Most Amazing Facts

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  1. Vodka?

    Vodka? Well-Known Member

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    -This had come to mind, post your Amazing fact, and ill post it up

    View the Orange facts below which is updated

    Quote Facts: (there are more facts below these)


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    Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

    Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

    Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

    On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

    More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

    The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

    More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

    Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

    The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

    The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

    Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

    It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

    You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

    Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

    Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

    It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

    The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

    The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

    Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

    Slugs have 4 noses.

    Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

    A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

    A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

    The average person laughs 10 times a day!

    An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

    Old Facts

    Coca-Cola was originally green.

    The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

    The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

    The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

    There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

    Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

    You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

    It is possible to lick your elbow. ~UPDATED~


    People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

    It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

    The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

    If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

    Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
    Spades - King David
    Clubs - Alexander the Great,
    Hearts - Charlemagne
    Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

    111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

    If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

    If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

    If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

    What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laserprinters all have in common?
    Answer. - All invented by women.

    Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
    Answer. - Honey

    A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

    A snail can sleep for three years.

    All polar bears are left handed.

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

    Butterflies taste with their feet.

    Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

    In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

    On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

    Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

    Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

    The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

    The electric chair was invented by a dentist.


    The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

    Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

    Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

    The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

    Most lipstick contains fish scales.

    Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
     
  2. Phaze_

    Phaze_ Well-Known Member

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    North and South America dont work for that one.
     
  3. mja2k3

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    Wow most of that stuff I didn't know.
     
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    A :D
     
  5. JaeTM

    JaeTM Senior Member

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    It's counted as "America"
     
  6. music_of_the_madness

    music_of_the_madness Well-Known Member

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    Hah some of that's pretty crazy.. I knew alot though; I'm a useless knowlage geek XD
     
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    The continent one is wrong, whoever wrote that line is a moron, as North and South America don't work, and America is not a continent.
     
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    Uh oh... I'd better stop surpressing me sneezes... :(
     
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    Its not amazing as in changed my life amazing..but its slightly interesting.
    I could have lived my life without reading that,
     
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    north and sout america dont work
     
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    Lol, I was thinkin the same thing...
     
  12. Sulla

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    lol i thought the same thing.


    i knew some of those, others i didnt tho


    we are a strange specie....
     
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    Vodka? Well-Known Member

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    i like spiders, nothing harm about them :|
     
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    excpet for the ones that can kill you :rolleyes:
    but actually ya i like spiders. they're pretty interesting.
     
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    How do headphones increase bacteria that much? Even if your the only one that wears them.
     

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