iadoremika Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Here's a thread where you post useless and random facts. Enjoy:thumb_yello: I'll start with some: There are an average of 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll You can't tickle yourself The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple is called a tragus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mika-fan1001 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 really?! lol that is cool i sound dumb, but ive always wondered wat it was well today is shakespeares birthday/death day and i am staring at a cd right now i am about to go ice my ankles and im tired.. O WAIT! american idol is on (for me) i think i will go watch that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iadoremika Posted April 24, 2008 Author Share Posted April 24, 2008 More useless facts... The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as in its meaning You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television Wentworth Miller of Prison Break, has two different coloured eyes: his left eye is green, while his right eye is hazel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
findingmywords Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 More people get killed from pigs than by sharks each year. PIGS. that's a bit frightening... Fish Cough. Here's one : A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilek Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 More people get killed from pigs than by sharks each year. PIGS. that's a bit frightening... Fish Cough. Here's one : A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long! he he:roftl: stupid chicken:naughty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishrose Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 The little plastic bits on the ends of your shoelaces are called 'aglets'. A jiffy is an actual measure of time. Snow leopards can't roar. It's impossible to lick your elbow. (On average, 73% of the people who read that statement will try to lick their elbow.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaryLovesMika! Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 You can't keep your eyes open when you are sneezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
findingmywords Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly. A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away. The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache. 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m). (... Eww) Diet Coke was only invented in 1982. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. American car horns beep in the tone of F. There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million. Charlie Brown's father was a barber. Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 m) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (Eww) A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away. Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal. (Whoa) The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum. The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. ( Ow) In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose. The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo." The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect. Children grow faster in the springtime. On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired" Nobody knows who built the Taj Mahal. The names of the architects, masons, and designers that have come down to us have all proved to be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to indicate who the real creators were. "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you." Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights. Yeah... I'm bored Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaryLovesMika! Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun. Who counted them?? The person who did it had to be reeeeeeeeeally, reaaaally bored!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
findingmywords Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Who counted them?? The person who did it had to be reeeeeeeeeally, reaaaally bored!! I know... And even if you're that bored, how can you endure doing that... After counting like 10 I would be over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LA_fashionista Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 *is amused by this thread... because of boredom* It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk. (Everyone to the bar thread!) 43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot. The average person laughs 15 times a day. (I laugh more than that... I must be weird or something. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaryLovesMika! Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 I know...And even if you're that bored, how can you endure doing that... After counting like 10 I would be over it. Don't know why, but i'm picturing a group of geeks making turns to count them!! Some other useless facts and i'm done for today. Animal Useless Facts: The biggest fish is the whale shark. Porcupines cannot shoot their quills. A baby whale gains about 200 pounds a day. The basket starfish has more than 80,000 arms. If a starfish is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a whole starfish. Insects have six legs. Monarch butterflies migrate over 2,000 miles for the Winter. Only the honey bee makes honey. A honey bee dies after it stings. Wasp nests are made of paper. The word shark is derived from the Latin word meaning "sharp teeth." Bye, bye! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fmbm Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Who counted them?? The person who did it had to be reeeeeeeeeally, reaaaally bored!! They must've been an MFCer waiting for the official news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LA_fashionista Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 They must've been an MFCer waiting for the official news. oh no... I haven't heard one of those jabs in a while... I thought people had forgot about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fmbm Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 oh no... I haven't heard one of those jabs in a while... I thought people had forgot about it. hahaha you wish:naughty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LA_fashionista Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 *adds more random facts* In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license. No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH". The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515. Singapore has only one train station. The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons. Ants never sleep. *runs and hides* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaryLovesMika! Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 DID YOU KNOW... Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. [] The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched" All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. There are only four words in the English language that end in "dous":tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los angelesde Porcinula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of it's size: "L.A." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creatorlooked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence Oz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kissable Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 DID YOU KNOW... Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. [] The longest one syllable word in the English language is "screeched" All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20. There are only four words in the English language that end in "dous":tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los angelesde Porcinula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of it's size: "L.A." A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creatorlooked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence Oz. Oh my!! I didn't knew it!! Awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
findingmywords Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 hahaha you wish:naughty: Haha.. and you said you didn't care anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
findingmywords Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Haha... Have we all been googling random facts? I have haha Copy and Paste 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. () People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights 200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day. Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people. (Out of curiousity, is Mika left or right handed?) The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side. (hahah) The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals. (scary...) Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores. (???) Hahaha In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror. (...) If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kissable Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Haha... Have we all been googling random facts? I have haha Copy and Paste 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. () People spend about two weeks of their lives at traffic lights 200 million people in China live on less than $1 a day. Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people. (Out of curiousity, is Mika left or right handed?) The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side. (hahah) The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy. Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals. (scary...) Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores. (???) Hahaha In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror. (...) If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people,50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people. I'm going to die soon?!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaryLovesMika! Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Haha... Have we all been googling random facts? I have haha Copy and Paste Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. () Yes, we have!! And LMAO!! Poor doll!! No wonder she rather being called "Barbie" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sienna Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 This was really funny reading! Please keep it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaryLovesMika! Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I'm going to die soon?!!! Me tooooooo!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
findingmywords Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Ok I've got some good ones: A snail can sleep for three years. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined. Turtles can breathe through their butts. () Walt Disney was afraid of mice. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials. Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory. McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users. (How rude) Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last. Male and female rats may have chicken(MFC definition) twenty times a day... (Ew) 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused. The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City. 0.7% of Americans are currently in prison. Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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