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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!
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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...
Fish can yawn
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovalcanoconiosis is the longest word in the dictionary/English language.
>> lolwut?Quote:
Originally Posted by trip090
Here are a few for you...
Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads the same way human males do.
A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
Each year, more people are killed by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Amazing, no??
More people die from tripping over hamsters than they do from shark attacks.
Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time!
Human beings shed about 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime
Apples float, but pears sink. Thats how you can tell them apart!
Looking this up on wikipedia led me to the word, or name really, Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakit anatahu.Quote:
Originally Posted by sackfedora
That in itself is interesting but the pronuciation is the really interesting part. Just listen for yourself and see if you hear anything that sounds like a certain other word.
Or look at them:pQuote:
Originally Posted by chimpskylark
Ant's don't sleep
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love you Doopz:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Doopz479
That's something you don't hear everyday. Thanks for the "Fact"Quote:
Originally Posted by sackgirl4ever
on average, one hundred people die every year because they choked-
on ballpoint pens.
T_T no prob...Quote:
Originally Posted by CrazeAlec
In Singapore it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum
Baby beavers are called kittens
Christmas became a national holiday in the U.S. in 1890
In Kentucky, it is illegal to cary ice cream in your back pocket
Yup
in texas police can move your elephant if it is parked illegally... you will also receive a fine
In Tennessee it is illegal to shoot a whale from inside a moving vehicle.
The problem with that is there is no whales in Tennessee :p
Oh yah
In Illinois it is illegal to hum on a public street on sundays
In Arkansas, it is illegal to pronounce it "Ar- Kansas" instead of "Ar-can-saw"
This video is offensive to Chinese people:p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HIavxnUHls
Everyone Chinese on LBPC wants to hurt me:frightened:
And I'm probably gonna get banned from this site [please don't:(]:p
The guy above me smells. xD FACT.
Due to the pressure created by the heart sending blood to their heads, Giraffes cannot move their neck too quickly, and must be very careful when lying down otherwise they'd lose the pressure and die :( >.<
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
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