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I didn't know that!!!, interesting facts
kris_fox17
post Dec 4 2004, 06:19 PM
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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!!!
 
 
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MackSoda
post Dec 5 2004, 11:42 AM
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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.
 

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kris_fox17   I didn't know that!!!   Dec 4 2004, 06:19 PM
DrEaMgUy2K1   my penis becomes erect during intercourse.   Dec 4 2004, 06:20 PM
x____duckii   I guess I'm not the average girl (if that appl...   Dec 4 2004, 06:22 PM
WhiteLotus*   QUOTE(DrEaMgUy2K1 @ Dec 4 2004, 3:20 PM)my pe...   Dec 4 2004, 07:16 PM
angel-roh   there is a topic about this and i think jason is t...   Dec 5 2004, 07:15 AM
mirage   o, COOL, wow, we say 7,000 words A DAY? man, we ta...   Dec 5 2004, 11:01 AM
mouse_3k   QUOTEan average women say 7,000 words per day. Men...   Dec 5 2004, 11:07 AM
MackSoda   Here's pretty much everthin' A dime has ...   Dec 5 2004, 11:42 AM
tofumonzter   many times bank tellers miscalculate this and most...   Dec 5 2004, 11:47 AM
DaTru KataLYST   QUOTE(tofumonzter @ Dec 5 2004, 8:47 AM)many ...   Dec 5 2004, 11:51 AM
x____duckii   QUOTE(MackSoda @ Dec 5 2004, 12:42 PM)A drago...   Dec 5 2004, 11:57 AM
DaTru KataLYST   they are so kickass tho.   Dec 5 2004, 12:02 PM
mirage   QUOTE1000 ....30 1020 1000 1030 +..20 i think it ...   Dec 5 2004, 12:09 PM
xj_liana_tx   >>If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 ...   Dec 5 2004, 02:48 PM
miss barnes   QUOTE(tofumonzter @ Dec 5 2004, 10:47 AM)many...   Dec 5 2004, 03:32 PM
teenprincess   The average human brain weighs three pounds. A ...   Dec 5 2004, 03:43 PM
KissMe2408   I learned in my biology class that most shampoos a...   Dec 5 2004, 03:56 PM
weirdness   -theres one million ants for every person -a starf...   Dec 5 2004, 04:06 PM
1--GIRL   QUOTE~over 10,000 birds die a day from flying into...   Dec 5 2004, 04:18 PM
jezika   QUOTE(WhiteLotus* @ Dec 5 2004, 12:16 AM)An e...   Dec 5 2004, 04:36 PM
jnukes   ^ew.... yucky!..   Dec 5 2004, 05:30 PM
electric shock   DOES THAT MEAN IF YOU EAT BUTTER, YOU'RE, LIKE...   Dec 5 2004, 05:42 PM
stephinika   yeah...some of these facts certainly are...interes...   Dec 5 2004, 05:46 PM
sporadic   Um... Albert Einstein's brain was found to wei...   Dec 5 2004, 05:52 PM
x_angawhomps   QUOTE(sporadic @ Dec 5 2004, 2:52 PM)Um... Al...   Dec 5 2004, 10:06 PM
NatiMarie   There is indeed a 4th dimension in atomic cells, l...   Dec 5 2004, 10:09 PM
dafunnybunny   QUOTEGeorge Bush is a filthy liar. AMEN! On a...   Dec 5 2004, 10:40 PM
niez_cho   wow those are interesting... sorry can't think...   Dec 5 2004, 11:05 PM
barelyy_coherent   I have two... 1) It takes a shorter time to freez...   Dec 6 2004, 12:34 AM
sweetxsimplicity   ..Wasn't there already a topic about this? Oh ...   Dec 6 2004, 12:45 AM
krnxkrazyxkatt   wow the are funny LOL. i dont have any. coke used...   Dec 6 2004, 01:18 AM
sporadic   QUOTE(NatiMarie @ Dec 5 2004, 10:09 PM)There ...   Dec 6 2004, 01:19 AM
NatiMarie   QUOTE(sporadic @ Dec 5 2004, 10:19 PM)Haha, I...   Dec 6 2004, 01:48 AM
faithin_felix   wow! apple a day actually has more effects.   Dec 6 2004, 01:54 AM
barelyy_coherent   QUOTE(sporadic @ Dec 5 2004, 10:19 PM)barelyy...   Dec 6 2004, 02:00 AM
x_angawhomps   QUOTE(krnxkrazyxkatt @ Dec 5 2004, 10:18 PM)w...   Dec 6 2004, 02:22 AM
yanners   QUOTE(tofumonzter @ Dec 6 2004, 12:47 AM)many...   Dec 6 2004, 04:07 AM
MyChemicalRomance.   wow i really didnt know most of this stuff but ...   Dec 6 2004, 07:17 AM
krispy_kreme333   QUOTEI never understood how 3 rights make a left. ...   Dec 6 2004, 02:49 PM
rhqtpie   Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room d...   Dec 7 2004, 01:37 AM
lylbabyblooz   QUOTEChina has more English speakers than the Unit...   Dec 7 2004, 01:44 AM
pAtRiCk_sTar   lol i don't think i say 7,000 a day....or mayb...   Dec 7 2004, 08:16 PM
xSWEETxCANDiix   QUOTE(x_angawhomps @ Dec 5 2004, 11:22 PM)I n...   Dec 7 2004, 11:53 PM
jr0h   QUOTE(DrEaMgUy2K1 @ Dec 4 2004, 6:20 PM)my pe...   Dec 8 2004, 01:29 AM
Ange1onCloud9   Cool facts. The one about the stuff in shampoo......   Dec 13 2004, 06:11 PM
L0VEABLEx   ..........ummmmm Most things we buy were made in c...   Dec 13 2004, 07:22 PM


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