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In 1928 only two horses finished the Grand National from a field of 42, so in 1929 they have actually aimed to have less runners take part! The plan backfired and despite raising the entry costs to £100 and offering a forfeit stage at which horses could be withdrawn the record number of sixty six runners started the race!
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There is a tree that is covered in spikes and has fruit that explode,launching sharp seeds over 100 feet at 150 mph.
Some otters native to South America can grow up to six feet long. Antoine Lavoisier,18th century French chemist,as a final experiment told his college that he would try to blink as long as possible after being beheaded.Some sources say he continued to blink for 30 seconds. |
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The poor in Haiti have to resort to eating cookies made of dirt just to give themselves the feeling of being full.
Fruit bat mothers cry if you take their baby away. The current flag of the USA was developed by a 17 year old for a school project.He received a B-. |
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On Good Friday 1930,BBC announced "There is no news."
We can force an asteroid into Earth's orbit and keep it there to mine it for gold and platinum,or dump nuclear fuel and trash on it. In 1974 a US Private stole a helicopter and landed it on the White House....Twice. |
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Painting roofs white can actually help lower the temperature of a city and is the quickest and lowest cost method to offset our global carbon emissions.
If a sea sponge (phylum Porifera) is forced through a sieve to disintegrate it down to it's cellular level,those cells,if left alone,will recombine into a sponge again. The "&" and "and" mean different things in movie credits.Two writers'names joined with "&" means they collaborated,while "and" means they worked on the script at different times. |
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Morning wood acts as exercise for your peenis,and lack of sleep can contribute to erectile dysfunction.
When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises he tried to ride them. During WWII,5 Americans ended up in a lifeboat with no food,water,oars or mast after their ship sank.Hours later,a keg of water floated by.Then a mast.Then a sail.Later,while making a rudder,they found hidden food.They sailed 300 miles,through a typhoon,and eventually made it home. |
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i did not know that
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penis*
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I didn't think they would accept the above word.
Listening to music is good for digestion. People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles. You would not die or instantly freeze in space.If treated quickly you can survive up to 2 minutes of exposure. |
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"There is a clock that runs away and hides if you don't get out of bed on time."
That would totally freak me out  |
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Insects do not experience pain because they lack nociceptors.Crustaceans are suspected to feel pain,however no nociceptors are present in their anatomy
A chinese food scandal resulted in some pork glowing blue in darkness.The meat still edible,was soon dubbed "avatar-meat." After needing 13 litres of blood for a surgery at the age of 13,a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18.It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease.He has donated a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives. |
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A rare condition called "False Awakening" occurs when you're dreaming that you've woken up,but are still in a deep sleep.
Rapper Tupac Shakur received a letter from the parent's of a terminally-ill boy named Joshua,saying it was Joshua's last wish to meet Tupac.Tupac then flew out to Maryland to meet the boy.When Joshua passed away,Tupac changed the name of his publishing company to "Joshua's Dream." Research shows men who have sex 4-5 times a week have a 45% lower chance of developing kidney stones. |
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From 1979, when Maggie Thatcher became PM, to 1983 UK unemployment rose from under a million (5% of total workforce) to 3.4 million (12%) - an increase unprecedented in British history.
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies the percentage of the UK population living below the poverty line went up under Thatcher, from 13.4% of the population in 1979 to 22.2%, or 12.2m people, by 1990. Under Thatcher, from 1979 to 1990, 35% (13m) of all jobs in the UK Manufacturing sector disappeared. |
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Neil Armstrong once sued his barber of 20 years after he sold his hair to a collector for $3,000.
A Legend Of Zelda prototype cartridge sold for$55,000 on eBay last year. 90-95% of the phones sold in Japan are waterproof. |
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Broadcom billionaire Henry Nicholas built a secret sex lair under his house,was charged with distributing cocaine and meth,and once smoked so much weed on his private jet that his pilot had to put on an oxygen mask.
In 1999 Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow light down to 37 miles an hour,and was later able to stop light completely. If you cut a rose stem 4x vertically and soak each part in a different colored dye,you get a rainbow rose thanks to the Fibonacci sequence! [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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Good to read that, because we've got f*cking loads of 'em.
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People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.
^^^^^^^^^^ |
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Tinie Tempah has a half-brother called Slightly Miffed.
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Oprah Winfrey's first name was originally Orpah,but it was misspelled on her birth certificate.
Queen Elizabeth still keeps a diamond stolen from India in her crown and it's one of the largest diamonds in the world. The word "Sniper"refers to a hunter skilled enough to shoot a snipe,a small and fast bird. [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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The element Selenium conducts electricity only when a light is shined on it.In the dark,it is an insulator.
BMW had to recall their GPS system because male German drivers refused to take directions from a female voice. A sky-blue neotropical cockroach with a yellow fringe, found in the rainforests of Guyana. [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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The Titanic is the only ocean liner to ever be sunk by an iceberg.
Mangoes enhance a marijuana high,allowing you to get "higher" more effectively. A single fire hydrant in San Francisco survived a massive eathquake in 1906 and aided fire fighters in saving the Mission district.In memory of the event,the hydrant was painted gold. |
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A man married his dead girlfriend in a joint wedding and funeral ceremony.
