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Hybrid Junkie
Running Down The Way Up

Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Melbourne
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More Useless Facts!!
The stirrup, the smallest bone in the body (in the ear) is smaller
than an ant.
Vampire bats use rivers to navigate. They smell the animal blood in
the water and follow the scent.
A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beef.
The average American works 24,000 hours in their lifetime just to pay
their taxes.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Children grow faster in Spring.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.
A jellyfigh is 95% water!
An electric eel will short circut if placed in salt water.
Reindeer milk has three times as much protein as cow milk.
Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star. (bwahahah) 
Mosquitos have teeth. (omfg.... )
Humans can smell 1.20th as well as a dog.
The oldest goldfish lived to 41 years of age.
You sneeze at about 600 miles per hour.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
Starfish have no brains.
The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon in the Philippines. 
No piece of paper can be folded more than 20 times.
Currently the most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand while drawing with the
other one.
Australia has more types of mosquitos than any other country. (ah fuck)
There are coffee flavoured PEZ. (yum yum)
The pupil of an octopuses eye is rectangular. (octopi rock!)
The human brain is 85% water.
One human hair can support three kilograms of weight.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
A man named Charles Osborne once had the hiccups for 69 years!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit for 1/100th of a second!
William Shakespeare invented over 1700 words.
All clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" were stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, silver, orange or
purple.
Slugs have four noses.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10th of a calorie. (omg models beware! )
The elecrtic chair was invented by a dentist.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
The giant squid has the largest eye in the world.
The longest one syllable word in English in "screeched".
The Greek national anthem has 158 verses. Not one person in Greece has memorised them all.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is uncopyrightable.
The only nation who's name begins with A but doesn't end in A is
Afghanistan. (interesting...)
The 'save' icon in Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk with the shutter
on backwards.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Cats have over 100 vocal sounds while dogs only have about 10.
Dreamt is the only English word that ends in "mt".
Half of all Americans live within fifty miles of their birthplace. (that'd be right)
Picasso's full name was: Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisma Trinidad Ruiz y
Picasso. (bwahahah)
The longest word in Turkish is:
Cekoslovakyalilastirabilemediklerimizlerdenmisiniz. (bwahahha)
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Bees have hairy eyes.
Ants never sleep. (I'm not sure if that's true, sounds biologically unrealistic..)
All porcupines float in water.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.
And on for Dr.Me
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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Needing a reason for being stuck in this seemingly demeaning whirlwind of ride with you
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Sep-17-2002 10:22
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Xavier
DISILLUSIONED IN TRANCE
Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia
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i'm a wanker
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"Burn down the disco, hang the blessed dj, because the music that they constantly play,
it says nothing to me about my life..." The Smiths - 'Panic'
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Sep-17-2002 11:15
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