a random fact you know

[SH80]

People fart on average 14 times a day!

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by SoCalGirl:
Rob! Since you're the math buff, who said "Statistics is nothing but lies, damn lies!"??? All of my stats teachers would always mention it; but my brain would usually be turning to mush from me getting sooo confused during class.

uhh Dunno dude - My stats prof used to say "Figures lie, and liers figure" a lot, though. Also, he was a big believer in the theory of finding a statistic to prove anything . . . he did it a lot, i can't remember any, he was a freakin whackjob - nice guy though.

[moe.ron]

New Yorker, no matter where in the world they are in, considerd New York City, the City.

Example:
When I was in French, I met a couple from NYC. A French guy asked them where they are from, the couple said "The City."

[mattpike]

i thought this thread was interesting thought i would give it a bump and see how it did.

[OUlioness01]

here's one intersting fact:
the Civil War was started in the Maclean family's frint yeard and ended in their Parlor.

explanation:the MacLean family's home was in Manassas, Virginia and the first shots of the war were fired in their front yard. Will MacLean moved his family further south to Appomattax, Virginia where the surrender was eventually drafted in the family's parlor.

[winnieb]

Granddaddy longleg spiders are the most poisoness spider, although their mouth is too small to bite anyone.


-wendi

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

If on your 16th birthday you received a penny for each day of your life, you would get 5,844.

Yes, I got that many...................don't ask how much they weighed.

[Tippiechick]

Chocolate chip cookies were invented upon accident. A lady was making cookies and thought that if she put chips in her cookies they would melt uniformly and make chocolate cookies. Instead, they turned out to be the first chocolate chip cookies as we know them.

That's my favorite random fact.

Technically, wasn't the attack on Fort Sumter the beginning of the Civil War?

[SparkliiQTMTSU]

WOW some of these are really funny. But yeah so I think most places have the oral sex law I know the state of Tennessee says thats its illegal to give or recieve oral sex. yeah I kno everyone follows that one. Its also illegal to carry or bring or whatever a skunk into the state! yeah cause we would wanna do that!


Nichole

[tunatartare]

*It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
*It is impossible to lick your elbow.
*Nike is name after Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. The swoosh is supposed to represent her wings.
*Nike paid the woman who invented the swoosh $35 for the rights.
*Michael Jackson owns more rights to Beatles songs than Paul McCartney.
*A Polar Bear's skin is actually black.
*The sentence "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

[AlphaSigOU]

The longest English acronym listed in the 1965 edition of the Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary is a U.S. Navy acronym:

ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC

AD - Administrative
COM - Command
SUBORD - Subordinate
COM - Command
PHIBS - Amphibious Forces
PAC - Pacific Fleet

But wait - the Russians couldn't stand to be bested in the bad old days of the 'Evil Empire'; the world's longest acronym according to the Guinness Book of World Records is:

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHST ROMONT (56 letters, 54 in Cyrillic).

Found in the Concise Dictionary of Soviet Terminology, it means: "The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR."

Source: http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words1.html

[rainbowbrightCS]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
The longest English acronym listed in the 1965 edition of the Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations Dictionary is a U.S. Navy acronym:

ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC

AD - Administrative
COM - Command
SUBORD - Subordinate
COM - Command
PHIBS - Amphibious Forces
PAC - Pacific Fleet

But wait - the Russians couldn't stand to be bested in the bad old days of the 'Evil Empire'; the world's longest acronym according to the Guinness Book of World Records is:

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHST ROMONT (56 letters, 54 in Cyrillic).

Found in the Concise Dictionary of Soviet Terminology, it means: "The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR."

Source: http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words1.html

Picture teh military to come up with something crazy like that.

[MareImbrium]

It takes a week to make a jellybean.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as
substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
morning.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of
lung cancer.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes. (wonder if that's on each foot or
total)

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being
seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating
are already married.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were
stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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." (or "orange")

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. SCARY!!!

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.

"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the
match.

[queequek]

Originally posted by DaisyKLP
*It is impossible to lick your elbow.

... and most people tried to lick their own right after reading this statement

[mullet81]

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.

yep, the engineers at my school are geniuses. pure geniuses. i wish the library would sink into hell never to be found again