Did You Know?

It is impossible to lick your own elbow...try it.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries

On average,100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal'. The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

Here is something interesting I found online :

http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm363865.html

No I didn't know that............really? I've watched almost every episode and didn't notice. Where did you get all these facts, off a crazy facts website or what.

Also that ball point pen fact kinda scares me because I always chew my pens, I thought it was just a bad habbit but now I find out it could kill me ahhh . nice thread btw

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every year, between 7 and 11 people die by having a vending machine fall on them

the first movie directed by a woman to gross over 100 million dollars was BIG

the little plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets

snoopy's mom's name is Missy, and Charlie Brown's father is a barber

Albert Einstein was born on March 14th, pi day, as in 3.14 = 3/14

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Yup...a few different sites. Also, some of them other people have told me.

Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book "If I Ran the Zoo".

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Did you know that at one point in his life Julius Ceaser was captured by pirates?

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Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
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do you know the story of Matthew Sheppard, my school is doing the Laramie Project for it's fall play, and i was wondering who here knows what happened to Matt

I do and that is pretty damn impressive your school is putting that on as its play...

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Did you know that I'm probably going to be banned in 5 seconds?

I know you're not, for you aren't behaving like an idiot.

You're borderline prophetic, I tell you.

Oh, yes he is. Just not in plain view.

I stand corrected.

Bravo OG-, i'm glad to know Matt has truly made an impact somewhere, btw, i'm on running crew for the 4 show's we're doing, can't wait 2 see how we do

Well there was a pretty good movie made about it, also called the Laramie Project, which is how I remember the name...

i've seen the movie, that's exactly what our play is, it is the laramie project, which reminds me, last tuesday, Romaine Patterson came and spoke at our school, guess who get's to play her

what'd he do to get banned??