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The fig wasp has not evolved in 34 million years!
The average four year old asks about 400 questions a day (And I can vouch for this!!)
1 billion seconds ago was the year 1694!!!!
Anything cool you'd like to share?
Keep it to 3 facts per post maximum, no links and no double posting! There are only so many facts you know! Let others have a chance to post things too!
:p
Butterflies taste with their feet, and buffalos can jump 6 feet into the air from standing still.
Wow! 6 feet??Quote:
Originally Posted by DrunkenFist_Lee
Egyptians slept on stone pillows. Ancient China used to put a tax-
on beards.
I have quite a good fact, it's possibly so amazing that it must be spoilerized.
[spoiler]There's already a thread on this.[/spoiler]
Amazing huh? :)
At the time of posting this, the internet is 27 years, 4 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours and 35 minutes old!
Oh the sarcasm. It burns. >.< I searched "Facts" and couldn't find anything in my defence Doopz!Quote:
Originally Posted by Doopz479
Isn't this thread the same as "little facts in life you could live without knowing"?
I think it's weeks old already.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silverleon
Doesn't mean we need a new one though, just means the idea wore out. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by JspOt
Elks can't see colors :(
Dogs can't look up.
Big Al says so.
there are more pigs than people in denmark. 13 275 000 pigs vs. 5 400 000 people.
hippos mark their territory by swirling their tail around, sending urine and feaces around in a wide area. disgusting but true.
daniel defoe's real name was daniel foe but he added the "de" to his name when he wrote his books.
galileo galilei's finger is preserved and sotred in floren.
I'm sure people say 'bless you' because people used to think that when you sneezed, it was your body expelling demons and evil spirits out of your mouth. Saying 'bless you' meant 'may God bless you' so that the evil spirits couldn't get back in.Quote:
When you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond - this is why people say "bless you"
Not true I'm afraid, I used to think that too though.Quote:
Originally Posted by DayneOram
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/sneeze.html
The Lakers won the NBA championships.
One is the only number in which its letters are in reverse alphabetical order and forty in alphabetical order.
race car is the same word backwards... :)
if santa claus was real his sleigh would be the size of 2 titantics, he would have to visit each house in under 0.25 seconds.
amazing right? lol not really
Kayak is also the same backwards, it's known as a palindrome. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pattington_Bear
... Santa isn't real? :'o
Quote:
Originally Posted by resistance1
yep i know it's a palindrome, but i could not remember the word like 3 mins ago, we were doing it in media when studying michel gondry
"Nurse, I spy gypsies, run!"
Is also a palindrome.
Every continent's name ends in the same letter it begins with...