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Post by Belchic on Mar 5, 2007 15:10:22 GMT -5
Random Fact # 27:
27 is Weird Al Yankovic's favorite number. He's used the number in a lot of his songs.
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Post by cw on Mar 8, 2007 3:43:38 GMT -5
Random Fact #28
You can only fold a square piece of paper symetrically 13 times.
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Post by cw on Mar 9, 2007 7:25:49 GMT -5
Random Fact #29 (related to 28)
IF you could fold that piece of paper 50 times, it would be long enough to reach from the Earth to the sun!
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 9, 2007 13:07:32 GMT -5
Random Fact #30
The very 1st movie ever released on DVD was the 1996 special effects spectular Twister.
Random Fact #31
In the Back to the Future trilogy keep your eyes open for subtitle jokes. For example in 1985 there is a car dealer called Stantler Toyota. When Marty goes back to 1955, the same dealer is still there but it's Stantler Studebaker. When he goes to 2015, it's Stantler Pontiac and when he goes back to 1885, there's a man who sells horses named Stantler.
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 12, 2007 10:39:29 GMT -5
Random Fact #32
Jim Roper won the very first NASCAR race back in 1949 and then never won again.
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Post by monkey on Mar 13, 2007 2:10:19 GMT -5
Random Fact #33
It took Philieus(sp?) Fog 79 days to travel around the world
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 13, 2007 14:54:16 GMT -5
Random Fact #34
Billy Joel accepted the voice over role as Dodger in Oliver and Company because he enjoyed Disney cartoons as a kid. To date, it has been his ONLY film role.
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Post by Belchic on Mar 13, 2007 23:50:32 GMT -5
Random Fact #35:
Humans can go for 4 weeks without food, water only 4 days, and oxygen...only about 4 minutes!
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Post by monkey on Mar 14, 2007 4:22:40 GMT -5
Random Fact #36
Jigsaw is in fact, not a serial killer, as he has never killed anyone, only his traps kill his victims, as they have a choice on if they can live or die.
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 14, 2007 10:06:41 GMT -5
Random Fact #37
On the episode of Spongebob Squarepants "Band Geeks", the live-action footage of a stadium that is meant to be the "Bubble Bowl" football game is actually footage from a home game of the Memphis Showboats of the long since defunct USFL.
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Post by monkey on Mar 14, 2007 18:01:30 GMT -5
Random Fact #38 According to SpongeBob and Patrick, these are they ways to attract a Seabear: - Playing a clarinet badly
- Wearing a sombrero in a goofy fashion or a hoop skirt
- Clown shoes
- Waving your flashlight around since flashlights are their natural prey
- Eating cheese (cubed, sliced is fine)
- Stomping since they take that as challenge
- Screeching like a chimpanzee
- Running, limping, or crawling
Random Fact #39 (Related to my last one) To protect yourself from a Seabear, you need to draw yourself an Anti-Seabear circle
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Post by cw on Mar 15, 2007 10:19:26 GMT -5
Spaghetti, when bent, always breaks into 3 pieces. Never less. Go home and try it.
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 16, 2007 10:04:26 GMT -5
Random Fact #41 The most times a race car driver has driven in the Indy 500 before winning it is 12. Sam Hanks pulled it off in 1957, then retired never to race again in victory lane. Random Fact #42 The most times a race car driver has driven in the Daytona 500 before winning it is 20 by Dale Earnhardt. Random Fact #43 NASCAR legend Richard Petty contributed more to the character of "The King" in the Pixar film CARS than just a voice, the character's big crash at the end of the film was based on Richard's terrible tumble in the 1988 Daytona 500. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYk4Hfzs_c Richard Petty for President '08
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 19, 2007 14:40:55 GMT -5
Random Fact #44 After it's accident, the Exxon Valdez was repaired and renamed SeaRiver Mediterranean and contuined to serve Exxon for about 12 years in Europe and Asia. In 2002, she was anchored off the coast line in Singapore, probably never to be used again due to a worldwide ban on single hull oil tankers. www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=303406
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Post by Belchic on Mar 20, 2007 20:21:59 GMT -5
Random Fact #45
Freddie Mercury was a victim of HIV, which caused him to die from AIDS.
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