Ruin in English is ruin in Norwegian.

Yeah I know, not that fun...

only 300 Chevy Corvette were made during the first year of production.

assuming a 365 day year, you only get to live 8670 hours a year. assuming 365 days a year and 70 years of life, you'll only get to live 613200 hours(or 25550 days)(or 36 million, 792 thousand minutes)(or 2207520000 seconds). a third of that is spent sleeping(assuming you get your 8 hours).

not really random, but here is some from http://www.kellys.com/know.html(a lot of Did You Know? here).

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"A winged [censored] was the city symbol of Pompeii, the ancient Roman resort town destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption."
and people are surprised the city was destroyed.

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"To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles."
eeeeewwwww!!!!!

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"The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments."
can you hear this:

"Billy, get off that monument!"
"But mom, i am just taking a ride to the store."
"I said get off that monument, leave historical treasure be."

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"Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better."
I wonder what "better" means. Because i was under the impression that men have better 3D hearing(locating where sound is coming from, etc).

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"A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair."

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A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of geese is called a gaggle.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.

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"The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply."
anyone still against maintaining and preserving rain forest?

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"The amount of tropical rainforest cut down each year is an area the size of Tennessee."
i wonder who wants to thank these guys for cutting your air supply by this much.

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Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy, and she was Greek rather than Egyptian.

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The Red sea in the Bible is a long-perpetuated mistranslation of the Reed sea.

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"A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second."
makes me wonder how jiffy Jiffy Lube really is and how honest someone is when they say i'll get it in a jiffy.

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The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."

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Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.

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"Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca and http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cola#hl=en&q=cola+drinks&revid=1090775484&sa=X&ei=rWwATu-iNYbQsAO02OCZDQ&ved=0CI4BENUCKAM&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=cd6248f9e4a29d1b&biw=1024&bih=677.

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"Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged to one master.)

How? HOW?! How do they calculate this?

According to Wiki: it is an unkindness of ravens and Coca-Cola used to have cocaine which is derived from the coca plant.

- 92% of people forget their interesting facts off the top of their heads when asked if they know any interesting facts off the top of their head.
- 85% of people who forget their interesting facts look up on the internet for interesting facts.
- 65% of statistics are made up on the spot.
- The other 8% Just read the interesting facts.
- The other 7% make up stupid joke statistics to make up for their inability to remember an interesting fact and were to lazy to look one up on the internet.
- The other 8% of the first fact either have a good list of interesting facts on hand for when they want to impress and make themselves look smart to co-workers, friends, or that girl at the bar or they were just reading some weird article on the internet just now.
- 86% of so called facts are opinions or poorly researched conclusions of data.
- 56% sure I could have been more productive if not wasting my time making this list.

More specifically, it used the coca leaf (which contains trace amounts of unprocessed cocaine) and the kola nut (which contains caffeine) for flavoring and as a mild stimulant. The modern recipe still uses extracts of these ingredients, but removes the cocaine for obvious reasons (which is instead then sold separately to a pharmaceutical company.)

This one made me laugh out loud when I heard it. Valve seriously has the best writers in the business.

Coca Cola has replaced the kola nuts by tea leaves, the one unpropered for preparing tea. The coca leaves are the one used after processed to extract the cocaine for medical purposes.

http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2011.99.html