I didn't know that!!!, interesting facts Options

[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*]

my penis becomes erect during intercourse.

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

[mirage]

o, COOL, wow, we say 7,000 words A DAY? man, we talk too much, haha.

[mouse_3k]

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]

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*]

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

Gotta feel sorry for those dragonflies.

[DaTru KataLYST]

they are so kickass tho.

[mirage]

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]

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

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!

[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]

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

ROFL 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.

[jezika]

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

[jnukes]

^ew.... yucky!..

[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.

[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]

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.