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Your loss for reading this!- The legacy will continue
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Note: Can't be sure if all are facts, can be sure that all our useless!
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� The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
� Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
� Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
� David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
� Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
� In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
� If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
� Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.
� Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.
� The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
� No word in the English language rhymes with month.
� The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
� There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
� Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
� Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
� Cat's urine glows under a black light.
� Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
� The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
� Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
� It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
� The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
� Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
� The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
� Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
� If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
� The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
� Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
� Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
� The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It to Beaver".
� In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured
� Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.
� One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
� The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
� The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
� The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
� A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
� A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
� The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
� A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
� Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
� Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
� Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
� More people are killed by donkeys
annually than are killed in plane crashes.
� Stewardesses is one of the longest words typed with only the left hand.
� Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
� Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
� If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
� Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
� Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
� The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language.
� No president of the United States was an only child.
� The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
� TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard.
� If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
� The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
� A snail can sleep for 3 years.
� American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
� China has more English speakers than the United States.
� The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
� Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres.
� The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
� Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
� "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
� The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
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The Colonel
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I guess if I have some free space I might as well use it. The question that came to mind was, what for though? Then I figured, what else could be better then a page partially devoted to the Colonel!? That's right, Colonel Sanders in all of his glory, on my page. This started in my English class when we could pick and person to do a biography on as long as they contributed to American culture. So I chose the Colonel for his chicken contributation (could be a made up word, feel free to e-mail complaints at any time)to the U.S. Aparently chicken that isn't enough to my English teacher Mrs. Russell. I would like to add in here that if anybody has anything even close to how Colonel Sanders had anything to do with american culture, please tell me, I can b. s. my way into it if you give me a starting point. Any way, according to one of my many facts, Americans eat 153 whole chickens per life time (I guess the facts can be used for something, eh). Now, I would guess that about 150 are from those round buckets we have all come to know and love. Two and a half would come from such places like Mc Donald's where you might order a chicken patty or something. Now as for the other half percent, that would come from hotdogs. No one knows whats in 'em but I'd say there has to be some chicken in it somewhere. About 150 chickens per person KFC sells. Without them, where would we get our chicken? Do you know how many hotdogs you have to eat to get 1 whole chicken? Without KFC and the Colonel, we would only eat about 3 full chickens a year, putting the chicken farms out of business, putting the chicken feed people out of business, and laying off hundreds. So it is the Colonel we can thank for those peoples jobs and the way he brings American chicken into your home. I salute you Colonel Sanders!
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Untill I think of what to write, I'll give you some pointers.
- Visit my first page (link below). It will teach you many things, from the least known fact to the quotes for the future.
-Hard work and dedication do nothing in life. Sucking up is what you should practice, like if a teacher sells stuff for a club, make sure to buy a lot of it and make sure you know he knows your doing it (Krieger!).
-Practice makes perfect... and if you think I'm talking about sports, you don't know me. Masturbation is not a crime!
-(For the fellas) Whena girl says "I love you", don't say "I love cake". It just won't work out afterwards.
-Watch The Simpsons, Malcom in the Middle, That 70's Show, The Drew Carey Show, and The Norm Show for all of your lives needs. These shows have everything, and That 70's Show somwtimes teaches you wierd stuff.
-When in school, and your teacher gives you a project, make a joke out of it (for example, my Coloner Sanders biography).
-Whenever someone bothers you, put a harmonica on their tailpipe. As soon as they hit 30 m. p. h., they'll hear it. If they bother you and are too young to have a car, beat them sensless!
-E-mail me with any comments at [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected].
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My first page
(If you have read the page your on now first, beat yourself in the head till you forget, then read them in order!)
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