Funny, little-known, unusual facts
14-06-2008 02:11
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A snail can sleep for three years.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials.
In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.
It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.
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.
Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.
The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.
One pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year. A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year.
Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man.
Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.
25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused.
26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats.
The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.
US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.
22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
Most Zambians don't live to see their 40th birthday.
The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.
American adults have been educated for the longest time.
The ten most generous countries are all in Europe.
72% of people in Mali earn less than $1 per day.
The top 8 most developed countries all speak Germanic languages. Every such country is in the top 20.
More than 20% of the votes in the 2001 elections in Argentina were invalid.
You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt - at least in theory.
0.7% of Americans are currently in prison.
Saudi diplomats have 367 outstanding parking fines in Britain.
The average criminal sentence length is 137 years in Colombia.
Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia.
America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation.
Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China.
Former enemies, America and Russia now have a great deal in common - they both lead the world in locking people up.
You're 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA as in France.
The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500.00 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.
Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!
All humans Are 99.9% genetically identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.
A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.
Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century.
Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine when it was initially introduced.
Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.
Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.
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KatherineWind
17-06-2008-22:30
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"You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television."!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's it! I'm going to sleep! =)))
Sandyrella
27-06-2008-16:49
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KatherineWind, nice sport, btw.))
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