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| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Well you might as well disregard Pluto as well, by their standards. :p
Good info, but a tad subjective, I guess. Not that it's important - we found something out there that we didn't know was there before, and that's what truly matters.
it's still a planet
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I just found it funny to google it and see "It's not a planet" right on the first page :p Although they do seem to be a bit radical about it. Besides, "Sedna" does sound nice :) |
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| Massive84 |
>In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket at a
grocery store
hmm never been fined so far. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Well you might as well disregard Pluto as well, by their standards. :p
Good info, but a tad subjective, I guess. Not that it's important - we found something out there that we didn't know was there before, and that's what truly matters.
it's still a planet
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hehe actually most people are thinking of removing Plutos planetary status. Its moon is half its size and basically boils down to them being large kaiper belt objects, of which there are thousands, most just arent visible. |
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| ierxium |
"Every three seconds, a new baby is born."
Me thinks: So does that mean every 0.01 seconds, two people have sex? :conf:
There's f-cking all day long it seems. |
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| Sunsnail |
it's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
And i learned this today, not from the website.
In Georgia its illegal to have an ice cream cone in your back pocket, on Sunday. :nervous: |
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| the lighter was invented before the match |
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced
to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to
squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
Americans eat nearly 100 acres of pizza every day - that's approximately 350 slices per second!
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its
body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the
length of a football field.
According to legend, there’s a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.
'Second Street' is the most common street name in the U.S.; 'First Street' is the sixth!
The first TV commercial: a Bulova watch ticking onscreen for exactly 60 seconds.
Estimated cost for having your whole body tattooed: $30,000 - $50,000.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
Dragonflies can travel up to 60mph.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.
A diet high in fat is said to impede memory.
Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
Can you think of an English word that rhymes with “month”? You can’t because there is none.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.
More people have a phobia of frogs than rats.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
The Pacific island of Nauru_s economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings.
Fine-grained ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpastes.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Why do puppies lick your face? They’re instinctively looking for scraps of food.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
Surveys say: nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.
Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
A moth has no stomach.
Minnows have teeth in their throat.
The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.
Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with human blood.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
Originally, Jack-O-Lanterns were made from turnips.
The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
Until the year 1920, Canada was planning on invading the United States.
Hard to believe: Apples are actually part of the rose family.
Reno, Nevada is actually west of Los Angeles, California.
C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.
TIME Magazine_s _Man of the Year_ in 1938 was Adolf Hitler.
The most pushups ever performed in one day was 46,001.
Apparently, punctuation wasn’t invented until the 15th century.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people.
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.
Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.
Starfish have no brains.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
111,111,111 * 111,111,111
= 12,345,678,987,654,321
Zero is the only number that cannot be displayed in roman numerals.
Fraser Island (off the coast of Queensland, Australia) is the largest sand island in the world.
Coober Pedy (New South Wales, Australia) a mining town in Australia where 80% of the world's opals come from (hey a useless fact in itself) translates to "White fella down a hole". It's an aboriginal name.
The elephant is the only animal that has four knees.
The walnut is the oldest known tree fruit to be eaten by man. Supposedly first eaten 7,000 BC give or take a couple of months
1/3 of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road
Harvard uses Yale brand locks on their buildings; Yale uses Best brand.
In Washington D.C., no building can be built taller than the Washington Monument.
New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
The Future's Museum in Sweden contains a scale model of the solar system. The sun is 105 metres in diameter and the planets range from 5mm to 6 km from the 'sun.' This particular model also contains the nearest star Proxima Centauri, still to scale situated in the Museum of Victoria... in Australia
The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones. (Don't be late to class...8^P)
Three Mile Island is only 2.5 miles long
Because of its enormous size, the Pentagon is like a small city; it has it's own shopping mall, power plant, water and sewage facilities, medical clinic, fire station, and police force.
The Pentagon has 284 restrooms
There are 691 drinking fountains in the Pentagon.
The name of the girl on the Statue of Liberty is Mother of Exiles
The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper
The Eiffel Tower has 2.5 million rivets
During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side
There is enough stone in the Great Wall of China to build an eight-foot wall encircling the globe at the equator.
