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Labarador !!iuszTExGCNs Mon Dec 5 22:28:13 2011 No.8195619 [Reply] [Original]

# The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
# The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
# The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
# The state of Florida is bigger than England.
# The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
# The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
# The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
# The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
# The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
# The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
# The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
# The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
# The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
# The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
# The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
# There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
# There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
# There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
# There are more chickens than people in the world.

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