Topic: Weird And Strange Facts
Ladylid2012's photo
Wed 11/25/09 02:35 AM


1.) A shrimp's heart is in its head.

2.) The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest
tongue twister in the English language.

3.) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a
million descendants.

4.) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your
ear by 700 times.

5.) In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

6) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

7.) Most lipstick contains fish scales.

8.) Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

9.) If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress
a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

10.) If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

11.) In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one
reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

12.) It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

13.) A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

14.) More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a
telephone call.

15.) Horses can't vomit.

16.) In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the
world's nuclear weapons combined.

17.) On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

18.) On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

19.) Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived
immigrants.

20.) Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are
already married.

21.) Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

22.) Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

23.) It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

24.) Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

25.) It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

26.) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year
because when it was built, engineers failed to o take into account the
weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

27.) A snail can sleep for three years.

28.) No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."

29.) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.

30.) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

31.) All polar bears are left handed.

32.) In ancient Egypt , priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

33.) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

34.) TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only
on one row of the keyboard.

35.) "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

36.) If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She
would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

37.) A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

38.) The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

39.) Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

40.) Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.



Italy0219's photo
Wed 11/25/09 02:57 AM
Wow noway

Dict8's photo
Wed 11/25/09 03:02 AM
Each year more people are kicked to death by donkeys than die in plane crashes.:tongue:

62easygoing's photo
Wed 11/25/09 03:25 AM
No. 40.....surprised surprised

Ladylid2012's photo
Wed 11/25/09 03:51 AM

No. 40.....surprised surprised


yeah..you tried it didn't you.. laugh

krupa's photo
Wed 11/25/09 04:44 AM
Genetically speaking, all cheetahs are identical twins.

Einstien patented his carbonation process in 1956...otherwise beer and soda would still be flat.

It was recently discovered that the universe revolves around Krupa.

June bug larva gestate for up to 18 years before molting into june bugs.

Water is the only substance that appears in nature in solid, liquid AND gaseous form.

Ladylid2012's photo
Wed 11/25/09 04:52 AM

Genetically speaking, all cheetahs are identical twins.

Einstien patented his carbonation process in 1956...otherwise beer and soda would still be flat.

It was recently discovered that the universe revolves around Krupa.

June bug larva gestate for up to 18 years before molting into june bugs.

Water is the only substance that appears in nature in solid, liquid AND gaseous form.


Thanks Krupa for the additional strange facts..I always say , strange facts are a great way to start the day, well one of the best ways... Some confusion on the universe and it's revolving...I thought it was me in the center, hummmm, must have changed direction while I was sleeping.

krupa's photo
Wed 11/25/09 05:32 AM
No honey....there was a great article in popular science about it. At least they didn't blow billions on the Hubble telescope for nothing.

Ladylid2012's photo
Wed 11/25/09 05:37 AM

No honey....there was a great article in popular science about it. At least they didn't blow billions on the Hubble telescope for nothing.


guess I should read more science magazines then..at least no one has been shooting at the moon as of late...
oh hell, lets just spend it all..blow it all and start over, yeah, that's the ticket, just start all over again.

no photo
Wed 11/25/09 07:45 AM


No. 40.....surprised surprised


yeah..you tried it didn't you.. laugh


i tried haha

Ladylid2012's photo
Wed 11/25/09 07:47 AM



No. 40.....surprised surprised


yeah..you tried it didn't you.. laugh


i tried haha


laugh laugh

could you do it?

no photo
Wed 11/25/09 08:33 AM




No. 40.....surprised surprised


yeah..you tried it didn't you.. laugh


i tried haha


laugh laugh

could you do it?


not even close :(