A baby in Florida was named Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James
In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.
In Brazil, a traffic jam was created when a couple kissing in a car got their dentures stuck together.
It is a misconception to believe that watching TV in a dark room is bad for your eyes. This myth was created to help sell lamps in the early 1950's.
Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. That is why walls are often sweaty after a fire.
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
The calories burned in one hour of running could bring about seven quarts of water to a boil.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The national average ACT score is 17
There is a post office on the Russian space station Mir.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard
Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in East Germany
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals
All babies are colour blind when they are born.
An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue.
Children grow faster in the springtime than they do the rest of the year.
Corpses don't decompose as fast as they used to because of all of the chemicals and additives we eat now.
Devoid of its cells and proteins, human blood has the same general makeup as seawater.
Each square inch of human skin contains seventy-two feet of nerves.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Every two thousand frowns create one wrinkle.
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning before you die of oxygen deprivation.
If you combined all the muscles in an average human in to one muscle, the force it would be capable of producing is about 2,000 tonnes
In Michigan, USA, a man legally owns his wife's hair.
It's impossible to have grey eyes
Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgement and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
Most humans can guess someone's sex with 95 percent accuracy just by smelling their breath
People do not get sick from the cold weather; its from being indoors a lot more.
People who live or work work in cities, inhale enough toxins that it equals smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.
Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee
The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan but they can burn.
The right lung takes in more air than the left lung.
Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching T.V.
13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
27% of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell.
40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
50% of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
56% of the video game market is adults.
60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm.
7% of Americans think Elvis is alive.
82% believe in an after life.
9% of Americans reported having been in the presence of a ghost.
90 percent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
About 43% of convicted criminals in the U.S. are rearrested within a year of being released from prison.
About 6% of murdered American men are killed by either their wife or girlfriend... or wife who caught them with their girlfriend.
Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%.
Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer.
Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4
Experienced waitress say that married men tip better than unmarried men.
In Japan, 20% of all publications sold are comic books.
Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time.
Nobody yet has explained satisfactorily why couples who marry in January, February, and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.
Nowadays, 50% of all people who get married get divorced.
Odds of being killed by a tornado are 1 in 2 million.
Odds of being killed by falling out of bed are 1 in 2 million.
Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
Personal letters make up only 5% of the mail delivered by the U.S postal Service.
The average four year-old child asks over 400 questions a day.
The chance of contracting an infection during a hospital stay in the USA is 1 in 15.
The largest number of children born to one woman is 69 to a Russian peasant.
(Source: Guinness Book of World Records)
The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.
The murder rate in the Unted States is 200 times greater than in Japan. In Japan no private citizen can buy a handgun legally.
The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.
The percent of women who wash their hands after using a restroom is 80%.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Twelve babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
Breath, by Samuel Beckett, was first performed in April, 1970. The play lasts thirty seconds, has no actors, and no dialogue.
American astronauts must be under 6 feet.
Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century.
Astronomers once believed a planet named Vulcan existed between Mercury and the Sun.
Because of a large orbital eccentricity, Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune between January 1979 and March 1999.
Canada is an Indian word meaning ""Big Village.""
Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.
Drivers in Bangkok have priority over pedestrians at all times.
Eighty percent of the world's ice is in Antarctica.
Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes, 1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale.
(Source: Alaska Department of Community and Economic Development)
If you told someone that they were one in a million, you'd be saying there were 1,800 of them in China.
In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12.
In France, there's a place called Y.
In the Arctic, the sun sometimes appears to be square.
In the Caribbean, there are oysters that can climb trees.
Indonesia consists only of islands - 13,667 altogether.
It's so hot in the Sahara Desert that rain evaporates before it even hits the sand.
Li is the family name for over 87 million people in China.
North America only has one diamond mine in Arkansas.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, is heated by underground hot springs.
Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means the capital in the Korean language.
Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
The island of Nauru is composed mainly of bird droppings.
The Nile river flows North.
The Philippines consist of 7,100 islands.
