the weird did you know's thread

[Stress]

Did you know that cows can climb up on the stairs,but can't walk down o_O

It's easy. The uterus would get shred to bits when walking down, I think...

cool <3

[Jabo]

Did you know that nobody is inside ALF and he get angry every time people say he doesnt exists?

[XemnasXD]

did you know that most people who read my first post tried or at least wanted to try to lick their elbow?

WTF HAX! how u know lol

im still trying

[Shadowman20818]

70% of the people on internet forums read the title, part of the first line and post.

[Crumpets]

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A married man is four times more likely to die during sex if his partner isn’t his wife.

There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

There are 53 Lego bricks manufactured for each person in the world.

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.

It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.

The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia.

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

First-cousin marriages are legal in Utah, so long as both parties are 65 or older!

Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed!

[Redskin350]

the "No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl" is false because the colts won it and their stadium is a dome

[Ell]

Did you know that cows can climb up on the stairs,but can't walk down o_O

It's easy. The uterus would get shred to bits when walking down, I think...

cool <3

Did you mean the udders?


Did you know George Washington never had wooden teeth or chopped down a cherry tree?

Did you know in the winter, Inuits (Eskimos) shit only about once a month because all the food they eat gets used up and because they don't have any fiber in their diet?

[Rainigul]

Did you know George Washington never had wooden teeth or chopped down a cherry tree?

Did you know that George Washington never had wooden teeth, but instead had the teeth of slaves and cadavers put into his mouth.

Grossssssss.

Did you know that Harry S Truman's middle name is actually "S"? (I'm not 100% sure)

Did you know that Harry Truman would have joined the KKK if he wasn't convinced it was un-christian?

Just some off the top of my head.

[Colb]

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. (Guess that explains the Saints!)

the "No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl" is false because the colts won it and their stadium is a dome

And the St. Louis Rams won the 2000 Superbowl. They play in a dome as well. The Dallas Cowboys play in a "open dome", and they won 3 Superbowls back to back to back in the 1990's.

[Casey613]

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[b]The 99 did you know's!!![/b]


