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ChupathingyX

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Micropachycephalosaurus is the dinosaur with the longest name. Ironically, it was very small at about 1 metre long.
 

DMShade

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Cutthroat Island is the Least Financially Successful Movie made. In the Box Office, it raked in a mere 11 Million. It cost 100 Million to make, for an 89% Loss.

The Blair Witch Project is the Most Financially Successful. For every dollar spent to make it, it raked in just under 11,000!

A Law in Calgary, Alberta, Canada's books, until very recently, demanded all businesses have a post out front to hitch your horse to.

In Many Canadian and American area codes, 867-5309 is blocked or otherwise unavailable. When the Tommy Tutone song "Jenny", about a name and number scrawled on a bathroom wall, became popular, people began dialing the number looking for Jenny. After various issues with various phone companies, the number was blocked, and owners of them were often compensated for their trouble and given a free change in the number. The writer has even openly declared there IS no Jenny, and the numbers were chosen because they fit the song's rhythm, nothing more.

No one knows who the Carly Simon song "You're So Vain" is about, save Carly...and one fan. In exchange for a $50,000 donation to a Charity of Carly's choice, she shared the secret...and the fan is bound not to reveal it unless someone matches the price he paid, 50 Grand to a charity of HIS choice.
 

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The Beatles planned to do the first live adaptation version of The Lord of the Rings, with Paul as Frodo, Ringo as Sam, George as Gandalf, and John as Gollum. The group even approached Stanley Kubrick about directing, but, ironically, he turned it down. Kubrick, the man who spent ten years making 2001: A Space Odyssey, felt the Lord of the Rings was "unfilmable" due to its immense size.
 

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This very second, you are reading this post.

But to be serious, on average, about 14 people will be killed per year by vending machines falling on them...Maybe serious wasn't the best word...
 

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suitepee7 said:
santa used to be green, but a tie in with coca-cola is one of the reasons he took to wearing red. it is not purely coca-cola, but they heavily influenced it
Actually 'Santa Claus' was always red, but the idea of Santa was derived from Father Christmas(among other characters) who did wear green.

Fact: Sloths move faster in water than on land, and can hold it's breath for 40 minutes.
 

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White_Lama said:
So... my 10 meter penis is not normal? :(
actually, If a person were to have a penis more than 20 inches long (about half a meter, for our metric friends here), he would pass out from blood loss with every erection
 

kinapuffar

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Denmark and Sweden have fought more wars against each other than any other countries in the world.
 

Loner Jo Jo

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DeltaEdge said:
The first known form of birth control was crocodile feces, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Yep, this is true. However, the first documented form of birth control that was somewhat effective was something adopted in France among the elite. Women would cut lemons in half and insert them into their vagina. The cup shape acted like a female condom of sorts and the lemon juice acted as a spermicide.

Another random fact/experience:
In the Google search "French birth control lemon", the sixth hit down is GLaDOS quotes from IMDB. o_O
 

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Vausch said:
"Luke, I am your father" is the most misquoted line in film history.
Cause actually it is "No... _I_ am your father"
also it's not followed by "NOOOOOO!" But by "no... it's not true... that's impossible!" or sth like that.
 

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There are two towns which hold the dubious distinction of being successfully captured the most. The first is Jerusalem (currently held by Israel). The second is Berwick-upon-tweed, which has changed hands between England and Scotland numerous times.
 

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In a iconic spider-man comic in which Gwen Stacy died she was mostly likely killed by whiplash when spider-man web strand abruptly stopped her mid-fall.Sabertooth the recognizable Wolverine villain was at first a Iron fist villain.Green Lantern: Mosaic a comic series featuring John Stewart earth's second green lantern governing mosaic world was cancelled not because of low sales but a editors meddling.
 

bartholen_v1legacy

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You can clone Pokémon in the original Silver and Gold versions by depositing a pokémon in a box, then changing the box to another. When the "Saving game etc." text reaches the period, you turn the power on and off, and now you have two of the pokemon you just deposited, on different boxes.

This was very useful when trying to get Master Balls :3
 

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SckizoBoy said:
[The said:
Rock]The plural form of "Octopus" is "Octopi"
And the plural of platypus is platypodes (not platypoi as most people seem to think...)
"Jellyfish" is not technically accurate, the creature is a "sea jelly" as it is not a fish at all.
 

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tthor said:
White_Lama said:
So... my 10 meter penis is not normal? :(
actually, If a person were to have a penis more than 20 inches long (about half a meter, for our metric friends here), he would pass out from blood loss with every erection
LOL! Also, vampires can't get erections, because they don't have blood pumping through there bodies (no pulse). I am pointing at you... TWILIGHT!

General BrEeZy said:
Pirates wore eye-patches not just to cover wounds. Yeah, that occurred ON OCCASION, but their primary purpose was to always have one eye adjusted to darkness, making them more efficient plunderers when under a ships deck, where lighting was low or nonexistent.
If this is true, then this is most awesome.

A Free Man said:
4RM3D said:
Ahh I see, my bad I didn't have time to go through all of the posts in this thread so I must have missed your follow up.
No problem. Just letting you know.

DMShade said:
In Many Canadian and American area codes, 867-5309 is blocked or otherwise unavailable. When the Tommy Tutone song "Jenny", about a name and number scrawled on a bathroom wall, became popular, people began dialing the number looking for Jenny. After various issues with various phone companies, the number was blocked, and owners of them were often compensated for their trouble and given a free change in the number. The writer has even openly declared there IS no Jenny, and the numbers were chosen because they fit the song's rhythm, nothing more.
This happens with almost every movie that shows a real phone number. On at least one occasion the phone number was fake and didn't exist in the USA, but dialing it from another country (can't remember which one) did still work.

Also, the hot-line to God in one movie has been called over 10.000 (or was it 100.000?) times in real life. The guy owning that phone number sued the movie studio and won.