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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2060 on: August 20, 2011, 12:17:42 PM »
In Florida...it's illegal to knock up a porcupine
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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2061 on: August 20, 2011, 02:15:24 PM »
In Florida...it's illegal to knock up a porcupine

It ought to be.  Any man mad enough to do that deserves to be locked up!
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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2062 on: August 20, 2011, 02:16:59 PM »
The skin over the elbow is called the wenus.

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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2063 on: August 20, 2011, 03:01:13 PM »
in the state of Indiana, baths are not to be taken between the months of October and March...
Indiana must be one smelly place.
in North Carolina, the law forbids dogs and cats to fight...
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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2064 on: August 20, 2011, 04:03:10 PM »
The average CEO's salary in the US is 475 times greater than the average worker's salary. In Japan, it is 11 times greater; in France, 15 times; in Canada, 20; in South Africa, 21, and in Britain, 22.
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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2065 on: August 20, 2011, 04:31:53 PM »
The average CEO's salary in the US is 475 times greater than the average worker's salary. In Japan, it is 11 times greater; in France, 15 times; in Canada, 20; in South Africa, 21, and in Britain, 22.

That's sick. Another...half the country has 2.5% of the wealth.
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« Reply #2066 on: August 20, 2011, 05:08:58 PM »
That's sick. Another...half the country has 2.5% of the wealth.

Welcome to capitalism my friend, the thing we live and die for.

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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2067 on: August 20, 2011, 05:43:09 PM »
Welcome to capitalism my friend, the thing we live and die for.

Honestly I'd rather not live!  :D JK that's very sick tho
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« Reply #2068 on: August 20, 2011, 06:07:21 PM »
in the city of tampa, it is illegal to walk your giraffe after the hours of 7pm.
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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2069 on: August 20, 2011, 07:29:34 PM »
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in the city of tampa, it is illegal to walk your giraffe after the hours of 7pm.
But officer, my giraffe needed to take a dump!  :funny

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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2070 on: September 05, 2011, 08:09:27 AM »
In the state of NC All couples staying overnight in a hotel must have a room with double beds that are at least two feet apart.
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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2071 on: September 05, 2011, 06:10:14 PM »
The Forth Bridge, crossing the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, Scotland will finally be finished being painting in December after more than 100 years.
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« Reply #2072 on: September 05, 2011, 10:51:46 PM »
Yeah, took them long enough to find a paint that lasts more than a year in salt-air.

They still have to paint it every 10 years though (Was first painted in the 'long-term' stuff in 2001).
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« Reply #2073 on: September 20, 2011, 04:52:10 PM »
1930's - War plan red is commisioned to prepare for a confict between the US and the Britsh empire. The plan was to cut Canada off and then take over the emipires colonys, bringing the UK to the negotiating table and securing the US as a world power.  Never happened oddly enough.

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« Reply #2074 on: September 20, 2011, 09:10:24 PM »
the United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat...
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« Reply #2075 on: September 21, 2011, 08:03:13 AM »
and to go with eclipse's post; since the US is moving away from tobacco, the tobacco companies are concentrating their efforts on South-East Asia.
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« Reply #2076 on: October 07, 2011, 09:05:45 PM »
Although used as a major plot device in H.G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds"; there has never been a ship named HMS Thunder Child.

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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2077 on: October 30, 2011, 08:26:07 AM »
Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.

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« Reply #2078 on: October 31, 2011, 02:59:48 AM »
i tend to get mreo side work done whhen drunk..... also my typing sufferws.
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Re: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread
« Reply #2079 on: November 11, 2011, 05:53:31 AM »
After WWI, amazingly, there were 52 villages in England who suffered no casualties from the war. After WWII, this number was down to just 14.

Ironically, one of these rare villages is called Upper Slaughter.
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