| Author | Message | ||
     Jackbequick |
Mexico and Iceland have the highest per capita consumption of Coca-Cola. In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes! The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye. A baby is born without kneecaps. They appear between age 2 and 6. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel. The Nike swoosh was designed by a Portland State University student, and purchased by Nike for $35. Most lipstick contains fish scales. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth. Nearly 30% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do. A frog can't empty its stomach by vomitting. To empty its stomach contents, a frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours! Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water. Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second! The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off. Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin. The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house doing her chores. 76% of Americans celebrate New Year's Eve in groups of less than 20. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches. It takes twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil. The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker. The can opener was invented 48 years after the can (must have been a lot of 48 year old unopened cans). Identify a fake: The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch doesn't tick, it moves smoothly. Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico. New Mexico covers 121598 square miles. The oldest pig in the world lived to the age of 68. The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. A snail can sleep for three years. Ants don't sleep. X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait. Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die. Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek. In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves. A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day. More people in China speak English than in the United States. Jack | ||
| Ezblast |
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian; she was Greek. & More people in China speak English than in the United States. Hmm??? | ||
| Rotzaruck |
I'm not too sure about all that stuff, but I do need to get out and hunt some lottery tickets. | ||
| 1313 |
Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow. Now that's something I'd like to see! 1313  | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
Mature okra is used to make rope and paper! | ||
| Xandersam |
>>Mature okra is used to make rope and paper!<< I always wondered what that stuff was for  | ||
| Tom_b |
actually cleopatra was of greek heritage.she was a direct descendant of one of alexander the greats generals who was greek. Part of the ptolemy dynasty that rule egypt. china has over 3.5 billion people and english has been mandatory learning in schools for close to 20 yrs. so figure those numbers | ||
| Unibear12r |
I love this stuff! | ||
| Midknyte |
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women. well, duh! women don't have lightning rods... | ||
| Pwnzor |
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. Termites are also the world's most prolific producers of methane! mmmmm... smelly... | ||
| Glitch |
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. I guess that's ok as long as we're not talking teddy bears. | ||
| Froggy |
Frogs sometimes eat enough fireflies that they themselves glow. Technically its the undigested remains of a firefly still glowing inside the frog, not the frog itself. Kinda like if you turn on a flashlight and put it in your pocket, you can see it through the fabric. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people. Half truth. Out of the 175 or so poison frogs, only 3 can actually kill people. And 2,200 people is wrong, as a poison frog typically can produce 200 micrograms of poison in its lifetime, but only 2 micrograms are needed to kill. I dissect more later | ||
| Freezerburn |
Froggy- Only three of the Phyllobates are used for darts. I'm sure others are lethal, just not with the small doses one would get on a dart. I keep P. vittatus, and P. terribilis. I also keep D. azureus and D. auratus. Such fun. | ||
| G234146 |
Mexico and Iceland have the highest per capita consumption of Coca-Cola. In some towns in MX its easier to find Coca-Cola than bottled water! | ||
| Chainsaw |
Hey JackBQ...are these from an author by the name of L.M. Boyd by chance? They used to publish this sort of thing in the Austin newspaper years ago when I lived there. | ||
| Terribletim |
I thought it was because most of America speaks Spanish. . .  | ||
| Bcordb3 |
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. Is that north or south of the equator?  | ||
| Jackbequick |
Chainsaw, Don't know, they showed up in an email and were not attributed in any way. Kind of a garbage in, garbage out process. As for me, I know I don't use 57 pieces of toilet paper a day. I counted them this morning and I can get by with about 16 in a pinch. :>) Jack |
