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Oh man, im soooooo bored...so basicly thats my excuse for making this thread.....

Did you know that:

-1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life.

-The average adult has between 40 and 50 billion fat cells.

-The thumbnail grows the slowest; the middle nail grows the fastest.

-Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

-A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12,345,678,987,654,321

-Its impossibe to lick your elbow.

-did you also know that 80% of people whom you say this two will try to lick their elbow!
and my favourite:

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

i find does interesting but useless...i guess. good thread

It Is possible to lick your elbow.... Try "Kiss" that guy with that toung.....

President Theodore Roosevelt was the first to announce to the world that Maxwell House coffee is "Good to the last drop."

mmmmmm mmmmmmmm good

George Washington was deathly afraid of being buried alive. After he died, he wanted to be laid out for three days just to make sure he was dead.

Cats urine glows under UV light!

Most of the dust in your house is made up of your dead skin cells.

my nose itches

I can stand four and a half feet from the toilet and land my pee stream right in the bowl if my bladder is really about to explode.

George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.

freaky

Entertainers who worked in the pizza business before they became famous include Stephen Baldwin, who was a pizza parlor employee, Bill Murray, who was a pizza maker, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, who delivered pizzas. Many years back, Julia Roberts and Christie Brinkley both sold ice cream. Before she made it as a pop singer, Madonna sold doughnuts at Dunkin' Donuts. And in the burger arena, Jennifer Aniston was a waitress at a burger joint, Queen Latifah worked at Burger King, and Andie McDowell was employed by McDonald's.


ahahaha

lmfao

I delivered pizzas all through college!!!

Some people consider the $1 bill unlucky because there are so many 13's on it: 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 steps, 13 arrows and even an olive branch with 13 leaves on it. Of course the $1 bill is unlucky - if it was lucky it would be a $100 bill.

Well....I can do splits!

me too and cross overs and stuff

Albert Einstain failed maths at school

The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime

One superstition says that if a girl leaves her house early on Valentine's Day and the first person she meets is a man, then she will be married within three months.

Average person spends about 45 years of their life thinking, and 10 years of their life sleeping!
nine years in the bath tub!

To prevent evil spirits from entering the bodies of their male children, parents dressed them in blue. Blue was chosen because it's the color of the sky and was therefore associated with heavenly spirits.

Girls weren't dressed in blue, apparently because people didn't think that evil spirits would bother with them. Eventually, however, girls did get their own color: pink. Pink was chosen because of an old English legend which said that girls were born inside of pink roses.



awwwwwwwwwwwww
I love pink

Seriously, I can do handstands and walk on my hands for a very long time. I once walked around on my hands for a minute and 22 seconds. I can do back flips off diving boards and perfect swan dives off 30 foot rock surfaces such as Suicide at Rainbow Falls where you have to clear some rocks and the Forty footer at Cherry Creek Falls by Hetch Hetchy Dam.

The person who performs the Muppets - Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Animal, and Grover is Frank Oz. Oz is also the voice of Star Wars Yoda. By the way, his real name is Frank Oznowicz.

thats all to do with socialisation adn the way kida are brought up believeing that male and female are different and that males have to like blue to be truly male and that girls have to like pink to be truly female


Sociology lecture

I like pink baby blue too

Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly and Shemp.)

the average perso swallows 8 spiders in the couse of thier life in thier sleep

The writers of The Simpsons have never revealed what state Springfield is in.

I bet its gonna be in the last season

yea i read that on the snapple cap, i dun believe that crap tho

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

I used to be able to do handstand..for obvioulsy not that long at all...5 sec maximum..i learned splits because i did karate for 5 years....

Cant do backflips..not unless someones there, to at least just hold my back...

I can snowboard too!

the Simpsons Live in Springfeild New york. (when Homer's console at the nuclear powerplant busted, (don't remeber epesoide) The console on some masterboard flashed the state of New York.

awwwwww

In the movie Ghost (Patrick and Demi) when Demi is making something on the pottery wheel her hands are covered in clay. But when her husband comes up behind her to give her a kiss she turns around and they are completely clean.

me too.........well try anyways

yes in one episode marge is like springfield, ohi..a maude

Fact...

Snowboard, Ski and surf instructors are sexy....almost every single on of them.

I saw that one... still think she meant "Oh! hi Maud!

Every time you laugh, You lose 3 1/2 calories... Go on, start laughing

someone make me laugh!!!

How many times can a woodpecker peck? 20 times a second

Queen Anne of England outlived all 17 of her children

I LIVE that. Literly. I LIVE it. I know it for a fact. every month I can truthully say I laughed at least one hour.

