Weird facts...

[Jefro]

i will be adding more for the next few days

• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
• The average human swollows 8 spiders in their lifetime at night while they sleep.
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
• China has more people who speak English than the United States.
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

[squirt]

an 11 year old pope lol how funny! lol

[Jefro]

Originally Posted by squirt

an 11 year old pope lol how funny! lol

well the 8 and 9 yo parents is just scary.... thanks for replying squirt

[choirboy1823]

Originally Posted by Jefro

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

That sucks that Im left handed Oh Well.

[Jefro]

Originally Posted by choirboy1823

That sucks that Im left handed Oh Well.

well for one that's only an average and for two you are still young

[choirboy1823]

Originally Posted by Jefro

well for one that's only an average and for two you are still young

Yea!!!!

[Jefro]

More Weird, Amazing, Useless Facts

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• 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.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• Polar bears are left-handed.
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
• The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

[CATWOMANVIXEN]

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
(QUOTE)

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE SHORTEST SENTENCE FROM THE BIBLE WAS "JESUS WEPT."


EXCELLANT POST JEFRO!!! I LOVE LEARNING ALL KINDS OF WEIRD STUFF LIKE THAT! SOME I KNEW. MOST I DIDN'T! FANTASTIC!!!!

[Angie81]

Love the post, very interesting but useless facts, LOL!! thanks for sharing. (thanks God i'm right handed!!:-)

[Jefro]

Originally Posted by CATWOMANVIXEN

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
(QUOTE)

I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE SHORTEST SENTENCE FROM THE BIBLE WAS "JESUS WEPT."


EXCELLANT POST JEFRO!!! I LOVE LEARNING ALL KINDS OF WEIRD STUFF LIKE THAT! SOME I KNEW. MOST I DIDN'T! FANTASTIC!!!!

well "Jesus wept." is still the shortest VERSE in the Bible but I AM is shortest complete sentence that can be made
glad your enjoying and learning from it CWV... i'm not done with it yet tho lol