Weirdest "fact" you know?

Stop freaking me out, Roxas. Dang! Here's mine:

A mosquitoe is very powerful and can't be killed easily.....I know, that ones terrible.:(

 

great, now when i go back to school on tuesday all i'll remember is that a dolphin sleeps with one eye open. stop taking my mind!!!

 

Found one more-
My sister`s friend sold their soul on Ebay for $20.00
It looked like this-
V on a Peice of paper

 

Thats me :p j/k though my name is craig :D

Here are some facts


A snail can sleep for three years
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (Another reason to hate a Dentist)

 

Ahhhhh, Some-one sold my soul, I thought I was missing something, ok heres my fact:

At the first olympics the only sport was the 100m dash and the men did it NAKED!!

 

lol the thing about rhyming with month, I have one like that, no word in the English language rhymes with silver!

 

Or orange! zomg Door hinge!

 

Here's the best fun fact of all:

A snail can be metled with salt due to it's strange outer-layer. I totally just rocked you guys socks! Go me! Go me! *Starts dancing*

 

when you put mentos in soda it sprays everywhere not realy weird but fun nonetheless!

 

The guy who invented the Nobel peace Prize also invented Dynomite.

 

Jelly Fish melt in the sun and turn into jelly-THATS WHY THEIR CALLED JELLYFISH!!

 

There is enough carbon in the human body to make lead for 4000 pencils. Ha bet no one knew that either.

 

Moonbow

There are rainbows at night called Moonbows.

 

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!


The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!


Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!


The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies per day!


A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!


The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!


No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!

If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive!

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

Porcupines float in water!

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!

The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins!

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

Cat urine glows under a black-light!

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

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

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!


Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!


Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!

The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

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

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!

One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!

you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

The state of Florida is bigger than England!

There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits

It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

 

Keemosythis- the process some plants go through when they get energy from chemicals in water.

Hammerhead sharks are so sensitive to electric fields they can sense half a billionth of a volt! they can even sense the magnetic fields of the world and pinpoint the magnetic fields of the world so they never get lost!

If you could jump as high as a flee, you could jump over 2 Statues of Liberty easy!

If a person gave birth like a tapeworm, her babies would have filled the city of New York and 2 weeks!

If you could run like a tiger beetle you'd be sprinting at 300 mph! that means you could finish the Olympic sprint race in .5 seconds! tiger beetles usually have perfect sight, but when they run, they go so fast they go temperately blind!

Mako Shark- the fastest shark on earth. swimming up to 30 or 40 mph.

A bombardier beetle can shoot a 214 degree F hot chemical 700x a second!

If a human drank 100 cups of water in a few hrs they'd die from water poisoning!

Spitting cobra- a snake that can launch venom in your eyes- from 11 feet away!

Pitohue- a poisonous bird whose poison can kill a mouse in a few minutes

A pufferfish can kill a person with the amount of poison that covers a pinhead!

It takes a dog 18 months to lean how to sniff out drugs when it takes a bee 4 hrs!

Some greyhounds can out run horses.

They have square water melon in Japan.

There are more chickens in the world than humans.

The man who played the voice of bugs bunny is allergic to carrots.

One type of humming bird weighs les than a penny!

If we were as strong as a rhinoceros beetles, we'd be able to lift a tank!

In it's life time an artic tern can fly as far as the earth to the moon and back!

Praying mantises can attack in .005 of a second while pro boxers strike in 285 of a second!

Termites cause up to 2.5 billion $ of damage! That's more than fires and earthquakes and (something else I can't remember) together!

.219 was all it took for cowboys to draw when it takes 5 milliseconds for a snapping shrimp to strike!

Snapping shrimp "click" their claws in .003 seconds!

Cone snails can inject poison in a fraction of a second.

Cheetahs can go from 0 to 70 mph in 4 seconds from a standing start!

Peregrine falcons can reach 200 mph in a nose dive!

If you were as fast as a hunter spider you'd win the Olympic sprint race in 4 seconds

Slugs have 4 noses.

Sharks can live up to 100 years.

Mosquitoes are attracted to blue twice as much as any other color.

Longest recorded bug in the world- a walking stick that was 20 inches long.

If people built like termites an average building would be 5 Empire state buildings high and 20 blocks long!

Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

2nd most dangerous snake on the planet - The Black Maumba. Also known as the fastest thing on no legs.

Marble scorpions are less than a cm long, but their poison can cause pain for a week and numbness for a year!

A kiwi is as big as an average hen, but it's egg is 10x bigger!

You would need 14,826 billion fireflies to generate as much light as the sun produces!

In a good condition rabbits can make 6 babies every month and it would take 6 months before they could breed to!

About 1600 people share your birthday.

World record of births- 69 children in a family. (All brothers and sisters.)

You're more likely to be struck by lighting the to give birth to quardruplets.

Right whale drinks more milk in a day than a human baby drinks in a year!

Blue whale babies grow 9x bigger in 1 yr! if humans grew that fast, a 1 yr old would weigh as much as the average 10 yr old!

Aphids are born pragnate. They don't even need males to reproduce!

If we were like termites a mother would be 60 ft tall and in just 2 days her babies would fill Yankee Stadium! She'd be giving birth to 30,000 babies everyday!

Musk oxes survive collisions that would be like going head first in a car wreck 20x!

Tigers have striped skin and fur.

A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.

