maucek
Academy Starlet
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Post by maucek on Jan 21, 2004 18:39:18 GMT
Did you know, that...
...man and ape share 100% of their DNA.
...Cornish for "hello" is "ooh are me flower".
...in ancient Rome, electric eels were used as a headache cure.
...in America, orange juice is known only as "ohh jay".
...the youngest pope was only 7 years old.
...penquins can jump up to 8 feet in the air.
...the Hawaiin alphabet contains only two letters.
...Mahatma Gandhi's famous quote, "I believe in equality for everyone." was a mis-quote, In fact, Gandi's precise words were "I do not believe in equality for everyone."
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Post by Admin on Jan 21, 2004 18:57:26 GMT
Okay, here's a few more to be getting on with!
/me Of the 262 men who have held the title of pope, 33 have died by violence.
/me Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
/me The total number of Americans killed in the Civil War is greater than the combined total of Americans killed in all other wars.
/me Until 1967 it wasn't illegal for Olympic athletes to use drugs to enhance their performance during competition.
/me The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
/me Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
/me When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
/me The word "assassination" was invented by Shakespeare.
/me In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls - to 12.
/me At the height of its power, in 400 BC, the Greek city of Sparta had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.
/me Although identified with Scotland, bagpipes are actually a very ancient instrument, introduced into the British Isles by the Romans.
/me In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
/me Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1938 was Adolf Hitler.
/me Wild Bill Hickok was killed playing poker, holding two pairs - aces and eights, which has become known as 'Dead Man's Hand.'
/me More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
/me "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
/me The term "honeymoon" is derived from the Babylonians who declared mead, a honey-flavored wine, the official wedding drink, stipulating that the bride's parents be required to keep the groom supplied with the drink for the month following the wedding.
/me Women shoplift more often than men; the statistics are 4 to 1.
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maucek
Academy Starlet
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Post by maucek on Jan 21, 2004 19:29:14 GMT
Riddle me this etc.
The maker doesn't want it, the buyer doesn't use it and the user doesn't see it. What is it?
What do you throw out when you want to use it, but take in when you don't want to use it?
What runs all the way around your garden without moving?
John: Several years ago Mary was half my age. In two years time I'll be two years older. Mary is four times older than me times two subtracting your own age and adding three. Keep dividing until you get a remainder and add that to the original. How old are we both?
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Post by tubes on Jan 21, 2004 20:45:37 GMT
maucek
a coffin
fishing line?
a fence
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