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Fun Facts
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:30 pm
by Figarou
How about we start a new game.
Post true facts about anything. Some of us could learn something.
Most Shoplifted Book
The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:38 pm
by Figarou
'Seizure Alert' dogs can alert their owners up to an hour before the onset of an epileptic seizure.
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:40 pm
by Kzinistzerg
The Parrot is almost sentient.
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:40 pm
by Black Shuck
Some dogs are trained to detect cancer
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:40 pm
by Kzinistzerg
Vibrating shoes can help the elderly
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:45 pm
by Black Shuck
When Phillips developed the first CD in the early '80s, they used Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to determine how many minutes it would be
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:46 pm
by Fenrir
In the old Soviet Union it was illegal to play the game Monopoly.
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:46 pm
by Hamster
OOO, Trivia! I love Trivia's! Makes you seem smarter.
Real weird laws:
In, Ohio, it is illegal to get a fish drunk.
It is illegal for ugly people to walk the streets of Holywood.
It is also illegal to show your bare buttocks in Holywood.
Other facts
Mcdonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys.
Eating Jell-o makes you nail stronger.
In 1776, those who made $4k a year were considered wealthy.
Most heart attacks occur in the morning.
Barbie dolls didn't have a bellybutton untill 2000.
Clinophobia: fear of beds.
(this fact makes me want to give my organs away when I die)
87,000 people is on the waiting list for body organs.
Some Iranian woman claimed she gave birth to a frog last year.
7 percent of people wish they were the opposite sex (not me!

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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:55 pm
by Black Shuck
My hometown (Moab, Utah) is the only place in Utah you can a shot (of alcohol) and a beer at the same time
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:58 pm
by Kzinistzerg
White furred cats with blue eyes tend to be deaf.
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:01 pm
by Figarou
A subordinate wolf will cringe towards the leader with tail low and bent legs, ears back and down, in a submissive nature. At other times, active submission involves a group of subordinate wolves surrounding the dominant wolf with their noses up against it. Sometimes the pack will howl.
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:02 pm
by Hamster
A ten year old mattress weighs twice as what it did when it was new because of stuff like dust mites, mold, dead skin cells, lint, pollen, and sweat in it.

Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:02 pm
by Black Shuck
Sometimes I wish my cat was deaf. Naw- mute! lol
In Ireland, it's good luck to have a black cat cross your path and bad luck if a white cat does (might not hear you coming, lol). In America, it's the other way around.
And in Spain, Tuesday the 13th is their version of Friday the 13th.
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:06 pm
by Figarou
Hamster wrote:A ten year old mattress weighs twice as what it did when it was new because of stuff like dust mites, mold, dead skin cells, lint, pollen, and sweat in it.


Ewwww..you won't find me on an old bed!!
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:11 pm
by Black Shuck
Eww!

Our cats would crawl into one of the mattresses because there was a hole in the bottom. Add another 10 lbs due to my cats' excessive shedding

Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:00 pm
by Hamster
Men are six times more likely to get hit by lightning than women.
Every human is 99.9 percent genetically identical.
Because it gives a feeling of love and calmness to a man, a man is less likely to get in a car accident on their way to work if they are kissed on the way out. Sweet.
Barbie's full name is :Barbara Millicent Roberts
:Edit:

Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:01 pm
by Figarou
Hamster wrote:Men are six times more likely to get hit by lightning than men.
than women, correct?
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:02 pm
by Anubis
licking your own elbo is imposible.
your body will be 100% new in 7 years
saturn has such a low density it can float on water(if you can find a bath tub that can fit the darn thing)
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:09 pm
by Black Shuck
Anubis wrote:licking your own elbo is imposible.
There's a kid in my school that can (supposedly) lick her own elbow. My New Mission: Find out

And get proof! lol
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:11 pm
by Lupin
Anubis wrote:saturn has such a low density it can float on water(if you can find a bath tub that can fit the darn thing)
The sun also has an average density of a a glass of water.
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:12 pm
by Hamster
lightning can also be hotter then the sun.
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:47 am
by Razo wolf
90% lightning never touches the ground. the bolts of electricity meet in the air, like the earth sends a spark and the coud does also and the charges meet. and some just jump from coud to cloud. and if you are close enough to hear thunder your close enough to get hit by lightning
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:51 am
by Figarou
Razo wolf wrote:90% lightning never touches the ground. the bolts of electricity meet in the air, like the earth sends a spark and the coud does also and the charges meet. and some just jump from coud to cloud. and if you are close enough to hear thunder your close enough to get hit by lightning
Well, I was almost hit by lightning a few weeks ago. It was loud!! I almost jumped out of my shoes!!
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:52 am
by Black Shuck
It's amazing how many people die by lightning strikes in the desert. Some people loose 5 IQ for every mile they travel away home. Just some, not everyone does because somebody has to watch after the ones that do

And now for one my 9th grade Honors English teacher taught us:
A cockroach can live on the oil in a human fingerprint for 6 months.
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:55 am
by Hamster
You really don't get a cramp if you swim right after you eat.