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1) The moon smells like gunpowder.
2) The creator of the Nike Swoosh symbol (Caroline Davidson) was paid only $35 for the design.
3) You can't create a folder called "Con" in Microsoft Windows.
4) The formula for Coca-Cola has never been patented.
5) Al Capone once said, I am like any other man, all I do is supply a demand.
6) There are five states in United States with no sales tax. They are Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
7) Calcium in bones absorbs X-Rays the most, so bones look white on the radiograph. Fat and other soft tissues absorb less, and look gray.
8) Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong 'cha cha' dance champion in 1958.
9) Erotica is sexually oriented material that is not considered "pornographic" to the viewer.
10) Elvis Presley was a black belt in karate.
11) Amphetamines are similar to cocaine, the main difference being that they are synthetic, longer acting, and cheaper to buy.
12) A DVD has an about 100 year life span.
13) Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
14) It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce, and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
15) The words "naked" and "nude" are not the same thing. Naked implies unprotected. Nude means unclothed.
16) James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, was a real spy for the British Navy during the World War II.
17) You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206, why? Because they fusion one to another.
18) A shrimp's heart is in its head.
19) All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
20) A lump of pure gold, the size of a matchbox, can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
21) Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
22) Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they are not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
23) The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and possessions.
24) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
25) Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
26) The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it.
27) The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.
28) Identify a fake: The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves smoothly.
29) Pluto is no longer considered a planet, it is now known as a 'Dwarf Planet'.
30) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th.
31) The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight.
32) Alcohol can be detected in the blood as quickly as 40 minutes after your 1st drink.
33) The Olympic gold medal must contain at least six grams of gold.
34) Breasts contain no muscle tissue, so there’s no exercise that can change their shape.
35) A Boeing 747 airliner contains 6,000,000 parts.
36) U.S. bills are 2. 61 inches wide, 6. 14 inches long, and are . 0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.
37) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
38) Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
39) Believe it or not but during the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders as you sleep.
40) Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
41) Cellulitis is a bacterial infection of the deepest layer of your skin.
42) Warm up before exercise. Cold, stiff muscles and ligaments are more susceptible to injury.
43) Footprints of the astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
44) Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button as it was eliminated during surgery.
45) The Titanic was the first ship to use the S.O.S signal.
46) It cost $7 million dollars to build the Titanic, and $200 million to make a film about it.
47) Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
48) In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
49) Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
50) Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, is responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy.
51) The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
52) Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.
53) Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.
54) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
55) It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
56) One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
57) Heavy marijuana use lowers men's testosterone levels and sperm count and quality.
Pot could decrease libido and fertility in some heavy smoking men.
58) Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
59) Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
60) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
61) The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "The king is dead".
62) You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
63) The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.
64) The word "sex" was coined in 1382.
65) The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.
66) "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
67) Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
68) The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music, but lose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.
69) Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
70) Having HIV does not mean you have AIDS. Even without treatment, it takes a long time for HIV to progress to AIDS, usually 10-12 years.
71) The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
72) The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
73) The youngest letters in the English language are j, v, and w.
74) A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
75) The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
76) A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
77) The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
78) The name of our galaxy is the Milky Way.
79) Gandhi once covered the Olympics as a newspaper reporter.
80) The 1912 Olympics was the last time that gold medals were solid gold. Ever since, they've been silver with gold plating.
81) The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
82) The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
83) Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
84) In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
85) The Chinese language does not require punctuation.
86) An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
87) Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.
88) Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.
89) Believe it or not but in 1989, Americans threw away enough aluminum cans to build 6,000 DC-10 airplanes.
90) The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body.
91) Of the 34,000 species of spiders, only 27 species are known to have caused human fatalities.
92) Getting laid is slang for having sex.
93) When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.
94) According to an old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
95) The highest flight by a bird was by a Ruppell's vulture at 37,000 feet. The bird hit a plane at this height.
96) If the Earth were the size of a quarter, the Sun would be as large as a 9 foot ball and would be located a football field distance from the Earth.
97) According to one survey, 44% of adults have had a one-night stand.
98) Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world.
99) You would have to milk 260 cows for an entire year to fill a space shuttle's external fuel tank with 529,000 gallons of milk.
100) The three most recently discovered planets were Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.
101) The Earth’s core is a ball of Iron-Nickel at 7,000 C and is 80% the size of the moon.
102) If you dig in your backyard, don't worry about running into the Earth's core. You'd have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep.
103) “Stressed” is Desserts spelled backwards.
104) "Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
105) A male duck is called a drake, a female is called a duck. Babies are called ducklings.
106) Ostriches can run up to 70km/hr (40 mph) and can outpace most pursuers, such as lions, leopards, and pumas.
107) Red blood cells live about 120 days, platelets 6 days and white cells less than a day.
108) Tachophobia is the fear of speed.
109) Believe it or not but we know more about space than we do about our deep oceans.
110) The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.
111) Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
112) Count Alessandro Volta invented the first battery in the 18th century.
113) In 1894 Thomas Edison and W K L Pickson introduced the first film camera.
114) Darker green vegetables contain more vitamin C than lighter green vegetables.
115) The paperclip was invented by Norwegian Johann Vaaler.
116) If you stack one million US $1 bills, it would be 110m (361ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.
117) The last note of a keyboard is C.
118) The largest movie theatre in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York, opened in 1932 and it seats almost 6,000 people.
119) The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year.
120) 454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.
121) Earth is not round, it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
122) The Crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h (2 mph).
123) Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years but so does winter.
124) You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss. (Use this as a pickup line in the gym.)
125) Believe it or not but since 1495, no 25 year period has been without war.
126) The doors that cover U.S. nuclear Silos weigh 748 tons and opens in 19 seconds.
127) Global spending on defense total more than $700 billion. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion.
128) In 1620, Dutch inventor Cornelius van Drebbel launched the world's first submarine in the Thames.
129) About a quarter of the world still drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies.
130) In 1955, the Ford Thunderbird outsold the Chevy Corvette 24 to one.
131) Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
132) Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.
133) The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. There were 311 male but no female competitors.
134) Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.
135) Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.
136) A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivalent used by two hour light bulbs, to operate.
137) The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail.
138) The 12 disciples were not allowed to carry food, money, or extra clothing.
139) Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
140) America's 5 most common cosmetic surgeries are: liposuction, nose reshaping, breast augmentation, eyelid surgery, and tummy tuck.
141) India is the world's largest democracy with more than 600 million voters.
142) One in 10 people have never had sex.
143) 14 of the 45 vice presidents have become president.
144) Only Richard Nixon served two terms as Vice President and also was elected to two terms as President.
145) A Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince.
146) When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.
147) Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.
148) To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.
149) The Kama Sutra details techniques on ten types of kisses, 64 different caresses, eight variations on oral sex, and 84 positions for intercourse.
150) The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
151) The "$" sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock.
152) The first neon sign was made in 1923 for a Packard dealership.
153) Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.
154) The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
155) The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
156) Blood is 6 times thicker than water.
157) Dogs judge objects first by their movement, then by their brightness, and lastly by their shape.
158) Traveling at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, light take 6 hours to travel from Pluto to the Earth.
159) Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.
160) The planet Venus does not tilt as it goes around the Sun therefore it has ho seasons.
161) In August 2006, NASA announced that it had lost all the original tapes of Apollo 11's TV transmission.
162) A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest.
163) If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.
164) The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity is weight from water, not fat.
165) Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women.
166) Pain is measured in units of "dols". The instrument used to measure pain is a "dolorimeter".
