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Sorry for not updating guys got caught up in Exams but im back now

30/10/2010 Facts
Facts - 30/10/2010
-The banana plant is the largest plant in the world which does not have a stem made of wood.
- The term rule of thumb comes from the old English law that men couldn't beat their wives with anything wider than their thumb.
- Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a stage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.
- Ants never sleep in their wholelife.
- 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.
- Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
- No president of the United States was an only child.
- Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. (Thats Why There ****ing Bites Hurt )
- The human brain is 80% water.
- A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
- Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
- American's eat about 18 billion hot dogs a year.
- Every time you lick a stamp you gain 1/10 of a calorie.
- The man who played the voice of bugs bunny was allergic to carrots. (Thats Ironic)
- Did You Know, Coca-Cola was originally green.
- Did You Know, The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Did You know, If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- Did You Know, Every day more money is printed for
Monopoly than the US Treasury.
- Did You Know, Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.
- If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
- In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.
- All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from a single wild golden Hamster found in Syria in 1930!
- Babies are born without knee caps.
- Babies start dreaming even before they''re born.


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Fact For The 31/10/2010 (Ohhhh Its Halloween Spooky)
- This Morning It Was 1AM Twice Due To The Time Change
- Mark Twain, born on a year Halley's Comet visited us, correctly predicted he would die the next time it came by
-The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
-65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
- If you urinate when swimming in a South American river, you may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish is known to follow a stream of urine to its source, swim inside the body, and flare it's barbed fins. It will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed.
- Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals.
- Twenty minutes of sex burns only 31 calories... but it depends on the position.
- The Guinness Book of Records holds the record of being stolen the most from public libraries.

9/11 Facts -
1) New York City has 11 letters
2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.
3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.
4) George W Bush has 11 letters.
5) The two twin towers make an "11"
This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets more interesting:
1) New York is the 11th state.
2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number
11.
3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11
4) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers.
6+5 = 11
5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 + 1+ 1 = 11
6) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911.
9 + 1 + 1 = 11.
Sheer coincidence..?! Read on and make up your own mind:
1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254. > 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
2) September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year.
Again 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
3) The Madrid bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11.
4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers
These Facts Of 9/11 Freaky Enough For Ya?

But Just To Please Those Freaky Freaks Out There Heres Some More
-The Amityville films of the 70's, about a house full of ghostly activity were based on a true story.
-Fishermen in Australia caught a five-and-a-half foot long cod and found a human head in its gut!
-In 1970, a group of people were arrested at Highgate cemetery for intent to harm...a vampire! The vampire is rumoured to still be around today.
-In 1982, a chicago women burst into flames for no apparent reason as she walked down the street.
-Prisoners in a California jail were so spooked by the Ouija board they made that Priests were called in to cast out the demons. The convicts had summoned up spirits, including a women who told them how she was murdered.
-Multiple witnesses at a house in Enfield, London, claim to have seen poltergeist activity, including chairs moving around by themselves and a girl being thrown across the room.
-In 1971 a man on a London underground train has an overwhelming urge to pull the emergency stop button. What he didn't know was that someone had just jumped in front of the train. The driver heard the alarm and stopped just in time!
-After complaining about the smell in their room, a couple staying in a hotel in the USA discovered the body of a murdered girl under their bed.
-The most haunted house in Britain is Borley Rectory in Essex. The rectory actually burned dpwn in 1939 but over 2000 ghosts still haunt the area today.
-Mourners at the funeral of a young Belgian girl were shocked to hear screams from the coffin. She has woken from a coma and was nearly buried alive.
-A young girl in America bet her friends she could spend the night in a cemetry. They found her in the morning dead in the arms of a statue.
-A girl woke up one night to find her pillow pressed against her face. When she opened her eyes, the pressure stopped. Next day, she found sewing needles stuck in her arm.
-A man staying in a Welsh hotel was woken by choking noises. He later found out the hotel was the scene of a violent death.
- A clawed, vampire-like beast that preys on animals has been found in Latin America.


24/11/2010

American's are stupid = FACT

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awesome thread mate

ha this is tite

Fact For The 31/10/2010 (Ohhhh Its Halloween Spooky)
- This Morning It Was 1AM Twice Due To The Time Change
- Mark Twain, born on a year Halley's Comet visited us, correctly predicted he would die the next time it came by
-The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
-65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.
- If you urinate when swimming in a South American river, you may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish is known to follow a stream of urine to its source, swim inside the body, and flare it's barbed fins. It will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed.
- Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals.
- Twenty minutes of sex burns only 31 calories... but it depends on the position.
- The Guinness Book of Records holds the record of being stolen the most from public libraries.

9/11 Facts -
1) New York City has 11 letters
2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.
3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.
4) George W Bush has 11 letters.
5) The two twin towers make an "11"
This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets more interesting:
1) New York is the 11th state.
2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number
11.
3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11
4) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers.
6+5 = 11
5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 + 1+ 1 = 11
6) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911.
9 + 1 + 1 = 11.
Sheer coincidence..?! Read on and make up your own mind:
1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254. > 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
2) September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year.
Again 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.
3) The Madrid bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11.
4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers
These Facts Of 9/11 Freaky Enough For Ya?

But Just To Please Those Freaky Freaks Out There Heres Some More
-The Amityville films of the 70's, about a house full of ghostly activity were based on a true story.
-Fishermen in Australia caught a five-and-a-half foot long cod and found a human head in its gut!
-In 1970, a group of people were arrested at Highgate cemetery for intent to harm...a vampire! The vampire is rumoured to still be around today.
-In 1982, a chicago women burst into flames for no apparent reason as she walked down the street.
-Prisoners in a California jail were so spooked by the Ouija board they made that Priests were called in to cast out the demons. The convicts had summoned up spirits, including a women who told them how she was murdered.
-Multiple witnesses at a house in Enfield, London, claim to have seen poltergeist activity, including chairs moving around by themselves and a girl being thrown across the room.
-In 1971 a man on a London underground train has an overwhelming urge to pull the emergency stop button. What he didn't know was that someone had just jumped in front of the train. The driver heard the alarm and stopped just in time!
-After complaining about the smell in their room, a couple staying in a hotel in the USA discovered the body of a murdered girl under their bed.
-The most haunted house in Britain is Borley Rectory in Essex. The rectory actually burned dpwn in 1939 but over 2000 ghosts still haunt the area today.
-Mourners at the funeral of a young Belgian girl were shocked to hear screams from the coffin. She has woken from a coma and was nearly buried alive.
-A young girl in America bet her friends she could spend the night in a cemetry. They found her in the morning dead in the arms of a statue.
-A girl woke up one night to find her pillow pressed against her face. When she opened her eyes, the pressure stopped. Next day, she found sewing needles stuck in her arm.
-A man staying in a Welsh hotel was woken by choking noises. He later found out the hotel was the scene of a violent death.
- A clawed, vampire-like beast that preys on animals has been found in Latin America.

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Hitler had 2 testicles actually. That fact is a load of bollocks!

There Is No Proof He Had 1 Or 2 So That Fact Is 50/50

Great Idea Mate Ill Just Post Evrytime I Update So People Know But You Guys Know Its Gonna Be Updated Daily =D

Nice thread man