FACTS?

[mellow mood]

i tought 10% of world pop was gay

thats what i always heard in any case

mellow mood Reviewed by mellow mood on 08-30-2005. FACTS? anyone got some interesting facts to tell anyone about? i have a few.....some may of knew them already but still, i find them quite cool........ bob marleys father was a white liverpudlian. the longest word in the english language is an average of 1066 letters long....referring to a distant part of the DNA. If a fly/moth/wasp etc, landed on a perfect spot, perfectly on the top of your head, you would die. more people die per year from a allergy from strawberries then being killed by Rating: 5

[ermitonto]

One sixth to one quarter of all people sneeze when exposed to very bright lights, something known as the photic sneeze reflex. Such people are prohibited from flying combat aircraft because it is considered a risk.

- The word "Mrs." can't be written in full.

Actually, it's short for "Mistress", but people have slurred the pronunciation over time.

[BobBong]

One sixth to one quarter of all people sneeze when exposed to very bright lights, something known as the photic sneeze reflex. Such people are prohibited from flying combat aircraft because it is considered a risk.


Actually, it's short for "Mistress", but people have slurred the pronunciation over time.

Mrs. Audio pronunciation of "Mrs." ( P ) Pronunciation Key (msz)
n. pl. Mmes. (m-däm, -dm)

1. Used as a courtesy title for a married or widowed woman before the surname or full name of her husband: Mrs. Doe; Mrs. John Doe.
2. Used as a courtesy title for a married, widowed, or divorced woman before her own surname or full name: Mrs. Doe; Mrs. Jane Doe. See Usage Note at Ms.
3. Used in informal titles for a married woman to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity: Mrs. Wonderful; Mrs. Organization.

Where is your proof of this "Mistress" theory :P

P.S. yes it's a copy/paste from dictionary.com, but i make my point.

[ermitonto]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs.

Think about it. Mister + ess = mistress, like actor + ess = actress, poet + ess = poetess, prince + ess = princess, etc.

[BobBong]

well i'll be a poopey joint, :P ya learn somethin new all the time. Looks like Mistress is the root word for pretty much all of those abbreviations

[NightProwler]

One sixth to one quarter of all people sneeze when exposed to very bright lights, something known as the photic sneeze reflex. Such people are prohibited from flying combat aircraft because it is considered a risk.

I've got that

[Funkamander]

Men think about sex every 7 seconds. Really? Even at a funeral? Even in a firefight?

I don't even have to say anything about the bug on your head "fact". That's just fucking retarded.


Oh, I heard one too! If you eat Pop Rocks and Pepsi, you blow up and kill anyone within 30 miles.

[GHoSToKeR]

"just like the sky, it is blue because of the colour of the sea."

Uhhh... dude? The sea is blue because of the colour of the sky. Here's why the sky is blue, apparantly.

"Eskimos keep their food in the dfridge to stop it from freezing."

Haha that's awesome!

Anyway....

Wiltshire, UK, had to replace 150 lamp-posts, at a cost of about $170,000, because of corrosion caused by dogs urinating on them.

During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.

A leech has 32 brains.

Each day, anywhere from 35-150 species of life go extinct.

A language becomes extinct in this world every two weeks.

Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript

An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham.

Bernd Eilts, a German artist, turns dried cow manure into wall clocks and small sculptures. He is now expanding his business to include cow dung wrist watches.

In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art.

Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water.

Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

Despite being over 27 times smaller, Norway's total coastline is longer than the USA's.

Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate.

[NightProwler]

Men think about sex every 7 seconds. Really? Even at a funeral? Even in a firefight?

yes. actually about every 4 seconds

[Canadabis]

1- The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors on his hobnailed boots; lying with his eyes as his hands are busy working over time; creating a soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the national trust.
Actual Beatles lyrics, from Happiness is a warm gun, off of Revolver I think.