FREE TICKETS - GTAM at the Spring Motorcycle Show!!

No, wait, I lied.

  • The US interstate highway system requires that one mile in every five be straight. These straight sections function as airstrips in times of war and other emergencies.
  • The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
  • In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a superman somewhere.
  • Columbia University is the second largest land owner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
  • Back in the mid-80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
 
...I know the pro post whores are waiting in the shadows...just biding their time...

  • One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw them as competitors.
  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years old (guess you mofos are all outta luck - I'm that guy).
  • The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan".
  • The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
  • It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. The frog then uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
  • The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  • No NFL team which plays its home games in a dome has ever won a Superbowl.
  • The first toilet ever seen on TV was on "Leave it to Beaver".
  • In the Great Fire of London in 1666, half of the city was burned down but only 6 people were injured.
 
Oh looky, more useless and totally random facts...or lies...probably lies...

  • Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
  • Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar, in "Midnight Cowboy". Her entire role lasted only 6 minutes.
  • Charles Lindburgh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
  • Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
  • Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always the same sex.
  • To escape the jaws of a crocodile, push your thumbs into its eyes - it will release you instantly.
 
speedway84 said:
"I got free tickets to the motorcycle show" ... is what I'll say when I do.
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That is comedy gold, Jerry, comedy gold...

  • Hydroxydeoxycorticosterones is the longest anagram in the English language.
  • The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
  • If NASA send birds into space, they would soon die because birds need gravity to swallow.
  • Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  • The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
 
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