Topic: I'm a wealth of useless information LOL
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Thu 07/05/07 08:57 AM
SOME INTERESTING FACTS:

1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."

315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.

56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.

7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A ****roach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
(Man, that's not a lotta time to cram sex in)

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

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

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.

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

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana. (Poor Monkey)

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (WOW)!

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee. (Does that include de caf)?

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

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

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!

A whale's penis is called a dork.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying. (Typical English idiosyncrasies)

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

All porcupines float in water.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.

America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men. (Had to be)

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone
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An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day. (That must make me above the average then lol)

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex. (MAN THAT MUST SUCK)

Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement." (No sh1t)?

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Bubble gum contains rubber. (Some blow job)!

Camel's milk does not curdle.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.


"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." (Hmmm)?

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. (In case one is only injured I suppose)

During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

Even if you cut off a ****roach's head, it can live for several weeks.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

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

Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

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

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
(WHY)?

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. (As is 'I do')


If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.

If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast. (Maybe he didn't want to live on the breadline anymore)

In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows,
(Is that a load of bull)?

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.

In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.


It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. (YUK)!

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

It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!) (lol)

John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: "L.A."

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.

Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds. (Lucky Montpelier I say)

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

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. (Should teach them not to go making asses of themselves).

Mosquitoes have teeth. (Of course they do. That's why the bite is so painful)

Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.

Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

Most lipstick contains fish scales. (Now ya know ladies)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
(Do not try this out at home)

One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
(And there's me thinking it was just a big gaseous ball of fire)

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
(Looks like China is gonna expand even more)

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Han**** and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

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

Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
(No wonder they make me fart well)

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

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

Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.
That should please Imbroglio lol

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
So now ya know!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Is the same true of condoms?

Slugs have 4 noses.

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food. (Adds a new dimension to going down on yourself)

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
(Meowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww)

The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.

The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

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

The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

The average person laughs 15 times a day.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.


The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." (SO THERE!)

The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.


The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
(No comment neccessary)

The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.


The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
That's a poultry piece of info)

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.


The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
(I wonder if it sterilized him as well)?

The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
(I thought it was 'Wang')

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.


The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
(WHY NOT)? Maybe it's all Greek to them.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
(And I got the patent out on that)!

The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
Figures.

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
(The DODO can't do either. Blah!)


The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
(No sh1t)

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
(Well, they didn't have t.v. then did they)?


The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.


The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.

The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
I thought it was a fish?

The four best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
Now. About those safe combination numbers....

The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
(Anyone wanna 'samba')?


The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
(Someone somewhere has a very sore jaw).

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.


There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo.
(Are you a Texan? No. I'm a dildo!!!!!!!!!)

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
Make sure you make it snappy though)

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees).


Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.
(No comment)

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.

You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.
(Unless you're a cookie monster)

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

You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. glasses

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Thu 07/05/07 09:00 AM
lmao, glad i dont use lipstick

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Thu 07/05/07 09:02 AM
damn u r bored dude

thedoctor's photo
Thu 07/05/07 09:10 AM
....samba sounds just like the one-eyed trouser snake rhumba..laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

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Thu 07/05/07 09:14 AM
I must be bored too...........

The name "Google" is a play on the word "googol," which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. A googol refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by 100 zeros. A googol is a very large number. There isn't a googol of anything in the universe -- not stars, not dust particles, not atoms. Google's use of the term reflects our mission to organize the world's immense (and seemingly infinite) amount of information and make it universally accessible and useful








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Thu 07/05/07 09:17 AM
....nice eggs...laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

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Thu 07/05/07 09:17 AM
LMAO! {{{{{Mama}}}}}

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Anzhelika_VN's photo
Thu 07/05/07 09:17 AM
What a big quantity of useless information....

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Thu 07/05/07 09:18 AM
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Dada and I miss you.smooched smooched smooched

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Thu 07/05/07 09:25 AM
Miss you both too! flowerforyou

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