Laughing is the new exercise!

bastard

In an episode of The Simpsons, Sideshow Bob's Criminal Number is 24601, the same as the Criminal number of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.

WE say shag all the tiem here...

Shag and Brag

he shoiked me

Actress Halle Berry turned down the role of Annie, and Stephen Baldwin turned down the role of Jack in the 1994 "Speed". The blockbuster film catapulted Sandra Bullock as a major film actress, and greatly improved upon Keanu Reeve's box office appeal.

GO KEANU BABY!!!

In China, the bride wears Red

The first female monster to appear on the big screen was Bride of Frankenstein.

Ah, we shoiked all night

Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original PREDATOR in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes

Before Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat was the most popular cartoon character.

Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.

In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."

Carrie-Ann Moss seriously injured her ankle (I don't remember if she broke it or not) when she did the cartwheel off the wall in the lobby scene of "the Matrix" playing the role of Trinity. She broke her leg in the first two weeks of "Reloaded".

The average episode of the Simpsons with make you burn 2.100 calories at 60 laughs per episode!

Ahem...

''You think im goooorgeous, you want to kiiiiiiiss me...''



Silva knows whats that one about

Dolphins have bigger brains than humans.

According to the folks at Disney - there are 6,469,952 spots painted on dogs in the original 101 Dalmatians

indeed I do lilly

oo bad timing....

On average, it takes 8 to 10 months to make a single episode of the Simpsons. However, it takes only a week to make an episode of Southpark. (due to the fact that Southpark uses a computer program instead of drawing each frame by hand)

??

50 pound candy.. yea!

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma. (Think about it...)

A Venetian law decrees that all gondolas must be painted black. The only exceptions are gondolas belonging to high public officials.

In the state of Queensland, Australia, it is still constitutional law that all pubs (hotel/bar) must have a railing outside for patrons to tie up their horse.

According to law, no store is allowed to sell a toothbrush on the Sabbath in Providence, Rhode Island. Yet these same stores are allowed to sell toothpaste and mouthwash on Sundays.

thats just silly

Every 7 days, you get a new stomach lining. (or rather, you're constantly 'shedding' it and after a week you don't have any of the same old one)

The average adult human has 100,000 hairs on their head. Homer Simpson has three.

Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment: Prohibition.

oh oh call the cops

Sea turtles don't age-- they wont die unless they get an infection or get eaten by a larger animal. This means there could be a thousand year old turtle swimming around somewhere.....

The word "dude" is the name for an infected elephant butt hair

Rabbits have three eyelids, they also are incapable of burping or farting.

The Genus and species of a gorilla are Gorilla gorilla.

Whales can never focus both their eyes on the same object at once

1. The sex of crocodiles is determined by the incubation temperature. Eggs incubated at temperatures below 85 degrees become females. Those incubated above 95 degrees become males. 2. Crocodiles are the closest living relatives to birds.

The only big cat that doesn't roar is a Jaguar

1. Many koalas are killed in sanctuaries by cars of visitors. 2. A newborn koala finds its way to the mother's pouch by following a trail of saliva.

Food is so scarce in the Arctic, that wolves don't waste any part of their meals. A wolf will eat every part of an arctic hare, including the skin, fur, and bones.

The only animals that can naturally sleep on their backs are humans. No other animal actually does--apes usually sleep sitting up and leaning on something.

Elephants, horses, and camels all descended from animals that originally came from North America, despite their present homes in Eurasia

The crow is the smartest of all birds.

There is a bird called the boobie bird. it is a tropical bird with a large colorful beeck.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

A snail can sleep for three years.

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 climb straight staircases.

It is possible to lead a cow up stairs, but not down.

You can tell how a rabbit is feeling (emotion-wise) through the position of its ears. If the ears are standing tall, pointing forward, the rabbit is happy and curious. If the ears are laid completely flat on its back and are pointing backwards, the rabbit is more than likely pissed off or frightened. If one ear is halfway up and somewhat cocked towards you, and the other one is standing compeltely up, but facing away from you, then the rabbit is confused, and curious as to what the heck you're doing.

Rabbits do in fact make sounds. When angry, upset, or frightened, a rabbit makes a sort of grunting/whimpering sound. When A Rabbit is seriously hurt it will make a sound EXACTLY like a baby crying (survival 401)

Rats multiply so quickly that in an 18 month period, two rats could have over one million descendants.

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

A Crocodile cannot stick out it's tongue.

Cheetahs were originally called Leopards

Leopards are so stealthy that they can roam around a city like Manhattan with the chances of not being seen!

