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A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen
in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who
discovered this??)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in
the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot
sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a
piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman
to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from public libraries.
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb"
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Men can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
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 first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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
That's just my :twocents: worth for now. . . . ;)
Peace. . . . :thumbsup:
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1. The US interstate highway system requires that one mile in every five be straight. These straight sections function as airstrips in times of war and other emergencies.
2. The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
3. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs have only about ten.
4. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
5. In every episode of Seinfeld, there is a superman somewhere.
6. February 1965 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
7. The cruise liner, Queen Elisabeth II, moves only six inches for every gallon of diesel fuel that it burns.
8. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book published in every major Dewey Decimal category.
9. Columbia University is the second largest land owner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
10. Cat urine glows under a black light.
11. Back in the mid-80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
12. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
13. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
14. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child is 2-6 years of age.
15. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
16. If you have three quarters, four dimes and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
17. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
18. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually that all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
19. No NFL team which plays its home games in a dome has ever won a Superbowl.
20. The first toilet ever seen on TV was on "Leave it to Beaver".
21. In the Great Fire of London in 1666, half of the city was burned down but only 6 people were injured.
22. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw them as competitors.
23. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years old.
24. The name Wendy was made up for the book -"Peter Pan".
25. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
26. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. The frog then uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
27. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
28. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar, in "Midnight Cowboy". Her entire role lasted only 6 minutes.
29. Charles Lindburgh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
30. Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
31. Stewardesses is the longest word that is formally typed with only the left hand.
32. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always the same sex.
33. To escape the jaws of a crocodile, push your thumbs into its eyes - it will release you instantly.
34. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will come up heads approximately 4950 times because the heads picture weighs more than the tails side, so it ends up on the bottom more often.
35. Hydroxydeoxycorticosterones is the longest anagram in the English language.
36. Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Pornciuncula.
37. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
38. Al Capone's business card said he was a furniture dealer.
39. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
40. Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubbles' maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
41. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
42. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
43. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great Pharoh Ramses II, who fathered over 160 children.
44. If NASA send birds into space, they would soon die because birds need gravity to swallow.
45. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
46. The computer term "byte" is a contraction of "by eight".
47. The average ear of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows.
48. The famous split-fingered Vulcan salute is actually intended to represent the first letter ("shin", pronounced "sheen") of the word "shalom". As a boy, Leonard Nimoy observed his rabbi using it in a benediction and never forgot it; he was eventually able to add it to Star Trek lore.
49. The idea that "the Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people, who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today, and attack passing ships.
50. Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und"
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Quote:
Originally Posted by notech
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and
down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen
in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
(That explains a few mysteries....)
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per
side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will
instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who
discovered this??)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down
so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in
the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot
sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a
piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin
look-alike contest.
An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman
to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book
most often stolen from public libraries.
The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
In the 1400's a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb"
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Men can read smaller print then women can; women can hear better.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
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 first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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
That's just my :twocents: worth for now. . . . ;)
Peace. . . . :thumbsup:
I actually read all of them.
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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, which 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 your pints and quarts, and settle down."
It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
Peace. . . . :thumbsup:
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- Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
- The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
- When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
- The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
- No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
- Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
- If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!
- A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
- It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
- One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
- A 27 year old heir to a sausage empire was handed a ticket for 116,000 pounds for driving at 80 km/hr in a 40 km/hr zone. This is because the speeding tickets in Finland are based on how much money a person makes.
- A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted.
- In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.
- In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour than butter.
- In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.
- 27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras.
- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star. <----- (WHAT!?? I dunno....)
- 96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
- 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.
- In Australia, a dust-devil is called a "willy-willy."
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wow.. thats cool.
i feel educated :)
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100% of the worlds population actually smoke weed and they are all stoners and people who claim they dont are infact liars!
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Originally Posted by cannabis campbell
100% of the worlds population actually smoke weed and they are all stoners and people who claim they dont are infact liars!
Your supposed to post STRANGE facts, everyone knows that ^ already.
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Originally Posted by Billionfold
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Actually, Heere is one : Edison DIDN'T first invent the lightbulb, It was Sir Humphry Davy in 180-something, 1802 I think but ain't sure) Well, It was differant to a lightbulb.
