Saturday, March 7, 2009

Trois.

More than 70 percent of Seinfeld episodes contain a reference to Superman

The lowest McDonald's, 1,299 feet below sea level, is in the Israeli village of Ein Bokek, near the Dead Sea.

Urville is a city of 14 million inhabitants that exists entirely in the mind of Gilles Trehin, a French autistic savant.

Edgar Allan Poe sent a letter in Aug. 13, 1841 to his publishers asking if they would publish a collecyion of his prose, he was turned down. In 1944 the letter it self was worth $3000

Hangmen have a simple math solution on how to hang a person successfully.

To stop hiccups, swallow 1 teaspoon of ordinary table sugar dry. works on 19/20 people.

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

In 1891, Sylvain Dornon walked from Paris to Moscow on stilts. It took him only 58 days.

Using only his bare hands and climbing shoes, Alain Robert has climbed more than 70 structures worldwide, including the Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Sydney Opera House and the 1,668-foot Taipei 101, the world's tallest building. When he reaches the top, the first thing he does is call his children.

The medical term for sneezing is sternutation.

Ernest Hemingway and Cleopatra are just some of the famous suicides.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Goats sheep and pigs were first domesticated in 8000 BC.

Shortest reinging pope : Urban VII (elected in 1590): 13 days

The longest word in the English language is FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION.
It means "the act of estimating (something) as worthless."

A hapax legomenon is a word that occurs only once in a given body of text:

Whale songs can travel up to 1,800 miles.

A monkey has one chance in 19,928,148,895,209,409,152,340,197,376 of correctly typing the first 20 letters of Hamlet (ignoring punctuation, spacing, and capitalization).

A true sphinx would have the head of a woman.
No one knows what the ancient Egyptians called it, but its Arabic name, Abu al-Hôl, translates as "Father of Terror."

German arithmetician Zacharias Dase (1824-1861) once multiplied two 100-digit numbers in his head. It took him 8 hours 45 minutes.

Herman Mudgett, an enterprising serial killer, built a row of three-story buildings near the Chicago fair and opened it as a hotel. Guests discovered — too late — that it was a maze of more than 100 windowless rooms, where Mudgett would trap them, torture them in a soundproof chamber, and then asphyxiate them with a custom-fitted gas line.

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