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posted on Apr, 24 2007 @ 10:53 PM
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"No matter how high an aeroplane flies, it`s shadow is always the same size"

This depends on how you measure shadows. I wouldn`t agree personally, as Shadow usually means the shape caused by blocked light on a surface, with the distance from the surface determing the size of the shadow, so blatantly not correct, sorry karl12 :bash:

Please think before you post in future!!!


[edit on 24-4-2007 by MistahBear]



posted on Apr, 28 2007 @ 02:20 PM
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Originally posted by aaronman
When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.


Snopes proved this myth false.

For the first couple of months, your skin shrivels up, and since your hair is already dead cells, it stays just the same, so it appears that your hair is getting longer, but really your body's getting smaller. That happens with fingernails too because they're dead cells.



posted on Apr, 28 2007 @ 04:19 PM
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If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.

Ben and Jerry's sends the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.

The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth...and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean McBricker.

The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

White Out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (formerly of the Monkees)

Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.

Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.

If a statue in the park of a person 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.

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.



posted on Apr, 28 2007 @ 06:30 PM
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Originally posted by MrMysticism

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.




Lucky LUCKY Piggy!



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posted on Apr, 28 2007 @ 09:20 PM
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Stuffing cats down your trousers, actually creates more problems than you hope to solve with such a desperate act.



posted on Jun, 6 2008 @ 07:26 PM
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Mr Mysticism~ some good ones there mate!

PS The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

PPS Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies



posted on Oct, 5 2008 @ 12:52 PM
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On average 12 newborn babies will be given to wrong parents every day.

Squirrels cannot contract rabies.

In ancient Rome,when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

50% of female polar bears also have a penis.

Duelling in Paraguay is legal as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

An adult giraffe´s kick is so powerfull it can decapitate a lion.

There are more pigs than humans in Denmark.

A female donkey´s milk is closest to human milk.

Chocolate can kill dogs-it directly effects their brain and nervous system.



posted on Oct, 8 2008 @ 12:23 PM
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Porcupines float in water.

Turtles can breathe through their anus.

Camels have three eyelids.

A bee can smell with it´s knees.



posted on Oct, 9 2008 @ 02:50 PM
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*There have been 2,036 known nuclear bomb explosions since World War two.

*All human beings have four nostrils.

*Henry the eighth only had two wives.

*The steam engine was invented in ancient Greece.

*Coffee is not made from beans.

*Bangkok is not the capital of Thailand.

*Strawberries are not berries.

*Over a billion people have been killed by marmots.

*The largest thing a blue whale can swallow is a grapefruit.

*George Washington's teeth previously belonged to a hippopotamus.

*Panama hats come from Equador.

*Reigndeer were the first animals ever to be domesticated.

*Balsa is the world's strongest wood.

*Loofahs come from trees (not the sea).

*Carrots were purple in the middle ages.

*Shrimps are the loudest thing in the ocean.

*Hitler was not a vegetarian.

*The fruit fly was the first animal in space.

*Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand.

*The largest man made structure on earth is Fresh kills ,the rubbish dump on Staten Island New York.

*European earwigs have two penises.

*The moon smells like gunpowder.

*The guillotine was invented in Yorkshire,England.

*Kilts,bagpipes,haggis,porridge,whiskey and tartan are not of Scottish origin.

*Chameleons do not change colour to match their backgrounds.

*The mosquito is the most dangerous animal that has ever lived.

*Goldfish have 3 month memories(not 3 second).

*Your body creates and kills 15 million blood cells every second.

*The north pole of Uranus is dark for 42 years at a time.

*No part of Japan is more than 100 miles from the sea.

*On average ten people a year are kiled by vending machines.

*Humans are responsible for the deaths of around 70 million sharks each year.

*A lightning bolt strikes so fast it could circle the globe eight times in a second.

*If you walk outside George Orwell's old house in London you are now captured on surveillance cameras 33 times.

* "To be or not to be :that is the question,whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of ourageous fortune"

Is an anagram of

"In one of the bard's best thought-of-tragedies,our insistent hero,Hamlet,queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten".


*Stephen Speilberg directed the first ever episode of Columbo.

*Harry Houdini as the first man to fly a plane in Australia-in 1910.

*The world's first traffic island was installed at his own expense by Colonel Pierrepoint outside his London club.He was killed crossing over to it.

*Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

*Sir JM Barrie,Sir Isaac Newton and Hans Christian Anderson all died virgins.

*John Wayne once won the dog Lassie from it's owner in a poker game.

*Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson each grew up beleiving their mothers to be their sisters.

*Chuck Berry invented the duck walk initally to hide the creases in his suit.

