Interesting Facts

[Chewy]

Here are some interesting Facts and perhaps some unusual facts you didn't know

1. The average British woman's foot is a size five and a man's is a size nine.

2. Breast implants can slow you down - while running.

3. Swiss law allows enormous speeding fines.

4. People are still buying audio cassettes - 8,443 were sold in 2009.

5. Mobility scooters are exempt from the Road Traffic Act, leaving police powerless to act against examples of careless driving.

6. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

7. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

8. Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.

9. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!

10. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

11. The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

12. Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

13. You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

14. The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

15. Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Well all I can say girls is ... get annoyed angry and jump up and down at our Soaps and we'd burn even more calories :D


Please add your own to the post - Lets try and gather all the facts we can and make it one of the best FACT POSTS on the web

[cyberbabes]

hehehehe good one chewy

[KneeHighNinja]

omg im not gonna tell my dad about the mobility scooter lol he goes on road an pavements with his

[Chewy]

Interesting Fact about the Pope John Paul II death

Pope was living 85 years - sum of those numbers = 13

Pope died on 2.04.2005 - sum of those numbers = 13

Pope died at 21.37 - again - sum is equal.... 13

13...that's Maria's number - only that time Holy Mother was showing herself to 3 children in Fatima

on 13th May 1981 - Pope was wounded and that time was saved by Holy Mother

on 13th Pope went to the hospital for the first time

on 13th died the last child of three from Fatima to whom Holy Mother showed up

Pope died on 02.04.2005 at 21.37.. add all those numbers....

2+4+2+5 = 13

2+1+3+7 = 13

13+13=26

26 years of pontificate......

Coincidence? or it had to be like this?

in the end......he died in 13th week of the year...and when you multiply the time of his death 21 x 37...you will have 777

Pope was living exactly 31 thousands days...if you reverse

figures...you will get again 13!!!




Lincoln and Kennedy


Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here's the kicker...
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

[Lex]

Nice one :) Now i really wonder WHO tasted the beetle, worms and wasps! hehehe

Here are some more:




01. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
02. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight.
03. Polar bears are left handed.
04. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
05. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
06. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
07. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
08. Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
09. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
10. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
11. It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
12. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
13. Almost everyone who reads this will try to lick their elbow.

hehe :)

[Chewy]

Lol and yes I did try and lick my elbow and I can't lolol


1. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

2. A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White

3. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water

4. Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camel

5. Coca-Cola was the favoured drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today

6. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down--hence the expression "to get fired."

7. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

8. Twenty-Four-Carat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be moulded with the hands.

9. A snail can sleep for 3 years

10. One out of 20 people have an extra rib

11. Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining

12. The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales

14. A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs

15. Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations

[Lex]

great ones, Chewy :-)

here are few more:


01. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. ;)
02. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
03. Almonds are members of the peach family.
04. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
05. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
06. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
07. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
08. First novel ever written on a typewriter is Tom Sawyer.
09. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
10. There are more chickens than people in the world.
11. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
12. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.



Sneezing with eyes open did not work, banging head against the wall for an hour is forbidden, turning into a snail or a cat is impossible, so now looking for peanuts! ;)

Just noticed i repeated the one about snail :) Sorry ;)

[Lion]

'' A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe''

How did he do that ? Monroe died 5th August 1962...over 15 months before Kennedy was shot on 22nd November 1963.

Nevertheless, i love these interesting facts - nice one's Chewy and Lex

[cablenew_noel]

It is common mistake to say that The Great wall of China is visible from outer space. It is too thin to be noticed from such a great distance. There are no man made structures that are visible from space or moon. Man made objects start to disappear after 300 miles up. From that distance you can barely see the outline of the Great China Wall. If we consider that distance from Earth to Moon is around 384,403 kilometers/238,857 miles then we can draw reasonable conclusion that it would be impossible...

[cablenew_noel]

In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who in a town could fart the loudest and longest. Winners were awarded many prizes and received great recognition