Useless Trivial facts

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  1. ego2spare

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    The Queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earths land surface.
     
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    Source? :/
     
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    just a known fact. google it, change the words around a bit.
     
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    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y4DbZivHCY[/youtube]
     
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    Crushed insects are used to colour many foods. Red E120 (cochineal) is made from bugs. Widely used in confectionery, juices, yogurt and makeup.
     
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    The world's first ski chair lift was modeled after a device that loaded bananas onto cargo ships.
     
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    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFrbmYpvC4I[/youtube]
     
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    May the fourth be with you!
     
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    Noodles, in Welsh is Nwdls.
     
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    That's so sad!
     
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    Birds and animals have magnetite in their brains using the magnetic field of the earth for navigation. If there is a change in the field their sense of direction changes.
     
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    Penguins are the easiest animal to anthropomorphise.

    (trivial fact I just made up)
     
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    a beam of light can go around the earth 7x in one second.
     
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    Maybe.....

    :)
     
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    "can" ;)

    but i did this test last night, it was like 12 or something.
     
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    In 2003 Alice Shirrell Kaswell solved the age-old problem 'Which came first the chicken or the egg' once and for all.

    She mailed an egg and a live chicken in separate packages from Cambridge, Massachusetts to New York City, following the US postal service's advice on the mailability of adult chickens.

    The chicken arrived within 48hours 51mins, followed by the egg 11hours 6mins later.

    She concluded that the chicken came first, and the egg second.

    Her research was published in the brilliant Annals of Improbable Research (www.improb.com) who also published the reply of an outraged reader.
     
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    Adolf Hitler had an Irish nephew named Patrick Hitler.
     
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