Hellfire
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| posted on 7/9/06 at 09:48 PM |
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Interesting Facts
# The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
# No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.
# Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
# You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
# Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older.
# The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
# The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
# American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
# Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
# Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
# Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
# The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
# So did the first 'MarlboroMan'.
# Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
# Pearls melt in vinegar.
# The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
# It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
# A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
# Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the
flush.
# Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal.'
# The second ? William Jefferson Clinton
# And the best for last.....Turtles can breathe through their butts.
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zak
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| posted on 7/9/06 at 10:02 PM |
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# No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.
that is untrue it was achieved by a little girl
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1523497.htm
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timmy
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| posted on 7/9/06 at 10:02 PM |
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I'm getting flashbacks of Karl Pilkington.....
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omega 24 v6
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| posted on 7/9/06 at 10:14 PM |
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quote:
# A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Having thought long and hard on this one, everyone knows a duck goes "quack quack"
How do we know for sure that the second quack is not ALWAYS an echo
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westf27
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| posted on 7/9/06 at 10:31 PM |
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I'M better than the turtle I can talk out of mine
555
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chrisg
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| posted on 7/9/06 at 10:37 PM |
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"I saw this statement on the internet that "More People are killed by donkeys that in airline crashes each year. Now my spouse
doesn't want me to get a donkey! Is this true? Help!"
NO, this statement has been plagueing us for several years now. It first appeared somewhere as a "factoid", but it, along with several
others on that list, is TOTALLY FALSE. (We now hear that the National Geographic channel is using it in a commercial!) Until recently, we had
absolutely NO IDEA where they got the so -called fact to base this rumor on. We have now found out that it was spawned due to the numbers of auto
accidents caused by loose donkeys in Mexico and the Middle East! We often hear of people being INJURED by their donkeys, but can't yet name
one case where someone in the USA was killed by a donkey-and there have certainly been hundreds of people killed each year in plane crashes.
You'd think that several hundred people killed by donkeys each year would be publicized better somewhere OTHER than a "factoid
sheet". People contact the ADMS for all sorts of reasons, but having searched the archives, we cannot find any notices of members or people
killed by a donkey. (In Nov 2005 we found one headline of a man in Egypt being killed by his donkey - he had beaten the animal and it savaged him.)
In truth more people are bitten by their family dog! Being killed in an auto collision with a loose donkey is not being killed by a donkey -
it's being killed in an auto collision, which happened to involve a donkey. Help us to dispell this awful rumor-mill factoid - it's not
true, it's bunk, treat it as such. Please don't let this statement stop you from getting a donkey or any other animal if you wish to own
one!
Another one bites the dust!!!
Cheers
Chris
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rjbrookes
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| posted on 7/9/06 at 10:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
# Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
thats why my teeth are yellow then.........i must have a crap dentist.....
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DIY Si
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| posted on 7/9/06 at 10:51 PM |
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Or just a toothbrush covered in crap! 
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
My new blog: http://spritecave.blogspot.co.uk/
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donut
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| posted on 8/9/06 at 06:22 AM |
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Hellfire
You really need to get out more!!!!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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Hellfire
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| posted on 8/9/06 at 06:46 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by donut
Hellfire
You really need to get out more!!!!
I know - too much work makes Jack...
Steve
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02GF74
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| posted on 8/9/06 at 09:10 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
# Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
depends on your frame of reference, plus how do you know in which direction all the other planets, inlcuding the undiscovered ones, are turning?
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Peteff
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| posted on 8/9/06 at 09:19 AM |
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# Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
You should put the lid down before you flush, my wife says.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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nick205
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| posted on 8/9/06 at 09:58 AM |
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I think all wives have a thing avbout putting the seat/lid down Pete 
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 8/9/06 at 08:06 PM |
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It just goes to confirm that 67.8% of all statistics are made up on the spot just to prove a point
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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Findlay234
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| posted on 9/9/06 at 01:18 PM |
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Helfire if you like those then you need to get 'That book'. Its a book full of did you know that.... facts
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