Fun Facts and Such

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silver_tears
Did you know that ...

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

A shrimp's heart is in their head.

When you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand or attempted to do so.

In the United States alone, there is a lawsuit every 30 seconds.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Rats and horses can't vomit.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.


Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

If the U.S. government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for US citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

Forty percent of all people who come to a party in your home snoop in your medicine cabinet.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

100% of all lottery winners gain weight.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

and last but not least...

Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbows!

h0ck3yh0rr0r
did u get this info from a website...cuz i've read all those facts before somewhere...but gj! smile

pablo007
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. - This is false

If the U.S. government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for US citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles? - And this is a rule that prohibits touching rocks from the sky and such

GroundedAgain
elbow to tongue elbow to tongue god dammit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

julibug
some of those are quite disturbing!

silver_tears
but funny laughing out loud

GroundedAgain
damn!!!!! i still cant do it

silver_tears
thats why it says its impossible roll eyes (sarcastic)stick out tongue

GroundedAgain
did ya'll know that the pop-up that tends to pop-up the most on your computer screen is an advertisement to reduce pop-ups??

silver_tears
or a window washer shifty

silver_tears
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A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All Polar bears are left-handed.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

silver_tears
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

pablo007
Man how I'd wish I was a pig...

silver_tears
dont we all angel

silver_tears
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

silver_tears
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

badkittykitty
"If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck."
so would she still be hot?

silver_tears
not really by normal standards shed be considered a freak stick out tongue

VallejoKid707
In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.


"A hummingbird weighs less than a penny."
Cool.

"A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes."
Luck Pigs

"On average, people fear spiders more than they do death."
I fear both.

"Marilyn Monroe had six toes."
Eww. No offense if anyone here has six toes.

"If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb."
Now thats just funny.

Celsius
I've opened a thread like this in the GDF a while back. And I DID try to lick my elbow laughing out loudlaughing out loudlaughing out loudlaughing out loud:lol

Celsius
Swifts sleep in flight, They soend most their life never landing. stick out tongue

ChinaNiki
"China has more English speakers than the United States."

Well, when you consider how many Chinese there are and a lot of them learn English, I guess this could be true, but how well do they speak their English is not addressed. The average Chinese person can say hello and ask you where you are from in English.

nazgulinthedark
I saw a car advertisment on tv spoken in spanish

Celsius
blink

El Toro De Brah
im pretty sure that "go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Celsius
Llaughing out loudL

Celsius
I think it needs to be more that one word. right?

silver_tears
see here it is big grin

Thoren
Re: Re: Re: bimp

Barker
More

more threads I say

Thoren
Let's bimp them all?

Barker
ok you start with s_t, I'll start with Kai Lein

Thoren
haermm

Barker
i was serious

Thoren
Me too

silver_tears
Homos.

Thoren
Sapian?

Barker
Homo

Thoren
Your mom

Barker
It's like 30 degrees

Thoren
Celsius?

Barker
Fahrenheit

this isn't guam

Thoren
I'm going to get leaner and more cut.

Barker
me too

Thoren
You just need to be cut

Barker
I'm getting a beer belly

Thoren
Stop drinking root beer

Barker
I only drink water and coke and mt dew and milk and juice

Thoren
no expression

Barker
wave

Thoren
hug

Barker
petpet

Thoren
bros can hug

Barker
only once

Thoren
What if we're trapped on a volcano that's breaking apart and we'll never see the shire again?

Barker
Shouldn't they have burned up being that close to the lava anyway

Thoren
I wish they would have.

Barker
Do you ever get tired of being edgy

Thoren
Not in the least

Barker
Imma pay Best Buy $60 to install my stereo df no expression

Thoren
It's like 4 wires, color coded. You suck

Barker
I don't have the dash piece

Thoren
Why didn't you say so?

****

Barker
who the f*** carries around the dash piece

it's going to run me $80, but I have to do it because I'm going to SLC with my brother sat and need music to fill the awkward silencedf

Syren
Originally posted by silver_tears
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Babies do so have kneecaps. But they're formed of cartilage and ossify later on, at around 3 for females and 5 for males. Totally did my research on small people when I was growing one happy

Syren
I didn't even notice until just now that this was an old thread...

silver_tears
Originally posted by Syren
Babies do so have kneecaps. But they're formed of cartilage and ossify later on, at around 3 for females and 5 for males. Totally did my research on small people when I was growing one happy

Knee caps by definition are bone, they have knee joints stick out tongue

Syren
Originally posted by silver_tears
Knee caps by definition are bone, they have knee joints stick out tongue

Ah, details stick out tongue

Storm
Women are cleverer than men, says research wink


Ceterum censeo OTF esse delendam.

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