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Your_Boss's_Daughter
11-16-2006, 11:46 AM
this is pretty long but wort it.
Believe It Or Not!

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All Polar bears are left-handed.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

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

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

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

I am. 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 and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.

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

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

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfish haven't got brains.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

Your_Boss's_Daughter
11-16-2006, 06:30 PM
i have to argue, i dont think iv ate many spiders :( i hope not

boss
11-16-2006, 11:37 PM
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.HOW DID THEY DETERMINE THIS---LOL

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
I WANT TO BE A FEMALE PRAYING MANTIS-----LOL

Crazy Ivan
11-17-2006, 11:36 AM
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

Au contraie mom ami, What about North America and South America?

Crazy Ivan
11-17-2006, 11:39 AM
LONDON -- Left-handed people don't necessarily die any younger than right-handers, according to new research that disputes the findings suggested by some studies.
In a nine-year study, Dr. Simon Ellis and his colleagues at Keele University in England examined the link between left-handedness and the risk of dying earlier using 6,049 people ranging in age from 15 to 70.
"Handedness did not make a significant contribution to the outcome of death," concluded the study, published Friday in this week's issue of The Lancet, a British medical journal.
The question of whether lefties die younger is controversial. Several studies have suggested a connection, but others have shown no link.
One theory suggests that older age groups contain fewer left-handers not because they die earlier, but because many in the older generation were forced as children to become right-handed, whereas children today are less likely to be pressured into switching.
Researchers found in 1991 that the proportion of left-handers decreases with age, dropping from 13 percent in 20-year-olds to less than 1 percent in 80-year-olds.
That led scientists to suggest that left-handedness may be associated with a shorter lifespan, perhaps because southpaws are less adapted to survival and thus more prone to immune disease or accidents.
One study suggested that right-handed people live about nine years longer than left-handers.
But some researchers, such as Richard Peto, professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at Oxford University, dispute those conclusions.
"I haven't seen any competent studies showing a link," said Peto, who was not involved in the Keele University study. "You've got to adjust for age."
In the study, the left-handed group was younger than the right-handed group, but the analysis accounted for the effect of age. The investigators initially received 6,097 correctly completed questionnaires to their initial mailing to people between 15 and 70 years old. Nine years later, they attempted to trace the respondents: Forty-eight could not be traced, 387 had died and the remaining 5,662 were known to be alive.

Crazy Ivan
11-17-2006, 11:44 AM
Even the sexual habits of dolphins have been fodder for fallacies. “Have you ever heard that dolphins are the only species apart from humans that engage in sex for pleasure and not for procreation?” Wynne asked. “I’ve heard this so many times I always ask, ‘So you mean that other animal species know when they’re having sex that they’re doing it in order to have offspring?’” At least among Australian dolphins sex is quite violent, with most females coerced into the activity, he said.

Primates of all species do as well. Monkeys and Apes do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexuality

Crazy Ivan
11-17-2006, 12:11 PM
The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle, which is located in the jaw. The next strongest muscle in your body is the gluteus maximus. the Toung is considered ONE of the strongest but is not THE STRONGEST

Crazy Ivan
11-17-2006, 12:12 PM
:3some:

AladdinSane
11-17-2006, 06:28 PM
Dan, your tenacity is admirable! I hope your fingers recover so you can debunk more!

Your_Boss's_Daughter
11-17-2006, 07:13 PM
lol i told you they werent all true. im with mom i dont think they researched the ant thing. :3some:

Your_Boss's_Daughter
11-17-2006, 07:15 PM
the north and south part of the americas dont count ....lol jk but it sounds good.

raydoger
11-17-2006, 07:52 PM
ha ha i dont care:5lol:

Crazy Ivan
11-19-2006, 07:47 AM
OK about the CONTINENT thing It depends on which MODEL you are refering to.

Australia is an ISLAND in the continent of Oceania.

And MOST models seperate North and South America

The 7-continent model is usually taught in Western Europe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe), China (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China), and most native English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language)-speaking countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population). The 6-continent combined-America model is taught in Latin America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America), Iberia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberia), Italy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy) and some other parts of Europe. The 6-continent combined-Eurasia model is preferred by the geographic community, Russia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia), Eastern Europe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe), and Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan). In all of these cases, the names Australasia or Oceania may be used in place of Australia. In Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), for example, the government-approved Atlas of Canada lists 7 continents and names Oceania.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#_note-AoCA)
Historians may use a 5-continent model in which North Africa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa) is separated from Sub-Saharan Africa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa) and included in Eurasia (Jared Diamond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Diamond)) or a 4-continent Afro-Eurasian (Andre Gunder Frank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Gunder_Frank)).


And now my head hurts as well as my fingers:icon_wink:

Chopper
11-19-2006, 11:00 AM
Wow lol Ummmmm I feel dumber now that I hve read all this useless stuff!!!!! Just kidding, but I think someone has WAY to much time on there hands...they need to Snipe more!!!!!:5lol: