ll::FUN FACTS::ll

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If u know any fun or weird fact post it here =)

Of course here I go

ANIMALS

A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

A cat's arching back is part of a complex body language system, usually associated with feeling threatened. The arch is able to get so high because the cat's spine contains nearly 60 vertebrae which fit loosely together. Humans have only 34 vertebrae.

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

A father sea catfish keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.

A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can. xDD

An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away.

Ants don't sleep.

Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat's can last as long as 16 hours - exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Dachshunds (my dog breed =) are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting. They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.

Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible.

Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.

German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

Hummingbirds are the smallest birds - so tiny that one of their enemies is an insect, the praying mantis. LOL!

In ancient Egypt, entire families would shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when the family cat died.

It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.

No two spider webs are the same.

Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

Rats can't throw-up.

Snakes are immune to their own poison.

Swans are the only birds with penises.

The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined. And I was wondering y ppl were afraid of them :/

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.

You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.

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PLANTS

84% of a raw apple is water.

A cucumber is 96% water.

A pineapple is a berry. WHAT???!!

Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.

Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.

Until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, paper, medicines, were produced.

An average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.

Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking.

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. Avocados' rules!

Banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum.

Bananas are actually herbs. Bananas die after fruiting, like all herbs do.

Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.

Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.

From the 1500's to the 1700's, tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat a variety of ailments including headaches, toothaches, arthritis and bad breath.

Ginger has been clinically demonstrated to work twice as well as Dramamine for fighting motion sickness, with no side effects.

Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil.

In 1865 opium was grown in the state of Virginia and a product was distilled from it that yielded 4 percent morphine. In 1867 it was grown in Tennessee: six years later it was cultivated in Kentucky. During these years opium, marijuana and cocaine could be purchased legally over the counter from any druggist.

In 1924, Pope Urban VIII threatened to excommunicate snuff users.

In 1932 James Markham obtained the 1st patent issued for a tree. The patent was for a peach tree.

In Siberia, in 1994, a container full of marijuana was discovered in the 2,000-year-old grave of a Scythian princess and priestess, among the many other articles buried with her.

Morphine was given its name in 1803 by the discoverer, a 20 year old German pharmacist named Friedrich Saturner. He named it after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.

No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

One pound of tea can make 300 cups of the beverage.

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.

Oranges, lemons, watermelons, and tomatoes are berries.

Orchids have the smallest seeds. It takes more than 1.25 million seeds to weigh 1 gram.

Plants that need to attract moths for pollination are generally white or pale yellow, to be better seen when the light is dim. Plants that depend on butterflies, such as the poppy or the hibiscus, have more colorful flowers.

Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America.

Rice paper isn't made from rice but from a small tree which grows in Taiwan.

Tea was so expensive when it was first brought to Europe in the early 17th century that it was kept in locked wooden boxes.

The first American advertisement for tobacco was published in 1789. It showed a picture of an Indian smoking a long clay pipe.

The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce.

The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches.

The oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old.

The plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.

The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots.

The world's tallest grass, which has sometimes grown 130 feet or more, is bamboo.

Wheat is the world's most widely cultivated plant; grown on every continent except Antarctica.

When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.

Willow bark, which provides the salicylic acid from which aspirin was originally synthesized, has been used as a pain remedy ever since the Greeks discovered its therapeutic power nearly 2,500 years ago.

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HUMANS!!!

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.

According to the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.

After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people.

By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.)

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

Fingerprints serve a function - they provide traction for the fingers to grasp things.

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.

If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.

If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.

If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception.)

In a lifetime the average US resident eats more than 50 tons of food and drinks more than 13,000 gallons of liquid.

In the late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.

It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown. (Conclusion: be happy)

Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.

Lab tests can detect traces of alcohol in urine six to 12 hours after a person has stopped drinking.

Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

Most men have erections every hour to hour and a half during sleep.

The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.

The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes.

The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

The average person releases nearly a pint of intestinal gas by flatulence every day. Most is due to swallowed air. The rest is from fermentation of undigested food.

The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet

The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.

The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.

The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.

The human brain is about 85% water.

The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.