BUT the bulb that edison "invented" was invented by some geordie 10 months before (someone from Newcastle, UK), All I remember is his surname was Swan.
Anyway, thats just boring :P
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I'll try not to repeat any that have already been said...
A crocodile cannot stick it's tongue out
Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell
Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
Polar bear's fur is not actually white, but clear
The only land animal other than humans that cries is the elephant
We are about 1/4 inch taller when sleeping at night than in the day
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I tried to lick my elbow and now my arm hurts. I hate this thread.
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how do we know all this stuf is really true?
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Originally Posted by MistaPoleeseMan
I tried to lick my elbow and now my arm hurts. I hate this thread.
You get a thumbs up for trying though! :thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by budsmoker
how do we know all this stuf is really true?
[align=center]Go to http://justfuckinggoogleit.com[/align]
I'm sure you'll find plenty of proof there. . . . ;)
Peace. . . . . :thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by notech
fuck u jk lol
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Mayo was never meant to be produced as a food spread but rather a lube
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Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale
Mrs. Caroline Squires of Cincinnati filed for a divorce from her husband in 1949 on grounds of desertion. She testified he'd stepped out "for a beer" on the Fourth of July, 1917, and had never come back.
The French national anthem, "La Marseillaise," derived its title from the enthusiasm of the men of Marseilles, France, who sang it when they marched into Paris at the outset of the French Revolution. Rouget de l'Isle, its composer, was an artillery officer. According to his account, he fell asleep at a harpsichord and dreamt the words and the music. Upon waking, he remembered the entire piece from his dream and immediately wrote it down.
A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 really set down some hard rules of the road. Drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
The formula for cold cream has hardly changed at all in the 1,700 years since it was originally made by the Roman physician Galen.
George Lumley, aged 104, married Mary Dunning, aged 10, in Nortallerton, England on August 25, 1783. She was the great-great granddaughter of the woman who'd broken her engagement to Lumley, eighty years before.
Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tiajuana, Mexico on July 4, 1924 by Caesar Cardini (born Cesare) (1896-1956), an Italian hotel owner, restaurateur and chef.
Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
When the French Academy was preparing its first dictionary, it defined "crab" as, "A small red fish which walks backwards." This definition was sent with a number of others to the naturalist Cuvier for his approval. The scientist wrote back, "Your definition, gentlemen, would be perfect, only for three exceptions. The crab is not a fish, it is not red and it does not walk backwards."
In 1500 B.C. in Egypt a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine beauty. Egyptian women removed every hair from their heads with special gold tweezers and polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.
In ancient China and certain parts of India, mouse meat was considered a great delicacy.
In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
Blue whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as 3 Greyhound buses.
A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if a strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.
According to acupuncturists, there is a point on the head that you can press to control your appetite. It is located in the hollow just in front of the flap of the ear. (Try it!)
In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50-pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
There is approximately one chicken for every human being in the world.
The first automobile race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 7½ miles per hour.
At any given time, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress over the earth's atmosphere.
Lightning strikes the earth 100 times every second.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.
In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.
Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.
Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.
Peace. . . . :thumbsup:
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purple and circle! .. does that count?
lost of interesting facts..
bats turn left? hmm well ill be watching out for that next time on batman. :)
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Ok this is just plain weird. The chemical name for LSD (acid) is Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. In (two of many) anagram forms it becomes: giddy chemicalised reality
and: giddy chemical reality dies
I was playing around with anagram generators and this was the first thing I checked :P ! Did anyone else know this?? :P (first post woot :P) :D I thought it was strange enough.
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Approximately 33.33% of the posters in this thread are currently banned.
LOL great thread, haven't read all of these yet though, there are so many!
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I think this thread is sweet!
tripped me right out...:wtf:
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i can, in fact, lick my elbow
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The next time I run into some quicksand ill keep that in mind. I tried to read them all but my eyes told me -no we cant- so I didnt sorry.
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Originally Posted by Staurm
Approximately 33.33% of the posters in this thread are currently banned.
That's because no on likes a know-it-all --- even a know-it-all who specializes in amusing factoids.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FeastonThisSHITT
- In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.
I'm sorry ma'am, but we need to verify what you have up there.
