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you spend 3 years of your life on the toilet
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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
A. Obsession

 

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

 

This one is deep...think about the cultural impact this could have: NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDONALDS
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You can't plough a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina

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Papaphobia is the fear of Popes

and finally through a few hours resarch i have found that most toilets flush in E flat!

oh just one more then!!

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.






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The Earth DOESN'T have just 1 moon it has 2! The second is called cremethius and orbit every 763 years or something last seen in 98' so bit of a wait. lol
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Originally posted by BBSCFaithfull

The Earth DOESN'T have just 1 moon it has 2! The second is called cremethius


You mean Cruithne, which in fact isn't a moon of the Earth as the two aren't gravitaionally bound. Thus mr. Fry is wrong.
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am i winning with useless facts yet? surely im doing well??
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That cant be true Mr.Fry is never wrong he is a wealth of all knowledge
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It's getting towards the end of half-term, so here's a topical useless fact:

If placed end-to-end all Lego sets sold during the past 10 years would stretch from London, UK to Perth, Australia.

Imagine the size of the tower we could build! Certainly bigger than the extension currently being built at the back of our house... 
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Originally posted by tgruitt


and finally through a few hours resarch i have found that most toilets flush in E flat!

Also, toilets flush round the opposite way on the otherside of the equator 
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Originally posted by jpbuzz591

Also, toilets flush round the opposite way on the otherside of the equator 


Unless they're using different toilets to us then no, the don't. The vorticity created in the water as it hits the toilet pan is several orders of magnitude greater than the coriolis effect for systems on this scale. Sorry to disappoint you.


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