The Tonle Sap River in Cambodia flows north for almost half the year and then south for the rest of the year.
There are small ice-free patches of land in Antarctica.
There is a ""cemetery town"" in California named Colma. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead.
There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.
It takes 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original "PREDATOR" in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Pamela Lee-Anderson is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada's independence.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to smoke a cigarette.
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
There are only three cities that are named exactly after the state they are located in: Maine, ME; New York, NY; and Wyoming, WY.
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
The name of the Vulcan's heaven is Sha Ka Ree, this is a play on the name Sean Connery who was considered for the part of Sarek, Spock's father.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
The first time the word "hell" was spoken on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "City on the Edge of Forever". The exact quote was "...let's get the hell out of here...", spoken by William Shatner.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Robert E. Lee, of the Confederate Army, remains the only person, to date, to have graduated from the West Point military academy without a single demerit.
The first inter-racial kiss on TV was in an original "STAR TREK" episode entitled "Plato's Stepchildren". The kiss was between Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner.
No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson's fictional ship was the Titan.
Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired."
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant call Diamond Star.
Hindu men believe(d) it to be unluckily to marry a third time. They could avoid misfortune by marrying a tree first. The tree ( his third wife ) was then burnt, freeing him to marry again.
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multipled by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam." Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson." Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott."
On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
In the film 'Star Trek : First Contact', when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. but New Zealand is missing.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
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 recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.
Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" -- It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.
U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.
A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin," pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom." As a small boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; eventually he was able to add it to "Star Trek" lore.
Revolvers cannot be silenced, due to all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
The original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive--so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.
In most watch advertisments the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it's smiling.)
Alfred Hitchdidn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
Every photograph of an American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton.
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Ninety eight per cent of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
Until 1967, LSD was legal in California.
In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
The NY phone book had 22 Hitlers before WWII. The NY phone book had 0 Hitlers after WWII.
There is a town in Texas called 'Ding Dong.'
John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.
Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
If you multiply 526,315,789,473,684,210 with _any_ number you will always find the original number in the result!
China has more English speakers than the United States.
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM said in 1943, "I think there is a world market for about 5 computers".
After the U.S Civil War, about 33%-50% of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit.
(Source: Federal Reserve of San Francisco)
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albequerque.
In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named H.M.S Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finlly went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.
In Victorian times, there was an intense fear of being buried alive, so when someone died, a small hole was dug from the casket to the surface, then a string was tied around the dead persons finger which was then attached to a small but loud bell that was hung on the surface of the grave, so then if someone was buried alive, they could ring the bell and whomever was on duty would go and dig them up. Someone was on the clock 24 hours a day- hence the grave yard shift
It cost more to buy a car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to the New World.
Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness
Pirates used weird nicknames to prevent government officials from identifying and persecuting their relatives back home.
Ramses II, a pharaoh of Egypt died in 1225 B.C. At the time of his death, he had fathered 96 sons and 60 daughters.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
There was an army general during the Liberia Civil War who used to lead his army into battle naked. His nickname was "General Butt Naked." Joshua Milton Blahyi (his real name) is now an evangelical preacher in Monrovia.
(Source: Associate Press, Aug. 4, 1997, Tina Susman, Sun Tzu Organization files)
When telephone companies first began hiring telephone operators, they chose teenage boys for the job. They switched to women because the teenage boys were wrestling instead of working and pulling pranks on callers.
The ashes of the metal magnesium are heavier than magnesium itself.
107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight
A bolt of lighting can strike the earth with a force as great as 100 million volts.
A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
(Source: Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology)
A silicon chip a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.
A syzygy occurs when three atronomical bodies line up.
All the gold produced in the past five hundred years, if melted, could be compressed into a 50-foot cube.
An inch of snow falling evenly on one acre of ground is equivalent to about 2715 gallons of water.
Bamboo (the world's tallest grass) can grow up to 90 cm in a day.
During the time that the atomic bomb was being hatched by the United States at Alamogordo, New Mexico, applicants for routine jobs like janitors, were disqualified if they could read. Illiteracy was a job requirement. The reason: the authorities did not want their trash or other papers read.