167) According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
168) In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
169) Only 5 percent of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much detail as the surface of Mars.
170) Nearly one third of New York City public school teachers send their own children to private schools.
171) There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
172) The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
173) A human brain weighs about 3 lbs.
174) The body stores more than 99% of its calcium in the bones and teeth to help make and keep them strong.
175) The average raindrop falls at 7mph.
176) Most scientists agree that sexual orientation is the result of a combination of environmental, emotional, hormonal, and biological factors.
177) Despite its bump camels has a straight spine.
178) Your new baby can see best at a distance of only 8-14 inches, and focus when gazing up from the arms of Mom or Dad.
179) Elvis once said, "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to".
180) An atomic clock is accurate to within 1 second in 1.7 million years.
181) On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
182) Assuming you could walk to the sun it would take about 2000 years.
183) 92% of pay cable TV programs contain violence.
184) While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
185) The big "Hollywood" sign cost $21,000 to build.
186) The star Sirius is 23 times more luminous and about twice the mass and diameter of the Sun.
187) The letter "L" in the Hollywood sign was once on fire in 1978.
188) The Good News is: You are 96% more likely to a die a natural death.The Bad News is: You are still going to die.
189) Some calculators can spell out "G02HELL" after typing in 1134206, then looking at it upside down.
190) Eating a poppy seed bagel before a drug test, will make you test positive for opium usage.
191) Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the US.
192) There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.
193) Gold is so rare, only 90,000 tons of it have been taken from the earth in recorded history.
194) Mesothelioma, lawyers consolidate loans, and refinancing mortgage are three of the most expensive keywords in the search engine world.
195) 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
196) Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." 197) Certain foods are said to be good for boosting ones sex life: Lean meat, oysters, grains, wheat, seafood, etc.
198) If the population of China walked past you in single life, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
199) If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion.
200) The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
201) Cat's urine glows under a black-light.
202) The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility currently being assembled in Low Earth Orbit.
203) Sexual dysfunction is more common in people who abuse drugs and alcohol.
204) Eskimos have over 100 words for ice.
205) There is no cure for schizophrenia, but many people can effectively manage their symptoms with medicines and professional counseling.
206) Stress is a physical, mental, and emotional response to life's changes and demands.
207) The planet Uranus has more than 20 moons.
208) 35% of women say that their confidence is their main weapon to attract men, while 20% of women say they just use their looks.
209) The sport of sur?ng originated in Hawaii.
210) Oil tycoon, Rockefeller, was the world's ?rst billionaire.
211) Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.
212) A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days.
213) The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 "lead" pencils.
214) Gold is so heavy that one cubic foot of it weighs one half a ton.
215) The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
216) Dishabiliophobia is the fear of undressing in front of someone.
217) The Titanic's whistles could be heard from 11 miles away.
218) Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963.
219) Gold and Copper are the only two non-white metals.
220) The term "mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS) comes from the French "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MAYDAY" and means, "Help Me."
221) The ?rst commercial microwave oven was called the "1161 Radarange" and was the size of a refrigerator.
222) The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands.
223) France is known as the perfume capital of the world.
224) The Taj Mahal was once scheduled to be torn down in the 1830's.
225) Even though a red rose looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses.
226) Dry ice is actually solid carbon dioxide.
227) Less than 1% of the women in the world will ever be able to wear a diamond that is the size of a carat or more.
228) Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.
229) As of 2008, weapons-grade plutonium cost around $4,000/g (or roughly 150 times more than gold), and californium cost $60,000,000/g.
230) 10 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.
231) Construction on the White House began in October of 1792.
232) Ultraviolet (UV) rays are an invisible form of radiation. They can penetrate your skin and damage your skin cells.
233) One billion seconds is about 32 years.
234) In space, astronauts are unable to cry, because there is no gravity and the tears won't flow.
235) The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
236) California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
237) About 20% of the videos on YouTube is music related.
238) Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.
239) When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two months.
240) Liquid air looks like water with a bluish tint.
241) Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.
242) In medical ethics, the patient has the right to dignity.
243) There are over 1,000,000 swimming pools in Florida, even though the ocean is farther than 50 miles away.
244) Eclipses can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are all in a straight line.
245) Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.
246) Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
247) 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
248) Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.
249) Americans will spend more on cat food this year than on baby food.