1.A paper cannot be folded more than 9 times.
2. More calories are wasted by sleeping than sitting and watching tv.
3. The first object with a number scanning label is the chewing gum.
4.The Wright Brothers’ first flying journey is shorter than a Boeing 747 airplane’s wings.
5. In 1987,after an airline company reduced a small piece of olive on every first class passenger’s meals,$350,000 USD was saved annually.
6.Everyone drinks coffee to perk themselves up,but in fact an apple can perk one up more than a cup of coffee can.
7.The majority of dust in your home consists of your own dead skin.
8.The full name of the Barbie Doll is Barabra Millicent Roberts.
9.When Hitler’s mum had Hitler,she once seriously considered abortion but the doctor persuaded her to keep the baby.
10.Marilyn Monroe has 6 toes on her foot.
11.In the movie E.T,the sound of E.T’s footsteps are made by someone squashing oranges rotten.
12.Pearls melt in vinegar.
13.In the number of people posting marriage ads,35% are already married.
14.You can pull a cow upstairs,but the cow will not know how to come down by itself.
15.A pig cannot stare up at the sky.
16.”quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” has the 26 alphabets in it.
17.A duck’s quack will not have echos,the reason til now is unknown.
18.A snail can live for 3 years without food and sleeping.
19.Tommy Lee Jones and America’s vice-president were roommates in Harvard.
20.In a month,if the first day is Sunday then that particular month will have a Black Friday.
21.Heating up a rock in the microwave oven will cause the rock to explode.
22. 1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321
23.The only word that has 15 alphabets not reused in it is “uncopyrightable”.
24.A cat can produce over 100 types of sounds,but a dog can only do 10.
25.The darker the environment,the more frequent a cat’s passing urine times.
26.If you toss a coin upwards 1000 times,the number of times of heads facing upwards is 495.
27.According to the Newton dictionary the longest word in the world is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon...
28.A human’s stomach will renew its food contents inside every 2 weeks,or else it will self-digest.
29.Coke was originally green in colour.
30.The Hawaiian language only has 12 alphabets.
31.The country with the highest proportion of people walking to work is Alaska.
32.If Barbie was a human,her measurements would be 39-23-33
33.On average,the number of people in the air every hour in America is 61,000 people.
34.Only honey will not turn bad forever.
35.Near the Carribean sea there’s a species of oysters that knows how to climb trees.
36.The world’s youngest parents appeared in 1910,an 8-year old and a 9 year-old Chinese people.
37.A human’s ears and nose never stop growing bigger and bigger
38.There’s a square-shaped melon in Japan,it was cultivated because of its convenience to place in refrigerators.
39.A starfish has 8 eyes,one on each leg.
40.Some insects’ eyes have hair.
41.A giraffe’s tongue measures 2 feet long in length.
42.An elephant can stand on its head.
43.An ant will scratch itself when it wakes up.
44.Thomas Edison is afraid of the dark.(so that’s why he invented the lightbulb lol)
45.The world’s oldest goldfish is 41 years old,named Fred.
46.Because of Einstein’s inability to speak at the age of 9,his mum once thought he
was retarded.
47.Arab women can initiate a divorce if their husbands don’t pour coffee for them.
48.Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star.
49.Most lipglosses have fish scales content in them.
50.Giraffes cannot cough.
51.Owls are the only bird species able to differentiate numbers and colours.
52.A whale’s heartbeat only averages 9 times every minute.
53.The water that we drink into our body is already 3 billion years old.
54.Only 30% of people can expand and contract their nostrils at will.
55.A clam can switch its gender from male to female,and it will take place few times
throughout its life.
56.According to a British law passed in 1845,suicide is a very serious crime,death sentence of hanging is the punishment.
57.In space,astronauts are unable to cry or shed tears because there’s no gravity pull hence the tears are unable to come out.
58.A chameleon’s tongue is twice as long as its own body.
59.Americans use toothpicks most often.
60.On average a human must move his eye muscles for 10000 – 15000 times a day.
61.An elephant will still remain at its standing position even when it has died.
62.Some insects are still able to survive for a year without its heads.
63.Da Vinci spent 12 years alone painting Mona Lisa’s lips.
64.When glass shatters,the average speed for glass is 3000 miles per hour.
65.A dairy cow can produce more milk when listening to music.
66.A rose picked during afternoon can survive longer than a rose picked in the morning.
67.Baby tiger sharks fight each other in the womb,the winner will be able to be born alive.
68.A 70 pound octopus can only go through a hole a coin’s size because it does not have a vertebrae.
69.An Indonesian bamboo insect has the longest body in the world,as long as 1 feet.
70.In fact,a hippo can run faster than humans.
71.The inventor of parachutes gave the chance of parachuting first in the world to a dog.
72.A Japanese crab can be as long as 12 feet long.
73.A newborn turkey must be taught by its parents how to eat food,or else it will die of hunger.
74.A shark can detect blood content up to 1/1000000th percent in water.
75.the original meaning of Samba in the Samba dance actually meant “rubbing bellies together”
76.Children grow faster during spring.
77.Bats are the only mammals able to fly.
78.A catapillar has over 2000 muscles.
79.A human’s heart can produce pressure that can squirt blood 30 feet high.
80.A male mantis cannot mate with a female mantis with its head,so when they mate the female mantis has to chop the male mantis’ head off.
81.A shrimp’s heart is at its head.
82.You can never lick your elbow with your tongue.
83. 50% of the world population has not received any calls before at all.
84.A rat and a horse cannot vomit.
85. “Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick” is one of the hardest sentences to pronounce in the English language.
86.If you sneeze too hard,it may cause your chest to rupture. But if you hold back your sneeze by force,it may cause one of your blood vessels to break.
87.If you talk on the phone for over an hour,the amount of ear **** in your ears will increase by 700 times.
88.A lighter was invented earlier than a matchstick.
89. When you sleep,you may eat over 70 kinds of small insects and about 10 spiders unknowingly.
90.The strongest and most flexible muscle in our body is the tongue.
91.It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
92.It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
93.Everytime you lick the back of a stamp,you would have absorbed 1/10th of calories.
94.Right-handers live an average of 9 more years than left-handers.
95.Fish are unable to stick out their tongues.
96.Polar bears are left-handers.
97.An ostrich’s eyes are larger than their brains.
98.Starfish do not have brains.
99.Lice can jump over a distance 350 times longer than their bodies,equivalent to a human jumping over the length of a football stadium.

