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    Post by Ahmed Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:41 pm

    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!

    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!

    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!


    ........1..2..3...breathe....and repeat...........


    The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

    Most lipstick contains fish scales!

    Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

    One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

    It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!


    The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!


    No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

    A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

    Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

    There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

    If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

    Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

    A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!



    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

    Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

    A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

    Porcupines float in water!

    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

    The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

    The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!

    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

    The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!





    ........1..2..3...you know the drill...........




    .......now wasn't that fun...back to the facts........


    The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

    Cat urine glows under a black-light!

    The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

    The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

    Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

    A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
    Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

    The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

    Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!

    A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

    Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

    A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

    A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!


    Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!


    Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!

    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

    A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

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

    The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

    It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!

    One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

    The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!

    It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!

    you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!

    Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

    Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

    The state of Florida is bigger than England!

    There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

    In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits

    It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!

    Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

    Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!




    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!

    The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!

    Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!

    A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

    In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!

    The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!

    A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!

    More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

    The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!

    The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!

    Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!


    One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!


    America once issued a 5-cent bill!

    You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!

    Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

    There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch

    Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!

    Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!

    A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
    A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!



    Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

    Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)
    166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
    1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!
    123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!
    85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
    56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!


    Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

    The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!

    In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!

    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!


    ........1..2..3...breathe....and repeat...........


    The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

    Most lipstick contains fish scales!

    Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

    One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

    It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!


    The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!


    No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

    A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

    Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

    There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

    If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

    Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

    A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!



    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

    Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

    A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

    Porcupines float in water!

    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

    The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

    The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!

    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

    The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!





    ........1..2..3...you know the drill...........




    .......now wasn't that fun...back to the facts........


    The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

    Cat urine glows under a black-light!

    The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

    The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

    Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

    A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
    Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

    The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

    Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!

    A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

    Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

    A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

    A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!


    Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!


    Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!

    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

    A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

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

    The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

    It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!

    One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

    The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!

    It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!

    you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!

    Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

    Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

    The state of Florida is bigger than England!

    There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

    In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits

    It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!

    Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

    Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
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    Post by Doc Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:21 am

    some amazing stuff ...
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    Post by preid1220 Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:56 pm

    my head is about to expload from the randomeness
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    Post by Ahmed Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:06 pm

    Ill make 2-3 more topics of random facts soon Razz
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    Post by Ladien Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:46 pm

    I like the non statisical random facts like the eletric car was invented by a dentist Smile.
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    Post by Ahmed Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:52 pm

    Its electric chair* Razz
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    Post by preid1220 Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:09 pm

    i feal sry for the guy who had 69 years of hickups
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    Post by jj16802 Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:45 pm

    wow, this forum is about to get FUBAR from these fact from fact overload.
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    Post by Ahmed Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:48 pm

    What does FUBAR mean?
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    Post by jj16802 Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:51 pm

    I thought I told you earlier: Fouled Up Beyond All Repair
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    Post by Ahmed Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:55 pm

    Oh I remember now Razz
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    Post by den denz Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:42 am

    To be fair I didn't read any of this, but its true that 90% of statistic are made up on the spot.

    That is such an oxymoron!
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    Post by Chili Dude 1 Sat Sep 27, 2008 8:47 am

    Wow that is a really high percentage rate for that stuff lol
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    Post by Steve Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:58 am

    it was made up.
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    Post by Ahmed Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:19 pm

    No it wasn't I got it from a reliable source Smile
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    Post by Doc Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:01 pm

    Nah it isn't fake, I can confrim that some of it is true Wink
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    Post by Steve Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:20 pm

    not you ahmed, denz's "fact" was made up

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