Post: Weird But True Facts 101
10-28-2009, 01:35 AM #1
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Butterflies taste with their feet.









A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.







In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than

all the world's nuclear weapons combined.









On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.















On average people fear spiders more than they do death.









Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.







Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal

ads for dating are already married.







Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.







Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.







It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.









Women blink nearly twice as much as men.









The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch
every year because when it was built, engineers failed to
take into account the weight of all the
books that would occupy the building.







A snail can sleep for three years.







No word in the English language rhymes with


"MONTH".







Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.







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











The electric chair was invented by a dentist.











All polar bears are left handed.





In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.









An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.







TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.







A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.





"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.





If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.





The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.







Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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The following 5 users say thank you to JizzOnYour4Head for this useful post:

+tA. Rick, Dopey, Luke, NanuGama, Shockk
10-28-2009, 05:51 PM #11
TheLen
DmX* 4 Life
You can lead a cow upstairs but not down im not sure if its true
10-28-2009, 06:04 PM #12
j3w15h_n4z1
Little One
I thought it would be more pizza than that...
10-28-2009, 06:05 PM #13
A ducks Quack does echo, it doesn't somehow brake the boundries of sound haha.
10-28-2009, 06:06 PM #14
A ducks quack does echo, brainiac proved it, it's just so short it's hardly noticable.

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Gobz
10-28-2009, 06:14 PM #15
Originally posted by JimErased View Post
A ducks quack does echo, brainiac proved it, it's just so short it's hardly noticable.


Good job because that'd blow my head up trying to think why it wouldn't.
10-28-2009, 06:17 PM #16
ShAdoW_RiDa
Former Blue Mod
I'll tell you what's weird,the people who made that list!! Some of those are wrong and hard to believe.
10-28-2009, 11:10 PM #17
Nope these are real. I would think. xD !!
10-28-2009, 11:24 PM #18
Nexxy
Formerly Psycho194
Originally posted by NoControl
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.


Only mammals. I think....
Yea. Try get a whale to jump xD
10-28-2009, 11:32 PM #19
LOL xD physco. true true!!

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