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Stuff You Might Not Know It's a repost but some made me smile =)

#1 User is offline   ohJOY 

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Posted 04 October 2005 - 08:43 PM

Stuff You Might Not Know


Apparently 1/3 of people with alarm clocks hit the 'snooze' button every morning, and from 25-34 age group, it is over 1/2.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.

When you put a seashell to your ear, the sound you hear is not the waves, but actually the echo of the blood pulsing in your own ear.

Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording 'Eyes On Me', and it only took her about 4 hours.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

No word in the English language rhymes with MONTH.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

GO is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. (anyone else distrubed by this?)

married mens live longer then single mens do.....

girls has one less rib then mens do.....

black peopel has extra muscle in their knee then anyone do, thats why they jump higher. (dont believe me, watch the NBA)

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged.

It only takes 7 lbs of pressure to rip off your ears.

in a VERY quiet room, u will be able to hear a watch ticking

most lipsticks contain fish scales.....>_<

in ur lifetime, u will have swallowed an average of 6 spiders during sleep.

1. Coca - Cola was originally green.

2. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

3. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

4. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only in one row of the keyboard.

5. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

6. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

7. It's impossible to lick your own elbow.

8. People said "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

9. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

10. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

11. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

12. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history:
Spades - King David.
Clubs - Alexander the Great.
Hearts - Charlemagne.
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

13. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

14. If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

15. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in the battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

16. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Answer : All are invented by women.

17. Question - What's the only food that doesn't spoil. Answer : Honey

18. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

19. A snail can sleep for three years.

20. All polar bears are left handed.

21. Butterflies taste with their feet.

22. In the last 4000 years, no new animals has been domesticated.

23. On average,peoples fear spiders more than they fear death.

24. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

25. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

26. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

27. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

28. Rats can multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

29. Wearing headphones for an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

30. The cigarette lighter was invented before the matches.

31. Like the fingerprints, everyone's tongue print are different.

32. And finally, 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.

ppl fear public speaking more den death [this fact sounds weird]

what makes humans get old is oxygen...
thats mean if you breath a lot of oxygen(like right after doing exercice), then u get older faster.

its a fact that if u stand out side and look at the sun all day long
u will go blind lol

) A blue whale ejaculates 300, 000 gallons of sperm.

2) Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and
the males can roar like lions.

3) Sloths take two weeks to digest their food
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4) Deer can't eat hay

5) The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

6)Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

7) Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.

8)Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.

9) Snakes don’t bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.

10) Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day

11) The longest recorded life span of a camel was 35 years, 5 months
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12) In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like
pretzels or popcorn.

13) Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants *eww*

14) Beer is made by fermentation cause by bacteria feeding on yeast cells and then defecating. In other words, it's a nice tall glass of bacteria doo-doo

15) Coca Cola would be green without food colouring.
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 09:02 PM

Haha, that was fun, although some were repeated. biggrin.gif
It's my first time seeing this..because I've never visited the joke forum before. o__o;; <- random info
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 09:05 PM

oh man wow nice facts...

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

i love that one...

and this one was pretty interesting... the one with the statue and horses legs in the air
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 09:08 PM

Interesting facts. I liked the number, one, also.
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 09:23 PM

Snakes don’t bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.

that is definitely interesting

there are so many things i didn't know
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 09:42 PM

Cool facts. The rat one is disturbing...
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 09:55 PM

I remember reading a few of these on Libra pads PUHAHA
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 09:58 PM

Interesting... smile.gif


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Posted 04 October 2005 - 10:50 PM

most lipsticks contain fish scales.....>_<

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Posted 04 October 2005 - 11:07 PM

wooo o_____0 some facts dere i didn evn noe .. very interesting thx biggrin.gif
.. if ive learnt anything from this
it will all be gone .. it would all be gone
and ill take away your breath..
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 11:09 PM

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

this is sad,
i am left handed.

And i didn lick my elbow though, seen it 3 times already biggrin.gif
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 11:10 PM

I knew these facts. smile.gif
I feel smart. lol.
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 11:22 PM

I am so turned off beer now.. >__<
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 11:28 PM

The rat one is a bit disturbing, lol.

And the one about the horse statues are interesting.
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Posted 04 October 2005 - 11:45 PM

interesting. seen most of this before but its always interesting every time i read it.

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Posted 05 October 2005 - 12:28 AM

QUOTE(-mis.holly* @ Oct 5 2005, 03:05 PM) View Post

oh man wow nice facts...

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

i love that one...

and this one was pretty interesting... the one with the statue and horses legs in the air


me too! the number one amused me hehe
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Posted 05 October 2005 - 12:42 AM

oh wow . some of those facts are really interesting
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Posted 05 October 2005 - 12:42 AM

2 weeks of kissing...wow
 

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Posted 05 October 2005 - 02:19 AM

i've read some of these before but "During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged" that's just disturbing...
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Posted 05 October 2005 - 02:44 AM

The beer one is so disgusting sounding. The rat fact isn't all that great either...
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