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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    When NBC decided to air 'The Office' after the Super Bowl, execs encouraged the show's producers to cast celebrity guest stars. They booked Jack Black, Jessica Alba, and Cloris Leachman but instead of writing them in with the regular cast, they stared in a fake movie the cast watched.
  • HeatherMRV93
    HeatherMRV93 Posts: 10 Member
    You eat 4to10 bugs a year in your sleep. Spiders mostly.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    HeatherMRV93 wrote: »
    You eat 4to10 bugs a year in your sleep. Spiders mostly.

    Good news! This is a myth.

    I have seen more than 3 spiders in my life is a fact. And 100% useless. :)
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Everything can be a boomerang if you throw it straight up.
  • Sunshine_And_Sand
    Sunshine_And_Sand Posts: 1,320 Member
    Mandrake is a real plant. It's even mentioned in the Bible. They do not however cry and kill you.
  • geiznekcm
    geiznekcm Posts: 1,357 Member
    "Eruct" is synonymous to "burp".
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The snow used in the Wizard of Oz was 100% pure asbestos.
  • Sunshine_And_Sand
    Sunshine_And_Sand Posts: 1,320 Member
    I hear a lot of people advocate for unapproved "natural" remedies/supplements. Some of the logic they give is that the drugs were made from something so why not just take the "natural" ingredient the drugs were made from.
    The first ACE Inhibitor, a class of frequently used antihypertinsives with their generic names ending in "pril", was derived from the venom of the Brazilian Viper, Bothrops Jararaca. So by the "natural" logic, people who take this type of med would be better off going to Brazil and getting themselves bitten/killed by that snake than taking a pill every day. I suppose it would be effective for the goal of reducing blood pressure, but is it worth it?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    You never actually bite down, you always bite up.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    In every movie or video of Santa it shows him flying over and missing hundreds of houses at a time.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    That the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series of books came about after the creator ran out of bedtime stories to tell his daughters, so he asked them what they thought the protagonist should do next. He would then continue the story based on their choices.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    J.R.R. Tolkien passed away in 1973. If you reverse that number it is 3791. Three rings for the Elves. Seven for the Dwarves. Nine for Men. And one ring to rule them all.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    George Washington owned the largest distillery in America, producing 11,000 gallons of whiskey per year.
  • The_Aly_Wei
    The_Aly_Wei Posts: 844 Member
    geiznekcm wrote: »
    "Eruct" is synonymous to "burp".

    This was a need to know.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Astronomers didn't think stars existed outside the milky way until the 1920's.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Tomorrow, every kid born on 2000 will be an adult.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    In 1992, a retiree was out searching for a lost hammer with a metal detector. During his search he found a huge cache of Roman treasure, including 15,234 coins. The British government gave him and the owner of the land £1.75 million for finding it. Later on, he also found the hammer.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    If you’re in a car going 60 mph you travel about 18 feet every time you blink. The average person blinks 15 times per minute. At that pace, every 20 minutes the average person drives a mile with their eyes closed.
  • UltraVegAthlete
    UltraVegAthlete Posts: 667 Member
    Eating fruit won’t make you smell like flowers.
  • Sunshine_And_Sand
    Sunshine_And_Sand Posts: 1,320 Member
    UltraVegAthlete wrote: »
    Eating fruit won’t make you smell like flowers.

    BUT eating poop WILL make you smell like poop.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Bad Vacuums don't suck.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    There are about 50 million kangaroos in the world and about 5 million Norwegians. So if the kangaroos decided to invade Norway they would have to fight about 10 each.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    You know who has more descendants than Genghis Khan? Genghis Khan's dad.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    In 1974 Elvis Presley expressed interest in covering Dolly Parton's "I will always love you". She was initially was thrilled about the proposal, however when she found out she would have to sign over half of the royalties to Elvis she refused.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    If an alien population about 2200 light-years away from here could observe the Earth now by a powerful telescope, they would see the ancient Romans fighting Hannibal in the Second Punic War.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Even in a worst-case scenario, Rubix cubes are no more than 20 moves from being solved.
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    A photographer took pictures of a street mime in Central Park in 1974 and 35 years later discovered it was Robin Williams before he was famous.

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    I <3 this.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The Sun is a space heater.
  • jmatty_ice
    jmatty_ice Posts: 10 Member
    Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

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