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Post by Squee on Jun 22, 2005 21:46:52 GMT -5
Ooo Ooo! If Szil gets a word of the week, I get a fact of the day! ;D June 22nd - A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days.
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Post by Squee on Jun 23, 2005 13:17:56 GMT -5
June 23rd
-7-Eleven was the first convenience store to have television advertising. The animated commercial ran in 1949 and had a singing rooster and owl.
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Post by Szil on Jun 23, 2005 22:11:20 GMT -5
That's awesome, Squee.
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Post by Nnyrox on Jun 23, 2005 23:32:59 GMT -5
A Rooster and an Owl... Lemmie guess it helped demonstrate them being open from dawn to dusk... >.> XD
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Post by Squee on Jun 24, 2005 16:44:53 GMT -5
Probably. June 24th - According to www.merriam-webster.com/info/04words.htm, The top 10 looked up words online this last year are these:
1. Blog 2. incumbent 3. electoral 4. insurgent 5. hurricane 6. cicada 7. peloton : noun (1951) : the main body of riders in a bicycle race 8. partisan 9. sovereignty 10. defenestration
Terrifying Fact: #10 in this list, defenestration means "a throwing of a person or thing out of a window." Let's just hope that was an SAT word this year.
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Post by Nnyrox on Jun 24, 2005 21:03:06 GMT -5
"Terrifying Fact: #10 in this list, defenestration means "a throwing of a person or thing out of a window." Let's just hope that was an SAT word this year."
ROFL!!! I mean... *cough* HOORAH!? XD
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Post by Squee on Jun 25, 2005 12:42:08 GMT -5
xD Yeah. Let's just hope our families haven't been looking these things up. I really could use not getting thrown out a window. ;D June 25th - The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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Post by Szil on Jun 29, 2005 22:27:57 GMT -5
June 29th -Nosferatu was the first important vampire movie ever produced. It was published in 1929 and was based on Bram Stokers dracula.
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Post by Squee on Jul 1, 2005 20:03:58 GMT -5
July 1st - The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.Don't we all wish we had one of those.
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Post by Squee on Jul 2, 2005 19:19:10 GMT -5
July 2nd
-On an average, 100 people choke to death on ball point pens every year.
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Post by Squee on Jul 3, 2005 22:13:39 GMT -5
July 3rd
-In England, the speaker of the house, is not allowed to speak.
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Post by Squee on Jul 4, 2005 13:26:16 GMT -5
July 4th
-The American National anthem, 'The Star-Spangled Banner', is set to the tune of an irish drinking song. ['To Anacreon in Heaven']
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Post by Nnyrox on Jul 5, 2005 1:50:36 GMT -5
July 2nd - On an average, 100 people choke to death on ball point pens every year.Well now I know NOT to chew on pens anymore...
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Post by Szil on Jul 5, 2005 21:43:50 GMT -5
July 5th -The person who did the voice for bugs bunny was allergic to carrots.
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Post by Squee on Jul 7, 2005 0:52:10 GMT -5
July 6th
-Seven percent of a humans body wieght is made up of blood.
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