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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
  Useless Fun Facts

*Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
*Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
*The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
*The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.
*Camel's milk does not curdle.
*"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
*The ball on top of a flagpole is called the truck.
*A person from the country of Nauru is called a Nauruan; this is the only palindromic nationality.
*The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate."
*Oliver Cromwell was hanged and decapitated two years after he had died.
*In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
*Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state.
*Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
*Hamsters love to eat crickets.
*The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
*The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.
*The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi is buried in San Marcos, Texas.
*In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
*Roberta Flack wrote "Killing Me Softly" about singer Don McLean.
*The Greek version of the Old Testament is called the Septuagint.
*Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby on the cover of Nirvana's album
*All three major 1996 Presidential candidates, Clinton, Dole and Perot, are left-handed.
*The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs.
*The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.

 
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