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Interesting Facts

Postby garowegal » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:25 am

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions.
After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retard.

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

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

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

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

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangiha ngaoauauotametea turipukakpikimau
ngahoronukupokai whenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.

If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze,
you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and
always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby Icekristella » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:29 am

[quote="garowegal"].

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

.[/quote]

There is no escaping the hated calories..........lol

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby SahanGalbeed » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:29 am

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

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby garowegal » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:31 am

lol this is my Fave
"Elephants are the only animals that can't jump."
Thank God!

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby Anab » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:36 am

'It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. '



ha ha ha ha ha



PS: Now i know why pigs can't fly eh? lol
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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby LiquidHYDROGEN » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:39 am

Xabashi women can hold their shit in for nine-months.

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby Anab » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:47 am

'Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf. '


This is the most fascinating. Why would Graham marry a deaf woman? lol This clearly proove every man wants to marry his mom! loool

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby LiquidHYDROGEN » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:35 pm

[quote="Anab"]'It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. '



ha ha ha ha ha



PS: Now i know why pigs can't fly eh? lol[/quote]

No, not every man, just ones with Oedipus Complex.

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby LiQaaye_TDH » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:42 pm

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.


loool

funny and intressting

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby Gatspy » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:59 pm

"A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions.
After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retard."

I wonder if she got an A for that assignment

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby Murax » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:04 pm

In Garowe, Goats outnumber people 100-1!

j/k, lool.

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby garowegal » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:05 pm

[quote="Murax"]In Garowe, Goats outnumber people 100-1!

j/k, lool.[/quote]

lool.

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby Somali_4Life » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:07 pm

[quote="abdi.ismail"]Xabashi women can hold their shit in for nine-months.[/quote]
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby Anab » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:06 pm

[quote="Gatspy"]"A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions.
After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retard."

I wonder if she got an A for that assignment[/quote]

Gatsby dont make fun of psychology student pls! :)

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby Shankaroon_614 » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:06 pm

"If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day."

Loool what?


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