Did you know?

Discussion in 'Science, Technology, and Green Energy' started by Brittney, Mar 21, 2009.

  1. Brittney

    Brittney Well-Known Member

    The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. Google it. Yummiesss!!!

    Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

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

    The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.

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

    Your brain weighs around 3 pounds. All but ten ounces is water.

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

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

    Gary, Indiana is the murder capital of the U.S. - probably the world.

    A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.

    A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

    The snail mates only once in its entire life.

    The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

    Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.

    There is cyanide in apple pips.
     
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    Brittney, Mar 21, 2009
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  2. curleyblonde

    curleyblonde New Member

    Oh dear, I have a stomache full of lipstick (but in my case it would be lipgloss) & I now feel sorry for snails.....
     
    curleyblonde, Mar 21, 2009
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  3. Brittney

    Brittney Well-Known Member

    This too.
     
    Brittney, Nov 6, 2010
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  4. wtarshi

    wtarshi Well-Known Member

    off to bang my head against the wall (which i do normally when talking with the shirtless wonder)
     
    wtarshi, Nov 6, 2010
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  5. Tamstrong

    Tamstrong Administrator Staff Member

    Did you know...

    Until 1937, the basketball referee had to throw a jump ball after every basket.



    The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to rmember the word you want.
     
    Tamstrong, Nov 6, 2010
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  6. mama

    mama Well-Known Member

    Did you know not all Australian live in the "outback" lol.
     
    mama, Nov 6, 2010
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  7. Bug

    Bug Well-Known Member

    Why is this, do you know?
    Good job I bought some life insurance last week, what with the odds stacked against me in more ways than one it seems.
     
    Bug, Nov 6, 2010
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  8. Tamstrong

    Tamstrong Administrator Staff Member

    There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.

    The Nobel Peace Prize medal pictures three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders.

    Most lipstick contains fish scales.

    No piece of square paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

    Over 2500 left-handed people are killed yearly from using products made for right-handed people.

    The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.
     
    Tamstrong, Nov 6, 2010
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  9. Bug

    Bug Well-Known Member

    Ahh thats why the righties live longer lol
     
    Bug, Nov 6, 2010
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  10. Brittney

    Brittney Well-Known Member

    :smt043

    And it's nice to see you francie!!!:smt039
     
    Brittney, Nov 6, 2010
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  11. Bug

    Bug Well-Known Member

    And it's lovely to see you too Britty, your sunshiney disposition is muchly missed when you're not around:D
     
    Bug, Nov 6, 2010
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  12. Tamstrong

    Tamstrong Administrator Staff Member

    The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

    All windmills turn counter-clockwise except in Ireland.

    Until 1796 Tennessee was called Franklin.

    A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off--it dies of starvation.

    In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits.

    Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
     
    Tamstrong, Nov 6, 2010
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  13. NCBradin

    NCBradin New Member

    That had my eyebrow raised just now.
     
    NCBradin, Nov 6, 2010
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  14. NCBradin

    NCBradin New Member

    I knew that from the beginning that he was afraid of the dark himself.
     
    NCBradin, Nov 6, 2010
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