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11-22-2007, 01:22 AM
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Status: Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 77
Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0 | Some amazing facts Coca-Cola was originally green.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A snail can sleep for three years.
All polar bears are left handed.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow. |
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11-22-2007, 02:10 PM
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Status: Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4
Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0 | Re: Some amazing facts A quick google of images of statues of Napoleon will show you that his horse is shown in various statues with two legs, one leg and no legs off the ground. |
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11-22-2007, 02:21 PM
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Status: Administrator Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4,118
Points: 43,704, Level: 100 | | Re: Some amazing facts Dont know about napoleon but that is true about the horse having there legs up relating to how the rider died.
Where are the statues of napoleon? Might just be an English thing. |
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11-22-2007, 05:28 PM
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Status: Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4
Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0 | Re: Some amazing facts Definitely not the case in Europe.
If it is true in the US why do statues of General Custer's horse have all four feet on the ground? |
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01-08-2008, 04:07 AM
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Status: Pro Loophole Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: ontario Posts: 108
Nominated 22 Times in 15 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0 | Re: Some amazing facts Quote:
Originally Posted by black pikachu ...
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different...
| No tongue print is every a like actually you wont have 2 set of tongue prints that will ever look the same  |
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05-15-2008, 03:22 PM
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Status: Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 4
Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0 | Re: Some amazing facts The horse leg thing seems to be mostly true for Gettysburgs statues. But it isn't true elsewhere in the US, or any other country. |
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05-15-2008, 07:05 PM
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Status: Moderator Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Signature for sale! Posts: 7,057
Nominated 40 Times in 14 Posts  TOTW/F/M Award(s): 6 Points: 29,567, Level: 100 | | Re: Some amazing facts Quote:
Originally Posted by black pikachu You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. | Yep, I tried this out when I got bored in class  |
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05-15-2008, 07:26 PM
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Status: Moderator Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,584
Nominated 88 Times in 49 Posts  TOTW/F/M Award(s): 1 Points: 13,655, Level: 80 | | Re: Some amazing facts A contortionist can lick his/her elbow. Peace |
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12-01-2008, 09:34 PM
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Status: Pro Loophole Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 42
Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0 | Re: Some amazing facts Yeah the licking elbow thing isnt true I know some people can. |
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12-01-2008, 09:58 PM
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Status: Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 10
Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTW/F/M Award(s): 0 | Re: Some amazing facts You copied and pasted this from those gay fact websites. |
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