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Old 02-24-2009, 04:55 PM #1
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Of all the people who work from home, 10% do it in the buff.
UUUHHH BETS
Don't you you work from home? 8-)
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The U.S. Postal Service processes and delivers more than 212 billion pieces of mail per year. That would be:

700 million pieces per day
29 million pieces per hour
486,000 pieces per minute, and
(are you ready?)
8,000 pieces per second.
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Don't you you work from home? 8-)
Why, yes, I do! (Try not to think about it.)
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.
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The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Yes Frank, I have seen that before. And my brain was able to decipher your jumbled up spelling. But misspelled words still irk the heck out of me. Always have.

The only little known thing I can add is from the local newspaper:
Useless Fact o' the Day
A wedgie in which the victim's underwear is pulled up from the front is called a "Melvin."
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Have one? Share it here.

I just learned that 20% of the world's cargo ships are built far too large to take advantage of the Panama Canal.

Bummer dudes!

They're building new locks that are 3 times larger than the originals. Holy guacamole!


ALL humans are no more distantly related than being 72nd cousins. Hence, we are all family, and ro anyone you see, anywhere around the world, you can say with absolute certainty that her/she is your cousin.

Amazing indeed....

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A bunch of maggots can eat up to 40 lbs of meat a day!!

Anyone for minute rice??
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janie janie janie lol
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This one's for music and film fans;

I was watching King Kong (the newest one with Jack Black and Naomi Watts).

Turns out the lovely Ms. Watts' parents both have a small part on Pink Floyd's song Speak To Me off Dark Side of the Moon album. Her Dad does the maniacal laughing and her Mom says "Cruisin' for a bruisin'" on that song.

Naomi was born in England and then moved to Australia but can do an American accent spot on. *Much like that guy from House.

Yeah.

I have the most boring, obscure nonsense stored away in my brain.
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