85 amazing facts

[anne1206]

85 Truly Amazing & Crazy Facts About Everything

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1.The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime!
2.The most difficult item for a sewerage plant to process is pubic hair as it is insoluble.
3.About one third of all Americans flush the toilet while they are still sitting on it!
4.Most lipstick contains fish scales!
5.It takes seven minutes for the average person to fall asleep!
6.The bullet-proof vest, windscreen wipers, laser printers and fire escapes were all invented by women!
7.In the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word in England!
8.It was the Chinese who invented sun glasses in the 13 th century!
9.If you look at a blank piece of white paper after you have been working at your computer for a long period, the paper will appear to be pink!

10.The opposite sides of a dice always add up to seven!
11.Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before going into orbit, as farting in their space suit will damage them!
12.The average person's vocabulary consists of 5,000 to 8,000 words!
13.There is a hill in New Zealand that has the longest name still in use, it is called "TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHA-NGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURI-PUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORON-UKUPOKAIWHENUAKITAMAT-AHU! TOWN"

14.If you live in an apartment in Sweden, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 p.m.
15.Finger prints actually provide traction for your fingers to grasp things!
16.In the 1960s, popular dances were called THE MONKEY, MASHED POTATO, THE LOCO-MOTION & THE FUNKY CHICKEN!
17.Pain travels at the speed of 106.68 metres per second!
18.In the United States, money is made from cotton, not paper.19.About 10% of the world's population is left-handed!

20.Dogs & cats either left-handed or right-handed just like humans. That is, they favor their right or left paw!
21.No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple!
22.The USA Pentagon uses on average 666 rolls of toilet paper per day!
23.Priests in ancient Egypt used to pluck every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes!
24.Married men change their underwear twice as often as single men!
25.There are only two people in the world who know the secret recipe for coca-cola!
26.The original name for the butterfly was the flutterby!
27.All of the world's nations that begin wit an "A" end with an "A" except Afghanistan!
28.[FUNNY PHOBIAS]
PANOPHOBIA - Fear of Everything
LOGIZOMECHANOPHOBIA - Fear of Computers
BELONEPHOBIA - Fear of Pins and Needles
HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA - Fear of Long Word
29.In the middle ages, European society women had some of the blood drained from their body to achieve a pale complexion!
30.Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicient Roberts!
31.Thomas Edison, the man who invented the light bulb, was actually afraid of the dark!
32.You are more likely to be stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other kind of weather!
33.Before there were jets, jet lag was called boat lag!

34."DREAMT" is the only word in the English Language that ends with the letters "MT"!
35.The hour and the minute hands cross over each other 11 times during a 12 hour period!

36.The first reference to toilet paper dates back to 1718: One in 8 men snore, and one in 10 grind their teeth while they are asleep!
37.It is estimated that they sell 200,000,000 M&M's in the United States each day!
38.A pregnant goldfish is called a twit!
39.In the Disney movie "Fantasia", The Sorcerer's name is Yensid which is Disney spelt backwards!
40.In Japan, a fartomaniac[a person who farts for a living] actually went on TV and farted over 3000 times in a row!

41.More than 50% of the world's population have never had a phone call!
42.Every person's tongue print is different!
43.On average, people use 8.6 sheets of toilet paper per visit. That adds up to 57 sheets each day!

44.The hardest tongue twister is said to be: "Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick" Try saying that fast!

45.80% of women wash their hands after going to the toilet compared with 55% of men!
46.When you flush the toilet, over 30,000 germs are released into the air. This is why you should not leave your toothbrush near the toilet!
47.A baby is born every two minutes!
48.Thomas Crapper bought the rights to the first flushable toilet!
49.The shortest complete sentence in the English Language is "GO!"
50.In Thailand, it is illegal to leave the house without wearing your underwear!
51.[WACKY WORDS]
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION: the action or habit of judging something to be worthless
LULLIOO: to sing a joyful welcome
DWILE FLONKING: an english pub game
JARGOGLE: to mess up
HOI POLLOI: the masses, the common folk
52.The largest section of the "American Dictionary of Slang" is Devoted to Vomit!
53.The world consumption of toilet paper accounts for 291.374 square kilometres of forest each day!
54.On playing cards, the king of hearts is the only king without a moustache!

