fun facts

[QueenOfTheShadows]

Ice Hockey players can shot thepuck at over 100 miles per hour


Poliosis is the graying of the hair. It comes from polios, the Greek word for "gray."

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people

Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves

Food & Wine magazine reported that in Japan, squid is the most popular topping for Domino's pizza.

In the United States, more than 25 percent of women's fashion dollars are spent on sizes 16 and up.

In the vast majority of the world's languages, the word for "mother" begins with the letter M

The largest turtle ever found weighed 2,016 pounds

A "nucha" is the nape of the neck

The first talking film was released in 1928, starred Al Jolson, and was called "The Jazz Singer"

To make a one-pound comb of honey, bees must collect nectar from about two million flowers

In Texas it states by law that during the open season, no person may take oysters from public water during the period between sunset and sunrise.
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[dragonfang]

Here are some crazy laws from Hawaii:

Its illegal to place coins in your ears

All residents may be fined as a result of not owning a boat

Within the limits of any public park, it is unlawful to annoy any bird (Honolulu)
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Everything's Possible, the impossible just takes longer.

[scarletnightdragon]

how about this one

it is illegal for a women to take 3 steps backwards in a dance in bellingham WA

its illegal to kill fish by rocks in WA

In WA (im not sure where) its illegal to interupt a religous meeting by a horse race...
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[Tealeon]

It takes the average person 7 minutes to fall asleep

A small cloud known as a sonic boom is created when the sound barrier is broken.

you fall asleep faster in a dark room, rather then one that has some-little light.
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"Don't mind the tail, he has a mind of his own..."

[kimodragon]

Tealeon wrote that you fall asleep faster in a dark room than one that is lit. I beg to differ. Just take a look in any high school history class.

The tradition of saying "God bless you " after one sneezes was started because people thought that demons possesed the human body and sneezing was a way of expelling them. And blessing someone was a way of keeping the demons from reinhabiting the person that sneezed! So please do not bless me if I sneeze. I rather enjoy my demons!

Did you know that the elephant is the only mammal on the earth that can not jump?

The largest animal on the planet Earth exist on one of the smallest.

Human beings swallow and average of eight spiders in there lifetime while sleeping.

The only question that you can not answer "yes" too is "Are you sleeping?"

Eskimos have over 500 words for snow but no word for goodbye
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From you I receive to you I give
Together we share
For this we live

[DarkDragon]

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

Back in the mid to late 80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.

The RAM required to run WordPerfect for Win95 is 8 times the amount needed aboard the space shuttle.

Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. (Resourcefull students at Bellingham High School used this for a prank back in the 70's-80's It had to be removed with a crane, I believe...)


Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80
Percentage of American women who say they would marry the same man: 50
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May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.
-An Irish toast

[QueenOfTheShadows]

The Crayola brand name is recognized by 99% of all Americans

the epidermis, the outermost layer of the skin, sheds itself at a rate of
about a million cells every 40 minutes

Giraffes have the same number of verterbrae as humans

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and
Budweiser, in that order.

Freddie Mercury's (of the rock band Queen) middle name was Pluto

An estimated 6 million Jews were killed during hitler's reign of terror. 5
million more casualties were caused during WWII.

More people have died installing Solar Panels than have ever died from
Nuclear Power Stations

The largest smoking corporation (Philip Morris) has anti-smoking ads.

The most common name in the world is neither Ching nor John. It's Muhammad

Erin go bragh" means "Ireland forever."

Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The
guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings.
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[Tealeon]