Interesting Facts Thread

[swedeace]

So, you think you know everything?

-A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
-A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
-A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
-A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
-A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
-A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
-A snail can sleep for three years.
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
-All 50 U.S. states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on
the back of the $5 bill.
-Almonds are a member of the peach family.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
-Butterflies taste with their feet.
-Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
-"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
-February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
-In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
-If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
-If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
-Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
-No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
-On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
-Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
-Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
-Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
-"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
-The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
-The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
-The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
-The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
-The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
-The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
-There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
-There are more chickens than people in the world.
-There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
-There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
-There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
-Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
-TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
-Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
-Women blink an early twice as much as men.
-Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.

.............Now you know everything

Interesting facts, huh?

[D.J.]

Not bad. Here are some more:


1)Seattle, Washington is the most eligible place for bachelors.
2)Also, Seattle, Washington is the most educated city in the United States with over half its residents holding at least a bachelors degree.
3)When Ronald Reagan died in 2004, he was the first former president to die since Richard Nixon in 1994.

[tv star collector]

A few of these I had heard before; most I did not know. Oh, they did finally
add Betty Rubble to the Flintstones Vitamins.

[Ireneparalegal]

It also took Leonardo Da Vinci TEN YEARS to paint the lips of the Mona Lisa.

[theshark8777]

The only state capital without a McDonalds is Montpelier, Vermont.

[Ireneparalegal]

There is coffee flavored PEZ...

[TJL]

I just got myself a whole bunch of new pickup lines...

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by TJL

I just got myself a whole bunch of new pickup lines...

Well, alrighty then, get that batmobile, use your pick up lines and see what you get!!! LOL

[Hollow]

i'm a girl.

[EmoJoe]

Originally Posted by swedeace

-Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

you is a r4cist

[Chad Michael Murray]

WOW, the one that amazes me the most is that our eyes are the same size from birth. I actually found myself sitting here, trying to logically think it out, comparing babies eyes I've seen against the eyes of all of the adults I've seen. You'd always just assume babies eyes would be smaller than an adult, but I guess not! Weird.

[MsOrange]

Originally Posted by Chad Michael Murray

WOW, the one that amazes me the most is that our eyes are the same size from birth. I actually found myself sitting here, trying to logically think it out, comparing babies eyes I've seen against the eyes of all of the adults I've seen. You'd always just assume babies eyes would be smaller than an adult, but I guess not! Weird.

that's exactly what i was thinking!!!

[Wreckless]

Post any and all interesting facts about the world- it can be about anything, I just want this to be a cool thread where loads of people can look and post sometimes useless or random facts that people will enjoy, get kicks out of or use for statistics etc.

Here are some to start, you can Google interesting facts to find some!

1. California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.

2. Kangaroos can not walk backwards.

3. 'Jedi' is an official religion, with over 70,000 followers, in Australia.

4. According to a recent survey, more than half of British adults have had sex in a public place!

5. Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

6. Nachos is the food most craved by pregnant women.

7. Each year, 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

8. Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

9. The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.

10. On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.

11. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

12. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.

13. Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate every second.

14. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline.

15. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.

16. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

17. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design.

18. How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.

19. Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

20. In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!

21. The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.

22. During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles.

23. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.

24. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

25. There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.

26. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

27. More than 2 million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.

28. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

29. Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!

30. Avocados have more protein than any other fruit.

31. The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!

32. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

33. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die!

34. The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.

35. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

36. Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

37. In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog!

38. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

39. Half of all identity thieves are either relatives, friends, or neighbors of their victims.

40. One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.

[Wreckless]

LOL @ the Calvin Coolidge fact. Getting his head rubbed by vasoline while eating breakfast .

[Dude111]

Alot of that stuff I did not know!!