God bless Yahoo Answers.

[Stormprobe]

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[b]The 99 did you know's!!![/b]


1.A paper cannot be folded more than 9 times.
2. More calories are wasted by sleeping than sitting and watching tv.
3. The first object with a number scanning label is the chewing gum.
4.The Wright Brothers’ first flying journey is shorter than a Boeing 747 airplane’s wings.
5. In 1987,after an airline company reduced a small piece of olive on every first class passenger’s meals,$350,000 USD was saved annually.
6.Everyone drinks coffee to perk themselves up,but in fact an apple can perk one up more than a cup of coffee can.
7.The majority of dust in your home consists of your own dead skin.
8.The full name of the Barbie Doll is Barabra Millicent Roberts.
9.When Hitler’s mum had Hitler,she once seriously considered abortion but the doctor persuaded her to keep the baby.
10.Marilyn Monroe has 6 toes on her foot.
11.In the movie E.T,the sound of E.T’s footsteps are made by someone squashing oranges rotten.
12.Pearls melt in vinegar.
13.In the number of people posting marriage ads,35% are already married.
14.You can pull a cow upstairs,but the cow will not know how to come down by itself.
15.A pig cannot stare up at the sky.
16.”quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” has the 26 alphabets in it.
17.A duck’s quack will not have echos,the reason til now is unknown.
18.A snail can live for 3 years without food and sleeping.
19.Tommy Lee Jones and America’s vice-president were roommates in Harvard.
20.In a month,if the first day is Sunday then that particular month will have a Black Friday.
21.Heating up a rock in the microwave oven will cause the rock to explode.
22. 1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1234567654321
23.The only word that has 15 alphabets not reused in it is “uncopyrightable”.
24.A cat can produce over 100 types of sounds,but a dog can only do 10.
25.The darker the environment,the more frequent a cat’s passing urine times.
26.If you toss a coin upwards 1000 times,the number of times of heads facing upwards is 495.
27.According to the Newton dictionary the longest word in the world is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon...
28.A human’s stomach will renew its food contents inside every 2 weeks,or else it will self-digest.
29.Coke was originally green in colour.
30.The Hawaiian language only has 12 alphabets.
31.The country with the highest proportion of people walking to work is Alaska.
32.If Barbie was a human,her measurements would be 39-23-33
33.On average,the number of people in the air every hour in America is 61,000 people.
34.Only honey will not turn bad forever.
35.Near the Carribean sea there’s a species of oysters that knows how to climb trees.
36.The world’s youngest parents appeared in 1910,an 8-year old and a 9 year-old Chinese people.
37.A human’s ears and nose never stop growing bigger and bigger
38.There’s a square-shaped melon in Japan,it was cultivated because of its convenience to place in refrigerators.
39.A starfish has 8 eyes,one on each leg.
40.Some insects’ eyes have hair.
41.A giraffe’s tongue measures 2 feet long in length.
42.An elephant can stand on its head.
43.An ant will scratch itself when it wakes up.
44.Thomas Edison is afraid of the dark.(so that’s why he invented the lightbulb lol)
45.The world’s oldest goldfish is 41 years old,named Fred.
46.Because of Einstein’s inability to speak at the age of 9,his mum once thought he
was retarded.
47.Arab women can initiate a divorce if their husbands don’t pour coffee for them.
48.Only 55% of Americans know that the Sun is a star.
49.Most lipglosses have fish scales content in them.
50.Giraffes cannot cough.
51.Owls are the only bird species able to differentiate numbers and colours.
52.A whale’s heartbeat only averages 9 times every minute.
53.The water that we drink into our body is already 3 billion years old.
54.Only 30% of people can expand and contract their nostrils at will.
55.A clam can switch its gender from male to female,and it will take place few times
throughout its life.
56.According to a British law passed in 1845,suicide is a very serious crime,death sentence of hanging is the punishment.
57.In space,astronauts are unable to cry or shed tears because there’s no gravity pull hence the tears are unable to come out.
58.A chameleon’s tongue is twice as long as its own body.
59.Americans use toothpicks most often.
60.On average a human must move his eye muscles for 10000 – 15000 times a day.
61.An elephant will still remain at its standing position even when it has died.
62.Some insects are still able to survive for a year without its heads.
63.Da Vinci spent 12 years alone painting Mona Lisa’s lips.
64.When glass shatters,the average speed for glass is 3000 miles per hour.
65.A dairy cow can produce more milk when listening to music.
66.A rose picked during afternoon can survive longer than a rose picked in the morning.
67.Baby tiger sharks fight each other in the womb,the winner will be able to be born alive.
68.A 70 pound octopus can only go through a hole a coin’s size because it does not have a vertebrae.
69.An Indonesian bamboo insect has the longest body in the world,as long as 1 feet.
70.In fact,a hippo can run faster than humans.
71.The inventor of parachutes gave the chance of parachuting first in the world to a dog.
72.A Japanese crab can be as long as 12 feet long.
73.A newborn turkey must be taught by its parents how to eat food,or else it will die of hunger.
74.A shark can detect blood content up to 1/1000000th percent in water.
75.the original meaning of Samba in the Samba dance actually meant “rubbing bellies together”
76.Children grow faster during spring.
77.Bats are the only mammals able to fly.
78.A catapillar has over 2000 muscles.
79.A human’s heart can produce pressure that can squirt blood 30 feet high.
80.A male mantis cannot mate with a female mantis with its head,so when they mate the female mantis has to chop the male mantis’ head off.
81.A shrimp’s heart is at its head.
82.You can never lick your elbow with your tongue.
83. 50% of the world population has not received any calls before at all.
84.A rat and a horse cannot vomit.
85. “Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick” is one of the hardest sentences to pronounce in the English language.
86.If you sneeze too hard,it may cause your chest to rupture. But if you hold back your sneeze by force,it may cause one of your blood vessels to break.
87.If you talk on the phone for over an hour,the amount of ear **** in your ears will increase by 700 times.
88.A lighter was invented earlier than a matchstick.
89. When you sleep,you may eat over 70 kinds of small insects and about 10 spiders unknowingly.
90.The strongest and most flexible muscle in our body is the tongue.
91.It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
92.It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
93.Everytime you lick the back of a stamp,you would have absorbed 1/10th of calories.
94.Right-handers live an average of 9 more years than left-handers.
95.Fish are unable to stick out their tongues.
96.Polar bears are left-handers.
97.An ostrich’s eyes are larger than their brains.
98.Starfish do not have brains.
99.Lice can jump over a distance 350 times longer than their bodies,equivalent to a human jumping over the length of a football stadium.

