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October 13th, 2005   Post 201
FutureDevilDog
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Hippos can safely mingle with crocodiles and even steal the crocs food if they wanted, without the risk of being attacked
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October 13th, 2005   Post 202
Rob Henderson
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A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight. This is kinda sad, no?
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"Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think."- Fortune Cookie
 
October 13th, 2005   Post 203
FutureDevilDog
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Spider web, a quarter size in diameter can stop a Boeing 747 in mid flight
 
October 13th, 2005   Post 204
Rob Henderson
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The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. I found this quite hilairious
 
October 14th, 2005   Post 205
tomtom22
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In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
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"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations
 
October 15th, 2005   Post 206
FutureDevilDog
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
 
October 15th, 2005   Post 207
tomtom22
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There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
 
October 16th, 2005   Post 208
Missileer
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The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
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“War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.”
—John Stuart Mill
 
October 17th, 2005   Post 209
tomtom22
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The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
 
October 17th, 2005   Post 210
Missileer
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!