 

[Good Job Bob]

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[weekend_warrior]

I knew all those things, except #201.

 

[Joel Was Right]

250) India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.
251) Hot water weighs more than cold water.
252) Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do.
253) The caduceus the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff comes from an ancient Greek legend in which snakes revealed the practice of medicine to human beings.
254) You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.
255) There are 18 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon.
256) When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
257) The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics. com.
258) Wine is kept in tinted bottles because it will spoil if it's exposed to light.
259) Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game.
260) The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum.
261) The life of an eyelash is about 5 months.
262) The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant.
263) The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. (The heart is not a muscle).
264) The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700.
265) A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
266) There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people.
267) Jesus Christ died at age of 33.
268) "Go" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
269) The Earth receives 94 billion megawatt of energy from Sun. This is equivalent to 40,000 times the power requirement of United States.
270) Heart transplants are now the 3rd most common organ transplant operation in the U.S.
271) In mild retardation, IQs range from 50 to 70.
272) The Earth's internal heat comes from a combination of residual heat from planetary accretion (about 20%) and heat produced through radioactive decay.
273) One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
274) Girls usually have all forms of sexual encounters before boys.
275) The letter J does not appear anywhere in the periodic table of elements.
276) Cancer causes about 13% of all human deaths.
277) If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.
278) The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats).
279) The average adult has approximately six pounds of skin.
280) There is evidence that Resveratrol, which is found in red wine, may be a powerful skin cancer fighting ingredient.
281) An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight.
282) The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.
283) Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much.
284) Cleopatra invented her own diaphragm from camel poop.
285) In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone.
286) In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.
287) In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'.
288) Jupiter is large enough to contain the other major 7 planets in our solar system.
289) Only 60 percent of married men wear a wedding ring.
290) The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine.
291) If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.
292) Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds.
(This process continues until you are in your 70's.)
293) Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides.
294) The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.
295) There is more sugar in 1 kg of lemons than in 1 kg of strawberries.
296) A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer.
297) Turtles can breathe through their bottoms.
298) When Thomas Edison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle.
299) Believe it or not but sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world.
300) Fido means faithful in Latin.
301) The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day.
302) Unlike the Earth, the Sun is completely gaseous, there is no solid surface on the Sun.
303) The chance of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 67 million.
304) The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
305) Until the 18th century, India produced almost all the world's diamonds.
306) The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man.
307) Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
308) Alopecia is the medical term for baldness.
309) On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000.
310) In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it.
311) Pocrescophobia is the fear of gaining weight.
312) Before the 1800, there were no separately designed shoes for left and right feet.
313) 53 percent of women have seen a porno.
314) Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese Eunuch.
315) Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.
316) Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1lb. of honey.
317) Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet.
318) Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.
319) Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world.
320) The artist Vincent Van Gogh sliced part of his ear off in madness.
321) The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too.
322) You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.
323) Mark Twain was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again.
324) The pound sign (#) is called an Octothorpe.
325) The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day.
326) A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.
327) The lining of a person's stomach is replaced every 36 hours.
328) The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.
329) The average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites.
330) The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes.
331) Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting.
332) Ice hockey was first played in 1885 by British soldiers stationed in Canada.
333) Che Guevara's real name is Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna.
334) The word "Laser" stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by Radiation."
335) Pain travels faster than 3000 feet per second.
336) All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split).
337) The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked.
338) Each second the Sun loses 5 million tons of material.
339) The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres.
340) Toxicology is the study of hazardous effects of drugs and poisons.
341) The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 dollars a gallon.
342) The clinical term for hairy buttocks is "Dasypygal."
343) The water we drink is 3 billion years old.
344) Everything weighs one per cent less at the equator.
345) Ants don't sleep.
346) Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
347) Strawberries are members of the rose family.
348) The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
349) Birmingham (UK) has 22 more miles of canals than Venice.
350) If an Amish man has a beard, he's married.
351) 9 out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
352) Parsley is the most widely used herb in the world.
353) The most condoms are sold in July and August.
354) There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has ever been mined.
355) Monaco's national orchestra is bigger than its army.
356) The only man-made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China.
357) There are over 600 types of bacteria found in the average human mouth.
358) In China, the bride wears red.
359) Only 4 percent of babies are born on their due date.
360) The average 4 year old child asks over 400 questions a day.
361) Sex between snakes lasts from 6 to 12 hours.
362) It takes about 14 days to adjust to altitudes above 8,000 feet regardless of your physical condition.
363) The first time women and men used separate toilets were in 1739 at a Paris ball.
364) The creature with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.
365) China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year.
366) The sun's average period of rotation is 27 days.
367) The sound made by Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe can be heard 40 miles away.
368) The word 'Sunday' is not in the bible.
369) Unlike humans, canaries can regenerate their brain cells.
370) Vincent Van Gogh's brain was destroyed by the mercury he took to counteract syphilis.
371) Most of the villains in the bible have red hair.
372) A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror but a monkey cannot.
373) About 55% of all movies are rated R.
374) 50% of female polar bears also have a penis.
375) The colors yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaurants because those are the colors that stimulate hunger.
376) There have been 2,036 known nuclear bomb explosions since World War II.
