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  • sarge_3ad
    I feel educated now![:D]
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  • spurgemastur
    quote:Originally posted by jc_crazyhorse
    I am in no way saying all these things are correct. Just something to read at 03:30 in the morning.



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    The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for

    Blood plasma.

    I doubt it.
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    No piece of paper can be folded in half

    more than seven (7) times. Oh go ahead...I'll wait...~

    I have a single sheet of paper that is 8.3 inches by 32.8 feet. That'll go seven times.

    Still, I wouldn't want to try it with an ordinary letter sheet, nor even an ordinary legal sheet.
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    Donkeys kill more people annually

    than plane crashes.

    I wouldn't be surprised if that was true.
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    You burn more calories sleeping

    than you do watching television.

    Plausible, but I wouldn't bet either way.
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    Oak trees do not produce acorns
    until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.

    I doubt it. We ecologists speak about plants that take a LONG TIME to come to sexual maturity, and we're talking about 12 (Cypripedium reginae: the showy ladyslipper orchid) to 20 (Pinus spp. : several of the pine species) years from germination to seed production. I'm sure there are oaks that produce acorns in less than 12 years, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were oak species that took over 20 years before they produced acorns. Maybe even 50 years. But you can't generalize to the whole genus of oaks.
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    The first product to have a bar code

    was Wrigley's gum.

    no comment
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    The King of Hearts is the only king

    WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE

    True! at least in my deck.
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    American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987
    by eliminating one (1) olive

    from each salad served in first-class.

    Bizarre, but I kind of believe it. If olives are $6/pound and there are 60 olives per pound, then an olive is worth $0.10. Ten olives make a dollar and if AA had 400,000 first class passengers in 1987, then....well...the numbers add up.

    Of course I pulled all of those numbers out of my azz, and in fact the savings sounds a little high to me--I don't think olives weigh as much as they should for my calculation--but it's still food for thought.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

    (Since Venus is normally associated with women,what does this tell you!)

    Heh. No comment
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    Apples, not caffeine,

    are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

    ?
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    Most dust particles in your house are made from

    DEAD SKIN!

    At least many are.
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    The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

    ?
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    So did the first "Marlboro Man."

    Yes.
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    Walt Disney was afraid

    OF MICE!

    ?
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    PEARLS MELT

    IN VINEGAR!

    I don't doubt it, but I'm not about to make the experiment with my pearls.
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    The three most valuable brand names on earth:
    Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

    I don't doubt it.
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    It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...

    but, not downstairs.

    palusible
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    A duck's quack doesn't echo,

    and no one knows why.

    ?
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    Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush
    be kept at least six (6) feet away from
    a toilet to avoid airborne particles
    resulting from the flush.

    (I keep my toothbrush in the living room now!)

    The dentists are paranoid.
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    Richard Millhouse Nixon

    was the first U.S. president whose name contains all
    the letters from the word "criminal."

    The second?
    William Jefferson Clinton

    (Please don't tell me you're SURPRISED!!!)

    uhhhhh....
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    And the best for last.....

    Turtles can breathe through their butts.
    (I know some people like that, don't YOU?)


    heh.
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    Either way, fun post. Thanks.
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  • sarge_3ad
    spurgemastur, using the word plausible, you sound like a Mythbuster.[:D]
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  • Henry0Reilly
    quote:Originally posted by jc_crazyhorse
    I am in no way saying all these things are correct. Just something to read at 03:30 in the morning.
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    A duck's quack doesn't echo,

    and no one knows why.
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    I was quite sure this one wasn't true and enough people asked Snopes about that they made a page.
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  • TrinityScrimshaw
    I always thought the first "Marlboro Man" drowned in a stock tank on the ranch he worked on.[?]

    Trinity +++
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  • zipperzap
    quote:jc_crazyhorse:

    No piece of paper can be folded in half
    more than seven (7) times. Oh go ahead...I'll wait...~

    Mythbusters did 11, I believe.
    [8D]
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  • BOBBYWINS
    I planted a 4 foot oak tree and it started producing acorns in about 8 years.

    BW(Who knows of many other oaks around here that are producing that are less than 15 years old.)
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  • JWolf
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    The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for

    Blood plasma.
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    http://www.coconutoil-online.com/medium_chain_triglycerides.htm
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