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[poker player]

A bunch of useless facts, some of which you probably already know but also a few interesting facts:

>>Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
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>>The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
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>>Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
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>>You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
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>>A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
>>Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a
>>few weeks.
>>
>>Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
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>>The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
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>>When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
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>>Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.
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>>A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a
>>carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After
>>weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe
>>leaving her mentally retarded
>>
>>"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
>>
>>Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking
>>countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang
>>yourself."
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>>The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond.
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>>Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
>>
>>"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three
>>consecutive double letters.
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>>Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left
>>handed people do.
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>>The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language.
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>>If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line
>>would never end because of the rate of reproduction
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>>China has more English speakers than the United States.
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>>Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
>>
>>Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood
>>vessels.
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>>An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.
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>>Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in
>>our bodies.
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>>According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
>>
>>The longest place name still in use is:
>>Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi-
>>pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.
>>
>>If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at
>>approximately 4:30pm the previous day.
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>>Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive
>>proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space.
>>However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a
>>microwave in the building.
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>>Strange-but-true The average four year-old child asks over four hundred
>>questions a day.
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>>The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock twice each morning.
>>
>>The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the
>>combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

[heydelores]

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[Reflections]

Right handed people tend to use their right hand to write with.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[cubanlord]

[tzechuk]

Babies have 300 bones, adults only 206. Where have all the bones gone?!

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[flotsam]

[crystal]

[LL Moonmanhead]

A few more interesting facts:

-Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

-At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.

-You never know where to look when eating a banana.

- Every adult male has at some stage while taking a pee, flushed halfway through and then raced against the flush.

[peemil]

[K-in-C]

[quote="poker player"]

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language.

This would be a good sentence for the game Hang Man.

Also, it would be great for parts of speech. I see adjectives, a verb, nouns and a prepostion.

[EFLtrainer]

[kimchikowboy]