The only fish that can blink is the shark. Even then the great white shark can't blink.

Great whites learn 80x faster than a cat.

Orangutans build 15,000 beds in a life time!

The male bolve bird actually grows gardens in it's 60 ft wide nest just to impress a female!

An orb spider's silk is 5x stronger than steel and 2x as elasticy as nylon and can withstand 2,000x it's own weight! the only reason it's web breaks is because the glue unsticks! In the entire life time of 1 orb spider it can spin enough silk to cross the Brooklyn Bridge 3x! hard to believe they can recycle that buy eating it...

Caddifly larvae can build a house out of anything. Sometimes the shells they sometimes make them out of is regarded as jewelry!

The nautilus withstand depths of 1,500 ft under water with a shell 1 mm thick!

Beavers make dams 1,000 ft that can support a mini-van with only mud, twigs, teeth, and paws!

Beavers can chew through logs the size of a rolling pen in 15 seconds!

Termites can build a builds 4x bigger than the Empire State Building! (well the could, if they as big as humans) And they make it all from spit, dirt and dung while they're blind!

Wolves are 2x as fast as Olympic sprint racers.

No healthy wolf has been recorded killing a person in North America.

40% of Americans have stage fright. There is also the fear of clocks, colors, the moon, the #13, and bald men! (I just can't remember the exact names right now) Infact, you can make a phobia out of almost anything!

A school of pranas could strip the flesh off a cow in 3 min. But pranas are scavengers and prefer the scales and the tail of fish above humans!

You are more likely to get hurt by a running elk, a falling tree, or even another hiker than a bear while hiking!

A great white shark can move 5x faster than an Olympic swimmer.

350 species of sharks grow no longer than 3 ft!

An elephant will extract its own infected tooth using tree branches and sharp rocks as tools.

10% of snakes are poisonous.

Bees kill more people than alligators, grizzly bears, and spiders combined each year!

An underground mushroom in Oregon is 3.5 miles across and covers an area larger than 1,600 football fields.

Koalas are the only animals besides primates and humans that have fingerprints.

Flies fly faster when it's sunny.

The ski-doo snowmobile was originally supposed to be called the ski-dog; there was a typo.

90% of all species that have become extinct have been birds.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

With 200 million insects for every human, it's good there are millions of bug loving birds and bats!

It takes more calories to eat celery than it has to begin with!

Starfish have multiple eyes, one at the end of each leg.

An octopus has three hearts.

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I win? XD;

 

wow, just wow.... the only thing i can really say is that i thought that thing with the rb spider was pretty kewl. i used to have a lot of these random fact things. then i read your post and currently im drawing a blank.

i can think of a few odd facts though,

-the roundthings on the sides of frogs heads are there ears

-clown fish change there sex after giving birth, so all female clown fish were men at one point or another

-there are ten ants for every one person on earth

-back in the day, the lottery was computer generated(it still is, but thats beside the point) and since computers cant truly come up with random numbers, there was a man who found out the process of how th number was formed, that man won te lottery every day for quite some time. he became very wealthy as you imagine. eventually the people who work for the lottery foun out and made him give back hlf hs winnings

-the world record for solving the rubiks cube is 8.6 seconds

-the first computer was built and held in texas. it was aproximitely 13 ft. X 13 ft.

-the first ball point pen was sold for over a thousand dollars

-same for the first calculator

-the first mario game was made in (i think) 1981, or was it 1984....

-the first online video game system was made in the 1950's

-the state of california was built on a fault line. so, in so many years, california will actually collide with japan.

-the atlantic ocean spreads by 3 inches every year, the pacific ocean does the opposite

-mr.monopoly is also called uncle penny bags an is based off of john d. rockefeller....

-the word monopoly is a compilation of the prefix mono- (meaning one or singular) and the suffix -poly (many many or plural) this makes it an oxymoron.

-the band linkin park got there name because none of the band members ccould think of good name, so they took the name of the park just down the road from where they all lived and made a few spelling changes (lincoln park -->linkin park)

-if you fold the 20 doller bill just right, it looks like the twin towers on 9/11

-if you go into microsoft word, and type in (in caps) "q33 ny" (q33 was the flight number) and switch to wingdings font, you get a plane, two towers, the jewishh star, and a skull with coss bones, resemblant of 9/11

-the average chinese typewriter has 15000 characters on it.

-jamaica has a bob sled team but no military.

-if you lifted up alaska and put it on top of the u.s., startinga t the east coast, it would cover up all the way out to (some where in the neighborhood of) kansas.

-in the orriginal taping of the wizard of oz, just as dorothy and the crew pass through the woods, in the shadows of the background, one of the midgets hangs himself.

-the tv show bobo-bo bo-bobobo was based off of an acid trip the creator had.

-the average antcan lift 10x its own weight.


....i told you i was drawing a blank. this isnt half of what i got.

p.s. no, ididnt look these up via yahoo/ google/ etc. while typing these. these are all from memory.

 

The weirdest fact I know would be... I am genius, you are not. Ok in all seriousness I don't find too many facts weird, since they're facts...

 

xP

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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight....

And I'm Batman.

P.S., You're gonna kill me with a "nife" huh? XDDD "When" I'm not expecting it? XDDDDD If you're gonna spam a thread, at least spell the words right... =\

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*just realised how much sense that made* .... Absolutely none... XDDDD;

 

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