Sunday, August 13, 2006

True Facts

Don't forget to thank our wonderful President for the third item.
I was going to hack the Whitehouse site and post Bush's real email on here, but the Secret Service advised me against it.

Boy are they good!

Women who use chewing tobacco are three times LESS likely to accidentally swallow it while they are pregnant.
The melody of the classic hymn "Amazing Grace" originated from a 12th-century pagan song celebrating masturbation.
The Federal Department of Online Commerce has been compiling a list of US-based e-mail addresses. Once 100 million addresses have been collected, the list will be sold to online marketers as part of President Bush's plan to reduce the deficit.
A 9-volt battery contains roughly the same amount of kinetic energy as a bowl of Lucky Charms.
The Yanomami tribesmen of the Amazon basin can track game birds by the slight difference in warmth their shadows create on the forest floor as they fly by, for up to an hour after the birds have departed.
Contrary to the popular saying, 99 percent of the time you lead a horse to water, it'll drink on its own.
The first Ford Excursion was actually designed and built in 1951. It was never marketed because the then-current braking technology required a drum 3 feet wide on each wheel.
Rapid deforestation has decreased the friction of the surface of the Earth, causing it to spin infinitesimally faster and thereby cool the air, combating global warming.
The flush toilet was invented in Flushing, NY.
The inner core of most standard golf balls is made of nougat, which helps the balls remain aloft longer.
On occasions when the sun is shining brightly on falling snowflakes, they contain enough ionic charge to stun insects. Observation of this phenomenon inspired the invention of the bug zapper.
Over the last two decades, more Americans died of heart attacks while watching horror movies in movie theaters than died while sky-diving.
A common misconception is that the term "salsa dancing" derives from the food condiment called salsa. Actually, the dance was invented in the 1930s by a dance teacher named Frankie Salsa.
Every common food product, with the exception of fish and veal, contains some traces of peanut enzymes.
The number of words in the Bible divided by the number of verses equals exactly 666.

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