I was bored :9
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH”.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
“Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
By: Georgii - 8th August 2002 at 19:43
RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
>No Polar Bears in the South pole, no Penguins in the North
>Pole.
Is that possibly something more than coincidence? 🙂
Georgii
If you want information send a spy. If you want goodinformation send a modeler.
By: Glenn - 8th August 2002 at 14:11
RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
Gee I have been accused of worse! Excuse my mammalian blunder! Heaven forbid..
By: Arabella-Cox - 8th August 2002 at 07:57
RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
Glenn
“>All polar bears are left handed.
South paws in the South and the North!”
The South????
How many Polar Bears do you think are at the south pole Glenn?
If you said Zero you would be right…
No Polar Bears in the South pole, no Penguins in the North Pole.
By: Glenn - 7th August 2002 at 11:32
RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
>Butterflies taste with their feet.
Hmmmm lunch…
>A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
I have been duck hunting with my Dad and I would have to disagree.
>In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the
>world’s nuclear weapons combined.
Weather, don’t you love it.
>On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens
>every year.
God, you would have to be stupid!
>On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
I believe it, its wasps for me.
>Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived
>immigrants.
And I think most of them are Pakistani too.
>Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for
>dating are already married.
Geee what a surprise!
>Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
Well, look at them!
>Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Make the most of life while you have it I guess.
>It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
hmmmmmm..
>Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Never noticed.
>The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch
>every year because when it was built, engineers failed to
>take into account the weight of all the books that would
>occupy the building.
Whoops!
>A snail can sleep for three years.
Wow, what a life!
>No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH”.
Like this a problem?
>Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Really, hell they must go through thousands of them.
>Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
>and ears never stop growing.
I knew that.
>The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Great contribution mate!
>All polar bears are left handed.
South paws in the South and the North!
>In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their
>bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
Ouch!
>An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Big surprise again there.. 😉
>TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
>letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Someone actually sat down and did that one day?
>”Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English
>language.
What about “No.”?
>If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be
>39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
Big bitch!!
>A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Why would it need to, it does not chew its food or need to lick it.
>The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Didn’t kow that one.
>Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
What about the burgers!!!!???!!!
Good stuff!
Regards, Glenn.
By: Arthur - 6th August 2002 at 08:38
RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
Garry, the QWERTY keyboard was designed to have letters which are used a lot next to each other as far apart as possible on the keyboard. This was indeed ment to avoid jamming when to ‘stamps’ positioned next to each other were launched at the paper at very close intervals.
The first operational electric chair was in fact invented by a dentist. Alfred P. Southwick built was his name-o, and it was used effectively (=terminally) on axekiller William Kelmer on Augustus 6, 1860.
Even more useless: the most expensive coffee around, Kopi Luak, is made by coffeebeans which are eaten, digested and excremented by some sort of mongoose-like marsupial called paradoxurus.
An average toilet visit consumes 8,6 sheets of toilet paper. An average person uses 20805 sheets a year.
If you keep a goldfish in the dark for a longer period of time, it will turn white.
Hey, i do this for a living (well, a part of my job actually is compilinge useless factsheets).
By: Geforce - 4th August 2002 at 18:21
RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-08-02 AT 06:22 PM (GMT)]Women blink twice as much as men, because it attracts men. The eyes are very important organs for ‘reproduction’, it’s just a natural process. OK, it’s just about sex 😀
The guillotine was also invented by a French doctor.
By: GZYL - 4th August 2002 at 15:21
RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
Cool… my head is full of more useless junk now!!!
By the way, did you know that Sharks have no bones?
By: Arabella-Cox - 4th August 2002 at 01:21
RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 04-08-02 AT 01:22Â AM (GMT)]”Butterflies taste with their feet.”
I smell with mine… }>
“Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.”
What about white men? 🙂
…or dead animals? }>
“Women blink nearly twice as much as men.”
I thought people who are lying blink more often than people who are not lying… perhaps when they were measuring how often men and women blinked they were also asking questions like “How old are you?”, and “How much do you weigh?” … }>
“Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.”
I am pretty sure my ears and nose will stop growing after I am cremated…
“All polar bears are left handed.”
Polar bears are actually rather smart… they know their black noses stand out from the generally white back ground and while stalking prey they hide their noses with their paws.
“TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.”
What about.. “dfaslkdjgalgkjalfgjadlfkhfadhdfasgkjhakhgkaldfhsakldf”
or did you just mean English words?
The qwerty typewriter keyboard layout was designed especially to favour left handed typists and also to slow down typing speed. Most typists were right handed. Early mechanical typewriters jammed if two keys were pressed too quickly so the keys were organised to reduce the typists speed to try to avoid very high speeds where the print arms might collide and lock together.
By: mixtec - 3rd August 2002 at 22:26
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Thats not true about the electric chair being invented by a dentist. It was invented by none other than Thomas Edison. There were alot of complaints about hanging being used for capital punishment because alot of people werent dying right away, but slowly being strangled to death. Thomas Edison was fiercly opposed to alternating current, so to prove that it was dangerous, he suggested using, and built an electric chair. The first electricution was a failure, the person did not die during the first try, and there was smoke coming out his head, it took to more trys to finally kill him.
By: frankvw - 3rd August 2002 at 19:59
RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
Really??? You were *bored*??? Try chess, or some flight sims, or even knitting 😛
By: kev35 - 3rd August 2002 at 17:47
RE: Weird Things You Would Never Know!!
Hi, Kab
You were bored weren’t you?
“It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.”
Who found that one out, and more to the point, why?
“The electric chair was invented by a dentist.”
Now that I can believe!
“If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.”
Obviously her inventor had a bit of a penchant for statuesque women.
“Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day”
Surely not every American?
Regards,
kev35
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