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This is a thread where we can post random facts about our great world. Post anything as popular as the Eiffel Tower is the biggest piece of structure in France or random as the longest nail is 7 inches long!

I'll start off: All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

i believe this is for weird but true facts.

such as: you can lead a cow up a flight of stairs, but they can't walk down.

or,
if a pig rides backward in a train freight car, it will die of a hemorrhage (sp)

I LOVE THESE!!! I HAVE A NOTEBOOK WITH QUITE A FEW ^^ *is way to hyper about this...and yes I have over 7 pages I have written of random facts on college ruled paper...*

~ a snail breathes through it's foot
~ humans and dolphins are the only species to have sex for pelasure
~ Coca cola was origonally green
~ The nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosy" is about a plague. Infected people would get redi circular sores, smelling so bad common folw would put flowers somewhere on their bodies to hide the smell of the sores (a pocket full of posies). People who died from the plague would be burned so as not to spread the plague. (ashes to ashes we all fall down)
~ the giant squid has the largest eye in the world
~ in Scotland. a new game was invented called, |Gentlemen only, ladies forbidden." thus the word GOLF entered the english laguage.
~ On a Canadian $2 bill the flag flying over the Parliment Building is the American Flag
~ No words in the elnglish laguage rhymes with the words month, purple, silver, orange
~ Intellegent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
~ Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the world itself.
~ Each of the suits on a deck of cards represent the four major pillars on economy:
Hearts- church
Spades- military
clubs- agraculture
diamonds- merchant class
~ In every deck of cards the King of Hearts has a swrod going through his head, thus being called the suicide king.
~ Dueling in Paraquay is ilegal as long as both parties are registered blood donners
~ If a cockroach loses its head it will continue to roam around until it dies of starvation.
~ A cat has 32 muslces in each ear
~ less than 3% of nestles sales are from chocolate
~ Children grow faster in the Springtime
~ it is impossiable to sneeze with your eyes open.
~ the average human scalp has around 100,000 human hairs
~ the name of all the contients end with the same letter they start with.
~ A rat can go no longer without water than a camel can
~ A frog can throw up
~ Playing cards were issued to British piolets in WWII. If captured they could soak the card in water and it would reveal a map for escape.
~ Termites almost eat 2x faster when listening to rock music
~ The average person will shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime
~ human thighbones are stronger than concrete


Some of my favorites:
~ During the 18th century books that were considered offensive were punished by being whipped.
~ In the lNeaing Tower of Pisa 6/8 towers are without safty rails. More than 250 people have fallen to their deaths since 1174.
~ Even Antartica has an area code. To call the penguins it is 672.
~ Until 1890, Vatican choirboys were casterated to keep their voices from deepening.
~ the first paper back book was printed by Penguin Publishings in `935
~ 13 people are killed every year by vending machines falling on them.



okies well i am done for now. I will post more later heart

Yes. But I have a lot too. Point is is that I don't know where they are.

*whips out notebook again*

~ Nutmeg is extrememly posionous if injected inravenously.
~ A pig orgasm lasts 30 minutes
~ "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" (this sentence has all 26 letters of teh english alahebet)
~ The 57 on the Heinz Ketchup bottle stands for the number of varaities in pickels the company once had
~ A rhino's horn is made up of compact hair
~ Pearls melt in vinegar
~ The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth
~ Your thumb is the same length as your nose
~ Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat
~ The average person will spend around 2 weeks of their lives waiting on stop lights
~ When you sneeze all bodily functions stop, even your heart
~ Mount Saint Hellens dropped 1,313 feet in 1980
~ A man was arrested and cahrged with robbery from stealing froma vending machine. He payed his entire bail in quarters
~ Daniel Boone detests coonskin caps
~ There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar
~ Donald Duck cartoons were banned from Finland because he didnt wear any pants
~ Every time you lick a stamp you consume 1/10 of a calorie
~ The human heart creates enough preassure when it pumps to shoot blood for 30 ft



THE LONGEST WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS 1,913 LETTERS LONG, AND IT REFERS TO A DISTINCT PART OF THE DNA

eek

eek The pig... eek

Nope ^ ^ Just uh, reading posts sweatdrop

*shows thumbs down* wink