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awmon

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What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« on: March 19, 2011, 09:28:54 pm »
As an avid collector of strange truisms, I am curious to find some that i may not have heard

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2011, 08:59:46 am »
I use to have an interest in these things. The only one I can remember right now is this:

A cockroach can survive without a head for seven days, and dies only because of thirst.

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2011, 09:37:36 am »
I use to have an interest in these things. The only one I can remember right now is this:

A cockroach can survive without a head for seven days, and dies only because of thirst.

Wow! I don't think I have a fact as such, but this one is very interesting. I didn't know that.

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2011, 09:53:34 am »
I use to have an interest in these things. The only one I can remember right now is this:

A cockroach can survive without a head for seven days, and dies only because of thirst.

Wow! I don't think I have a fact as such, but this one is very interesting. I didn't know that.
i dont have any such facts

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2011, 09:54:10 am »
Not THE most bizarre, but ones I think are interesting:

*The Statue of Liberty's fingernails weigh almost 100 pounds each.

*The London Zoo employs an "entertainment director" for the animals - and they are paid a VERY good wage for what they do! A friend's son did this for 2 summers, as a sub-director, while in college or as they say, university.

I could go on forever in this topic. My friends/family have always called me The Trivia Queen and still want me to go on "Jeopardy" . They're convinced I could make some big $$$$. :P ;D

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2011, 06:22:31 pm »
Those are great ones!   Did you know that if a female ferret does not find a mate while in heat, she could die?
or that if you add up the letters of the names of the cards in a deck (ten, jack queen, etc) they add up to 52....the same as the number of cards in a deck.

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2011, 09:37:23 pm »
vampires cant cross water

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2011, 02:44:50 pm »
I use to have an interest in these things. The only one I can remember right now is this:

A cockroach can survive without a head for seven days, and dies only because of thirst.

True. They can go headless for up to a week. Without a head they cannot drink water to survive. They can live off food for a month. The most bizarre fact I know cockroaches can feed off anything that is not edible to humans like glue. Their blood is white. When I saw a dead (smashed up) roach, it was not a pretty sight. What is even more bizarre there are other countries (not to name them) that even eat these gross insects.  :-X

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2011, 07:58:40 am »
Heres a cool fact:  Take the last two digits in the year of which you were born, now add the age you will be this year. The results will be 111 for everyone in the world!

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2011, 08:21:50 am »
The length of your forearm is the size of your foot. I've even set my foot on my forearm and it's true! I was shocked!  :o I have really big feet xD

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2011, 10:09:20 am »
Heres a cool fact:  Take the last two digits in the year of which you were born, now add the age you will be this year. The results will be 111 for everyone in the world!

That only works for people born before the year 2000, and would only work until after the year 2000. Eg someone born in 2000 would be 11 this year, and 00+11=11 not 111. Similarly, a person born in 1989 would have "91" as their number in the year 1990 (1 year old + 90=91)...

I used to have a book on strange laws that I found interesting... One that I still remember is that in Georgia, Kentucky, and i believe New York it is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2011, 10:35:26 am »
The length of your forearm is the size of your foot. I've even set my foot on my forearm and it's true! I was shocked!  :o I have really big feet xD

I tried it and its true. I learned something new.

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2011, 10:53:07 am »
Those are really something sorry I don't have one either.

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2011, 05:33:47 pm »
In Virginia it is legal to beat your wife on the steps of the court house if: it is a wednesday and the rod is no larger around than your thumb.  They realy should remove these old things from the books!

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Re: What is the most bizarre fact you know?
« Reply #14 on: September 14, 2011, 02:50:06 am »
You can duel in Paraguay as long as the participants are both blood donors =]

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