Here's something to pass the time...

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>post any interesting facts that are random or weird. i guess i'll start off!</p>

<p>When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.</p>

<p>the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.</p>

<p>The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache. </p>

<p>Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.</p>

<p>Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.</p>

<p>The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.</p>

<p>Nobody knows where the body of Voltaire is. It was stolen in the nineteenth century and has never been recovered. The theft was discovered in 1864, when the tomb was opened and found empty.</p>

<p>No war has been fought where both countries had a McDonalds.</p>

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<p>there are underground tunnels underneath the quad</p>

<p>there's a statue of dr pepper by college hall</p>

<p>there are secret doors in skirkanich hall</p>

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<p>St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was not Irish</p>

<p>A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I.</p>

<p>Sliced bread was patented by a jeweller, Otto Rohwedder, in 1928. He had been working on it for 16 years, having started in 1912</p>

<p>The Nobel Prize resulted form a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.</p>

<p>Only 1 child in 20 are born on the day predicted by the doctor</p>

<p>It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.</p>

<p>At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window.</p>

<p>It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia</p>

<p>The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte</p>

<p>In 1849, David Atchison became President of the United States for just one day, and he spent most of the day sleeping.</p>

<p>There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos</p>

<p>More money is spent each year on alcohol and cigarettes than on Life insurance.</p>

<p>In 1939 the US political party ‘The American Nazi Party’ had 200,000 members.</p>

<p>George Washington grew marijuana in his garden <--- DAZED & CONFUSED WAS RIGHT (or was that Fast Times?)</p>

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<p>Illinois governors are the crappiest and most corrupt of any state</p>

<p>dinosaurs are big</p>

<p>an average applicant to penn wastes 4 hours every day on college confidential</p>

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<p>Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.</p>

<p>In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.</p>

<p>There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia</p>

<p>A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways</p>

<p>Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open</p>

<p>"Q" is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state</p>

<p>Hawaii is the only state with one school district</p>

<p>The Elephant is the only animal with 4 knees</p>

<p>Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.</p>

<p>A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.</p>

<p>If you obtain 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you will possess $1.19. Thus, having the largest amount of money without being about to make change for a dollar.</p>

<p>(I tried this last one to disprove it... i guess i wasted time from thinking of Penn)</p>

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<p>When the boogeyman goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.</p>

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<p>"A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways" </p>

<p>** 9/10 people will move their own jaw sideways to make sure they can after reading this statement.</p>

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<p>Horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants in Marshalltown, Iowa.
In North Carolina, it is illegal to sing off key.</p>

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<p>^
Rofl,
I did!</p>

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<p>Adding to IL's corrupt politicians...</p>

<p>There's a reason Chicago's called the Windy City, and it's not because of the wind off Lake Michigan.</p>

<p>It's anatomically impossible to lick your elbow.</p>

<p>And 90% of people who read that try.</p>

<p>If you tell someone you're born on Jan 1, they're bound to have some sort of excited reaction, and tell you you're a New Years Baby. Because you didn't already know.</p>

<p>There's a 14 hour time difference between the east coast and Japan.</p>

<p>1 dollar used to be worth 107 yen four months ago. now 1 dollar is worth about 92 yen. And Converse shoes cost about 20 dollars more in Japan than in the States.</p>

<p>The word for "smile" is the same as for "laugh" in Japan...and I never know which one people mean when they use it!</p>

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<p>Relating to "laught" mentioned by scribbler</p>

<p>There's always a laughter in slaughter..</p>