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70,255 5,363 July 10, 2012 at 10:40 AM in Video Games
OK, So I have 5 shirts to give out...and here's how you can win one. Whee


I like fun (and/or weird) facts ( and I need entertaining) so go find some interesting and hopefully weird facts to post in this thread.

I will choose 5 (plus a few more for backups) numbers before I post this thread....then I will look through the thread and see if a fun fact falls on the number...if it's just chatter in that post and no fun fact then I will choose another. Only one shirt per person so if the winning number falls on your post twice...I will choose another.

Reposts won't count so if someone does a repost be sure to call it out laugh out loud Stick Out Tongue But don't all go crazy calling them out since that doesn't help you win a shirt.

Try not to clutter up the thread too much with chatter because I really want to read some interesting things today.

This might end later today or maybe tomorrow... or maybe the end of the week.



The contest has ended...Winners in wiki...but since I don't trust half of you I am also listing them here. Stick Out Tongue


ok

the winners are...


Zoe Moon for post #7 (Vegas)

TigerStar for post #11 (Vegas)

#21 was on there but sorry...I happened to snag that one

Pig for post #51 (my age )

damsel. for post #69 (Evillaugh )

and chewspam for post # 77 ( Evillaugh Inside pervert joke...some may figure this out...others won't )
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Last Edited by Schooby July 11, 2012 at 10:24 AM
ok

the winners are...


Zoe Moon for post #7 (Vegas)

TigerStar for post #11 (Vegas)

#21 was on there but sorry...I happened to snag that one Stick Out Tongue

Pig for post #51 (my age Stick Out Tongue )

damsel. for post #69 ( Evillaugh)

and chewspam for post # 77 ( Evillaugh Inside pervert joke...some may figure this out...others won't Stick Out Tongue )

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07-10-2012 at 11:52 AM.
07-10-2012 at 11:52 AM.
Quote from Schooby :
laugh out loud Go dig up a weird fact...not like "Autumn has hairy toes"
I want to be able to find that it's actually true Stick Out Tongue Good try though..and really..when has number one ever been picked in a contest. Whip laugh out loud Go hunting for me.
only one post wonders will win so doesnt matter Mad
What about this tidbit Zoe Moon has 27 cats
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Zoe Moon
07-10-2012 at 12:20 PM.
07-10-2012 at 12:20 PM.
Quote from Scampsters :
only one post wonders will win so doesnt matter Mad
What about this tidbit Zoe Moon has 27 cats
DH often says that if he hadn't married me, I would have wound up with 27 cats. laugh out loud

So this won't be an OT post...

The very yummy Humbolt Fog cheese has a streak of volcanic ash running down the middle of the cheese. It is not the only cheese to include ash, some use wood ash, some volcanic ash.

Guess what I'm eating right now? laugh out loud
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07-10-2012 at 12:34 PM.
07-10-2012 at 12:34 PM.
The true formal name of the famous statue standing in New York harbor is not "The Statue of Liberty". It was named "Liberty Enlightening the World" by its sculptor Frederic Bartholdi, who fashioned the statue's likeness after his mother.
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07-10-2012 at 12:43 PM.
07-10-2012 at 12:43 PM.
body fat decomposes to adipocere (from the Latin, adipo for fat and cera for wax), aka grave wax, which is a yellow to white somewhat hard substance. your body could be in a plastic-like state with a consistency from being gooey as with a mushy bar of soap, to semi-soft like with a young cheddar cheese, to hard and grainy, as with candle wax.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipocere
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07-10-2012 at 12:43 PM.
07-10-2012 at 12:43 PM.
The Art Deco spire of the Empire State Building was originally if impractically designed to serve as a dirigible terminal for Zeppelins and other airships to dock. Learned this on Pawn Stars the other night, when a Harmonica showed up with a Zeppelin on it Smilie
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07-10-2012 at 01:56 PM.
07-10-2012 at 01:56 PM.
umm we have a lot more numbers to go... laugh out loud

But it's looking good so far...I like these. Smilie Girly
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07-10-2012 at 01:59 PM.
07-10-2012 at 01:59 PM.
Quote from Schooby :
umm we have a lot more numbers to go... laugh out loud

But it's looking good so far...I like these. Smilie Girly
YVW anytime Wink

Z2G knows how to cook pasta
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07-10-2012 at 02:01 PM.
07-10-2012 at 02:01 PM.
woot

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. Eat

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07-10-2012 at 02:13 PM.
07-10-2012 at 02:13 PM.
For a long time I did not know that Jello/Jellyis made from gelatin which is "a protein produced from collagen [wikipedia.org] extracted from the boiled bones, connective tissues, and intestines of animals" Yucky
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07-10-2012 at 02:15 PM.
07-10-2012 at 02:15 PM.
The word Texas comes from the Caddo tribe's word for friend. The first Spanish explorers spelled it Tejas, it was later anglicized to Texas.
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07-10-2012 at 02:26 PM.
07-10-2012 at 02:26 PM.
Fact: these type contest are about as fun as picking fly shit out of black pepper!

laugh out loud Im only joking, I could not come up with anything. Frown
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07-10-2012 at 02:33 PM.
07-10-2012 at 02:33 PM.
Quote from Pig :
For a long time I did not know that Jello/Jellyis made from gelatin which is "a protein produced from collagen [wikipedia.org] extracted from the boiled bones, connective tissues, and intestines of animals" Yucky
Yeah... finding that out was one of those "Where were you when you found out Kennedy had been shot" moments for sure. Crying2


In other news, there are 336 dimples on a regulation-size golf ball. look around
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Zoe Moon
07-10-2012 at 02:37 PM.
07-10-2012 at 02:37 PM.
And in the vein of Kristin's post...

One of the earliest forms of golf ball, dating from the 15th century was a leather ball filled with feathers which was then boiled to tighten up the leather.
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07-10-2012 at 02:48 PM.
07-10-2012 at 02:48 PM.
A cockroach can live without its head for 9 days before it starves to death. Sick
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Louisiana is the only state in the US that is divided into parishes. The other 48 states have counties. Alaska is divided into burroughs and census areas.
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