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When airplanes were still a novel invention, seat belts for pilots were installed only after the consequence of their absence was observed to be fatal - several pilots fell to their deaths while flying upside down inside the ****pit.

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What you think is so superficial. The brain gets its intelligence from a surface layer of tissue no more than a quarter of an inch thick. Called gray matter, it contains about 8 billion nerve cells interlinked by some 10,000 miles of nerve fibers for each cubic inch.

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Some animal-related jobs held by entertainers before they achieved fame and fortune include birdcage cleaner (Desi Arnaz), shepherd (Raymond Burr), and fishing boat unloader (Kelsey Grammer).

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The first American TV show to be seen in the Peoples Republic of China was Baywatch.

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Boobwatch? bleh.gif Well, that explains why they keep trying to kill us off with toxic toys!

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Mad Mema wrote:

Boobwatch? bleh.gif Well, that explains why they keep trying to kill us off with toxic toys!



No doubt! I mean, imagine if that's the best impression of entertainment they think we have to offer!



-- Edited by garougal at 19:34, 2009-01-25

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This one I did not know:

In every single episode of TVs Seinfeld, there is a Superman somewhere in at least one scene.

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I'd heard that one before, but never bothered to look for it.

I bet the Chinese nationals think we all get boob jobs in our teens. hmm.gif

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Probably...not to mention we all get highlights and are obsessed with tanning.

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In which case, they are just biding their time until we all die of skin cancer or some form of toxicity.

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laughing.gif So true, so true.

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DANG... Better go get that boob job!

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  • The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

  • A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

  • A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

  • A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

  • During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
  • Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

  • The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.

  • The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

  • If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)

  • The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
  • The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  • By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

  • Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

  • Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. biggrin



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Smashing instruments became the Whos signature move. Each night they wrecked about 700 worth of equipment.

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Cleopatra was part Macedonian, part Greek, and part Iranian. She was not Egyptian.

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U.S. Patent No. D219,584 was issued in 1970 to veteran movie actor Steve McQueen. He was famous not only for his movies but also for racing cars and working on engines. A by-product of his racing hobby was the invention of the bucket seat.

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really? no kidding?confuse wow....smile



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I know! I thought that was kinda neat to know.

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Gordon Sumner, the rock star and actor known as Sting, got his nickname from the yellow-and-black jerseys he used to wear, which fellow musicians thought made him look like a bumble bee.

Singer Johnny Cash was born J. R. Cash. He chose the first name John when the military wouldnt accept just initials on its forms.

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