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[Tyrion]

This thread is dedicated to all the bizarre trivia that has no practical use, yet is strangely fascinating. So, here goes...

In March of 2003, there was an Optimus Prime enlisted in the Ohio National Guard.

[Lex]

"If tin whistles are made of tin, what are fog horns made out of?"

...or dog whistles for that matter.  Ewwww.

[Syndra]

Oh my, why did I come back to the forums?

[argyle2001]

Oh my, why did I come back to the forums?

Oh, come on.  You had to know you'd ask yourself that sooner or later.  This is for questions you never thought you'd ask.  Like, if Pro is the opposite of Con, then what's the opposite of Progress?

[Lex]

Oh my, why did I come back to the forums?

Oh, come on.  You had to know you'd ask yourself that sooner or later.  This is for questions you never thought you'd ask.  Like, if Pro is the opposite of Con, then what's the opposite of Progress?

Ooo, that's a GREAT one! : )

[Get Carter!]

In honour of the fact that I'll be 27 on the 27th of this month (please address birthday cards to Get Carter! from StoryCrafter, London, England) here are 27 fun facts!

1)
In 1870, Jim Mace, the British boxing champion, fought an American challenger in a fight that lasted nearly 4 hours without landing one punch!

2)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of a computer keyboard.

3)
On average women blink nearly twice as much as men.

4)
By the law of averages you are more likely to be killed by a flying champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

5)
When Coca Cola was first produced it was a green colour.

6)
Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.

7)
In England in the early 1960's the Autolite Cigarette Company manufactured self lighting cigarettes.

8)
In San Diego, USA, in 2000, the record for the longest ever tennis rally was made with a total of 15,674 strokes being made.

9)
On average a baby's heart will beat about 60 million times before it is born.

10)
Male fruit bats have the highest incidence of homosexuality in the animal kingdom even overtaking humans!

11)
Ten percent of Britain's perfumes are bought at Heathrow Airport.

12)
Winnie the Pooh and his friends are now more valuable to the Disney Corporation than Mickey Mouse, being responsible for annual profits of 4.5 billion dollars.

13)
In the USA, in 1998, 48 people lost their lives due to rollercoaster accidents!

14)
If a man farted non-stop for six years and nine months and then lit it he would produce an explosion equal to the power of the first atomic bomb!

15)
There are more English speaking people living in China than there are in the USA!

16)
The worlds largest bacteria, Thiomargarita namibiensis, which was only discovered in 1998.

17)
In the USA up to 200,000 Americans wake up every year under general anaesthetic!

18)
An ostrich's eye is actually bigger than it's brain is!

19)
In the USA Americans eat about 18 acres of pizza a day!

20)
In Britain, in 1999, 43 adults died in their bathtubs!

21)
The giant sloth sleeps for 17 hours per day yet only spends about 70 minutes dreaming.

22)
On average there is about 3,000 feet of electrical wiring in every car.

23)
During World War II, at the the battle for the city of Stalingrad, in Russia, the German army lost more men attacking a single house than it did occupying Paris, in France, three years before.

24)
It has been estimated that you spend about a year of your life looking for things you have lost.

25)
If you are right handed you tend to chew on the right hand side of your mouth and if you are left handed you tend to chew on the left hand side of your mouth.

26)
On average a human being spends two weeks of their entire lives waiting for traffic lights to change.

27)
1.2 billion letters are sent worldwide through the post every day. If they were joined together they would make a bridge that would span the Atlantic ocean.

[Tyrion]

Pretty impressive, Carter. You read the Uncle John's books, don't you?
An early happy birthday to ya, by the way!

Those little plastic things on the ends of your shoelaces are called aglets.

[Get Carter!]

Thanks Tyrion but you don't have to send me birthday greetings.

Just cold hard cash.

[Salasar]

Every time an Angel Farts, a Pug is born.

Wait, that isn't quite right.

Maybe it's the other way around.

[Shanna]

Oh my, why did I come back to the forums?

I often wonder the same...I guess it's for my weekly episode of Get Carter!.  

You know, that could be understood as 'episode - A separate part of a serialized work, such as a novel or play' or 'episode - an occurrence of a usually recurrent pathological abnormal condition'.  

Oddly enough, it reads well either way....  :)

[argyle2001]

Sadly, Carter hasn't been around for several weeks.

[Shanna]

Which explains why I haven't been here, either.  :(

[Tyrion]

Well, it's been a little while (okay, maybe a long while) since this thread has seen any action. Since I started this affront to common sense and I'm one of those ornery people that seems to enjoy beating a dead horse, here I go again!

The sea cucumber responds to threats by turning itself inside-out.

Also, William Howard Taft, 27th president of the USA and currently the largest holder of that office, replaced the White House bathtub after becoming lodged in the original.