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Fast Fact - keep the change
About 200 Americans have sex-change surgery annually.

-Discovery Channel


Fast Fact - And you thought it just made you blind...
During the 1800s, female masturbation was sometimes treated by the surgical removal of the clitoris.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - Good things come in small packages
Human sperm cells are so tiny that five billion of them could be contained in a tablet the size of an ordinary aspirin pill.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - The new beginning
According to Clonaid, the "first human cloning company," Eve, the first cloned human baby, "was born in an undisclosed location on December 26, 2002." Happy Birthday! (Eve's existence has not been independently verified)

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - a royal pain in the butt
"God Save the King" was composed for Louis IV after he underwent an operation for anal fistulas.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - kitchens and churches off-limits!
In the Middle Ages, women who were menstruating were forbidden from touching food or meat and were also instructed to stay away from church.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - show some spunk!
Over a lifetime, the average man will ejaculate approximately 18 litres of semen, containing about half a trillion sperm.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - safety first
When exercising nude at the gymnasium, young Greek men would often tie their foreskin over the glans of the penis to prevent injury.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - self-serve with a smile
Apparently, only 3 in 1,000 men are well-endowed enough (or flexible enough!) to fellate themselves to orgasm.

-Discovery Channel
 
PublicSecrecy
Fast Fact - keep the change
About 200 Americans have sex-change surgery annually.

-Discovery Channel


Fast Fact - And you thought it just made you blind...
During the 1800s, female masturbation was sometimes treated by the surgical removal of the clitoris.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - Good things come in small packages
Human sperm cells are so tiny that five billion of them could be contained in a tablet the size of an ordinary aspirin pill.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - The new beginning
According to Clonaid, the "first human cloning company," Eve, the first cloned human baby, "was born in an undisclosed location on December 26, 2002." Happy Birthday! (Eve's existence has not been independently verified)

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - a royal pain in the butt
"God Save the King" was composed for Louis IV after he underwent an operation for anal fistulas.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - kitchens and churches off-limits!
In the Middle Ages, women who were menstruating were forbidden from touching food or meat and were also instructed to stay away from church.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - show some spunk!
Over a lifetime, the average man will ejaculate approximately 18 litres of semen, containing about half a trillion sperm.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - safety first
When exercising nude at the gymnasium, young Greek men would often tie their foreskin over the glans of the penis to prevent injury.

-Discovery Channel

Fast Fact - self-serve with a smile
Apparently, only 3 in 1,000 men are well-endowed enough (or flexible enough!) to fellate themselves to orgasm.

-Discovery Channel
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Those are crazy, what sick show were you watching?
 
the world's most common word, OK, stands for the greek Ola kala (όλα καλά) which means that everything is good, and it was first typed on carton boxes that were shipped from athens to N.Y. during the 1800's, to show that all carton boxes are checked and OK
 
gloup
the world's most common word, OK, stands for the greek Ola kala (όλα καλά) which means that everything is good, and it was first typed on carton boxes that were shipped from athens to N.Y. during the 1800's, to show that all carton boxes are checked and OK
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I wouldn't be too sure about that. There's no word in the English which has raised more arguments and theories about it's origins than OK.

Here's some theories from the Straight Dope website:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_250
(1) It's a derivative of the Choctaw Indian affirmative "okeh." Andrew Jackson, who figures in many stories about OK, is said to have introduced the word to the white man.
(2) Another Jackson story has it that he used to mark OK for "oll korrect" on court documents. In the one example of this that was actually unearthed, however, the OK was found actually to be OR, for "order recorded," a common courthouse abbreviation.
(3) It was a telegraphic signal meaning "open key," that is, ready to receive. Others say OK was used for "all right" because A and R had already been appropriated for other purposes. Big problem with this theory: the first telegraph message was transmitted in 1844, five years after OK appeared.
(4) It stands for O. Kendall & Sons, a supplier of army biscuits that stamped its initials on its product.
(5) It comes from Aux Cayes, already discussed. A variant is that it comes from the French au quai, "to the dock," said of cotton that had been approved for loading on a ship.
(6) It stands for Obediah Kelly, a railroad freight agent, who used to mark his initials on documents to indicate all was in order.
(7) It comes from the Greek Olla Kalla, "all good."
(8) A German general who fought on the side of the Americans in the Revolutionary War used to sign documents OK for Ober-Kommando.
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KM.
 
did you know that in a minute there are 207 babies born and 103 die so our worldwide population grows by 104 a minute. :nervous: and public secrecy, stay off the discovery channel website, your starting to creep me out, now I know stuff that I am too young to know :O :D , actualy keep looking on the web. I dont regret learning any of that info except the foreskin one. :yuck: :nervous:
 
According to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar, the universe was created on my birthday in 4004 B.C. :sly:

The Smurfs (the cartoon strip) was first introduced on my birthday in 1958.
 
MrktMkr1986
According to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar, the universe was created on my birthday in 4004 B.C. :sly:
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Yes - at 9.30am.

The Earth, it seems, is a Libra.
 
OK was a campaign slogan for martin Van Buren when he ran for president in the 1830's, it stood for his neighborhood, Old Kinderhook.
 
KieranMurphy
I wouldn't be too sure about that. There's no word in the English which has raised more arguments and theories about it's origins than OK.

Here's some theories from the Straight Dope website:




KM.
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The story I know says that OK stands for the initials of VolksWagen´s founder (which I don´t know the name), and that when a car was manufactured he used to inspect it and if it was everything as it should then he would give it a OK stamp on it.
 
FatAssBR
The story I know says that OK stands for the initials of VolksWagen´s founder (which I don´t know the name), and that when a car was manufactured he used to inspect it and if it was everything as it should then he would give it a OK stamp on it.
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Wasn't Volkswagen's founder Hitler?!??! :sick: :dunce:
 
i thought i caught something on History channel saying that hitler introduced Volkswagen (everymans car) to make money for the gov't, and to raise his social status and make people trust him...before he went ape****.
 
15. Adolf Hitler: Born out of sinister intentions, the Beetle was Hitler's propaganda for helping create unity in pre-war Germany. His influence pushed the project through to production.

I knew it!

[Edit] There's no No. 1....????[Edit]
 

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