★ Amazing Facts.

[BettyBoop]

Post some amazing facts, or just odd facts, bizarre facts?
Hell, I'll settle for any facts.

- When placed in warm milk, raisins re-plump into grapes.
- Whispering instead of talking on cell phones saves significant battery power.
- The metal backs of iPods are made from recycled zippers.
- Every sixteen minutes, someone named Richard dies.
- Dolphins kill more people annually than sharks and influenza combined.
- Three out of every ten nickels has been in someone’s mouth.
- If you hold one nostril closed for 72 hours, you will slowly lose the ability to see color. (Your sight will instantly return to normal when you release your nostril.)
- Wave a magnet at the lower left corner of a vending machine to receive a free soda.
- The glossy paper from the backs of stickers can be used to soothe sunburn.
- In Austria, the traditional Christmas colors are not red and greed, but purple and clear.
- The Z in Jay-Z’s name stands for “Zeppidemus.”
- The average person inhales 3 pounds of spider webs in his or her lifetime.
- Winnie the Pooh started out as a non-fiction account of mental illness.
- Reading backwards for twenty minutes burns the same amount of calories as walking a half-mile.
- Revolving doors were first invented as a way to keep horses out of department stores
- Human beings and anteaters are the only animals that can snap their fingers.
- If you soak a baseball hat in coke, and then let it dry on someone’s head, over a 3-hour period the hat will shrink with skull-denting force, causing intense pain and irreparable damage.

[Jacques]

Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.

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This latin 'square' is unique, it is the only combination of five letter words that reads the same whilst making sense backwards, horizontally and vertically

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the english language

[Mythologist]

Hmm... maybe you could use teh baseball hat thing on breasts to do something interesting and painful. Sounds like you'd need to use caution though.

[LiamOnyx]

you fact thief i sent u these or most of em

[Comeintotheparlor]

I'm pretty sure A.A Milne got the story of Winnie the pooh, from a mascot bear actually called Winnipeg, and it was about his son or something. it was never non fiction

[Comeintotheparlor]

Yup it is http://www.winniethepoohbear.net/history.php

[expo20]

J-walking is a capital crime im Malasia, punished with exacution.

[BettyBoop]

FUN FACT: An average person will consume 12 pubic hairs in their fast food annually.

[Aivey]

Originally Posted by BettyBoop

FUN FACT: An average person will consume 12 pubic hairs in their fast food annually.

DAMN. that's nasty...

-Did you know that on average, a human eats 8 spiders a year?
-A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
-A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
-A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
-A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
-A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
-A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
-Women's hearts beat faster than men's.
-Genetic red-green color blindness affects men much more often than women, because the genes for the red and green color receptors are located on the X chromosome, of which men have only one and women have two
-Women have more color receptive cells than men, meaning that they are able to see colors better (which is another reason why women often have the better fashion sense )

[BettyBoop]

- Popsicles were invented by an eleven year old.
- You can’t scroll through a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet forever.
- You're more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you are to actually win the lottery.
- If you touch your tongue while yawning, it can stop the yawn.
- Women speak about 7000 words a day. The average man averages just over 2000.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- When a person is tickled, the response is actually a form of panic, as the brain interprets the tickling sensation as produced by spiders or other creepy crawlies on your skin - the uncontrollable laughter is a response to panic.
- Yawning is contagious - even thinking about yawning is enough. After reading this fact, there is a 50% chance you will yawn.

[Star Shadows]

The Vatican city has the lowest age of sexual consent (being 12 years of age) and the highest crime rate in the world!

[Rogue]

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

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

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

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

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.

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

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.

[Skarin]

the human body has almost exactly the same response to violence as it does to arousal

[Stix]

The average distance between asteroids in the asteroid belt is 1 Million kilometres. It's not so crowded in there after all!

The moon is moving away from the earth by 1.5 inches a year. It's also slowing down the earth's rotation. In about 100,000 years, our days will be 26 hours long

Gliese 581-C, Gliese 581-D, and Gliese 581-G are 3 planets which are all in the "habitable zone" in relation to their sun; the three most "earth-like" planets we've discovered so far.

Our moon is actually made out of the earth's crust