Odd facts

[mrbones]

# Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
# Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
# The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
# No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 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 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 mustache.
# A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
# American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
# Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
# Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
# The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
# Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
# The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
# Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
# Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
# All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
# Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
# Pearls melt in vinegar.
# Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
# 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.
# The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses.
# The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
# Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
# Turtles can breathe through their backsides.
# Butterflies taste with their feet.
# In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
# On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
# On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
# Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
# Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
# Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
# Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
# It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
# The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
# A snail can sleep for three years.
# No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
# Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
# Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
# The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
# All polar bears are left-handed.
# In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
# An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
# TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
# "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
# If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
# A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
# The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
# Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

[k.p.]

# Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
# Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
# The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
# No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 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 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 mustache.
# A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
# American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
# Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
# Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
# The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
# Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
# The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
# Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
# Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
# All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
# Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
# Pearls melt in vinegar.
# Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
# 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.
# The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses.
# The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
# Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
# Turtles can breathe through their backsides.
# Butterflies taste with their feet.
# In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
# On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
# On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
# Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
# Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
# Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
# Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
# It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
# The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
# A snail can sleep for three years.
# No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
# Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
# Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
# The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
# All polar bears are left-handed.
# In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
# An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
# TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
# "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
# If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
# A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
# The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
# Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

lie!!i have 2 friends ta cado it

[Young Gun]

The "You cannot fold a piece of paper in half more than 7times" is false, they proved that on mythbusters. lol

[Bleedsblue]

If you spray a mosquito with repellant will it lose itself?

Bill

[mrbones]

Was the duck echo busted or confirmed on Myth Busters?

I wish I could eat an 18 acre pizza.

[Young Gun]

Was the duck echo busted or confirmed on Myth Busters?

Busted.

[SWAMP_DONKEY]

# Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
# Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
# The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
# No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 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 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 mustache.
# A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
# American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
# Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
# Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
# The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
# Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
# The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
# Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
# Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
# All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
# Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
# Pearls melt in vinegar.
# Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
# 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.
# The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses.
# The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
# Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
# Turtles can breathe through their backsides.
# Butterflies taste with their feet.
# In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
# On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
# On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
# Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
# Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
# Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
# Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
# It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
# The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
# A snail can sleep for three years.
# No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
# Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
# Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
# The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
# All polar bears are left-handed.
# In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
# An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
# TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
# "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
# If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
# A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
# The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
# Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

  Does that include SWAMP DONKEYS??

[Ida_Mann]

I vote that mrbones stays sick for alittle longer,,,,,he's coming up with some funny stuff in the last few days ;-)

Id@

[mrbones]

Yet, more odd facts.

# 'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
# And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand. 
# No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. 
# 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.
# The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
# The words 'racecar,'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).   
# There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
# There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'
# A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.     
# A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
# A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 
# A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
# Babies are born without kneecaps.  They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
# February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.   
# In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
# If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
# Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
# Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite! 
# Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
# The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 
# The cruise liner, QE 2,  moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
# The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
# The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
# There are more chickens  than people in the world.
# Winston Churchill  was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
# Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

[trx#9]

Eye's do grow, I think they stop at 3 or 4 years of age. If you stuck my eye's in an infant it would look like E.T.

[eldiablo64]

Turtles can breathe through their backsides.

sounds like a smelly situation to me  LMAO

[eldiablo64]

The cruise liner, QE 2,  moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.


SOUNDS LIKE THEY NEED TO CONVERT TO BIO-DIESEL

[mrbones]

I had to look it up.

Do eyeballs grow and, if so, how much?

At birth, the head and structures within it, such as the eyes and brain, are more developed in proportion to the rest of the body. The head and eyes increase in width by only 1.5 times up to the age of 5 years, and after that only a very small proportion more until early adulthood. So the eyes do grow slightly, probably only a matter of millimetres, and only up to age 5 or so.

Only a few mm. That's not much. I took a close look at my 1 year old son's eyes. If anything, his socket openings seem smaller. Almost like they haven't opened up yet.

[NYRAPTOR]

so what happened to all the asians? can i get an amen? so sayeth the shepard! so sayeth the flock!