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 Oct 9 2004, 06:15 PM
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i don't know if this forum already had a "did you know" topic, but i couldn't find one, so i made one ;x here's the place to share the lesser known facts about life... no matter how insignificant or trivial.
did you know that our calendar's (gregorian calendar) months were named after greek numbers 1-10? the only reason we have 12 months is because julius ceasar wanted a month named after him, and so did augustus, which is why we have july & august. |
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Oct 9 2004, 06:17 PM
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POWAPOSTA Group: Member Posts: 3,169 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 30,725 |
damnit. i want a month named after me.
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Oct 9 2004, 06:18 PM
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 jonathan rhys meyers. Group: Member Posts: 954 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 33,013 |
interesting..
Did you know Coca-Cola was originally green? |
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Oct 9 2004, 06:30 PM
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Brie Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 10,172 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 20,548 |
Got this from a buddy profile..
Random Fact: An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger. |
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Oct 9 2004, 06:34 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 4,750 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 10,581 |
Fact: You can never sneeze with your eyes open.
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Oct 9 2004, 07:01 PM
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Did you know that skunks only produce that bad odor when they think they're in danger?
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Oct 9 2004, 07:03 PM
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 my username sucks Group: Member Posts: 264 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 11,493 |
QUOTE(LiLEthiopian @ Oct 9 2004, 6:18 PM) interesting.. Did you know Coca-Cola was originally green? thats not true. its an urban legend. QUOTE Fact: You can never sneeze with your eyes open. and if u try to keep them open with your fingers, they fall out. Did you know that cows can go up stairs not down, John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes, and an average of 13 people a year die from vending machines falling on them? |
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Oct 9 2004, 07:41 PM
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 dizzy me up. Group: Member Posts: 3,191 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 11,139 |
yeah i knew. lols dats randdomm ;p
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Oct 9 2004, 07:43 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 866 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 35,809 |
QUOTE(synkro @ Oct 9 2004, 6:15 PM) i don't know if this forum already had a "did you know" topic, but i couldn't find one, so i made one ;x here's the place to share the lesser known facts about life... no matter how insignificant or trivial. did you know that our calendar's (gregorian calendar) months were named after greek numbers 1-10? the only reason we have 12 months is because julius ceasar wanted a month named after him, and so did augustus, which is why we have july & august. my teacher told us that last year. 
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Oct 9 2004, 08:44 PM
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 白人看不懂 !!!! Group: Member Posts: 3,838 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 40,824 |
I have the Biggest Ever Bathroom Reader book.
Pick a page from 1 to 768 plz. Page 66: Medically speaking, the correct order of intelligence is: Moron, imbecile, idiot. |
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Oct 9 2004, 08:54 PM
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 kristin Group: Member Posts: 5,705 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,985 |
The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products. im a lefty =[ |
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Oct 9 2004, 08:57 PM
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白人看不懂 !!!! Group: Member Posts: 3,838 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 40,824 |
Page 34
Squirrels lose half the nuts they hide-they forget where they put them. |
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Oct 9 2004, 09:01 PM
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^^ really....
did you know that in your life time you eat like a dozen bugs in your sleep... |
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Oct 9 2004, 09:04 PM
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jonathan rhys meyers. Group: Member Posts: 954 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 33,013 |
lol..yea i heard that last year and started freaking people *cough, royalfreshness, cough* out ...
did you know the youngest mother was only 5 years old???..don't believe me???.. Click. ..i think i've already posted this somewhere tho... 
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Oct 9 2004, 09:06 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 5,585 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 38,082 |
The longest word you can type with your left hand is "stewardess".
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Oct 9 2004, 09:12 PM
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白人看不懂 !!!! Group: Member Posts: 3,838 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 40,824 |
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#1 cause of depression in married people: Being married. #1 cause of unmarried people: Being single. |
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Oct 9 2004, 10:49 PM
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 i'm susan Group: Official Member Posts: 13,875 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 5,029 |
yeah the youngest age of 5 got pregnant was pretty interesting but kinda scary...
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Aug 11 2005, 06:38 PM
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 The Blue Panda Of Doom Group: Member Posts: 71 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 195,223 |
Did you know that:
-The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change. -More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products. -The most common name in the world is Mohammed. -Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older. -You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. -One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life! -A man's beard contains between 7,000 and 15,000 hairs. -The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth -The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. -The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime. -Odds of being killed by a dog - 1 in 700,000. -Odds of dying while in the bath tub - 1 in 1 million. -Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion. -Odds of being killed by poisoning - 1 in 86,000. -Odds of being killed by freezing - 1 in 3 million. -Odds of being killed by lightening - 1 in 2 million. -Odds of being killed in a car crash - 1 in 5,000. -Odds of being killed in a tornado - 1 in 2 million. -Odds of being killed by falling out of bed - 1 in 2 million. -Odds of being killed in a plane crash -1 in 25 million. -13 people are killed each year by vending machine's falling on them. -Airbags explode at 200 miles (322 km) per hour. -A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. -If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m). -Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday. -You blink over 10,000,000 times a year. -The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons -In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves. -More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world. Tell me what you think of these "useless" facts. |
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Aug 11 2005, 07:22 PM
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 The Guy You Used To Know Group: Member Posts: 50 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 60,662 |
some of those are realy funny...like the monoply money one...altho it doesnt surpise me to much
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Aug 11 2005, 08:26 PM
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 dakishimetainoni... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,322 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 75,318 |
QUOTE(aforce65 @ Aug 11 2005, 7:38 PM) -More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products. -More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money throughout the world. Tell me what you think of these "useless" facts.  1.) that's because most power tools are made for right handed people so left handed people are killed by them. that's why left handed people don't live as long as right handed people. 2.) most of the real money in the world isn't even on paper or coins. |
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Aug 11 2005, 08:50 PM
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 The Eurasian Concert Master Group: Member Posts: 484 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 54,826 |
Wow some of these are really interesting.
