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WeekendLazyness
11-24-2004, 8:25 PM
...So I can use them on my website.
http://wl.gotdns.org
Please keep them somewhat appropriate.
Xenon
11-24-2004, 11:24 PM
Your heart stops and re-starts every time you sneeze.
Dark_Viper
11-24-2004, 11:46 PM
Giraffes can't cough.
Snakes don’t bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.
Sharks never stop moving, even when they sleep or rest.
A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
There are 40,000 muscles and tendons in an elephant's trunk.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
The ostrich egg yolk is the biggest single cell in the world.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
During WWII, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs. (Stupid Americans.... no offence)
Most varieties of snake can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn. (I don't know how that can be... Rhinos are huge and bulky... while Unicorns are Sleek and Beautifull)
Xenon
11-24-2004, 11:56 PM
A rat's stomach will explode if you feed it coke because rats can't burp.
Slugs will get drunk if you leave out some beer for them in the garden.
A nail will dissolve in a glass of coke in less than 48 hours.
If you think being vegan is tough, try being Jain. They can't eat any root vegetable in case they kill a small insect or animal while pulling it out of the ground. They also wear face masks to filter the air of any bugs they might accidentally ingest while breathing. Finally, they make their heads bald at least once in their lives by pulling out their hair in clumps. --Very painfully I might add.
TheGreatBrain
11-25-2004, 12:07 AM
If you farted consistently for six years and nine months, you will have produced enough methane gas to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
A pig's orgasm lasts thirty minutes.
An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
GrassDragon
11-25-2004, 12:22 AM
Women can't put on mascara and keep their mouth closed at the same time.
A pig's orgasm lasts thirty minutes.
Woah...
mcflurry_1982
11-25-2004, 12:48 AM
if you cut a starfish in half, the halves will grow and become 2 whole starfish
it takes 4 nights of sleep to make up for 1 night of bad sleep or no sleep
Seraph_Knight
11-25-2004, 1:06 AM
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Ragnarox
11-25-2004, 3:43 AM
Gravity works all the time.
You need a pressure suit to survive in space.
Guns don't kill people bullets kill people.
Smoking is bad for you.
Illegal Drugs are illegal.
Grom_Icecream
11-25-2004, 4:37 AM
Feed a seagull panadol (or any headache pills) and their stomachs explode.
The ocean would be 2 meters higher worldwide if sponges didn't live in it.
Cheamilion
11-25-2004, 4:43 AM
In order for a frog to puke, it had to puke out its stomachs and use it front legs to clean it off, the swallows it stomach back.
And seraph, i think your wrong about Columbus. i think he was trying to go to Japan or China. But basicly same thing.
TranquilNightElf
11-25-2004, 8:47 AM
Nope.. He was trying to find a new route to India. That is why he named the islands that he found as the West "Indies"
Seraph_Knight
11-25-2004, 10:43 AM
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mcflurry_1982
11-25-2004, 10:46 AM
If you were sucked out into space, without a space suit, you would suffocate before you would freeze.
AC/DC was 1 of 12 bands black listed by the Soviet Union for being "ideologically dangerous."
More Americans died in the civil war than in any war since.
Although England was the first to impliment day light savings during the industrial revolution, the idea came from Thomas Jefferson
TranquilNightElf
11-25-2004, 11:30 AM
Seraph, I was directing that towards Cheamilion not you
Fact: When you sneeze, the air can often reach speeds of 150Kmph
Gravity works all the time.
You need a pressure suit to survive in space.
Guns don't kill people bullets kill people.
Smoking is bad for you.
Illegal Drugs are illegal.
Wow. These are horrible jokes. Stop posting this BS. My God, every thread needs to turn into spam, eh?
A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
In Massachusetts, It is illegal to go to bed without first having a full bath.
It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska.
WeekendLazyness
11-25-2004, 3:28 PM
Thank you all for your facts. Now I won't use them all (as I know some are wrong), but I'll use as many as possible.
Seraph_Knight
11-25-2004, 6:21 PM
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WeekendLazyness
11-25-2004, 6:52 PM
You're right about the daylight savings thing, Seraph_Knight. That was one of the facts that I noticed was wrong.
A cow can attack you in the same way a goat can.
mcflurry_1982
11-25-2004, 7:57 PM
According to the movie "national treasure" with Nicholas Cage, the idea came from Benjamen Franklin If i remember the movie correctly.
you're right. i get Ben Franklin and Tom Jefferson mixed up a lot for some stupid reason
Markpyro
11-25-2004, 10:25 PM
An Elephant is the only mammal that cant jump
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.
More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
Slugs have 4 noses.
Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
The average person laughs 10 times a day!
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
>> The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
>> Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
>> The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
>> Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
>> It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
>> The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
>> Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
>> Children grow faster in the springtime.
>> It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.
>> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
>> Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.
>> There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
>> If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
>> The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.
>> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
>> In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
>> An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
>> The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails.
>> The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
>> The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
>> Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
>> Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
>> Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
>> Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.
>> After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.
>> Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
>> The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).
>> A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.
>> The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).
>> 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.