God bless Yahoo Answers.

i sneezed with my eyes opened well tried and like my eyes pushed out i was scared!!!!. lol




Did you know that apococynposis the fear of being turned into a pumpkin



did you knowan earth quake on dec 16, 1811 caused part of the missisipi river to flow backwards.


did you know in alabama bear we\restling matches are outlawed.

pternophobia the fear of being tickled by a feather

did you you know penuts can be used as 1 of th ingredients in dynamyte?

did you know in Acworth Georgia all citizens MUST own a rake,

[dom]

Your parents had sex with eachother.

Think about it, you'll never be able to look at them the same way again.

[Stormprobe]

oh yeah our teacher told us this but im not 100% sureif its true.


Did you know an apple and inion tase the same its the smell that makes it seem different?



freaky huh?

[TOloseGT]

did u know woodrow wilson, a nobel prize winner and the only us president to have a PhD was a huge ass racist?[/code]

[Crumpets]

oh yeah our teacher told us this but im not 100% sureif its true.


Did you know an apple and inion tase the same its the smell that makes it seem different?



freaky huh?

Inion = Onion or ?

[Stormprobe]

oh yeah our teacher told us this but im not 100% sureif its true.


Did you know an apple and inion tase the same its the smell that makes it seem different?



freaky huh?

Inion = Onion or ?

yes onions

[Isis]

oh yeah our teacher told us this but im not 100% sureif its true.


Did you know an apple and inion tase the same its the smell that makes it seem different?



freaky huh?

Inion = Onion or ?

yes onions

Onions make me cry

[Shadowman20818]

Your parents had sex with eachother.

Think about it, you'll never be able to look at them the same way again.

By traditional definition, you had sex with your mother during birth.

[Stormprobe]

56.According to a British law passed in 1845,suicide is a very serious crime,death sentence of hanging is the punishment.


V.V

[Ell]

Your parents had sex with eachother.