377) The steam engine was invented in ancient Greece.
378) The largest thing a blue whale can swallow is a grapefruit.
379) George Washington's teeth previously belonged to a hippopotamus.
380) Balsa is the world's strongest wood.
381) Loofahs come from trees (not the sea).
382) An average human breathes around 11,000 liters of air in 1 day.
383) The fruit fly was the first animal in space.
384) The largest man made structure on Earth is Fresh kills, the rubbish dump on Staten Island New York.
385) The guillotine was invented in Yorkshire, England.
386) Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet” is the most expensive painting sold at an auction. It was purchased for $82. 5 million dollars.
387) The North Pole of Uranus is dark for 42 years at a time.
388) No part of Japan is more than 100 miles from the sea.
389) A lightning bolt strikes so fast it could circle the globe eight times in a second.
390) About 5% of people with cirrhosis get liver cancer.
391) There are about 6,800 languages in the world.
392) One tree can ?lter up to sixty pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
393) In 1910, a football team was penalized 15 yards for an uncompleted forward pass.
394) One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.
395) About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
396) Starfish have eight eyes, one at the end of each leg.
397) A word or a sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".
398) In 10 minutes, some hurricanes release more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
399) Every day, the Hubble telescope transmits enough data to ?t 10,000 standard computer disks.
400) Lacrosse was invented by American Indians.
401) Water expands 9% when it is frozen.
402) A one kilogram packet of sugar will have approximately 5 million grains of sugar.
403) Italy now has over 200,000 coffee bars, and still growing.
404) In 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.
405) 76,000,000 people go to Major league baseball games each year.
406) At 90 weapons per 100 civilians, the US has the world's highest rate of gun ownership, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007.
407) 54% of men think about sex daily, while 19% of women do.
408) Moist air holds heat better than dry air.
409) Biologic therapy, or immunotherapy, boosts your body's own ability to fight cancer.
410) Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
411) Iron weighs more after it rusts.
412) Every U. S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make.
413) There are ?ve million scent receptors located in a human beings nose.
414) Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
415) Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women.
416) A chicken is the only animal that is eaten before it is born and after it is dead.
417) An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.
418) Most NASCAR Teams use nitrogen in their tires instead of air.
419) The size of a red blood cell is 708 microns. This is equivalent to one millionth of a meter.
420) Insects outnumber humans by 1 million to one.
421) In 1946, the New York Yankees became the first baseball team to travel by plane.
422) The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones.
423) Vitamin K is found chiefly in leafy green vegetables such as spinach, swiss chard, and Brassica (e.g. Cabbage, kale, cauliflower, broccoli).
424) Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.
425) A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off, it dies from starvation.
426) A recent Glamour magazine poll showed that 12% of women have posed nude for a photo.
427) No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant.
Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.
428) A starfish doesn't have a brain.
429) An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.
430) Coffee beam aren't beam, they're fruit pits.
431) Polar bear fur is not white, it's clear.
432) 64% of the population can roll their tongue.
433) Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
434) Each year, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.
435) Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.
436) Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
437) No one knows exactly how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
438) The eye's blind spot is a result of the absence of retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye, since there are no photoreceptors in this area.
439) A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
440) Hydrogen is the most common element found in the Universe.
441) Amateur porn began to be popular in the 1980s, when people began recording their sex lives on camcorders and watching the results on VCRs.
442) 23% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
443) A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
444) 25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
445) About 2/3 of American men prefer boxers to briefs.
446) The word "dollar" comes from the Roman Empire.
447) Most boat owners name their boats. The most popular boat name is "Obsession".
448) Rain contains vitamin B12.
449) In 1900, the average age of death in the US was 47.
450) German Shepherds bite humans more often than any other breed of dog.
451) 40 billion songs are downloaded illegally every year, that's some 90% of all music downloads.
452) If NASA sends birds into space, they would soon die because birds need gravity to swallow.
453) The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding.
454) The Bureau of Standards says that the electron is the fastest thing in the world.
455) Kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
456) Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
457) Ancient Chinese artists would never paint pictures of woman's feet.
458) Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.
459) Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
460) Pharmacology is the study of drugs and their actions.
461) The placenta is usually birthed within 15-30 minutes of the baby being born.
462) In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
463) One of the greatest soldiers in history, Alexander the Great, was tutored by the greatest thinker of all time, Aristotle.
464) Vaccinophobia is the fear of vaccination.
465) Brazil has the world’s widest road.
160 cars can drive side by side on it.
466) The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and vice versa.
467) Experts insist that the average person falls in love seven times before marriage.
468) You can surf the Amazon river with up to 4 meters high waves.
469) 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf.
470) 6% of men propose over the telephone.
471) Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878.
472) 45.2% of people pee in the shower.
473) Columbus brought cacao (chocolate) beans back to Spain on his fourth voyage in 1502.
474) A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
475) Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
476) Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
477) 66% of home based businesses in the U.S. are owned by women.
478) Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar.
479) A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
480) An Arabica coffee tree can produce up to 12 pounds of coffee a year, depending on soil and climate.
481) Of the six men who made up the Three Stooges, three of them were real brothers (Moe, Curly, and Shemp).
482) One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
483) Osteoporosis is caused by a lack of bone strength or bone density.
484) Men can have breast cancer, too, but the number of cases is small.
485) Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
486) All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
487) Strabismus is a condition in which the eyes are not properly aligned with each other.
488) 96% of all candles being sold are purchased by women.
489) 2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the Earth every day.
490) In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year.
491) The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.
492) More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
493) The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.
494) Nyctophobia is the fear of darkness.
495) Conception occurs more often in December than any other month.
496) Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world.
497) Giant Panda Bears give birth to a 4 ounce Baby Panda.
498) Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
499) Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
500) Women buy 3 out of 10 condoms sold.
501) Chrysler built B-29's that bombed Japan, Mitsubishi built Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called diamond Star.

