Trivia and obscure facts

[Flatlander]

I figured that this might be cool. Whatcha got?

Inspired by bignick's golf ball dimples in the comedy forum.....

Frogs sleep with their eyes open.

 

[Chronuss]

...the world is running out of IP addresses.

 

[Cryozombie]

The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular

Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day

 

[Sarah]

Butterfly's Taste with their feet

A Ducks Quack does not echo (no one knows why)

90% of New York Cabbies are recently arrived immigrants

It is impossible to lick your elbow

The Electric Chair was invented by a dentist

 

[Raewyn]

A crocodile cannot stick out its tounge!!

A goldfish has a memory scan of about 3 seconds

A snail can sleep for 3 years

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

Leonardi Da Vinci invented the scissors

 

[Chronuss]

A snail can sleep for 3 years

this describes me...nothing short of an atom bomb will wake me up...

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

and this one describes a few people I know...

 

[Raewyn]

and this one describes a few people I know...[/QUOTE]



How about this one then

Woman blink nearly twice as much as men!!!

 

[Sarah]

this describes me...nothing short of an atom bomb will wake me up...

Raisin has been doing a damn good job of describing you lately!!

 

[Sarah]

A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.ealthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.

It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

 

[Sarah]

A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

A group of owls is called a parliament. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

 

[Raewyn]

Babies are born without knee caps. They dont appear until they are about 2 - 6 years of age.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite

 

[Chronuss]

Woman blink nearly twice as much as men!!!

I guess so...if I met a woman with an eye in her forehead, I don't think I'd blink for a while either...:mst:

 

[Raewyn]

During your lifetime you will eat around 60,000 pounds of food, thats the weight of about 6 elephants

 

[Raewyn]

A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 mph!

 

[Chronuss]

you people and these emoticons....good lord...:idunno:

 

[Raewyn]

you people and these emoticons....good lord...:idunno:

Do they upset you!!! lol

 

[Raewyn]

Did you also know that slugs have 4 noses!!!!......not nostrils, but noses........go figure!!

 

[Chronuss]

Do they upset you!!! lol

no, no...they're just funnier than hell.

 

[bignick]

off the top of my head...an electron travels about 2/3 the speed of light in copper...10% of all humans ever born are alive today...can't sneeze with your eyes open(no your eyeballs won't fly out)...somBruce lee's left leg was shorter than his right, and he was extremely near sighted...and had an undescended testicle...

i had to look some of these up:

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9m.

The Earth is 4.56 billion years old...the same age as the Moon and the Sun.

The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.

Astronauts cannot belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a ...pea.

The tallest tree ever was an Australian eucalyptus - In 1872 it was measured at 435 feet tall.

The wingspan of a Boeing 747 is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

The earliest wine makers lived in Egypt around 2300 BC.

The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.

In 5 billion years the Sun will run out of fuel and turn into a Red Giant.

Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts - not all at once), but this is rare. They never lie down.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Without its lining of mucus your stomach would digest itself.

There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

Around a million, billion neutrinos from the Sun will pass through your body while you read this sentence.
...and now they are already past the Moon.


There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

Utopia ia a large, smooth lying area of Mars.

On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.

The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.

The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

Each person sheds 40lbs of skin in his or her lifetime.

At 15 inches the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.

The largest galexies contain a million, million stars.

The Universe contains over 100 billion galaxies.

Wounds infested with maggots heal quickly and without spread of gangrene or other infection.

More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

The longest glacier in Antarctica, the Almbert glacier, is 250 miles long and 40 miles wide.

The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.

A healthy person has 6,000 million, million, million haemoglobin molecules.

A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.

 

[Sarah]

I guess so...if I met a woman with an eye in her forehead, I don't think I'd blink for a while either...:mst: