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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 of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent ofNew 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 with legs 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.

It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

The Main Library atIndiana 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."

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

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left-handed.

In ancientEgypt, 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. Take a look!

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.

Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.

You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you?

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Anyone else got any useless facts? Or even useful facts?
« Last Edit: April 13, 2003, 10:58:02 pm by 326 »

 

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I haven't tried to lick my elbow

 

Offline Stryke 9

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I tried licking my elbow years ago, and it never worked. Since I've gotten only less flexible since then, I'm not about to try.

And how do you measure Barbie's "life-size" scale, anyway? Her proportions are unlikely at best for any dimension, so she could just as well be a four-foot midget in life.

 
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And how do you measure Barbie's "life-size" scale, anyway?


I don't know, but I think there are constants.

 

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:wtf:how is it possible for stryke 9 to have only one post?

 

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It's a warning to other spammers

 

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And I'd like to see them back up the idea that elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Snails, anybody? Planaria?

The pizza thing is highly improbable, too. Might be a mistyping. Eighteen acres of pizza would be a good bit more than most people weigh, and since most people must eat less than their body weight in one day, in order for that to be an average some people would have to eat quite a significant amount more than that, by about 30 or 40 I'd estimate. Anyone who made an honest attempt to approach that would be in the emergency ward or dead (depending on their determination) before they even reached the halfway mark. Hell, even just eighteen pizzas total (at significantly less than an acre, probably more like three square yards) would make you pretty sick, and uninclined to ever repeat the performance.

I suppose if you sliced the pizza into atom-thin layers, and then spread them out over a few acres, it could be a few acres of pizza. But unless you're doing quite a lot to increase those pizzas' surface areas, that's just wrong.

 

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Silverwolf: It's a challenge to make up the difference. I've got a running bet at two months flat to get it up to 6000. The admins, apparently, are masochists- this is the second time they've done this, too.

 

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this is the 3rd time he's been panced?

yea, i've got that email too. :D
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Second, I think, though maybe I'm forgetting a time. It didn't stick once, I believe...

 

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Just 5994 to go

Hey look at that, 2000 for me

 

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Second, I think, though maybe I'm forgetting a time. It didn't stick once, I believe...


Either way, they are started to allign with my dentist appointments.. looks like you'll be seeing post number 2 again in 6 months :D
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Depends on whether I really manage to post 6000 times in the next coupla months, I think.

 

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I've heard that duck thing before, for some reason it disturbs me.  I would feel a lot better about life in general if someone could explain why a ducks quack doesn't echo.
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They do echo, it's not true

 

Offline Stryke 9

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Harmonics, probably. Nasal notes generally don't echo- I suspect it's because their waveform isn't just some smooth sine-wave type thing, last I checked it's kinda jagged. Just doesn't bounce so well- though I bet if you really went to measure it, you could get a little bit of echo.

That's just me guessing, though. I'm sure there is some team of scientists in a government-funded lab somewhere in Massachusetts who've been trying to tackle this problem for their entire lives and have already looked into (and rejected) that possibility.

 

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Silverwolf: It's a challenge to make up the difference. I've got a running bet at two months flat to get it up to 6000. The admins, apparently, are masochists- this is the second time they've done this, too.


Don't worry, we can do it again and again, until we get tired of it and ban you.
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On the pizza thing, I think it meant the pizzas eaten by all Americans combined; that's the only way it would make sense.