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USELESS FACT OF THE DAY - PLEASE ADD!
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CherryBlossom | Report | 9 Jun 2010 17:06 |
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SPAM is short for Shoulder Pork and hAM. |
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Julia | Report | 9 Jun 2010 16:13 |
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Coca Cola is the number one soft drink in every country on earth, except Scotland where it's Irn Bru |
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Julia | Report | 9 Jun 2010 16:03 |
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you can't lick your own elbow!! |
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Staffs Col | Report | 9 Jun 2010 14:36 |
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Oil from the sunken warships at Pearl Harbor in 1941 continues to seep from the wrecks today |
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MrDaff | Report | 8 Jun 2010 19:03 |
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An average of 76 people a year die playing twister, and about 23 of which are through playing the nude version! |
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Stevie | Report | 8 Jun 2010 18:58 |
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Im sitting in front of a computer. lol |
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CherryBlossom | Report | 8 Jun 2010 17:52 |
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There are no words that rhyme with purple, silver or orange? |
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Rod | Report | 8 Jun 2010 15:19 |
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FACETIOUS contains all of the vowels in their correct alphabetic order. There are others but I've forgotten them. |
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AuntySherlock | Report | 8 Jun 2010 04:36 |
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Bookkeeper. I think it is worse than that Beverley. I think it might be the only word in the English language which contains three sets of double letters consecutively. |
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Yvonne | Report | 7 Jun 2010 21:36 |
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Ouch!!! bet that made their eyes water lol |
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Dermot | Report | 7 Jun 2010 21:31 |
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In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1125, King Henry bade that "all the counterfeiters in England should lose each of them the right arm & their testicles beneath." |
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Yvonne | Report | 7 Jun 2010 21:20 |
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Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th |
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Bobtanian | Report | 7 Jun 2010 20:42 |
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Beverley | Report | 7 Jun 2010 20:20 |
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The work 'Bookkeeper is the only word with double O, double K and double e in it. |
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PatriciaAnn | Report | 7 Jun 2010 18:48 |
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The calendar is exactly the same every 28 years. Ie in 1982 June 7th was on a Monday. |
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Cooper | Report | 7 Jun 2010 18:17 |
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This thread is proving intresting to two 11 year olds who are making airfix models and geting me to read out the best bits. |
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Dermot | Report | 7 Jun 2010 17:01 |
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Two words 'Sit Still' contain the letters - Sx2; Ix2; Tx2 & Lx2. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 7 Jun 2010 16:08 |
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I have a poorly knee |
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MrDaff | Report | 7 Jun 2010 14:46 |
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During the battle for Stalingrad, the German army lost more men attacking a single house defended by sergeant Pavlov's platoon than it did occupying Paris three years later. Pavlov survived the war and became a monk. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 7 Jun 2010 14:39 |
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a giraffe is the oly animal that can blink both eyes at the same time |
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