Post: Strange Facts
10-01-2010, 09:33 PM #1
Jamesyy
OG? No? ok.
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Strange Facts


In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!


Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!


Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!


A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!

Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!


Not mine, copied for your interest.
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S T E V E N
10-02-2010, 12:17 AM #2
NeedaLifeSoon
Retired Life
Always liked this stuff.
Of the 20 bank robberies commited per day in the US, less than 20% are solved. Frankly, I'm surprised there are only 20.
10-02-2010, 10:54 AM #3
Pullz7
Splicer
Another great thread jayy Happy
10-02-2010, 02:07 PM #4
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Roar
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i like how everyone one of your sentences end with a "!" i found myself reading this like a teacher who loves reading books to their class a little too much o.o

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God_of_War
10-02-2010, 02:20 PM #5
ResistTheSun
In Flames Much?
There not enough space within, the known universe to write the largest number known to man down. Even if you write each number down on a atom.
10-02-2010, 02:30 PM #6
God_of_War
God Help us all
Originally posted by ResistTheSun View Post
There not enough space within, the known universe to write the largest number known to man down. Even if you write each number down on a atom.


Well since numbers technically could go to infinity I could see this...
10-02-2010, 02:37 PM #7
Oh man, some nice facts there dude!
10-02-2010, 02:44 PM #8
some great facts wow lol
10-02-2010, 02:54 PM #9
the one about forest fires is common sense other than that great thread :p
10-02-2010, 10:40 PM #10
Thank you, I enjoy these kinds of threads.

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