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Did you know? The driest place on Earth is Antarctica.

75% of percentages are made up. So, you have to ask yourself, is this one in the 25%? But then again, this one could be in the 75%, creating a paradox and giving you a headache if you actually tried to think about it deeply.

Post random facts which are interesting, weird or funny in any way.

Did you know? The driest place on Earth is Antarctica.

Jlao1

I think I also read that Australia has more desert than Africa, and some guy also proposed that a major Australian city could become a ghost metropolis if it didn't fix it's water problems. :/

The Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years

There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes:lol:

Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas

One gallon of pure maple syrup weighs 11 pounds

i got a whole list of these things

Did you know Brock Lesnar is the only man to become WWE Undisputed champ and the UFC Undisputed champ?

Peanuts are not actually nuts they're a type of bean.

In Clevland it is illegal to capture mice without a hunting liscense.

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

The Dad from "Everybody Loves Raymond" played the monster in "Young Frankenstein".

Cats that are born with multiple toes are called "Hemingway Cats" because the author was fond of them.

Alfred Nobel (of Nobel Peace Prize fame) created dynamite.

Fish are capable of performing fellatio.

Science class was so awesome.

The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

Bats always turn left when exeting a cave.

The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.

The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named Volney.

In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch (and make it look like it
is smiling).

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

Porcupines float in water!

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

if you look close (Magnifying glass)at a check and the lines were you sign and stuff you will see that they are actually not lines they're made up of tiny words.

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!

you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

Carl_W21

This is fake.

"All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20."

"Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery."

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food

Dolphins sleep with one eye open

In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!

Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!

crabs are the only crustaceans that can climb trees

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

The most money ever payed for a cow was $1.3 million.

The shooting sound effects in Star Wars was made by a slinky moving by a microphone that played the sound backwards.

When a snake is born with two heads, they fight for the food.

If you drink to much water it can flush out your blood and kill you.

Flying from London to New York by Concord, because of the time zone differences, you can arrive 2 hours before you left.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Clevland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired"

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!

One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!

Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

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

Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!

Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

Did you know?:

Giraffes have the highest blood pressure of any animal.

Snails have teeth.

Vultures care about hygene just as much as cats do.

Maggots can consume an entire used disposable diaper in 12 hours.

Sodium can be found in a solid metal state.

Oxidation of metal from water happens through an electrochemical process similar to that of a battery.

Electric fields are really just clouds of "photons."

The only force you have ever felt is the electromagnetic force. Gravity is only felt when you fall from mid-air.

The average human sleeps within 7 minutes.

The Koran was the first book ever written in Arabic.

A growling stomach is not good sign; it means that your body has a defficiency in nutrients.

When you in love with someone, your pupils dilate.

Ppregnant women crave nachos more than any other food on average.

The Pythagorean theorem was invented not by Pythagoras, the chinese invented it.

The average sedentary human burns 100 calories per hour.

Clay is edible.

Nothing in the dictionary rhymes with Orange or Purple, I think.

Nothing in the dictionary rhymes with Orange or Purple, I think.

10thwonder

Same thing with "silver" and "dreamt."

The sound effects in space like in the star wars movies are actually not possible in real life because space is a vacuum. So if you witnessed an explosion in space you would see it but you wouldn't hear it.

It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples

Dipsomania refers to an insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages

China has more English speakers than the United States

Pitcher Darold Knowles once pitched all seven games of one World Series

Macadamia nuts are not sold in their shells because it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell

In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word "not" out of the seventh commandment, which then read, "Thou shalt commit adultery." This legendary book is now known as the "Wicked Bible."

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes:lol:

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise

The sound effects in space like in the star wars movies are actually not possible in real life because space is a vacuum. So if you witnessed an explosion in space you would see it but you wouldn't hear it.

edwise18

The Chevy Nova didn't do well in spanish speaking countries because it translates into "doesn't go"

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

konvikt_17

My head just exploded. Thank you.

[QUOTE="edwise18"]

The sound effects in space like in the star wars movies are actually not possible in real life because space is a vacuum. So if you witnessed an explosion in space you would see it but you wouldn't hear it.

Frenzyd109

Serenity did it!

[QUOTE="edwise18"]

The sound effects in space like in the star wars movies are actually not possible in real life because space is a vacuum. So if you witnessed an explosion in space you would see it but you wouldn't hear it.

Frenzyd109

Quarters from 1964 and back I think are actually worth about 3 dollars a each because of the silver that the new quarters lack.

coca cola translated in chinese is "to make mouth happy":P

Coca cola actually did contain stuff from the cocaine plant once upon a time.

Quarters from 1964 and back I think are actually worth about 3 dollars a each because of the silver that the new quarters lack.

edwise18

for real? ive got like 3 quarters dated from 64 and back(dont member the date) i saved them because they where old, didnt know they would be worth 3 bucks.

ive also saved a quarter from teh year 19698)

[QUOTE="konvikt_17"]

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

Furi-Kun

My head just exploded. Thank you.

Mission Accomplished. :P

Well I guess in the future they'll be worth a hell of a lot more then hehe.

People living on the east coast prefer creamy peanut butter, while people living on the west coast prefer chunky peanut butter

Tomato ketchup is a good conditioner for the hair. It also helps get the greenish tinge that some blonde haired people get after swimming in water with chlorine in it

The longest freshwater shoreline in the world is located in the state of Michigan

Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to have a Christmas tree in the White House

The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart

The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want(this happens to em all the time)

The more a person struggles to get out of quicksand the faster they will sink. Staying still, and being calm will actually make the body float in the quicksand because the body is less dense than the quicksand is

An average city dog lives approximately three years longer than an average country dog

The greatest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, extending 64,374 km from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean

The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the "water displacing" substance

The last thing Elvis Presley ate before he died was four scoops of ice cream and 6 chocolate chip cookies

Did you know there is no way to lick your elbow? That's one I remember from another thread.hydralisk86

that's not true, a guy from my classroom can do it

In Tennessee, it is legal to shoot a whale.cd_rom

Couple of Phobias :D

Phobophobia- Fear of fear

Eosophobia- Fear of daylight

Logophobia- Fear of words

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

As far as I know, none of these are fake.

The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million

The concept of Boxing Day, which is on December 26th, was to give boxes of food and clothing to the poor. It is now viewed in some countries as a time to get merchandise from stores at reduced prices

Crayola is a French word that means "Oily chalk."

Every year, Burger King restaurants prepare over 950,000 pounds of bacon for their breakfast customers(Bacon=Awesome:D)

The honey badger can withstand hundreds of bee stings that would otherwise kill another animal

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill(its true, ive looked, thoughs its hard to see)

An armadillo can walk under water

The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia( :lol:lol wut)

The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle

The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature

A rabbit is not able to vomit

The skin on a human scrotum can be stretched to hold a basketball without tearing."Frenzyd109