Random Interesting Facts

Some of these are "Who gives a fuck" worthy...but some are good...

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (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 (50) 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 mustache.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (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.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. (So did the first "Marlboro Man.")

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

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.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name
contains all the letters from the word "criminal."

And the best for last.....

Turtles can breathe through their butts.


Now you know everything there is to know... :biggrin:

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

......but can they poop out their mouths??



(south park episode)

......but can they poop out their mouths??
i would pay to see that!

those are pretty cool

worth the read defininitely :lol:

:lol2: Great find :thumbsup:
Very interesting

Mm...my old man sends me tons of this crap daily. I figure, if I have to suffer through it, so will you... :evillol:

This one comes from experience: Iced Tea can make you fail a breathalyzer.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
because the pitch is so high the sound waves don't 'bounce' off objects

peanut butter does not cover up copius amounts of alcohol when being breathalyzed...but it does make you look like a twat when you spit it out on the breathalayzer..

Man, I wish I could save that much cash by just leaving out 1 olive lol.

This one comes from experience: Iced Tea can make you fail a breathalyzer.


...If you mix it with Vodka :naughty:


Fully Sick, I didn't know you're a fan of Crvena Zvezda

I thought that marlboro had totally fallen off the list of highest brand equity after the lawsuits

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Incorrect.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm

i learned a few things. thanks.

Outtake from Atomis' link:

"Anyone
who has been on the Internet more than a week has probably received at least one of those annoying lists of "facts": dozens and dozens of items of no real significance that somebody thought would be cool for you to know."

It's only annoying when others do it. When I do, it's cute, witty and entertaining Atomis. I live by the double standard, you see... :lol:

Interesting list, tho we don't know how true many of them are...the one about the duck's quack has already been proved false.

wow...thats crazy stuff...

I made it to 6 on the piece of paper one

Yeah the ducks quack thing is false apperently. I saw it on myth busters. It looks like its quack resembles an echo so its just hard to tell the quack from the echo or something like that.


They also busted the myth that you should keep your toothbrush away from the toilet so you don't get feces particles on it. It seems that it doesn't matter where you put your toothbrush, you will get feces particles on it. They put a toothbrush in a bathroom and another in a closed container in another room and both came up positive for feces particles.

Outtake from Atomis' link:

"Anyone
who has been on the Internet more than a week has probably received at least one of those annoying lists of "facts": dozens and dozens of items of no real significance that somebody thought would be cool for you to know."

It's only annoying when others do it. When I do, it's cute, witty and entertaining Atomis. I live by the double standard, you see... :lol:

Call me Sean. :smile:

Interestingly enough, that was the only one of those I'd heard before, the rest were entertaining. :biggrin:

They also busted the myth that you should keep your toothbrush away from the toilet so you don't get feces particles on it. It seems that it doesn't matter where you put your toothbrush, you will get feces particles on it. They put a toothbrush in a bathroom and another in a closed container in another room and both came up positive for feces particles.

heard that on the radio. it really didnt bother me one bit.

Call me Sean. :smile:


What's that noise? I think it's the universe collapsing.

What's that noise? I think it's the universe collapsing.

Aye, lad! 'Tis the only proper way to spell the name! :iceslolan

I always like things like this (the who gives a f*ck ones) some of them make you think, and others are just funny.

cool stuff

I made it to 6 on the piece of paper one

Yeah the ducks quack thing is false apperently. I saw it on myth busters. It looks like its quack resembles an echo so its just hard to tell the quack from the echo or something like that.


They also busted the myth that you should keep your toothbrush away from the toilet so you don't get feces particles on it. It seems that it doesn't matter where you put your toothbrush, you will get feces particles on it. They put a toothbrush in a bathroom and another in a closed container in another room and both came up positive for feces particles.
try folding a piece of very thin paper. I would think that you would get more than seven then.

No folding any piece of paper no matter how big or small, the results are the same

Folding it eight times would disrupt the space-time continuum. The results would be catastrophic...

