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Post by Macca on Mar 4, 2009 17:03:00 GMT 10
The good, the bad, the weird, the disgusting, the unbelivable or the down-right obviously made up. If you've got facts, post 'em up. Here are a few to get the ball rolling:
1. More people are afraid of spiders then of death.
2. All polar bears are left handed.
3. The Aifel Tower in Paris grows an inch every year.
4. Over 100,000 new websites hit the internet every week.
5. Over 60% of those 100,000 will be pornography sites.
6. A typical Krispy Kreme doughnut has so much sugar it can burn for approximatly 2 hours.
7. Chuck Norris is awesome.
8. Since 2007, the Muslim population worldwide has gone from approximatly 600,000,000 to 750,000,000 people, making it over 100 times more belived than Christianity.
Comon guys! Post up your own!
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Post by Biomanic on Mar 4, 2009 17:28:50 GMT 10
Alright....
1. If you took all of the cells in your body and put them all in a straight line, it'd be long enough to go around the world two and a half times.
2. Most all animals can swim, most choose not to though.
3. Smoking is bad for you.
4. Bagpipes are cool.
5. There are more sheep in New Zealand then people.
6. More Children in America die from trying to imitate things on television then of drugs or alcohol.
7. Chuck Norris is indeed more awesome then your mum.
8. The very first Krispy Kreme Donut store in Australia, was in Penrith, it is still there. It is one of the only ones that is in Australia, in one small town in America, there is over 12.
9. Hinduism is the oldest Religion in the world (It's still an idiot though).
10. Australia, isn't only the best country in the world, it is also the biggest Island.
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Post by Macca on Mar 4, 2009 18:59:52 GMT 10
Nice ones. *Exalts*
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Post by .c.o.o.k.i.e. on Mar 4, 2009 19:12:01 GMT 10
Australia is also the smallest continent... apparently...
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Post by [>Pulse<] on Mar 5, 2009 10:58:23 GMT 10
i am born on the 12 of August
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Post by Smallfry on Mar 5, 2009 17:45:21 GMT 10
1. Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
2. The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
3. The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
4. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
5. In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
6. Ants never sleep.
7. No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".
8. The human brain is 80% water.
9. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
10. The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
11. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
12. There are 86,400 seconds in day.
13. A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
14. Singapore has only one train station.
15. The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
16. Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during
World War II were made of plaster.
17. Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.
18. Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.
19. Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
20. By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors.
21. Canada is an Indian word meaning ''Big Village''.
22. Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats!
23. Cleopatra married two of her brothers.
24. Common pesticides such as roach, termite, and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans.
25. Crayola is a French word that means ''Oily chalk.''
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Post by .c.o.o.k.i.e. on Mar 5, 2009 17:50:22 GMT 10
awesome... and 16 & 17 are one... if you get what I mean...
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Post by Smallfry on Mar 5, 2009 17:56:12 GMT 10
oh yeah
*modifies*
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Post by Biomanic on Mar 5, 2009 18:49:45 GMT 10
1. You can keep a chicken alive for up to three weeks with it's head removed, if bleeding is controlled and it's fed through syringes.
2. There's more Rats in Indonesia then people and cattle combined.
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Post by Macca on Mar 8, 2009 8:45:41 GMT 10
Good ones Smallfry. Here are some all about animals that I prepared earlier:
Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.
African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.
There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.
A house fly lives only 14 days.
A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.
An ostrich can run up to 70 km/h.
An annoyed camel will spit at a person.
The world's smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means "tiny dog in the sky."
Pea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.
75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old.
The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible
Sheep are mentioned 45 times and goats 88 times in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times and lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned. See Farr, even God likes dogs better.
Pork is the world's most widely-eaten meat.
In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people.
Dinosaurs did not eat grass: there wasn't any at that time.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm tongue.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle - a group of geese in the air is a skein.
More animal collective nouns
The South American giant anteater eats more than 30,000 ants a day.
It is impossible to out-swim a shark - sharks reach speeds of 70 km/h. Humans can swim about 35 km/h.
The sailfish is the fastest swimmer, reaching 109 km/h.
The slowest fish is the Sea Horse, which moves along at about 0.016 km/h.
Dolphins can reach 60 km/h.
Of the 650 types of leeches, only the Hirudo medicinalis is used for medical treatments.
The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
The scales of a crocodile are made of ceratin, the same substance that hooves and fingernails are made of.
A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.
A snail has two pairs of tentacles on its head. One pair is longer than the other and houses the eyes. The shorter pair is used for smelling and feeling its way around.
The heaviest crustacean ever found was a lobster weighing 19 kg, caught in 1934.
The largest jellyfish ever caught measured 2,3 m across the bell with a tentacle of 36 m long.
The largest giant squid ever recorded was captured in the North Atlantic in 1878. It weighed 4 tons. Its tentacles measured 10 m long.
The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal: its eyes measure 40 cm in diameter.
Domestic cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
Sharks and rays also share the same kind of skin: instead of scales, they have small tooth-like spikes called denticles. The spikes are so sharp that shark skin has long been used as sandpaper.
Animals also are either right-handed or left-handed. Polar bears are left-handed - and so is Kermit the Frog.
There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
There are about 54 million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have more dogs than people.
Some bird species, usually flightless birds, have only a lower eyelid, whereas pigeons use upper and lower lids to blink.
Fish and insects do not have eyelids - their eyes are protected by a hardened lens.
Flatfish (halibut, flounder, turbot, and sole) hatch like any other "normal" fish. As they grow, they turn sideways and one eye moves around so they have two eyes on the side that faces up.
Measured in straight flight, the spine-tailed swift is the fastest bird. It flies 170 km/h. Second fastest is the Frigate, which reaches 150 km/h
Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people.
New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
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Post by Macca on Mar 8, 2009 8:47:56 GMT 10
Also, *deletes spam*.
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Post by Jakeby on Mar 8, 2009 17:34:59 GMT 10
8. The very first Krispy Kreme Donut store in Australia, was in Penrith, it is still there. It is one of the only ones that is in Australia, in one small town in America, there is over 12. Penrith FTW. Also... 1.Spongebob was banned in some country's because they think it is making people gay ._. 2.Beyblade was considered racist in some country >___> |
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Post by Biomanic on Mar 8, 2009 17:51:15 GMT 10
77% of gay people won't come out've the closet.
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Post by [>Pulse<] on Mar 9, 2009 17:32:55 GMT 10
thats so not true
I have a gay uncle and my brothers girl friend knows heaps of gay people
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Post by Smallfry on Mar 9, 2009 18:14:54 GMT 10
that just means there part of the 77%
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