Until it was forcibly suppressed during WWI,German was the second most widely spoken language in the USA,with many local governments,schools,and newspapers operating in German. During WWII Canadians staged a Nazi Invasion as a fundraiser for the war.In one day they raised 3 million dollars. |
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bigmo 09 Apr 13 15:38
A single fire hydrant in San Francisco survived a massive eathquake in 1906 and aided fire fighters in saving the Mission district.In memory of the event,the hydrant was painted gold. . http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5183/5667096817_34446edd50_z.jpg |
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Nice one pumphol
 Burger King sells a $200 burger that is made of Wagyu Beef,white truffles,Pata Negra ham and Crystal champagne onion straws.The burger is only sold once per week in London and proceeds from the sale goes to a London charity. There was a German serial killer who lived in a cave and killed 964 people. A research by OK Cupid has found that vegetarians are more likely to enjoy oral sex and frequent twitter users are more likely to have shorter relationships. |
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At the premier of Beethoven's 9th,police had to break up the applause,as the amount he was receiving was considered inappropriate for a private citizen.
Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and a minister convinced Robinson to fight,Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent,Jimmy Doyle. At serial killer Carl Panzram's execution,when asked if he had any last words,he said "Yes,hurry it up,you Hoosier bastard!I could kill ten men while you're fooling around!" |
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20 crew and passengers died in a plane crash near Bandundu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when a crocodile, being smuggled by one of the passengers in a sports bag, freed itself and panicked the passengers who all ran towards the flightdeck. The tiny Filair L-410 Turbolet became unbalanced and crashed, despite the lack of any technical failure. One passenger and the crocodile survived.
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Doritos could be made without the powder and taste exactly the same.It was left on because it was decided that the residue left on your fingers was part of the "Doritos experience".
David Tennant fulfilled a pianist's last wish by using his skull in a performance of Hamlet. Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole that spins at nearly the speed of light. |
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Your fitness level affects cognitive performance.When compared to highly-fit individuals,individuals with low fitness did worse on mental tasks that required sustained attention.
Sleeping less than six hours a night skews activity of hundreds of genes,including those governing the immune system,metabolism and the body's response to stress. Your taste in music develops through experience,and is not something you're born with. |
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Paralyzed rats can walk again after a cocktail of drugs and electrical impulses.
Dancing has been scientifically proven to make you smarter and healthier. Queen Elizabeth II was once accidentally filmed during an argument with Prince Phillip throwing tennis shoes and a racquet at him.The Australian film crew,under mild encouragement,obligingly destroyed the footage out of respect. |
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Tabasco sauce is aged in barrels previously used for Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey.
Sprint training for 60 minutes a week burns the same amount of body fat in men as jogging for seven hours a week. The skin of a honey badger is so thick that it can withstand multiple machete blows,arrows,and spears.The only sure way to kill one is via a club to the skull or gunshot. |
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While under contract to play James Bond Pierce Brosnan wasn't allowed to wear a tuxedo in any Non-Bond film.
According to a study the key to a perfect night's sleep is going to bed at exactly 10 pm,wearing pyjamas and enjoying a cup of tea beforehand. All naval oranges are grafted clones from a single tree mutation that occurred almost 200 years ago in Brazil.As such,they may all be considered fruit of that original tree,and are all genetically identical. from a single tree mutation that occurred almost 200 years ago in Brazil.As such,they may all be considered fruit of that original tree,and are all genetically identical. |
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Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and a minister convinced Robinson to fight,Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent,Jimmy Doyle.
Never heard that before. Doyles mother said he was fighting to get the money to buy her a house. Robinson gave her his purses from his next 3 fights so she could buy one. |
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That one really surprised me.A bit more info here...
http://www.talkboxing.co.uk/guides/boxing_legends_sugar_ray_robinson.html |
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In British Columbia Canada, a couple are considered legally married if they've lived together for two years in a conjugal relationship.This applies to straight and gay couples.
French and Italian have a lexical similarity (the degree of similarity between to languages) rating of.89.and generally languages are considered dialects if the similarity is above .85 There is a dialect of German only spoken in Texas,USA. |
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Deaf infants exposed to sign language from birth acquire these language skills on the same timetable that hearing babies acquire spoken language.
A female Komodo Dragon can give birth without ever being with a male.The offspring can only be male and can reproduce with the mother to produce male and female offspring. Vagina's stay lubricated with a substance called "squalene," this same substance is also found in the liver of sharks. |
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My ex girlfriend's vagina was never blooming lubricated the morning after the night before.
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When you look at Doyles fight record, he really shoudn't heve been allowed in the ring for a title fight. He had drawn 3, had one ruled a 'no contest' and lost 6 of his previous 41 fights.
Doyle had a fight roughly a year before the fight with Robinson, against Artie Levine. It didn't go well. Doyle went to the hospital after the bout, suffering from a severe head injury that threatened to halt his boxing career. "Doyle outslugged his heavier opponent throughout the first eight rounds, and had a decisive edge on points...(Referee) Jackie Davis stopped the bout after Doyle went down for the third time in the (ninth) round." (The Ring, June 1946) Fighting Robinsn was his only fight at world title level. |
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The offspring of two sets of identical twins are legally cousins but genetically siblings.
Ernest Hemingway underwent shock therapy to treat his manic depression (bi-polar disorder).The treatment obliterated his memory,which made it impossible for him to write.This was the catalyst that sparked his desire to commit suicide. Norwegian cross country skier Odd-Bjorn Hjelmeset attributed his disappointing silver medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics by saying,"I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days." |
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The band F*cked Up has played at the "Festival of the F*ck Bands" in F*cking,Austria for the past 3 years along with other bands like Holy F*ck.F*ck and F*ck Buttons.
People suffering borderline or moderate depression more accurately interpret reality. Odds of dying in a car accident are 1 in 5000.Odds of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 11 million.And even if you are involved in a plane crash,statistically you have a 76% chance of survival. |
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bigmo 11 Apr 13 14:22
Odds of dying in a car accident are 1 in 5000 I find that hard to believe unless Death race 2013 is China's no 1 sport |