syndrome. Coffee loses caffeine as it is roasted,so a dark,"bold"cup of coffee actually has less caffeine than a lighter roast. |
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Over 99% of Romans lived in Apartment buildings.Only 1% lived in private homes.
Only 20 people are known to have Hyperthymesia.They remember every detail of their lives. A PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London developed a concept for a Roller coaster that would kill all of its passengers. It’s called the Euthanasia Coaster.  |
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A Chinese company is planning to build a skyscraper taller than the Burj Khalifa (tallest building in the world)in just three months.
In June 2008,a tornado hit Kansas State University's campus destroying only one building:their Wind Erosion Lab. Kidnapping is so widespread in Colombia that they have a radio station that lets family members broadcast 30 second messages to their kidnapped loved ones.The wait to get on air is sometimes 6 hours. |
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Beehives are made up of regular hexagons because that is the most efficient tessallating shape,giving the most storage space for the least energy and material used in the building process.
The Sami people of Northern Finland have a unit of measurement called the "poronkusema"-the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to go to the toilet. The word "electrocute" is only accurately used if the person dies (electro+execute).If the person survives,they weren't electrocuted. |
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electroprieved?
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^^Slugs evolved from snails,and exposing baby snails to platunum turns them into slugs. The reason Tetris is so addictive is because of our deep-seated psychological drive to tidy up. J.K.Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated too much of her money to charity. |
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Swearing after hurting yourself can help numb the pain of an injury,new research suggests.
During prohibition,solid grape concentrate was sold with the warning message,"After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water,do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days,because it would turn to wine." A kidnapper sued the couple he kidnapped for breaking their "oral contract"to hide him from the police if he let them go.  |
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There is a restaurant in Las Vegas that has a four story high wine tower inspired by Mission Impossible and the waiters fly around it suspended by wires.
About half of any spacewalk at the International Space Station is spent in complete darkness. When we get dumped,for a period of time we love the person who rejected us even more.The brain regions that lit up when we were in a happy union continue to be active. |
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An innocent man spent 26 years behind bars because the lawyers who knew knew he was innocent were legally barred from telling anyone.
Adult Luna Moths develop without a mouth,their only purpose is to mate within their 7-day lifespan.After which they die of starvation. There is a medical disorder in infants called "Maple Syrup Urine Disease,"where the child's urine smells of maple syrup or burnt sugar. |
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Natural gas doesn't actually e a smell-the "smell" of a gas leak is actually mercaptan,which is added to warn people of leaking gas.
Ice cream tasters use gold spoons to be able to taste the product 100% without a slight percentage of "after taste" from typical spoons. The terms "white meat" and "dark meat"come from the Victorian era when people were too embarrassed to use the words "leg" and "breassts" |
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Coconut juice-or water inside-not only is sterile,but has the same electrolytic balance as human blood,which enabled medics in the Pacific Theater in World War II to use it as an emergency substitute for plasma.
There is a jellyfish that uses a vertical membrane sticking out of the water to catch the wind and sail the world's oceans. Chimps in Senegal are learning to use "spears"to hunt other animals! |
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Cocaine use dramatically speeds up aging of the brain.
Siberian Husky's coat enables it to withstand temperatures from -58 to -76 degrees (F) A Roadrunner's top speed is about 20 MPH-A coyote's top speed is about 43 MPH. |
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Women look their oldest every Wednesday at 3:30pm.
Dogs evolved from wolves that could digest starchy food. Women started wearing high heels to look more like men,study finds. |
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It's easier to pick wet things up with wrinkled fingers-suggesting an evolutionary reason for getting "prune fingers"in the bath.
The inhabitants of the Greek island of Ikaria live on average 10 years longer than people in the rest of western Europe. Andrei Karpov was so desperate to stay in a poker game,he put his wife up as a stake after he ran out of money.He then lost.She was so angry she left him for the winner.  |
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Lemmingd do NOT commit suicide
During the filming of a 1958 Disney documentary, White Wilderness, the film crew imported lemmings into Alberta, Canada, (not a natural habitat for the animals) then herded a group of a few dozen lemmings over a cliff and into the water in order to stage a mass migration and demonstrate their reported suicidal behavior. |
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The price of college textbooks in the US has risen faster than healthcare,house prices and inflation.
Lizards can survive a spin in the washing machine. Wearing a white lab coat helps you perform better in tests,study has found. |
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People who multitask all the time may be the worst at doing two things at once,new research shows.
A milk protein is used in the manufacturing of latex,which means most condoms are unsuitable for use by vegans. Many "Ghost Trains"run on the British Rail Network.These trains-often the unadvertised-run extremely rarely,at obscure times,through bizarre routes,purely to keep the line officially open whilst discouraging passenger use. Ghost train hunters roam the country searching for them! |
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Great Britain has invaded 90% of the worlds countries.
The "horror frog"will break its own bones to make claws out of them,and use them as defensive weapons. Yuki people,native americans from California,use base 8 instead of 10,because they don't count with their fingers,but with the space between them. |
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All carrots where purple until around the 1930s when they where gentically changed to there present colour
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Where is often used instead of were on internet forums.
There is often used instead of their on internet forums. |
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The chairman of the Pork Pie Association is vegetarian
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Pork Pies
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Pigs have a relatively high cognitive ability,with the ability to us mirrors and learn a considerable amount of tricks.
A group of scientists used mouse skin cells to create stem cells and then used these stem cells to create mouse eggs.These eggs were fertilized and produced healthy baby offspring.These latter mice were able to have their own babies. 40.8% of children born in the US in 2010 were born to unmarried women. |
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Some Paralympic athletes gain an unfair advantage by purposely injuring themselves on areas of their body with no feeling.It's called "boosting"and their goal is to trick the body into triggering a kind of fight-or-flight responce,and in doing so,increase performance.
First country that will be entirely lost to rising sea levels (Kiribati)is already planning the complete,permanent evacuation of it's population. Nutella lost a $3 Million lawsuit over false nutritional claims. |
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 A man spent $12000 building the world's greatest tree house.  Russell from "Up"was modeled after a 32 year old Pixar employee.  China’s Tianmen mountain park has a glass walkway. You get a direct view of 4700 feet drop.  The University of Victoria offers a course in the science of Batman. |