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jeeny_eire Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:13 PM |
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Children grow faster in the springtime
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
The Lighter was invented before Matches
Every seven years your body is composed of completely new cells.
Each cell has a 'shelf life' things like red blood cells are replaced every 21 days (i.e. after 22 days all your RBC's are new ones from when you checked originally)
after 7 years every cell in the body is 'new'
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 M.P.H.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
In 32 states in America, it is ILLEGAL to carry ice cream in your back pocket.
In Italy, prostitutes are not allowed to be called Mary.
In Alabama, donkeys aren't allowed to sleep in bathtubs.
In YORK, (state law) you are allowed to kill a Scotsman.
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using
products made for right handed people!
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
On average, 2 people die a year from a champagne cork
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
94% of people do not know that the alphabet and "twinkle twinkle little star" have the same rhythm.
100% of people who have just read this and were one of the 94% have just sung both of them to make sure.
Horses can't vomit.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
There are more people living on the world now, than there are people that have died, ever.
Bulls go homosexual in captivity....
-There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
-The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
Dwarves can’t wipe their own backsides, their arms are too short!
... pretty much usless information, enlightening, but useless... just funny and weird!
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Lemon Grinner Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:16 PM |
:D :D :D
Turtles can breathe through their butts?!
Hahahaha I love it! |
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Hanne Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:27 PM |
jeeny_eire wrote:
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
...and this happens a lot?!? |
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megg_inc Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:30 PM |
jeeny_eire wrote:
In YORK, (state law) you are allowed to kill a Scotsman.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
:)
These two are probably the most interesting for the certain boardies! LOL |
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Turtleneck Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:34 PM |
It's a glamorous life!
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jeeny_eire Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:44 PM |
| i dunno if their true or not i just pasted them... i thought they were hilarious! |
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jeeny_eire Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 10:46 PM |
Turtleneck wrote: It's a glamorous life!
thats really cool! |
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moominbadger Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 11:04 PM |
| some of these facts are quite disturbing!! And I want to know why horses can't vomit!! |
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Turtleneck Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 11:10 PM |
moominbadger wrote: some of these facts are quite disturbing!! And I want to know why horses can't vomit!!
http://www.wonderquest.com/HorseVomit.htm |
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moominbadger Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 11:37 PM |
Thanks Kayte! That's another fact to add to my "list of things I learned from the board"! |
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dee Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 11:41 PM |
| when frogs want to throw up they vomit their whole stomach sack out and empty it with their feet |
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Lemon Grinner Posted Sat 29 Mar, 2008 11:58 PM |
dee wrote: when frogs want to throw up they vomit their whole stomach sack out and empty it with their feet
That's incredible!! |
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moominbadger Posted Sun 30 Mar, 2008 12:03 AM |
dee wrote: when frogs want to throw up they vomit their whole stomach sack out and empty it with their feet
mmmmmmm, nice |
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dee Posted Sun 30 Mar, 2008 12:06 AM |
| if you want to be severely grossed out i can post a video? but i am warning you, it ain't pretty |
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Lemon Grinner Posted Sun 30 Mar, 2008 12:11 AM |
dee wrote: if you want to be severely grossed out i can post a video? but i am warning you, it ain't pretty
YEESSSS!!! |
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