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Labarador !!iuszTExGCNs Sun Dec 4 18:09:08 2011 No.8189259 [Reply] [Original]

# The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
# The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
# The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
# The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
# The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
# The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
# The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
# The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
# The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
# The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
# The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
# The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
# The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
# The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
# The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
# The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
# The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
# The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
# The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
# The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.

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