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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 11:05 PM Feb 2018

True Facts - Feel Free to Add You Own

- Dragonflies have six legs like any other insect, but they can't tap dance

- Maya Rudolph's mom was the late, great Minnie Riperton

- Republicans are now and will always be scum

- The Earth's magnetic poles have reversed in the past

- Pearl Jam was once named Mookie Blaylock

- Exposure to the Trump Family promotes rickets in lab rats

- Your elbows were never meant to touch each other

- Not only do male whales have the worlds largest penises, but the females possess the world's largest clitorises

- Jared Kushner's dandruff has been classified as a Schedule 1 narcotic

- A Sri Lankan cricket team once scored a staggering 952 for 6 against India

- The women of the Paduang tribe of Myanmar are famous for having the world's longest necks

- Donald Trump is not only a fucking moron, he also loves to play one on TV

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True Facts - Feel Free to Add You Own (Original Post) MrScorpio Feb 2018 OP
A duck's quacks do not echo, not even when the duck is being devoured Glorfindel Feb 2018 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Doc_Technical Mar 2018 #4
I can't resist.... Xolodno Feb 2018 #2
I have been to Nikita Khrushchev's grave. Rhiannon12866 Mar 2018 #7
Alaska moose will take out a semi........... and a bear will scare you into peeing! raven mad Feb 2018 #3
Elephants are the only quadrupeds that can not canter or gallop A HERETIC I AM Mar 2018 #5
One more; A HERETIC I AM Mar 2018 #6
Cats have unique nose prints meow2u3 Mar 2018 #8
Contrary to popular belief, the Pyramids are not ancient structures... First Speaker Mar 2018 #9
St. David is the only patron saint in the British Isles who is native to his own country. geardaddy Mar 2018 #10
The movie Top Gun is misnamed discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2018 #11
Alaska Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #12
A chicken's eye Bantamfancier Mar 2018 #13

Glorfindel

(9,735 posts)
1. A duck's quacks do not echo, not even when the duck is being devoured
Tue Feb 27, 2018, 11:59 PM
Feb 2018

by a voracious wolverine, and nobody knows why.

-You can change your gender by kissing your own elbow.

-The shortest sentence in the English language using all 26 letters is: "Jackdaws love my big sphynx of quartz."



Response to Glorfindel (Reply #1)

Xolodno

(6,401 posts)
2. I can't resist....
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 12:15 AM
Feb 2018

1. Disney built a theme park in North Carolina and then abandoned it when the supernatural started to happen.

2. Disney once dredged an area next to a Caribbean island for its luxury ships and built a resort, but abandoned it for unknown reasons.

3. Walt Disney staged a hostile takeover of Willy Wonka, now the Oompa Loompas are used as slave labor to power the rides and clean the parks after dark.

4. Soviet General Secretary Nikita Krushev was given an after hours tour of Disneyland.

Rhiannon12866

(206,016 posts)
7. I have been to Nikita Khrushchev's grave.
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 07:00 AM
Mar 2018

He's buried among nuns in Moscow, considered a place of dishonor. I figured that not everyone could say that.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,377 posts)
5. Elephants are the only quadrupeds that can not canter or gallop
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 12:29 AM
Mar 2018

They can not trot like a horse or an antelope either.

They just walk fast

A HERETIC I AM

(24,377 posts)
6. One more;
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 12:39 AM
Mar 2018

Last edited Fri Mar 2, 2018, 08:40 AM - Edit history (1)

A Sperm Whale is the loudest animal on the planet and can kill a human with its clicks.



First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
9. Contrary to popular belief, the Pyramids are not ancient structures...
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 11:59 AM
Mar 2018

...they were actually constructed by Paramount Studios in the 1920s, as background for an historical epic that, for various reasons, never got made. All "evidence" for their existence before then has been forged.

geardaddy

(24,931 posts)
10. St. David is the only patron saint in the British Isles who is native to his own country.
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 12:06 PM
Mar 2018

St George was a Roman soldier; St Andrew was born in Galilee; St Patrick was born in Scotland or Wales. St David was born in Wales, the only native patron saint of a country in the British Isles.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,482 posts)
11. The movie Top Gun is misnamed
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 03:07 PM
Mar 2018

The actual nickname of the States Navy Fighter Weapons School is TOPGUN, all one word.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,593 posts)
12. Alaska
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 03:11 PM
Mar 2018

is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys. (Go ahead and try typing the other 49 states. I'll wait.) 😏

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