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Flūmplź
1st December 2003, 02:48 PM
This week in 1941 ... Japanese dive-bombers attact the US fleet at pearl harbour in Hawaii.
DID YOU KNOW?
> Forty per cent of cat and dog owners carry photos of there pets
> Humans on average have seven sex fantasies a day
> Snails can sleep for 3 years without waking to eat
> 800 Americans a week are injured by thier jewellery
> A Goldfish will eventually turn white if its kept in a dark room (That answers my question of why my fish is white)
> The hundred year war lasted for 116 years
> There are 140,000 cinemas in the world
> Enough tea leaves are produced daily to make three billion cuppas
> Hippos kill more humans in Africa than any other animal
> Americans drink 4,848 cups of coffee a second
So have you got any more facts for us, POST THEM HERE :)
sweeti1
3rd December 2003, 07:48 PM
some more
>on average a human eats 7 spiders i a life time
>it imposible to sneez wit ur eyes open coz they`ll pop out
WackoJacko
3rd December 2003, 09:28 PM
>a spiders schlong is on the end of one of its legs. think twice before u pull its legs off..............make sure u get the right one
franbeec
3rd December 2003, 09:52 PM
Originally posted by WackoJacko
>a spiders schlong is on the end of one of its legs
Schlong? As in manhood?
WackoJacko
3rd December 2003, 09:56 PM
yes...
dangly bits
love-lever
sex-handle
one-legged stool
built-in-microphone
giant flump
eleventh finger
third leg
wiggly worm
randy stick
etc.
franbeec
3rd December 2003, 09:57 PM
LMAO i get the picture! :rolleyes: :D
The Mullet of G
3rd December 2003, 10:27 PM
Originally posted by sweeti1
some more
>on average a human eats 7 spiders i a life time
>it imposible to sneez wit ur eyes open coz they`ll pop out
I always sneeze with my eyes open and they've never popped out yet, 70 odd percent of folk lean there head to the right when kissing.....ok so I made up the percentage but its something along those lines :p
WackoJacko
3rd December 2003, 10:29 PM
>115% of all facts are made up
ha. fooled u. dont pretend i didnt, i know i did.
Flūmplź
4th December 2003, 11:30 PM
> It takes up to 200,000 frowns to make a wrinkle
screwedlilbunny
17th December 2003, 05:26 PM
> Humans on average have seven sex fantasies a day damnit wheres my 7?? i want one :(
screwedlilbunny
17th December 2003, 07:25 PM
-Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.
-In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
-In Rochester, Michigan, the law is that anyone bathing in public must have the bathing suit inspected by a police officer ;) oi oi
-In California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing.
-The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
-Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
-Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill
sweeti1
19th December 2003, 07:34 PM
is illegal to hang washing out on a sunday in sum parts of folkstone (kent)
WackoJacko
19th December 2003, 07:36 PM
> if u like eminem ur a tit
or is that opinion??? nah...
Ruthie
2nd January 2004, 11:58 AM
*ahem*
- The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.
- Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women
- Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
- Under the law of Mississippi, theres no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.
- In the state of Queensland, Australia, it is still constitutional law that all pubs (hotel/bar) must have a railing outside for patrons to tie up their horse.
- By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for 72 years.
- 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 Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee!!!
- The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, that's 70 straight days!
- The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America
- Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.
OoOoO Interesting..
Chrissy
2nd January 2004, 06:22 PM
~ France had the first supermarket in the world.
~ Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
~ Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
~ Burger King® uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.
~ Fleas can jump more than 200 times their body length.
RoGiZ
14th January 2004, 04:56 PM
>your foot is the same size as your wrist to elbow
>the heaviest man wieghed 100 stones
>the furthest eye popper is 11 mm
>
Shazzy_e87
19th January 2004, 04:17 PM
wow! i knem bot the foot1!
screwedlilbunny
19th January 2004, 06:42 PM
Originally posted by RoGiZ
>your foot is the same size as your wrist to elbow
> ahhh small feet and small arms.. i suck. lol i have a size 4 arm (that actually made me laugh.. god im sad)
xBrowniex
22nd January 2004, 12:48 AM
All English males over the age 14 are to carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy.
Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks
Placing a postage stamp that bears the Queen (or King) upside down is considered treason.
In Chester
You can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.
In Liverpool
It is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.
In York
Excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.
Bricks can be used to record and playback voices.
There is a town in austria called ****ing
On this day in 1979, Neptune became the 9th planet and pluto the 8th.
Ruthie
13th February 2004, 09:13 PM
Originally posted by screwedlilbunny
ahhh small feet and small arms.. i suck. lol i have a size 4 arm (that actually made me laugh.. god im sad)
Lol! I have size 7 arms than..
