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kris_fox17
hey everyone, you know any interesting facts. feel free to post some of the ones you know!!!

here are a couple:

- butter is one atom away from being plastic, which is why when left out in the open it doesn't
attract any flies!!!

- apples not caffine, is more efficient in waking you up in the morning!!!

- an average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000!!!
DrEaMgUy2K1
my penis becomes erect during intercourse.
x____duckii
I guess I'm not the average girl (if that applies to girls too, anyways.)
WhiteLotus*
QUOTE(DrEaMgUy2K1 @ Dec 4 2004, 3:20 PM)
my penis becomes erect during intercourse.

laugh.gif

Hmm...

An eyelash only lasts 150 days. It falls out after that, and a new one grows in.
angel-roh
there is a topic about this and i think jason is the one who made that topic...hm or maybe not huh.gif
mirage
o, COOL, wow, we say 7,000 words A DAY? man, we talk too much, haha.
mouse_3k
QUOTE
an average women say 7,000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000!!!


ha..boyz..
MackSoda
Here's pretty much everthin'


A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds Dogs only have about 10.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

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

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Maine is ! the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
tofumonzter
many times bank tellers miscalculate this and most people add this wrong also. you can add it however you want. you can group the numbers or whatever. what is the sum?

1000
....30
1020
1000
1030
+..20

i found this in one of those opitcal illusions books
DaTru KataLYST
QUOTE(tofumonzter @ Dec 5 2004, 8:47 AM)
many times bank tellers miscalculate this and most people add this wrong also. you can add it however you want. you can group the numbers or whatever. what is the sum?

1000
....30
1020
1000
1030
+..20

i found this in one of those opitcal illusions books

4,100 done in the head.
x____duckii
QUOTE(MackSoda @ Dec 5 2004, 12:42 PM)
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

Gotta feel sorry for those dragonflies.
DaTru KataLYST
they are so kickass tho.
mirage
QUOTE
1000
....30
1020
1000
1030
+..20


i think it works better if you say it, i got 4100.
xj_liana_tx
>>If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
>>enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.


>>If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
>>produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
miss barnes
QUOTE(tofumonzter @ Dec 5 2004, 10:47 AM)
many times bank tellers miscalculate this and most people add this wrong also. you can add it however you want. you can group the numbers or whatever. what is the sum?

1000
....30
1020
1000
1030
+..20

i found this in one of those opitcal illusions books

its 4,073 because thats not 30, its 3 dollars. notice the placement of the 3...i think!

EDIT~*~ heres more facts

~by raising your legs slowly, and lying on your back, you cant sink in quicksand

~the longest word that can be spelled w/o repeating any letters is "uncopyrightable"

~a rat can last longer w/o water than a camel

~315 entries in websters dictionary were misspelled

~clinophobia is the fear of beds

~most lipstick contains fish scales

~a hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot child in it

~a cockroach can live several weeks w/ its head cut off. it dies of starvation

~over 10,000 birds die a day from flying into windows

~the original name for the "butterfly" was "flutterby"

~kermit the frog is left-handed

~walt disney's autograph bears no resemblence to the famous logo

~mel blanc, the voice of bugs bunny, was allergic to carrots

~months that start on a sunday have a friday the 13th

~the dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "f"
teenprincess
The average human brain weighs three pounds.


A dog can understand between 35 to 40 commands.


More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day-most are no bigger than a speck of dust.


The average American eats at McDonalds 1,811 times in their life


The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue


The cigarette lighter was invented before matches.


Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five


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


Other than humans, pigs are the only animals that can get sunburn


In one day an average person will take about 18,000 steps.


It takes eighteen minutes to cool hot chocolate into a Hershey's Kiss.


Ants don't sleep.


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


China has more English speakers than the United States.


A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though.
KissMe2408
I learned in my biology class that most shampoos are made out of cow or goat sperm pinch.gif

and i didn't believe my teacher so i looked up those long words on the back of the bottle on google search, and it was true! wacko.gif
weirdness
-theres one million ants for every person
-a starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out

lol i dunno anyothers right now =\
1--GIRL
QUOTE
~over 10,000 birds die a day from flying into windows


ROFL laugh.gif Poor birds...

- For nightvision of an owl, you'd need eyes the size of a grapefruit.

- More than half of North Americans lose their TV remote between one and five times a week.

- You were born with 300 bones. At adulthood, you're left with 206.

_smile.gif
jezika
QUOTE(WhiteLotus* @ Dec 5 2004, 12:16 AM)
An eyelash only lasts 150 days. It falls out after that, and a new one grows in

i lost 4 eye lash at once when i was washing my face thsi morning

and i know theres this thing called reversed peristalsis, peristalsis is how the food moves down along teh digestive system, so when its reversed, ur faeces goes up to ur stomach and comes out from ur mouth, in other words u puke shlt laugh.gif _dry.gif
jnukes
^ew.... yucky!.. pinch.gif
lovescream
DOES THAT MEAN IF YOU EAT BUTTER, YOU'RE, LIKE, BASICALLY EATING PLASTIC?
ew... to think of it, you're scaring me.
to eat.
butter.

fact i know: math, especiall the projects, can kill you. literally.
stephinika
yeah...some of these facts certainly are...interesting...

i have none i can think of myself right now though. _dry.gif
sporadic
Um... Albert Einstein's brain was found to weigh less than the average person's.

