| cflude |
DID YOU KNOW…the first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
DID YOU KNOW…that in 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money?
DID YOU KNOW…if Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.
DID YOU KNOW…that Japan has one of the highest life-expectancies in the world: the average lifespan of a Japanese person is 80 years, 9 months?
DID YOU KNOW…the American Automobile Association (AAA) was formed in 1905 for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps.
DID YOU KNOW…that until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia?
DID YOU KNOW…that a single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997?
DID YOU KNOW…after the U.S Civil War, about 33%-50% of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit.
DID YOU KNOW…Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day?
DID YOU KNOW… that in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull a space vehicle must move at a rate of at least 7 miles per second?
DID YOU KNOW…that during his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles.
DID YOU KNOW… that if a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake?
DID YOU KNOW…the United States Postal Service handles over forty percent of the world's mail volume.
DID YOU KNOW…The term "Blue Chip" comes from the color of the poker chip with the highest value, blue.
DID YOU KNOW…The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon five times a day for an entire year.
DID YOU KNOW…every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
DID YOU KNOW… that more than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call?
DID YOU KNOW…Bill Gates house was partially designed using a Macintosh computer.
DID YOU KNOW…that stewardesses and reverberated are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand? The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop. Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands.
DID YOU KNOW…that apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning?
DID YOU KNOW…that the three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations?
DID YOU KNOW…that Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from the Manhattoe tribe for trinkets and cloth valued at 60 guilders. The price worked out to about $24.
DID YOU KNOW…that the Bank of Vernal, in Vernal, Utah is the only bank in the world that was built from bricks sent through the mail? Way back in 1919 the builders realized that it was cheaper to send the bricks through the United States Postal System (seven bricks to a package) than to have them shipped commercially from Salt Lake City. |
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| MightyMidget |
no shit you were bored..... :thefinger:
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| DeathBy240 |
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Originally posted by cflude
DID YOU KNOW…the American Automobile Association (AAA) was formed in 1905 for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps.
They had speed traps back then? I highly doubt that. |
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| driving a lemon |
Wow those were some cool facts! I feel very inligtened...
Come on robin to the batmobile.. we must spred this new found knowledge! |
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| MightyMidget |
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Originally posted by DeathBy240
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Originally posted by cflude
DID YOU KNOW…the American Automobile Association (AAA) was formed in 1905 for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps.
They had speed traps back then? I highly doubt that.
ya i call bs on that one too :thumbsdown:
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| DeathBy240 |
| For some reason I dont think speeding horse buggys were a real problem for the police. |
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