 

[Princess Carl]

fuck that fucking format

 

[shadyspace]

I pretty much cannot read that.

 

[Robot 492]

are you kidding me

 

[johnny_park]

502) my real name is Kevin.

 

[Maleficence]

No

 

[CoffeeJanitor]

Zalgo text

 

[Joel Was Right]

Guys, it is readable. You cannot seriously expect me to format that into separate paragraphs. It's a worthwhile read

 

[Max Armstrong]

 

[CielTynave]

That totally won't be a pain in the ass to read.

 

[weekend_warrior]

472) 45.2% of people pee in the shower.

 

[Satch]

284) Cleopatra invented her own diaphragm from camel poop.

what

 

[strafer]

 

[iNvid02]

 

[Cyan]

501) There's this thing called the "Enter" key.

 

[Satch]

252) Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do.

what again

why?

 

[iNvid02]

if we all do 20 each it will be done in no time

teamwork mothafuckers



1) The moon smells like gunpowder.
2) The creator of the Nike Swoosh symbol (Caroline Davidson) was paid only $35 for the design.
3) You can't create a folder called "Con" in Microsoft Windows.
4) The formula for Coca-Cola has never been patented.
5) Al Capone once said, I am like any other man, all I do is supply a demand.
6) There are five states in United States with no sales tax. They are Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
7) Calcium in bones absorbs X-Rays the most, so bones look white on the radiograph. Fat and other soft tissues absorb less, and look gray.
8) Bruce Lee was the Hong Kong 'cha cha' dance champion in 1958.
9) Erotica is sexually oriented material that is not considered "pornographic" to the viewer.
10) Elvis Presley was a black belt in karate.
11) Amphetamines are similar to cocaine, the main difference being that they are synthetic, longer acting, and cheaper to buy.
12) A DVD has an about 100 year life span.
13) Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
14) It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce, and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
15) The words "naked" and "nude" are not the same thing. Naked implies unprotected. Nude means unclothed.
16) James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, was a real spy for the British Navy during the World War II.
17) You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206, why? Because they fusion one to another.
18) A shrimp's heart is in its head.
19) All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.
20) A lump of pure gold, the size of a matchbox, can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court

 

[friskykillface]

haha at that spongebob pic

i will attempt to read now


there you go, another 20


21) Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
22) Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they are not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
23) The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and possessions.
24) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
25) Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
26) The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it.
27) The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.
28) Identify a fake: The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves smoothly.
29) Pluto is no longer considered a planet, it is now known as a 'Dwarf Planet'.
30) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
31) The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight.
32) Alcohol can be detected in the blood as quickly as 40 minutes after your 1st drink.
33) The Olympic gold medal must contain at least six grams of gold.
34) Breasts contain no muscle tissue, so there’s no exercise that can change their shape.
35) A Boeing 747 airliner contains 6,000,000 parts.
36) U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.
37) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
38) Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
39) Believe it or not but during the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders as you sleep.
40) Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer

 

[Joel Was Right]

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

 

[GoldenEye 007]

Hm. You really can't create a folder named Con in Windows 7.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Holy shit, I will never know it I guess.

 

[Gregorn]

142) One in 10 people have never had sex.

I'm so obscure.

 

[C.Dark.DN]

Someone probably has software to replace every ". " with a period and a enter? or does enter not work in those?

 

[way more]

Who wants to guess what percentage of that is bullshit? I say at least 10% is factually wrong.

 

[Tesseract]

meh. redacted.

 

[Wildesy]

488) 96% of all candles being sold are purchased by women

The only reason we didn't know this is because we all thought it was 100%. I guess 4% must be presents bought for women.

 

[Max Armstrong]

21) Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".