If you toss a penny 10,000 times it will not be heads 5000 times but more like 4950. The head picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said computers in the future may weigh no more than 5 tons.
Iron nails cannot be used in oak because the acid in the wood corrodes them.
Orchids are grown from seed so small that it would take thirty thousand to weigh as much as one grain of wheat
Robots in Japan pay union dues.
The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees.
The leaves of the Victorian water lily are sometimes over six feet in diameter.
The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes, the number of blue razor blades a given beam could puncture
The Venus's flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger.
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds up to 3,000 miles per hour.
In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia.
NERF, the popular foam children's toy company, doesn't actually stand for anything.
Ray Kroc bought McDonalds for $2.7 million in 1961 from the McDonald brothers.
The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
(Source: The New York Public Library Desk Reference, 3rd Edition)
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die.' These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
There is a Nike commercial that was shot in Kenya with Samburu tribesman speaking in their native language Maa. The slogan "Just Do It" appears when the tribesman is talking. In reality he was saying, "I don't want these. Give me big shoes."
There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of two hundred people.
--99% of people cannot lick their own elbow
--lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.
--when a nuclear bomb explodes, the exact center of the explosion is hotter than the core of the sun.
--The US has never lost a war. they have lost battles but never a war, and sorry but vietnam wasnt a war, it was a police action. (dont think im standin up for the US. i would rather live in europe)
--Waunakee in Wisconsin is the only Waunakee in the world
--26% of men sit down when they urinate. some say this is because of natural male laziness. hmm...
--although coke is commonly put down by dentists and oral health experts because of its acidity level, pepsi's acidity level is higher.
--Europe is the only continent without a desert.
--An adult grizzly bear can decapitate a moose with one swipe of its paw. When it charges it can cover 100 yards in six seconds - faster than a racehorse
--Chicha, an alcohol beverage which has been made for thousands of years in Central and South America, begins with people chewing grain and spitting into a vat. An enzyme in saliva changes starch in the grain to sugar, which then ferments
--Lynyrd Skynyrd was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form that band. He once told them, "You boys ain't never gonna amount to nothin"
--Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
--Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
--You can't sleep with chickens in Clawson City, Mich.
--Porcupines float in water.
--The size of an elephant's ears is necessary for cooling the elephant: not by acting as fans but because air moving over their huge surface area cools the blood circulating through the ears' extensive network of blood vessels.
--"I am." and "I do." are the shortest complete sentences in the English language.
--Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two helpless protesters to death.
--There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building
--Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
--American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
--More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
--A spraying skunk can hit a target up to 12 feet away.
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BACK TO THE FACTS
Mongkut of Siam - the king in The King and I - had 9,000 wives and concubines. Solomon, by contrast, had only 700.
So confident were some people that alcohol was the cause of virtually all crime that, on the eve of Prohibition, some towns actually sold their jails.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
Rattlesnakes can't hear the sound of their own rattles.
Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and Ham.
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
A group of frogs is called an army.
in Denver Colorado, it is unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor.
Bill McCoy was a bootlegger well known for selling quality imported goods: the "real McCoy."
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth, and well over a million earths could fit inside the sun.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms
More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world
Families who turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier.
Families who turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.
A real estate agent’s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.
A survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
Halle Berry’s stunt double, in the movie “Catwoman”, is a man.
Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes.
The world's first McSki opened in Sweden with Ski-Thru service - allowing skiers to ski up to the counter and order their McDonald's meal
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
A frog can't empty its stomach by vomitting. To empty its stomach contents, a frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
the longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
The Puritans forbade the singing of Christmas carols.
Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space.
Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.
Oak trees can live 200 or more years
Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.
Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.
Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
The Muppet Show was banned from Saudi Arabian TV becuase one if its stars was a pig.
It's estimated that more than 6 billion copies of the bible have been printed.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Rats can swim for half a mile without resting, and they can tread water for 3 days straight.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier
Only 68 of 200 Anglican priests polled could name all Ten Commandments, but half said they believed in space aliens.
