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Faceplant
06-17-2001, 08:29 PM
all compliments on www.uselessknowledge.com (http://www.uselessknowledge.com)

After a tragic fall on "The Andy Williams Show" in 1965, comedian Jerry Lewis suffered a skull fracture that led to an addiction to the painkiller Percodan. His surprise reunion with former partner Dean Martin on the 1976 Muscular Dystrophy telethon made entertainment history, but Lewis said he was in such a drug fog, he didn't remember it and had to watch it on videotape.
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Sheep will not drink from running water. Hence, the line in the Twenty-third Psalm: "He leadeth me beside the still waters."

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The peanut isn't a nut. It is a legume, a member of the pea family.

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During World War I, the punishment for homosexuality in the French army was execution.
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There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth

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It takes 110 domestic silkworm cocoons to make a man's tie.

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Actor Leslie Nielsen grew up in a log cabin 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

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In 1920, Socialist Eugene Debs received 920,000 votes for president of the United States. Yet he ran his entire campaign while he was in jail.

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A pelican consumes about 33 percent of its body weight in a single meal.

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Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.


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Ass, gas, or grass...no free rides.

gone~away
06-18-2001, 04:49 AM
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by Faceplant:
A pelican consumes about 33 percent of its body weight in a single meal.
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now HOW can you call this USELESS http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/biggrin.gif

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VenoM
06-18-2001, 10:44 AM
<FONT COLOR="Red">hehe i couldn't help myself http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/biggrin.gif</FONT c>

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rage
06-18-2001, 10:59 AM
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by Faceplant:
all compliments on www.uselessknowledge.com (http://www.uselessknowledge.com)
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The peanut isn't a nut. It is a legume, a member of the pea family.
hence the word PEAnut
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During World War I, the punishment for homosexuality in the French army was execution.
Actually homosexuality (or the sexual side of it) is illegal in many states
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http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/smile.gif just my thoughts

heh heh heh..pretty funny though,
and nice pic venom... http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/smile.gif

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VenoM
06-18-2001, 11:03 AM
<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Originally posted by rage:
http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/smile.gif just my thoughts

heh heh heh..pretty funny though,
and nice pic venom... http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/smile.gif

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<FONT COLOR="Red">hehe pretty useless huh http://www.thehypertribe.net/ubb/wink.gif</FONT c>

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Faceplant
06-19-2001, 03:13 AM
The Empire State Building in New York City weighs approximately 365,000 tons.

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Four states have active volcanoes: Washington, California, Alaska, and Hawaii, whose Mauna Loa is the world's largest active volcano. Hawaii itself was formed by the activity of undersea volcanoes.


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The rock group Jethro Tull is named after the eighteenth-century English inventor of the seed drill.

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Over 200,000 telephone calls are made daily at the Pentagon.
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The human stomach lining replaces itself every three days.

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The letter "B" took its present form from a symbol used in Egyptian hieroglyphics to represent a house. Its original Egyptian form looked very much like its modern one.

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False teeth are often radioactive. Approximately 1 million Americans wear some form of denture; half of these dentures are made of a porcelain compound laced with minute amounts of uranium to stimulate fluorescence. Without the uranium additive, the dentures would be a dull green color when seen under artificial light.

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Dog Breath
06-19-2001, 03:20 AM
How handy! The dentures cook the food. EAT RAW MEAT!!!!

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If it's so sick, why are you laughing?
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Faceplant
06-19-2001, 03:26 AM
More than 45,000 pieces of plastic debris float on every square mile of ocean.

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With more than 105 million pounds in 1997, Georgia is the world’s top pecan producer; Texas came in second with 90 million pounds.

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Ten books on a shelf can be arranged in 3,628,800 different ways.

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ZIP code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, New York.
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The odds against a person being struck by a celestial stone--a meteorite--are 10 trillion to one.
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The odds of someone winning a lottery twice in four months is about one in 17 trillion. But Evelyn Marie Adams won the New Jersey lottery in this period during 1985-86.

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A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.

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Most American-made car horns beep in the tone of "F."

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The population of Colombia doubles every 22 years.



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