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Here is my first attempt at your amazing fact challenge !!.


Count de Grisley
1799 --- 1st magician to perform the trick of sawing a woman in half .


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The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.

Uranus' orbital axis is tilted at 90 degrees

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

The only sea battle of the Vietnam war was the Gulf of Tonkin incident, The USS Maddox was attacked by two North Vietnamese patrol boats, however there is no proof this incident actually happened. iiiiiiiiii thaaankyouuuuuuuuu

Octopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood through each of the two gills, while the third pumps blood through the body.

Fire Crotch: Massive Knickers Save House From Burning
LIAR. Liar. Pants on fire. Or, in the case of Jenny Marsey, pants putting out a fire.

To Hartlepool, Teeside. And the kitchen of Marsey’s home in Meryl Gardens.

Mrs Marsey’s son and nephew are frying some bread. A knock at the door. They move to answer. The bread begins to fry. So the pan. Fire!

To the side is a pile of washing. Knickers. Water. And tossed on the fire. Fizzzz! Hurrah! Success.

Says Mrs Marsey: “My £4.99 parachute knickers have come in handy for something. We’ve had a good laugh that they were a bit like a fire blanket.”

She goes on: “When they found the pan on fire they did what most people do and panicked. But they found a pair of my knickers in a washing basket and basically used them as a fire blanket to put out the fire.”

Says a spokesman for Cleveland Fire Brigade said: “They did the right thing in the end. We advise everyone to get fire safety advice.”

And buy sensible and reassuring underwear…

It was the Romans who made the first popsicle. They took some ice and added flavour to it and then licked it. What a great idea! Yummy !

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

The first automatic fire extinguisher was patented in England in 1723 by Ambrose Godfrey

Americans consumed 76 billion pounds of red meat and poultry in the year 2000, up 21% from a decade earlier.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

Some excellent facts and totally useless information guys, keep em coming.

GOOD OLD REG
this is the man that started all this using the first cash point

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries.

a bit of a challenge this one.... what and where is the smallest muscle in the human body ?
answers not on a postcard and no prizes

the smallest muscle in the human body is located in the ear and called the stapedius (less than 0.12CM long).

The second smallest is the tensortympani

The middle ear is also the site of the two smallest muscles in the human body, the stapedius muscle and the tensor tympani muscle. The muscles attach to the bones of the ossicular chain, and to the wall of the middle ear space. These muscles contract and hold the ossicular chain relatively rigid any time a noise of high intensity occurs; the primary purpose of the muscles would appear to be to protect the more delicate inner ear from very loud noises gemerated within our head when we sneeze or cough or speak. It is also very possible that these muscles may react to help tune our ear, to make it more sensitive to a specific sound that we are attempting to hear or attend to. These muscles are very weak, however, and tire easily, so they are only able to provide short periods of protection to the auditory system.

well that didnt take long for some smart alec to google LOL

I prefer the term "clever dick" its less American and sounds slightly sexual