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Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold. Most of it is in our blood.
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Something for Kitch since he likes space stuff.

A space shuttle will enter orbit upside down relative to the Earth.
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Something else for Kitch.
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There's actually a stage musical based off the Titanic that won a bunch of Tony awards, including best score, best book, and best musical.
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Only two ice hockey goalies (Martin Brodeur and Ron Hextall) have scored a goal in the regular season of play and a goal in the playoffs.
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Afghanistan is the first country in alphabetical order.
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Cheesecake was invented in Ancient Greece and served to athletes at the very first Olympic Games.
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So... apparently Google has changed their logo, from using the Times News Roman-like typeface to Century Gothic-like typeface.
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My birthday is in 4 days!
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There is a person employed at abattoirs (slaughterhouses) whose sole job it is to wash cows' butts once the cow is dead before the cow gets turned into meat. This is to keep contamination from the area where they chop the cow up.

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Happy Birthday, Fallout otter! :D
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Saturn381 wrote:Happy Birthday, Fallout otter! :D
Saturn, I think you might be on the wrong thread :P

I found this pretty funny when I first heard it: 3 of the 4 members of Imagine Dragons are named Dan.
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In 2001 the Seattle Mariners (Major League Baseball team) won 116 games, which set the American League record for most wins in a single season and tied the 1906 Chicago Cubs for the Major League record for most wins in a single season.

Through the 2014 season, the franchise has finished with a losing record in 26 of 38 seasons.

The team is owned by Nintendo of America.
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Stephen Perry patented his idea for the rubber band in 1845. The London businessman came up with the invention after Charles Goodyear introduced rubber to the world in 1839.
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"The young man the boat" is a grammatically correct sentence.
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"Mame chishiki" is Japanese for "fun facts" or "trivia". The words literally means "beans of knowledge".

This bit also serves as the inspiration for the Mameshiba (Shiba beans) videos, where all sorts of beans shaped like cute dogs say a trivial, and usually gross, fact that usually grosses out the unfortunate people who happens to see them.
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The Orange River in southern Africa isn't named for the fruit or the color; it's named for the Dutch royal family who sent explorers to "discover" the area.
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Liam wrote:"The young man the boat" is a grammatically correct sentence.
"The boat is manned by people who are young" would be a way to rephrase it more clearly, for those wondering.
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Justin Bieber's song "What Do You Mean" is now number 1 in the US.
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The Kuala Lumpur railway station was built to withstand up to two feet of snow, despite Malaysia having a tropical climate. It was built following the British building code back then during the Birtish occupation of the Malayan Federation, and the architect was a friend to a British loyalist.
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American accents are closer to English accents from several centuries ago than current English accents are.
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As of this evening (in Britain), Queen Elizabeth II is now the longest reigning British monarch, as well as the longest reigning queen in world history.
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It's not hugely well known but Her Majesty actually has a great sense of humour!

Congratulations to her on reaching this landmark! Long Live the Queen!

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Miriam Margolyes (the actress who played Professor Pomona Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) also voiced The Caramel Bunny in the Cadbury's Caramel bar commercials.
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In 1777, Morocco became the first country to seek diplomatic relations with the United States.
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I've learned I have family ties to the people of Alsace-Lorraine by bloodline and through my aunt-in-law to the White Russians through my extended family.
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The Netherlands’ national anthem is really only the first and sixth verses of a 15-verse extravaganza written in honor of the Dutch Prince William of Orange.
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In 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting some matches, causing an emergency landing and delaying the flight.
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Sometimes I wonder about the future of the human race with stunts like that. >.<
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It is likely that the "Super Earths" orbitting other stars do not have a liquid mantle or core and thus do not have a magnetosphere.
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Of the 50 United "States", 4 actually call themselves Commonwealths. Virginia, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.

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Whoopi Goldberg is a great-grandmother.

She had a daughter when she was 18 named Alex. Alex at the age of 16 had a daughter Amarah. At the age of 25, Amarah had her own daughter Charlie.
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Woody Woodpecker, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester and Tweety, Porky Pig all sang songs of their own.

All the characters sang for the theme song of the Bugs Bunny Show meaning Mel Blanc sang the same song many times over and had them all recorded onto the same tape.

Bugs Bunny sang many songs of his own in his shorts including this duet with Elmer Fudd, this square dance in which his antagonists followed his instructions to effectively defeat each other for him.

There's also an entire Beatles Album sung by the Looney Tunes featuring such songs as Hello, Goodbye" and Yesterday.


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Also, I just have to add a link to this awesome song made using recordings of real Tasmanian Devils as the "lyrics".
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That's the patron saint of voice acting for you. While it's said he's the "Man of Thousand Voices", that's slightly off... he only did a mere eight hundred and fifty different voices, according to his biography. Pretty much anything revolving around Mel Blanc is going to seem insane, considering he was literally a one-man voice acting studio.
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The next leap year is 2016.
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CosmicCoyote wrote:That's the patron saint of voice acting for you. While it's said he's the "Man of Thousand Voices", that's slightly off... he only did a mere eight hundred and fifty different voices, according to his biography. Pretty much anything revolving around Mel Blanc is going to seem insane, considering he was literally a one-man voice acting studio.
while we're on the subject of Mel Blanc (though this was probably posted before at some point):
once, after a car accident, Mel Blanc was in a coma for 3 weeks. each day the doctor would ask how he was doing, and got no response.
then one day the doctor decided to ask "Hey, Bugs Bunny! How are you?" and Mel, still in a coma, responded "Ehh, just fine, Doc. How are you?". Then whenhe asked how Porky was doing Mel responded "J-j-j-just fine, th-th-th-thanks!"

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During childbirth scenes in movies and sitcoms, infant actors are smeared with cream cheese and red jam for an authentic "just born" look.
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Hmmm... yummy babies.

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Kind of turns me off from cream cheese and jam to be honest.
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