Hold up... Brunettes have 108,000 and Blondes have 130,000 I saw it off the trivia track on Legally Blond

During the reign of Catherine I of Russia, the rules for parties stipulated that no man was to get drunk before 9 o'clock and ladies weren't to get drunk at any hour.

those parties musta been a blast

An Ants sense of smell is comparable with a dog...

In Utah, birds have the right of way on all highways.

Christmas was once illegal in England.

In Turkey, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood

In Hartford Connecticut, it is illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sundays.

The first Thanksgiving was very different from what we generally think of it as being today.

-It was more of a big party than a dinner--it went on for several days. There was singing and other music, wrestling, archery competition, and general merriment.
-There were a hell of a lot more Indians (the American kind) than white boys--I think it was something like 90 to 20.
-There was no Turkey, nor was there cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, or pumpkin pie. Instead, the Indians brought venison (deer) and the whities brought goose, pheasent, duck, and other game birds.
So whatever your first grade teacher told you, she was lying. Unless of course she told you what I just said...

Well i aint gonna be living there thats for sure..

What about sex...

an earth worm can grow as long as 10 feet and as thick as a soda can...

In this very moment 70% of people driving on highways are speeding.

I dont wanna know

That's sick

Found on Axius Sno-Off Automobile Windshield cover: "Caution: Never drive with the cover on your windshield."

Found a box of Tampax Tampons: "Remove used tampon before inserting a new one."

Found on a box of Kellogg's Pop-Tarts: "Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated"

Found on the instruction sheet of a Conair Pro Style 1600 hair dryer: "WARNING: Do not use in shower. Never use while sleeping."

Found on Bat Man The Animated Series Armor Set Halloween costume box: "PARENT: Please exercise caution, mask and chest plate are not protective; cape does not enable wearer to fly."

Found in a television set's owner's manual: "Do not pour liquids into your television set."

Found on the handle of a hammer: "Caution: Do not use this hammer to strike any solid object."

Found on a butane lighter: "Warning: Flame may cause fire." what the hell are these people buying their lighters for

In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.

where the **** can I get a giraffe

more places than you know...

I love those stupid warnings Anyway, peanuts are one of the ingrediants of dynamite...

Snoring is prohibited in Massachusetts unless all bedroom windows are closed and securely locked. It is also illegal to go to bed without first having a full bath.

well at least they are a clean people

Horses cannot vomit or burp. Therefore, if a horse gets "constipated" or "impacted" as we horse people say, it can die.
Too many apples can be toxic to a horse.
If a horse lies flat on its side for too long, the sheer weight of his guts will eventually kill him.
Contrary to popular belief, horses can't actually sleep standing up. They can doze off and take a 'nap' but to really sleep they have to lie down.
Horses shed the "frog" portion of their hoof. (a little triangular thing that lives on the bottom of their feet...)

During the eighteenth century, books that were considered offensive were sometimes punished by being whipped.

*sigh* some people have too much time on their hands.......









me included

It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly in Pacific Grove, California... long live the butterflies!

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 U.S. states.

*suspicious glare*

The murder rate in the Unted States is 200 times greater than in Japan. In Japan no private citizen can buy a handgun legally.

sad really........

Found on the corner of a mattress: "Do not remove this label under penalty of law"
Found on a clothing iron: "Never iron clothes on body."
Found on a disposable coffee cup: "Warning, contents may be hot." (no shit?)

A cucumber is 96% water.... I love cucumbers... and I'm a Cancer

Two out of three people sleep on their sides, and they're about equally divided as to WHICH side. Of the remainder, slightly more sleep on their stomachs than sleep on their backs.

Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

A survey finds that a quarter of all people who take a briefcase or something similar to work with them have got SOMETHING in it for self-defense.

Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old.

Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.

Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.

silly mericans

dogs have bellybuttons

Forty percent of the American population has never visited a dentist.

Almost 60, 000 Australians attempt suicide yearly.....

Elvis Presley had a Reading chair in his Bathroom

This is my last for the night... A squirrel lives for 9 years... except they always get run over by cars... night everyone

Two-thirds of men wear briefs, 22 percent wear boxers, and six percent don't wear underwear (I assume 6% did not answer).

The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.

"Fan" is an abbreviation for the word "fanatic." Toward the turn of the 19th century, various media referred to football enthusiasts first as "football fanatics," and later as a "football fan."

The proper name of our sole natural satellite is "the Moon" and therefore...it should be capitalized. The 60-odd natural satellites of other planets, however are called "moons" (in lower case) because each has been given a proper name, such as Deimos, Amalthea, Hyperion, Miranda, Larissa, or Charon.

