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'cornobbling' someone is nothing sexual...it means you are hitting someone in the face with a fish. Although with this board, it might be on some ones sexual preference. lol
 
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
 
The Oscar statue given to Walt Disney for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' actually had seven miniature statues attached to it.
 
During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the high costs in California during these years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
 
The question mark came from a monk habit of writing the Latin word for question, quo, at the end of sentences. Over time, the letters were written vertically to save space and morphed into the ? we write today.

A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

You expend more calories eating and digesting celery than there are in the celery itself.
 
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

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

A Boeing 747's wingspan is lengthier than the Wright brother's first flight.

If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.
 
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.

In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two occasions, Miss 'Rita Thunderbird' remained inside the cannon despite a lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed in a gold lamé bikini and on one of the two occasions (1977) Miss Thunderbird remained lodged in the cannon, while her bra was shot across the Thames River.
 
The guy who invented the practice of 'washing your hands before surgery' was ridiculed so much by the suggestion that he was laughed out of the medical community and eventually had a breakdown so severe that he was sent to live in a mental facility.
The concept wasn't even adopted until well after he had died.
 
The opening to the cave in which a bear hibernates is always on the North Slope.

The average flea can jump up to 150 times its own length. To match that a human would have to jump 1,000 feet (305 m).

The correct animal group terms:
A herd of donkey
A sloth of bear
A clutter or clowder of cat
A drove or herd of cattle
A clutch or brood of chicken
A herd of deer
A pack of dogs
A brace or herd of ducks
A herd of elephant
A shulk of fox
A tribe or trip of goat
A flock or gaggle of geese
A herd of horses
A pride of lion
A band or troop of monkeys
A flock or drove of sheep
A bevy of swans
A litter of swine or pigs
A gam or pod of whale
A pack of wolves
 
Animals attend church services on St. Anthony's Day in Mexico. This popular saint, who is regarded as a healer of people and animals, is asked to protect pets, who are decorated with flowers and ribbons for the occasion. In rural areas, peasants also bring bags of insects and worms to be blessed in church, in the hope that this will prevent these creatures from damaging crops.

Contrary to popular belief, animals are not all color-blind. Many species, including dogs, horses and sheep, can distinguish some colors -- though not as well as humans -- while the primates, especially chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys, have color vision equal to that of humans. Another widely held belief -- that bulls dislike the color red -- is probably also wrong. Experiments seem to show that it is the swirling movement of the matador's cape, not its color, that excites them.
 
Did somebody say backwards?

The name of the sorcerer (Yensid) in Fantasia is “Disney” spelled backwards. The animators modeled the character after Walt Disney himself.

A 1956 anthropology paper by Horace Mitchell Miner examined “body ritual among the Nacirema,” an exotic tribe in North America. Their culture was founded by a hero named Notgnihsaw, who, in a feat of strength, once threw a piece of wampum over the Pa-To-Mac river. The Nacirema (“American” backwards) have become well known for what they tell us about the study of “exotic” cultures.

Backwards spelling in the name of satire has a long history. The title of Samuel Butler’s 19th century novel lampooning the society of the time was meant to be “nowhere” spelled backwards, but the ‘h’ was moved out of place. It features properly backwards-named characters like Yram (Mary) and Senoj Nosnibor (Robinson Jones).

In the old days, companies had to be discreet and a little coy in ads for constipation remedies. Serutan’s tagline asked customers to “read it backwards,” emphasizing that their product was the natural way to “provide peristaltic stimulation.”
 
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