55.There are 86,400 seconds in a day!
Your nostrils take turns inhaling. You breathe through one nostril for 3 to 4 hours!
56.Lightening strikes the earth about 17 million times each day. That equals about 200 times per second!
57.Astronauts cannot burp as there is no gravity to separate the liquid from the gas in their stomachs!
58.Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years or older!
59.If Barbie were life-size, in proportion she would be 219cm tall!
60.Some people drink the urine of pregnant women in the belief it will strengthen their immune system!
61.The average person will spend 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the traffic lights to change!

62.You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath!

63.If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 the answer will be 12,345,678,987,654,321!
64.It is customary in some Eskimo tribes for the mothers to suck the snot from their baby's nose and spit it on the ground!
65.Walt Disney was afraid of mice!
66.Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, which is the reason why they are shown on The Australian Coat of Arms!

67.100% of lottery winners have one thing in common-they all put on weight!
68.In ancient Rome and Egypt, women and men would wear lipstick, rouge and nail polish!
69.In Sweden, it is illegal for parents to insult their children!
70.A can of diet coke will float in water, whereas a can of regular coke will sink!

71.It is estimated there are 5 million, trillion, trillion bacteria on the planet Earth!
72.[WACKY WORDS]
XENOBOBULATE: to malinger, to hang around
SNOLLYGOSTER: a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician
PANTY WAIST: a weak man, a sissy
GONGOOZLER: an idle spectator
GLOGG: a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry
73.Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants!
74.The sound of a snore can be up to 69 decibels, as loud as a pneunatic drill!
75.Dogs leave about one million gallons of pee in London Parks each year!
76.It is impossible to lick your elbow!
77.The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
78.The average person goes to the toilet 6 times a day!
79.Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people!
80.Some brands of toothpaste contain antifreeze!
81.Starfish do not have brains!
82.In ancient Rome they used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste!
83.When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, his name was Happy Rabbit!
84.In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be sent to jail for cheating in their exams!
85.Owls are the only birds that can see blue!

[hazy]

Cheers. Ahl sleep the night.

[Ronnie]

A pedant writes ...

Number 36 is in fact three facts. Please reformat.

And, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, adreamt and undreamt also end in "MT".

I can't be bothered checking all the other "facts" you have lazily pasted from the web and put your nakme to. Why not tell us something new and different?

[Dave]

Also factoid number 40.

a fartomaniac[a person who farts for a living]

A something-omaniac doesn't do something for a living. Oh look at me I'm a busdriveromaniac, hairdresseromaniac, pilotomaniac and such like, no, no, no

Your source is not a good yin

Enjoy yourself while you're here

[Peetabix]

I was gonna stick up for you Anne but 27 is dugs pish tae.

[Dave]

FTR I have no problem with Anne, or what she posted. I'm ripping the pish on the source as it is they who have it wrong. Can we have the source please Anne

EDIT 48 is wrong also. Thomas Crapper is the forerunner to the reason why we have Dolphin Bathrooms and the likes. Invertor he was to a degree but t'was his shrewd business accumen that saw the development of bathroom fittings

[rabmania]

Dull as a dull thing. Exclamation marks wear my patience when used so often.

[Sharon]

I do a pretty good peacock impersonation. Does that qualify as amazing fact number 86?

[Peetabix]

I do a pretty good peacock impersonation. Does that qualify as amazing fact number 86?

No because that's true.

[Nosht]

Anne1206,
nil desperandum.

It is difficult trying to educate or entertain the masses.



Regards,

N.

[Avenger]

85.Owls are the only birds that can see blue

How do you test this?

[TeeHeeHee]

What colour would blue seem to be in the darkness of an owl's environment ?

[Doorstop]

85.Owls are the only birds that can see blue

How do you test this?

Owls are the most intelligent of birds.

There are no owls in Ibrox Park.

Q.E.D.

[mrsam]

27.All of the world's nations that begin wit an "A" end with an "A" except Afghanistan!

*pedant*
Azerbaijan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan
*/pedant*

Mr Sam