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These are some facts I found. I've published them on a different site before, but I'm the rightsholder so I'll post them here too (little old, jan 8th 2005):

~Bored aren't you~

*Montserrat's coastline is 40 km
*1KB contains 1024bytes, not 1000bytes
*The Isle Of Man has 1 FM radio station
*The world's largest tricycle's front wheel has a diameter of 4.67 m (15.3 ft) and the back wheels measured 2.23 m (7.3 ft) across. The trike had an overall height of 7.13 m (23 ft 4 in).
*Bill Curtis of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England, is acknowledged as the world champion train spotter.
*The first bulletin of ITN was transmitted at 10 p.m. on 22 September 1955
*Google is searching 8,058,044,651 web pages.
*By terms of the 1960 Treaty of Establishment that created the independent Republic of Cyprus, the UK retained full sovreignty and jurisdiction over two areas of almost 254 square kilometers in total: Akrotiri and Dhekelia. The southernmost and smallest of these is the Akrotiri Sovereign Base Area, which is also referred to as the Western Sovereign Base Area.
*Micronesia is four times the size of Washington D.C.
*An OS is an operating system, or a system used to navigate the computer. An OS is necessary to have, as a computer will not run without one
*x^2 - x= 3x . x=4
*You're bored to death already.
*In Esperanto the various ways to say hello are:
ha! ah! Ha lo? Hello? (telephone)
lo! hey there! Ha lo Hello (telephone)
salut/i greet, salute, ~o greeting, ~on! Hello!
*The term for someone from the Seychelles is Seychellois.
*Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
*A jellyfish is 95% water.
* Canada imports approx. 822 Russian-made hockey sticks on an average day.
* There are 1,860 steps to the top of the Empire State Building.
* Mozart wrote the nursery rhyme 'twinkle, twinkle, little star' at the age of five.
*The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
* A gold fish's memory span is three seconds.#
*You're now really...really bored!
*Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
*Over 98 percent of Japanese are cremated after they die.
*Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
* Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
*Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
*Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
*The average person laughs 13 times a day.
*A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
*Mark Twain didn't graduate from elementary school.
*A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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* On average, men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
* Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms
* Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
* The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale.
* There are 293 ways to make change for a US dollar.
* Five unsuccesful 'Jel-O' flavours in America: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
* Strychnine was in Hitler's anti-gas pills which he took daily. It was suspected his doctor was trying to assassinate him slowly
*It is possible to drown and not die. Technically the term "drowning" refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
*Jellyfish do not have brains.
*Sir Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
*The milk of a hippopotamus is bright pink.
*Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
*A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
* The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100 watt bulb for five hours.
*If you toss a 5 cent piece 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
*Every two and a half years , there are two full moons in a month instead of the usual one full moon. The second full moon is called a blue moon.
*The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
* The average American makes six trips to the bathroom every day-that's about 2 1/2 years of your life.
* A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth. (No worries for them if they can't find a NHS dentist
* More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
* A dog can understand between 35 to 40 commands.
*On average U.S. states with average I.Q.s less than 100(below average) voted for Bush in 2004.
* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
* It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop.
*n 1946, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato head.
* Polar bears are left handed.
* On average cows poop 16 times per day.
* A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
* The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly.
*The actual playing time in a Major League Baseball game which lasts about two and a half hours has been clocked at 9 minutes and 55 seconds.
* Mexico City is sinking at a rate of 18 inches per year as a result of draining the water table for human consumption.
* Astronaut Shannon Lucis spent 188 days in a row in space-that's the American record.
* Shakespeare spelled his own name several different ways.
* The flea can jump 350 times its body length, which is like human jumping the length of about 7 football fields.
* A human has 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body.
* Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
* Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.
*Horse racing is one of the most dangerous sports. Between 2 and 3 jockeys are killed each year. That's about how many baseball players have died in baseball's entire professional history.

Wow.
Where did you find the time to come up with these facts?

Ok ok... camon you do nothing else so? why are you talking about these facts? Icould not understand you! I'm sorry.

Hehe, that's some pretty major thread necromancy. The last posts were over two years ago.

Anyway, regardless of that, there's some pretty nice little factoids (I love the word) in there.



I can see the hospitals filling with people trying to lose weight, as well as a few brain cells, now. The next thing I want to know is who worked out how many calories it takes?

Interesting facts, but this one is quite funny, even though not to much, but I still don't really believe it..

"More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes."

Well, so how many people die by donkeys in a year period?

Resurrecting old topics I see...

I wonder how one could copyright facts or be the 'rightsholder' to facts.
I thought that you're only supposed to be responsible for your own opinion or have the exclusive rights to them... else you would be giving credit to wherever you get the information from...

Good facts list though. Pretty lengthy

I'm just feeling sorry for the person who developed the fact

What a boring day that would have been!

lol but you would be surprised how many people would find that amusing..... to watch cows poop.

I never expected a thread like this to pop up (and it's age shows why), but here it is, some of the facts are pretty cool and interesting, but there are some considerably boring or difficult to understand ones, someone should do a new thread like this with facts that have extra information that explain it (so we can all catch on to them).

Although quite a pretty old topic, I will still comment a bit on it.



These are a few that are pretty interesting. But as what Chesso said, some are pretty hard to understand. If I could remember correctly, there are actually a particular website that I've came across and that contain the full list. Just can't remember the name of that site. Maybe someone might be able to help Chesso out.

Well, wouldn't it depend on how hard you ban your head against the wall? So it'd almost be like the force your head gives to the wall is directly proportional to the amount of calories lost.

That, sadly, is what, the majority? I seriously wonder what led people to vote him for second term...but then again, the other countries who followed Bush into Iraq were definitely not any better. They made him look as if he actually had international support when the majority of countries hate him. No wonder he's trying to figure out the mystery of why so many people dislike him...

This leads me to thinking about something else--the electoral college seriously sucks. It really would be better if our democracy were a true democracy and actually depended on what the majority of our people vote for. Unfortunately, we instead choose to pick representatives to vote for us, which is basically just putting up a barrier between the government and the people. Sad.


Not quite true. The population is actually rather stable, now, isn't it? I'd like some more context on this one, but seeing how old the thread is, I guess that's not possible. Sure, in the rural areas there are more births, but there are also more babies getting abandoned and dying. The cities just stick to the one-child policy.