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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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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. The reason there are so few nowadays is because they were chooped down to be used as timber for boat making, the spanish armarda (sp?) was the biggist coulprit.
> 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. The reason there are so few nowadays is because they were chooped down to be used as timber for boat making, the spanish armarda (sp?) was the biggist coulprit.
El Juicy wrote:
> ~ I can't remember the exact amount, but there were quite a lot of
> left handed people that die every year after using a right handed
> piece of equipment.
True, but you aren't told how many right handed people die each years using said equipment.
People are killed by vending machines falling on them for christs sake. People are incompetent...
> ~ I can't remember the exact amount, but there were quite a lot of
> left handed people that die every year after using a right handed
> piece of equipment.
True, but you aren't told how many right handed people die each years using said equipment.
People are killed by vending machines falling on them for christs sake. People are incompetent...
Damn you! I will be trying to lick my elbow for weeks!
*Silver
Oh, and that paper thing can be done. Surely if you use sugar paper it'll work, no? Oh, and a few more things i can remember from the other topics like this:
~ You are more likely to get a tail when flipping a coin because the head side of the coin is heavier.
~ You need to replace the acid in your stomach once every two weeks. if you don't, you'll start to digest your own stomach.
~ I can't remember the exact amount, but there were quite a lot of left handed people that die every year after using a right handed piece of equipment.
Oh, and that paper thing can be done. Surely if you use sugar paper it'll work, no? Oh, and a few more things i can remember from the other topics like this:
~ You are more likely to get a tail when flipping a coin because the head side of the coin is heavier.
~ You need to replace the acid in your stomach once every two weeks. if you don't, you'll start to digest your own stomach.
~ I can't remember the exact amount, but there were quite a lot of left handed people that die every year after using a right handed piece of equipment.
I don't think any word rhymes with purple or ilver, but i may be wrong.
I shall answer the chicken and egg thing for you.
The Egg.
Dinosaurs laid eggs, long before chickens evolved, therefore eggs were around long before chickens.
The Egg.
Dinosaurs laid eggs, long before chickens evolved, therefore eggs were around long before chickens.
Azul wrote:
> If you think about it though, when you fold it in half, you reduce
> it's basic measurements in half, so;
>
> 1000m 500m
> 500 250
> 125 62.5
> 62.5 31.25
> 15.63 7.2
> 3.9 2
> 2 1
>
> But by then, it will be a metre or so thick, almost box like, so it
> would be impossible to fold.
YOu're quartering that actually. If you were to fold piece of paper in half, it's area would be half of the area before hand.
1000 * 500 = 500,000
500 * 250 = 125,000.
THat just happens to be a quarter. If you did that, techinically, you've folded it 14 times...
> If you think about it though, when you fold it in half, you reduce
> it's basic measurements in half, so;
>
> 1000m 500m
> 500 250
> 125 62.5
> 62.5 31.25
> 15.63 7.2
> 3.9 2
> 2 1
>
> But by then, it will be a metre or so thick, almost box like, so it
> would be impossible to fold.
YOu're quartering that actually. If you were to fold piece of paper in half, it's area would be half of the area before hand.
1000 * 500 = 500,000
500 * 250 = 125,000.
THat just happens to be a quarter. If you did that, techinically, you've folded it 14 times...
phi11ip wrote:
> still can't lick my bloody elbow no matter how much I try...
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*trys*
Surely it can't be done!
> still can't lick my bloody elbow no matter how much I try...
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*trys*
Surely it can't be done!
I just remembered about this topic!
So we have people telling us the science behind paper folding and I still can't lick my bloody elbow no matter how much I try...
I'll do it!
It will be done!
And with the oak tree thingy, it's a chicken and egg question...
So we have people telling us the science behind paper folding and I still can't lick my bloody elbow no matter how much I try...
I'll do it!
It will be done!
And with the oak tree thingy, it's a chicken and egg question...
Bet you never knew I was one of the best reviewers on the site?
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