True Facts?

Okay here goes, I found a HUGE list of "true facts", I didn't verify them, but I've copied and pasted some of them here.
(if you want to read the list yourself the link will be at the bottem)
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Geeky Facts
A perfect SAT score is 1600 combined. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, Bill's partner in Microsoft, scored a perfect 1600. Bill Cosby scored less than 500 combined.

Spam filters that catch the word "cialis" will not allow many work-related e-mails through because that word is embedded inside the word "specialist".

The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.

35 Billion e-mails are sent each day throughout the world.

The richest self-made American under 40 is Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Computers. He is worth $18 billion.

There are an average of 18,000,000 items for sale at any time on EBay.

On EBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

The New York Times reports that in February 2004, 62% of all e-mail was spam.

U.K. telecom provider Telewest Broadband is testing a device that hooks to your PC and wafts a scent when certain e-mails arrive.

The first FAX machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone.

During Bill Clinton's entire eight year presidency, he only sent two e-mails. One was to John Glenn when he was aboard the space shuttle, and the other was a test of the e-mail system.

Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com.

Each frame of the Lord of the Rings trilogy requires 12.5 mb in storage. Filmed at 24 frames per second, that amounts to more than 3 million megabytes (3 petabytes) per episode

The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The microwave oven was invented by mistake when an engineer testing a magnetron tube noticed that the radiation from it melted the chocolate bar he had in his pocket.
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Music Facts

The flashing warning light on the cylindrical Capitol Records tower spells out HOLLYWOOD in Morse code.

When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.

The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.

The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard

Former keyboard player for Jethro Tull David Palmer is now a woman named Dee Palmer. He waited until his wife died before going through with his longtime desire for a sex change.

The Swedish pop group ABBA recently turned down an offer of $2 billion to reunite.

Kevin Spacey's older brother is a professional Rod Stewart impersonator

David Bowie thinks he is being stalked by someone who is dressed like a giant pink rabbit. Bowie has noticed the fan at several recent concerts, but he became alarmed when he got on a plane and the bunny was on board.

Van Halen singer David Lee Roth is training to be an EMT in New York City, and plans to be certified by November 2004.

Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest.

65% of Elvis impersonators are of Asian descent.

Bah, that's all I can do, you can find the rest here--

http://www.funny2.com/facts.htm

It's a long list with a lot of funny stuff too

 

Wow, thanks! That was really interesting!

Oh, I have a randon fact too. Did you know that there is more vitamin C in a chilli pepper than in an orange? Yeah.

hehe. King of the Pub Quiz!

 

That's a relief

 

It's only Harvey. He misses Jimmy Stewart.

 

Yeah, I'd heard that before

some crazy & funny stuff on that page

glad ya guys liked it

 

I doubt that's true

I'm gonna look it up

 

Pet peeve....

A fact is "True" by definition, so you don't need the word "True" in front of it.

 

nice link, i'll bookmark this one for when i get bored.

 

Pretty interesting facts!

 

I'm glad ya guys like it, but it is one LONG list
I tried finding just the interesting ones but the more I grabbed the more I saw

That was one he!! of a cut & paste job, one fact at a time

If ya couldn't guess, I was bored and couldn't sleep

 

It was long, but pretty interesting.

The one here has 2 including the drive thru! HAHA

 

Yeah, but beings it's in Alabama, it probably sells "squirrel" McNuggets, right???

 

HAHA! We acutally have chicken ones

 

mmmmmmmm,,

Chicken heads!!!

eat them up YUMM!

 

Better than chicken feet. Ever had dim sum?

 

ewwwww,NO

 

I think my favorite would have to be that ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

 

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out it's tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked passed you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid..

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

 

The wise old owl is the dumbest bird.

A cockroach has 2 brains.

Giorgio Beverly Hills is owned by Avon.

THIS IS A SERIOUS ONE... POTATO BUGS ARE THE MOST DISGUSTING CREATURES ON THE PLANET, AND SHOULD ALL BE KILLED.