Joined: Fri Dec 19 2003 Location: Scotland Posts: 4651
Did you know:
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MOUSTACHE
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
(Since Venus is normally associated with women, what does this tell you!)
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Most dust particles in your house are made from DEAD SKIN!
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. So did the first " Marlboro Man. "
Walt Disney was afraid OF MICE!
PEARLS MELT IN VINEGAR!
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs... but, not downstairs.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (I keep my toothbrush in the garage now!)
Joined: Wed Oct 11 2006 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 635
Very Nice...I got a few...
Did you know that:
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eye's open * A Crocodile could take of your leg with one bite, yet you can hold his jaws closed with one hand. * It's anatomicaly impossible to touch your elbow with your tongue
Joined: Mon Mar 20 2006 Location: Tampere, Finland Posts: 351
heh, my girlfriend has always kept me little weird, cause i knew almost all of those things :) i just like to know those kind of things.. :D yup, have you asked that tongue thing from Gene? i bet he can lick right and left elbow at same time :P and they tested that toothbrush thing in Mythbusters.. and there could be something of that ducks echo, im not sure.. i got one too..: did you know that its pretty safe to eat razorblades, if you can swallow them safely, they melt down in few minutes. and for todays birthday hero; At least 9 billion people have birthday at same day as you have :) Montpelier, Vermont is only Capital in USA that DONT have a McDonalds
Joined: Wed Oct 11 2006 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 635
Here's a funny one...
Did you know;
taht lttres dno't hvae to be in the rghit odrer for us to be albe to raed a snetnce. As lnog as you palce the frist and lsat lteter in the rghit palce. the biarn dseon't rcegoncie spreteae ltetres. It rcegoncies wrods.
Joined: Sun Oct 03 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 738
This is cool stuff to know, I just didnt know that, but that is because you never think about it until you hear it. I cant come up with something you didnt know, but if I find one I let you all know in this thread.
Joined: Wed Jan 26 2005 Location: Kent, UK Posts: 177
heppari wrote ...
did you know that its pretty safe to eat razorblades, if you can swallow them safely, they melt down in few minutes. and for todays birthday hero; At least 9 billion people have birthday at same day as you have
OK then, razor blades = metal...human digestive system would have fun disolving metal...
At least 9 Billion people???? There are only 6 billion people on the planet so this leads me to ask.... what planet are you on?
Joined: Mon Mar 20 2006 Location: Tampere, Finland Posts: 351
okay, sry for my english, i ment 9 million lol
that razor blade thing was in TVshow "Einstein" here, some guy swallowed few blades, and they had that same acid in some cups, and there were meat and ohter stuff in acid, and those razor blades.. razor blades melted there pretty fast :D that "einstein" told that its pretty harmless, but that swallowing part he said that Dont try at home..
so that "safe" part i wrote was bit wrong lol, they melt in stomach but they can make serious damage when swalloving :P
Joined: Mon Mar 20 2006 Location: Tampere, Finland Posts: 351
i have same in my e-mail, but it says "14 incects" -^
- many men do not wash theyre hands after wc, think this when you eat peanuts at the barcounter :D - in one day you breath about 1 litre of other peoples farts - you spend about 6 months of your life in bathroom -