February 2012
25 posts
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If you try to say the alphabet without moving your...
Feb 24th
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Instant coffee was invented in 1901
Feb 23rd
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All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction"...
Feb 22nd
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Men dream more about other men while women dreams...
Men and women dream differently. Women tend to recall their dreams more often than men and women tend to report more frequent and more intense nightmares than men. Men dream more often about other men rather than women, whereas women dream equally often about men and women. For example 67% of characters in men’s dreams are other men whereas 48% of characters in women’s dreams are...
Feb 21st
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In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector...
Feb 20th
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According to a study by the nation's largest auto...
Feb 19th
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The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an...
Feb 18th
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Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size,...
Feb 17th
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1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in...
Feb 16th
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Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice...
Feb 15th
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
Feb 14th
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Simplistic passwords contribute to over 80% of all...
Feb 13th
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Women beg Chris Brown to beat them. Where to begin... →
billieisaguysname: Ladies, a few statistics for you… Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten. Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. Most often, the abuser is a member of her own family. Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than car accidents, muggings, and...
Feb 13th
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A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know...
Feb 12th
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"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first...
Feb 11th
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A shark is the only fish that can blink with...
Feb 10th
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Coca Cola was originally green.
Feb 9th
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An ant always falls over on its right side when...
Feb 8th
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A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the...
Feb 7th
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Forty is the only number in the english language...
Feb 6th
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Starfish have eight eyes; one at the end of each...
Feb 5th
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
Feb 4th
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Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
Feb 3rd
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The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
Feb 2nd
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Feb 1st
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January 2012
18 posts
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Rush Limbaugh was disqualified from the Vietnam...
Jan 31st
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Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on...
Jan 30th
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Armadillos have four babies at a time, always...
Jan 29th
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The word "moose" was originally Algonquin.
Jan 28th
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Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas".
Jan 27th
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Clouds cannot travel south southwest.
Jan 26th
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Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's,...
Jan 25th
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Blackbird, who was the chief of Omaha Indians, was...
Jan 24th
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Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people...
Jan 23rd
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Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a...
Jan 22nd
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"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the...
Jan 21st
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The average American will eat 19 pounds of cereal...
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are...
Jan 19th
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Only female mosquito’s' bite and most are...
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and...
Jan 17th
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Reseach suggests two narcissists are better than...
For many years psychologists have explored whether narcissism and creativity are linked, and some studies have suggested that the self-obsessed may, in fact, be more creative than the rest of us. But 2011 research from Cornell University argues otherwise. Researchers then paired 292 undergrads (all of whom completed the narcissism test) into 73 four-person groups. The groups were given the...
Jan 2nd
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December 2011
10 posts
In the 19th century the President of the United...
The tradition started with George Washington (though his receptions were held before the White House was built) and ended with Herbert Hoover in 1933.
Dec 30th
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If a tiger loses all his hair, he’ll still be...
Dec 29th
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The eyes of the chameleon can move independently....
Dec 14th
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The average human brain is 140 mm wide, 167 mm...
Dec 13th
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Colonel Sanders’ finger-lickin’ formula is locked...
Dec 11th
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The Duckbill Platypus is one of the few mammals to...
Dec 10th
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Only about one-fifth of the world’s largest...
Dec 9th
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