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Buleste 14:21 10th April 2010
This is a thread for useless but interesting facts. Here's some to start us off.
Marriage over the telephone is valid under Islamic law.
Wombats produce cube-shaped dung.
Cillit Bang is called Cillit Bam in New Zealand.
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Phantom 14:36 10th April 2010
Originally Posted by Buleste:
Cillit Bang is called Cillit Bam in New Zealand.
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Buleste 10:38 11th April 2010
The average person tells four lies a day.
Ordained priests can work in supermarkets.
The name "scrumpy" comes from a word meaning small and shrivelled.
The world's most complex mathematical problem is called the Poincare Conjecture.
Plastic surgeons in the US are doing lip grafts using muscle from the neck to make lips fuller.
The Mafia use Facebook.
The flat-headed cat has webbed feet.
Cillit Bang has been used to clean plutonium stains at the defunct Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland.
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Harrison 16:20 12th April 2010
Originally Posted by Buleste:
Wombats produce cube-shaped dung.
For some strange reason, I actually knew that fact!
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J T 21:11 12th April 2010
Teho 06:10 13th April 2010
The average person eats three spiders per year. Spiders are attracted to warm, moist places. So guess what happens every once in a while when you're sleeping.
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Buleste 08:37 13th April 2010
Originally Posted by Teho:
Spiders are attracted to warm, moist places. So guess what happens every once in a while when you're sleeping.
The old joke about the woman who hadn't had sex for a while having cobwebs up there is true!!!!!!!
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Harrison 11:12 13th April 2010
I thought it was 3 spiders in your lifetime, not per year?
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Teho 11:26 13th April 2010
Yeah, perfectly possible I remember it wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.
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Buleste 19:56 13th April 2010
The answer to "agtaq gufnx mbvrp eselx vurnm xsmqc aqzxa gakro altam yrvtn tpqzy vgnbx nofqw gonov?" is Station X.
The average railway carriage is home to up to 1,000 cockroaches, 200 bed bugs and 200 fleas.
City-dwelling single men aged 25 to 35 are the country's biggest food-wasters.
The average life of a web page these days is apparently somewhere between 44 and 77 days.
There are people in the UK called Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Stan Still.
Pregnant women do not need to eat for two.
Parents in Japan swear by KitKats when their children are taking exams.
"Karaoke rage" has claimed more than a dozen lives in the Philippines... usually for Frank Sinatra's My Way.
The United Arab Emirates recently held the largest camel beauty contest ever.
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