>> The pancreas produces Insulin.
>> The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.
>> The human body is comprised of 80% water.
>> The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.
>> Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
>> The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
>> You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.
>> Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
>> Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
>> There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.
>> The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.
>> Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.
>> During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
>> Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
>> Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.
>> While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85.
>> The actor who played Wedge in the original Star Wars trilogy has a famous nephew: actor Ewan McGregor, who plays the young Obi-Wan in the new Star Wars film.
>> Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
>> Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the first three Star Wars movies, was a hospital porter in London before starring as the Wookie.
>> Sheryl Crow's front two teeth are fake - she had them knocked out when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career.
>> Hitler was claustrophobic. The large elevator leading to his eagles nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.
>> Jim Morrison, of the 60's rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.
>> Hans Christian Andersen, creator of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had the spelling errors corrected.
>> Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.
>> Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear. His "Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear'' shows the right one bandaged because he painted the mirror image.
>> Peter Falk, who played "Columbo," has a glass eye.
>> The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from September 12-20, 1992.
>> Besides Star Trek, William Shatner, Leonard Nemoy, James Doohan, and Geoge Takei have all appeared at one time or another on "The Twilight Zone."
>> Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."
>> The original captain of Star Trek's starship "Enterprise" was Jeffrey Hunter - not William Shatner - as Christopher Pike, in the pilot episode "The cage" (1964). The cast was quite different from that of the classic series except for Leonard Nimoy as Spock.
>> The mother of Michael Nesmith of "The Monkees" invented whiteout.
>> Screech, from "Saved by the Bell," was the only one of the characters who played in all the episodes from the junior high, with Mrs. Bliss, to "Saved by the Bell: The New Class."
>> Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser.
>> Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
>> Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
>> Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
>> If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet (2 m) 2 inches (5 cm) tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
>> The world's longest name officially used by a person is "Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior" which is composed of 28 words or 192 letters.
>> Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
>> Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
>> Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
>> The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4 feet 9 inches.
>> Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.
>> Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
>> One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death by a raging elephant on set.
>> Elizabeth 1st suffered from anthophobia (a fear of roses).
>> Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
>> All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.
>> President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.
>> All U.S Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
>> "Moon" was Buzz Aldrin's (second man on the moon) mother's maiden name.
>> Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
>> Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.
>> Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
>> Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
>> Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
>> Gary Burgoff (Radar on MASH) always kept his left hand out of the view of the camera, either in his pocket or under a clipboard, because his left had is deformed.
>> Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aaron - in honor of his brother.
>> Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words none of them with the letter "E."
>> The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.
>> Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.
>> Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the "sandwich". He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.
>> The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
>> Cher's last name was "Sarkissian." She changed it because no one could pronounce it.
>> Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize winning scientist whom discovered radium, died on 4th July 1934 of radiation poisoning.
>> Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.
>> Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch.
>> Scientist John Harvey owns Einstein's brain. Harvey was a pathologist at a small hospital in Princeton, NJ, when Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76. Harvey performed the autopsy, determined Einstein died of natural causes, and took the brain home with him.
>> Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal graviton.
>> Hannibal had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.
>> Mark Twain, real name Samuel Clemens, worked on a riverboat when he was a teenager. The call "Mark twain!" meant that the water was deep enough to proceed safely.
WeekendLazyness
11-25-2004, 11:08 PM
I was actually looking for stuff people already knew, not just copied from a couple of websites. Thanks anyways Markpyro.
Xenon
11-25-2004, 11:57 PM
Iggnore. ^^
Xx_bender_xX
11-28-2004, 8:34 AM
If you lay all of the veins and arteries in an average persons body out in a straight line, it would circle the equator 3 times.
You can make a mouse fart by holding it upside down by the tail and tapping its stomach with a stick or other object (no joke)
The average person loses one forth of his belonging within the first month he recieves them.
The majority of computer owners in the US dont know what a .exe file is
Sea Cucumbers vomit there internal organs out to escape an enemy
There are three mammals that can lay eggs, two of them being the platipus and the echiddna
It takes two seconds for light from earth to get to the moon
alot of people on blizzard games have no idea what there doing :p
bluemicrobyte posts an average of 4.7 spam posts a day :P
The roman empire fell by lead poisoning from there pipe systems.
the average person will somehow kill one person in there lifetime
Crocodiles have two sets of eyelids, one is clear for seeing underwater
The song " Ring Around the Rosies" actualy refers to the bubonic plague
Bill gates did not invent the internet!! (im pretty sure you know this, but all my friends think that he did) The internet was actualy invented by Swedish
scientists.
George Bush can not pronounce the word "nuclear" corectly
Final Fantasy 7 voted best final fantasy game ever. Final Fantasy 10 was close second.
The Hawaiian Islands have there own Time zone.
Most people dont know that blood is not red, but that its clear.
Short people live longer than tall people.
Columbus and his crew were not the first europeans to discover america. It was actualy the vikings.
None of these are are from a web site. Its all stuff that i know.
Dark_Warhawk
11-28-2004, 9:54 AM
The U.S produces 19% of the world's trash. The annual contribution includes 20 billion disposable diapers, 2 billion razors and 1.7 billion pens.
