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 Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:54 pm
Howdy! I figured this forum could use a thread with some interesting snibbits of fascinating information that no one really cares about. So um, here are a few to get you crazy fools started.
Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground.
Cinderella is known as Zezolla in Italy.
The most popular pizza topping in South Korea is tuna.
Two dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
The "#" symbol's name is really "octothorpe".
The longest game of Monopoly played underwater is 45 days.
In South Africa, termites are roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
More men stutter than women.
The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
The opposite of "cross-eyed" is "wall-eyed."
Cats spend more than half of their lives asleep.
Nonsmokers dream more than smokers.
Heehee, I've got billions of those. But I wanna hear yours. Post away! ^^
-Ravi
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:51 pm
I have billions, too. Lemmie think.
The Pacific Ocean is twice the size of the Atlantic Ocean and larger than all of the continents combined.
Survey -> 70% of employers don't like hiring married couples to work in the same office.
Johnny Carson once hosted a game show called, 'Earn Your Vacation.'
Hardboiling ostrich eggs can take up to four hours.
No one knows why all the continents are larger at the north than at the south. (Is this true for Australia?)
37% of U.S. coffee drinkers use milk and sugar, 21% drink it black.
Hansel means 'Johnny' in German. (So, I'm thinking, Grettel means 'Jane,' so instead of Hansel and Grettel, it's actually Johnny and Jane.)
The average U.S. farm has 467 acres of land. The average Japanese farm has 3 acres.
End to end, the number of Crayola crayons made in a year would circle the globe four and a half times.
If you melted down all of the Crayola crayons made in a year, it would be something along the three and a half times the size of the Statue of Liberty (I can't remember exactly.)
The most frequently used words in the English language are the, of, and, to, a, in, that, is, for, and as.
In skywriting, the average letter is nearly 2 miles high.
For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter of a pound of salt.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt were fifth cousins.
Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream gives its ice cream waste to Vermont farms, where it is used as pig feed. The pigs will eat it all, except for Mint Oreo, which they refuse to eat. (I'd refuse to eat it too.)
That's all for now, haha.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:02 am
Rats can't throw up. xp ew...
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:43 am
Sweet. XD
Chickens can't swallow while upside down. o_o
And... um... my full list is on my comp at home, I'll post again after school.
Later! ^^
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:00 pm
I have like, 40, all about rats, but I'm too LAZY. Rofl.
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Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:02 pm
Allodoxaphobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of opinions.
While Agateophobia refers to an abnormal and persistent fear of insanity.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:06 pm
Cardiophobia is the fear of heart attacks.
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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:27 pm
Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high."
3nodding Mreow?
*flops around the floor*
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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 1:11 am
It is illegal to fish off the back of a camel in Idaho.
It is also illegal to push a moose out of a plane... but only in Alaska.
In my town, it is illegal to walk down Main St. backwards, with an ice cream cone in your back pocket, on Thursdays after 4:00 pm. No joke, I'm serious. xd
The common house fly does not have a complete digestive system, and therefore dies from extreme pain in the abdominal area after around a month.
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Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:00 pm
If you tie an elephant to a parking meter in Orlando, Florida, you have to 'feed' the meter as if the elephant was a vehicle.
=X I've heard of that one law for your town, but I can't remember the name of it!
In Vancouver, Canada, the maximum speed for a tricycle on the freeway is 10 km/ph.
I have one question. When exactly did tricycles and elephants become that BIG of a problem in these cities?
EVEN MORE SO, I don't want to know how this state had to decide on making THIS a law - In Maryland, it is illegal for a child to marry their grandparent.
Oh, and another Canadian favorite - it is illegal to pay for anything in pennies if the amount is more than 25 cents. (The story that goes along with this one is actually quite good. A man owed like, a quarter of a million dollars to this other guy, and the guy had been on the man's butt forever, so finally, he paid the man - all in pennies. It took something like 92 dump trucks full of pennies. Can you imagine going THROUGH this process?)
And I only have one more wacky Canadian law - "You can keep chickens in a shed, and you can keep cows in a shed, but it is illegal to keep chickens and cows in the same shed in Yukon Territory, Canada."
=X I believe it's in Maine that if an object is smaller than a man's pinkie finger, he can legally beat his wife with it.
And in Missouri, it is ILLEGAL for a woman to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:12 pm
[ Message temporarily off-line ]
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:33 pm
I knew Spain. ; I know I open my fridge more. I drink around 22 glasses of something every day. ; I knew Mother Teresa's name, too. ; I did NOT know that one. Dogs annoy me. ; I can't snap. ; ROFLMAO. Hoy hoy, baby. ; Onions don't have a taste, they only have a smell. ; I knew about topless saleswomen, as well. ;
Income tax was started by Abe Lincon (sp?). =X I'm too braindead to come up with more.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:41 am
Paws-chan has a thing for weird laws. >.>
In Hartford CT, it is illegal to educate dogs.
In Brooklyn NY, it is illegal to take baths on Saturday nights.
In Los Angeles CA, it is legal for a man to beat his wife with a leather strap, so long as it is less then two inches wide.
Also in Los Angeles, it is a misdemeaner to shoot any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless it is a whale.
In Pacific Grove CA, molesting butterflies can get you a $500 fine.
In Hawaii, it is illegal to own a mongoose without a permit.
Bird have all the rights of way on highways in Utah.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:20 pm
Five from me today concerning... our bodies. 3nodding
During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
The average human bladder can hold 13 ounces of liquid.
You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight five-pound flour bags.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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TinyChinaDoll Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:44 pm
gonk
Interesting, and a bit unsetting JTN D=!
The most popular and relieving massage technique is actually an emptying of the human colon through external squeezing.
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