Some interesting facts!!! Very funny, read!

[TheShredder]

I got this from another mesage board (System Of A Down).
There are some funny facts in it, have fun reading it

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

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

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

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

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would
never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

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

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

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

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

9/10 people are right handed.

A sneeze can make your heart stop.

3/4 Americans appear on T.V. atleast once.

Chcolate and crisp are good for your heart.

Your heart beats 5 billion times on an average life.

The average human lives around 30,000 days.

China has 1/6th of the worlds population.

Fish never sleep.

A peanut is not a nut, it's a legume.

All the continents used to be connected.

If you stepped on venus you wold be litteraly crushed.

Theres no such thing as gravity, the weight of all around you pushes you down.

The average human eats a peck of dirt in there life.

Every year you eat 2 spiders somehow.

Men are statistically smarter than women when adult.

90 % of flowers have a bad smell.

99.9% of spiders are poisunous, just not in NA.

Cheese and yogurt are made of bacteria.

The first stall in a public bathroom is least often occupied and is the cleanest.

The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5 megabytes.

Hoover Dam's structural (in vegas) volume surpasses the largest pyramid in Egypt, which took 20 years and 100,000 men to complete. But, the Hoover Dam only took 4 years and 5,000 workers to complete.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

In Singapore: It is illegal to pee in an elevator.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

The NASDAQ stock exchange was totally disabled in on day in December 1987 when a squirrel burrowed through a telephone line.

If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the microorganisms on your body.

It is anatomically impossible to lick your elbow, 75% of the people who hear this actually try to lick their elbow..

In China: To go to college you must be intelligent.

There are new metals that melt as temperature decreases.

In 1958 the US sent two mice called Laska and Benjy into space.

Giraffes have black tongues.

Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.

A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 10 kg (22 lb).

South-Korea has its own TV-channel for Starcraft.

The only difference between lead and gold is one electron!

Only 5% can lick their own nose.

The worlds three most addictive drugs in order: 1. Heroin - 2. Nicotine - 3. CAFFEINE

Another recent study shows that computer users blink an average of 7 times per minute. The average persons blinks 22 times per minute

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Pigs can't look up in the sky

The most common first sign of heart disease is death.

In the United States: A US citizen can take possession of any foreign, uninhabited island, as long as it contains bird droppings.

The average human lung holds 3.5 liters of air.

It is prohibited by law for dwarfs to hunt moose in canada (at sundays).

During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.

Nobody knows who invented spectacles (eyeglasses).

A chinese got blind after 10h of playing Diablo (using a 50 Hz monitor).

About 42,000 tennis balls are used in the plus-minus 650 matches in the Wimbledon Championship.

Boomerang means "replay" in the traditional aborginal language.

Our DNA is 97% the same as apes.

99% of all "mazes" can be solved if you walk to the right everytime you have to choose between left and right

The average person flexes the joints in their fingers 24 million times during a lifetime.

In Switzerland: It is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 P.M. if you live in an apartment.

The average person fear spiders more than death.

In Sulphur, Louisiana: It is illegal to have sex with a cow.

Its not healthy to sleep more than 10 hours in a row

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.

Having sex for 1 hour consumes as much calories as a 7 hour areobic-pass

Bumblebee's ARE meant to fly!

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Basketball jump shots are more accurate than set shots.

If 2 flies and their babies were to mate undisturbed for half a year, the total ammounts of flies born would cover about 6½ earths. Long live spiders!!

30 Helens Agree... You can't pay too much for a good pair of shoes!

After being awake for more than 20 hours the body starts producing painkillers. This is why most people get happy outbursts at late nights.

Air bags have been estimated to save over 1500 lives since their introduction in the late 1980s.

72% chooses the left path in a labyrinth, if they can pick between left and right.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist

The most common gamingnickname is "player", beacuse it's usually the preset nickname in most games.

There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world.

Bananas will be extinct in 10 years time.

We say coffee beans although it comes from berries. It's because each coffee berry has two beans.

1/4 of the worlds children born, are chineese babies.

In Dyersburg, Tennessee, USA: It is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.

To make one pound of honey, the bee has to tap into 2 million flowers and travel 55,000 miles.

That there are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday Edition of the New York Times.

The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

In Florida, USA: You may not fart in a public place after 6 P.M. on Thursdays.

That it once was law to say "God bless you" to one who sneezed.

Arnold Schwartsenegger grabbed a girls butt during the recording of Terminator 3.
She was so pissed of when he laughed about it, that she actually decided to give up her actingcareer.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

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

There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people.

Some people make a living out of playing computer games. They are called progamers.

Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world. In second place comes Sweden.

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

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

US Post Office handles 43% of the world's mail. Its nearest competitor is Japan with 6%.

Rabbits cannot vomit.

Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.

It is possible to drink water that was present during the time of the dinosaurs.

In York, England: Excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

Liverpool, England: It is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.

Glass is a "slow-melting" materia. In 10 000 years your windows will have melted down into a pile

An average western **** contains more vitamins and goodness than what an average third-world child eats in a week from food.

