Weird Facts.

[$now4Ever]

This is a thread where you post weir facts you have heard before i'll start off.


Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Butterflys taste with their feet.

[StickWarrior]

A man's brain makes up 2% of the body weight wile a woman's brain makes up 2.5% of her body weight.

A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated

Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually

Three years of a person's life is spent on the toilet.

[StickWarrior]

During WW2 so many men were drafted that the Eagles and the Steelers jioned to form the Steagles.

Wemon have 4.5 liters of blood wile men have 5.6

Blood makes up 8% of your weight.

2 million red bloodcells die every second.

It is not possible to tickle your self.

When you reach the age of 35 you loose 7,000 brain cells a day.

Men spend 5 months of their life shaving.

The human heart can squirt blood 30 feet.

In one day a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes.

Queen Elizabeth the second was Time magizine's Man of the Year in 1952.

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

[StickWarrior]

Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.

In 1985 a pregnant wemon was acused of stealing a basketball.

A person uses about 57 sheets of toilet paper a day.

An office desk has about400 times more germs than a toilet.

Leather has no smell.

New Jersey has a spoon meuseam with over 5,400 spoons.

Q-tips used to be called Baby Gays.

(I know many many facts!)

[Einherjar]

Cockroachs can live without a head for 2 weeks until starving to death.
Cockroachs wings are not use for flying, but for gliding.
Cockroachs are born with an egg sack which contain up to 200 eggs.
Cockroachs lay their eggs in warm, humid places such as air vents, sewers and thick walls.
Cockroachs eat anything.
Cockroachs use their antennae to feel movement around the room.
Cockroachs come out at night.
Cockroachs live in communties.
Cockroachs are naturaly peaceful, and will not fight one another.
Cockroachs are walking hatcherys for some species of wasps- the wasp lay her eggs inside a wounded cockroachs.
Cockroachs hatchlings are a warning, if you see one you better order an exterminator.
Cockroachs have a smelly chemical under their wings, the smell can be use for defence or to "mark" the location for other cockroachs.

[Oxygen]

Try playing the board game "Urban Myth" its a whole game myths and wierd facts


heres my list

When Maddona goes to the bathroom she insists that her toilet seat be thrown out when she is done so fans do not steal it and sell it on ebay.

The Bull Ant is the most violant bug in the world.It's bite is extremly painful and it has hige pincers on its behind.If you cut one in half the two ends will start to try and kill eachother

Japanese thieves send 'thank you' notes to a banks after robbing them

Three streakers once had their car stolen while they were running nude through a restaurant

[Good guy]

.Cat urine glows under a black-light

.A whale's penis is called a dork

.Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.

.And in one country the penalty for jumping of a building is death.its not a fact as such but i thought you guys might wanna know (just incase your planning on jumping off any buildings in foreign countrys )

[Oddity]

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television

Marilyn Monroe had six toes

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum

Adolf Hitlers mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor

Blueberry jelly bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan

[$now4Ever]

I know some facts.


A ducks Quack does not echo and no one knows why.


In 10 min a Hurricane releases more energy then all the nuclear weapons in the worlds.


On average,100 people choke on a ballpoint pen every year.


On average people fear spiders more then they do death.


The elaphant is the only animal on earth that can't jump.


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


All polar bears are left handed.


A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.

[R3mbrandtfan]

if everyone were to flush their toilet at the exact same second the sewer would backup causing it to overflood to the streets

20% of the stuff you read on the internet isn't true(i read that on the iternet )


i'll find some more soon

[Furies4life]

I am liking this topic:


It is impossible to lick your elbow.



A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.



A shrimp's heart is in its head. ( So if you eat freid Shrimp you eating it alive? :badgrin:)




In a study of 200,000 ostriches
over a period of 80 years,
no one reported a single case where
an ostrich buried its head in the sand.



It is physically impossible
for pigs to look up into the sky.



A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.



More than 50% of the people in the world
have never made or received a telephone call.



Horses can't vomit.



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.
If you keep your eyes open by force,
they can pop out.



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



Wearing headphones for just an hour
will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700
times.




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?



In every episode of Seinfeld
there is a Superman somewhere.

[Lion]

I like this topic:

Women can handle physical pain more than men.

A pinhead size portion from the sun, can heat and shine a 57 mile radius and it can cause a devastation as the atomic bomb did in Hiroshima.

Snow-flakes are all different, containg different crystals.

Egyptians were the first to create ice.

If Christopher Columbus had read the Bible, he would of discovered the Earth was round and not flat or squared, as mentioned in Job 26: 7,10; Isa 40: 22, some 2,000 years before!

72% of the Germans fighting in Africa and Europe during WWII, did not know of Hitler's Racial/Ethnic Cleaning until months after the war had ended!

[turnbull_badger]

FUNNY LAWS

in california No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.

and it is illegal to shoot any animal from a moving vehicle unless the target is a whale.

in new york A fine of $25 can be levied for flirting

and It is against the law to throw a ball at someone's head for fun.

The penalty for jumping off a building is death

FUNNY FACTS

a bees wings aren't strong enough to support its weight, so nobody knows how it flies.

in one country it is illegal to have a donkey in your bath tub after 7pm (weird, i know)

americans eat 12 billion bananas each year

alaskans consume the most amount of ice cream in the world

most ice cream is eaten between 9pm and 11pm

A blind chameleon will still change colour to match its surroundings

Lions sleep 17 hours per day

Polar bears are left-handed

[Rem]

1/3 of poop is made up of solid block bacteria.

A person's eyes are the same size from birth to death, while their nose and ears keep growing.

[StickWarrior]

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
In one state it is ileagal for one person to give another person a box of candy over 50 lbs.