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| dj ZevZ |
Some facts to look at..........
Men can read smaller print than women .. women can hear better.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work:
Alaska!
The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
(now get this...) The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in
their hair.
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The youngest pope was 11 years old.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom
Sawyer.
Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades - King David,
Hearts - Charlemagne,
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in
the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. IIf the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
A. Conception.
> > Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes,
> > windshield wipers, and laser
> > printers all have in common?
> > A. All invented by women.
> > Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
> > A. Honey
> > Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any
> > other day of the
> > year?
> > A. Father's Day
> >
> > Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs
> > Bunny) is the most
> > ironic?
> > A. He was allergic to carrots.
> >
> > In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on
> > bed frames by ropes.
> > When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened,
> > making the bed firmer
> > to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep
> > tight".
> >
> > It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years
> > ago that for a month
> > after the wedding, the bride's father would supply
> > his son-in-law with all
> > the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and
> > because
> > their calendar was lunar based, this period was
> > called the honey month we
> > know today as the honeymoon.
> >
> > In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts.
> > So in old England,
> > when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell
> > at them mind their own
> > pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get
> > the
> > phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
> >
> > In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was
> > entitled Gentlemen Only
> > Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered
> > into the English
> > language.
AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > At least 75% of people who read this will try to
> > lick their elbow:wtf: |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj ZevZ
It is impossible to lick your elbow. |
that's not true. i've seen a video of a guy doing it, i think he was even a friend of some TA |
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| BTG |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj ZevZ
Some facts to look at..........
women can hear better.
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thats not exactly true ;/.
guys can concentrate on individual sounds a lot better than women.
i forget what i was watching, but they had a group of guys and a group of girls, and each person was asked to listen to a story, and tell them what happend in it, but they were playing 6 stories at the same time. every guy could tell what happend in one of the stories, and only 1 girl.
this explains why a lot of guys like this music where as not girls generally dont'. ;D |
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| Kamikaze Badger |
http://facts.333.ca
| quote: | | women can hear better. |
Hey, are you saying that Paul van Dyk is a girl? |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by BTG
thats not exactly true ;/.
guys can concentrate on individual sounds a lot better than women.
i forget what i was watching, but they had a group of guys and a group of girls, and each person was asked to listen to a story, and tell them what happend in it, but they were playing 6 stories at the same time. every guy could tell what happend in one of the stories, and only 1 girl.
this explains why a lot of guys like this music where as not girls generally dont'. ;D |
actually that is not testing hearing at all. They all heard the stories but could not recall, that is, the women experienced more interference from the subsequent stories.
I am guessing the researching was looking at working memory or something related, not hearing. Which I think this factoid probably eludes to the size difference in men and women.....so I guess ahving small equipment in your ear helps....I dunno, I think it is a bs generalization |
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| Mr. Pink |
My phone keeps ringing.
gadt dammet |
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| Kamikaze Badger |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr. Pink
My phone keeps ringing.
gadt dammet |
I know how you feel. It won't ing stop ringing! Even when I pick it up, it still rings. ing POS. And everywhere I go there are bells constantly ding donging. |
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| King_Mack |
| awesome!! I love factoids..if anyone has some more..post em :D |
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| UglyDave |
fascinating!
another one: a ducks quack does not echo |
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| blazed it |
| they recently proved that duck quacks do echo. albeit very softly |
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| Flyboy217 |
| quote: | Originally posted by UglyDave
fascinating!
another one: a ducks quack does not echo |
LOL. Hahahahah I love it when people state this "fact." For all of you who believe this, here's a related one:
A duck's image does not reflect in the mirror. ;)
Oh, and I hate to burst your bubbles, but most of those historical anecdotes ("GOLF", etc.) are false urban legends: www.snopes.com |
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| smallSHEEP |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj ZevZ
Some facts to look at..........
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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I think I just dislocated my shoulder trying to prove you wrong. :( |
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