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    Default Things you didn't know you didn't know.

    Stuff you didn't know you didn't know!

    Every day more money
    is printed for Monopoly than the U.S.
    Treasury.

    Men can read smaller
    print than women can; women can hear better.

    Coca-Cola was
    originally green.
    It is impossible to lick
    your elbow.

    The State with the
    highest percentage of people who walk to work:
    Alaska
    The percentage of
    Africa that is wilderness: 28%
    (now get this...)

    The percentage of
    North America that is wilderness: 38%
    The cost of raising
    a medium-size dog to the age of eleven:
    $ 16,480.

    The average number
    of people airborne over the U.S. in any given
    hour:
    61,000
    Intelligent people
    have more zinc and copper in their hair..

    The first novel ever
    written on a typewriter.......Tom Sawyer.

    The San Francisco
    Cable cars are the only mobile National
    Monuments.

    Each king in a deck
    of playing cards represents a great king from history:

    Spades - King David

    Hearts - Charlemagne

    Clubs -Alexander,
    the Great

    Diamonds - Julius
    Caesar

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

    75% of those reading this will try to lick their elbow.....

    B Co 1/509th ABCT 1973-1976

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    Default Re: Things you didn't know you didn't know.

    Quote Originally Posted by david1833 View Post
    75% of those reading this will try to lick their elbow.....
    Nope, looked at it and said "I'm not even going to try", especially since I just whacked the funny bone on the chair arm....

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    Default Re: Things you didn't know you didn't know.

    Some are correct and some are not...

    http://www.jefflewis.net/factoids-index.html

    http://www.jefflewis.net/factoids2.html
    has several from the above list.

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