FACTS?

[jacquelyne]

in japan they eat whale cum
The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
the cassowary is australias deadliest animal
a kangaroo is a macropod = big footed and largest marsupial in the world
Australia is the largest exporter of coal, wool, aluminium, diamonds, sheep, lead zinc and sand.
people here with hiv/aids is 0.01%
100% of our population can read and write at 15
we have 6 states and 2 territories
legal age here to drink grog etc or go pub is 18 yrs
Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of illicit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation
Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.
If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.
The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.
Astronauts cannot burp - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.
The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.
The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

jacquelyne Reviewed by jacquelyne on 08-31-2005. 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

[Az.]

i just read all the facts here and some of them are pretty hard to believe....lol

here are 5 quick ones for you

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

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

The # symbols is often referred to as a "number sign" or "pound sign." Its actual name is an octothorpe

[Az.]

NO WAR HAS BEEN FOUGHT WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES HAD A McDonalds

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

[rastabill89]

snoop dogg quit smoking weed for like a week

[ilikerabbits]

bobert42 only has one ball.

[Melton420]

yea all the time