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Roger721
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Hey everybody. Everybody loves random facts, right? So I've created this topic to discuss about them.

They must be interesting and real (no need to cite sources, but they must be real) and (according to the AG rules) they must have 7 or more words.

Let me begin.

In England a woman named Ceejay Epton (age 22) decided to change her name after her son was born. The reason: she wanted to help the baby to learn the alphabet faster. Then she changed her name to

"Ceejay A Apple B Boat C Cat D Dog E Elephant F Flower G Goat H House I Igloo J Jellyfish K Kite L Lion M Monkey N Nurse O Octopus P Penguin Q Queen R Robot S Sun T Tree U Umbrella V Violin W Whale X X-Ray Y Yo-yo Z Zebra Terryn Feuji-Sharemi"

She got the idea from a friend that wanted to be named "Pink" and decided to change her name too.

The good news is that on England, the name changing process is easy and costs £10

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libby21
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The average person swallows 7-8 spiders a year.

master565
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The average person swallows 7-8 spiders a year.


That was disproved almost 20 years ago.
libby21
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I am sorry. Got that from an app on my iPod and didn't know if it was true or not. That makes me feel better though.

eddyalex
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eddyalex
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how about this... in florida it is illegal for married women to parachute on a sunday!

savdebunnies
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There are no skyscrapers built by cows.
Humans are smart because they have weak jaws.
If you're an ant all trees are tall.

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There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

johnmerz
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There are currently 99,999 posts in the AMW forum!

johnmerz
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Here is the screen shot I took of it: http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/z359/yellowdude1234/The%20screenies%20I%20made/99999posts.jpg Hopefully it works this time...

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Two members of Rascal Flatts, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, U.S. President Wiiliam McKinley, Steven Spielberg, Annie Oakley, David Allan Coe, the Wright Brothers, R.L. Stine, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, were all from Ohio, in the U.S.

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Crickets are considered good luck.
Some Eastern cultures actually build tiny, ornate cages for crickets so people can keep them as pets. Also, some people place small statues of crickets on their home mantles.

ripchicken
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a common myth that has been proven false is that hummingbirds migrate on the backs of geese

CommanderPaladin
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Hummingbirds will fight off crows and other large birds invading their space by flying up and sticking their long beaks into the other birds' ears.

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In the movie Ghostbusters Peter Venkman is played by Bill Murray who also does the voice for Garfield in the live action movie Garfield. In the cartoon The Real Ghostbusters the original voice actor for Peter Venkman was preformed by Lorenzo Music who also did the voice for Garfield in the cartoon Garfield and Friends.

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my middle name is ryan.

starfish have two stomachs. they eat by pushing one stomach out to dissolve food, retracts its stomach, then repeats with the other stomach.

you are never more than three feet from a spider at any given moment (driving your car excluded).

ATC3
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My middle name is Thomas

Cows have 7 stomachs

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