Sanitarium_73
11-28-2004, 11:30 AM
Here goes...
Every day, around 2500 banks are robbed. The average heist is $2000.
Acient Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house with the left foot first.
More money is printed every day for the Monopoly board game than by the U.S. Treasury.
A group of cats is called a cluster.
A stack of one dollar bills a mile high would be worth over 14 million.
over 25% of the world's forests are in Siberia.
Peanuts are one of the ingrediants used to manufacture dynamite.
A group of boars is called a sounder.
The right lung takes in more air than the left.
The song 'Jingle Bells' was actually written for Thanksgiving.
A group of turkeys is called a rafter.
Swans can live over 70 years.
Pumice os the only rock that floats.
A blink lasts three tenths of a second.
That's all I can think of for now...
Jim
Traken
11-28-2004, 1:04 PM
The longest word you can type with the top row of letters on a keyboard is "typewriter"
The longest word you can type with just your left hand is "stewardesses"
Over a long period of time, glass will run. If you go to some of the old churches in Europe and look at the stained glass windows, they will be noticably thicker at the base.
WeekendLazyness
11-28-2004, 1:49 PM
Bill gates did not invent the internet!! (im pretty sure you know this, but all my friends think that he did) The internet was actualy invented by Swedish scientists.Out of the many "facts" I know are wrong, this annoys me the most. The internet was developed in the United States, mostly by ARPA. Thus, the earliest incarnation of the internet was called ARPAnet. This network grew with the help of many American scientists (notably Vint Cerf, who invented the TCP/IP protocol). What you refer to as being invented by Swedish scientists is the World Wide Web, which was invented at CERN in France by Tim Berners-Lee (who is English, not Swedish).
BTW: This is the first webpage ever created. Originally located at http://info.cern.ch, it has been archived.
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Spartan-II
11-28-2004, 10:12 PM
And blood is blue before it hits the air.. not clear..
WeekendLazyness
11-29-2004, 12:41 AM
It's not blue, it's dark red. It turns bright red when it comes in contact with oxygen.
singo
11-29-2004, 10:05 AM
>>You cannot lick your own elbow
>>After reading the above 70% of people will try
Spartan-II
11-29-2004, 11:16 PM
Shut up singo -_-
Battlecruiser
11-29-2004, 11:23 PM
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
Is that really true? I never knew that one before.
Is that really true? I never knew that one before.
it is true.
a man who disliked killing harmless creatures had 6 million jews murdered....the irony
(the bit about the testicle is also true)
Shut up singo -_-and they were true as well
gothkitten667
12-01-2004, 9:26 PM
If you throw a cat out of a window at the height of 2-6 floors it will sustain more damage the higer it goes but if thrown out of a seventh floor it will die,but if thrown out at the hight of more than 7 floors it will sustain little or no damage
TranquilNightElf
12-01-2004, 9:46 PM
>>You cannot lick your own elbow
Actually singo, there are some people who can ....
peace_machine
12-01-2004, 11:15 PM
If you throw a cat out of a window at the height of 2-6 floors it will sustain more damage the higer it goes but if thrown out of a seventh floor it will die,but if thrown out at the hight of more than 7 floors it will sustain little or no damage
Somehow I don't believe that... idk why. We will have to try it sometime!
Actually singo, there are some people who can ....
prove it
TranquilNightElf
12-02-2004, 11:59 AM
prove it
Well I saw this guy on TV once. Probably the Indian version of Who dares wins.
did he break his arm before hand?
There are people who can lick their elbow.. I have a friend who can do it.. But it hurts him a little bit.
ARG! I had some facts but I forgot them. I will post them once I remember.
WeekendLazyness
12-02-2004, 11:21 PM
Please stay on topic.
Markpyro
12-02-2004, 11:32 PM
Sorry for my C + P.
Yes, I've seen my friend lick the VERY TIP of his elbow.
WeekendLazyness
12-03-2004, 5:06 PM
I don't care if it's true or not, I'm not using the fact on my site. I don't use them all, only ones that I know are or could possibly be true. And of those, I pick the ones I like most. Stop talking about licking elbows.
Dark_Soul74
12-03-2004, 5:12 PM
The reason for the cats getting damaged more at the middle height is because cats have the ability to spread themselves out slightly, creating a parachute effect. It takes them a while to slow down, though.
I can lick my elbow.(Just sayin'...)
Edit: Useless fact: Cucumbers have a poison in their 'skin', but it's in low quantities and is neutralized by salt.
okay then, a real fact
>> daddy long-legs's (craneflys) have the most deadly poison known to man - they have no teeth however, so cannot administer said poison
and that bloody well is true
Dark_Soul74
12-03-2004, 8:42 PM
Too bad the Mythbusters killed that one off. :O
Graeme
12-03-2004, 11:12 PM
prove it
Ok:
http://www.driverheaven.net/V3/test.JPG
Oh and:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=48925
WeekendLazyness
12-04-2004, 4:47 PM
Thank you Radlin, now no more elbow licking posts.
I'm wondering how you know that is true, singo.
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