Weird stats, facts, or anything else interesting

If you know anything interesting, be it a status about something, a fact about something, or anything you find interesting please post it here for us all to indulge ourselves in.

According to U.S. laws, a beer commercial can never show a person actually drinking beer.

According to statistic, 82%of all statistic are made up on the spot.

A twitter seance is being held to try and contact the ghost of Michael Jackson.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6314882/Tweance-the-Twitter-seance-aims-to-contact-Michael-Jackson.html

Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in all other states.

The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.

German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Contrary to popular belief, hair does not grow back darker and thicker after it has been shaved.

Jumbo Jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.

Heres a video with lots of interesting facts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXx1_6T09jM

The 13th and 21st Amendments are the only ones in the U.S. Constitution that a private citizen can possibly violate. All the others are government-only.

Finland just made broadband internet a legal right for its citizens.

Viagra was discovered by accidentAgent-Zero

I immagine the first surprise in the results.

00:00 - "Administration of test medication in male rat"

00:30 - "Male rat is dead, all female rats are smoking a cigar."

Now on topic: a interesting photo taken from a 1903ft high cliff:

Flouridating water supplies does more harm to our health than it is actually suppose to improve on

My Gamespot icon is an actual photograph of myself right now.

My Gamespot icon is an actual photograph of myself right now.

BanjoMumbo

Near the Carribean sea there's a species of oysters that knows how to climb trees.

According to a British law passed in 1845,suicide is a very serious crime,death sentence of hanging is the punishment.

Barnacles have the largest penis to body size ratio of the animal kingdom.

Flouridating water supplies does more harm to our health than it is actually suppose to improve on

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Here's another bunch:

Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.

A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.

From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Race car for about 30 feet.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Whinston Churchill was born in the ladies room at a dance. Dead serious.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

- The largest living thing on the planet is a mushroom.

- Contrary to popular belief, hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death. The apparent growth is a result of the skin receeding from the hair and nails, which makes them appear longer.

- Henry Ford didn't say "You can have any colour, so long as it's black".

- The Great Wall Of China cannot be seen from space.

- Contrary to popular belief, there are two words which rhyme with 'purple'; To "hirple" means to limp or hobble. A "curple" is a leather strap which is passed under a horse's tail to keep the saddle secure.

- Neil Armstrong screwed up his lines when he first stepped on the moon. He was supposed to say "one small step for A man", not "one small step for man".

- Contrary to popular belief, a duck's quack certainly does echo.

- Whereas humans need to see at least 24 frames per second to perceive them as a moving image, pigeons need to see 200 frames per second. A TV broadcast or a Hollywood movie would appear as a slideshow to a pigeon.

Cat's urine glows in the dark.cpo335

Correction: It will glow under a black light.

Barnacles have the largest penis to body size ratio of the animal kingdom.

Trinners

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.

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Barnacles have the largest penis to body size ratio of the animal kingdom.

killer336

To be more specific their junk can extend to 40 times the barnacle's own length! :o

-Cockroaches can live for 9 days after having their head cut off.

-If a car was traveling at 100mph, it would take approximately 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons

probably more

The first thing to ever break the sound barrier was a bull whip.

possum's have biforcated penises.

you will lose more weight from speed walking than actually running.

drinking alcohol through your anus will kill you in like 20 minutes or something, for it doesnt get filtered by your liver and goes right into your blood or something like that.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin

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

Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States

22" rims can be destroyed by the smallest of potholes.

My Gamespot icon is an actual photograph of myself right now.

BanjoMumbo

I knew I couldn't be the only divine wolf running around gamespot!

If the total energy the hits the earth in one day were harnessed, it would power the world (at it's current energy consumption rate) for about 200 years.

The coldest temperatures created in labs on earth were a trillion times colder than the coldest naturally occurring temperature in the known universe

Marlboro cigarettes sold in New York contain more tar and nicotine than those sold in all other states.

Murj

Humans and Dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure.

Kellogg's Corn flakes and Graham crackers were originally marketed as a cure for chronic masturbation

Viagra was originally meant for hypertension until a scientist in the lab noted a strange side effect.

English invented football/soccer when they made a game out of kicking dead viking heads.

Botanically speaking the banana is a herb, peppers are fruit, andpeaches andapples are members of the rose family

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Flouridating water supplies does more harm to our health than it is actually suppose to improve on

MrsSolidSnake

Iread that the Russians flouridated their water back in the day to make the people less aggressive, or something along that line. Looking into the ingredient, it is most commonly used in poisons and in drugs like prozac etc. Washing our teeth with toothpaste is one thing, ingesting it is something else....

Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the man who designed the Washington Capitol refused payment for his work, but later changed his mind and decided to petition Congress to pay him. They did not.

German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.

Murj

A virgin is worth 10,000 USD on the European sex trade.

Humans and Dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure.

Rougehunter

The 'Statue of Freedom' ontop of the Capitol Dome was erected by slaves.