Super Facts

[Zeus_Hunt]

27. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

26. The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

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

left-handed people do.

24. Its impossible to smoke oneself to death with weed. You won't be

able to retain enough motor control and consciousness to do so after

such a large amount. (Common Sense)

23. Uncle Phil, from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, did the voice of

Shredder in the TMNT cartoon.

22. Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

21. The US national anthem actually has three verses, but everyone

just knows the first one.

20. During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to

manage their death/concentration camps.

19. The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier

than the weight of the human population.

18. The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil

war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who

thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.

17. Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people

die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of

people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now,

than before you finished reading this.

16. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

15. The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the

number of all the people that have died. Ever. 

14. The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and

eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year. 

13. The Kamp Krusty episode of the Simpson's was originally meant to

be made as the Simpsons movie.

12. Men can breastfeed babies  :wacko:

11. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which

you've probably never heard of.

10. Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to

human beings and animals than to other plants. :huh:

9. In some (maybe all) Asian countries, the family name is written

first and the individual name written second (opposite of the America

method). That's why Asian athletes like Yao Ming and Ichiro Suzuki

have Yao and Ichiro written on their jerseys. Those are their family

names and in America their names are written Ming Yao and Suzuki

Ichiro.

8. Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860

7. A German World War II submarine was sunk due to malfunction of the toilet.

6. Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.

Long Beach, WA.

5. The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom

underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

4. The town of Los Angeles, California, was originally named El Pueblo

la Nuestra Senora de Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.

3. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.

This isn't true; Joseph Swan did. :huh:

(I think it is 9.99999 out of 10)(http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/swan.html)

2. 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.

1. The Population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.

[Myrak]

16. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

*imagines the RIAA raiding a kid's birthday party* XD

11. There is a rare condition called Exploding Head Syndrome which

you've probably never heard of.

Is the shocking fact that there IS a syndrome like that, or that you've never heard of it?

3. 9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.

This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.  blink.gif

(I think it is 9.99999 out of 10)(http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/swan.html)

XD *PWNED*. Damn, I never knew that that guy invented the light bulb.

[Samurai]

With regards to...

No.26 - Is that a worldwide figure or from some specific country?

No.02 - I'm 99% sure sugar is another one as it is a preservative. It will never spoil.

[nsane]

No.02 - I'm 99% sure sugar is another one as it is a preservative. It will never spoil.

sure if you wanna eat a sugar ROCK, it'll fuse, there's a certain word for it...brown surgar does it REAL easy. honey, on the other hand, will be found the same EXACT way it was 1000 years ago :P

it's alos a good dis-infectant, if you ever get cut or burned while deep in the woods or something...slab some honey on the mofo and yer all good :huh:

now, my replies...

#24 - :huh:

#14 - yeah, sorry to say it, but this is VERY true, the machines aint perfect. but i tend to think of it in a better light, atleast it aint dog shit :huh:

#12 - :huh:

#8 - :huh: - also, he only had a 3rd grade education when he was in office

#5 - to add something, ya know those big ass trees in oregon that are right behind the red woods in size? yeah, well they've been proven to be 1 big plant, that shroom thing :lol:

#4 - try and say that 5 times fast :huh:

[Chicano666]

I believe its El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula

[Guest Greg]

I never ever ever want to eat Chocolate again, but how can that be true? :huh:

[nsane]

I never ever ever want to eat Chocolate again, but how can that be true? :huh:

uhm, simple, spider eggs and stuff fall in the batter during mixing (they're mixed in big open drums similar to cement mixers) :huh:

[Zeus_Hunt]

A few more

1. Scientists have discovered the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It’s a flute carved from a bird’s wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China. “The flute makes a reedy, pleasant sound,” says researcher Garman Harbottle of New York’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Harbottle helped date the flutes.

2. A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

3. Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.

4. 1 in every 3 people in the country of Israel Uses a cell phone.

5. A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.

6. A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.

7. A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

8. A cucumber is 96% water.

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

10. A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.

[Chicano666]

I think that the cockroach also has the brain in the body not the head, thats why it can go many days without one.

[Zeus_Hunt]

ESOPHAGUS:  A cockroach esophagus (a fancy word for throat) isn't as long as a human's, but it gets the job done. Food travels from the mouth, through the esophagus to the stomach.

CROP: The crop is a section at the end of the esophagus used to store food for a while. If a cockroach doesn't chew its food properly, a second set of teeth in its digestive tract, also called a gizzard, gives it another chance.

GASTRIC CAECEA: If cockroaches couldn't digest their food, they'd explode! The gastric caecea are little sacks inside a cockroach that keep germs and enzymes available to help a cockroach digest its food.

MIDGUT: The middle part of the intestine where the cockroach absorbs nutrients is called the midgut.

MALPIGHIAN TUBULES: You say po-tay-toe, I say po-tah-to. You say malpighian tubules, I say cockroach kidney. Either way, it's the same thing! Malpighian tubules clean waste out of the blood. And when they do their job they wiggle like snakes in the "blood" that sloshes around the cockroach's digestive tract.

COLON: Cockroaches not only have a colon, but a rectum, too! Hooray! Special glands in the rectum reabsorb water used during digestion, leaving behind excrement (poop).

HEART: A cockroach has a heart shaped like a tube. Its heart can even stop without the cockroach dying.

SPIRACLES: Cockroaches breath through a bunch of little holes called spiracles in the side of its body. Thin branching tubes carry oxygen from the air to all the parts inside.

FAT BODY: Ever crunch a cockroach? The white gunk that squirts out is the fat body. Like fat in humans, it stores energy. It also breaks down nutrients to provide energy, and helps treat or detoxify insecticides that may be sprayed on the roach (no wonder they're so tough to get rid of).

BRAIN: The cockroach brain is spread throughout its body. The head holds a bit of a nervous system, while the rest of the brain is scattered along the ventral (belly-side) part of its body. So, now you understand that if you cut off the head of a roach, it will still live for as long as one week; eventually dying from starvation or thirst.

[apcmiller]

Borax, or Boric acid, stops up cochroaches and can actually make them explode!

Works with baking soda mixed with equal parts powdered sugar too!

You can hear them popping in the walls at night.

:unsure:

[nsane]

8. A cucumber is 96% water.

...and the average human body is made up of about 75% water ;)

Borax, or Boric acid, stops up cochroaches and can actually make them explode!

Works with baking soda mixed with equal parts powdered sugar too!

You can hear them popping in the walls at night.

:unsure:

dude, that's the best thing i've heard all week :o

[Zeus_Hunt]

Borax, or Boric acid, stops up cochroaches and can actually make them explode!

Works with baking soda mixed with equal parts powdered sugar too!

You can hear them popping in the walls at night.

:o

I m gonna seriously try this at home...

Will be fun.. :o

[Myrak]

Another random one-

"Almost" is the longest word that has all its letters in alphabetical order.

[Nemesis]

a nother useless fact:

a goldfish has a memory of 3 seconds.

I watched it on discovery channel