More useless facts for people who have nothing to do but sit in front of a.

by Tatiana 19 Replies latest social humour

Tatiana

....computer all day with a bottle of wine.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. I have done this. Ask my kids. It doesn't work.
--The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet.
--On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
--The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. Veerryyy iinntterressttiinngg!!
--It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
--Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Ask my kids.
--Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? Yes
--Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
-In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. OUCH!!
-- The act of snapping one's fingers is called a "fillip". I thought it was called--"Waiter, refill my glass NOW!!"
-----The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle. A what????
-- Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
---Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it -- 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25 etc.
--A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch. Is that pubic hair?
--The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.
--The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
---- No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half. "Bounty" can!
--A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Like why would he want to? Nah, nah, I have your foot!
--The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. This is not true. I was out the other night with an ant. And I swear he fell over on his left side.
--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. uh, WHY????
--The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
--Butterflies taste with their feet.
--Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. ( thankfully !!)
--A cat's urine glows under a black light. And they found this out how?
--An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. Dumb bastards!!
--Cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, making them the most nimble animals known. No wonder I can't catch that little mf!!!
--Mosquitoes do not bite. They stab. A mosquito has no jaws, hence when attacking a victim, it pierces it with its long proboscis and sucks the blood up through it's nasal tube.
--Starfishes haven't got brains. DUH Tell that to Spongebob!
- Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years. Dumb bastards!!
- Some breeds of vultures can fly at altitudes as high as 36,900 feet. They chew gum to keep their ears from popping.
--The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearms, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch on them. Can we say Right Guard???
--The most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die from malaria every year..from those stabbing mosquitos!
-A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers.
A light nanosecond is the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second and is 1 foot or about 30 cm. At gas 1.89 per gallon...geezzz..
INTERCHANGEABILITY contains the words THREE, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, THIRTEEN, THIRTY, THIRTY-NINE, EIGHTY, EIGHTY-NINE, NINETY, and NINETY-EIGHT..I'll remember this when I get on Jeopardy!
One thousand contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
Some words with horizontal symmetry (they reflect themselves across a horizontal line) are: BEDECKED, BOOHOOED, CEBID (a type of monkey), CHECKBOOK, CHOICE, CODEBOOK, COOKBOOK, DECIDED, DIOXIDE, DOBCHICK, EXCEEDED, HIDE, HOODOOED, ICEBOX, KEBOBBED, OBOE, OKEECHOBEE.
Some words with vertical symmetry are MOM, WOW, OTTO, MAAM, MA'AM, TOOT, AHA, AA, AHA, AIA, AMA, AVA, AWA, HAH, HOH, HUH, MAM, MIM, MM, MUM, OHO, OO, OXO, TAT, TIT, TOT, TUT, UTU, VAV, WAW.
A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet. Then what is a "click?"
A click is what you use to hit ignore!
SanFranciscoJim

* If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. - But one single fart contains the same energy.
* The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet. - Moral of the story: Pumping organs will cause them to squirt.
* On average people fear spiders more than they do death. - Spiders, however, fear death more than they do themselves.
* The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. - It is also the one that tastes best.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. - This is an urban legend! Tell that to the man whose glass eye pops out every time he sneezes.
* Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. - Because of this, John Deere has announced the introduction of their new pizza tractor for 2004.
* Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? - This explains why poisonous spiders do not drink champagne.
* Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. - "If thy hand offends thee, lop it off." - Lucifer 18:49 (NWT)
* In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. - Ancient Egyptian priests were the forerunners of the Queer Eye makeover.
* The act of snapping one's fingers is called a "fillip". - In other cultures, it is called a "filler-up".
* The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle. - The cross on a letter "t" is called a "Nesbitt".
* Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing. - The shortest word is "ox".
* Any number, squared, is equal to one more than the numbers on either side of it -- 4x6 is 24, 5x5 is 25 etc. - Any square numbered is equivalent in IQ to the idiot sitting on either side of you.
* A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch. - Enjoying only 1/48 of your day is called having a "bad hairbreadth day".
* The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value. - The word fore has four letters. In the English language there is no other word whose meaning is equal to the pain caused when the golf ball hits you on the head.
* The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache. - What is not commonly known is that the queen of spades has a little moustache problem herself.
* No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half. - No telephone directory can be folded even once.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. - Crocodiles are not rude.
* The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. - Ant intoxication is illegal in 37 states.
* Polar bears are left handed. - Polar bears live 9 fewer years than their right-handed cousin, the grizzly.
* The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds. - Catfish likely evolved so many taste buds because they cannot taste themselves.
* The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field. - The NFL is currently conducting scientific studies on how to grow human-size fleas.
* Butterflies taste with their feet. - Dr. Scholls is currently developing inner soles made of butterfly parts for a finer dining experience.
* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. - Elephants, therefore, are disqualified from playing on most basketball teams.
* A cat's urine glows under a black light. - Military scientists are currently working on a way to extract radioactive cat urine from kitty litter for use in nuclear devices.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. - This explains why so many ostriches read The Watchtower.
* Cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, making them the most nimble animals known. - This proves that most cockroaches are lost and don't know which direction to go.
* Mosquitoes do not bite. They stab. A mosquito has no jaws, hence when attacking a victim, it pierces it with its long proboscis and sucks the blood up through it's nasal tube. - Mosquitos are the inventors of the switchblade and introvenous tube.
* Starfishes haven't got brains. - But, according to 9 out of 10 catfish, they sure taste great!
* Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years. - Nursing homes and other facilities for the elderly are becoming overcrowded with aging ostriches.
* Some breeds of vultures can fly at altitudes as high as 36,900 feet. - Many vultures are seen splattered on the windshields of 747s.
* The skin of the armpits can harbor up to 516,000 bacteria per square inch, while drier areas, such as the forearms, have only about 13,000 bacteria per square inch on them. - Petree dishes are made from dead armpit skin.
* The most destructive disease is malaria. More than 1.5 million people die from malaria every year. - The only thing that kills more people than malaria is flying champagne corks.
* A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles or about 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers. A light nanosecond is the distance light can travel in a billionth of a second and is 1 foot or about 30 cm. - A dog year is equivalent to 7.625893001 human years.
* INTERCHANGEABILITY contains the words THREE, EIGHT, NINE, TEN, THIRTEEN, THIRTY, THIRTY-NINE, EIGHTY, EIGHTY-NINE, NINETY, and NINETY-EIGHT. - It does not contain the word "Nesbitt".
* One thousand contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A. - Two other words that contain the letter A are "amoral" and "asexual".
* Some words with horizontal symmetry (they reflect themselves across a horizontal line) are: BEDECKED, BOOHOOED, CEBID (a type of monkey), CHECKBOOK, CHOICE, CODEBOOK, COOKBOOK, DECIDED, DIOXIDE, DOBCHICK, EXCEEDED, HIDE, HOODOOED, ICEBOX, KEBOBBED, OBOE, OKEECHOBEE. - Horizontal symmetry can also be attained by drinking large quantities of whiskey.
* Some words with vertical symmetry are MOM, WOW, OTTO, MAAM, MA'AM, TOOT, AHA, AA, AHA, AIA, AMA, AVA, AWA, HAH, HOH, HUH, MAM, MIM, MM, MUM, OHO, OO, OXO, TAT, TIT, TOT, TUT, UTU, VAV, WAW. - these are also the call letters of 100 milliwatt radio stations on tiny islands in the South Pacific.
* A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet. - In Stephen King's novel, the Green Mile is less than 400 feet.
bebu

