The Interesting Facts Thread

[LoadeD_PistoL]

just wondering if you all can post some intersting, but TRUE facts....I'll start with a few.

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-- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

-- It is impossible to lick your elbow.

-- there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

-- You can't fold any piece of paper more than 7 times.

-- Cat urine glows under a black light

-- The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

[FCECC2]

just wondering if you all can post some intersting, but TRUE facts....I'll start with a few.

-

-- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

-- It is impossible to lick your elbow.

-- there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

-- You can't fold any piece of paper more than 7 times.

-- Cat urine glows under a black light

-- The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

surprisingly i did it

[BigGreen]

-- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

Runth, Torange, Philver, Nurple

Nice try though.

[TheDfromGC]

good thread, unfortunately i have nothing to contribute...

[LoadeD_PistoL]

Runth, Torange, Philver, Nurple

Nice try though.

none r english words.....u must be foreign

[Red Ketchup]

Interesting fact?

Well, if I masturate more than 15 times per day, believe it or not, but my penis hurts!

Red

[TheDfromGC]

surprisingly i did it

he means fold a piece of paper in half 7 times, not just 7 folds

[FCECC2]

Interesting fact?

Well, if I masturate more than 15 times per day, believe it or not, but my penis hurts!

Red

for me it start to hurt at the 5th. i wish i had your stamina old man...

[FCECC2]

he means fold a piece of paper in half 7 times, not just 7 folds

i got a 36x48" drawing sheet right here and im now on my way to the 14th fold

[PurePower]

Interesting Fact #7

I once took a dump in the ocean and the fish ate it all but one little piece of corn.

[inheritmylife]

i got a 36x48" drawing sheet right here and im now on my way to the 14th fold

He's lying, I know it. Confess and repent you malignant rat.

[Red Ketchup]

for me it start to hurt at the 5th. i wish i had your stamina old man...

Is it stamina... or premature ejaculation?

Red

[inheritmylife]

Interesting fact #8:


I once dreamt I was eating chocolate pudding and woke up with a spoon in my butt.

[FCECC2]

He's lying, I know it. Confess and repent you malignant rat.

dammn it got it to 9th... im surprise i cant fold it even more than that. im also surprise about the fact that my cock is 2" thick...

[LoadeD_PistoL]

a couple more that i remembered....

- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

- George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

- Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.

[FCECC2]

Is it stamina... or premature ejaculation?

Red

or is it all in your dreams??

[inheritmylife]

dammn it got it to 9th... im surprise i cant fold it even more than that. im also surprise about the fact that my cock is 2" thick...

#9 or whatever


I'm not looking forward to the winter. It's hard getting a 1" crank through 3" of clothing to take a piss.

[S R H]

These are all true

1) Snakes can see through their eyelids.

2) It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

3)Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.

4) There is a place in Australia called Wet Beaver Creek.

5) If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

6) A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

[S R H]

And some more:

1) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

2)A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death

3)Butterflies taste with their feet.

4)Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

5)There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.

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

7) Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.They are reused in vein transplant surgery.

8) Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

9) All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20 (niceee)

10)A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

[decadbal]

everyone wang chung tonight

[houseofpain]

some interesting sh!t bros.

[LoadeD_PistoL]

The word "antidisestablishmentarianism" is the longest word in the english language used.

[Z-Ro]

interesting post guys, i need to get some facts...

[LoadeD_PistoL]

--- Women have better night sight then men, believed to be so because they need to find children in the dark.

--- Women can multitask better than men, but men can do one single task better than a woman.

--- licking a stamp burns 10 calories

--- An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain

--- Skin is the heaviest of all human organs

--- Muscles can only pull, not push

--- Poop is actually white/pale yellow. Breakdown products of hemoglobin turn it brown (from bile). Intestinal bleeding will turn it black.

[ttuPrincess]

-- It is impossible to lick your elbow.

how many actually tried this after reading this????

[ttuPrincess]

The word "antidisestablishmentarianism" is the longest word in the english language used.

and what does this mean?

[LoadeD_PistoL]

male bulldogs' respiratory tract is so obstructed by their 'unique' nose shape, that if they get excessively horny they can pass out from lack of oxygen.