How in the fuck

 

[Satch]

61) The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "The king is dead".
62) You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
63) The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.
64) The word "sex" was coined in 1382.
65) The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.
66) "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
67) Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
68) The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music, but lose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.
69) Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
70) Having HIV does not mean you have AIDS. Even without treatment, it takes a long time for HIV to progress to AIDS, usually 10-12 years.
71) The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
72) The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
73) The youngest letters in the English language are j, v, and w.
74) A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
75) The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
76) A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
77) The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
78) The name of our galaxy is the Milky Way.
79) Gandhi once covered the Olympics as a newspaper reporter.
80) The 1912 Olympics was the last time that gold medals were solid gold. Ever since, they've been silver with gold plating.

 

[Princess Carl]

20) A lump of pure gold, the size of a matchbox, can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
21) Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
22) Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they are not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.
23) The Bible devotes some 500 verses on prayer, less than 500 verses on faith, but over 2000 verses on money and possessions.
24) Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
25) Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
26) The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it.
27) The ashes of the average cremated person weigh 9 pounds.
28) Identify a fake: The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves smoothly.
29) Pluto is no longer considered a planet, it is now known as a 'Dwarf Planet'.
30) Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
31) The Leaning Tower of Pisa has never been straight.
32) Alcohol can be detected in the blood as quickly as 40 minutes after your 1st drink.
33) The Olympic gold medal must contain at least six grams of gold.
34) Breasts contain no muscle tissue, so there’s no exercise that can change their shape.
35) A Boeing 747 airliner contains 6,000,000 parts.
36) U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram.
37) The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
38) Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
39) Believe it or not but during the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders as you sleep.
40) Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
41) Cellulitis is a bacterial infection of the deepest layer of your skin.
42) Warm up before exercise. Cold, stiff muscles and ligaments are more susceptible to injury.
43) Footprints of the astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
44) Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button as it was eliminated during surgery.
45) The Titanic was the first ship to use the S.O.S signal.
46) It cost $7 million dollars to build the Titanic, and $200 million to make a film about it.
47) Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.
48) In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
49) Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
50) Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, is responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy.
51) The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
52) Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.
53) Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.
54) The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
55) It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.
56) One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
57) Heavy marijuana use lowers men's testosterone levels and sperm count and quality. Pot could decrease libido and fertility in some heavy smoking men.
58) Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
59) Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
60) In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
61) The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "The king is dead".
62) You blink over 20,000,000 times a year.
63) The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.
64) The word "sex" was coined in 1382.
65) The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.
66) "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
67) Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
68) The music industry generates about $4 billion in online music, but lose about $40 billion to illegal downloads.
69) Stalin was only five feet, four inches tall.
70) Having HIV does not mean you have AIDS. Even without treatment, it takes a long time for HIV to progress to AIDS, usually 10-12 years.
71) The face of a penny can hold about thirty drops of water.
72) The "ZIP" in Zip Code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
73) The youngest letters in the English language are j, v, and w.
74) A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
75) The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
76) A coat hanger is 44 inches long if straightened.
77) The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
78) The name of our galaxy is the Milky Way.
79) Gandhi once covered the Olympics as a newspaper reporter.
80) The 1912 Olympics was the last time that gold medals were solid gold. Ever since, they've been silver with gold plating.
81) The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
82) The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
83) Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
84) In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
85) The Chinese language does not require punctuation.
86) An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.
87) Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.
88) Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.
89) Believe it or not but in 1989, Americans threw away enough aluminum cans to build 6,000 DC-10 airplanes.
90) The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body.
91) Of the 34,000 species of spiders, only 27 species are known to have caused human fatalities.
92) Getting laid is slang for having sex.
93) When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.
94) According to an old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
95) The highest flight by a bird was by a Ruppell's vulture at 37,000 feet. The bird hit a plane at this height.
96) If the Earth were the size of a quarter, the Sun would be as large as a 9 foot ball and would be located a football field distance from the Earth.
97) According to one survey, 44% of adults have had a one-night stand.
98) Teflon is the most slippery substance in the world.
99) You would have to milk 260 cows for an entire year to fill a space shuttle's external fuel tank with 529,000 gallons of milk.
100) The three most recently discovered planets were Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.
101) The Earth’s core is a ball of Iron-Nickel at 7,000 C and is 80% the size of the moon.
102) If you dig in your backyard, don't worry about running into the Earth's core. You'd have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep.
103) “Stressed” is Desserts spelled backwards.
104) "Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
105) A male duck is called a drake, a female is called a duck. Babies are called ducklings.
106) Ostriches can run up to 70km/hr (40 mph) and can outpace most pursuers, such as lions, leopards, and pumas.
107) Red blood cells live about 120 days, platelets 6 days and white cells less than a day.
108) Tachophobia is the fear of speed.
109) Believe it or not but we know more about space than we do about our deep oceans.
110) The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.
111) Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
112) Count Alessandro Volta invented the first battery in the 18th century.
113) In 1894 Thomas Edison and W K L Pickson introduced the first film camera.
114) Darker green vegetables contain more vitamin C than lighter green vegetables.
115) The paperclip was invented by Norwegian Johann Vaaler.
116) If you stack one million US $1 bills, it would be 110m (361ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.
117) The last note of a keyboard is C.
118) The largest movie theatre in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York, opened in 1932 and it seats almost 6,000 people.
119) The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year.
120) 454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.
121) Earth is not round, it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
122) The Crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h (2 mph).
123) Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years but so does winter.
124) You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss. (Use this as a pickup line in the gym.)
125) Believe it or not but since 1495, no 25 year period has been without war.
126) The doors that cover U.S. nuclear Silos weigh 748 tons and opens in 19 seconds.
127) Global spending on defense total more than $700 billion. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion.
128) In 1620, Dutch inventor Cornelius van Drebbel launched the world's first submarine in the Thames.
129) About a quarter of the world still drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies.
130) In 1955, the Ford Thunderbird outsold the Chevy Corvette 24 to one.
131) Boxing became a legal sport in 1901.
132) Sports command the biggest television audiences, led by the summer Olympics, World Cup Football and Formula One racing.
133) The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896. There were 311 male but no female competitors.
134) Volleyball was invented by William George Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895.
135) Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.
136) A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivalent used by two hour light bulbs, to operate.
137) The thin line of cloud that forms behind an aircraft at high altitudes is called a contrail. 138) The 12 disciples were not allowed to carry food, money, or extra clothing.
139) Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
140) America's 5 most common cosmetic surgeries are: liposuction, nose reshaping, breast augmentation, eyelid surgery, and tummy tuck.
141) India is the world's largest democracy with more than 600 million voters.
142) One in 10 people have never had sex.
143) 14 of the 45 vice presidents have become president.
144) Only Richard Nixon served two terms as Vice President and also was elected to two terms as President.
145) A Duke is the highest rank you can achieve without being a king or a prince.
146) When Alexander Graham Bell passed away in 1922, every telephone served by the Bell system in the USA and Canada was silent for one minute.
147) Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf. 148) To win a gold disc, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies in Britain, and 500,000 in the United States.
149) The Kama Sutra details techniques on ten types of kisses, 64 different caresses, eight variations on oral sex, and 84 positions for intercourse.
150) The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.

