Stuff you never knew

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Brynn

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1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)

10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.

14. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before.

15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)

17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the called themselves Motorola.


22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."

28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
 
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Lumikki

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10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants."

?

Oh and we don't have electricity yet either.

xx
 
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Aoami

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Originally posted by Brynn

Stuff you never knew

18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."


I knew this already, false advertising imo.
 
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alithiel50

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Originally posted by Brynn
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
You can produce the same effect with salted peanuts and lemonade... it's a hell of a lot cheaper! :p
 
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Kagato.

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9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)

Thats kinda scarey
 
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Conchabar

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Originally posted by Brynn
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)

who did it?

i want to find a scorpion now : <
 
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Sibanac

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Originally posted by Kagato.
Thats kinda scarey

of course there are 352,764 people born each day so thats about 0.003%
 
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Arnor

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bah, you only took half the list

from some pratchett-fan site i think:

1 Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.

2 The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickle the company once had.

3 A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

4 Your stomach has to produce a new layer of ucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

5 The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

6 The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

7 A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

8 Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

9 A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

10 A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

11 A 2x4 is 1 1/2x 3 1/2

12 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

13 Every person has a unique tongue print.

14 The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes.
He was albino.

15 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled

16 During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance.

17 On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

18 John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

19 Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

20 Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.

21 Daniel Boone detested coonskin caps.

22 Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.

23 Most lipstick contains fish scales.

24 Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

25 Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

26 Dr. Seuss actually pronounced Seuss such that it sounded like Sue-ice.

27 Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

28 Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

29 During the California Gold Rush of 1849 miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years it was deemed more feasible to send the shirts to Hawaii for servicing.

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

31 Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

32 The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

33 Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and lower, because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

34 There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

35 There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and silver!

36 The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

37 The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

38 The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

39 There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill.

40 Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

41 If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

42 Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to SLOW a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

43 If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19.. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

44 The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'

45 The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

46 The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

47 The phrase ?rule of thumb? is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb..

48 The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

49 Roses MAY Be red, but violets ARE, indeed, violet.

50 By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

51 Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.

52 Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

53 Charlie Chaplin once won third prize n a Charlie Chaplin look a like contest.

54 In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more than 100 years before either moon was discovered.

55 Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

56 Sherlock Holmes NEVER said Elementary, my dear Watson.

57 An old law in Bellingham,Wash., made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

58 Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.

59 The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

60 Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

61 Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

62 Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

63 Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
 
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Arnor

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Re: Re: Stuff you never knew

Originally posted by alithiel50
You can produce the same effect with salted peanuts and lemonade... it's a hell of a lot cheaper! :p


but why does it happen? oO
 
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FoXeH

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Stuff you never knew

Originally posted by Brynn
beacuse of the air bubbles

yeah so why dont the air bubbles keep it up?
 
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Aoami

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It'll be something to do with the Salt's reaction with the CO2 in the Lemonade prolly...no idea what though :p
 
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Lumikki

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Some of those things are just stupid and so not interesting or even false, some are fun though :)

xx
 
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Arnor

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Originally posted by Lumikki
Some of those things are just stupid and so not interesting or even false, some are fun though :)

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NAYSAYER! :p


prove em wrong then, gif evidence!

you cant just toss out an argument like that and not base it on facts babe
 
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Lumikki

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For example that bat thing, I'm 1000% sure atleast ONE bat has taken a right turn when flying out of the cave, or gone straight, or something..!!!

<runs away>

xx
 
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FoXeH

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yeah well anyway. on a side note
brynn, why you got a pokemons avatar? :/
 
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Brynn

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Its not Digglet (omg im too sad) its a random worm
 
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alithiel50

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Stuff you never knew

Originally posted by FoXeH
yeah so why dont the air bubbles keep it up?
The air bubbles burst as they reach the surface, so that the air escapes, and the peanut sinks back to the bottom where it collects newly formed air bubbles which cause it to rise again.

There are so many wonderful science experiments you can carry out with objects close at hand at parties after you've had a bit too much to drink... Others include:

Fluffy Bunnies: Just how many flumps (marshmallows) can one person squeeze into their mouth and still be able to say 'fluffy bunnies'? :p

Balloon fun: Strap balloons together in various configurations, using streamers from party poppers, to see how they fly when released! (great fun in restaurants, where you can also start balloon wars against the rowdy bunch on the table at the far end of the restaurant ;) )

Donald Duck: More balloon fun - who can do the best Donald Duck impersonation after sucking a lungful of Helium out of the balloons strapped to the back of their chair?

Have fun!
 
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pez

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Originally posted by Lumikki
For example that bat thing, I'm 1000% sure atleast ONE bat has taken a right turn when flying out of the cave, or gone straight, or something..!!!

<runs away>

xx


if theres a wall on the left of the cave entrance i bet they fly right
 
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old.yaruar

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"34 There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos."

and no windows to the outside world.

and they pump fresh oxygen into your room at 7 in the morning to wake you up, bastards!

mmm vegas, must go back and lose more money.

Interesting fact from me..

Elephants can not run ( think they are the only mamal that can't), but can walk at about 40 kmph.......

Spiders are the most intelligent out of artheropods and insects, but tragically because of a flaw in the design of these critters (two brain halfs with the gullet running in between them above and below) they can not eat solid food or evolve to be smarter, hence liqifying their prey and sucking it like a macdonalds milkshake.
 
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Lumikki

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Wow, nice tips Alithiel, must try them all soon! ;)

xx
 
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Astley

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Originally posted by Lumikki
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants."

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Oh and we don't have electricity yet either.

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damn ill be banned form finland :(
 
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zmurf

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Hmm pretty sure 1 is 'missing' last i read that, it allso stated that if u get an ant drunk it will allways fall on it's left side (who pays for this type of research ?)

'xx'
 
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Tranquil-

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A cockroach will survive for a week if you chop off its head. The only reason it will die after one week is because it can't eat after losing its head(since its mouth was attached to the head).
 

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