jackthedog Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 A couple of years back I heard on the TV that Great Britain exports more pizzas to Italy than they do to us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomme Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Originally posted by Phanerothyme FACT: there is no name for the back of the knee (thanks to Sir Henry at Rawlinson end for that one - so it may not be a fact, but if it aint, it should be) Back of the knee is called the popliteal fossa. eg. http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/hubio553/atlas/220.html Nomme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Originally posted by nomme Back of the knee is called the popliteal fossa. eg. http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/hubio553/atlas/220.html Nomme Well obviously they have never heard of Sir Henry FILTH HOUNDS OF HADES! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy78 Posted August 5, 2004 Author Share Posted August 5, 2004 I've only just got back to this thread. Thank you all so far, especially phan who we can always rely on. I was especially interested in the dimethyltryptamine fact. Incidentally, could someone just clarify the holland/netherlands situation? Which bit is a country and what’s the rest of it. I got confused at that point. I've been getting generally confused all day. I think all started when I fell up the stairs this morning and then ran into a locked door. Fact: It's 39 minutes after home time, and i'm still in work. I have no idea why i am still here as everyone else has gone home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snook Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.) If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!) A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.) A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.) Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.) The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!") The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes...lucky pig... can you imagine??) The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?) Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity) Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm........won't go there.) Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?) Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....) A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.) Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.) Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.) Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that pig??) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy78 Posted August 5, 2004 Author Share Posted August 5, 2004 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! a list of classics there snook! Originally posted by Snook Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....) I can't imagine that giraffes are particularly good at jumping either or hippos come to think of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomme Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Originally posted by Phanerothyme Well obviously they have never heard of Sir Henry ... or Old Scrotum - the wrinkled Retainer. Nomme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snook Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body. Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth. Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Originally posted by Snook Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon. ... If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. FACT: The longest available list of spurious assertions masquerading as useless but correct knowledge is this one: Usseless Facts 1.. For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects. 2.. The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument. 3.. By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television. 4.. The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h). 5.. If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long. 6.. Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies. 7.. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 8.. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 9.. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 10.. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 11.. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 12.. There are more chickens than people in the world. 13.. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. 14.. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." 15.. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. 16.. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. 17.. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." ... 119.. The average American eats 2 donuts a day. 120.. The longest word in the Old Testament is Malhershalahashbaz. 121.. The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years. 122.. Every minute in the U.S 6 people turn 17. 123.. It takes the Where's Waldo artist one month to complete a drawing. 124.. 2500 lefties die each year using products designed for righties. 125.. A baby is born every 7 seconds. 126.. 10 tons of space dust fall on the Earth everyday. 127.. On average, a 4 year old child asks 437 questions a day. 128.. Blue and white are the most common school colors. 129.. Swimming pools in Phoenix, Arizona, pick up 20 pounds of dust a year. 130.. The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?. 131.. The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you. 132.. The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb 133.. The three words in the English language with the letters uu are: vacuum, residuum and continuum. 134.. A baby in Florida was named: Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James. 135.. It is illegal to ride a street car on Sunday if you have been eating garlic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 136.. In a normal life time an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat. 137.. A new book is published every 13 minutes in America. 138.. America's best selling ice-cream flavour is vanilla. 139.. Americans eat 18 billion hot dogs a year. 140.. Americans eat 134 pounds of sugar a year. 141.. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons. 142.. Because of Animal Crackers, many kids until they reach the age of ten, believe a bear is as tall as a giraffe. 143.. You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray. 144.. Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool. 145.. Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises. 146.. India has 50 million monkeys. 147.. By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life. 148.. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year. 149.. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed. 150.. You breathe about 10 million times a year. ...contd, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 151.. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream. 152.. The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse. 153.. Lee Harvey Oswald was booked with mugshot number 54018. 154.. The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour. 155.. The bullseye on a dartboard must be 5 feet 8 inches off the ground. ... 295.. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. 296.. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. 297.. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. 298.. In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. 299.. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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