 

[AwakenedCloud]

472) 45.2% of people pee in the shower.

Why you gotta ruin my favorite part of the day fact sheet?! Good thing I wear flip-flops in there.

 

[friskykillface]

47) Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.


hmmmmmm i find that hard to believe

 

[iammeiam]

Stopped reading at 191, which was a repeat of 67. List discredited; it can't even factually state how many facts it contains.

(also, I thought the poppyseed -> opium positive thing was no longer an issue?) I'm wrong, still true.

 

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Positively captivating.

 

[Kjellson]

78) The name of our galaxy is the Milky Way.

Who doesn't know this...?

 

[SuperLurker]

Someone probably has software to replace every ". " with a period and a enter? or does enter not work in those?

Notepad++ will do this, find and replace "." with ".\n"

Only problem is you'd have to fix the ones with abbreviations like "U.S." and ones with multiple sentences.

 

[Good Job Bob]

39) Believe it or not but during the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders as you sleep.

Isn't this false?

 

[Joel Was Right]

I think it was compiled through the effort of random people, having seen the list, add to it

 

[Angry Fork]

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Seriously.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

I caint do it.

 

[NewFresh]

193) Gold is so rare, only 90,000 tons of it have been taken from the earth in recorded history

Wrong

One wrong thing puts everything else into question.

 

[Escape Goat]

Worst thread ever. And its a Meus thread.

 

[Orrichio]

246) Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark#Popular_misconceptions

 

[IamMattFox]

193) Gold is so rare, only 90,000 tons of it have been taken from the earth in recorded history

Wrong

One wrong thing puts everything else into question.

246) Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark#Popular_misconceptions

List ruined.

 

[Joel Was Right]

I think I found a way to get around the formatting..

 

[toxicgonzo]

Holy wall of text, batman

 

[dudeworld]

39) Believe it or not but during the average human life, you will consume 70 assorted bugs as well as 10 spiders as you sleep.

Isn't this false?

Yes. Those numbers should be higher.