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Something you didnt know I found on the net, enjoy :)


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, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year!



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.




A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.



"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.




The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.



Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
 
month - millionth ? I win.

Haha, anyways fun list to read.
 
This is the one I thought was awesome/interesting.

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

and the one I never knew, but I'm not really surprised is,

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
 
A ducks quack does echo, but very quietly.

"Mythbusters"

Sincerely: Buzz Killington
 
A ducks quack does echo, but very quietly.

"Mythbusters"

Sincerely: Buzz Killington


Sorry, but MythBusters are pair of scammers. Their research is noobish and they do not know what they are doing.

I would never believe what this people have to say.

Do your own research before believing what this clowns have to say...
 
Sorry, but MythBusters are pair of scammers. Their research is noobish and they do not know what they are doing.

I would never believe what this people have to say.

Do your own research before believing what this clowns have to say...

ok,

Research has shown that a duck's quack does echo, but it is hard to hear because it is difficult to distinguish the quack from the echo.

I'm not trying to be a dink, that's just what I've read/watched/heard.

still a good thread.
 
some fun facts:

50% of people make less than $2.50 per day

80% of people make less than $10.00 per day

the median usa household income is $177.56 per day

google makes 64,797,260.27 per day

=o)
 
I dont know but this one made me laugh.. lol

Code:
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.

Nice list though, very informative :)
 
Hey time for some Body Facts that most of us don't know.

I hope Op won't mind me posting it here. ;)
1. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb
2. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica
3. The brain is much more active at night than during the day
4. Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream
5. The brain itself cannot feel pain
6. One human hair can support 3.5 ounces
7. The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger
8. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
9. Human hair is virtually indestructible (apart from burning it, human hair is not degradable. That?s why your bathroom sink clogs so much)
10. The largest internal organ is the small intestine
11. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet
12. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades
13. Women?s hearts beat faster than men?s
14. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart
15. Women blink twice as many times as men do
16. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools
17. On any given day, sexual intercourse takes place 120 million times on earth
18. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm
19. Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep (Men think of sex every 7 seconds-scientifically proved)
20. After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp
21. Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents
22. Everyone has a unique smell, except for identical twins
23. Your eyes are always the same size from birth but your nose and ears never stop growing
24. By 60 years of age, 60-percent of men and 40-percent of women will snore
25. Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest
26. Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress
27. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
28. We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening
29. The tooth is the only part of the human body that can?t repair itself.
30. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue
31. Every tongue print is unique
32. The most common blood type in the world is Type O
33. It is not possible to tickle yourself
34. Humans are the only animals to produce emotional tears
35. Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day



Just thought I should share something too.

Njoy

HIDAYAKUMULLAH
 
Ha! Clown eh? Wow. But a news flash for you, ducks do have echo.

Still, nice list.
 
Pretty cool. Only elephants cannot jump? Wow, can't imagine an ant jumping :D
 
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