The first elevator, called the Flying Chair, was erected in King Louis XV's private apartments in the Palace of Versailles in 1743. It gave him ready access to his mistress, Madame de Chateauroux, on the floor above. The Flying Chair was operated by weights.
The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows .
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse
Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.
Charles I wore two shirts to his execution because it was a cold day and he didn't want to shiver in case it should be mistaken for fear.
5,840 people with pillow related injuries checked into U.S. emergency rooms in 1992
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
The first bomb dropped by the Allies on berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
In Florida, Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.
There are no rental cars in Bermuda.
For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
14% of us eat the watermelon seeds
During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times
The modern game that dates back the furthest is thought is to be bowling, pictures of a similiar version were found carved into the walls of Egyptian pyramids
The average person loses two ballpoint pens a week
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run.
An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.
More than 50% of Americans fall asleep on their sides.
The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia
The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.
Phobatrivaphobia is fear of trivia about phobias.
U.S. terrorist experts admit America is less safe now than EVER before.
The average human brain weighs three pounds
The only McDonalds in the world with golden arches that are not yellow can be found on the Champs Elysees in Paris, because the city code would not allow for it. The arches there are white
Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
During World War II, “gray” steel cents were issued to conserve usage of copper.
It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire
a rat can fall from a five story building without injury
One in three male motorists picks their nose whilst driving
No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second
Vinegar heals skin redness
85% of us will eat Spam this year.
Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las Vegas.
In California, it's against the law to use your dirty underwear as a dust rag
The Mint issued two-cent and three-cent coins during the latter 1800s.
Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't .
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."
Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world
Prior to 1900, prize fights lasted up to 100 rounds
You can not melt an icecube using defrost in the microwave
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, which is like human jumping the length of about 7 football fields.
Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.
Every day, people around the world drink more than 300 million Cokes
In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad
when a person is cremated, their crematory remains arent ash, its actually their crushed bone.
An ounce of platinum can be stretched to 10000 feet
A polar bear's skin is black
Nike Air Soles do not actually have 'air' in them
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code
One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs
7,000 new insect species are discovered every year
7,000 new insect species are discovered every year
the USD isnt made of paper. its actually made of recycled jeans. thats righ, cotton.
During a University of Nebraska Cornhuskers home football game, the stadium becomes more populated than the state’s third largest city.
Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed
Lobster was so common in 18th-century Maine that it was used for fertilizer. In 19th-century Europe, oysters were the luxury food of the day, and lobster was considered a poor man's food, thus "poor mans lobster."
Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'
Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey
One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save
The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon
You are taller in the morning that you are at night, obviously because of gravity.
Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes
The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound
It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter
Your foot is the same length as the distance between your wrist and elbow
It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it's surface
The creator of the Waffle Iron did not actually like waffles
Over 98 percent of Japanese are cremated after they die
Pacific islanders believed that the world was a large coconut
No one knows who designed the first American Flag
Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land
Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second
The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
Polar bears are left handed
First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
Chocolate melts in your mouth because cocoa butter has a melting point of just below 35 degrees C, a little under body temperature
Babies start dreaming even before they're born
State sport of Maryland: Jousting.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.
The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.
More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun
Apples are more efficient than caffeine at waking you up in the morning
The almond is a member of the peach family
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
The active ingredient of the self-defense pepper spray is 'oleoresin capsicum', a direct derivative of cayenne pepper. Conact with any mucous membrane (including your nose, eyes and lungs) will cause immediate (but temporary) blindness and labored breathing
It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska.
In his or her lifetime, the average meat-eater consumes the equivalent of 760 chickens, 20 pigs, 29 sheep, five cows and half a trawler-load of fish
Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse were originally slated to be Judy Garland's co-stars in the film Easter Parade. But both injured themselves before shooting began (Kelly broke his leg in a sports accident.) So Fred Astaire and Ann Miller stepped in, even though Astaire had been retired for two years and Miller had to take painkillers to overcome severe back pain.
The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers.
