Though a little longer around teatime...

Really? How long for, because I can survive without water, just not for very long.

Whoohooo! After the times of feeling useless from the start of this thread, I can finally contribute to this great topic!

Do you know that you can't fold a paper in half more than 7 times? It is impossible! If you don't cheat and actually fold it in half 7 times that is. Great for betting with clueless people for chump change!

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and a third one on top of their heads.
Giraffes can't cough.
Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.
Birds cannot go into outer space, because they use gravity to assist them in swallowing, so they'd quickly choke and die in a non-gravity environment.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.
The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 10 thousand years.
A car traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour would take over 48 million years to reach the nearest star (other than our sun), Proxima Centauri. This is about 685,000 average human lifetimes.
Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.
Lawn darts are illegal in Canada.Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine are the four states in the U.S. that do not allow billboards.
Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
The writers of The Simpsons have never revealed what state Springfield is in.In Lehigh, Nebraska, its against the law to sell donut holes
In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
Most humans can guess someone’s sex with 95% accuracy just by smelling their breath
The same man who led the attack on the Alamo, Mexican Military General, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, is also credited with the invention of chewing gum.
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
There are more telephones than people in Washington DC.
Hawaii is the only state in the United States where male life expectancy exceeds 70 years. Hawaii also leads all states in life expectancy in general, with an average of 73.6 years for both males and females
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries
As of September 1998, the highest recorded mileage for a car was 1,615,000 miles for a 1966 Volvo P-1800.
Mr. Peanut was invented in 1916 by a Suffolk, Virginia schoolchild who won $5 in a design contest sponsored by Planters Peanuts.
Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.
When Gerber baby foods began to sell in parts of Africa, they continued to use their usual packaging, with the cute baby on the front. They didn't realize until later that where they were selling it, it was a common practice to help illiterate people buy things by putting pictures on the wrapper of what was inside.
The number 57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.
For beer commercials, they add liquid detergent to the beer to make it foam more.
You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
There are 2,000,000 different combinations of sandwiches that can be created from a SUBWAY menu.
The wheat that produces a one-pound loaf of bread requires 2 tons of water to grow.
Though most people think of salt as a seasoning, only 5 out of every 100 pounds produced each year go to the dinner table.
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
Theodore Roosevelt was blind in his left eye.

Popular misconseption. This is not our nearest star appart from the sun, it is Banard Star!

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates intercourse by ripping the male's head off.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

Humans and dolphins are the only species on Earth that have sex for pleasure.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than
left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....)

A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

I think if you were to count you would find Polar bears don't have any hands, but actually have two left paws on one side and two right paws on the other. I leave it up to you to figure out which paws are on which side. Or do they have front paws and hind feet?

Sheryl: Can you touch your elbows together behind your back

How do you even respond to that???

-The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
-Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
-Men can read smaller print than women can but women can hear better.
-Coca Cola was originally green.
-The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska
-The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%
-The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%
-The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 (’3,875)
-The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
-Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
-The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
-The youngest pope was 11 years old.
-The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
-Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
-Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
Spades- King David,
Hearts- Charlemagne,
Clubs- Alexander, the Great
Diamonds- Julius Caesar
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
-If a statue in a park has a person on a horse, and the hrose has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
-"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
-Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
-Conception occurs more often in December than any other month
-Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace
-Most boat owners name their boats, and ’Obsession’ is the most popular boat name
-If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to spell until one thousand to reach the letter ’A’
-What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? All invented by women.
-Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
-There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year
-Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
-In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"
-Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

On my uncle's farm he has a barn that is two miles long and two miles wide and two feet high.

On my uncle's farm it got so cold that had to defrost the cows before they could milk them.

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


1. A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.

2. A shrimp's heart is in their head.

3. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

4. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. if you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.

5. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

6. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

7. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

8. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetic Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas.

9. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

10. Rats and horses can't vomit. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

11. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

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

13. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

14. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

15. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.

16. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

17. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.




[Edited on 15/6/2003 by Naira]

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ewwww!!!! i'm paranoid to sleep now thanks

That's true Amarie. Actually what I posted was info on sneezing causing the heart to stop, saying bless you is supposedly because of that. So, logically, people should say bless you because you are still alive after sneezing, but the saying wasn't created from that info, it's just a suggestion.



Haha, don't blame me, I only put what I found. But it is disgusting

Ok... that's a little strange Asteroth.... but good job!

