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For the first six weeks of their lives, baby elephants can speak French.

The homeless were originally invented to cure Athlete’s Foot.

Tina Turner has 18 toes.

What’s the most popular sport in Portugal? You guessed it: Jogging.

More people are shot with guns than any other object.

I’m going to eat your soul.

75% of nickels are counterfeit.

There are over 600 miniature tigers roaming around on your scalp right now.

There is no word in the English language that rhymes with "myth".

The Tootsie Roll was originally invented to cure Hepatitis.

In the movie Saving Private Ryan, the word "the" is never uttered by any character.

The world’s youngest-ever oldest person was only 71 in 1903 when he gained that title.

Lettuce is a fruit.

Easter is not celebrated on Easter Island—but Arbor Day is!

Before becoming a nun, Mother Teresa was treasurer of the Calcutta chapter of the Hells Angels.

When this movie ends, we’re going to go smoke a fat one in the parking lot.

The H in H2O isn't actually hydrogen, but ham.

Origami is more popular than Tetris or shoes—by almost 25%!

Columbus called the Natives "Indians" because he thought he'd landed in Indiana.

Panda Bears are not bears at all; they’re actually a type of bird.

Neil Simon has never learned to read.

In Chinese, there are seven words for ‘thunder,’ but there is no way to make an interesting point by expressing another language’s lack of a particular word.

Beards are edible.

Mice don’t masturbate nearly as much as they think they do.

The recipe for tennis balls was lost in 1987. Once we run out, that's it.

Everyone loves Bette Midler.

Gerald Ford is the only person to ever have the number-one album while president.

The elephant has an innate sense of trajectory not found in other trunked mammals.

The age of consent in Iceland is 45.

The proper word for a collective of dogs is 'dogrageous,' as in, 'There was a dogrageous of dogs running around outside.'

According to Montana State Law, unless otherwise posted, the speed limit on a mountain is 200mph.

Rock 'n' Roll was invented by the ancient Greeks who sought an explanation for the changing of the seasons.

The most populace cubic foot on earth is actually located inside the belly of Gary "Marmaduke" Higgins of John Wayne Heights, Texas.

Don't tread on me.

'What's grosser than gross?' jokes first appeared in the U.S. in 1812. Before that, they were called 'What's more peculiar than peculiar?' jokes.

The answer to the very first crossword puzzle clue, published in the New York World in 1912, was 'bikini wax'.

Thomas Alva Edison is known for a lot of things. He is not known, however, as the Father of Modern Devil's Food Cake, though he likely should be.

Irony predates Sarcasm by almost four million years.

The loudest noise ever recorded by scientists was the sound of a scientist dropping her science microphone.

The human body excretes between 11 and 14 gallons of urine per day.

Richard Maxwell House Nixon was our nation’s first four-name-having President.

Charles Lindbergh was retarded.

All of the songs on The Beatles' White Album are public domain.
 
Oh man those were funny, Mincho. Some of them sort of sound like Monty Python credits, is that where they are from?
 
KimLeece:
As is clear in the childrens nursery ryhme "Ring a ring of Roses" in the last two lines:

Atishoo, Atishoo,
All fall down.

Here is an interesting tidbit on that nursery rhyme:

The words to the Ring around the rosy children's ring game have their origin in English history . The historical period dates back to the great plague of London in 1665 (bubonic plague). The symptoms of the plague included a rosy red rash in the shape of a ring on the skin (Ring around the rosy). Pockets and pouches were filled with sweet smelling herbs ( or posies) which were carried due to the belief that the disease was transmitted by bad smells. The term "Ashes Ashes" refers to the cremation of the dead bodies! The death rate was over 60% and the plague was only halted by the Great Fire of London in 1666 which killed the rats which carried the disease which was transmitting via water sources. The English version of "Ring around the rosy" replaces Ashes with (Atishoo, Atishoo) as violent sneezing was another symptom of the disease.
 
not true its 76.8%!!
 
no its true i swear :eyebrow:
 
Nine people out of ten don't know how to interpret statistics. It's true, I saw it on the internet!
 
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