Interesting Facts
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- snocat
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A ducks quack doesnt echo and nobody knows why .
In 10 minutes a hurricane releases more energy than all of the worlds nuclear weapons combined.
On average , 100 people choke to death on ball point pens every year.
On average more people fear spiders than they do death.
Ninety percent of new york cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Its possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible to lick your elbow.
The main library at the 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.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the english language rhymes with "MONTH" or "ORANGE".
Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient egypt priests plucked EVERY hair from their body , including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only from one row of the keyboard.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentance in the english language.
If barbie were lifesize , her measurements would be 39-23-33 and she would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tounge out.
The ciggarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Almost everyone who read this from start to end has tried to lick their elbow.
Got this from some other forum.
- dopepope0
Godzilla is a boy.
- unknown0
Man are you right about that elbow.
- snocat0
Here's more fun fact:
A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second.
A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists.
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.
A Hungarian named Ladislo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938.
Back in 1920, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.
By weight, the sun is 70% hydrogen, 28% helium, 1.5% carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and 0.5% all other elements.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
- Bio0
the active ingredient in asprin comes from the bark of the willow tree. native americans chewed it to relieve pain.
- snocat0
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall, at 979 meters. This waterfall is sixteen times the height of Niagara Falls.
now that is fucking huge
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village."
Every 238 years, the orbits of Neptune and Pluto change making Neptune at times the farthest planet from the sun.
Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes, 1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale.
Finland has 187,888 lakes and 179,584 islands
now, that is cool
Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
The Arctic Ocean covers an area of about 14,056,000 sq miles.
The longest U.S. highway is Route 20, which is over 3,365 miles.
The state of Tennessee was known as Franklin before 1796.
A rape is reported every six minutes in the United States.
In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath.
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
India is the world's largest democracy.
More than half the time spent in United States courts is cases that involve automobiles.
The triangular shape that Toblerone chocolates are packaged in, is protected by law.
A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
yeah, i've noticed that.
Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue.
Constipation is caused when too much water is absorbed in the large intestine and the feces become dry.
Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
Eating dandelions can make you urinate more.
Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 metres per second.
In a lifetime, an average driver will release approximately 912 pints of wind inside a car.
Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw.
Soaking beans for twelve hours in water before they are cooked can reduce flatulence caused by beans.
- Gorbie0
There are more insects per square mile, than humans on earth.
- malediction0
i tried to lick ye ol elbow before i went to the bottom, sad.
- Bio0
dandelions were called pee-in-the-bed by early american settlers because as you mentioned, it is a diuretic. but did you know that the leaves are good in salads, the flowers make exellent wine, the roots can be roasted and used instead of coffee?
good stuff.
- Bio0
cherry and peachpits contain cyanide, but not enough to harm anyone. peach and cherry leaves when wilted have enough cyanide in them to cause sickness in someone who eats them in large quantities. also, the chemical can be extracted in amounts enough to kill.
=)
- Gorbie0
Really?
Do the roots have caffeine?
- Bio0
people once used belladonna (what some folks call nightshade or wolfsbane) to poison women in order to abort their babies.
- Bio0
haha, i dont think they have caffeine. but it is decent tasting stuff. different yet still quite pleasant. it tastes more like tea than coffee though.
- kenchie0
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew. Aparently.
- Bluejam0
Marijuana is a plant.
Not a drug.
- dopepope0
I bet our own elbow tastes delicious...we'll just never know.
- Bio0
in what we think of as "the old west days", the US government formed a small militia to eliminate opium dens.
once the opium dens had been shut down, in order to keep the men working, the government made a law making marijuana illegal, thus giving the militia men work.
not sure of the details anymore, i read that in a law journal years ago. interesting stuff for sure.
- Bio0
auto-erotic asphyxiation causes ejaculation in hanging victims. it was said that when the semen fell to the ground, it sprang up into a plant. what is called mandrake (or MayApple if you are from the southeast US)
it was said to be bad luck to uproot one because they cry out when uprooted. to hear the scream meant you would die. when in truth people died because the roots are quite poisonous and were used by native americans to commit suicide.
only the fruit is edible, but only when ripe. the unripened fruit will make you quite ill.
im trying to drag up my old plantlore. heheh.
- dopepope0
Bacon is good.
Pork chops are good.
- Bio0
dopepope, i bet your elbow is deliscious... c'mere. lets see, some onions, potatoes... salt... oh yea. this will be good.
- Bio0
hickory limbs when boiled give off a sooty looking substance that has high levels of sodium.
settlers used to use it in place of salt.