Here's 25 facts about death/ dead people:
1. In Miami in August, Levon Howard lost a shoot-out with his roommate Edwin Heyliger. Howard had broken into Heyliger's room, angry that someone had drunk his Kool-Aid, and in the ensuing argument, both scrambled for guns.
2. In 1933 a 19 year-old student, Kiyoko Matsumoto, committed suicide by jumping into the thousand foot crater of a volcano on the island of Oshima, Japan. This act started a bizarre fashion in Japan and in the ensuing months three hundred children did the same thing.
3. Erwin, TN is the only place where an elephant has been hanged for murder.
4. The world's worst lifeguard has to be Lorenzo Trippi of Ravenna, Italy. In 1995, three people on three separate occasions wound up dead thanks to Lorenzo's efforts to save them. In each case, he hit all three of them on the head with his life preserver, causing them to black out and drown.
5. Aeschylus, the Greek poet and dramatist, was killed when an eagle flying overhead dropped a turtle on his head.
6. A poodle fell from a balcony in Buenos Aires in October 1988. It killed three people. One was struck on the head, the second run over by a bus while watching, the third witnessed the event and died from a heart attack.
7. A colonel in the Ivory Coast army was fatally wounded by gunfire as he tested a "magic" belt supposedly with powers to protect him from bullets. Colonel Pascal Gbah, 49, died after being hit by a bullet fired from his own service pistol by a 20-year-old son of the magic belt's maker. Ghah's cousin Andre Gondo made the belt as insisting that its protective powers were real, provided one abstained from sex while wearing it.
8. Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!
9. Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 on Good Friday and in 1995 Good Friday was also on April 14. When Booth shot Lincoln, some people thought it was part of the play.
10. In 1609, a doctor named Wecker found a corpse in Bologna with two penises. Since then, there have been eighty documented cases of this condition.
11. One October, at the Jervis Lumb pub in Sheffield, England, there was a bit of a party going on, Mr. Ian Clifton, 35, had enjoyed nearly a dozen pints of larger, and an unknown quantity of punch. Ian's friends noticed he'd gone a bit quiet, and decided to have a bit of fun with their friend. They shaved one side of his head, then took pictures of him posed with an inflatable doll. Then they noticed he was really quiet, quieter than he should have been. The paramedics said he'd probably been dead (acute alcohol poisoning) for a good hour before they were called.
12. In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood.
13. In Britain 2 women, Anuban Bell and Sunee Whitworth, were killed in 1999 by lightning conducted through their underwire bras, according to the West London Coroner's Office.
14. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Peking, one took revenge against one's enemies by placing finely chopped tiger whiskers in their food. The whisker barbs would get caught in the victim's digestive tract and cause sores and infections, and eventually death.
15. When Mark Twain was born on Nov 30, 1835, Halley's comet was visible over Florida, Missouri. Mark Twain predicted in 1909 that he would die when it returned. He was right. When he died on April 21, 1910, Halley's comet was once again visible in the sky.
16. Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at the assassinations of three presidents: his father's, President Garfield's, and President McKinley's. After the last shooting, he refused ever to attend a state affair again.
17. Since 1978, at least 37 people died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 have been injured.
18. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
19. In many European countries, on the night of the "Feast of Samhain" (Oct. 31), people believed that deceased relatives could walk the earth. A "dumb supper" is the custom of setting extra places at a dinner table, for the dead, and eating the meal in silence, in honor of those who can no longer speak.
20. The ancient Druids had a three-day celebration at the beginning of November. They believed that on the last night of October spirits of the dead roamed abroad, and so they would light bonfires to drive them away. The Celts used to carve lanterns from turnips and carried them through the villages.
21. Murderer John Horwood was hanged on April 13, 1821. His skin was used to bind a book describing the dissection of his body by surgeon Richard Smith.
22. On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
23. The infamous Black Plague in Europe was due in part to the fact that people believed those with cats were witches. So all the cats were rounded up, caged and burned, leaving the rats (with there disease causing parasites) to run free and multiply. Those harbouring cats were many who survived.
24. In 1980, the Yellow Pages accidentally listed a Texas funeral home under frozen foods.
25. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.

In 1967 the CIA fitted a cat with high-tech listening equipment. Ten minutes after the cat was released it was struck and killed by a taxi!

Lincoln's Vice President's last name was Johnson (Andrew) just as was Kennedy's (Lyndon Baines Johnson).

When Lincoln was shot, he was in a car called Kennedy. When Kennedy was shot, he was in a car called Lincoln. (I think.)

Not long before he was shot, Lincoln was in Monroe, Maryland. ... .

[Edited on 24/6/2003 by Allyssa]

When Lincoln was shot, he was in a theatre called Ford. When Gerald Ford was the thirty-eighth President of the United States (1974-1977), he often visited the J.F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts.

Reverse isn't a palendrome!

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at a red light.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.

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

There are only four words in the English language that end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: indivisibility.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

No! That should be: "I believe it, but sometimes it seems longer."

Did you know;

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Researchers have shot footage of (notice the name!) Orcas attacking and killing great white sharks. Orcas are killer whales.

Oh well...no biggie. Thanks for correcting me! I'll check my sources better next time

I hate to say people,but most of these facts don't make much sense. Lets just say its not a reliable source .

There is only one continent whose name doesn't end in "a".