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The first can opener was patented 83 years after the first cans were invented.

Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command 'go hang yourself.'

It is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket in Kentucky.
This is a very old law. People used do this to steal horses. The ice cream could be used to lure a horse away, and if the person was caught they would use the excuse, "I didn't steal it - he followed me home!"

Kermit the Frog is left handed.
proof:


Anyone got any?

Link is also left handed.

They say its impossible to lick your elbow... but I can.
I'll add more later.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

Evil is Live spelled backwards.
A DS soundbank may have multiples of the same instrument.
Expanding on that, they're also never organised correctly.
FL Studio doesn't handle MIDI pitch changes correctly.
The oldest modern game character is Mario, dating back to 1981.

Rhythm is the longest word in the English language without vowel.

'Typewriter' is the longest English word that can be made by using only one row of a keyboard.

the rubik's cube has 519,024,039,293,878,272,000 permutations but only 1 in 12 of these are solvable.

microwave ovens don't directly heat food, they "excite"/heat the water molecules in the food, thus causing the food to become hot

Actually, all of them are solvable, but you have to rearrange the stickers...

FACTS:

There are more people alive today than there are total people who have died.

A spoonful of matter from a white dwarf has as much mas as the average Semi.

You can't go whaling in the Great Salt Lake.

It is illegal to set off a bomb inside Utah's borders. So to speak, that means I can leave Utah, THEN set off a bomb. XD

You can't carry a violin in a plastic bag in a shopping mall.

that's some. I'll update more later.

Oh yeah, FC? It's also illegal to drag a dead horse down Yonge street on a Sunday. :P Weird Canadian law that I have no idea the origins of. :P

There is no actual way to know how many licks there is to get to a tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop because each one is different and each person is different. Therefore, it is a trick question.

In Kansas, you can't shoot a rabbit while on a motorboat.

Singing off key in public is strictly banned in (I don't know which one >_<) Carolina.

It is against the law to educate a dog in Hartford.

in SOUTH Carolina, all horses have to wear supersized diapers.

It is illegal to sell dougnut holes in Nebraska XD