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Aug 11 2005, 08:56 PM
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QUOTE(aforce65 @ Aug 11 2005, 4:38 PM) -A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds. Oh yeah, I contributed a lot to this. |
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Aug 11 2005, 09:59 PM
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 one.love Group: Member Posts: 258 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 32,824 |
QUOTE(aforce65 @ Aug 11 2005, 6:38 PM) -The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. Holy crap. GROSS. I so wish that I've never eaten a spider before. |
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Aug 13 2005, 11:50 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Designer Posts: 4,591 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 77,305 |
You made 2 topics of the same thing?
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Aug 13 2005, 11:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,098 Joined: May 2005 Member No: 143,687 |
woah those statistics are scary.. lols some where funny like the left handed one.. ew 8 SPIDERS ew ew ew !
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Aug 13 2005, 01:39 PM
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Someone should move this to the Lounge.
BUT very interesting and funk-ay!! ^__^ |
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Aug 13 2005, 03:45 PM
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 This bitch better work! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 13,681 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 28,095 |
TOPIC MOVED & TOPICS MERGED
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Aug 13 2005, 04:13 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 6,953 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 52,702 |
i heard about that that's why december is like deci=10
and october=8 |
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Aug 13 2005, 04:26 PM
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 team late night queen Group: Member Posts: 1,602 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 2,861 |
did you know that dolphins are the only mammals in the world to have sex for fun, other than humans..
i got that one from cliff. lol. |
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Aug 13 2005, 04:59 PM
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 FiveFootGiant Group: Member Posts: 154 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 40,334 |
QUOTE(synkro @ Oct 9 2004, 6:15 PM) i don't know if this forum already had a "did you know" topic, but i couldn't find one, so i made one ;x here's the place to share the lesser known facts about life... no matter how insignificant or trivial. did you know that our calendar's (gregorian calendar) months were named after greek numbers 1-10? the only reason we have 12 months is because julius ceasar wanted a month named after him, and so did augustus, which is why we have july & august. yup, the months are in the wrong order. March was the first month. shakespeare wrote in King james's version of the bible. |
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Aug 13 2005, 07:13 PM
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 Residential Crazy Child Group: Member Posts: 934 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 116,897 |
That spider one is scary. Did you know a Harvard study proved that we're all slightly crazy. It usually wears off my the time we're 14 though. Personally, I thought this explained a lot.
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Aug 13 2005, 08:14 PM
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 潮州人 forever =) Group: Member Posts: 668 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,877 |
i made like..4 topiucs on did you know facts..its in entertainment or somthing...ANYWAYS...
did you know you will eat 14 insects in your sleep in your lifetime? ..ick JFK could read 4 newspapers in 20 mins cuz he was the fastest reader ever. i saw that in the guiness museum on my grad trip. HEH XD |
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Aug 13 2005, 09:04 PM
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 bahhhh Group: Member Posts: 129 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 124,327 |
some of the stats are really disturbing...
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Aug 13 2005, 11:25 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 636 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 59,646 |
you cant lick your elbow.
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Aug 13 2005, 11:28 PM
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team late night queen Group: Member Posts: 1,602 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 2,861 |
^ some people can cant they?
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Aug 13 2005, 11:33 PM
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QUOTE(aforce65 @ Aug 11 2005, 7:38 PM) -The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. That's an urban myth (see here). |
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Aug 14 2005, 12:27 AM
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The motel star Group: Member Posts: 21 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 202,494 |
Those are some funny facts... lol!
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Aug 14 2005, 04:05 AM
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 boo Group: Member Posts: 5,512 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 71,765 |
QUOTE julius ceasar wanted a month named after him, and so did augustus, which is why we have july & august  I'm too lazy to find "interesting" facts tight now. |
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Aug 14 2005, 05:50 AM
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 Drowning by numbers Group: Member Posts: 149 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 193,026 |
The human brain uses the same amount of power as a ten-watt light bulb.
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Aug 14 2005, 06:23 AM
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 High Voltage!∞ Group: Official Member Posts: 4,728 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,157 |
QUOTE(LiLEthiopian @ Oct 9 2004, 4:18 PM) interesting.. Did you know Coca-Cola was originally green? Hahaha how odd. These facts are cool..but I don't have any so far. |
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Aug 15 2005, 01:09 PM
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 meggie <33 Group: Member Posts: 72 Joined: May 2005 Member No: 143,501 |
did you know that more people die from cocomuts falling on their head than being eaten by a shark
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Aug 15 2005, 01:12 PM
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 Queen of Random Information Group: Member Posts: 825 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 157,057 |
If poultry meat is stacked in the grocery cooler, don't buy the package on top. It is the one most likely to be warm enough to grow bacteria.
Edit// 400th post! |
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Aug 15 2005, 02:17 PM
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Did you know there are more bacteria in our mouth than there are people on earth....ewww
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Aug 15 2005, 02:22 PM
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this ones old, but a dogs mouth is cleaner than a toilet...
even if they eat poop and lick themselves. |
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Aug 15 2005, 03:11 PM
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 Pretty Rad Group: Member Posts: 193 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 202,955 |
QUOTE(LiLEthiopian @ Oct 9 2004, 6:18 PM) interesting.. Did you know Coca-Cola was originally green? Did you know Coca-Cola was originally made as a medicine? |
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Aug 15 2005, 09:57 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 893 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 68,217 |
^Yes, it helps you with headaches.
The average person swallows 8 spiders in a lifetime in their sleep. I'm just glad it happens when I'm unconscious. ||edit|| Maybe it's an urban myth...but I read that one from the bottom of a Snapple Cap... |
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