Plyometric training can increase vertical jump performance of basketball players.

Coca-Cola was originally green.


In England: All English males over the age 14 are to carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy.

The richest woman today is Liliane Bettencourt, the daughter of L'Oreal's founder. She has a net worth of $14 billion (depending on how the stock market did today).

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

A man was once born blind, he was operated so he could see, but after he could see, he immediatly wanted to be blind again

Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.

A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivelant used by two hour light bulbs, to operate.

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

In Germany it's currently not allowed to sell old games like Super Mario or Zelda to minors.

Microwaves are about 1cm in length.

The only future Peace has to offer is War...

All I found
Got reaaal bored while finding

Hope you enjoy reading it more than I did while finding them

[Raven]

wow

[HorseTechie]

Wow indeed... I think hlaf of those I heard before from somewhere too.

And also, horses cannot vomit... while turtles can also breath from their butts!

[Moomintroll]

Theres no such thing as gravity, the weight of all around you pushes you down. <p>
Not true, they need to read of the derivation of G (not g, G) and Newton's Laws, being that weight is DEFINED by m*g , not going to go into it here.
I can also lick my elbow, gerbal rhymes with purple, nicotine is more addctive than heroine per amount used, glass is an amorsphous solid and is always "melting", infact, old windows are a lot thicker at the bottom than the top. A duck's quack ECHOS! WE TRIED IT!
Those lists is how urban legends get started.

[Reznorite420]

Originally Posted by Moomintroll

gerbal rhymes with purple

Is that so? Let's look at it phonetically:

Gerbil (that's how it's spelled ) = jer-buhl

Purple = per-puhl

That last syllable has to be EXACTLY the same for it to rhyme. You saw it here; I can't think of any other word that ends with the "puhl" sound.

[That Matt Guy]

The US did not try to train bats to drop bombs during WWII.

[JameO]

Some of them being facts and some being myths they are interesting.

[The Lone Turtle]

Ok, well to be honest, I didn't read the whole post ( I will later though )

But I too have an interesting fact, I apologise if this was in the list, but did you know that the human soul weighs 21Kg.

I was reading this magazine article a couple of years ago, and it said that some scientists in Switzerland had actually weighed a dying person in their bed, and after the person passed away, there was a loss of weight of 21 Kg that could not be explained. The scientists, had taken into account the weight of the bed, etc, and any internal/external body movement. Eg, wind excaping. I found that pretty cool

[Moomintroll]

hrm, I guess that would cover excrements and air and such that comes out when you die?

[InsaneZane]

i dont think ALL of those are entirly true...

I need me bananas

[HorseTechie]

You licked your elbow, Moonie? What was your trick?

Yes, I also questioned many of these facts too. I think the one that Cocal Cola was green sounded questionable too. But the Coke site does have a true and false tip sheet to clear up those doubts aboout the early formula.

[InsaneZane]

actually, a lot of those are just theories

[RomStom]

The gold and lead being differnt by an electron is wrong. They are different by a proton. If an atom has the same number of protons, but different numbers of electrons they are only ions of the same element. If they have different numbers of neutrons they are just isotopes of the same elemement.

[Dane E5R]

Dudes, will you give it a rest? I don't think he spent all that time finding those just so you all can go "wait a minute, I think I'm going to ridicule you and disprove everything you just said!" Is it that hard to just laugh?

[Kid Icarus]

Originally Posted by Elite5Raph

Is it that hard to just laugh?

*thinks*
...

Yes. . Just kiddin'.

Lets see... I can't lick my elbow, and it seems odd that donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

[Moomintroll]

Dudes, will you give it a rest? I don't think he spent all that time finding those just so you all can go "wait a minute, I think I'm going to ridicule you and disprove everything you just said!" Is it that hard to just laugh?

well, we are not ridiculing him, we are ridiculing the wrong facts, those are very funny and I am glad he posted them, but by no means does that imply he dug them all up and they are wrong, bwt, good job there catching the gold/lead one, i didn't notice that, didn't read too carefully I guess.
The thing is, thats how people get wrong ideas, and we were just pointing out the inacuracies, but overall it was a very funny post and I hope no one got offended.

[Raven]

oh you no your ridiculing him I think we should hold a witch trial! burn her burn her!

ah that is if the others are up for burning...........well?

[Cascadia]

wow indeed

here is one for you. In Japan, you have to take a difficult long exam in order to go to high school. Whoever, does not pass the exam, has to go get a job like at McDonald's.

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by Reznorite420

Is that so? Let's look at it phonetically:

Gerbil (that's how it's spelled ) = jer-buhl

Purple = per-puhl

That last syllable has to be EXACTLY the same for it to rhyme. You saw it here; I can't think of any other word that ends with the "puhl" sound.

actually, the technical term would be slant rhyme. a true rhyme does need to be exact, but for the sack of rhyme, gerbal does rhyme. good job!

and....99.9% pof our dna is matched with chimps NOT apes.

[Cascadia]

there is 1% difference in DNA from person to person...wow!! Yep, we are more related to chimps than apes.