Fun Facts

I got these via email with no source, but who cares some of this stuff is amazing! since it wasnt tech, it doesnt go in the tech humour section, i mean its not even humour really..
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> just something to keep you busy for a couple of minutes
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> > > >
> > > > And You Thought YOU Knew EVERYTHING.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > *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.
> > > >
> > > > *Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
> > > >
> > > > * 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.
> > > >
> > > > *Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
> Nike
> > > > factory workers in Malaysia combined.
> > > >
> > > > *Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
> > > >
> > > > *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.
> > > >
> > > > *Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name
> contains
> > > > all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William
> > > Jefferson
> > > > Clinton.
> > > >
> > > > *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.
> > > >
> > > > *On average people fear spiders more than death.
> > > >
> > > > *Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived
> > immigrants.
> > > >
> > > > *Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
> > > >
> > > > *Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
> > > >
> > > > *Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
> > > >
> > > > *It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
> > > >
> > > > * 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. 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.
> > > >
> > > > *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. Barbie's full name is Barbara
> > Millicent
> > > > Roberts.
> > > >
> > > > *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.

Dude those are great..
It's always fun to read useless, yet humerous, information...

and in somecases it's even useful.. i'm gonna have to try that apple one

hahahah i never will substitute my precious caffeine for an apple! Never!!!!! I love some of that stuff though, so i figured id pass it on. ....

haha i love it. i'm going to have to save those and put them in archives of funny .txt files :)

Actually, the thing about Walt Disney being afraid of mice is not true. Walt made friends with a mouse in his basement, whom he named Mortimore, I believe, which was Mickey's original name.

* there is no word in the english language that rimes with ORANGE either... :P
cool dude..... something to get my mind of THIMUN....Ugh........

- Noia

some of those are true, but Marilyn did NOT have 6 toes, also, you can find the truth behind all of these here:
http://www.dcmsoft.com/rumor/story/stuff2.htm
it will go into detail about the actual facts. I think youll still be suprised how many are true :)

Haha...I have seen a few sites like that. There used to be a site with every phoib known to mad...but the site is down now I think. You can try anyway though http://www.phobialist.com

that site says he was afraid of mice - Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

Yes In his book The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life, Steven Watts says Disney was afraid of mice but found them “sympathetic.”

Orange does sooo have a rhyme....its just not one word. "Door hinge" rhymes with orange.
Oh yeah I gots some semi-useless but amazing facts too, listen up:
>>Ireland has the fewest dangerous animals to man than any other country on Earth.
>>The most dangerous animal in Ireland: The bumblebee (imagine a little Irish man running full speed from a bumblebee...)
>> There are more people working in West Edmonton Mall, the world biggest shopping center, than there are in Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories.
>>J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book series, came #1 on the top female earners of Britain list of 2002, earning SIX TIMES more than Her Majesty the Queen of England. This is just by annual salary, not by accumulated wealth.
>>Canada is one of the very few countries in the world where you can buy milk in a bag (plastic, of course, we're not idiots)
>>"Frust" is the official name of that line of debris that is always left when you're trying to sweep into a dust pan.
>>More people die in Austrailia from falling coconuts than crocodile attacks.
>>In the first two hours it became available for pre-order, JK Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix" became a top seller on Amazon.com

That's all for now, folks!