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    Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray
    blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

    Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least
    6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from
    the flush.

    The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for
    blood plasma.

    No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

    Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

    The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

    Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in
    the morning.

    The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

    Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

    The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

    Pearls melt in vinegar.

    The three most valuable brand names on earth:

    Marlboro,Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

    It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

    A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

    Turtles can breathe through their butts.

    On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every
    year.

    Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

    Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

    It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

    The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
    year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account
    the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

    A snail can sleep for three years.

    No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

    Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
    ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

    All polar bears are left handed.

    A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

    Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their
    elbow.
    FT.

  • #2
    Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their
    elbow.
    Whilst i didn't actually try, geez i was tempted...

    I'm sure i've seen this somewhere before, possibly even here.
    Last edited by Delany; 2 August 2005, 03:59. Reason: correcting code
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Fat Tone
      Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their
      elbow.
      LOL

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      • #4
        Ducks' quacks do echo. they proved it on Mythbusters (I love that show). It's just that a quack has almost precisely the same acoustic properties as an echo of a quack and it's almost impossible to hear the echo.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Fat Tone
          The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for
          blood plasma.
          Saw this in a Jackie Chan movie
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          • #6
            I agree on the Duck thing, but didn't want to change it. Mythbusters is indeed a great show. The last one I saw was testing various events from the Jaws movies, like blowing up the shark with an exploding airtank etc.
            FT.

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            • #7
              I hate these things...

              Originally posted by Fat Tone
              Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray
              blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
              Tell that to the dead mosquitos. Deet is teh suxxorz for flying nasties.

              Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least
              6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from
              the flush.
              True. It's called a "Microfecal Plume". I'm serious. Microfeces. It goes 6 feet straight up, then comes back down. And Julie wonders why I always want the toilet SHUT before it's flushed. Yuk!

              The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for
              blood plasma.
              I call BS. Doc?

              No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
              I beg to differ. Hold on, I'll try it.

              Standard-weight inkjet paper: True
              Light-weight paper from Julie's scrapbooking desk: False

              Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
              Everything kills more people annually than plane crashes. More people are killed by lightning strike.

              Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in
              the morning.
              The idiot who wrote this paper? Maybe. Me? Nuh-uh.

              The three most valuable brand names on earth:

              Marlboro,Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
              Sorry, I think that this is probably sincerely dated. I'd say that McDonald's, Mobil and Microsoft are probably up there at this point... and anything owned by Philip Morris is WAAAAAAY down.

              A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
              Mythbusters tackled this one. It does echo. Buh-bye!

              Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
              Not if the men are wearing contacts.

              It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
              AGAIN, maybe for you. The double-jointeds of the world, on the other hand...

              The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every
              year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account
              the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
              That's nothing. First off, it won't KEEP sinking an inch a year - eventually the soil underneath will compress enough to keep it stable. And second - go try to impress a Venitian with this.

              All polar bears are left handed.
              Prove it.

              A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
              Nor would it want to.

              Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their
              elbow.
              And quite a few will succeed.

              At least this one didn't have questionable origins of common phrases (always wrong), or other garbage like that. I HATE THESE THINGS.
              The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

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              If only life were as easy as you
              I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
              If only life were as easy as you
              I would still get screwed

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              • #8
                28 peices of useless information

                Originally posted by Fat Tone
                Mosquito repellents ...
                ... try to lick their elbow.
                Useless factoid 28 - Gurm will hate this list.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by RichL
                  Useless factoid 28 - Gurm will hate this list.
                  But that is WHY I posted it. I know he can't resist these things.

                  Just the thought of him taking the time to think about each and insert those [ QUOTE ] tags makes me happy. I wish I had that much spare time

                  And I think the paper thing is actually 9 times.
                  FT.

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                  • #10
                    You should take up scrapbooking. Zillions of papers you can try this on

                    I'm sure there's a math formula to derive the highest number of times you can fold a piece of paper based on its thickness (grossly overlooking finer aspects such as density and "compressibility", etc).

                    I think Gurm should probably reflect on it rather than trying it out on Julie's paper selection

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                    • #11
                      Can one use pliers in folding the paper?

                      I think when you say ANY piece you are doomed to be disproven.. a 50x100ft sheet of thin tissue paper could be folded quite a few times.. especially if you cut out a half moon in the previous fold right where the next crease is going to be.

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                      • #12
                        Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least
                        6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from
                        the flush.
                        Mythbusters tackled this, too. While the toothbrushes they stored in the bathroom at varying distances from the toilet did indeed test positive for colorectal bacteria, so did the control toothbrushes they stored in a kitchen far removed from the bathroom. In fact, so did the saliva of the test subjects!

                        Kevin

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                        • #13
                          I remember trying the paper folding thing back in highschool. We unrolled about 100 meters of 1 ply toilet paper and started folding it in half. We managed 8 times with that. We were all amazed.

                          Doing the math, the length decreases and the thickness increases like so:

                          0 folds: 100m/1 layer
                          1 fold: 50m/2 layers
                          2 folds: 25m/4 layers
                          3 folds: 12.5m/8 layers
                          4 folds: 6.25m/16 layers
                          5 folds: 3.125m/32 layers
                          6 folds: 1.5625m/64 layers
                          7 folds: 0.78125m/128 layers
                          8 folds: 0.390625m/256 layers

                          Going for the 9th fold is like trying to fold half of a package of copy paper. It just doesn't work anymore.
                          Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox

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                          • #14
                            Coconut plasma:

                            Confirmed, at least for coconuts in the early stages of ripening. It was used several times during WWII when plasma resources were low and it's still sometimes used by the Indonesian Navy.

                            Young coconut milk is sterile, contains glucose and most of the necessary minerals; potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, copper and traces of sulphur, chlorides and a dash of protein. It also does not harm red blood cells once infused.

                            I guess a few people could react to the proteins with an allergic reaction, but given they're already probably bleeding to death the allergic reaction would be the least of their problems

                            Dr. Mordrid
                            Dr. Mordrid
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                            An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

                            I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Fat Tone
                              A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
                              FYI - This has been proven wrong. I watched a mith busters where they covered why and it had to do with the quack nullifying most of the sound on the bounce. It was a really good show.


                              Jeff
                              -We stop learning when We die, and some
                              people just don't know They're dead yet!

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                              Food for thought...
                              - Remember when naps were a bad thing?
                              - Remember 3 is the magic number....

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