In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
im very bored at the moment,do you guys know any 'did you know?' facts ?
i'd love to hear some! i'll start:
did you know a cockroach can live several weeks without it's head?![]()
Last edited by -stuff; 11-11-2008 at 11:51 PM.
^ did you know in the average 70 years life span, a person will sleep around 20 - 25 years?
read it off my HS agenda haha
Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
The word “gymnasium” comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means “to exercise naked.”
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
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wow that last ones really cool! I can only sleep if its cold and I either get bad dreams or dreams I can't remember haha
Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!
in a lifetime, we eat an average of 8 spiders.
I hope bugs are part of that category too or else it'd be such a gross big number.
I think I'm at 3 so far. The realization that you just ate a bug is always so vivid.
we eat up to one rat a year (it adds up from canned food and restaurants)
In an average lifetime, people would of dated 7 other people before settling down with some one.
...A crack from a whip creates an almost microscopic explosion, one that parallels real life and full scale ones. o.0
my friend gave me these before...she gave me a lot but i find these quite interesting:
Atilla the Hun died of a nosebleed, and William the Conqueror died of an infected injury he got when his horse tripped over a pig. Holy Roman Emperor Frederck Barbarossa led a crusade to the holy land, only to die when he got there because he tried cross a river with his armor on.
On average, twelve newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
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.
In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines .
The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
neonscent...
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
yeah, quite a bit of random, yet interesting facts!
Last edited by aznie; 07-30-2008 at 07:30 PM.
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yeah or your eyeballs will pop out
must. stop. sneezing.