The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.

The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.

The little lump of flesh just forward of your ear canal, right next to your temple, is called a tragus.

The longest muscle in the human body is the sartorius. This narrow muscle of the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the leg to the position assumed in sitting cross-legged. Its name is a derivation of the adjective "sartorial," a reference to what was the traditional cross-legged position of tailors (or "sartors") at work.

The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue between the mandible and the voice box. Its function is to support the tongue and its muscles.

The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.

The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.

The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum.

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.

Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50 calories a day.

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

[alyssamilanofan]

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies
^^ I knew that one ;D

According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.
^^ somehow that seems very logic..

Thnx for posting really fun facts, negative karma for you

[darkme]

hey negative karma from me too... this is super-fun stuff!


if I have any fun facts I'll post them at once here!

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I found some interesting ones on some random pages =)

I'm posting the most interesting ones. N-joy C:

The average bra size today is 36C. Ten years ago it was 34B.

The male fetus is capable of attaining an erection during the last trimester.

There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.

Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different. Oh god imagine having to take a tongue print when u vote for ur next president xD dunno so weird! Like saying Aaaa

The Bible, the world’s best-selling book, is also the world’s most shoplifted book. Woah! O.o

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

Months that start with a Sunday always has a Friday the 13th.

Electric Christmas tree lights were first used in 1895. The idea for them came from an American, Ralph E. Morris. The new lights proved safer than the traditional candles.

There is no synonym for “thesaurus.”

“Stewardesses” is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

The first 1000 digits of pi are:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592
3078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938440
9550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954
9303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485
6692346034861045432664821339360726024914127372458700660631558817
4881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384
1469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185
4807446237996274956735188575272489122793818301194912983367336244
0656643086021394946395224737190702179860943702770539217176293176
7523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091
7363717872146844090122495343014654958537105079227968925892354201
9956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999998
3729780499510597317328160963185950244594553469083026425223082533
4468503526193118817101000313783875288658753320838142061717766914
7303598253490428755468731159562863 82353787593751957781857780532
171226806613001927876611195909216420199

By the way, the National Pi Day is March 14, at 1:59. (3/14 1:59).

In Africa, an estimated 680 of every 100,000 women who undergo an abortion die of some complications.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous line in The Terminator ‘I’ll be back’ was originally scripted as ‘I’ll come back’.

The word “Jedi” is derived from the Japanese words “Jidai Geki” which translate as “period drama.” A period drama is a Japanese TV soap opera program set in the samurai days. Lucas mentioned in an interview that he saw a “Jidai Geki” program on TV while in Japan a year or so before the movie was made and liked the word.

Saturn is the only planet in our Solar System that is less dense than water. Which means that if you could build a ridiculously large bathtub, Saturn would actually float in it. Anyone dare to prove it?

96% of candles that are purchased are by women.

During the Vietnam War, soldiers used Slinkies as radio antennas by stretching the coiled-up toys between two trees. Go Go Slinky!

Exhibitionists are most likely to be married men.

The word “pornography” comes from the Greek meaning the “writings of prostitutes.”

wait .... earthquake again... i'll post 'em later

[alyssamilanofan]

seriously people steal bibles?
kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it? :S
Thnx for posting really funny to read

[darkme]

shouldnt the bible be distributed for those who want it for free?? I think so. I mean like if people want to have the bible in their homes and such it should be given to them for free.

well, that's what I think.

[alyssamilanofan]

I agree with you but stealing is always wrong, although I think the catholic church is robbing people with selling them Jesus' word, asking money to do a service in God's home (you have to pay for a funeral) but that;s my personal opinion.. It;s why I choose not to be a catholic anymore (and ofcourse because of the history of the church the oppression of others and the crusades which were nothing but marches were these 'knights' robbed other people of their culture and properties..,.

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darkme said:

shouldnt the bible be distributed for those who want it for free?? I think so. I mean like if people want to have the bible in their homes and such it should be given to them for free.

well, that's what I think.

silly ppl ;D u'r right, they should not charge for it if the are Sooo Good as they say

[harisstavr]

hay nice thread... and dark me you are right