That you wish you never knew.
Published on May 27, 2004 By gothic impulse In Misc
No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times if folded in half repeatedly.

The velocity of a male wombat's urine is twice that of a male human's.

A gorilla can fart ten times louder than a human being.

An ant will always fall over on it's right hand side when drunk.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

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

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

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm
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If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound boy wearing Batman underwear and a superman cape. It is strong enough, however, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20 by 20 foot room.

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

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

Adolph Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion, but was talked out of it by her doctor.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

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

Ok so I was bored, but I found these interesting and some downright amusing.

Jess

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on May 28, 2004
Adolph Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion, but was talked out of it by her doctor.



yet another reason im pro-choice.
on May 28, 2004
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C


What did they do? smear the crap all over them so the babes would stay away?

BAM!!!
on May 28, 2004
The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.


It's eight spiders now? Last I read it was seven. I guess it's all the low carbs phase everyone is going through.

-- B
on May 28, 2004
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

does anyone else find this disturbing?
on May 28, 2004
What did they do? smear the crap all over them so the babes would stay away?


Yea that grossed me out too

Jess
on May 28, 2004
Trina ... I know, that shocked me too.

I don't think I will let mine out of my sight when I have them.

Jess
on May 28, 2004
Hehe, thanks for the giggle Jess, I'm with you and Trina I found 12 newborns going to wrong parents kind of worrying to!
on May 28, 2004
I think they gave me the wrong sister now that I think about it....

Thomas
on May 28, 2004
Here's some more facts



"It's said that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!"
"Humans are born with 300 bones, but as we grow older, we only have 206."
"Did You know that over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows?"
"The state of Florida is bigger than England."
"Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb, was afraid of the dark!"
"Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!"
"More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!"
"There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!"
"Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!"
"Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!"
"Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!"
"Owls are the only birds who can see the color blue."
"People blink about 84,000,000 times a year!"
"There are over 52.6 million dogs in the United States"
"Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!"
"The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth."
"The most used letter in the English alphabet is the letter 'E'"
"The least used letter in the English alphabet is the letter 'Q'"
"Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States."
"Did you know that a hedgehog's heart beats an average 300 times a minute?"
"Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!"
"The average person laughs 15 times a day!"
"Most of the dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!"
"There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year."
"The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven."
"The original name for the butterfly was flutterby."
"The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people."
"A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!"
"The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!"
"A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off."
"It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska!"
"Did you know that it's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland?"
"Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!"
"Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!"
"Dolphins sleep with one eye open."
"The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!"
on May 28, 2004
perfect form of contraceptive... anal, and how does it work bob? poopie p-o-o-p-i-e poopie!
Power to the POOPIE!
Thomas
on May 28, 2004
hmm why is it I sorta envy that damn gorilla...
Thomas
on May 28, 2004
The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.


no. no. noooooooooooooooooo.

never sleeping again.

horrified mig XX
on May 28, 2004
Sorry to disappoint, but a duck's quack does echo. It's just one of those urban myths.

Another odd fact is that it is legal to have topless shop assistants in Liverpool.
But only in tropical fish stores.
Makes you think, doesn't it?
on May 28, 2004
"Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States."


Shouldn't someone do something about this? Surely the people who live in this house are a danger to themselves. Maybe the authorities where this family lives should teach them to not play with matches.

"Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lighting than women!"


Must be true. Been struck myself, and everyone I know that has been are men.

"The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!"


Just who the hell weighed it? Where did they build that weigh scale?

"Dolphins sleep with one eye open."


If I slept with sharks, so would I.
on May 28, 2004
If I slept with sharks, so would I.




Sorry to disappoint, but a duck's quack does echo. It's just one of those urban myths


OK ..I have it on good authority that this is true but because of the frequency it can't be heard.

Jess
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