Ironworks Gaming Forum - Useless Facts bwa??

Just thought I'd post this before I went to sleep.

Useless Facts:

> The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
> A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
> The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
> A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
> Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother.
> Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
> Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
> More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
> Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
> Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
> Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
> If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
> Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
> Right handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left handed people do.
> The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
> The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
> The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
> TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
> If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
> The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
> A snail can sleep for 3 years.
> American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
> China has more English speakers than the United States.
> The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
> Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
> I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
> The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
> Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
> Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
> In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
> If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
> Feb. 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
> The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
> No word in the English language rhymes with month or orange.
> The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
> There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
> Cat's urine glows under a black light.
> Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
> In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
> Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
> Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
> The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
> Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
> One of the main reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers - they saw it as competition. They Still DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
> The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
> If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
> The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
> Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
> Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
> On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
> The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
> It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
> You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
> Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
> Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
> You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider
> In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
> A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
> The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
> Polar bears are left-handed.
> The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
> A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
> The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
> Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
> Butterflies and flies taste with their feet.
> Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
> An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
> Starfish haven't got brains.
> A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (WoW)

[ 07-07-2002, 05:57 PM: Message edited by: Deathbringer ]