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Report, edit, etc...Posted by Freedawk on 2005-10-09 at 17:04:06
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!


The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!


Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!


The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!


A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!

Slugs have 4 noses!

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!


Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!


The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!

Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!



If anyone has more post please...(im tryin to show my friend that yes there is strange things in the world)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by HorroR on 2005-10-09 at 17:26:42
In space, sound waves can't travel through empty space, so even if a person is "yelling" at the top of their lungs, you hear nothing, per se someone is stupid enough to take off their helmet.

Of course..mostly everyone knows this, but, play some Led Zeppelin songs backwards and you hear satanic messages.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-10-09 at 17:38:02
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Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

This isn't funny, it's obvious. Heat moves upwards.

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Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!

Actually not true. Recent studies have revealed that the amount of energy used in the recycling process is more energy than you save.

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There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!

It's just a name. The Geek Squad isn't a squad of any kind.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by D)s-202 on 2005-10-09 at 18:08:41
a car is smashed into ever 5 seconds.

a baby is born ever 20 seconds.

a person dies every 15 seconds.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-10-09 at 18:14:12
185,000 People are born per day
Report, edit, etc...Posted by notnuclearrabbit on 2005-10-09 at 19:08:48
[center]nuclearrabbit is the undisputed master of everything.[/center]
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Centreri on 2005-10-09 at 19:16:35
Cant argue with that one nuclearrabbit tongue.gif
Oh and ds, i think its a person is born every 6 seconds and a person dies every 7 seconds.. or something like that.

Every time you flush a toilet lots of tiny drops fly out and land on your person tongue.gif

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2005-10-09 at 19:30:32
When you're sick, your fingernails and hair grow faster.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by notnuclearrabbit on 2005-10-09 at 19:33:05
[center]Fingernails grow 4.8 times faster than toenails.[/center]
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Merrell on 2005-10-09 at 20:45:34
Seriously yae, what the hell. Please stay out of topics if all you're going to do is spam. People do not want you spamming your bullcrap in them.

Oh, strange facts?
The smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long, 1/20th the thickness of a human hair.
It is playable, when the strings were plucked they vibrated at 1,000 times higher then the human ear can hear.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Ultimo on 2005-10-09 at 20:46:27
QUOTE(D)s-202 @ Oct 9 2005, 03:08 PM)
a car is smashed into ever 5 seconds.

a baby is born ever 20 seconds.

a person dies every 15  seconds.
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Are you suggesting the population is rapidly going down?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by SiLeNT(U) on 2005-10-09 at 21:10:18
QUOTE(YaeXirillion @ Oct 9 2005, 07:29 PM)
God has 3 eyes..
Trust me i know
I only drink about 30 sodas an year..
But still im not average....
Did you know the most popular last name is wong
But there is no muhammed wongs
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Actually I'm sure there is atleast one muhammed wong out there.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-10-09 at 21:33:30
not an single on
And i was on topic You a Hole Merrall
Did you know the average rate Of kids puking on halloween is one in every 20 Children?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mr.Kirbycode774 on 2005-10-09 at 21:41:15
I have a 75 win streak in Bomberman 2.7 on US West.

The SI (International System of units) defines the second as the time required for an atom of cesium-133 to vibrate in a particular way 9,192,631,770 times.

There are 128 smilies you can choose from the clickable smilies (Show all)

When Merrel's animation freezes, his nose covers one of his eyes.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-10-09 at 21:44:04
My Half of foot miiniture pincher can jump 5 ft in the air
Report, edit, etc...Posted by warhammer40000 on 2005-10-09 at 21:48:38
Got these thanks to a crazy dude from Variety Villa.


-You swallow about one quart of snot every day.
-Your mouth is the most unsanitary part of your whole
body. More than 100 million microcreatures live there at any one time.
-there are some live-birthing sharks where the babies may eat their siblings while still inside the mother's womb.
-If you try to stop vomit by closing your mouth, it will come out through your nose.
-Charles blamens used a piece of a criminal´s skin as a bookmark.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PlayaR on 2005-10-09 at 22:15:41
i got alot of strange facts i got from somewhere tongue.gif
ill post them here when i finish typing them all lol
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2005-10-09 at 22:21:56
I'm jesus.

Contrary to popular believe there is an upper limit to how hot something can get.

*Grabs guiness book

The nearest extrasolar planet orbits Epsilon Eridani.

Prehistoric dragonflies grew to a 27.5" wing span.

