Did You Know? ....... Strange Facts

WIZE · 01-05-2009 4:08pm #1

No proof needed !!!

People who laugh a lot are much healthier than those who don't. Dr. Lee Berk at the Loma Linda School of Public Health in California found that laughing lowers levels of stress hormones, and strengthens the immune system - not to mention a good belly-laugh is great exercise!! Six-year-olds have it best - they laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

Quazzie · 01-05-2009 4:10pm

Weird Fact No. 2

Frada is back

\o/

A7X · 01-05-2009 4:12pm

FACHT im sitting down right now.

Loopy · 01-05-2009 4:13pm

Quazzie wrote: »

Weird Fact No. 2

Frada is back

\o/

Lets all laugh at Frada and feel better

Captain Darling · 01-05-2009 4:13pm

You can catch a hare by putting salt on its tail.

Bobeagleburger · 01-05-2009 4:13pm

Do you know that a pint of milk helps your bones, a pint of milk helps your bones, a pint of milk helps your bones, and thats a natural law.

javaboy · 01-05-2009 4:13pm

Strange fact: Milky Bars are sold under the name Galak in several European countries.

Quazzie · 01-05-2009 4:15pm

rarnes1 wrote: »

Do you know that a pint of milk helps your bones, a pint of milk helps your bones, a pint of milk helps your bones, and thats a natural law.

A childs got more bones than a grown-up does.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 01-05-2009 4:16pm

WIZE · 01-05-2009 4:17pm

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side (i.e. the first 8 moves in total) in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000

Robbo · 01-05-2009 4:18pm

You can use old motor oil to fertilize your lawn.

Schism · 01-05-2009 4:18pm

Captain Darling wrote: »

You can catch a hare by putting salt on its tail.

Shenanigans! Surely you must have caught the hare already to salt his tail.

RossFixxxed · 01-05-2009 4:20pm

St John's Wood is the only tube station that does not contain a letter from the word Makerel!

YES, YES, YES I GOT TO USE IT. THE stupidest fact I've ever seen!

WIZE · 01-05-2009 4:21pm

Robbo wrote: »

You can use old motor oil to fertilize your lawn.

I threw a burning pan full of oil on my grass. Left a mark

meditraitor · 01-05-2009 4:22pm

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

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

Futurism · 01-05-2009 4:24pm

One can make all kinds of explosives, using simple household items, if one were so inclined.

meditraitor · 01-05-2009 4:25pm

Oh and my favorite

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Davaeo09 · 01-05-2009 4:25pm

meditraitor wrote: »

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

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

Best one yet!

A7X · 01-05-2009 4:25pm

Futurism wrote: »

One can make all kinds of explosives, using simple household items, if one were so inclined.

I am a biological weapon

Bobeagleburger · 01-05-2009 4:26pm

Pigs orgasm for 30 mins.

Pighead, you lucky lucky swine ! :pac:

A7X · 01-05-2009 4:28pm

The longest word that can be spelt on a keyboard while only using one line of letters is typewriter

keane2097 · 01-05-2009 4:32pm

I believe the longest word in English with the letters in alphabetical order (allowing repitition of letters) is "billowy".

The longest pallendromic word afaik is detartrated.

theCaffers · 01-05-2009 4:32pm

a woman eats 2 and a half kilos of lipstick in her lifetime..

AnonoBoy · 01-05-2009 4:33pm

The website http://www.strange.com/ requires a password to view it and doesn't come up on the first two page of search results is you google it.

Also if you run a Whois on it nothing comes up.

How strange is that?

biko · 01-05-2009 4:33pm

Human hair, and grass, grows faster in the summer.

theCaffers · 01-05-2009 4:33pm

and if yer a lucky bloke ye might get to chew through a pound or so

javaboy · 01-05-2009 4:34pm

A7X wrote: »

The longest word that can be spelt on a keyboard while only using one line of letters is typewriter

Proprietor is the same length. I figured that out after glancing at the keyboard. Perhaps I'm one of those idiot savants with amazing talents that employers aren't interested in.

anti chris-t · 01-05-2009 4:36pm

i once read somewhere that glass is a liquid... figure that out

phasers · 01-05-2009 4:40pm

Polar bears are left handed

I love that one

4zn76tysfajdxp · 01-05-2009 4:42pm

javaboy wrote: »

Perhaps I'm one of those idiot savants with amazing talents that employers aren't interested in.

