Mrs Behavin
Well-Known Member
Amazing-But- (supposedly) True Facts!
(The following have "supposedly" been verified as true, but don't believe everything you read.)
Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast
implants as tax deductions.
Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size,
but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.
Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before
changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations.
The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide
occur within its boundaries.
Rubbing Tabasco on one's upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary
cure for sleep apnea.
Fish have "dandruff" caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter
all traces of it from drinking water.
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed
out, it could hold a basketball.
When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always
points toward the north.
*f the current trend continues, by the year 2215 midgets will outnumber
"normal-sized" people. (welcome to planet OZ)
Scientists estimate that sleep lost due to daylight saving time reduces the
average lifespan by nearly two full months.
The African black rhinoceros excretes its own weight in dung every 48 hours.
Shortly before his execution, Timothy McVeigh constructed a scale model of the
Lincoln Memorial with soda crackers.
There have been four documented cases of humans who have hibernated through an
entire winter.
Anyone convicted of animal cruelty in Sedalia, Missouri, is sentenced to a
month's confinement in the county animal shelter.
Fewer divorces occur in families in which the children wake their parents
before 6 a.m. on Saturdays.
A futuristic automobile designed by Ford for the movie Blade Runner was
produced and sold in limited quantities as the "Ford Harrison."
A bad case of laryngitis forced Abraham Lincoln to lip-sync the Gettysburg
Address. The speech was actually delivered by an aide hidden beneath the stage.
A prominent organization of anthropologists has predicted that by the year
5000, humans will have two rectums, but only one nostril.
Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg.
It's actually the shell.
Baking soda and vinegar will make your scrambled eggs fluffier.
Ancient Egyptians used molted cobra skins as condoms.
Customs officials have dogs that are trained to distinguish between Cuban
cigars and all other cigars.
Female black cats can actually see their shadows at night.
An early draft of the Declaration of Independence included a line by Benjamin
Franklin inviting King George to "kisse our collective arse."
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
The sound made when a duck passes gas is the precise acoustic opposite of its
quack; if it does both simultaneously, there's no audible sound.
Contrary to their popular image as spinsters, the average librarian has 5.9
random sex partners per year.
In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact
with Pepsi.
Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile
penises.
Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching
and swelling.
SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm
the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent
bauxite.
Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex
condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a
cadaver.
A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer
Barry White.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour
baseball game.
You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your
pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it
for lantern fuel.
Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave
behind its weight in honey.
Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue
surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out
your eyeballs.
Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his
tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
Athough difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together
two Cool Ranch Doritos.
It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville,
Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
Because of their unusual shape, Hershey's Kisses contain more calories per
ounce than the same amount of chocolate in other forms.
The French language has seventeen different words for "surrender."
The average person can fit exactly one half of their pinky finger in one of
their nostrils. However, if an attempt is made to put a pinky finger in EACH
nostril, only one quarter of each will fit.
If the air in your car's tires is not completely replaced every two years, it
can turn to liquid and cause severe damage.
If you tar and feather a 2x4 and place it in your yard, it will ward off bats.
In an effort to improve the nutritional value of its "Shamrock shakes,"
McDonald's colors them with broccoli extract.
Winston Churchill was born with a third nipple, which he removed himself with
nail-clippers at the age of 14.
Only a single dissenting vote prevented the death penalty in Texas from being
carried out by immersing the convicted person in a nest of fire ants.
If you place a fresh Viagra tablet in a houseplant's soil every six months,
the plant will not wilt.
In Finland, "Sintter Klaas" brings bad children a small bag of old toenail
clippings.
The practice of putting a letter "e" in front of words to mean "web-based"
(e.g., eBusiness, eLearning, etc.) was patented by Microsoft in 1992. They
are waiting until their anti-trust trial has been officially completed to
begin enforcing it.
If a cricket were the size of Mount Rushmore, it could jump to the moon.
The increase in the amount of metals mined and brought to the surface of the
earth in order to manufacture SUVs has caused higher tides in the Northern
Hemisphere.
Children conceived on airplanes never suffer from motion sickness.
