Steaming Heap O' Facts
There is much in here to give one pause.
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Steamin' HEAP o' FACTS
There are more creatures in your mouth than there are humans on Earth.
Snoring destroys brain cells.
A hullabaloo is louder than an uproar, but an uproar is louder than a ruckus.
The average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it.
In England in the 1880s, pants was considered a dirty word.
On average, people forget 80 percent of what they learn.
Nero couldn't have fiddled while Rome burned. They hadn't invented fiddles yet.
The original Twinkies filling was banana flavored.
In the 1570s, the Spanish were defeated by a Dutch army on ice skates.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye and Poopeye.
There are more English-speaking people in China than there are in the United States.
If Jell-O is hooked up to an EEG, it registers movements that are virtually identical to those of the brain waves of a healthy adult.
Hamsters can wink.
Kellogg says Americans now eat about 2 billion Pop-Tarts a year. That's enough to reach halfway to the moon.
Fish feel pain.
The BBC's list of the 10 Greatest Britons of all time has Princess Diana listed above Queen Victoria.
The 17th-century friar who discovered cappuccino has been beatified by the pope.
Mussolini's favorite cartoon character was Donald Duck.
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Annette, Wednesday, 11-2-05 10:40 AM
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re: Steaming Heap O' Facts
"You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider."
I feel so much better...
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Tauna, Wednesday, 11-2-05 12:25 PM
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re: Steaming Heap O' Facts
"Snoring destroys brain cells."
I was noticing it was getting harder to think.
"The average chocolate bar has eight insect legs in it."
Does this cause anyone some issues with eating chocolate? Maybe someone whose name starts with a T? I would assume the insect legs would be found in pretty much every form of chocolate and that they only gave the average for the bar form.
"In England in the 1880s, pants was considered a dirty word."
I've been saying for years that pants are wrong. All of you who like pants are degenerates.
"On average, people forget 80 percent of what they learn."
So how long until my mind is blissfully empty?
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David, Wednesday, 11-2-05 1:32 PM
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re: Steaming Heap O' Facts
Why would Tristan have an issue with this?
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T, Thursday, 11-3-05 12:25 PM
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