Think about it, you'll never be able to look at them the same way again.

By traditional definition, you had sex with your mother during birth.

Unless you had a cesarean section. But it's funny to go up to someone and be like, hey I bet you've touched your mom's vagina before.

[ghostkilla43]

Your parents had sex with eachother.

Think about it, you'll never be able to look at them the same way again.

By traditional definition, you had sex with your mother during birth.

Unless you had a cesarean section. But it's funny to go up to someone and be like, hey I bet you've touched your mom's vagina before.

oo gotta try that one to my friends lol

[takolin]

You loose bones as you grow
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
If you toss a coin upwards 1000 times,the number of times of heads facing upwards is 495.
You can never lick your elbow with your tongue.
Did you know an apple and inion tase the same its the smell that makes it seem different?

You don't really lose them. They grow together. This applies to the bones from the skull.

Printing money leads to the devaluation of the currency iirc. If I can remember my history lessons this is the explanation: Countries have a reserve of gold that is linked to the value of that currency. Thus if they keep printing notes, the value would drop if the amount of gold stays the same. (Please realise that there's more as a stash of gold that tells the value of a currency).


If would be 500 times if you use a fair coin averagely. The fact that head show less, is due to the fact that it weighs more as the other side and thus gravity pulls harder on that side.

My sister can lick her elbow.

Try tasting, when you have a cold. You won't taste a lot due to not being able to smell.

[dom]

Your parents had sex with eachother.

Think about it, you'll never be able to look at them the same way again.

By traditional definition, you had sex with your mother during birth.

And thus, no one born by natural methods is a virgin? I guess Mary wasn't ...

[Casey613]

oh yeah our teacher told us this but im not 100% sureif its true.


Did you know an apple and inion tase the same its the smell that makes it seem different?



freaky huh?

Inion = Onion or ?

yes onions

Onions make me cry

Chew bubble gum while chopping onions, it stops your eyes from watering

[poehalcho]

did you know that every human has a gen in their body that has the shape of sonic the hedgehog, and therefor is called sonic gen. it was discovered by a japanese dude.

you also have one that looks like a farmer with fork.

[takolin]

How can a gene look like something?
It's a fairly short sequence of base-pairs, twisted into a double helix which is a part of a double DNA strand.
It's quite difficult to believe.
Pic or it didn't happen.



^A pic of a gene, though only a representation.

Maybe you meant the protein?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog

[non ego man]

did you know that most people who read my first post tried or at least wanted to try to lick their elbow?

WTF HAX! how u know lol

im still trying

That's not your elbow.

[poehalcho]

How can a gene look like something?
It's a fairly short sequence of base-pairs, twisted into a double helix which is a part of a double DNA strand.
It's quite difficult to believe.
Pic or it didn't happen.



^A pic of a gene, though only a representation.

Maybe you meant the protein?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog

well you gave nme the link yourself

The hedgehog gene (hh) was first identified in the classic Heidelberg screens of Eric Wieschaus and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, as published in 1978. These screens, which led to their winning the Nobel Prize in 1995 along with developmental geneticist Edward B. Lewis, identified genes that control the segmentation pattern of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) embryos. The hh loss of function mutant phenotype causes the embryos to be covered with denticles (small pointy projections), much like a hedgehog.

and a pic:

[Sylhana]

How can a gene look like something?
It's a fairly short sequence of base-pairs, twisted into a double helix which is a part of a double DNA strand.
It's quite difficult to believe.
Pic or it didn't happen.



^A pic of a gene, though only a representation.

Maybe you meant the protein?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog

well you gave nme the link yourself

The hedgehog gene (hh) was first identified in the classic Heidelberg screens of Eric Wieschaus and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, as published in 1978. These screens, which led to their winning the Nobel Prize in 1995 along with developmental geneticist Edward B. Lewis, identified genes that control the segmentation pattern of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) embryos. The hh loss of function mutant phenotype causes the embryos to be covered with denticles (small pointy projections), much like a hedgehog.

and a pic:

4 years ago I was sitting in a lecture on this, lmao looking at all the gene deletion studies done on the drosophila m. I like the dunce fly, and the barbie doll. So nostalgic I think I'll sneak into a genetics lecture one of these days.

[Shadowman20818]

Artists need to depict histones more often when drawing DNA and Chromosomes.