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Interesting Facts

Postby SideWinder9 » Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:35 am

These have probably been posted before, but, here are some facts that the normal person (we are not normal but oh well) Doesn't need to know but are interesting.  8) 8)  



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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 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.
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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby Stormtropper » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:18 pm

Yup some of them are posted before, and some of them are not true.

But they sure are intreasting 8)

By the way, Edison invented the electric chair, and he used it on animals to demonstrate how dangerous Tesela (don't think I spelled it right)'s A/C electricity was.
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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby GeForce » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:34 pm

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


This is definitely not true. My physics teacher took a duck down a valley and proved it! ;D

Some interesting stuff tho'

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby SideWinder9 » Sun Jul 04, 2004 3:07 pm

I know that one. It was proved. I guess these are out of date!
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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby gaztop » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:31 am

;D ;D And, did you know, that, 99.9% of people that post incredible facts, are totally insane? ;D ;D ;D


One must always eat jelly with a fork.

Lol.............. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby DougC-3 » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:08 am

;D ;D And, did you know, that, 99.9% of people that post incredible facts, are totally insane? ;D ;D ;D


One must always eat jelly with a fork.

Lol.............. ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Interesting Facts

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:23 am

- 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.  

I've heard this said about most major librarys. So, whats true, the fact that one library somewhere is sinking? Or library builders never learn from their mistakes and take great delight in building sinking librarys?
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