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BMW's have indicators?

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Weird fact: The manhole cover in my garage has a patent number.

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The polar bear is the only living animal that can not be picked up with heat sensors, its coat is too thick

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Not sure if this is fact or rumour, but apparently Nicola Bryant (Peri from Dr Who) tried out for Captain Janeway in ST:Voyager. Could have been interesting.

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the hairs are hollow & their skin is black, as well :)

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It is said, (don't ask me by whom), that you're never more than 100 yard's from a rat. :disturbd:

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Probably said by the Team on this forum :)
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Next time you watch Star Trek loook out for piping labelled "GNDN".

GNDN stands for "Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing"

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Another star trek one (next generation) on the deck plan of the enterprise (in the background) there is only one toilet!!!

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Yet another Star Trek TNG one:

The medical displays in sick bay have a patient status indicator that measures "Medical Insurance Remaining".
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The commissioning plaque on the Main Bridge actually lists the production crew from TNG

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You going for the geek awarf there m8 ;):D

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:D Maybe.....

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Yep but BMW have been saving thousands for years by not putting bulbs in them, No BMW driver has complained yet... :D

and some facts...

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds

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Purple = Turtle
Silver = Pilfer

maybe?

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If you have seen in an episode of "Mythbusters" they tried this and it does, but it very close to the original sound and sound like the original.

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.........and due to the high iron content of there liver it is toxic if eaten.