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gotta love lightning...
I love sitting in the glass house here and watch -and listen to- lightning and thunderstorms. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

-It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.

-Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

-Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada.

-Most lipstick contains fish scales.

-Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing. (in English that is)

-One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.

-The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

-No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

-A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

-It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis.
(someone on this forum better remembers that <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />)

Geez... I wonder who you are talking about. I had my bucket ready and everything!
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Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, Missouri is the largest beer producing plant in the nation.

Anheuser-Busch introduced Bud Light in 1982. It has fewer calories than Budweiser.

Annual 2001 beer production in the U.S.: 195,000,000 barrels.
Annual 2001 beer production of Anheuser-Busch: 93,000,000

Budweiser beer was introduced into Great Britain in 1984.

The biggest Belgian brewer: Inbev <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

-butterflies taste with their feet.

-a duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

-in 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

-on average people fear spiders more than they do death.

-ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

-only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!

-Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

-It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

-The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch
every year because when it was built, engineers failed to
take into account the weight of all the
books that would occupy the building.

-A snail can sleep for three years.

-No word in the English language rhymes with "month".

That's right, which is why they thought it would be a great joke on year-12 break up day at school! They managed to lead a cow (buggered if I know how they got one) into the tower. They had to get a crane to remove it.

-Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

-The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

-In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

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No wonder why my husband is soo afraid of going to the dentist!!



They used to say that I had big eyes when I was born... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

-TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard. (- on a qwerty keyboard)

-"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.

-If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

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A few worm facts :

There are 14 000 species of “flat worms”; most of it are parasits of animals, including of the human kind.
Parasit flaworm’s developpement can necessitate up to 4 intermediate hosts of different species before the worm is ready to "settle" in a definitive host (wich are usually mammals). The tapeworm, a flatworm who’s definitive host can be the human, can grow up to 20 meters long.

The bloodsucker/leech’s size ranges from 1 to 30 cm (when starved). When it eats, it sucks as much blood as it can contain, wich is up to ten times its own mass. After that it won’t eat again for several months.
Leech's saliva contains anesthetic and anticoagulant so that the host notices nothing while it's feeding.
You can easily get rid of a bloodsucker stuck after you by putting salt on it and around the “bite”. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Darwin evaluated that, in England, there are about 125 000 earthworms by hectare; those 125 000 worms produce approximately 45 tons of excrement per year.
Earthworms have five “hearts” and are hermaphrodite.
Their size goes from 1 mm to 3 m (Megascolides australis).

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-The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days

-About 70% of all organisms in the world are bacteria

-About 85% of all plant life is in the oceans

-85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the USA

-99% of the solar systems' mass is concentrated in the sun

Star Wars Facts

C-3PO has played a major role in all 5 movies released thus far.

R2-D2 is a real, remote-controlled robot, but when R2-D2 needs to shake or jiggle, 3 feet 8 inch tall Kenny Baker gets inside the unit. Kenny is 67-years-old.

George Lucas was born in Modesto, California in 1944.

In 1977, Star Wars grossed over $460 million, and was the biggest hit movie of the year. It currently stands at number two of all-time movie hits, behind Titanic.

Star Wars started out as an individual movie, but the script became so large that George Lucas cut it into three parts and made a film of each part. (Episodes I, II, and III.)

In Episode II, Yoda is a digital character instead of the puppet character from previous Star Wars movies.

-Iowa is the only state bordered both east and west entirely by rivers

-Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Spain, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags

-Australia is the richest source of mineral sand in the world

-Cyprus has a map on it's flag

- The province of Alberta in Canada is virtually rat free since 1905

-Illinois has the most personalized licence plates of any USA state

as far as i know Spain doesn't have any birds in it's flag. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

IIRC they have the national weapond (looks like a shield or something, don't really know if it's called wepond) on their flag, and it MIGHT contain a bird. But who knows, really? (The Spaniards? Nah!)(And if Spanish people isn't called spaniards, I blame that it's late, so I'm tired, AND I've got a headache.)

Übereil

Well...
There have been a few.
I admit I picked an old one to ad to the list.
They still use different ones.
So it's rather confusing. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Seth, are you telling me the Spaniards (still, tired and headache) use different flags?!? BASTARDS!!! Erm...

Übereil

ok let's investigate the subject shall we <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

SPAIN:


MEXICO



ZAMBIA:


EGYPT:


DOMINICA:


FIJI: