curious facts

[bababooey]

How many unusual facts can we come up with?


Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM FREEZING!

[cowherder]

Average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches

[hookset]

The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year due to the weight of books.

[captnemo]

Due to pollution and overfishing, population of American, Asian and Europeans eels have declined up to 99%.

[basshunter]

A man says an average of 4850 words in 24 hours

[ledhead36]

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

[nitestrikes]

On average 100 people choke to death on ballpint pens every year.

[fishinmission78]

A man says an average of 4850 words in 24 hours


Yeah, but what about a woman! I bet at least double or triple that!:laugh:

[albiealert]

Only one person in two billion will live up to the age of 116.

[dogfish]

The dot over the "i" is called a tittle.

[cracklepopper]

Reno, Nevada is West of Los Angeles , California.

[plugaholic]

The first toilet shown on TV was in "Leave it to Beaver"

[strikezone31]

98 tons of ore historic buried plant material is used to make on US gallon of gasoline.

[stripercrazy]

Ketchup was originally sold as medicine.

[plugaholic]

A man says an average of 4850 words in 24 hours

And how many words do women average, 24,000? :ROFLMAO:

Coca-cola originally contained an extract of coca, similar to cocaine. "Things go better with coke!" :hippie::bong2:

[cowherder]

Didn't realize the one I posted was taken. I deleted it.

So here is another one:

Strong negative emotions can lead to damage of the immune system.

[cowherder]

And this:

Almost 85% of the universe is a form of dark matter.

[HerringRollins]

Neutrons have a life of 14 minutes outside the nucleus of an atom.

[cracklepopper]

There's harsh economics behind bag recycling. It costs $4,000 to process and recycle 1 ton of plastic bags, which can then be sold on the commodities market for $32.

[dogfish]

when i shave my arse in the summer, it always grows back. :eek: :ROFLMAO:

[cracklepopper]

when i shave my arse in the summer, it always grows back. :eek: :ROFLMAO:

Um, why would you do that? Not a metrosexual, are you? :D

[seamonkey]

7'1 basketball star Wilt Chamberlain's parents were 5'8.

[plugginpete]

The highest lifetime yield of milk for a single cow is 465,224 lbs.

[lostatsea]

Bob Dole is 10 years older than the Empire State Building.

[CharlieTuna]

Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.

[buckethead]

Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11 years old.

[voyager35]

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A sharkhttp://sz0132.wc.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/?auth=co&id=880&part=2.18is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

[voyager35]

goldfish http://sz0132.wc.mail.comcast.net/service/home/~/?auth=co&id=880&part=2.16 has a memory span of three seconds.
(Some days that's ab out what my memory span is.)

[7deadlyplugs]

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

[VSdreams]

At age 47, the Rolling Stones' bassist, Bill Wyman, began a relationshipwith 13-year old Mandy Smith, with her mother's blessing. Six years later,they were married, but the marriage only lasted a year. Not long after, Bill's 30-year-old son Stephen married Mandy's mother, age 46. That made Stephen a stepfather to his former stepmother. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father's father-in-law and his own grandpa.

[lostatsea]

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in
the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers--they saw it as competition. It is
not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

[hookset]

A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep

[jigfreak]

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedo-ing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.