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Everest

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Attila the Hun died from a nose-bleed.
 


The average person should be square.

ie their height should equal the same distance as the measurement between your left and right hand when you extend your arms as far as they will go (across).

god that was a tongue twister!
 


Mr Popkins

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William Webb Ellis invented Rugby as he was Shit at Football
 


Tom Bombadil

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Carrots have the highest content of vitamin A of all vegetables.

The Longest Carrot recorded in 1996 was 5.14 metres (16feet 10 ½ inches)

The Heaviest Carrot recorded in the World 18.985 lb 1998(single root mass)

In early Celtic literature, the carrot is referred to as the "Honey Underground"!

The Anglo-Saxons included carrots as an ingredient in a medicinal drink against the devil and insanity

Howard Hughes always measured every carrot he ate.

Three Carrots give you enough energy to walk three miles
 




Everest

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Polar bears are left-handed.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

An ant always falls over on its right side when drunk.:drink:
 
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tedebear said:
The span of your hand from the tip of your little finger to the tip of your thumb, when stretched apart, is the same distance as between your nipples

Tedebear doesn't lie, mine is. You have to do it with your left hand from your left nipple.

In Tokyo you can buy the soiled underwear of Japanese teenage girls in street vending machines.
 


Tom Bombadil

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Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the first three Star Wars movies, was a hospital porter in London before starring as the Wookie.
 






Mr Popkins

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Horatio Nelsons last words were not "kiss me Hardey"

what he did say was "kismet Hardey" meaning it was his Fate or Destiny to die.
 


Everest

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BrightonBird said:
Nope. Still doesn't work!

Shall I come & check you're doing it right?
 






Mr Popkins

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the term "Screw" used as slang for prision officers comes from the victorian era.

inmates used to get punished by the officers making them turn a handle connected to a barrel ,to make it more diffucult to turn the officer used to tighted the screw attached to it.
 


Sam

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tedebear said:
The span of your hand from the tip of your little finger to the tip of your thumb, when stretched apart, is the same distance as between your nipples

mine works! i must be deformed or somehting because it looks like it doesnt work for anyone else!
 














Mr Popkins

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during the 2nd world war , Adolf Hitler ordered the luffwaffe not to bomb the royal Pavillion in brighton, as he was going to use it as his British HQ when he invaded.
 


Mr Popkins

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it is illegal to draw a Beard on the Queen on any Banknote or stamp
 


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