Yeah but chicks go nuts for that kind of thing.

A7X · 01-05-2009 4:44pm

anti chris-t wrote: »

i once read somewhere that glass is a liquid... figure that out

Tis a very viscous slow moving liquid. Go to old churches that hae the original glass still intact. The bottom of the pane of glass will be thicker than the top.

SV · 01-05-2009 4:46pm

anti chris-t wrote: »

i once read somewhere that glass is a liquid... figure that out

Have you ever seen it being made?

4zn76tysfajdxp · 01-05-2009 4:46pm

anti chris-t wrote: »

i once read somewhere that glass is a liquid... figure that out

A7X wrote: »

Tis a very viscous slow moving liquid. Go to old churches that hae the original glass still intact. The bottom of the pane of glass will be thicker than the top.

Nope. How could it be a liquid if it's solid?

sunnyjim · 01-05-2009 4:47pm

It's a super cooled liquid, is it not?

Captain Darling · 01-05-2009 4:54pm

Schism wrote: »

Shenanigans! Surely you must have caught the hare already to salt his tail.

No shenanigans, if you're close enough to put salt on its tail, you're close enough to catch it.

Five gold stars for you!

Johnnio13 · 01-05-2009 4:57pm

A pelican can hold more in its beak than its belly can!

Apparently a rolling stone gathers no moss

anti chris-t · 01-05-2009 4:57pm

I have heard about glass being thicker at the bottom than top before after a while alright its crazy when you think about it.

also still on the glass theme 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

A7X · 01-05-2009 4:59pm

Hayes Wet Bunny wrote: »

Nope. How could it be a liquid if it's solid?

It's a liquid. But not the type of liquid you drink so to speak. Look it up.

Biggins · 01-05-2009 5:03pm

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

40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans!

Goduznt Xzst · 01-05-2009 5:04pm

11 is the largest known multiplicative persistence.

Also, the panels behind the contestants, in seasons 1 and 2, and then inside their desks on QI are fibonacci spirals

Caoimhín · 01-05-2009 5:09pm

anti chris-t wrote: »

i once read somewhere that glass is a liquid... figure that out

It is indeed a liquid, although more modern glass is stronger, if you look at glass in an old building like a church, you may notice the glass at bottom is a little thicker due to the gravitational pull of the earth's mass. It never truly settles into a solid.

Terry · 01-05-2009 5:11pm

meditraitor wrote: »

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

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

If it's uncopyrightable, then why don't you post it.
You can't be sued.

Ohh.

kf1920 · 01-05-2009 5:16pm

meditraitor wrote: »

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

dermatoglyphics

QI to the rescue!

ART6 · 01-05-2009 5:38pm

Giraffes are the only animals that can't swim.

*Possibly with necks that long they don't generally need to*

wudangclan · 01-05-2009 5:40pm

Goduznt Xzst wrote: »

11 is the largest known multiplicative persistence.

what?

javaboy · 01-05-2009 5:43pm

Goduznt Xzst wrote: »

11 is the largest known multiplicative persistence.

Don't think that's been proven true for all N.

wudangclan · 01-05-2009 5:49pm

javaboy wrote: »

Don't think that's been proven true for all N.

It is conjectured that the maximum number lacking the digit 1 with persistence 11 is

wudangclan · 01-05-2009 5:50pm

wudangclan wrote: »

It is conjectured that the maximum number lacking the digit 1 with persistence 11 is

what?

DanR · 01-05-2009 5:50pm

ART6 wrote: »

Giraffes are the only animals that can't swim.

*Possibly with necks that long they don't generally need to*

I thought that was pigs...?

Turd Ferguson · 01-05-2009 5:58pm

DanR wrote: »

I thought that was pigs...?

Well of course they cant swin...they're all in bed with the flu

Birdie086 · 01-05-2009 6:03pm

the european country that exports the most bananas is ireland

Did You Know? ....... Strange Facts

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