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The Shopping cart was invented in 1937 by Sylvan Goldman, owner of the Pigly Wigly supermarket.

It costs 2 cents to produce a penny, and 10 cents to produce a nickel.
There are 150 Billion pennys in circulation, stacked one on top of an other it would reach 60% to the moon.

The hair on average adult scalp grows 115 feet a day.

The active ingredient in most toothpastes is sodium fluoride, which can be lethal.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by removing 1 olive from each salad served in first class.

Scientists discovered that a side effect to having a high IQ is being a night owl, Which is associated with emotional instability, in addition, night owl's are 3 times more likely to suffer from depression.

Israel is only a sixth of 1% of the landmass of the Middle East.

Around the world there are 10,000 credit card transactions done every second.

The first credit card company was Diners Club and initially it was only accepted at 14 restauraunts.
Diners Club was started in 1950 after the founder Frank X. McNamara came up with the idea when one evening after dining at a restaurant he realized he had forgotten his wallet. Within 1 year Diners Club had more than 20,000 cardmembers.

For principled reasons, Hertz Israel does not have in it's fleet any German made cars.

Israeli stamps are certified Kosher.

Under the current numbering system for Interstate highways, odd numbers generally indicate a north-south route, and even numbers mean an east-west route.

The average annual salary for a lead pastor in a megachurch (2,000+ members) is about $155,000, and can sometimes reach $400,000.

Hitler's mother contemplated abortion, But her doctor convinced her out of it.
Adolph Hitler was named Time magazine's person of the year in 1938
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #320 on: February 17, 2013, 08:07:35 PM »
Did you know the human anus is actually cleaner than the human mouth?

The mouth excretes germs and bacteria of a more potent manner. But be aware of the fact that you are way more likely to get sick from having someone's anus in your mouth than having someone's spit in your mouth.  :)
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #321 on: February 17, 2013, 08:54:19 PM »
Did you know the human anus is actually cleaner than the human mouth?

The mouth excretes germs and bacteria of a more potent manner. But be aware of the fact that you are way more likely to get sick from having someone's anus in your mouth than having someone's spit in your mouth.  :)
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Re: Did you know.... Interesting facts
« Reply #322 on: February 17, 2013, 09:06:22 PM »
Did you know the human anus is actually cleaner than the human mouth?

The mouth excretes germs and bacteria of a more potent manner. But be aware of the fact that you are way more likely to get sick from having someone's anus in your mouth than having someone's spit in your mouth.  :)
actually read this in an army survival manual: urine coming out of your body is sterile. What this means in practical terms is that if you're stuck in a survival situation with an open wound, you're better off cleaning it with fresh urine than with water from an unknown stream.

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« Reply #323 on: February 18, 2013, 05:35:34 PM »
Did you know that Mohammad is the most common birth name in the world. Scary!
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« Reply #324 on: February 18, 2013, 05:36:58 PM »
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« Reply #325 on: February 18, 2013, 05:40:10 PM »
Did you know that this past Janurary, Customs agents found a shipment of 18 human heads still covered in skin at Chicago's O'Hare airport.  :o
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« Reply #326 on: February 18, 2013, 05:42:44 PM »
Did you know that Mohammad is the most common birth name in the world. Scary!

Islam has 1.62 billion adherents, making up over 23% of the world population with  49 Muslim-majority countries.

 it is predicted that the world's Muslim population will grow twice as fast as non-Muslims over the next 20 years.

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« Reply #327 on: February 18, 2013, 06:09:11 PM »
Islam has 1.62 billion adherents, making up over 23% of the world population with  49 Muslim-majority countries.

 it is predicted that the world's Muslim population will grow twice as fast as non-Muslims over the next 20 years.

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« Reply #328 on: February 19, 2013, 05:25:55 AM »
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I can not think of one of one of 49  countries that any "normal" freedom loving person would want to live in , never hear of any normal person trying to immigrate to any of the 49

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« Reply #329 on: February 19, 2013, 07:19:40 AM »
...well consider the fact that many countries that people DO want to immigrate to are slowly but surely getting a Muslim majority...

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« Reply #330 on: February 19, 2013, 07:27:22 AM »
...well consider the fact that many countries that people DO want to immigrate to are slowly but surely getting a Muslim majority...

That will change the values--- and not for the betterment of mankind . I am not aware of any major contributions made by them in the last 500 years , one would think that with a quarter of the worlds population it would be easy to list many

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« Reply #331 on: February 19, 2013, 07:43:23 AM »
That will change the values--- and not for the betterment of mankind . I am not aware of any major contributions made by them in the last 500 years , one would think that with a quarter of the worlds population it would be easy to list many

They contribute the data for studies of the effects of laziness, stupidity, and diabolical hate in large societies.
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« Reply #332 on: February 19, 2013, 08:11:11 AM »
They contribute the data for studies of the effects of laziness, stupidity, and diabolical hate in large societies.
...not to mention their major contributions to the sciences of engineering (tunnel building), chemistry (homemade explosives), manipulation (terrorism) amongst many others...

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« Reply #333 on: February 21, 2013, 02:55:16 PM »
Did you know the human anus is actually cleaner than the human mouth?

The mouth excretes germs and bacteria of a more potent manner. But be aware of the fact that you are way more likely to get sick from having someone's anus in your mouth than having someone's spit in your mouth.  :)
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« Reply #334 on: February 21, 2013, 02:56:54 PM »
WARNING!!!! NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!!!!
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« Reply #336 on: February 21, 2013, 03:12:37 PM »
WARNING!!!! NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!!!!
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What better time to post it!
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After reading the article it doesn't sound all that bad (have I been fasting too long?)
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