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    Some Cool Facts

    Some pretty cool facts I found some of em' u might already know couldnt help it so I'd like to share it with u hackers

    Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

    Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

    Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

    On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

    More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

    The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

    More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

    Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

    The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

    The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

    Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

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

    You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

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

    Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

    It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

    The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

    The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

    Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

    Slugs have 4 noses.

    Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

    A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

    A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

    The average person laughs 10 times a day!

    An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

    I tried to remove the facts you already have up there but I might have missed some. A few are... very very uhhhh interesting...

    A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

    A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

    A ----roach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

    A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

    A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

    A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

    A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

    A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (I wanna be a pig...)

    A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

    Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

    All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

    All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

    Almonds are a member of the peach family.

    Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

    Amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.

    Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

    Chances of a white Christmas in New York: 1 in 4.

    Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2.

    City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong.

    Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

    Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."

    Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.

    Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

    Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

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

    If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

    In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

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

    In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

    John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

    Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."

    Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

    Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

    Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

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

    On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.

    On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

    Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

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

    Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

    Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2) poodle; 3) golden retriever. Dumbest dog: Afghan.

    Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (Being a lion isn't that bad either...)

    Starfishes haven't got brains.

    State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

    The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

    The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

    The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

    The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

    The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

    The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life."

    The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

    The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

    The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

    The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. (I don't wanna be a praying mantis...)

    The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

    The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."

    The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.

    The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross.

    There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

    There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

    There are more chickens than people in the world.

    There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

    Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.

    Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

    When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

    Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? Paul Reiser himself.

    Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

    Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.

    You are more likely to be struck by lightning than to be eaten by a shark.

    You are more likely to be infected by flesh-eating bacteria than you are to be struck by lightning.

    If you urinate when swimming in a South American river, you may encounter the candiru. Drawn to warmth, this tiny fish is known to follow a stream of urine to its source, swim inside the body, and flare it's barbed fins. It will remain firmly embedded in the flesh until surgically removed.

    When a pilot light in a gas barbecue fails to ignite the gas jets properly, it is easy for you to inhale gas accidentally while trying to light it by hand. If this has happened, when the match does light, sometimes a trail of flame will blaze from the jet onto your mouth, filling your lungs with fire. Oddly enough, you would suffocate before burning to death as the flame could consume the oxygen in every breath you would take.

    On a plane, if the passenger in your seat on the incoming flight had serious gas, then you are sitting on a cushion full of disease-causing microbes.

    Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals.

    Four sunken nuclear submarines sit at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One, a Russian sub resting in deep water off of Bermuda, holds 16 live nuclear warheads. Scientists and oceanographers are unsure what the impact of the escaping plutonium will have, but warn that corrosion could create the proper chemical environment for a massive nuclear chain reaction.

    In 1994, electromagnetic interference (EMI) from a nearby cellular telephone captivated a power wheelchair at a scenic vista in Colorado, sending the passenger over a cliff.

    If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

    More people working in advertising died on the job in 1996 than died while working in petroleum refining.



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    wow nice... to much to read

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    yeah i just scrolld to the bottom

    usefull info if u got nuttin 2 read

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    Homely criminals get 50% longer jail sentences, on average, than good-looking criminals.

    hahahahahah XD

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    Omfg I Want Green Coke!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by arunforce
    Omfg I Want Green Coke!!!

    who dosent? XD

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    I doesnt, make it white, why they have to be so racist with pop.





    Old School

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    Here's a fact for you.

    Rusty Boot Knife Weilding Jackals are extremly deadly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arunforce
    Omfg I Want Green Coke!!!

    as EndriT said who doesnt lol

    i want sum!!!

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    true fact, odd but true,

    Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

    hahe

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    I want blue coke! I don't like the idea of drinking green stuff
    HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THE 25th??? WE HAVEN'T!
    Quote Originally Posted by arunforce View Post
    Timebeast wanted perma since he can't flame anymore.
    LMAO...
    [IMG]https://i76.photobucke*****m/albums/j2/The_Enigma_photos/geistHunter.gif[/IMG]
    [IMG]https://i10.photobucke*****m/albums/a141/popsumbong/BEERHUNTER.gif[/IMG]
    Teh Beer Seeker


    Obviously the best impersonation of David Hasselhoff.

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    There was Pepsi blue... Fucking Disguisting.

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    Don't change the subject here, we are talking bout real COCA COLA...I think
    and the flavour would be the same so...
    HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THE 25th??? WE HAVEN'T!
    Quote Originally Posted by arunforce View Post
    Timebeast wanted perma since he can't flame anymore.
    LMAO...
    [IMG]https://i76.photobucke*****m/albums/j2/The_Enigma_photos/geistHunter.gif[/IMG]
    [IMG]https://i10.photobucke*****m/albums/a141/popsumbong/BEERHUNTER.gif[/IMG]
    Teh Beer Seeker


    Obviously the best impersonation of David Hasselhoff.

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    NO WERE TALKING ABOUT GREEN POWDER!!!!


    arun wants to sniff it

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