The life span of dogs allowed to dine in cat litter boxes is on average 18
percent longer than that of dogs restricted to commercial diets.
Charles Darwin once attempted to breed flying monkeys by crossing chimpanzees
with vultures.
The steady, rhythmic sound produced by dripping water increases the capacity
for sleeping males to experience lucid sexual dreams.
Blue water in a toilet bowl causes males to urinate 7 percent more.
Women who use chewing tobacco are three times LESS likely to accidentally
swallow it while they are pregnant.
The melody of the classic hymn "Amazing Grace" originated from a 12th-century
pagan song celebrating masturbation.
A 9-volt battery contains roughly the same amount of kinetic energy as a bowl
of Lucky Charms.
The first Ford Excursion was actually designed and built in 1951. It was never
marketed because the then-current braking technology required a drum 3 feet
wide on each wheel.
On occasions when the sun is shining brightly on falling snowflakes, they
contain enough ionic charge to stun insects. Observation of this phenomenon
inspired the invention of the bug zapper.
Over the last two decades, more Americans died of heart attacks while watching
horror movies in movie theaters than died while sky-diving.
Every common food product, with the exception of fish and veal, contains some
traces of peanut enzymes.
The number of words in the Bible divided by the number of verses equals exactly
666.
An 18th-century law still on the books in Vermont makes it illegal for a woman
to lick a stamp in a public place.
Constipation kills nearly twice as many people as diarrhea, mainly because
the former mostly afflicts the old and weak while the latter mostly affects
young, strong children.
It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
If you fill a standard 750ml wine bottle with live hornets, their angry
buzzing will resonate at precisely the right frequency to shatter the glass.
During his famous "Blue Period," Pablo Picasso invented the substance that
eventually became known as Play-Doh.
The rare Chilean hummingbird has been known to suck blood from animals like a
giant mosquito.
.
(The following have "supposedly" been verified as true, but don't believe everything you read.)
Molecularly speaking, water is actually much drier than sand.
The Internal Revenue Service audits 87 percent of women who claim breast
implants as tax deductions.
Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size,
but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.
Comic duo Cheech and Chong were originally known as Spic and Span before
changing due to pressure from Chicano organizations.
The city of Slaughter, Texas (population: 11,284), has never had a homicide
occur within its boundaries.
Rubbing Tabasco on one's upper lip before bedtime is an effective temporary
cure for sleep apnea.
Fish have "dandruff" caused by flaking skin, and it is impossible to filter
all traces of it from drinking water.
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
If an average human scrotum were stretched until all its wrinkles were smoothed
out, it could hold a basketball.
When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always
points toward the north.
*f the current trend continues, by the year 2215 midgets will outnumber
"normal-sized" people. (welcome to planet OZ)
Scientists estimate that sleep lost due to daylight saving time reduces the
average lifespan by nearly two full months.
The African black rhinoceros excretes its own weight in dung every 48 hours.
Shortly before his execution, Timothy McVeigh constructed a scale model of the
Lincoln Memorial with soda crackers.
There have been four documented cases of humans who have hibernated through an
entire winter.
Anyone convicted of animal cruelty in Sedalia, Missouri, is sentenced to a
month's confinement in the county animal shelter.
Fewer divorces occur in families in which the children wake their parents
before 6 a.m. on Saturdays.
A futuristic automobile designed by Ford for the movie Blade Runner was
produced and sold in limited quantities as the "Ford Harrison."
A bad case of laryngitis forced Abraham Lincoln to lip-sync the Gettysburg
Address. The speech was actually delivered by an aide hidden beneath the stage.
A prominent organization of anthropologists has predicted that by the year
5000, humans will have two rectums, but only one nostril.
Contrary to popular belief, the white is not the healthiest part of an egg.
It's actually the shell.
Baking soda and vinegar will make your scrambled eggs fluffier.
Ancient Egyptians used molted cobra skins as condoms.
Customs officials have dogs that are trained to distinguish between Cuban
cigars and all other cigars.
Female black cats can actually see their shadows at night.
