The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.

Dirty Snow melts faster then regular snow.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as any other color.

Antarctica has an area code. It’s 672.

It is possible to see a rainbow at night!

Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

There are more telephones than people in Washington.

Ants don’t sleep.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the most bars per capita than anywhere else in the world.

The first Ford cars had Dodge Engines.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

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

The speed of a typical raindrop is 7 miles per hour.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

A spider's silk is stronger than steel.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (lucky!!  )

There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.

When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go.

6% of men propose over the telephone! (LMAO)

More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.   

Every three seconds, a new baby is born.

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.

Rats can't vomit, that's why rat poison works.

Terminator 2 cost $647,000 per minute of film to make.

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. 


If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all. 

Less than 3% of Nestle's sales are for chocolate.

The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change. 

More than 2,500 left handed people are killed every year from using right handed products. (im left handed  )

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

One thing that humans do more than anything in their entire life is sleep. Most Americans sleep more than 6-8 hours a day, which is on average around 24 years of ones life!   

The number of cars on the planet is increasing 3 times faster than the population growth.

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. (its true, sometimes alot of ppl sleep with their mouths open lol, and im sure spiders crawled in there and we ate them, pretending to be eating a burger or sometihng in our dreams  )

The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.

Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.

The Apollo 11 only had 20 seconds of fuel when it landed.

13 people are killed each year by vending machine's.

314 Americans had buttock lift surgery in 1994. 

If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).

The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.

In a century's time, Islam had converted 1/3 of the world.

The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday.

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

You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

The average person laughs 15 times a day.

The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

In chess, there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves.

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

The longest place name still in use, which is 85 letters long, is 

"Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu"

which is a name of a hill in New Zealand.

The world's longest game of Monopoly lasted more than 660 hours.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes

The longest word in the English language is 1,913 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.




wierd shit eh

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Pearls melt in vinegar.

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If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).

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The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons.

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really? i didnt know that, some days i think i dont have dreams...lol but its rare that i wake up and remember them.

by any chance did you get these facts from your school planner?

i think they are called 'offbeat oddities'

im curious.

you also sometimes see in these things 'a duck;s quack doesn't echo and no1 knows why' but that's a load of crap, saw it on mythbusters

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    quoteriginally posted by Jurassic_Ice

    If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).


and yet much of the world is 'over populated'

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    quoteriginally posted by Jurassic_Ice

    If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).


and yet much of the world is 'over populated'

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Well you have to factor in that more then 50% of the earth is water, and last time I checked we couldnt breathe underwater [I took that you were being sarcastic about that, Its hard to tell]

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that was alot of reading but  now i know.

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    If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, including the uninhabitable areas, everyone would get roughly 100 square feet (30.4 m).


and yet much of the world is 'over populated'

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Well you have to factor in that more then 50% of the earth is water, and last time I checked we couldnt breathe underwater [I took that you were being sarcastic about that, Its hard to tell]

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The fact also says dry land

But obviously, not all of that is inhabitable, and plus you have to think about crops and stuff like that.

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The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.

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you also sometimes see in these things 'a duck;s quack doesn't echo and no1 knows why' but that's a load of crap, saw it on mythbusters

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Yes, it does, i saw it on myth busters also.

God damn, I read most of them ...

Then I got bored towards the last third .

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The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes

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Antarctica has an area code. It’s 672.

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Some pretty wacky facts there...

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The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.

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Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

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13 people are killed each year by vending machine's.

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There is a city called Rome on every continent ( In antartica ? )

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. (Wanna see a pic )

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. (its true, sometimes alot of ppl sleep with their mouths open lol, and im sure spiders crawled in there and we ate them, pretending to be eating a burger or sometihng in our dreams  ) ( No.. dont say that...Some one remembers having a bad taste when you woke up? )

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools. (Imagine swiming in it )

im too lazy to quote so here goes:

to ipab...no i didnt get them from a planner, however the planners do have offbeat oddities, i got them from a site.

to expert:

well, at least now you know these little facts. it doesnt hurt to know these little things


to shine:


you are correct, there isnt a city called rome in Antartica, but I gues they mean continenents that dont have penguins

now the 160 care road thing, is true. I read that somewhere in the news, and I think i saw a picture of it, I THINK, im not 100% sure, it was a while ago lol

i dont want to think about swimming in my own spit. lool

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you are correct, there isnt a city called rome in Antartica, but I gues they mean continenents that dont have penguins

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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the most bars per capita than anywhere else in the world.

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damn righ
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.

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you are correct, there isnt a city called rome in Antartica, but I gues they mean continenents that dont have penguins

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uh.... australia has penguins thanks

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So does southern South America

yes australia does!! on phillip island!! WOOT GO US AND OUR PENGIUMS

(that is a deliberate 'm' btw )

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yes australia does!! on phillip island!! WOOT GO US AND OUR PENGIUMS

(that is a deliberate 'm' btw )

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China has more English speakers than the United States.

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So does southern South America

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China has more English speakers than the United States.

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and the americans who think they are speaking english cant speak it either....

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I think the one about "the last sense to go when you die is hearing" is B.S though. For obvious reasons

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these are some very interesting facts!
i didnt know i blink 10,000,000 times a year

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i mean how can they tell, do they wait for people to die then shout "can you hear me?" and wait for a reply?

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i mean how can they tell, do they wait for people to die then shout "can you hear me?" and wait for a reply?

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True... Unless they spoke to the bananas about it...


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: CAN YOU HEAR ME????!!!11

: *thinks* idiot.... *dies*

: He's dead! I think he heard me, let's put it in the facts!

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Crabs poo out of their mouths...

no joke they do, and parrots are allerginc to parsley,

and cats are allergic to lemons or the other way round...

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The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, tons.

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I wonder how they weighed the Earth...

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by any chance did you get these facts from your school planner?

i think they are called 'offbeat oddities'

im curious.

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crabs poo out of their mouths? lol do they mix vomit with poo? haha.

and did you know al penguins are gay?

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and did you know al penguins are gay?

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everyone/everything masturbates...who doesnt...lol

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and did you know al penguins are gay?

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Uh, how is that possible :/

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everyone/everything masturbates...who doesnt...lol

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China has more English speakers than the United States.

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and the americans who think they are speaking english cant speak it either....

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True enough. My friend from Finland can speak better English than most people (from English speaking countries) I have ever talked to, including myself.

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yes australia does!! on phillip island!! WOOT GO US AND OUR PENGIUMS

(that is a deliberate 'm' btw )

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Was the "IU" instead of "UI" deliberate too? Whats that? You just fucked up? Ah.

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no its actually they can check that i think, like what is the last organ to stop fuctioning, for this the ear probably stoped working last.
they look if they little hairs in the ear that move, so they just check, i know there is more to it but i think thats how they know

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traxor is all-knowing I vote traxor for president.
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penguins are gay, scinetists found this out not too long ago....they have to have sex to reproduce, tuff luck for them...imagine straight people having to have sex with the same sex just to reproduce, nasty.

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traxor is all-knowing I vote traxor for president.
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penguins are gay, scinetists found this out not too long ago....they have to have sex to reproduce, tuff luck for them...imagine straight people having to have sex with the same sex just to reproduce, nasty.

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Bill Gates got a 1590 on his SAT, his partner in Microsoft scored a perfect 1600... Bill Cosby got less than 500

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Bill Gates got a 1590 on his SAT, his partner in Microsoft scored a perfect 1600... Bill Cosby got less than 500

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