Strange Facts

[Raz_Kaz]

The earth's magnetic field is collapsing.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

If you flip a coin 10 times, the odds of getting all heads or tails is one in 1,024.

The longest paper-airplane flight on record is 27.6 seconds.

A taste bud has a life-span of 10 days.

1 in 3 American men own an electric nose-hair trimmer.

It would take 288 years to spend a night in every hotel room in Vegas.

Scientists have genetically modified butterflies to have glow-in-the-dark eyes.

The speed of the average snail is 691,200 inches per month.

The Statue of Liberty's fingernails weigh about 100 pounds apiece.

The double popsicle-stick was introduced during the Depression, so two people could share it.

Danny DeVito once studied to be a hairdresser.

Human DNA and jellyfish DNA are 90 percent identical.

The comic book character Aquaman's partner was Aqualad.

If you live in the U.S. and went out in your back yard and dug through the center of the Earth, you would not come up in China, but in the Indian Ocean, somewhere near Australia.

Oil from the ground is actually dark green, not black.

Opossums do not play dead. They actually faint.

Uncle Sam did not have a beard until the beginning of the Civil War or so.

[xviciousx]

I like strange facts.

You left out the most important one of all:

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

[Raz_Kaz]

/\ Thats not true....they prooved that wrong.

[Chavez408]

Originally Posted by Raz_Kaz

Uncle Sam did not have a beard until the beginning of the Civil War or so.

wtf? My history teacher just told me that Uncle Sam is not an actual person..


hmm.. who should I believe? A teacher that has spend all her life studying history and getting paid for her knowledge or the INTERNET?















Internet.

[Raz_Kaz]

/\ wise decision my friend.







Now lets go alien hunting!

[91300zxtt]

haha, uncle sam doesnt exist. Maybe raz meant god ole honest abe? But ya, they did prove a duck's quack does have an echo

[RSX-S777]

Thank God Kaz, I was all out...

[clawhammer]

Wow...Makes me think.

[tman]

Good lord, heres the truth of the matter:

Uncle sam IS a fictional character, depicted by political cartoons. The CARTOONISTS drew the beard on him around the civil war. He also seemed to work out a lot before wartimes, and be rather buff during war posters.

[Chavez408]

Hmm than the ol' overweight teach was right after all!!

Maybe I should start listening to her more often..












Keyword: 'Maybe'

[LotusDreams]

Danny Devito can style my hair any day.