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By Muhammad Mahdi
#6354
1. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
>>starves to death.
>>
>>2. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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>>3. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
>>
>>4. A snail can sleep for three years.
>>
>>5. All Polar bears are left-handed.
>>
>>6. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
>>from each salad served in first-class.
>>
>>7. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
>>
>>8. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
>>
>>9. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the
>>child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
>>
>>10. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
>>
>>11. Butterflies taste with their feet.
>>
>>12. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about
>>ten.
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>>13. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
>>
>>14. China has more English speakers than the United States.
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>>15. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't
>>wear pants.
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>>16. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are
>>registered blood donors.
>>
>>17. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
>>
>>18. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
>>calorie.
>>
>>19. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have
>>a full moon.
>>
>>21. I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
>>
>>22. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
>>She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice
>>the length of a normal human's neck.
>>
>>23. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the
>>line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
>>
>>24. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas
>>is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
>>
>>25. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn
>>white.
>>
>>26. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have
>>produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
>>
>>27. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
>>including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
>>
>>28. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
>>
>>29. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
>>
>>30. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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>>31. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
>>
>>32. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of
>>the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
>>
>>33. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in
>>plane crashes.
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>>34. No word in the English language rhymes with month.
>>
>>35. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
>>
>>36. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
>>
>>37. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton
>>growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as
>>competition.
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>>38. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
>>
>>40. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
>>ears never stop growing.
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>>41. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
>>left-handed people do.
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>>42. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
>>
>>43. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
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>>44. Starfish haven't got brains.
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>>45. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
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>>46. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
>>
>>47. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at
>>night.
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>>48. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
>>
>>49. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for
>>each gallon of diesel that it burns.
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>>50. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
>>
>>51. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to
>>the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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>>52. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is
>>attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the
>>male's head off.
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>>53. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
>>
>>54. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that
>>they start with.
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>>55. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
>>
>>56. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many
>>bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the
>>state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate
>>toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
>>
>>57. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
>>uses every letter in the English language.
>>
>>58. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in
>>1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
>>
>>59. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
>>
>>60. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to
>>remember the word you want.
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>>61. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read
>>left to right or right to left.
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>>62. There are two credit cards for every person in the United
>>States.
>>
>>63. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
>>letters on only one row of the keyboard.
>>
>>64. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
>>
>>65. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a
>>poisonous spider.
>>
>>66. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
>>
>>67. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people
>>in the world
>>
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By qarrar
#6357
Muhammad Mahdi wrote:A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
The person who found this out was a weirdo
Muhammad Mahdi wrote:A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
Why on God’s good earth would I want to know that?

Muhammad Mahdi wrote:American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Cheap skates
Muhammad Mahdi wrote:Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Pioneering weight loss technique plus effective use of time
Muhammad Mahdi wrote: If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb
This information may be useful to terrorists. Had they know this in 2001 they would be farting outside the world trade centre right now :!:
Muhammad Mahdi wrote:More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
Don’t ride donkeys
Muhammad Mahdi wrote:No word in the English language rhymes with month.
:roll:
Muhammad Mahdi wrote:On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
Applies to women only :twisted:
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By manji2005
#6388
Funy but shocking (some) facts :lol: :)
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By qarrar
#8228
Some more Facts...

1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a
person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!

3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.

17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14. 4 calories per hour by
breathing.

18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt
every year.

19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk
rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot,left
foot...

20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

22. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch
and make it look=20 like it's smiling.

23. The color blue can have a calming affect on people.

24. Depending upon the shade, the brain may send up to 11 tranquilizing
chemicals to calm the body

25. Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Now we know why his pictures were exquisite!!

26. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

27. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and parrot.

28. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

29. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
reaches 2-6 years of age

30. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.

31. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

32. All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses; some of them just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.

33. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

34. Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before
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By Muhammad Mahdi
#8229
Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
Egoistic :lol:
Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Now we know why his pictures were exquisite!!
He wrote many of his works mirror imaged so that only "interested" and smart people would read them.
Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
Huh! :oops:
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and parrot.
What about insects with complex eyes? :wink:
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
purple= maple, turtle, subtle
orange= range , Blorenge ( a mountain range)
silver= salver
month= nth [term] ( sequences) :wink:
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