Hey, it's day 2 of thi on going thread and no new "weird facts' that have been posted.
I need these!!!

my question is how many people actually tried the fold the paper thing? i know i did right after i read it ha ha

I had someone at work try it....thanks for the easy 5$ :thumbsup:

my question is how many people actually tried the fold the paper thing? i know i did right after i read it ha ha
:1: :(

what if you take a HUGE piece of paper?

Try it dayna, I bet you 5$ you cant do it




man im on a roll with this

Will grow exponentially smaller. I tried it on A2. :(

I made it to 6 on the piece of paper one

Yeah the ducks quack thing is false apperently. I saw it on myth busters. It looks like its quack resembles an echo so its just hard to tell the quack from the echo or something like that.


They also busted the myth that you should keep your toothbrush away from the toilet so you don't get feces particles on it. It seems that it doesn't matter where you put your toothbrush, you will get feces particles on it. They put a toothbrush in a bathroom and another in a closed container in another room and both came up positive for feces particles.

how does that happen? :uhoh:

I folded a paper napkin in half 9 times. Thats still paper isnt it?

Ok, paper thing false, I've done 6 and very close to 7...very hard but I'm determined to prove things wrong and someone did the samethign Raz did after I saw that statement and I got $10! :D

Oh J, only Long Island Iced Tea, only Long island :cheers:

Found these on another site:

The worlds highest telephone booth is on the sachen glacier, in India

Ketchup was once sold as a medicine

The navel divides the newborn baby into four equal parts

The only tree from which we eat the flower is the fig

Only %5 of people dream in colour (My dreams are like a 20's porno)

The average cow produces 70 000 glasses of milk in her life-time

Toto the dog was paid $125 a week for his work in The Wizard Of Oz(And that was at the time. With inflation, that's one rich mutt)

Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. When the painting was made, shaving your eyebrows was the fad.

In the 1800's, drinking tea made with old boiled shoes was thought to cure disease.

More babies are born in September than any other month.

There are more telephone poles than people in Washington, D.C.

Louis XIV owned 413 beds

In the U.S, what sporting good outsells footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined? Frisbees

IT would take you 31.7 years to count to a billion. Get counting squattail

When mating, a hummingbirds wings speed up to 200 times per second.

Mayonnaise is an excellent skin moisturizer.

The typewriter was invented before the fountain pen.

If the average male didn't shave, his beard would be thirteen feet long at time of death

The human body has 60 000 miles of blood vessels

If you lined up all the slinkies ever made in the world in a row, they would stretch around the earth 126 times

Every thousand years, spring gets two-thirds of a day shorter

The average American man laughs 69 (coincidence?) times a day, the average woman, 55 times.

It costs $300 to create an Oscar award.

Your odds are one in 6500 of getting hurt by a toilet seat in your life (probably goes up on Über)

In Venice, Venetian blinds are called Persian blinds.

What do gorillas and house cats have in common? they purr.

The fishing reel was invented in 300 A.D.

A pair of Elvis' underpants are worth 1300 dollars

In 1797, James Hetherington invented the top hat and wore it in public. He was arrested for disturbing the peace.

IT takes 720 peanuts to make a pound of peanut butter.

Minnesota has 99 lakes called Mud Lake

Adults have 2 gallons of air between them and their clothes

Sloths sneeze and give birth extremely slowly. And give birth upside down

In Antarctica, entire sunsets can be green.

George Wahingtons feet were size thirteens

Those are great...keep 'em comin

OOO, i found some




There are 1,860 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.

People DO NOT get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.

The average human brain weighs three pounds.

The average North-American will eat 35,000 cookies in during their life span.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Coca-cola was originally green.

Polar bears are left handed.

Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.

Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day.

Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five.

A U.S. backed government study found that pigs can become alcoholics.

Ants can live under water for 14 days.

In a year, an average person consumes 8 insects while sleeping.

In a year, an average person consumes 8 insects while sleeping.



That is something I did NOT need to know. Thank you.

/\ Have fun sleeping tonight :grinno:

:( I'm gonna sleep with a surgeons mask on from now on

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Gotcha Raz. :P

http://www.snopes.com/history/world/churchill.asp

:( I'm gonna sleep with a surgeons mask on from now on


Is AF invited to the Dayna- Michael Jackson wedding?