The only music featureing the word "Wookiee" is rap.

A paragrin Falcon can see 5 miles.

I'm jesus.

The largest wasps nest ever was 17 lbs.

The CN tower is 55,333 cm tall.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Sessase on 2005-10-09 at 22:23:16
F.U.C.K is french word...
It's real meaning is: Fournication Under Council of the King
That mean if you wanteds to have sex with your wife, you had to ask the council, if your resquest was accepted you had to put a sign "Fu*k" on your door.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-10-09 at 22:42:43
Im syphons father
My 5 year old kat nurses on my 1 year old Kat who just had Cattins
I cook so well i gave my uncle an heart attack.
I like bobble heads.
I once saw a chick french kiss an dog.
i once saw a Girl stick an kitten in her pants
I once saw A dog Rape an chick
Im Syphons father
if you pull on an chicks Bra it makes her boobs smaller
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PlayaR on 2005-10-09 at 22:54:33
here they are biggrin.gif 40 strange facts i got from a book lol

1.The statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long
2.Rain has never been recorded un some parts of atacama desert in chile
3.footprints left on the moon my astronauts will remain for atleast tem million years
4.A person living to age 65 will have slept for about 220,000 hours or about 23 years
5.A Boeing 747's wingspam is long than the wright brother's fight flight
6.They have square watermelon in japan. They're grown in boxes to make them stack better
7.There as many chickens on this planet as humans
8.Mel Blanc, the man who played the voice of bugs bunny was alergic to carrots
9.One type of humming bird weighs less then a penny
10.Slugs have 4 noses
11."ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways in the nglish language
12.Sharks can live up to 100 years.
13.Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color
14.A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
15.Kangaroos cant walk backwards
16.You would need 14,826 billion fireflies to generate as much light as the sun
17.An underground mushroom in oregon is 3.5 miles across and covers as area larger then 1600 foot ball feilds
18.A snail could crawl across the edge of a razor without getting cut
19.Tigers have striped skin, not just for stripped fur
20.The california state flag was suposed to feature a pear not a bear
21.A kangaroo cant jump unless its tail is touching the ground
22.Fish cant blink because they dont have eyelids
23.Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital
24.Approximatly 75 acres of pizza is consumed in the United States everyday
25.There arent any billboard in the state of Vermont
26.Its supposeddly impossible to sneeze with your eye open
27.The largest recorded snowflake is 15 inches wider and 8 inches thing which fell in montana in 1887
28.A day on Venus is equal to 243 earth days
29.Former USpresident Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his presidency career
30.Koalas are the only animals bisides and other primates that have finger prints
31.A fly flies slower when the sun is behind the cloud than when it is sunny
32.The sahara desert in africs is approximately the same size as the united states
33.90 percent os all specia that have become extinct have been birdds
34.In the caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
35.It takes more calories to eat a peice of celery then the celery has in it to begin with
36.Starfish have multiple eyes, one at the end of each leg
37.The world's largest Montessori school is in india, with 26,312 students enrooled in 2002
38.An octopus has 3 hearts
39.There are about 1/4 pound of salt in each gallon os seawater
40.Elephant purr like cats do, as means of communication

took me like 40 minutes to write them all down from my book disgust.gif
so you guys better like it!!
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2005-10-09 at 23:03:15
QUOTE(Sessase @ Oct 9 2005, 08:23 PM)
F.U.C.K is french word...
It's real meaning is: Fournication Under Council of the King
That mean if you wanteds to have sex with your wife, you had to ask the council, if your resquest was accepted you had to put a sign "Fu*k" on your door.
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That's not true at all.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Shmeeps on 2005-10-09 at 23:20:29
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A paragrin Falcon can see 5 miles.

We can see, I believe, 22.7 miles, though not clearly.

-The word S.H.I.T. actually stands for Ship High In Transit. This was a warning label put on ships carring manure on them, because people would smoke on them, ingniting the fumes and manure, causing the ship to blow up/ignite.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2005-10-10 at 01:14:23
QUOTE(Shmeeps @ Oct 9 2005, 09:20 PM)
We can see, I believe, 22.7 miles, though not clearly.

-The word S.H.I.T. actually stands for Ship High In Transit. This was a warning label put on ships carring manure on them, because people would smoke on them, ingniting the fumes and manure, causing the ship to blow up/ignite.
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I ment they can see that far as clearly as you can see your monitor right now.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PlayaR on 2005-10-10 at 10:13:16
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft

thats just weird lol
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