February 2012
25 posts
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If you try to say the alphabet without moving your...
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Instant coffee was invented in 1901
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All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction"...
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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...
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In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector...
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According to a study by the nation's largest auto...
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The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an...
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Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size,...
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1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in...
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Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice...
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
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Simplistic passwords contribute to over 80% of all...
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...
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A “quidnunc” is a person who is eager to know...
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"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the very first...
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A shark is the only fish that can blink with...
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Coca Cola was originally green.
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An ant always falls over on its right side when...
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A man named Ed Peterson is the inventor of the...
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Forty is the only number in the english language...
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Starfish have eight eyes; one at the end of each...
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Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
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Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
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The Grateful Dead were once called The Warlocks.
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
January 2012
18 posts
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Rush Limbaugh was disqualified from the Vietnam...
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Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on...
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Armadillos have four babies at a time, always...
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The word "moose" was originally Algonquin.
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Daffy Duck's middle name is "Dumas".
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Clouds cannot travel south southwest.
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Due to staggering inflation in the 1920's,...
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Blackbird, who was the chief of Omaha Indians, was...
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Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people...
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Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a...
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"Speak of the Devil" is short for "Speak of the...
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The average American will eat 19 pounds of cereal...
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The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are...
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Only female mosquito’s' bite and most are...
Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and...
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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...
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.
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If a tiger loses all his hair, he’ll still be...
The eyes of the chameleon can move independently....
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The average human brain is 140 mm wide, 167 mm...
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Colonel Sanders’ finger-lickin’ formula is locked...
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The Duckbill Platypus is one of the few mammals to...
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Only about one-fifth of the world’s largest...