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provoke FactsGot this from one of my daily joke emails. Thought it was interesting enough to distribute 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321If a statue in the park of a somebody on a horse has both front legs 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 unloose of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - and so the expression "to get fired."Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big closure".There be two credit cards for every person in the United States.Only two people subscribe the firmness of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasnt added until 5 age later."I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the E nglish language.The term "the all told 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 timbre machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, out front 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 universe is Mohammed.The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."The international telephone dialing recruit for Antarctica is 672.The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was supersensitised to carrots.Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roadstead in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a week twenty-four hour period 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 also sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover.The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin duringWorld 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 " dawdle 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, "Its all drama and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome.