A Million Funny little facts and laughs (Page 2) Serabi: True or false? No word in the English language rhymes with month. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." Some lions mate over 50 times a day. Starfish haven't got brains. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the Male's head off. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.  kritz0: "The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with." This is not a true face. 5/7 of the continents of the world do, but the other two do not. How many of the others are false? Lol. OCD, You should ask caly about his swirly lil Willy too. just like their tails. (Edited by kritz0)  Hyenablood: I wonder who was studying ants and wondered ' hmmm, what will they do if I give them alchol ? and I want to be re-incarnated as a female praying mantis in my next life so I can finally rip the heads off every male who pisses me off !! Serabi: On the insect topic, do cockroaches go to little cockroach school to learn to immediately flip onto their backs when sprayed with bug spray? Why is it an essential part of roach demise? Hyenablood: cockroaches flip onto their back and wiggle their legs to fool any onlooker into a false sense of security. The second you look away the cockroache flips back over and scurries away chucking evilly, that is their master plan - to drive humans crazy.  Corwin: Here's an interesting fact: If you took every fish out of the Pacific Ocean, and laid them side-by-side, end-to-end, across the expanse of the Sahara Desert...... you would have the stinkiest desert in the world. Corwin: Here's another interesting fact regarding the comparative sizes of the human brain versus a penguin's brain - now, a penguin's brain is obviously smaller than a human brain, but what if you increased the size of a penguin to the size of a human?... actually, it's brain would still be smaller than a human's brain... BUT, (and this is the important bit)... it would be bigger than it was before. Corwin: Steroids for the bulk.... but the only way to make them as tall as a human is to stretch them on a rack. Corwin: Here's another interesting fact about penguin intelligence: When a group of researchers gave a number of penguins an I.Q test in the English language, their scores were not surprisingly very poor. But when they gave the same test to a group of non-English speaking humans, they found that the human's test results matched the penguin's test results exactly.  Comrade_:  ?-"An embassy is not considered the sovereign soil of its corresponding nation. It belongs to the country the embassy is in." -"DNA is a double helix in shape. If you took out your DNA and stretched it out it would be a tenth of a light year long, so it would stretch beyond the Solar System. There are 50 trillion cells, 23 chromosomes per cell, 220 million base pairs per chromosome." | Off Topic Chat Room Similar Conversations |
