Weird facts
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than
all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal
ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with
"MONTH".
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. -
another weird fact...
all of us claim to be busy everyday...
yet we spend at least 10 min to read this forum daily.
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every now and then we need to have breaks mah....
think this is a good place for us to communicate too rite...
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Another Strange Fact..
The only place on your arm that you cannot lick is your elbow.
And MJ...thisis the only place where after being very stressed out, I can actually look for a good laugh to loosen up..so that is why there are alot of people visiting this forum everyday!! -
[color=red]Why do we use the expression “Katy bar the door” to describe the dire
consequences if we donÂ’t take some precaution?
The story goes like this: In the 15th century, King James I of Scotland saw himself as firm but fair. But his subjects -- some of them, at least considered him a royal pain in the butt. One day they managed to corner him in a building in the town of Perth. Unfortunately for James, the room he was in did not have a bar resting across the iron holders for it.
Catherine Douglass, a member of his wifeÂ’s entourage, came to JamesÂ’ aid. She placed her arm where the bar should have been.
Snap! The KingÂ’s enemies broke in, broke her arm and killed the King.
Moral: when your enemies have the big guns, donÂ’t try to defend
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[color=blue]WALL STREET
There really was a wall on Wall Street at one time.
The Dutch built it in the second half of the 17th century.
It was meant to protect their New Amsterdam colony from
Indians, the British and settlers from other colonies in New England.
It worked at least briefly against all of these, but it has never kept
out the financial crooks! -
[color=brown]Did the word "funky" originate in Black English?
YouÂ’re in a late night jazz club. The band is good. Through a haze of cigarette smoke (well, some of it is probably tobacco), the saxophonist soulfully wails.
Funky!
Funky entered English in the 17th century and meant smelly. It probably came from “funkier,” French for puffing smoke on someone. Later it also came to mean a state of panic, possibly from a similar Flemish word, though it may be related to
the smell of fear. Eventually it also meant feeling down, as in a blue funk.
It only gained common usage in Black English 80 years ago, meaning sweaty and smelly. But just as “bad” came to mean “good” in the African-American community, funky, too, by the late 1930s, had its meaning mirrored as something earthy, basic and pleasing! -
[color=blue]What was the first photograph and who took it?
The first photo would have made a good picture post card.
It was a view of the French countryside.
The 8 by 6.5 inch image was taken in 1826 by inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce, who called it “Poin de Vue du Gras.” He took the photo with a device known sincethe renaissance: a camera obscura. It was basically a dark box with a small opening
that admitted light to form an image on the back of the box. The difference was that Niepce added a lens for focus and retained the image by having the light hit drops of light-sensitive bitumen, a substance resembling tar, on a silver pewter plate. It took eight hours to develop the image.
The technic used for developing is still a mystery!