rofl!! You are both too funny! I like this one in particular:
* A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch. - Enjoying only 1/48 of your day is called having a "bad hairbreadth day".
bebu
Tatiana

SFJ....In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
- Ancient Egyptian priests were the forerunners of the Queer Eye makeover.
STOP IT!!!
ROTFLMAO..........
Tatiana

See SFJ?...you made me go find some more useless factoids, just so I can read your explanations.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
All the planets in our solar system rotate counter-clockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".
The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.
Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.
Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !!
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say no evil ).
55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. hello, zzzzz zzzz ?
morty

OMG............I am yawning.........too funny, it is true.....
morty
SanFranciscoJim

* A zebra is white with black stripes. - A nun is black with white stripes.
* All the planets in our solar system rotate counter-clockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise. - Venus is currently on public reproof.
* The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent". - The name "Bobo" contains the same letters as the word "boob".
* The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. - Rabbits and parrots are also the only 2 animals that lay chocolate Cadbury Easter eggs.
* A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. - A "jiffy" is also a food unit used to describe 1/100 of the annual production of a peanut plantation.
* The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound. - Many submissive men move faster than the speed of sound when the dominatrix cracks the whip.
* A hippopotamus can run faster than a man. - Racing hippos against humans was outlawed in the late 19th century because too many humans got smooshed.
* India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history. - There is no need for India to overrun any country since they have already conquered the world's 7-11s and Kwick-E-Marts.
* 'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words. - AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
* Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school. - Watchtowergrainophobia is the fear of Miracle Wheat.
* Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !! - Phobatrivaphobaverbalphobia is the fear of talking about people who are afraid of trivia about phobias.
* It is impossible to lick your elbow. - It is illegal in 39 states to lick other people's elbows.
* A snail can sleep for 3 years. - Snails are currently suing the Serta Mattress Co. for stealing their phrase "perfect sleeper".
* In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years. - It was during this period that the Johnson brothers invented Pledge, and became overnight millionaires.
* "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. - Medieval linguists are still trying to figure out why the word "abcdefg" is no longer used in the English language.
* Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire. - If cows are grazing in that field, they will be electrocuted.
* Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Say no evil ). - In other languages and cultures, the three monkeys are known as Manny, Moe, and Jack -or- Tom, Dick, and Harry -or- Moe, Larry, and Curly, -or- Charlie's Angels.
* 55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. - This syndrome can be cured by tossing a shelled peanut into the mouth of the person yawning.
Tatiana

There is no need for India to overrun any country since they have already conquered the world's 7-11s and Kwick-E-Marts----LOLOLOL

SFJ...don't stop now....I am crying on the floor....
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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.
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.
Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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.
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 other million people in the world.
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.
Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. (Armageddon has already occurred..see?)
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
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.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Tatiana

I need serious help....
jayhawk1

The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
Which word is that?

More useless facts for people who have nothing to do but sit in front of a.

Share this