Strange Facts

snowdog20 · 07-01-2008, 05:18 AM

#1 A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!

#2 A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!

#3 When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

#4 Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

#5 It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

#6 The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

#7 Most lipstick contains fish scales!

#8 It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!

#9 No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

#10 Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

#11 If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!

#12 The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

#13 Cat urine glows under a black-light!

#14 The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

#15 The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

#16 Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

#17 A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

#18 Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!

#19 The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

#20 One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

#21 It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!

#22 Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

#23 Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!

#24 The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!

#25 The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

Zorak · 07-01-2008, 06:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowdog20

#25 The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

... GAY!

Did you know that air is heavier than you think, if you put a cointainer around the Eiffel Tower, and took away the tower, the air that's left inside the container weighs more than the actual tower.

SYN · 07-01-2008, 10:33 AM

#22 is outrageous...

no way bones are stronger than concrete -.-

tinacolada · 07-01-2008, 11:58 AM

hmmm interesting

ssl · 07-01-2008, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Synergy

#22 is outrageous...

no way bones are stronger than concrete -.-

Actually, it depends on how you apply the force that determines if it is stronger.

pinkporridge · 07-01-2008, 12:57 PM

#16 Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

now that was just silly wan't it

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07-01-2008, 05:18 AM	#1
snowdog20 Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 94 Tokenz: 2,263	Strange Facts #1 A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel! #2 A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile! #3 When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second! #4 Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500! #5 It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times! #6 The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows! #7 Most lipstick contains fish scales! #8 It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis! #9 No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half! #10 Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people! #11 If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion! #12 The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet! #13 Cat urine glows under a black-light! #14 The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1! #15 The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times! #16 Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone! #17 A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside! #18 Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee! #19 The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)! #20 One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television! #21 It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas! #22 Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete! #23 Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny! #24 The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"! #25 The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders! __________________ Attention Forex Traders, Pipboxer! #1 Expert Advisor http://pipboxersite.com 154% in 12 1/2 months on a live account.

07-01-2008, 10:33 AM	#3
SYN Banned PER user's request Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 4,865 Tokenz: 960	Re: Strange Facts #22 is outrageous... no way bones are stronger than concrete -.-

07-01-2008, 11:58 AM	#4
tinacolada Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Chicago Posts: 451 Tokenz: 4,280	Re: Strange Facts hmmm interesting __________________

07-01-2008, 12:57 PM	#6
pinkporridge Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 820 Tokenz: 11,974	Re: Strange Facts #16 Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone! now that was just silly wan't it