Trivia, usless facts etc.

Xterminator

1. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time
are teenagers.

2. Kotex was first manufacturer of bandages, during W.W.I.

3. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he
might be retarded.

4. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.

5. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

6. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day
than in any other weather.

7. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

8. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who
have recently eaten bananas.

9. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

10. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

11. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

12. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented
in the early 1500's.

13. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians
in 2000 B.C.

14. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

15. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because
he doesn't wear pants.

16. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

17. In 1980, there was only one country in the world
with no telephones - Bhutan.

18. Every person has a unique tongue print.

19. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

20. Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

21. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry
pictures of the pets in their wallets.

22. Bubble gum contains rubber.

23. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

24. Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

25. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing
her hands in Jello.

26. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

27. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

28. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number
of people.

29. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured
ice water over his head.

30. In 75% of American households, women manage
the money and pay the bills.

31. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette
in South Bend, Indiana.

32. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.

33. Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

34. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

35. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation
in the Western Pacific.

36. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

37. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

38. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

39. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

40. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ,
Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

41. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

42. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

43. 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life
is "a meaningless existential hell."

44. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for
betting on when patients would die.

X

klong

13. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.

How did they figure that one out?
How did it work? Ingestion?

Neil3030

24. Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.


Id say thats true in most countries what with the amount of kids and all who dont know any better.

lara

15. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

And yet when he gets outs of the shower, he always wears a towel...

Aspro

14. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

Explains the shape of George W. Bush's head so.......

Sangre

Originally posted by Xterminator
36. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

X

Umm id say thats true for ireland as well and a lot of countries!

Also how are you taller when your asleep, maybe they were measuring the hair spreading out above your hed, bunch of crazy old quacks with their high powered submarines and crazy golf animals...........

BTW lol

Spiffing

Did you know the first yo-yo's were used as weapons?

Dave

Originally posted by Sangre

Umm id say thats true for ireland as well and a lot of countries!

Also how are you taller when your asleep, maybe they were measuring the hair spreading out above your hed, bunch of crazy old quacks with their high powered submarines and crazy golf animals...........

BTW lol

You're lying horizontally so gravity isn't acting down against your joints.

Victor

Originally posted by Sangre
Also how are you taller when your asleep, maybe they were measuring the hair spreading out above your hed,

It's due to your spine 'compressing' during the day. Russian cosmonauts have come back to earth several centimetres taller (but they can't stand up initially).

Sangre

I truly feel enlightened, thank all dearly, may god bless your shrivled black life-less souls that shall one day burn in the bowels of hell beside ur decapitated head, propped up on the trident of lucifer himself.
Where's ur high powered submarines now!!!

WELL ANSWER ME!!!!

I wish i was taller maybe i should go into space with some hairy russians, i dont like standing that much neway.

Ruaidhri

36. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.

who counted the damn things?

Mossy Monk

44. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for
betting on when patients would die.

f*cking hell

Eowyn

11. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

Did u also know that it is a physical imposibility (cant spell!!) to keep your eyes open when u sneeze.....if u did ur eyes would pop out......go on try it.....go on go on go on!!

Blade

Originally posted by Neil3030
24. Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.


Id say thats true in most countries what with the amount of kids and all who dont know any better.

No, thats just because their Americans

MelKor

Originally posted by Eowyn


Did u also know that it is a physical imposibility (cant spell!!) to keep your eyes open when u sneeze.....if u did ur eyes would pop out......go on try it.....go on go on go on!!

and if you sneeze, cough, fart and yawn at the same time while the wind is blowing slightyly to the east, youll EXPLODE!!:p

(btw who didnt see this coming?)

eating

:cool:

woosaysdan

all dat info amkes me feel soooo much better now so it does

hacktavist

5. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

Does this mean a third of all Americans dont wipe?

Flemmish Flame

18. Every person has a unique tongue print.

is there some kind of detective school somewhere down here? Forensics is one of my favourites

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Eowyn


Did u also know that it is a physical imposibility (cant spell!!) to keep your eyes open when u sneeze.....if u did ur eyes would pop out......go on try it.....go on go on go on!!

and how would anyone know that if it is a physical impossibillity

Our man in Havana

Originally posted by hacktavist
5. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

Does this mean a third of all Americans dont wipe?

I know they are thick but not that thick.:eek:

woosaysdan

or did ye kno dat a chicken cant swallow when its been held up side down!!!

patmac

baric wrote: »

- Huang Yuyen from the Junlin area in Taiwan has become a real danger of mosquitoes. Currently most popular Taiwan's, is in a month killed about four millions mosquitoes that are sought together all of 1.5 pounds.

Are you from Taiwan, sure sounds like it?

dilallio

Xterminator wrote: »

9. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

X

Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in
Antarctica - where do they go?

Wonder no more.

It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird which
lives an extremely ordered and complex life.
The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life, as
well as maintaining a form of compassionate contact with its offspring
throughout its life.
If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the
family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice, using
their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough for the
dead bird to be rolled into and buried.
The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and
sing:









'Freeze A Jolly Good Fellow.'

patmac

dilallio wrote: »

Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in
Antarctica - where do they go?

Wonder no more.

It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird which
lives an extremely ordered and complex life.
The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life, as
well as maintaining a form of compassionate contact with its offspring
throughout its life.
If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the
family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice, using
their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough for the
dead bird to be rolled into and buried.
The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and
sing:









'Freeze A Jolly Good Fellow.'

Now, now there is no need for that on a Friday afternoon!:p