Members pappyld04 Posted April 30, 2008 Members Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 INTERESTING FACTS1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it)2. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.(Now that’s more like it)3. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.(In my next life I want to be a pig)(How’d they figure this out, and why?)4. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.(Still can’t get over that pig thing)(Don’t try this at home…maybe at work?)5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.(Is that why Flipper was always smiling?)(And pigs get 30-minute orgasms? Doesn’t seem fair)6. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.(Hmmmmmmmmm……..)7. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.(If you’re ambidextrous do you split the difference?)8. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.(From drinking little bottles of…?)(Did taxpayers pay for this research??)9. Polar bears are left handed.(Who knew….? Who cares? How’d they find out, did they ask them?)10. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.(What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)11. The flea can jump 350 times its body length.It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.(30 minutes…can you imagine?? And why pigs?)12. A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death.(Creepy)13. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off.(Honey, I’m home. What the….)(Well, at least pigs get a break there…)14. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.(In my next life I still want to be a pig … quality over quantity)15. Butterflies taste with their feet.(Oh, Geez) (That’s almost as bad as catfish)16. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.(I know some people like that.)17. Starfish don’t have brains.(I know some people like that too.)Interesting Facts II1. Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.2. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.4. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.5. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.6. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.7. Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.8. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.9. The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.10. A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.11. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.12. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.13. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.14. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.15. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.16. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.17. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.18. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (rumor)19. All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.20. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.21. Pearls melt in vinegar.22. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.23. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.24. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.25. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why. (Or does it? http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acousti.../duck/duck.htm)26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.27. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word ‘criminal.’ The second was William Jefferson Clinton.28. Turtles can breathe through their butts.29. Butterflies taste with their feet.30. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.31. On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.32. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.33. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.34. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.35. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.36. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.37. It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. (or can you? http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow.jpg http://www.uvm.edu/~dfisher1/random/elbow2.jpg)38. The Main Library at 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.39. A snail can sleep for three years.40. No word in the English language rhymes with ‘MONTH.’41. Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.42. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!43. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.44. All polar bears are left handed.45. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,including their eyebrows and eyelashes.46. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.47. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.48. ‘Go’, is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.49. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.50. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.52. Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Valntyn Posted April 30, 2008 Members Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 That was a fun read -- thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cmwise1 Posted May 1, 2008 Members Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 Think of all those researchers counting polar bear feet.....pig orgasms, ostrich brains...it's too inane to contemplate. But fun to READ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hollybw Posted May 1, 2008 Members Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 Thanks for the laugh you gave me and my husband!! That was great!!What is funnier is that he is such a trivia buff, he completed several of the facts before I could finish reading them!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tako Posted May 1, 2008 Members Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 I can lick my elbow, just not the very tip of it. It's only because I've got unstable shoulders and a kind of long tongue though fun stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members synirr Posted May 1, 2008 Members Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 5. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.This actually isn't true! When we talk about the scientific definition of sex for pleasure, it only includes sexual behaviors that will not produce offspring, such as masturbation or oral sex. Even within that very narrow definition though, bonobos (dwarf chimps) are an additional species that not only has sex for pleasure, but whose very social structure is highly dependent on sexual behavior! Bonobos engage in practically every sexual behavior humans do, right down to French kissing and oral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shariana Posted May 1, 2008 Members Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 I knew about the Aglets for the shoelaces.... I never knew about the staircases for the fire departments... and Turtles can breathe through their butts? What the hell? XDI'll have to do some research on their anatomy.... cause that doesn't seem right.... O.o' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Review Team TonboMidori Posted May 1, 2008 Review Team Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 My SO CAN lick his elbow. I watched him, it was gross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pappyld04 Posted May 1, 2008 Author Members Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 This actually isn't true! When we talk about the scientific definition of sex for pleasure, it only includes sexual behaviors that will not produce offspring, such as masturbation or oral sex. Even within that very narrow definition though, bonobos (dwarf chimps) are an additional species that not only has sex for pleasure, but whose very social structure is highly dependent on sexual behavior! Bonobos engage in practically every sexual behavior humans do, right down to French kissing and oral I have to question whether these are from actual research or from guessing. I see where these people are just now figuring out that birds are not monogamous . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members synirr Posted May 2, 2008 Members Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 Well, when you hear about the limited number of species that have sex for pleasure, you have to take into account that sexual activity hasn't been studied in all that many species in the first place . The list is only those in which it has been definitely observed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members angelkisses98 Posted May 2, 2008 Members Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 where do you find these things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pappyld04 Posted May 2, 2008 Author Members Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 Lots of searching with different tags or keywords. It's not like I do a whole lot at present so I may as well make the brain do something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pappyld04 Posted May 2, 2008 Author Members Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos! There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants! The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off! Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year! The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!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!A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile! The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day! A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States! It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada! The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!Most lipstick contains fish scales!Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis! The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum! No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! Safer browsing. Faster searching. Get the Google Pack.The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!Clinophobia is the fear of beds!A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second! Porcupines float in water!Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!Cat urine glows under a black-light!The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!The electric chair was invented by a dentist!Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand! The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove! Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!! Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!The state of Florida is bigger than England!There are more than one million animal species on Earth!In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suitsIt was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland! Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pappyld04 Posted May 2, 2008 Author Members Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!Dolphins sleep with one eye open!The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones! About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!Slugs have 4 noses!Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet! Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue! The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses! Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes! The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!A jellyfish is 95 percent water!In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump! The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States! One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet! America once issued a 5-cent bill!You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunchBabe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pappyld04 Posted May 2, 2008 Author Members Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year! In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolateA fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!Rice paper does not have any rice in it! Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day! In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!The average person laughs 13 times a day!Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them! Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'! Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven! Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints! Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people! A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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