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You wanna go tecnical, a traingle is a 3-sided shape whose angels eaqul 180 degrees. You'd be making a nonagon, which has angels at 1260 total.

 

Hey, that actually came in handy!

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Poylgons are classified more by sides than angles. If it has nine sides, it's a nonagon. 3 for a triangle. Want me to scan the page in my geometry book for proof?

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Here's another fact: ain't isn't a real word.

actully thats changed its in dictionaries now since they change dictionaries and update them with words that are being used

 

now its still bad grammer(well in most circumstances, lol)..

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain't

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if you are getting all these from the same site i would use a diffrent oen since obviusly most of them arnt true

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LOOK people, as much as I hate to admit it, anime is correct, you cannot make triangle with 9 sides. TJ ... out.

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Well, I can't say about the "ain't" as I only have a dictionary that was printed in about 1970, but the definition of a triangle is that it only has three sides! Anime's right - its based more on the sides than the angles. Plus its in the name: tri means three :yes:

 

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1. Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character.

2. 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep.

3. 7-Eleven was the first convenience store to have television advertising. The animated commercial ran in 1949 and had a singing rooster and owl.

4. Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder.

5. From the T.V. show "The Simpsons" Marge Simpson's maiden name is Bouvier.

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A weird one.

 

 

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

 

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Women blink twice as many times as men do.

 

All I have to say is :O

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In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.

 

Smokers eat more sugar than non-smokers do.

 

35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually.

 

Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple!

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Professional computer gamers can earn several hundred thousand US dollars a year.

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More Random Facts:

-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

-There are more chickens than people in the world.

-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

-In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

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-All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

 

 

Not all 50 i looked at that it was only 27.....

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I found some a another website. You have to have an account and I'm too lazy to do something I'm to lazy to type.

1) A car is stolen every 20 seconds in the United States

2) 61,000 people are in a plane over the US at any given time

3) An average American will spend an average of six months during his/her lifetime waiting at red lights in their car

4) American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class

5) You can be stopped by the police for biking over 65 mph

6) Strawberries have more Vitamin C than oranges

7) An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil

8) There are more chickens in the world than people

9) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue

10) If you sleep in a cold room, you are more likely to have a bad dream

11) After eating too much food, your hearing becomes less sharp

12) The average person laughs 13 times a day

13) The average North American will eat 35,000 cookies during their lifespan

14) Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie

15) 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year

16) Frogs do not drink water

17) In one day, an average person will take about 18,000 steps

18) There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar

19) The average American spends 6 years in the bathroom

20) A snail can sleep for three years

21) Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female hospital patients

22) The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had

23) When you die, your hair still grows for a couple of months

24) American car horns beep in the tone of F

25) Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump

26) The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime

27) A car that shifts manually gets two miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift

28) Children grow faster in the springtime

29) The average person eats eight spiders at night in their lifetime

30) Women blink nearly twice as much as men

31) There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver

32) The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan"

33) Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury

34) Men can read smaller print than women can

35) Women can hear better than men

36) Bulletproff vests, fire escapes, windsheild wipers, and laserprinters were all invented by women

37) 60% of statistics are made up

38) 111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

39) Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil

40) There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year

41) In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions

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weird 9/11 facts

 

Date of the attack: 9/11 = 9 + 1 + 1 = .

 

September 11 is the 254th day of the year: 2+5+4= 11.

 

After September 11 there are 111 days left in the year.

 

Twin Towers: standing side by side, resemble 11.

 

The first plane to hit the towers was Flight 11.

 

New York - The 11th State added to the Union.

 

New York City - 11 Letters.

 

The Pentagon - 11 Letters.

 

Afghanistan - 11 Letters.

 

Flight 11 -> 92 on board - 9 + 2 = 11.

 

Flight 77 -> 65 on board - 6 + 5 = 11.

 

Last but not the least, GEORGE W BUSH - 11 letters

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