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Post by esspess on Aug 30, 2006 20:00:14 GMT 11
lol..that lipstick one is good
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Wh|te Fyre
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Post by Wh|te Fyre on Aug 30, 2006 20:37:56 GMT 11
More useless facts - Iceland is green and Greenland is ice . Tell me people why is Iceland named Iceland is it cos a) it ice b) its green or c) the English language had misinterpreted the word Answer coming soon... don't know about Iceland, but greenland was named by a viking to try and convince people to move there! |
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Post by Kella on Aug 31, 2006 17:43:02 GMT 11
~The human eye sees everything upside down, but the brain turns everything the right side up.
~One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
~Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
~A snail can sleep for 3 years.
~On average, women dream more than men.
~If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to supress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your neck or head and die.
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Post by Dark One on Aug 31, 2006 20:16:42 GMT 11
The Flying disc that we all know as a Frisbee started life as a metal pie plate from the Frisbee company
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Post by Sezzaxox on Aug 31, 2006 22:14:42 GMT 11
A Jiffy is a type of slipper-ish shoe
My sister was sitting in the front row of the Dolly Teen Chocie Awards '06 and also happened to be basicly next to Axle Whitehead(Video Hits), and got a heap of peoples siggies and almost got the Veronicas siggs for me but the said they were in a rush.
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Cookie Lover
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Post by Cookie Lover on Aug 31, 2006 22:42:31 GMT 11
The Amazonian Leech can grow up to 40cm long, but don't worry if you don't like leeches amd are planning a vacation to the Amazon......the average size is a mere 25cm long.
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Post by Kella on Sept 1, 2006 22:27:15 GMT 11
> The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
> Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.
> The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
> It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
> Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.
> It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
> The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
> The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
> Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
> When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
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Wh|te Fyre
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Post by Wh|te Fyre on Sept 2, 2006 17:18:02 GMT 11
remind me never to sneeze again.
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Cookie Lover
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Post by Cookie Lover on Sept 3, 2006 23:31:12 GMT 11
There are 11 countries that border Russia. Sadly, I forget what thay are, but I memorised them once in maths.
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Post by Dark One on Sept 4, 2006 22:14:35 GMT 11
Spider silk is stronger than steel
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Post by Fuil Dearg on Sept 6, 2006 4:33:51 GMT 11
concrete gets stronger as it gets older as the calcium carbonate molecules (same molecule that constitutes chalk, limestone and marble. and mebe quartz.. not sure.) become more compacted together and thus stronger (in compression in particular).
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Post by Kaylan-R on Sept 8, 2006 19:19:27 GMT 11
Spider silk is stronger than steel How?? |
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Post by Emma-Jayde on Sept 8, 2006 20:04:09 GMT 11
It's stronger than steel if the same thickess
- A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate
- A leech has 32 brains
- A slug has four noses
- An octopus has three hearts
- An owl has three eyelids
- Earthworms have 5 hearts
- Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of their shells
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Post by Kella on Sept 8, 2006 20:12:59 GMT 11
32 brains? ewww gross.
1. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
2. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
(actually that may be peanut shells)
3. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
4. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
5. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
6. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
7. There are more chickens than people in the world.
8. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
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Post by Dark One on Sept 8, 2006 21:43:38 GMT 11
The oldest business in the United States of America is the cymbal company Zildjian which was founded in Constantinople in 1623.
There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.
From space, the brightest man-made place is Las Vegas, Nevada.
The most common invention of the 19th century was the washing machine. Between 1804 and 1873, at least 1676 patents were issued by the United States Patent Office for various forms of this device.
In four separate instances between October 1987 and February 1988, small pink frogs rained down from the sky on to various parts of Great Britain. Scientists are still uncertain as to where these frogs originated, although some have traced them back to the Sahara desert.
The phrase "Often a bridesmaid but never a bride" actually comes from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash. The text was written by Milton Feasley and first appeared in 1925. The advertisement was so successful that it ran for more than ten years.
Did you ever wonder what the WD in WD-40 stands for? The name was lifted right out chemist Norm Larsen's laboratory notebook. Way back in 1953, he was trying to concoct an anti-corrosion formula, which worked on the basic principle of displacing water. On his 40th try, Larsen finally got it right. Hence the name WD-40. It literally means Water Displacer, 40th try.
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Post by Fuil Dearg on Sept 11, 2006 1:23:54 GMT 11
Emma-Jayde, those are amazing. 32 brains? wtf.
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Post by Cat-Eyes on Sept 12, 2006 18:34:23 GMT 11
The oldest business in the United States of America is the cymbal company Zildjian which was founded in Constantinople in 1623. They make really good cymbals... It'd be easier to see Las Vegas as well because it's in the middle of desert. If there was more stuff around it it'd be harder to see from space. |
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