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Post them up here. I like hearing tidbits of factual information that makes you think. I will start with some.

-The word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". It was coined by PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and Jerry Yang.

-After terabyte comes petabyte. After petabyte comes exobyte. It has been said that 5 Exabytes would be equal to all of the words ever spoken by mankind.

-If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

-A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

-Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

-The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

-No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
 
AllVenom said:
Post them up here. I like hearing tidbits of factual information that makes you think. I will start with some.

-The word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". It was coined by PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and Jerry Yang.

-After terabyte comes petabyte. After petabyte comes exobyte. It has been said that 5 Exabytes would be equal to all of the words ever spoken by mankind.

-If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

-A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

-Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

-The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

-No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
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Man, that would make masturbation SO much more worth it. :D
 
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.

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
 
Thebest said:
The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.
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I'd hate to hear what child support payments would be like.
 
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
 
-Kittens are born both blind and deaf.

-A frog can't empty its stomach by vomitting. To empty its stomach contents, a frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

- For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

- By the age of 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.

- Nicole Kidman has a morbid fear of butterflies.

- The smallest human penis ever recorded was just 5/8 of an inch long! (...well it's not me):ninja
 
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