<-- Hobbit
Gaffer
16th February 2004, 09:54 PM
size 12 arms... pshh.. i cn reach nefin
Ballo*
8th March 2004, 04:03 AM
Originally posted by Chrissy
~ Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
Lol that explains why most fo the software dosent work or crashes!
Ballo*
8th March 2004, 04:21 AM
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a
scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to
the wrong parents daily
The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in thier lifetime.
Kermit the Frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus
Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds
The yo-yo was originally a weapon used in the Philippine jungles.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000
There are currently more $100 bills in Russia then there are in the
United States.
It's against the law in Chicago to eat in a place that is on fire.
Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour
At least 2 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk
More than 2500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself.
If thats true i have Size 13 arms :S
franbeec
8th March 2004, 07:45 PM
Hey those r pretty interestin
Gaffer
8th March 2004, 08:07 PM
Aye, but not true... :rolleyes:
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete! - thigh muscles
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why - not true
Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds - Personally i'm a little faster...
dunno bout the rest
Ballo*
9th March 2004, 04:22 AM
the ducks quack fact is true i tested the theory my self
:P
WackoJacko
9th March 2004, 09:09 AM
wow.....get a life mate
Ballo*
9th March 2004, 04:44 PM
Originally posted by WackoJacko
wow.....get a life mate
its not like i went and got a duck and made it quack i was walking under a bridge and a dugh quaked and it didnt make an echo :P
Gaffer
9th March 2004, 07:48 PM
decide 4 urself wats worse: taking the duck & tryin it himself or me watching this "Brainiac" show. they tried it out, not in a tunnel but a big corridor. & its quack lasted a looong time
Cobblers
15th March 2004, 06:19 PM
75% of all percentages are made up on the spot.
1/2 of 100% X 2 is actually (believe it or not 100%)
dh131286
18th April 2004, 09:55 AM
Originally posted by Ballo*
At least 2 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.
now that is understandable, the amount of times they have almost fallen on me when they havent given me my chocolate :mad:
katieinkerry
22nd April 2004, 09:57 PM
every time a man adjusts his belt by pulling his pants up he is thinking of sex.
screwedlilbunny
22nd April 2004, 11:23 PM
Originally posted by Cobblers
1/2 of 100% X 2 is actually (believe it or not 100%)
is that not obvious?
1/2 of 100 is 50.. so 50% x2 is 100%... is anyone really that dumb and cant realise that?
Mark_Oakley
30th April 2004, 03:01 PM
obviously not evry 1 is as stupid as cobbles THINKS they r :S sumit like tht n e way lol :D
Mark :afro:
ricky_waugh
1st May 2004, 12:14 AM
Mark :afro: i dont have a clue what that was meant to mean
maybe i am dumb :S
lol
Ricky :cool:
Mark_Oakley
4th May 2004, 12:45 AM
did u know tht sperm wales can produce 36 gallon of spern in 1 shot :D
Mark :afro:
Rich
4th May 2004, 04:33 PM
u sure about that? thats about 165 litres...about 2 bath fulls of the stuff! wouldnt have thought the female sperm whale would enjoy that much...
Mark_Oakley
4th May 2004, 09:16 PM
yep im sure but the female only takes in 10% of it
Mark :afro:
Gaffer
21st May 2004, 08:21 PM
I know im a bit slow but...
Originally posted by katieinkerry
every time a man adjusts his belt by pulling his pants up he is thinking of sex.
C, now that's an easy 1. No matter what action you choose for males theyr thinking of sex...
franbeec
29th May 2004, 11:56 AM
Originally posted by Gaffer
I know im a bit slow but...
C, now that's an easy 1. No matter what action you choose for males theyr thinking of sex...
Maybe their pants need pulling up?
Gaffer
29th May 2004, 12:20 PM
maybe, but the last thing we need is a nation of men singing sopranno.:rolleyes:
Pigeon
30th June 2004, 04:11 PM
YOU SNEEZE AT 114 MPH.
IF YOU STUCK A BULLET UP ONE NOSTRIL AND AIRTIGHT BLOCKED THE OTHER YOU COULD KILL A HAMSTER WITH YOUR NOSE...
FUN FUN FUN
Gaffer
30th June 2004, 05:43 PM
wow, thts pretty kewl! all i need now is a bullet, a hamster & sum damn good nose - eye coordination :thumb:
Pigeon
1st July 2004, 10:43 AM
let me know how it goes.
miz_tinkerbell
7th July 2004, 08:14 PM
Butterflies taste with their feet.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
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.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.
Alex
8th July 2004, 12:23 PM
Originally posted by miz_tinkerbell
Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.
True! But its not impossible
cheesus
19th August 2004, 12:42 PM
no it isnt,yes i have tried many times but ive got a m8 who can dislocate his arm and lick his elbow.
i pigs orgasm lasts for 30 mins
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