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MadMarty
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A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones!
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
How many times can a woodpecker peck? 20 Times a second.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
At 90' below zero your breath willfreeze in mid-air andfall to the ground
In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete. Castro was later given a tryout by the Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club
Reykjavik, Iceland is warmer than Chicago, Illinois in the winter.
A U.S. backed government studyfound that pigs can become alcoholics
The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, french, Swedish and Portuguese.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in Dynamite.
A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles per second.
The Chinese only celebrate birthdays every ten years
In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivilant of three times around the world.
The most popular name for a male cat is "Tiger" a female "Samantha".
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Pound for pound, your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leatherfor a year's supply of footballs.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a by a poisonous spider?
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life.
You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.
Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same colors.
Golfballs can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones!
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
How many times can a woodpecker peck? 20 Times a second.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
At 90' below zero your breath willfreeze in mid-air andfall to the ground
In 1944, Fidel Castro was voted Cuba's best schoolboy athlete. Castro was later given a tryout by the Washington Senators but was turned down by the baseball club
Reykjavik, Iceland is warmer than Chicago, Illinois in the winter.
A U.S. backed government studyfound that pigs can become alcoholics
The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, french, Swedish and Portuguese.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in Dynamite.
A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles per second.
The Chinese only celebrate birthdays every ten years
In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivilant of three times around the world.
The most popular name for a male cat is "Tiger" a female "Samantha".
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Pound for pound, your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leatherfor a year's supply of footballs.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a by a poisonous spider?
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life.
You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.
Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same colors.
Golfballs can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!
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Stephen King (like Alfred Hitch****) has appeared in every one of his own movies
(can't spell the poor man's name because it's a nasty word....)
Total Copper Nutcase - African, British Ships, Channel Islands!!!
'Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup'
Definitions of "set"
Set
set1
v. set, set·ting, sets
v. tr.
To put in a specified position; place: set a book on a table.
To put into a specified state: set the prisoner at liberty.
To put into a stable position: set the fence post into a bed of concrete.
To fix firmly or in an immobile manner: He set his jaw and concentrated on flying the plane through the storm.
To restore to a proper and normal state when dislocated or broken: set a broken arm.
To adjust for proper functioning.
To adjust (a saw) by deflecting the teeth.
Nautical To spread open to the wind: set the sails.
To adjust according to a standard.
To adjust (an instrument or device) to a specific point or calibration: set an alarm clock.
To arrange properly for use: set a place for a dinner guest; set a table.
To apply equipment, such as curlers and clips, to (hair) in order to style.
Printing
To arrange (type) into words and sentences preparatory to printing; compose.
To transpose into type.
Music
To compose (music) to fit a given text.
To write (words) to fit a given melodic line.
To arrange scenery on (a theater stage).
To prescribe the unfolding of (a drama or narrative, for instance) in a specific place: a play that is set in Venice.
To prescribe or establish: set a precedent.
To prescribe as a time for: set June 6 as the day of the invasion.
To detail or assign (someone) to a particular duty, service, or station: set the child to cleaning the closets; set guards around the perimeter.
To incite to hostile action: a war that set families against one another.
To establish as the highest level of performance: set a world aviation record.
To establish as a model: A parent must set a good example for the children.
To put in a mounting; mount: set an emerald in a pendant.
To apply jewels to; stud: a tiara that was set with diamonds.
To cause to sit.
To put (a hen) on eggs for the purpose of hatching them.
To put (eggs) beneath a hen or in an incubator.
Sports To position (oneself) in such a way as to be ready to start running a race.
Sports To pass (a volleyball), usually with the fingertips, in an arc close to the net so that a teammate can drive it over the net.
To value or regard something at the rate of: She sets a great deal by good nutrition.
To fix at a given amount: The judge set bail for the defendant at $50,000.
To make as an estimate of worth: We set a high value on human life.
To point to the location of (game) by holding a fixed attitude. Used of a hunting dog.
Botany To produce, as after pollination: set seed.
To prepare (a trap) for catching prey.
To fix (a hook) firmly into a fish's jaw.
Some people pay more to own a small disc of metal than it cost for their house?