*Pope John XII and Attilla the hun both died whilst having sex.

*Mongolians put salt in their tea instead of sugar.

*Disneyworld is bigger than than the world's five smallest countries.

*Jennifer Anniston's godfather was Telly Savalas.

*The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and Britain in 1896.Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

*Mountain goats are in fact small antelopes.

*Gerard Depardieu and Bill Gates both have photographic memories.

*The first Englishman to be killed in an aviation accident was Mr Royce of Rolls Royce fame.

*The whip was the first invention to break the sound barrier.

*Until the late 1990s,the RAF's nuclear bombs could be activated by using a bicycle lock key.

*There is an average of 90 suicides a day in Japan.

*All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

*Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to reptiles.

*Non dairy creamer is flammable.

*At any one time there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the US.

*Coca-Cola was originally green.

*The city with the most Rolls Royces per capita is Hong Kong.

*The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

*Each king in a pack of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades-King David ,Clubs-Alexander the Great ,Hearts-Charlamagne and Diamonds-Julius Caeser.

*It has been recommeded by dentists that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet (2 meters) away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

*Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

*Butterflies taste with their feet.

*The strongest muscle in the body is the tounge.

*Starfish have no brains.

*Pearls melt in vinegar.

*Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

*Charlie Chaplin once won third place in Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.

*Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.

*Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it.

*Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates clockwise.

*Footprints of the astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.

*Earthworms have five hearts.

*Fingerprints of Koala bears and humans are virtually indistinguishable.

*Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MSRA infection.

*In ancient Greece,children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

*Ghandi didn´t allow his wife to take pennicilin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinnine to save himself from malaria.

*Prostitutes in Roman times charged the equivalent price of 8 glasses of red wine.

*More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.

*The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon´s bedroom.

*Eating a packet of crisps a day is the equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year.

*The Himalayas cover one tenth of the Earth´s surface.

*Every drop of seawater contains approximately one billion gold atoms.

*During World War 2, IBM the built counting machines the Nazis used to manage their concentrtion camps.

*The total combined weight of the world´s ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.

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

*The population of the world can live within the state boundaries of Texas.

*Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button as it was eliminated during surgery.

*The Roman emperor Caligula made his horse a senator.

*´Jaws´ is the most common name for a goldfish.

*Napoleon was terrified of cats.

*Russia has the most movie theatres in the world.

*The number of people alive on the Earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died.....Ever.


[edit on 02/10/08 by karl 12]



posted on Oct, 9 2008 @ 04:57 PM
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"Earth is the only planet not named after a god."


Actually, in Greek (my mother tongue), Earth is called Gaia which was a primordial deity in the Greek mythology.

"Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump."

Although I am not sure, I doubt a turtle or a sloth can jump either.

Also, according to Wikipedia, there are five deserts in Europe. One of them is in Poland (I guess the others must be in the countries around the Mediterranean sea).

Błędów Desert

Alexander



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posted on Oct, 9 2008 @ 05:51 PM
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Alexander,thanks for the clarifications-I'm all for debunking these cheeky facts where appropriate.
You may enjoy this thread about general knowledge misconceptions
(but don't scroll down until you've answered the questions)
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Cheers Karl


[edit on 02/10/08 by karl 12]



posted on Oct, 18 2008 @ 05:08 PM
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Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Bees can recognise human faces.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan",there was never a recorded Wendy before.

Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

The U.S. State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.

The percentage of Africa that is wilderness is 28%~the percentage of North America that is wilderness is 38%.

The average cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $ 16,400.

The average number of people airborne over the U.S. in any given hour is 61,000.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.

Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.

A rat can swim for 72 hours non-stop and jump down 50 feet without injury.

A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in the world in relation to its size.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II.

On average,men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.

Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.

The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.

The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.

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

Americans choke on toothpicks more that anything else.

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.

Henry II was murdered by his homosexual lover, who pushed a red-hot poker 0.5 metres up his rectum.

Surprised while burgling a house in Antwerp, Belgium, a thief fled out the back door, clambered over a nine-foot wall, dropped down and found himself in the city prison.

203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

A jellyfish is 95% water.

Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain.

Fortune cookies were invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

A leech has 32 brains.

In Minnesota it is illegal to mock skunks.

A shrimps heart is in its head.

Deer urine can turn blue when they become dehydrated in the winter.

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

On average, 80 people shoot at the Goodyear blimp each year.

In 1471, a chicken in Basel, Switzerland, was accused of being 'a devil in disguise' after laying a brightly colored egg. The chicken stood trial, was found guilty and burned at the stake.

According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. The offense was punishable by hanging.

Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national income.

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

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (President #32) was related in some way to 11 former U.S. Presidents.

Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest computer software producing country in the world.

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

Hot water is heavier than cold.

On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.

Only in 1956 was the phrase "In God We Trust" adopted as the U.S. national motto.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

The Giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.

You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.

Punctuation was not invented until the 1500's.



posted on Oct, 18 2008 @ 05:56 PM
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It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The first couple to share a bed on American TV were Herman and Lily Munster.

The first interracial kiss on American TV was between Captain Kirk and Lt. Uhura on Star Trek.

Thomas Jefferson was an aetheist.

The Flintstones was based on the Honeymooners.



posted on Oct, 18 2008 @ 11:48 PM
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"There is a city called Rome on every continent."

Not in Australia...There is a Roma, but not a Rome

"It is impossible to lick your own elbow"

No it isn't, try Google Images...

For a man to feel the same amount of pain that a woman experiences during childbirth, he would have to stretch his scrotum over his head.



Roswell.



posted on Oct, 22 2008 @ 12:59 PM
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Good ones! here s´more:

The brain continues sending electrical wave signals for 37 hours after death.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life.

Close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18.

There is One AK-47 for every Nine people on Earth.

There is 293 different ways to give back change on a dollar.

Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food.

It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes biting you simultaneously to drain all your blood.

The clown fish has the ability to change its sex. If a breeding female dies, the male fish will change its sex and mate with another male.

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.

An average person farts 16 times a day.

Barbie's parents names are George and Margaret.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

74% of men in Great Britain admit to thinking about having sexual intercourse with an animal (I´m not one of them).

Julius Caesar’s autograph is worth about $2,000,000.

No where in the state of Michigan is a person more than six miles from water.

Monkeys only smile when they are scared.

The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant, is 69.

The three best-known western names in China are Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Orange, month, and purple are the only words in English that don't have another word that rhymes with it.

The average person laughs 13 times a day.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

A giraffe's heart weighs an incredible 24 pounds.

There is enough water in American swimming pools to cover the whole city of San Francisco seven feet deep.

Penguins eat 13 times their body weight in one day.

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

In China, September 20 is "Love Your Teeth Day."

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

On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.

During their periods womens middle fingers shrink. No one knows why.

Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world.

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.

The number one fear of Americans is public speaking. Number two is death.

Forty percent of Americans iron their clothes while wearing their underwear or being completely naked.

US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

Cat urine glows under a black-light.

There have been over fifty million Mr. Potato Heads sold since it came out in 1952.

According to a study by the nation's largest auto insurer, most accidents occur between 3 and 6 p.m. on Friday.

There are 66 million different possible pizza combinations on the Domino's pizza menu.

Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane in case there is a crash.

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

An average person uses the toilet 2500 times a year.

By age 20 we lose 20% of our sense of smell. By age 60 it is 60%.

31% of employees skip lunch entirely.

Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving.

Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the very same day: February 12, 1809.

You lose 60 hairs a day.

If you eat enough carrots, your skin will eventually turn orange.

Every year the Pentagon survives approximately 50000 hacker attacks.

Women take three times longer than men when using the toilet.

A kangaroo can only jump if its tail is touching the ground.

Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average, that's 3 pounds a day per person.

Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.

There is enough iron in a human being to make one small nail.



[edit on 02/10/08 by karl 12]



posted on Oct, 22 2008 @ 01:13 PM
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I have only one, but I bet you didn't know about this one:

The color of the universe is called "Cosmic Latte"!

www.pha.jhu.edu...

And now I will quickly get out of here before someone notice my BTS points and starts laughing at me again, like Schrodingers Dog did...




posted on Oct, 22 2008 @ 07:22 PM
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Originally posted by karl 12
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.


Haha, yeah, i saw that on a travel show once...







Roswell.



posted on Oct, 28 2008 @ 09:59 AM
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Originally posted by roswell1

Originally posted by karl 12
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.


Haha, yeah, i saw that on a travel show once...







Roswell.


Ha~thats a great pic!
Cheers

Cheeky fact for the day:
"In a single breath the Blue whale could inflate over 2000 balloons".



posted on Oct, 28 2008 @ 10:07 AM
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It is unlawful to paint cats yellow in Texas.

Calling a Highway patrolman "Barney" will not keep you from getting a ticket.



posted on Oct, 28 2008 @ 11:02 AM
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Originally posted by whaaa
It is unlawful to paint cats yellow in Texas.

Calling a Highway patrolman "Barney" will not keep you from getting a ticket.



In the city of York in the UK, it is still legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow in the High Street.



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