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And You Thought YOU Knew EVERYTHING.

Posted: 2003-07-15 02:21pm
by Faram
Sorta Old but I like it so I post it :)

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid
airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being
seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

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

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

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 death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

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

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. SCARY!!!

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.

"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. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

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.

Posted: 2003-07-15 02:27pm
by Enforcer Talen
I must eat more pizza!

Posted: 2003-07-15 02:38pm
by Montcalm
I allways knew dentists were sadistic bastards.

Posted: 2003-07-15 02:41pm
by BoredShirtless
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Shouldn't that be per week?

Posted: 2003-07-15 02:44pm
by thecreech
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Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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Can Giraffes jump?

Posted: 2003-07-15 02:47pm
by Demiurge
"Go" is a complete sentence, but "No" isn't?

Posted: 2003-07-15 02:50pm
by BoredShirtless
thecreech wrote:_________________________________________________
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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Can Giraffes jump?
Yes. They hurdle trees and rivers all the time, don't you watch national geographic?

Posted: 2003-07-15 02:52pm
by Montcalm
BoredShirtless wrote:
thecreech wrote:_________________________________________________
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

__________________________________________________

Can Giraffes jump?
Yes. They hurdle trees and rivers all the time, don't you watch national geographic?
I think he watch NG only when there are topless African girls. :wink:

Posted: 2003-07-15 02:54pm
by Mitth`raw`nuruodo
Ahem. Paper can be folded more than seven times, but it's REALLY HARD.

Posted: 2003-07-15 03:41pm
by Dalton
Demiurge wrote:"Go" is a complete sentence, but "No" isn't?
No.

Posted: 2003-07-15 03:46pm
by Demiurge
Dalton wrote:
Demiurge wrote:"Go" is a complete sentence, but "No" isn't?
No.
Right. Okay.

Posted: 2003-07-15 03:48pm
by YT300000
Mitth-raw-nuruodo wrote:Ahem. Paper can be folded more than seven times, but it's REALLY HARD.
The limit is nine.

EDIT: I wasted my 1000th post on that! :o

Posted: 2003-07-15 03:57pm
by phongn
Other airplane related facts:

The horizontal stabilizer of the B777 is about the same length as the B737's. The B777's engines are as wide as a B727/737's fusalage :shock:

Posted: 2003-07-15 04:13pm
by kojikun
Go cannot be a complete sentence because it just has a verb. A sentece must have a subject and a verb, therefor the shortest sentence in english is "It's" as a contraction of "It is." BTW, a good deal of that stuff is just hogwash. People need to stop posting this shit.

Posted: 2003-07-15 04:23pm
by thecreech
BoredShirtless wrote:
Yes. They hurdle trees and rivers all the time, don't you watch national geographic?
I watch discovery and NG all the time and i have never seen one jump... i see them gallop

Posted: 2003-07-15 04:23pm
by RedImperator
kojikun wrote:Go cannot be a complete sentence because it just has a verb. A sentece must have a subject and a verb, therefor the shortest sentence in english is "It's" as a contraction of "It is." BTW, a good deal of that stuff is just hogwash. People need to stop posting this shit.
The subject of the sentence "Go." is the implied "You". The second person subject can be implied in English.

Posted: 2003-07-15 04:24pm
by thecreech
I thought "I am" was the shortest sentence?

Posted: 2003-07-15 04:52pm
by TheFeniX
Actually, a duck's "quack" does echo. I read in snopes about that one, but am too lazy to find the article.

Posted: 2003-07-15 05:00pm
by Faram
I know a lot of the stuff there is bull.

But hey it's funny anyway :D

Posted: 2003-07-15 05:02pm
by kojikun
RedImperator wrote:The subject of the sentence "Go." is the implied "You". The second person subject can be implied in English.
Doesn't work. An implied noun is not a noun and doesn't count.
thecreech wrote:I thought "I am" was the shortest sentence?
My mistake. You're right.
TheFeniX wrote:Actually, a duck's "quack" does echo. I read in snopes about that one, but am too lazy to find the article.
http://snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm

Posted: 2003-07-15 05:12pm
by Howedar
phongn wrote:Other airplane related facts:

The horizontal stabilizer of the B777 is about the same length as the B737's. The B777's engines are as wide as a B727/737's fusalage :shock:
I believe you meant the B777's horizontal stabilizer is about the same width as a B37's wing.

Posted: 2003-07-15 05:14pm
by aphexmonster
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!


Haha, so if you live to be 150, you're some kind of Nosey bastard that has satallite dishes on the side of your head xD

Posted: 2003-07-15 05:40pm
by kojikun
hah, this is from snopes: http://snopes.com/critters/crusader/minks.htm

PETA bitches set loose some minks destine to become soft furry coats.
Problem is, the minks went off and killed countless poor little animals. I
guess the stupid PETA bitches forgot that minks are vicious killers.

This is the best part:

"Several have wandered nonchalantly into local homes, including that of
Crow Hill resident Christine Pinder. She was shocked Saturday morning
when a mink -- which she at first thought was a kitten -- appeared in her
bedroom and jumped at the throat of her pet dog. "

haha it gets better

"In addition to the various beloved pets and indigenous wildlife killed by these predators, three extremely rare owls also fell prey to them. Minks
broke into the wildlife sanctuary where the owls were housed and made short work of them. "

Nice work PETA.

Funny thing is, they did it AGAIN in 1998! What retards! XD

Posted: 2003-07-15 05:45pm
by Raxmei
That part about Walt Disney is false. He kept pet mice in his hotel room before he became successful. One of them, named Mortimer, was the inspiration behind Mickey Mouse.

And "Go." is a complete imperative sentence. Imperative sentences don't need to state their subjects.

Posted: 2003-07-15 05:47pm
by A Big Flying Fish
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Damn it they dissolve damn it, dissolve. To melt the bloody things you'd have to get them pretty damn hot.[/quote]