Fun Facts

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:08 pm

Human women are the only creatures that regularly bleed for five days without dying, get wet without water, and can make boneless meat hard.

(....not exactly a fact, but pretty funny anyway.

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Aki · Post by **Aki** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:18 pm

Excelsia wrote:Human women are the only creatures that regularly bleed for five days without dying, get wet without water, and can make boneless meat hard.

(....not exactly a fact, but pretty funny anyway. )

Hamster · Post by **Hamster** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:30 pm

Aki wrote:
Excelsia wrote:Human women are the only creatures that regularly bleed for five days without dying, get wet without water, and can make boneless meat hard.

(....not exactly a fact, but pretty funny anyway. )

Yeah, I'm childish.

Black Shuck · Post by **Black Shuck** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:41 am

Going with gross stuff in food

On average, every chocolate bar contains 3 insect legs
Cereal is allowed to have so many impurities depending upon its volume, which mean large quanities of cereal can have dead bugs in them

This one doesn't have to do with food, but it has bugs!
On average, everybody swallows about 2 spiders a year while they are sleeping

Eewww....

Trinity · Post by **Trinity** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:27 am

The park that houses the Tomb of the Unknown Solider Monuement in Center City PA ( Historic District ) was recenlty re-built up as people's dogs were digging up human remains. heh. Artifacts from teh Revolutionary and Civil Wars were being dropped off at teh Art Museum, and some were found in auctions. Things like rings ( and finger bones ), belt buckles, boots ( and leg bones ), human femurs..., heh.

Apparenetly the entire park was the yard for the Debtor's Prision ( who's facade and barred windows still stand ). This yard was th eonly place they could bury the dead prisoners. Some Hussian soliders are also burried here.

Intresting extra tidbit, the Hussian Soliders are burried face down with their feet pointed into the air. The going superstition was that the soul left the body and headed in teh direction the face, faced.

;)

So Americans were senidng the Hussian where they felt they belonged. To that warm toasty place.

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:52 pm

Excelsia wrote: and can make boneless meat hard.

(....not exactly a fact, but pretty funny anyway. )

*slapps face* groans, that some thing that people would expect from me!!! ps your making my uhhhh scratch that.

Hamster · Post by **Hamster** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:39 pm

Black Shuck wrote:Going with gross stuff in food
On average, every chocolate bar contains 3 insect legs
Cereal is allowed to have so many impurities depending upon its volume, which mean large quanities of cereal can have dead bugs in them

This one doesn't have to do with food, but it has bugs!
On average, everybody swallows about 2 spiders a year while they are sleeping Eewww....

To be honest, as long as I can't taste it, see it, and it doesn't make me sick, I don't care.

Around the world, about 100 million people will go bowling today.

(speaking of gross) It was illegal to bathe in boston in 1845 unless you had and doctor's prescription.

The moon weighs 81 billion tons

Wolfhanyou · Post by **Wolfhanyou** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:56 pm

I have some

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

In the United States, a pound of potato chips cost two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:54 am

Hamster wrote:
The moon weighs 81 billion tons

I'd like to see the scale they used.

Se-gi of the wolves · Post by **Se-gi of the wolves** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:38 pm

In the Black Sea there is so much salt that you cannot swim in it you can only float..or walk

Black Shuck · Post by **Black Shuck** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:46 pm

lol, That'd be awesome! Yes! You too can walk on water!

The US Constitution was made out of hemp (marijuana) paper (George Washington had a marijuana field too

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Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:05 pm

Se-gi of the wolves wrote:In the Black Sea there is so much salt that you cannot swim in it you can only float..or walk

I wonder which one has more salt? The Black sea or the Dead sea? Or are they both the same the same body of water with different names?

Black Shuck · Post by **Black Shuck** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:07 pm

Wait a sec- isn't the dead sea by like, Isreal and more like a lake and the Black sea by Romania or something? Geography class was so long ago (but I'm glad to be out of it

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Short Tail · Post by **Short Tail** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:45 pm

The new york cheescake was actualy started in New York Texas.

The smallest county in Texas (population wise) is Loving County with a total of 65 people(as of 2001).

Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.

for hamster:All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.(go them)

Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.

The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.

The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour

The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.

The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.
I R teh shiz at trivia

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:49 pm

Petard wrote:Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.

I've heard something similar: 99% of all species that have existed on this planet are currently extinct.

Short Tail · Post by **Short Tail** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:51 pm

yeah, a book I read once went as far as to say 99.9% but i went with 90 to be safe

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:49 pm

Wolfhanyou wrote: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

I always thought this was pretty funny. Whoever named it had a weird sense of humor. I can just see it now, some guy with that condition:

"For many years, I have suffered from...AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

I've also always thought it was humorous that people who have a lisp can't actually say 'lisp'. The first speech therapists were rather devious.

outwarddoodles · Post by **outwarddoodles** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:51 pm

(speaking of gross) It was illegal to bathe in boston in 1845 unless you had and doctor's prescription.

I don't know if this inculds 1945 but back then batheing was considered unhealthy as they said it would wash away the oils that protect you. People would only bathe a couple times, if not maybe just once, a year.

Of all the words in the English language only three start with 'dw'.

Of all the words in the English Dictionary the word 'set' has the most definitions.
Take a Look

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:25 pm

Black Shuck wrote:lol, That'd be awesome! Yes! You too can walk on water!
The US Constitution was made out of hemp (marijuana) paper (George Washington had a marijuana field too )

Yeah!!!! washington was pot head!!!

i can see it now, president gorage washington sitting in his study smoking mary jane and saying "i wonder if i shove food up my butt will i poop out of my mouth?"

Set · Post by **Set** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:46 pm

The yo-yo was originally invented to be a weapon.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:56 pm

Reilune wrote:The yo-yo was originally invented to be a weapon.

how ironic a girl in my class searched for facts today and mentioned that same thing"yo yos were orignaly used as weapons". Now you.

Set · Post by **Set** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:20 pm

Sonic the hedgehog was going to be a bunny.
Barbie was intended to be a joke. It was also the first doll to have boobs.
Men can lactate.
Horses never get fleas.
The grave of Vlad Tepes Dracula (Vlad the impaler) is empty.
Thailand used to be known as Siam.
There are places like the Bermuda Triangle all over the world.
Wolfsbane and Monkshood are the same plant.
Ravens can be taught how to talk.
Pennsylvania means "Penn's woods".
Dentures are radioactive.
Avocado seeds are poisonous.

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:26 pm

Reilune wrote:Sonic the hedgehog was going to be a bunny.

I remember that fact when I was such a fanatic of sonic the hedgehog that the only sites I would go into is sonic the hedgehog QUOTE: Sonic HQ rocks!! I saw the original rough draft drawing that suppose to be how the game is made. That Yuji Naka is soo crazy!

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:29 pm

And yes there are places like the bermuda but are they shaped like a triangle?

Aki · Post by **Aki** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:52 pm

Shadow Wulf wrote:And yes there are places like the bermuda but are they shaped like a triangle?

On the exact oppsite side of the planet near japan there is a similkar triangle.

Its like the weirdness goes through the planet from bermuda out the other side.