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Setting The Record Straight


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Hey, enough of those erroneous facts, lets set the record straight.

A rat can last longer than a camel without water. There is only one problem with this, it is much harder to ride a rat!

The US silver supply is not at Fort Knox with the gold, it is at West Point Military Academy. I guess those cadets have to work their way up to guarding gold.

France has a law banning the sale sale of dolls that don't have human faces. Scardey cats.

Picasso was so poor that at one time the only way he could keep warm was by burning his paintings. Talk about an expensive fire.

Ferrets were domesticated hundred of years before cats. I still would rather have a cat, no offense ferret owners.

Human eyes are full sized from birth. My doesn't the baby have big eyes? Yes because they are full sized you dunce!

Over 1/3 of the people who place ads in the papers for dates are already married. Beware!

John Wilkes Booth's brother saved the life of Lincoln's son. Fate can be funny.

If the Earth's population keeps growing at the same rate, the total amount of people will weigh the same as the planet Earth somewhere around the year 3500 AD, give or take 50 years. I bet this didn't take into account the weight gains being recorded by everyone all over the world.

About 20 banks are robbed. The rest of the time they are robbing us.

If you go to Iceland and leave a tip in a restaurant, you insult the waiter. Good custom.

If you fly on a Boeing 747, you are on a plane that can hold over 57,000 gallons of fuel. If it was a car using premium gasoline from a station in New York City it would cost about $135,000 to fill the tank today and the price is going up.

The average person eats about 60,000 pounds of food in a life time. Some people try and do this all at once.

Slugs have 4 noses yet they still smell bad.

The pony express didn't have even one pony. It had plenty of horses though.

The famous bank robber John Dillinger had played professional baseball. I guess he wanted to play it safe.

Sonny and Cher started out with the name Cleo and Caesar. No comment.

If you live in Paraguay then dueling is legal if you are a blood donor. They must be desperate for blood.

Woody Allen's real name is Allen Konigsberg. Does any one care?

John Denver's real name is Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. No wonder he didn't use it, although Arnold has him beat.

The fastest bird can fly up to 217 mph. It is the Peregrine Falcon. This is faster than some of the planes in World War II.

One form of the Black Death in the middle ages had a death rate of 100%. Ouch!

Fossil roaches have been found that are about 80,000,000 years older than the dinosaurs. Quick step on them.

The 19th largest economy in the world is Wal-Mart.

54,000,000 lawns get mowed in the US every year.

Crocodiles can't stick out their tongues so if you insult one he can't do anything about it, unless you are too close to him of course.

Wearing headphones increases the bacteria in your ears as much as 700X in an hour.

Tongue prints are as unique as finger prints. Is yours on file?

There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia, so much for fresh water fishing.

Anteaters prefer termites. So why aren't they named termite eaters?

When a duck quacks there is never an echo. This fact quacks me up.

Enough is enough. I'm exhausted from all these puns.

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