re: Tell me some random fun facts...

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OweO

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You’re the biggest natural boob on this site

Kangaroos can't hop backwards

Women want me. Fish fear me.

"WD-40" is abbreviated from the term "Water Displacement, 40th formula", suggesting it was the result of the 40th attempt to create the product. The spray, composed of various hydrocarbons, was originally designed to be used by Convair to protect the outer skin of the Atlas missile from rust and corrosion. This outer skin also functioned as the outer wall of the missile's paper-thin fuel balloon tanks, which were so fragile that, when empty, they had to be kept inflated with nitrogen to prevent them from collapsing. WD-40 was later found to have many household uses and was made available to consumers in San Diego in 1958

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Orlando wasn’t his first choice though. He was actually eyeing land near Panama City beach. The controller of St. Joe Company, who owns vast swaths of land in that area, shut it down before it got started because he “doesn’t deal with carnival people”

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This is all false.

For Walt Disney World, Walt had 3 areas narrowed down: A swath of land in Alabama, a tract land north of Lake Marion in South Carolina following along 95 and ultimately where it went in Orlando.

Walt favored Orlando, surveyed it and saw how convenient it would be with their airport and the new I-4 plus the land was cheaper and the other 2 and it was a done deal.

Disney did consider other cities for other smaller parks (St. Louis, Houston, New Orleans, and Virginia) but DisneyWorld was only going to be in one of those 3 locations and Florida was Walt’s preferred location

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largest penises on Earth

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Pics?

Red Dawn was the first movie rated PG-13

Just this:

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The hair of the polar bear is clear. The fur will appear in several colors like yellow, green, orange, and gray under different lighting. For instance, if the diet of a polar bear has sea oils in large amounts, it will look yellow. Algae, which grows in the fur coats of polar bears that live in warmer regions, makes polar bears look green. However, most of the time, they look white.

This might come as a shock to most of you, but the skin of a polar bear is black. It is their thick coat of hair that gives a polar bear a white appearance under certain light.

Why do polar bears have black skin? Black skin is yet another characteristic that was developed to adapt to the Arctic climate. Black skin helps a polar bear to absorb heat.

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Learned this from a grandson.

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A beer can I mean coke can is 4.94 inches long, so you can use it to measure blue crab which are 5 inches to be legal. If it's bigger than the beer I mean coke can, it's a keeper.

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I would think it would be a coke can. What are the chances that there is a beer can nearby when people are out crabbing?

Mel Brooks had signed his young friend and NYC neighbor, Dustin Hoffman, to play a role in his first movie, The Producers. Hoffman then got an audition for a larger role, and had to fly to CA. With Mel’s permission, he traveled, auditioned and got the part in what turned out to be a big movie for him, The Graduate. Mel let him out of his Producers contract so he could be in The Graduate with his (Mel’s) wife Anne Bancroft who was… Mrs. Robinson.

Just read this in Brooks’ book, All About Me.