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In The Simpsons episode, Stark Raving Dad, 3 men contributed their voices to one character who thought he was Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson provided his own voice for the speaking roles, Kipp Lennon did Jackson's singing voice and Hank Azaria provided 'Leon Kompowsky'.
In the original Star Wars trilogy, 4 men contributed to the Darth Vader character; James Earl Jones did the voice, bodybuilder David Prowse filled the suit for the everyday scenes, stunt performed Bob Anderson was in the Vader suit for the lightsaber fights and Sebastian Shaw was the face of Vader in Return of the Jedi.
In the original Star Wars trilogy, 4 men contributed to the Darth Vader character; James Earl Jones did the voice, bodybuilder David Prowse filled the suit for the everyday scenes, stunt performed Bob Anderson was in the Vader suit for the lightsaber fights and Sebastian Shaw was the face of Vader in Return of the Jedi.
Unsold Bacon
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The English word girl was initially used to describe a young person of either sex. It was not until the beginning of the sixteenth century that the term was used specifically to describe a female child.
The probability of a woman giving birth to a baby girl instead of a baby boy increases significantly the nearer the mother lives to the equator. While the cause of this gender selection
is unknown, scientists
believe the constant sunlight hours and abundant food
supply in tropical regions
may favor female births.
-Time really does fly. Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
The probability of a woman giving birth to a baby girl instead of a baby boy increases significantly the nearer the mother lives to the equator. While the cause of this gender selection
is unknown, scientists
believe the constant sunlight hours and abundant food
supply in tropical regions
may favor female births.
-Time really does fly. Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
The Dragon Saga
Whale in a Teardrop
In the film Pulp Fiction, all the clocks are stuck on 4:20.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
The Malaysian government decided to solve their disease-carrying mosquito problem by spraying the infested areas with DDT. This worked, but the cockroaches then devoured the dead mosquitos. This was followed by the region's gecko lizards consuming the roaches. The geckos did not die from the residual poison (surprisingly), but their central nervous systems were greatly affected, causing the lizards to slow down. Moving up the food chain, the cats ate the slow-moving lizards and started to die off in large quantities. Of course, fewer cats means more rats, and the country's rat population soared. As a result, the World Health Organization was forced to step in and ban the DDT. In an effort to restore the ecological balance, they flew in planeloads of cats to kill the rats.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
The Malaysian government decided to solve their disease-carrying mosquito problem by spraying the infested areas with DDT. This worked, but the cockroaches then devoured the dead mosquitos. This was followed by the region's gecko lizards consuming the roaches. The geckos did not die from the residual poison (surprisingly), but their central nervous systems were greatly affected, causing the lizards to slow down. Moving up the food chain, the cats ate the slow-moving lizards and started to die off in large quantities. Of course, fewer cats means more rats, and the country's rat population soared. As a result, the World Health Organization was forced to step in and ban the DDT. In an effort to restore the ecological balance, they flew in planeloads of cats to kill the rats.
This isn't true. Mouths are warm and moist, spiders hate that. So climbing into a sleeping person's mouth goes against their instincts.
The average person has one testicle.
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An average person, with an average stride, living to this age of 80 will walk about 108,131 miles. Happy walking!
If you're liberal about which continents you place some of the island countries, this is still true.
There's more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
In a list of greatest britons of all time, the second highest living entrant was the guy that plays Frank Spencer.
All English people have an Irish, Scottish or Welsh grandparent, so that they can play sports for countries they aren't from.
If you jump in a canal, your iPhone breaks.
Paralyzer Z
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one out of every 20 people have an extra rib.
Dowdsy McDowds
Sally was here
Talking about ribs, I'm not sure if this is a fact, but I heard that women have one less rib than men?
1 in 200
One more, and its bollocks. Without wishing to drag religion into this again, it was assumed this was the case because of the Adam and Eve story, but nobody checked until the Renaissance.
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I had to try feverishly to resist.
There is approximately 105 male babies born to every 100 female ones. This is accounted for nicely by the difference in average life expectancy.
Diamond has the highest boiling point of any substance. Tungsten has the highest melting and boiling points of any element.
The chemical element which don't have a symbol which represents their formal name are Sodium (Na), Potassium (K), Tungsten (W), Gold (Au), Silver (Ag), Mercury (Hg), Tin (Sn), Lead (Pb), Antimony (Sb) and Copper (Cu). The one I couldn't remember was Copper?
Ice has a very interesting, and perhaps even unique (not certain) trait for a solid, it is less dense than it's liquid equivalent due to the holes within the physical internal structure.
Sloths come down from trees to defecate. It is unknown as to why they do this as it leaves them quite vulnerable to predation.
Male lions sleep for about 23 hours a day.
There was a man named Michel Lotito who's digestive system was set up in a unique fashion so that he could eat many unusual substances including metal. In one instance he ate an entire aircraft. He is estimated to have eaten well over a tonne of metal during his lifetime. He died in 2007.
Paralyzer Z
Fuck honor
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.