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Some rather interestingly pointless facts here...
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- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
- A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
- All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
- The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- 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 walk up straight staircases.
- Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
- On average people fear spiders more than death.
- Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- Everyone who reads this post would have tried to lick their elbow like I did!
And my own one that I found out tonight:
- You don't know how sunburnt you really are until you get in the shower!
Lalalalalala aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhh!
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- Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
- Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
- Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
- A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
- The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
- Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
- Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
- All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
- The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- 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 walk up straight staircases.
- Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
- On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
- On average people fear spiders more than death.
- Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
- The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
- Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- All polar bears are left handed.
- In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
- Everyone who reads this post would have tried to lick their elbow like I did!
And my own one that I found out tonight:
- You don't know how sunburnt you really are until you get in the shower!
Lalalalalala aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhh!
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Actually, I knew the following ones:
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Everyone who reads this post would have tried to lick their elbow like I did!
So I won the bet :D
Pay up now :)
- No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Everyone who reads this post would have tried to lick their elbow like I did!
So I won the bet :D
Pay up now :)
mikelar wrote:
> Duck quack doesn't echo? I never knew. So do those duck whistles
> echo then?
>
> And a piece of paper CAN be folded more then 7 times. If you had a
> piece that was 50 miles by 50 miles = easy, with a good few miles to
> spare.
No, no it can't.
Because the folded paper would then increase it's vertical dimensions, creating a box like structure, there for impossible.
> Duck quack doesn't echo? I never knew. So do those duck whistles
> echo then?
>
> And a piece of paper CAN be folded more then 7 times. If you had a
> piece that was 50 miles by 50 miles = easy, with a good few miles to
> spare.
No, no it can't.
Because the folded paper would then increase it's vertical dimensions, creating a box like structure, there for impossible.
cookie monster wrote:
> Shadow Knight wrote:
> more facts:
> Our galaxy (the milky way) is on a collision cource with our nearist
> noughbouring galaxy andromeda but don't worry it will be billions of
> years before it happens.
>
> That would be an awesome spectacle, but i doubt that there will still
> be life on earth when that happens.
You know what I like about you, Cookie Monster, your such an optimist.
> Shadow Knight wrote:
> more facts:
> Our galaxy (the milky way) is on a collision cource with our nearist
> noughbouring galaxy andromeda but don't worry it will be billions of
> years before it happens.
>
> That would be an awesome spectacle, but i doubt that there will still
> be life on earth when that happens.
You know what I like about you, Cookie Monster, your such an optimist.
Cool
Shadow Knight wrote:
> more facts:
> Our galaxy (the milky way) is on a collision cource with our nearist
> noughbouring galaxy andromeda but don't worry it will be billions of
> years before it happens.
That would be an awesome spectacle, but i doubt that there will still be life on earth when that happens.
> more facts:
> Our galaxy (the milky way) is on a collision cource with our nearist
> noughbouring galaxy andromeda but don't worry it will be billions of
> years before it happens.
That would be an awesome spectacle, but i doubt that there will still be life on earth when that happens.
cookie monster wrote:
> Shadow Knight wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> RoJ88 wrote:
> There's probably a really obvious answer to this, and I just haven't
> thought of it, but if oak trees have to be 50 years old before they
> produce acorns, how did the first ones survive?
>
> They lived to be over 50 years old?
>
> they can live to over 1000 years Oak trees can.
>
> Yes i know that, you have misinterpreted what i wrote.
oh sorry :)
> Shadow Knight wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> RoJ88 wrote:
> There's probably a really obvious answer to this, and I just haven't
> thought of it, but if oak trees have to be 50 years old before they
> produce acorns, how did the first ones survive?
>
> They lived to be over 50 years old?
>
> they can live to over 1000 years Oak trees can.
>
> Yes i know that, you have misinterpreted what i wrote.
oh sorry :)
more facts:
-Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system that have no moons.
-Scientists reckon there are 11 different dimensions although only 6 have been comfermed.
-Sea horses are the only animal that as the male give birth to the young.
-A third of all land on Earth is forest.
-The first blimp was filled with hydrogen and cought fire.
-Cockroachs are immune to most chemicals.
-Our galaxy (the milky way) is on a collision cource with our nearist noughbouring galaxy andromeda but don't worry it will be billions of years before it happens.
-Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system that have no moons.
-Scientists reckon there are 11 different dimensions although only 6 have been comfermed.
-Sea horses are the only animal that as the male give birth to the young.
-A third of all land on Earth is forest.
-The first blimp was filled with hydrogen and cought fire.
-Cockroachs are immune to most chemicals.
-Our galaxy (the milky way) is on a collision cource with our nearist noughbouring galaxy andromeda but don't worry it will be billions of years before it happens.
Shadow Knight wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> RoJ88 wrote:
> There's probably a really obvious answer to this, and I just haven't
> thought of it, but if oak trees have to be 50 years old before they
> produce acorns, how did the first ones survive?
>
> They lived to be over 50 years old?
>
> they can live to over 1000 years Oak trees can.
Yes i know that, you have misinterpreted what i wrote.
> cookie monster wrote:
> RoJ88 wrote:
> There's probably a really obvious answer to this, and I just haven't
> thought of it, but if oak trees have to be 50 years old before they
> produce acorns, how did the first ones survive?
>
> They lived to be over 50 years old?
>
> they can live to over 1000 years Oak trees can.
Yes i know that, you have misinterpreted what i wrote.
Interesting indeed.
Interesting.
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