An alligator can supposedly wolf down an eight pound chicken in one gulp
Paramount added quotation marks to the US release title of "Crocodile" Dundee in case American audiences thought the film was about a crocodile called Dundee
Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.
Most dust particles in your house are made of dead skin
Everytime you drink from the tap, take a shower etc, the water is actually recycled urine.
The eaarth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour
The now famous yellow smiley face symbol was first used to advertise the film Lili in the New York Herald Tribune on 10 March 1953. The copy read: "Today you'll laugh. [smiley face] You'll cry [sad face] You'll love [heart shaped face] Lili
By law, in Bourbon, Miss., one small onion must be served with each glass of water in a restaurant.
A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee
Hot water is heavier than cold
Around 25,000 Iraqi men called Saddam Hussein have changed their names since the dictator's fall.
Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for human consumption.
Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight
In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed
Ketchup is excellent for cleaning brass, especially tarnished and corroded brass
The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.
In the film Black Sunday, Bruce Dern plays a war veteran involved in a plot to kill 80,000 people at the Miami Super Bowl. Nobody seemed to mind that, but when Dern killed John Wayne's character in the western The Cowboys, the actor received death threats
The World Trade Center towers use to had two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
On average cows take a poop 16 times per day
Lost in translation: When Not Another Teen Movie was released in Russia it was called Not A Children's Movie, and in Spain it was dubbed Not Another Dumb American Movie
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball
The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit.
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
The average person eats 8 spiders every year
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning!
According to our experts, there was no punctuation until the 15th century.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day
A "sitzmark" is the depression made in the snow by a skier who has fallen backward
Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.
Napoleon had conquered Italy by the time he was twenty-six.
On average, Elizabeth Taylor remarries every 4 years, 5 months.
Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993. LOL
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
The most dangerous job in the United States is that of an Alaskan Crab Fisherman.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
A female mackerel lays 500,000 eggs at a time.
Ducks will only lay eggs early in the morning.
Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
A parrot has the intelligence of a 5 year old child and without attention, it can literally go mad.
Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.
Snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue canyon, California.
The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items.
Got gas? 40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.
The search engine Google got its name from the word ‘googol’, which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
Crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which the egg develops determines gender.
If you’re over 100 years old, there’s an 80% chance you’re a woman.
In West Virginia if you run over an animal, you can legally take it home and cook it for dinner!
There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
By the time you reach 12th grade, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours.
A snail can sleep for three years.
The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
Surveys say: nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.
Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
It’s a common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sister’s daughter.
By population, the five largest cities in the world are: Tokyo (28m), Sao Paulo (22.6m), Bombay (18.1m), Shanghai (17.4m), New York (16.6m).
The first CD released was Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA on June 4 1984.
Mohammed is the most common first name in the world.
Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing.
The dot over the 'i' is called the 'tittle'.
A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.
There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.)
Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.
The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream.
In Michigan, a woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.
In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.
Cats have no ability to taste sweet things.
When intoxicated, an ant will always fall on its right side.
Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris.
An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifz.
A small airplane can fly backwards.
Even Antarctica has an area code. It’s 672.
People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
In 1956, 80% of all U.S. households had a refrigerator, but only 8% of British households had one!
The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.
6% of men propose over the telephone!
There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
The G in 'g-string' stand for groin.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
The best recorded distance for projectile vomiting is 27 feet.
In 39 of the 50 U.S. states, the travel industry is the largest single employer.
New Zealand is the first country to allow women to vote.
There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese!
Pontius Pilate was born in Scotland.
Half of all Americans over the age of 55 have no teeth.
'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.
Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.
You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
Your brain is 80% water.
The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting drinks machines towards them in the hope of a free can of soda.
In Idaho, You may not fish on a camel's back.
Three consective strikes in bowling is called a turkey.
In 1845 Boston had an ordinance banning bathing unless you had a doctor's prescription.
According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.
If a Lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one.
More than 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores.
President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
The word “Mrs.” Cannot be written in full.
Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older!
45.2% of people pee in the shower.
The Japanese Ice Cream Association once promoted “raw horse flesh” ice cream in hopes that it would boost the popularity of ice cream!
