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05/18/2008 11:27:53 AM · #51 |
Some more utterly useless ones
1.The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
2.Polar bears are left-handed.
3.A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
4.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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05/18/2008 11:35:51 AM · #52 |
Originally posted by JulietNN:
You mean Bedrock as in the Flintstones???? |
Yes, the Flintstones. :) |
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05/18/2008 11:38:53 AM · #53 |
| I'm sure most of you know this one but here goes. A human will swallow on average 8 spiders in their lifetime while asleep. Happy dreams. :D |
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05/18/2008 11:46:00 AM · #54 |
| Haha The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! |
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05/18/2008 11:47:56 AM · #55 |
Originally posted by Jac:
I'm sure most of you know this one but here goes. A human will swallow on average 8 spiders in their lifetime while asleep. Happy dreams. :D |
I thought it was 8 per year.... |
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05/18/2008 11:50:51 AM · #56 |
Originally posted by Tom:
Originally posted by Jac:
I'm sure most of you know this one but here goes. A human will swallow on average 8 spiders in their lifetime while asleep. Happy dreams. :D |
I thought it was 8 per year.... |
Not sure now but 8 in any amount of time is enough for me. lol |
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05/18/2008 11:55:35 AM · #57 |
The only animal with a straight backbone is the camel.
More Monopoly money is printed per year than real money.
The flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper.
Babe Ruth wore cabbage leaves under his baseball cap.
Bananas do not come from a tree. It's the world's largest green stemmed herb.
Bulls cannot see red.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun.
The name Wendy didn't not exist until it was made up by the author of Peter Pan.
A group of geese is only a gaggle on the ground. Once they're airborne it's a skein.
Cobras cannot hear a flute.
Pig farms in Israel are built in raised platforms since pigs must never touch Israeli soil.
Most of the dust in your house is composed of dead skin cells.
Tasmanian devils smell worse than skunks.
Bats always turn left when they exit a cave.
Cashew nuts grow outside the cashew apple- in a skin containing the same toxin as poison ivy.
Chewing gum dates back 9,000 years.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S than real ones.
Coca Cola actually contains a trace of coca (as in cocaine) for trademark reasons.
During WWII, scientists figured out how to synthesize caffeine from bat guano
A single drop of alcohol will cause an eel to go into convulsions and die.
The glue on Israeli postage is kosher.
The first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies in WWII killed an elephant.
Shirley McLaine is Warren Beatty's sister.
Message edited by author 2008-05-18 18:51:32. |
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05/18/2008 12:11:20 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
The flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper.
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Nope.
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05/18/2008 12:13:06 PM · #59 |
Scalvert, where did you get all that info?
::D |
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05/18/2008 12:18:51 PM · #60 |
Originally posted by Jac:
I'm sure most of you know this one but here goes. A human will swallow on average 8 spiders in their lifetime while asleep. Happy dreams. :D |
I have great motivation to prove that this is a myth. |
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05/18/2008 12:21:10 PM · #61 |
| Did you know? Palm trees are a grass left over from prehistoric times. |
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05/18/2008 12:22:50 PM · #62 |
Originally posted by Trinch:
Originally posted by Jib:
urine is sterile |
Hopefully this won't impact activities of anyone here, but don't count on urine being sterile. I believe there are some kidney diseases that will contaminate urine. Also, if there is a bacterial infection downstream, you can count on the urine picking up some nasties. |
Not to flaunt my wildside, but as said above, urine is only sometimes sterile. I found this out when i mysteriously passed my kidney infection on to my gf....... |
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05/18/2008 12:26:26 PM · #63 |
Originally posted by SDW:
All Continents start with the letter "A" except Europe.
The word "SET" in the English language has the most definitions. |
Oceania?..... how is that A |
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05/18/2008 12:28:46 PM · #64 |
| The Minoans, who thrived on the island of Crete over 4,500 years ago, had flush toilets. |
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05/18/2008 12:33:48 PM · #65 |
| Deep sea organisms are often bright red..... because red can only be seen a few feet under the surface. so to be invisible, they are red. |
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05/18/2008 01:42:36 PM · #66 |
Einstein was agnostic in his beliefs reminds me that yesterday his latest letter (relating to conversation) sold for 400k usd.
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05/18/2008 01:56:27 PM · #67 |
Originally posted by biteme:
Scalvert, where did you get all that info? |
The vast majority came from a book I read back in high school. Just don't ask me anything about trigonometry... ;-)
A couple of goodies about the power of marketing:
The most expensive coffee in the world, at up to $600/lb, is kopi luwak, which is harvested from the feces of the palm civet. None for me, thanks.
The popular perfume Chanel No.5 includes among its ingredients ambergris from the sperm whale, beaver castoreum, musk from the Asian musk deer [now synthetic] , and (also replaced by a synthetic in 1998) the anal gland secretions of an Abyssian civet cat.
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05/18/2008 02:16:59 PM · #68 |
Cleave is the only word in the English language to have two completely opposite meanings.
a) to bind together.
b) to split apart.
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05/18/2008 03:34:52 PM · #69 |
The Fujifilm FinePix S5Pro came out after the S3 because #4 is a bad luck number in Japan, NOT #13...now we have gotten too obscure!
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05/18/2008 03:47:56 PM · #70 |
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit ( interesting aside who decides these names?! )
Slugs have 4 noses
Ants dont sleep
Butterflies taste with their feet
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05/18/2008 03:49:16 PM · #71 |
The whale is an insect and lives on bananas.
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05/18/2008 03:51:14 PM · #72 |
Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
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05/18/2008 03:58:58 PM · #73 |
Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license
No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".
The human brain is 80% water.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
Singapore has only one train station.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Message edited by author 2008-05-18 16:03:39.
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05/18/2008 04:03:52 PM · #74 |
This is a site that might interest you!
//www.gullible.info/ |
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05/18/2008 04:07:50 PM · #75 |
Originally posted by tjbel05:
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
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Isn't the sun the nearest star?
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