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MIB
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More facts for you to ponder.

  • Sharks can live up to 100 years
  • Doughtnuts originated in Holland.
  • The rock band "Guess Who" once performed at the White House.
  • In 1950, an automatic spaghetti spinning fork was patented.
  • If someone punches you in the nose hard, it will hurt.
  • The world's longest gum wrapper chain is 30,744 feet long.
  • The chance of contracting an infection during a hospital stay in the USA is 1 in 15.
  • A baby Platypus remains blind after birth for 11 weeks.
  • Cher's given name is Cherilyn La Pierre.
  • Wayne Gretzky received a 98% in math in Grade 3.
  • Nyctohylophobia is the fear of dark wooded areas, of forests at night.
  • Bobby Hull was the first player ever to score 50 goals in a season.
  • On average, a man will only speak 2000 words over the course of a day while a woman will speak 7000 words in the same amount of time.
  • Drinking water is about three billion years old
  • New York City has the most skyscrapers than any other city in the world with 140. A skyscraper is any building that exceeds 152 metres in height.

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    quote:
    Originally posted by MIB:
    More facts for you to ponder.
  • Bobby Hull was the first player ever to score 50 goals in a season.

    • Many of these fall into the "Well, duh," or "who cares?" category, but this one is plain wrong. Maurice "The Rocket" Richard scored 50 goals in 50 games in the 1944-45 season, the first to do so.

    Pogue "But every Canadian would know that" Mahone

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    bascom
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    -If someone punches you in the nose hard, it will hurt.

    Seems obvious.

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    Chava
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    quote:
    Cher's given name is Cherilyn La Pierre

    No, her given name is Cherilyn. The rest is her surname.

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    domina
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    My World Almanac says Cher was originally Cherilyn Sarkisian. This would make sense since I dimly recall that her father was Armenian. I also dimly recall that her mother married a lot of times, though, so maybe she picked up La Pierre from a stepfather.

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