Interesting Facts Thread

[pezenfuego]

I am a pheasant plucker.
80% of the statistics and facts on this thread are completely made up.
Why do we park in a driveway and drive in a parkway?
Upside-down makes sense but rightside-up does not. If it were right side up, then the right side would be facing up, but the term is used to describe the up side facing up. This begs the question that if the upside is facing up, then why do we need to make a point of this being so?

 

[eric b 125]

a lot of these facts can be found on the iPhone app 6001 crazy facts.
why do you need I.D. to get an I.D.?

 

[nigerbang]

Elephants are the only living animal that cannot jump
Jellyfish are 90% water and move through electric pulses
If you shoot a mime do you have to use a silencer?
If you are given the death penalty why does it matter that the use a sterile needle?
The Gaboon viper has the longest fangs of any other snake
The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England - but only in tropical fish stores.
Charles Dickens always slept facing north, in an effort to battle insomnia
In Atlanta Georgia it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange,
purple and silver.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
Bulletproof vests were invented by women
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates --- by ripping the male’s head off.
The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet
Everything you see is really upside down.. The eye just flips the image

 

[nigerbang]

THe reason the stereotypical bard is red because it was originally the cheapest color of paint
IMP once told Bill Gates that there was no money in software, It was all in hardware
Henry Ford always slept with an axe next to his bed
In 1900 the US Patent office was going to shutdown claiming that anything that could have ever been made and patented had already been done
The average cost of making a pair of Jordan shoes that cost $200 retail is about $0.25 each
First video shown on MTV was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the buggels
Ed Gein was the inspiration for Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw massacre, Norman Bates in Psycho and Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs
Sean Cunningham ( Friday the 13th founder) was working for Disney when he made the original FT13th movie
A old lady (name escapes me) was the designer of the Nike Swoosh
Tread on the bottom of shoes were an accident
Hogs can devour a human in a matter of minutes
Alaska has more miles of coastline than the rest of the lower 48 combined
If vegtable oil made of veg's what baby oil made of?
Your heart is appox. the size of your fist
Alfred Nobel (Nobel peace prize anyone?) invented dynamite in 1866.
VanGogh didnt cut of and mail his ear to his girlfriend.. it was a H.ooker he was fond of.
Contrary to popular belief you cannot see the Great Wall of China from outer space
Walt Disney was once fired as a comic section writer once and told that he had to talent and needed to try something else
On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute in tribute.
The largest mountain chain in the world is under water in the ocean
Largest mountain in the world is in above said mountain range
India was once its own continent

 

[runn3rb3an]

Originally Posted by Flower
http:///forum/post/3140606
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I question the ones marked in red. Where did you get your info?
My nose is NOT as long as my tumb. That one was easy to test.
not sure on the exact number but as you grow your bones fuse together. That's why babies have more bones...