The top 3 products for coupon redemption are cold cereal, soap, and deodorant.
The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer.
The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with vaseline.
Lime Jell-o gives off the same brain waves as adult males.
In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.
Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.
Medical studies show that intelligent people have more copper and zinc in their hair.
In Tibet it is considered good manners to stick out your tongue at someone.
Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.
Switzerland has the highest per-capita consumption of soft drinks in the world.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
At age 70, an impressive 73 percent of men are still potent.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not only sweat by salivating. They also sweat through the poors on their feet.
Most toilets flush in E flat.
The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
"little people" almost always have normal sized children.
The average American makes six trips to the bathroom every day-that's about 2 1/2 years of your life.
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly.
Only male fireflies can fly.
It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
Coca-cola was originally green.
An adult giraffe's tongue is 17 inches long.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
There are 1,860 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.
Other than humans, pigs are the only animals that can get sunburn.
Horse racing is one of the most dangerous sports. Between 2 and 3 jockeys are killed each year. That's about how many baseball players have died in baseball's entire professional history.
Do you talk to your car? According to polls, more women do than men.
The most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla.
The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.
King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
In 1992, 55,142 people were injured by jewelry.
Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
Tibetans drink tea made of salt and rancid yak butter.
Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.
In Oblong, Illinois, it's punishable by law to make love while hunting or fishing on your wedding day.
A dog can understand between 35 to 40 commands.
The penis of a barnacle may reach up to 20 times its body size!
Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.
It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.
Jacksonville, Florida, has the largest total area of any city in the United States.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Mammal rule of thumb: in just about every species, the female lives longer than the male.
The fastest moving muscle in the human body is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.
Your eye cant feel pain. Whenever something gets in your eye, its actually your eyelid feeling the pain.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The U.S. eastern seaboard consumes almost 50% of all ice cream sandwiches.
Hitler had only one testicle.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe
The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.
With two forks and a charge, a pickle will emit light.
The Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an adult elephant!
The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
Cleopatra married two of her brothers
Goodyear Rubber Company researched and concluded that shoes wear out faster on the right foot than the left.
The state of Florida is bigger than England.
22% of us skip lunch daily.
The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys!
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
The actual playing time in a Major League Baseball game which lasts about two and a half hours has been clocked at 9 minutes and 55 seconds.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.
The mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of abusing is named 'Janet Jackson'.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
No matter how cold it gets, gasoline won't freeze. Below -180 degrees F, it just turns gummy.
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
Reno, Nevada is actually west of Los Angeles, California.
hrmmm interesting... |
Explain.
Oh, and that South America thing, as well. |
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| D-res |
just cause i ran out of room....
*cough again*
More boys than girls are born during the day; more girls are born at night.
In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses
Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
A gold fish's memory span is three seconds.
Household bleach is the recommended chemical to decontaminate people exposed to the anthrax virus, by the U.S. F.D.A. .
The biggest cause of matrimonial fighting is money.
To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles…that’s where the word “testimony” comes from.
In Japan, it is completely acceptable to name your child “Buttocks” or “Prostitute”!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
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i know.. i have more but, i'll be generous and keep the reading time under 4 hours :toothless |
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| varun |
| quote: | Originally posted by ierxium
So if you're driving at about 100 MPH and you suddenly sneeze, does it mean you sneeze as fast as 200 MPH? :conf: :D |
You passed physics dincha?:D |
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| D-res |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
Explain.
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look closely |
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| Trance Nutter |
| quote: | Originally posted by D-res
Coober Pedy (New South Wales, Australia) a mining town in Australia where 80% of the world's opals come from (hey a useless fact in itself) translates to "White fella down a hole". It's an aboriginal name.
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Your facts suck.
Coober Pedy is actually in South Australia, NOT NSW!!!!!
Something like 85% of the there dwellings are also underground. This is becasue it gets so hot, the only way to live comfortably is to be underground.
The ONLY place in town with grass is the hotel (or at least it was the last time I was there)
The name - I'm almost positive thats true. |
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