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TxAxP

PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:38 pm


Tain Soulzan
In florida there is a law that states "All children must be 10 years of age to play in traffic"


HAHAHA seriously. thats really funny
PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:46 pm


TheeAntiPilgrim
Tain Soulzan
In florida there is a law that states "All children must be 10 years of age to play in traffic"


HAHAHA seriously. thats really funny
I always wonder why people even bother with laws like that....It should be common sense not to play in traffic.

Beastiality is/was legal in Texas. Last year, when I was driving home from Montana, the news came on the radio. The newscastor was talking about some dude that went to a beastiality farm and the horse that he was with sat on him and killed him... I couldn't help it, I laughed. It was just too bizarre. Then it was all over the newspapers. Beastiality might be illegal in Texas now, but I'm not sure...

Glenlyon


TxAxP

PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:13 pm


Glenlyon
TheeAntiPilgrim
Tain Soulzan
In florida there is a law that states "All children must be 10 years of age to play in traffic"


HAHAHA seriously. thats really funny
I always wonder why people even bother with laws like that....It should be common sense not to play in traffic.

Beastiality is/was legal in Texas. Last year, when I was driving home from Montana, the news came on the radio. The newscastor was talking about some dude that went to a beastiality farm and the horse that he was with sat on him and killed him... I couldn't help it, I laughed. It was just too bizarre. Then it was all over the newspapers. Beastiality might be illegal in Texas now, but I'm not sure...


hahaha wow what an....unpleasant way to die.

"Hey Auntie...how'd uncle die?"
"Uhh...a horse sat on him dear."
"oh. why did the horsie sit on him?"
"..."
PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:19 pm


TheeAntiPilgrim
Glenlyon
TheeAntiPilgrim
Tain Soulzan
In florida there is a law that states "All children must be 10 years of age to play in traffic"


HAHAHA seriously. thats really funny
I always wonder why people even bother with laws like that....It should be common sense not to play in traffic.

Beastiality is/was legal in Texas. Last year, when I was driving home from Montana, the news came on the radio. The newscastor was talking about some dude that went to a beastiality farm and the horse that he was with sat on him and killed him... I couldn't help it, I laughed. It was just too bizarre. Then it was all over the newspapers. Beastiality might be illegal in Texas now, but I'm not sure...


hahaha wow what an....unpleasant way to die.

"Hey Auntie...how'd uncle die?"
"Uhh...a horse sat on him dear."
"oh. why did the horsie sit on him?"
"..."
xd

Glenlyon


Glenlyon

PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:21 pm


My friend sent me these:

In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact
with Pepsi.

The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the
Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in
mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are
actually born pregnant.

Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile
penises.

Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he
spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo
Post-Dispatch.

Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching
and swelling.

The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that
the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank
Sinatra.

The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty
if a monkey steals your golf ball.

Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer
was never repealed.

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans,
but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the
sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh,
Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into
how bumblebees fly.

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent
bauxite.

Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex
condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a
cadaver.

The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held
cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively
grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer
Barry White.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his
"signature" on the keyboard.

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period
contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete
freeway.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the
Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight
of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently
died of starvation.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police
and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was
cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President
Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour
baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your
pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game.
For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the
practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping
nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social
connotations.

Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27
issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is
reportedly an avid reader.

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for
lantern fuel.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were
actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave
behind its weight in honey.

Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue
surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your
eyeballs.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs
amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment
of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small
intestine.

Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his
tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used
today.

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you
part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a
vegetarian.

When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of
Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and
turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing
of metal.

Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together
two Cool Ranch Doritos.

Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI,
memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim
backwards.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at
birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville,
Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary
whiskers.

The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German
propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of
Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva
Braun.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in
mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.
PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:26 pm


Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand
and "lollipop" with your right.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver, or purple.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

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

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

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

There are two words in the English language that have all five
vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

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

All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial
on the back of the $5 bill.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

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

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,
the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will
spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
building is an American flag.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of
diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a
radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze
completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

[XxGuardianDevilxX]


Kuro_Meikai

PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:43 am


Glenlyon
My friend sent me these:

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently
died of starvation.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in
mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

to the first one; how is that possible?
the second; 0.0
third; I don't even WANT to know how they found that out.
fourth; ewww......
fifth; now how the heck do you prove that? o.0
sixth; I wish I was a Venenzuelan brown bat. xd
PostPosted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:12 pm


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

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her
coffee.

Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)

If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more
like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

Squashkin


IngloriousEmmerz

Wealthy Millionaire

PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 4:47 pm


DId you know that AIDS Started out as a monkey virus?
PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:32 pm


Emily-hand
DId you know that AIDS Started out as a monkey virus?
eek Then, how in the hell did it transfer to humans...... xp

[XxGuardianDevilxX]


Sanguinello

PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:47 pm


[XxGuardianDevilxX]
Emily-hand
DId you know that AIDS Started out as a monkey virus?
eek Then, how in the hell did it transfer to humans...... xp


mosquitos. like malaria and other mosquito-bourne virus'
PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:52 pm


Tenescowri
[XxGuardianDevilxX]
Emily-hand
DId you know that AIDS Started out as a monkey virus?
eek Then, how in the hell did it transfer to humans...... xp


mosquitos. like malaria and other mosquito-bourne virus'
Oh, thank god you told me that. I thought some perverted freak...... xp

[XxGuardianDevilxX]


OH EM GEE!

PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:51 pm


Female hyenas have an elongated clitoris that looks like a p***s. They urinate, mate, and give birth through it. biggrin
PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:42 am


Yall are whack. A weird fact -- Vampires being vulnerable to garlic comes from a fourteenth century count who was so disgusted by garlic in his meals that he killed his chef. When he was tried as a vampire and his servants testified about his strange actions, garlic was deemed a regular vampire deterrent, and has been used as such in folklore since.

forsakenkae


[XxGuardianDevilxX]

PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:51 pm


forsakenkae
Yall are whack.
Damn shout border isn't working stressed .
stare Appreciate the compliment xp
My posts look so plain without it gonk .
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