Therefore, the bigger the brain you have has nothing to do with your intelligence =P
whomps
QUOTE(sporadic @ Dec 5 2004, 2:52 PM)
Um... Albert Einstein's brain was found to weigh less than the average person's.

Therefore, the bigger the brain you have has nothing to do with your intelligence =P

They weighed his brain?!

The phobia for long words is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
NatiMarie
There is indeed a 4th dimension in atomic cells, letting us time travel although we haven't found a way to enter this dimension yet, it is possible.

:O

AND

Rulers are never truly straight.
>:D

AND


George Bush is a filthy liar.

=X
dafunnybunny
QUOTE
George Bush is a filthy liar.

AMEN!

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Hot water is heavier than cold.
gelionie
wow those are interesting...
sorry can't think of any right now
gigiopolis
I have two...

1) It takes a shorter time to freeze boiling water than it takes to freeze cold water.

2) If you want to freeze a bottle of water for, say, a camping trip, you don't have to freeze it overnight. Just stick it in the freezer for 2 hours and take it out. It's watery? No problem. Give it a good whack on the table - it'll magically turn solid. Try it, it really works =)

QUOTE
DOES THAT MEAN IF YOU EAT BUTTER, YOU'RE, LIKE, BASICALLY EATING PLASTIC?

Well, water (H2O) is an atom away from being peroxide (H2O2)<--(bleach for your hair and teeth). In fact, a LOT of things are mere atoms away from being other things. C02 is carbon dioxide, which doesn't harm you, but CO is carbon monoxide and is deathly toxic.
sweetxsimplicity
..Wasn't there already a topic about this?
Oh well.

A pig's orgasm lasts for an hour. =x
krnxkrazyxkatt
wow the are funny LOL. i dont have any.

coke used to have cocaine in it...

3 RIGHT MAKE A LEFT!
sporadic
QUOTE(NatiMarie @ Dec 5 2004, 10:09 PM)
There is indeed a 4th dimension in atomic cells, letting us time travel although we haven't found a way to enter this dimension yet, it is possible.

:O

AND

Rulers are never truly straight.
>:D

AND


George Bush is a filthy liar.

=X

Haha, I love you Natalie XD


barelyy_coherent, you are awesome. I don't know. You just impressed me a lot with your whole atom thing. *is dumb*

Pig orgasms =x
NatiMarie
QUOTE(sporadic @ Dec 5 2004, 10:19 PM)
Haha, I love you Natalie XD


barelyy_coherent, you are awesome. I don't know. You just impressed me a lot with your whole atom thing. *is dumb*

Pig orgasms =x

I love you too Liz!

XD
You make fun of me because I can't spell.
>:[

Romaing

xD
faithin_felix
wow! apple a day actually has more effects.
gigiopolis
QUOTE(sporadic @ Dec 5 2004, 10:19 PM)
barelyy_coherent, you are awesome. I don't know. You just impressed me a lot with your whole atom thing. *is dumb*

LOL. That's what I do. It's so boring in Science that I actually listen. =))
whomps
QUOTE(krnxkrazyxkatt @ Dec 5 2004, 10:18 PM)
wow the are funny LOL. i dont have any.

coke used to have cocaine in it...

3 RIGHT MAKE A LEFT!

I never understood how 3 rights make a left.
misoshiru
QUOTE(tofumonzter @ Dec 6 2004, 12:47 AM)
many times bank tellers miscalculate this and most people add this wrong also. you can add it however you want. you can group the numbers or whatever. what is the sum?

1000
....30
1020
1000
1030
+..20

i found this in one of those opitcal illusions books

4100, i've done that one before. haha.
kellyannie
wow i really didnt know most of this stuff laugh.gif
but i cant think of anything right now lol
krispy_kreme333
QUOTE
I never understood how 3 rights make a left.


if u turn rite 3 times its the smae as turning left once
rhqtpie
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
^^ ya thas not true

i like the one about the atom and the 4th dimension happy.gif even though it confuses me
lylbabyblooz
QUOTE
China has more English speakers than the United States.

interesting lol.
pAtRiCk_sTar
lol i don't think i say 7,000 a day....or maybe i do?!? blink.gif
HelloSunshine
QUOTE(x_angawhomps @ Dec 5 2004, 11:22 PM)
I never understood how 3 rights make a left.

think of it as a square... _smile.gif you start at one point..go right 3 times [you can use your finger, or a pen and paper] ...then start at the same point..and go left...you'll find yourself in the same spot _smile.gif heh these are interesting..yep happy.gif but I can't think of any right now! ahha so sorry!
jr0h
QUOTE(DrEaMgUy2K1 @ Dec 4 2004, 6:20 PM)
my penis becomes erect during intercourse.

HAHAHAAHHHHAHAAH nice fact dude

what does my brain know?

only male turkeys gobble
Ange1onCloud9
Cool facts. The one about the stuff in shampoo.... makes me not want to wash my hair ever again lol
L0VEABLEx
..........ummmmm Most things we buy were made in china..lmaoo laugh.gif
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