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Monquey

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A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

i use 1000.
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57!? That seems an awful lot. Think of the trees!

1/3 of the world's Vodka is produced in the UK.
 
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"Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order and 'four' is the only number which contains the number of letters corresponding to what it represents.

There you go.
 
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jimbob23

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The average bagel constitutes the equivalent of approximately 4 slices of bread.

Possibly the most boring fact ever, but this thread is called "useless facts", and not "interesting facts".
 
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jimbob23 said:
The average bagel constitutes the equivalent of approximately 4 slices of bread.

Possibly the most boring fact ever, but this thread is called "useless facts", and not "interesting facts".
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Indeed Jimbob. the less interesting the better i say!
 
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jimbob23

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Many years ago, the brewing industry was dominated by women. A female brewer was called a 'brewster', which is where the surname comes from (remember this next time you're watching Brewster's Millions).

A female baker was called a 'baxter'.
 
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jimbob23 said:
Many years ago, the brewing industry was dominated by women. A female brewer was called a 'brewster', which is where the surname comes from (remember this next time you're watching Brewster's Millions).

A female baker was called a 'baxter'.
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Watched Brewster's Millions the other week when it was on the telly. Class film. Prior was a comedy god! :)
 
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"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
 
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jimbob23

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During Lee Ermy's screen test for the role of the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick made him shout constantly for 20 minutes whilst having fruit thrown at his head by the film's crew.
 
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jimbob23 said:
During Lee Ermy's screen test for the role of the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick made him shout constantly for 20 minutes whilst having fruit thrown at his head by the film's crew.
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Yet another class film! He has to be the best drill instructor ever cast!
 
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TENSHON

4000th post? Whatever, I'm nonchalant..
Casino magnate gives Picasso's dream the elbow...

Picasso's famed "Dream" painting turned into a nightmare for Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn when he accidentally gave the multimillion dollar canvas an elbow.

Wynn had just finalised a $139 million (74 million pound) sale to another collector of his painting, called "Le Reve" (The Dream), when he poked a finger-sized hole in the artwork while showing it to friends at his Las Vegas office a couple of weeks ago.

Director and screenwriter Nora Ephron, who witnessed and related the incident in her blog on the Huffington Post Web site (www.huffingtonpost.com), said Wynn had raised his hand to show the group something about Picasso's 1932 portrait of his mistress Marie-Therese Walter.

"At that moment, his elbow crashed backward right through the canvas. There was a terrible noise," Ephron wrote, noting that Wynn has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that damages peripheral vision.

"Smack in the middle ... was a black hole the size of a silver dollar. 'Oh shit,' he said. 'Look what I've done. Thank goodness it was me.'"

Wynn's office on Tuesday confirmed the story, an account of which also appeared in this week's The New Yorker. Both accounts said Wynn had decided to release the buyer from the sale agreement and to repair and keep the painting himself.

Wynn, a millionaire casino developer and art collector, developed The Mirage and Bellagio resorts in Las Vegas in the 1990s, which spearheaded a profusion of luxury hotels and casinos on the once-seedy Las Vegas Strip.
 
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The lowest ever temperature recorded on Earth was at the Russian Vostok station, - 89.6°C.

:gonk:
 
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victoriab

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Someone told me (with a lot of excitement) that apparantly there is enough vitamin C in the stomach of a polar bear to kill a human. My mum always told me you can never have too much vitamin C. I'm going to have to take this up with her.
 
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