An early draft of the Declaration of Independence included a line by Benjamin
Franklin inviting King George to "kisse our collective arse."
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
The sound made when a duck passes gas is the precise acoustic opposite of its
quack; if it does both simultaneously, there's no audible sound.
Contrary to their popular image as spinsters, the average librarian has 5.9
random sex partners per year.
In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact
with Pepsi.
Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile
penises.
Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching
and swelling.
SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm
the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent
bauxite.
Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex
condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.
The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a
cadaver.
A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer
Barry White.
Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour
baseball game.
You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your
pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it
for lantern fuel.
Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.
If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave
behind its weight in honey.
Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue
surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out
your eyeballs.
Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his
tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.
Athough difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together
two Cool Ranch Doritos.
It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville,
Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
Because of their unusual shape, Hershey's Kisses contain more calories per
ounce than the same amount of chocolate in other forms.
The French language has seventeen different words for "surrender."
The average person can fit exactly one half of their pinky finger in one of
their nostrils. However, if an attempt is made to put a pinky finger in EACH
nostril, only one quarter of each will fit.
If the air in your car's tires is not completely replaced every two years, it
can turn to liquid and cause severe damage.
If you tar and feather a 2x4 and place it in your yard, it will ward off bats.
In an effort to improve the nutritional value of its "Shamrock shakes,"
McDonald's colors them with broccoli extract.
Winston Churchill was born with a third nipple, which he removed himself with
nail-clippers at the age of 14.
Only a single dissenting vote prevented the death penalty in Texas from being
carried out by immersing the convicted person in a nest of fire ants.
If you place a fresh Viagra tablet in a houseplant's soil every six months,
the plant will not wilt.
In Finland, "Sintter Klaas" brings bad children a small bag of old toenail
clippings.
The practice of putting a letter "e" in front of words to mean "web-based"
(e.g., eBusiness, eLearning, etc.) was patented by Microsoft in 1992. They
are waiting until their anti-trust trial has been officially completed to
begin enforcing it.
If a cricket were the size of Mount Rushmore, it could jump to the moon.
The increase in the amount of metals mined and brought to the surface of the
earth in order to manufacture SUVs has caused higher tides in the Northern
Hemisphere.
Children conceived on airplanes never suffer from motion sickness.
The life span of dogs allowed to dine in cat litter boxes is on average 18
percent longer than that of dogs restricted to commercial diets.
Charles Darwin once attempted to breed flying monkeys by crossing chimpanzees
with vultures.
The steady, rhythmic sound produced by dripping water increases the capacity
for sleeping males to experience lucid sexual dreams.
Blue water in a toilet bowl causes males to urinate 7 percent more.
Women who use chewing tobacco are three times LESS likely to accidentally
swallow it while they are pregnant.
The melody of the classic hymn "Amazing Grace" originated from a 12th-century
pagan song celebrating masturbation.
A 9-volt battery contains roughly the same amount of kinetic energy as a bowl
of Lucky Charms.
The first Ford Excursion was actually designed and built in 1951. It was never
marketed because the then-current braking technology required a drum 3 feet
wide on each wheel.
On occasions when the sun is shining brightly on falling snowflakes, they
contain enough ionic charge to stun insects. Observation of this phenomenon
inspired the invention of the bug zapper.
Over the last two decades, more Americans died of heart attacks while watching
horror movies in movie theaters than died while sky-diving.
Every common food product, with the exception of fish and veal, contains some
traces of peanut enzymes.
The number of words in the Bible divided by the number of verses equals exactly
666.
An 18th-century law still on the books in Vermont makes it illegal for a woman
to lick a stamp in a public place.
Constipation kills nearly twice as many people as diarrhea, mainly because
the former mostly afflicts the old and weak while the latter mostly affects
young, strong children.
It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.
If you fill a standard 750ml wine bottle with live hornets, their angry
buzzing will resonate at precisely the right frequency to shatter the glass.
During his famous "Blue Period," Pablo Picasso invented the substance that
eventually became known as Play-Doh.
The rare Chilean hummingbird has been known to suck blood from animals like a
giant mosquito.
.
