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skipy
Alright, here's some for ya.
In Mexico, Mothers Day is celebrated for two days.
False, may 10 is the only mothers day here in Mexico
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KikiTheMan
is lazy
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mudfish
Nobody gives a @#$% about Rihanna except vikey.
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mecheye
VanClef pays big for your head.
But seriously, I hear that we have more in common (DNA wise) with Oak trees than monkeys. At least I think it was oak trees. It was some sort of tree.
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Neffy
Uranus is about 19 times larger than Earth.
/giggle
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xerae550
Can't remember where exactly atm, but somewhere it is highly illegal to let a donkey sleep in your bathtub.
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence.
In New Orleans it is prohibited by the fire code to curse a fireman when he is engaged in his official duties.
Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up.
Under the law of Mississippi, there’s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.
It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma. (Think about it...)
There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas. (Arachnophobia anyone?)
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
Tarantulas do not use muscles to move their legs. They control the amount of blood pumped into them to extend and retract their legs.
Certain kinds of insects can live as long as a year after having their head severed. What's more, the insects can still react to stimuli, such as light and temperature.
If two flies were left to reproduce without predators or other limitations for one year, the resulting mass of flies would be the size of the Earth.
A Hawaiian stamp of 1851 with a face value of 2 cents was the sole reason Gaston Leroux, a Parisian philatelist, murdered its owner, Hector Giroux.
A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.
The Mexican Jumping Bean is not a bean. It is actually a thin-shelled section of a seed capsule containing the larva of a small gray moth called the jumping bean moth (Laspeyresia saltitans).
Henry Waterman, of New York, invented the elevator in 1850. He intended it to transport barrels of flour.
John Greenwood, also of New York invented the dental drill in 1790.
The corkscrew was invented by M.L. Bryn, also of New York, in 1860.
Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901 by Miller R. Hutchinson, who was (you guessed it) from New York.
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio in 1952, in New York (aaah!).
Four wheel roller skates were invented by James L. Plimpton in 1863. Can you guess where?
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