[LoadeD_PistoL]

and what does this mean?

it has something to do with the studying of volcanoes.....majority will never in in their life life use this word in any of their conversations and it was also removed from various dictionaries due to its unpopular use.

[Bryan2]

just wondering if you all can post some intersting, but TRUE facts....I'll start with a few.



-- The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

There is no letter V in this sentence ggod try though

[Philliagorillia]

There is no letter V in this sentence ggod try though

Hate to spoil your fun but there is one V in there, notice the word "over...

[Angelis]

2) It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Wrong I have seen someone do it....freekin wierd let me tell ya. Ever see that episode of Guiness Records were the people pop out there eyes kinda looked like that

And some more:

10)A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

Also Wrong I was bored one night while my GF was out with some friends so I just turned on the TV and flipped to a channel were there was body building it was Discovery channel I quess well I just came back from working out at the gym feelin pretty lazy so didnt wanna get up turns out I forgot the remote on top the TV didnt wanna get up and get it so after the BB show I ended up watching a show called myth busters or something were ther experimeted with this theory and it turns out day after day the gold fish remembered the color orange as food and swam towards an orange piece of paper everytime or something like that


Sorry to disappoint you bro....lol

[ttuPrincess]

Wrong I have seen someone do it....freekin wierd let me tell ya. Ever see that episode of Guiness Records were the people pop out there eyes kinda looked like that



Also Wrong I was bored one night while my GF was out with some friends so I just turned on the TV and flipped to a channel were there was body building it was Discovery channel I quess well I just came back from working out at the gym feelin pretty lazy so didnt wanna get up turns out I forgot the remote on top the TV didnt wanna get up and get it so after the BB show I ended up watching a show called myth busters or something were ther experimeted with this theory and it turns out day after day the gold fish remembered the color orange as food and swam towards an orange piece of paper everytime or something like that


Sorry to disappoint you bro....lol

do you believe everything you see on TV????

[Philliagorillia]

Men have more blood than women. Men have 1.5 gallons for men versus 0.875 gallons for women.

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

The exact geographic center of the United States is near Lebanon, Kansas.

People in Sweden, Japan, and Canada are more likely to know the population of the United States than are Americans.

In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.

In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.

In some smaller towns in the state of Arizona, it is illegal to wear suspenders.

I guess all those criminal justice classes didnt help me any....

[Angelis]

it has something to do with the studying of volcanoes.....majority will never in in their life life use this word in any of their conversations and it was also removed from various dictionaries due to its unpopular use.

Nope Wrong turn to page 59 of the oxford dictionary people for the true meaning:

originally, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, now opposition to the belief that there should no longer be an official church in a country







And some interesting facts about longest words...

floccinaucinihilipilification
***(the categorizing of something as worthless or trivial). 27 Letters

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
***(a miners' lung disease caused by inhaling silica). 45 letters

hippopotomonstrosesquipidelian
***(means "long"). 30 Letters

Next is the full name of the tryptophan synthetase A protein, an enzyme with 267 amino acids, extends to 1,913 letters:

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There's one you probably won't see on Wheel of Fortune.

Hope this helps anyone wondering!

[Angelis]

do you believe everything you see on TV????

No the Sneezing one I didnt see on TV I saw it in real life to some guy I was at a party with. I was just making reference to it to try and explain what the bro looked like... sorta like this

Now the Fish one I saw on TV and yes I do believe it I mean a fish cant be that dumb

[Billy_Bathgate]

And some more:

1) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

2)A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death

3)Butterflies taste with their feet.

4)Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

5)There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.

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

7) Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth.They are reused in vein transplant surgery.

8) Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

9) All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20 (niceee)

10)A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

bull****! on number 10

discovery channels mythbusters busted that one. they trained fish to do this maze and remeber **** for like days at a times.

BUSTED

[Angelis]

bull****! on number 10

discovery channels mythbusters busted that one. they trained fish to do this maze and remeber **** for like days at a times.

BUSTED

Sorry bro beat you to that one

[Angelis]

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

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 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.


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

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs . but not downstairs.

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..

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.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

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.

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.

[The Giant Killer]

"Ithyphallophobia" is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

[Kärnfysikern]

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

I find that very hard to belive