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    Oh man, that reminds me. A female lion and a male tiger produce a Tigon while a Male Lion and a Female Tiger make a Liger.


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    Each side on a dice, when added to the opposite side, equals 7.

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

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    * A cockaroach can live for upto 9 days without it's head befor it starves to death.
    * Sharks never get sick, they are imune to all known illnesses, even cancer.
    * A ducks "Quack" is the only animal sound that doesn't echo
    * MDMA - the chemical compound found in drugs like ecstasy and LSD can also be found in Ergot - the mould that grows on rye bread and wheat.
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    the Earth isn't a proper Sphere

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    In florida, it is illegal to drink beer from a bucket on a street corner.
    In Virginia, it is illegal to have anal sex.

    dependent on your body weight (I way about 190, for this estimate) If you drink a little over 250 cans of soda, the caffiene will kill you.

    Duct tape has additives in the glue that will heal cuts like neosporin, but the glue is strong enough that when you pull off that tape the scab that forms will come off repopening the wound.

    If you freeze an onion it won't make you cry when you cut it.

    If you cut apple slices and drip some citrus juice on them they won't turn brown

    If you place an apple in a paper bag with a bannana it ripens faster.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dixie
    The longest place-name still in use is
    Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakita.
    Hawaii. That could only come out of Hawaii.

    Rats can't vomit.

    Cockroaches can't belch, so if you feed them Alka-Seltzer it ruptures their digestive tract.

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    This is the longest place name in britain, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwchllantysiliogogogoch. It Welsh and it means "the church of St Mary by the hollow of the white aspen, over the whirlpool, and St Tysillio's church close to the red cave".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dixie
    The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford
    English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
    According to the 18th Edition of the Guiness Book of World Records, the longest word every written down is:

    methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanyl-glutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanyl-valylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycyl-isoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucyl-isoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucyl-glycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartyl-glycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucyl-arginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanyl-glutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucyl-isoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolyl-isoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalyl-phenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyl-tyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylvalylaspartylseryl-methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanyl-glutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanyl-valylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycyl-isoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucyl-isoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucyl-glycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartyl-glycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucyl-arginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanyl-glutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucyl-isoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolyl-isoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalyl-phenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyl-tyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylvalylaspartylseryl-valylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglutaminylglutamylseryl-alanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidyl-asparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolyl-prolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminyl-isoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucyl-leucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginyl-arginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidylleucylvalylalanyl-lysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucyl-glutaminylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartyl-glutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylalanyl-glycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucyl-isoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolyl-glutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalyl-glutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine

    This word (excluding the dashes) is 1913 letters long. It is simply the elongated, spelled out 267 amino acid sequence of a protein called Tryptophan Synthetase, which has the chemical compound C1289H2051N343O375S8. There are large proteins in the world, but no one has bothered to write out the amino acid sequence like this.

    The above is kind of cheating though, because there are in theory several words longer than that, so the official longest word in the English language is:

    acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl-phenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanyl-aspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinyl-threonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanyl-glutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonyl-glutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyl-tryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalyl-arginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosyl-arginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucyl-threonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonyl-arginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamyl-asparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamyl-threonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartyl-alanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucyl-asparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycyl-threonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonyl-phenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophyl-threonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine

    This is the chemical name for the "Coat Protein, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Stain", used to stain certain residues in said virus's proteins. It (excluding the dashes) is 1185 letters long. It was used in the publication Chemical Abstracts in 1972.

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    In Switzerland it is illegal for males to pee standing up after 10.00 pm

    A Tiger has stripes on it's skin as well as on it's fur.

    Albert Einstein originally designed refrigerators.

    When lava is under the ground it's called magma.

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    A couple of palindromes:

    Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas
    Dogma: I am God.

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    A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. Wait maybe it is a nut. The barber called my name before I could read the rest of it.

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    I think if you leave Ketchup (sp?) on tin foil, it will burn a hole thru it, but I cant remember how long it takes.

    Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
    A rat can fall 5 stories without injury
    Only 55% of America knows the sun is a star
    Well, now its 55.1% if you didnt know and your american
    It is physichally impossible for pigs to look at the sky
    All the swans in england are property of the Queen.
    The adverage human body can make 7 bars of soap out of fat.

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    Hartlepool once hung a monkey that was found after a shipwreck, it was clothed, so the citzens beleived it to be a french spy, so it was hung, after not answering questions it was given when put on trial.
    A lot of people still deny this, but you now know the truth- you may thank me

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    It is impossible to lick your elbow

    90% of all people who have read the above statement tried to lick their elbow

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    I know I did

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