Silly Fun Facts

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 18 Mar 2006, 11:13

Did you know............?

The Earth wieghs 6.6 sextillion tons!!

Anne-Marie Martin from Sledge Hammer co-wrote Twister!!

Polar Bears retain 100% body heat and have pigmet free hair (its not white)

Everything you see with the naked eye in the night sky is in our galaxy...except one thing!!

You cant touch your ear with your elbow!!

The Earth has 4 corners and one is in Ireland!!

Iron Maiden had a Christmas No'1

Did you hear about the Spanish fireman who called his sons Hose A and Hose B?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 19 Mar 2006, 15:56

Did you know... ?

Coca-Cola used to be green, not brown.

The youngest pope ever was 11 years old.

111 111 111 x 111 111 111 = 12 345 678 987 654 321

If you spell every single number in english from 1 to 1 000, you won't find an "A" before you reach 1 000 ("One ThousAnd")

Honeymoon comes from an old babylonian tradition, in which the father-in-law was supposed to offer mead (honey-based beer) to his new son-in-law.

GOLF actually means "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden".

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 19 Mar 2006, 16:08

Those who planted the most trees last year are not humans but squirrels.
They plant seeds and often forget to go back and eat them.

Pigs and humans are the only creatures with the ability to get sunburned.

The "quack" of a duck is one of the few sounds that can't trigger an echo. Nobody has figured out why, yet.

Last year, champagne killed more people than venimous spiders. And I'm not talking about alcohol, I'm talking about people who died while trying to open the bottles. Just be careful with that bottle opener.

We've been studying ostriches for 80 years now, and not once has an ostrich buried its head in the sand. So who made up that story ?

Lighters were invented before matches.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 19 Mar 2006, 16:11

DOH! I was just about to post the "Coca-Cola was originally green" bit!

You're right about the word Golf Tom, said to be the "Gentlemen Only" anacronym too.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 19 Mar 2006, 17:55

BMW = Breasts Must Wobble.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 19 Mar 2006, 19:00

Did someone say Sex?

Everything you see with the naked eye in the night sky is in our galaxy...except one thing!!

Which is?

Pigs and humans are the only creatures with the ability to get sunburned.

I'm sure Dogs can too.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 20 Mar 2006, 05:19

Uncle Phil, from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air voiced Shredder in TMNT.

Contray to popular belief, Paul McCartney is not dead.

David Lynch does not take drugs.

The total combined weight of the world's ant population is heavier than the human population.

Right-handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than lefties.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.

Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. Honey has been discovered in Egyptian tombs and found edible by archaelogists.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their arses.

The "Happy Birthday" song is copyrighted.

The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than plane crashes.

Male hospital patients fall out of bed twice as often as female patients.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from crashing into a window.

The Bible is the most shop-lifted book in the world.

The Earth gets 100 tonnes heavier every day due to falling space dust.

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

The average French human eats 500 snails per year.

Organised crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.

Termites eat wood twice as fast whilst listening to heavy metal music.

Your skeleton keeps growing until you're 35, then you start to shrink.

Apple seed are poisonous.

Men laugh louder, longer and more often than women.

Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they're stroked.

10% of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.

Smokers eat sugar more than non-smokers do.

"Formicophilia" is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.

80% of 10 year old girls in the US go on a diet.

A blue whale's heart is the size of a VW Beetle.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.

The 3 wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the 48 poorest nations combined.

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives they save.

Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 20 Mar 2006, 10:57

The Happy Birthday song is indeed copyrighted - it was originally titled "Good Morning To All".
Didnt Uncle Phil also play the Super Shredder in TMNT 2 (the film?)

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 20 Mar 2006, 12:17

Ugh is that chocolate bar fact really true?