Random Facts

[9_red_monkey]

This was a thread I started on another forum and it was one of my favorites. Just post interesting random facts. Here are a few of mine.

- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

- A ducks quack does not echo and no one knows why.

- Turtles can breath through their butts.

- The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.

- A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

[jdo87]

cockroaches can live for 9 days without their heads before they starve to death

the average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it

a polar bears skin is black and its fur is clear

tigers have striped skin not just striped fur

a snail can sleep for 3 years

peanuts are the main ingredient in dynamite


(ive got a shirt with tons of random facts haha)

[Ewsentinel]

peanuts are the main ingredient in dynamite

Actually, nitroglycerine is the main ingredient in dynamite (without it, it don't go boom). Peanuts are

[9_red_monkey]

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

Dragonflies can travel up to 60 mph.

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.

It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska.

During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).

[Dima]

- A ducks quack does not echo and no one knows why.

Just wanna say that this one has been investigated by the Myth Busters and disproved.

[Ewsentinel]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means, "the king is dead".

[Tregony]

Most mammalian males will lactate given the right stimulus  :-?

[9_red_monkey]

- The best diamonds are colored blue-white.

- Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.

- 10 percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka

- 80% of millionaires drive used cars.

- Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.

- A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.

- Womens' hearts beat faster than mens'

- Originally, Jack-O-Lanterns were made from turnips.

[Ewsentinel]

- 80% of millionaires drive used cars.

Yeah, but their "used" cars are still worth more that any new car that I can afford. lol

[9_red_monkey]

- The estimated number of M&M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.

- A turkeys neck turns bright red when stressed

- the mona lisa has no eyebrows

- glass take about 1 million years to decompose

- the cooties are real, they're a type of body lice

- moonbows (black rainbrows) are cuased by moonlight and moist air

- they periodic table doesn't use J

- curtian frogs can survive being frozen

- gravity causes you to wieght less when the moon is directly overhead

- March 14 is 'save a spider day'

[Geve]

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

In November 1999, two women were killed by a lightning bolt. The underwire located in their bras acted as electrical conductors, and when the lightning bolt hit the bra they left burn marks on their chest.

Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.

Studies show that divorced women have more trouble starting new relationships than divorced men.

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall.

The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually.

The Mexican version of the Tooth Fairy is known as the Tooth Mouse, which takes the tooth and leaves treasures in its place.

The longest engagement lasted 67 years, and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82 years old.

There was a 19th century Native American tribal chief who went under the name, "Not Able to Fornicate."

The world's oldest rose is located Hildeshiem Cathedral in Germany and is thought to be over 1,000 years old.

[valtrax]

Actually a us state does grow/enlarge and at a faster rate than La its is hawaii. The everflowing magma is deposited daily.

[RhondaLGilly]

Like fingerprints, everyone also has a unique tongue print.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. About 1.5 pounds each year, so the average person will lose around 105 pounds of skin by age 70.

We start off life with 350 bones, but because bones fuse together during growth, we end up with only 206 as adults.

Did you know that you get a new stomach lining every three to four days? If you didn't, the strong acids your stomach uses to digest food would also digest your stomach.

The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

The small intestine is about four times as long as the average adult is tall

Every square inc­h of skin on the human body has about 32 million bacteria on it.

A pair of feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.

­The air from a human sneeze can travel at speeds of 100 miles per hour or more.

Laid end to end, there are about 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. And the hard-working heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood through those vessels every day.

In a lifetime, the average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva -- enough to fill two swimming pools!

By 60 years of age, 60-percent of men and 40-percent of women will snore. But the sound of a snore can seem deaf­ening. While snores average around 60 decibels, the noise level of normal speech, they can reach more than 80 decibels. Eighty decibels is as loud as the sound of a pneumatic drill breaking up concrete. Noise levels over 85 decibels are considered hazardous to the human ear.

Hair color helps determine how dense the hair on your head is, and blondes (only natural ones, of course), top the list. The average human head has 100,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing 20 individual hairs during a person's lifetime. Blondes average 146,000 follicles. People with black hair tend to have about 110,000 follicles, while those with brown hair are right on target with 100,000 follicles. Redheads have the least dense hair, averaging about 86,000 follicles.

If you're cli­pping your fingernails more often than your toenails, that's only natural. The nails that get the most exposure and are used most frequently grow the fastest. Fingernails grow fastest on the hand that you write with and on the longest fingers. On average, nails grow about one-tenth of an inch each month.

The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but only one-eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.

You can go without eating for weeks without succumbing, but eleven days is tops for going without sleep. After eleven days, you'll be asleep -- forever!


These facts were from: http://health.howstuffworks.com

[Ewsentinel]

The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

Except for me. I was born with a sensory deficiency. I have about 20% sense of smell compared to the average human sense of smell.

[Likatutu]

Men can multitask :lol:

In Nova Scotia a person is not allowed to water their grass when it's raining. Not like someone would do this, but it's against the law in Nova Scotia!

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C. (ew)