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Weird Facts
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:40 am
by Weedguru Higher
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
"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.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:02 am
by Weedguru_Falkon
I dunno about that pizza one.. the last fact. That.. doesnt seem right. I mean, i only had 17.3 acres of pizza yesterday.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:09 am
by nowhere
Falkon wrote:I dunno about that pizza one.. the last fact. That.. doesnt seem right. I mean, i only had 17.3 acres of pizza yesterday.
ahaha
i love those sorta facts, good work higher.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:33 am
by FIRE!!!
Also no word in the english language rhymes with "tarantula"
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:38 am
by Alfonse Capone
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
yea um fuck that... lol
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:20 am
by jackmullen47
Falkon wrote:I dunno about that pizza one.. the last fact. That.. doesnt seem right. I mean, i only had 17.3 acres of pizza yesterday.
hahaha pizz aaa
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:33 am
by FIRE!!!
CelticOne wrote:Also no word in the english language rhymes with "tarantula"
Also no word in the english language rhymes with "orange"
Re: Weird Facts
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:43 pm
by wgToonces
Weedguru Higher wrote:Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
"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.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
38 percent of human facts are made up

Re: Weird Facts
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:44 pm
by wgToonces
Weedguru Higher wrote:Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
"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.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
38 percent of all "facts" are made up

...Gutted.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:25 pm
by Big Daddy
Strange Fact
You only have to hit the submit button once.
btw--how in the hell did they figure out what Barbie's measurements would be?? I mean was some weirdo bored as fuck and decided to contruct a lifesized barbie??
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:58 pm
by Dulleffects
CelticOne wrote:CelticOne wrote:Also no word in the english language rhymes with "tarantula"
Also no word in the english language rhymes with "orange"
door-hinge
hahaha
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 4:31 pm
by canadianbud
BAH, you got to it before i did

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:43 pm
by hashpipe
wait a minute, sitting here making a blunt, and reading nothing rhymes with "month" oh come on........
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:34 pm
by mac dre
Big Daddy wrote:btw--how in the hell did they figure out what Barbie's measurements would be?? I mean was some weirdo bored as fuck and decided to contruct a lifesized barbie??
they used simple math to figure it out
Re: Weird Facts
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:15 pm
by FIRE!!!
Toonces wrote:Weedguru Higher wrote:Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
"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.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
38 percent of all "facts" are made up

...Gutted.
It's funnier if you say statistics instead of facts