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Old 01-04-2005, 07:27 PM   #11
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MUST GO BUY A SCORPION NOW!!!
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Old 01-04-2005, 11:22 PM   #12
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heh! I know it all along. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Old 01-05-2005, 07:05 AM   #13
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34. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
54. In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
There were some I knew and some I didn't really care about. These are the two I found most interesting though.
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Old 01-05-2005, 10:07 AM   #14
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Wow... that was interesting...

I liked the one about Charlie Chaplin [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Old 01-05-2005, 10:41 AM   #15
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ROFL what's the problem with Finland ? Do their ducks wear pants or something ?
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Old 01-05-2005, 01:28 PM   #16
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Well there were quite a few that I was not aware of, but even my limited trivia knowledge detected a few that are wrong or sound a bit too much like "internet lore"

-U.S. Currency is 75% cotton and 25% linen (flax), and while in this case I think they mean "wood pulp", using the word "paper" is inacurate, since paper can be made out of many different materials. In reality, currency is 100% "paper"... it's just cotton/linen paper.

-the "Rule of Thumb" has no legal historical relationship with domestic violence and is most likely a term denoting "approximate measurements".

-female ferrets "may" not "will" die if they come into heat and are not bred. It is life threatening but not universally fatal... if you have a female ferret as a pet, get her fixed!

-Happy Meal sales represent 40% of Mcdonalds profits... HIGHLY unlikely, and since Mcdonalds doesn't publish per-item financial information it'd be tough to prove or disprove.

-Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries. - Sounds a bit too convenient... and an informal survey from the ALA found that "books on witchcraft/occult/dreams/astrology, as well as exam preparation books." were the most frequently stolen.

Thats the problem with the Internet... any bozo can publish something as a "fact" and if it sounds good 3000 other people will propegate it. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Old 01-05-2005, 01:36 PM   #17
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Thats the problem with the Internet... any bozo can publish something as a "fact" and if it sounds good 3000 other people will propegate it. [img]smile.gif[/img]
That's *always* a problem, only the internet is a bigger scale. Anyways, this is good for a laugh or two, I doubt anyone will hang someone up on this.
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Old 01-05-2005, 04:14 PM   #18
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Continuing what Thoran started:
"10. A duck's quack, and a loon's call do not echo. No one knows why."
They will echo, ask anyone who keeps ducks.

"20. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog."
Depends on the type of chocolate.
Dark and Unsweetened (Baker's) chocolate are roughly 10x more toxic then milk chocolate, and white chocolate is generally fine.
It's also worth mentioning that chocolate effects our heart and nervous system, so that's not necessarily a bad thing.

"43.If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar."
9 dimes, a quarter, and 4 pennies also works.

"48. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola."
Motorola was origionally the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. Galvin Manufacturings first product, designed and built, was Galvin Manufacturing Corporation's first product a battery eliminator, a device that allows battery-powered radios to run on standard household electric current. In 1930, Galvin Manufacturing released a car radio, the Motorola model 5T71, the name Motorola was derived from "motor" (motorcar, motion) and the suffix "ola" (sound). The company doesn't become Motorola until WWII.

"54. In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered."
AFAIK there is no size mentioned in Gulliver's Travels, and the speeds are off by ~30% and ~50%. Predicting two small moons around Mars isn't really that impressive.
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Old 01-05-2005, 04:21 PM   #19
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20. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.
Not necessarily, I've feed chocolate to my dog on quite a few occasions when he was a pup, never hurt him any.
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Old 01-05-2005, 06:21 PM   #20
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I enjoyed the Charlie Chaplin one. I knew some of these. Oh, No. 2 is very different to the story i heard. I read here, http://straightdope.com/classics/a1_195 , that the founder liked the idea after seeing an ad for shoes labelled "21 styled of shoes" and adopted "57 varieties" for his ketchup. 57, AFAIK, is a random number.
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