The word "snorkel" comes from the German word "schnoerkel", which was a tube used by German submarine crews in WW2. The subs used an electric battery when traveling underwater, which had to be recharged using diesel engines, which needed air to run. To avoid the hazard of surfacing to run the engines, the Germans used the schnoerkel to feed air from the surface into the engines.

^are these useless facts

yes I didnt know or care about them so therefore useless...facts

Ann Coulter (a conservative ***** who is on CNN a lot, has written several books, does a newspaper column, etc.) was born in either 1961 or 1963, depending on whether you believe her old Conneticut driver's license or her more recent DC license. She claims that the DC license is correct. Ironically, if the DC license is correct, she registered to vote when she was 16. That would be voter fraud. Either way, she lied on at least one of her licenses. Now, a driver's license is a Federal ID. Lying on such a document is a federal offense under the Patriot act (which she supports, btw). Which means that she could be locked up indefinitely, without being allowed to talk to a lawyer or a judge. Funny, eh?

Xanthophobia is the fear of the color yellow. One in 10,000 people have it.

Clinophobia is the fear of beds I feel sorry for these people

Yeah me too... "honey, when are you coming to bed?" "I'll be right there, dear" *huddles into a corner and cowers in fear*

I have a book called "Schott's original miscellany" that has a ton of random facts... *goes to get book*

what do those people sleep on

I dunno... the floor?

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
awwww I feel sorry for them

I saw a guy on TV once who was scared of baked beans.

Ok here's a good one: Fear of Satellites falling out of the sky: keraunothnetophobia

ROFLMAO!!! *looks at a tube of Colgate toothpaste* "Go hang yourself? What the f*ck?"

In the Greek alphabet "X" is the first letter for the word Christ, "Xristos." Xmas means "Christ's mass."

In ukrainian too

Well my friend had an arsenal football shirt on when we went to Rome and all those italians took the piss out of him, because sega was the sponsor on the shirt. Turns out that sega means to wank in italian but I'll have to verify that.

Some phobias:
Beards: pogonophobia
Tickling with Feathers: pteronophobia
Opening one's Eyes (I pity the fool who has this one): optophobia
Novelty: cainolophobia
Garlic: scorodophobia
Breezes: aurophobia
Grabity: barophobia
Kissing: philematophobia

kissing thats not right

The @ symbol has become an important part of e-mail culture. It separates the User Name from the Domain Name. All countries throughout the world use the same symbol but it obviously has a different name in other tongues. In English it is simply the 'at' sign.
Here are just a few of the more endearing terms:


Italy: 'chiocciolina' - which, in Italian, means 'little snail'
France: 'petit escargot' - also 'little snail'
Germany: 'klammeraffe' - which means 'spider monkey'.
Dutch: 'api' - a shortened version of 'apestaart' or 'monkey's tail'.
Finland: 'miau' or 'cat's tail'.
Norway: 'kanel-bolle', a spiral shaped cinnamon cake
Israel: 'shtrudel' - following the pastry concept
Denmark: 'snabel', an 'A' with a trunk.
Spain: 'arroba'. the Spanish symbol for a unit of weight of about 25 pounds.

Until 1936 it was against the law in New York to wear topless bathing suits - for both mean and women

men

guys... Now, you would have never have guessed this one... Elephants AREN'T afraid of mice!!

i have a good one.

yesterday i put a bag of chips down on the couch and went to go get a soda, i came back and, forgetting about the chips, sat on the couch and crushed them.

god that was boring.....even for me....

that is like so.........*yawn* great..........
want an award

Winston Churchill believed that petting Black Cats gave him good luck

Britian is a county

no its not it is an island!

Britian was founded by Geroge Britian

wow

Hmmmm..... I've learnt a lot from this random and useless thread

me too

Maybe they aren't all so useless

lol

A dog's heart beats 40 times faster than yours

go me

if i ever win a large amount of money from a game show with one of these random facts, i'll know who to thank sils

Tuna fish swim at an average speed of 9 miles per hour constantly. They never stop moving... until they're dead

What about me?

if you gave me the random fact, then yes, BB

do I get a chunk of the prize

Yea! One cord of wood can make 7 1/2 million tooth-picks... That's a lot of toothpicks

Why am I a bastard.

umm what
wheres that from

The Leaning Tower of Pisa bends an extra 1.25 millimeters every year and is expected to topple over somewhere btween the years 2010 and 2020...

After I laughed because a fact said some stuff about how women andd men were diffrent types of humans... page 2 or 3.