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  1. KeepOnRollin

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    Mickey Mouse has only 4 fingers on each hand - over the many years this has saved Disney millions of dollars in animation costs.
     
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    Warner Brothers Animation demanded Bugs Bunny have two whiskers on each cheek instead of three to save money on ink.
     
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    There are now more obese people in the world than undernourished people.
     
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    Cannibalism
     
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    In medieval castles, the staircases spiraled right instead of left as they went up,. This was a defensive strategy designed for right-handed knights who could fend off attackers easier as they climbed the stairs.
     
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    Hong Kong has more Rolls Royce automobiles than any other city in the world (per capita).
     
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    Memorize your superlatives. Easier, more easily, most easily. Adverb, not adjective.
     
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    'twas a cut-n-paste job. The grammar was most super easiestish copied.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    I blame Stern.
     
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    A southern girl goes off to college. She's unpacking in her dorm when her new roommate arrives.

    "Where are y'all from?" asks the southern girl?

    "Where I'm from, we learned not to end a sentence with a preposition."

    "OK then. Where are y'all from, bitch?"
     
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    McDonald’s rejects a higher percentage of applicants each year than Harvard.
     
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    In the U.S, there are more cellphones actively being used than there are people.
     
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    The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
     
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    Starbucks was named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick.
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    CORRECTION: Starbucks was named after Starbuck, a character on Battlestar Galactica, who was named after Starbuck, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick.
     
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    According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Clackamas County has more remnant golf tee holes than green-tailed wombats and Monarch butterflies combined.
     
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    CORRECTION: I'm sorry. Turns out the author is a fly-by-night professor.
     
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    Scooby-Doo's first name is actually Scoobert.
     
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