d_squared431 0 #1 May 10, 2010 By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can no sink in quicksand Our eyes are the same size from birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing. Everyone's tongue print is different. Donkeys kill more people per year than plane crashes. Americans eat about 100 acres of pizza a yr. Chocholate was used to cure stomach aches in the 18th century.TPM Sister#130ONTIG#1 I love vodka.I love vodka cause it rhymes with Tuaca~LisaH You having a clean thought is like billyvance having a clean post.iluvtofly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,121 #2 May 10, 2010 On that last one, I think it's that Americans as a whole eat about 100 acres of pizza a day, not that each American eats 100 acres of pizza a year. Big difference... Wendy P.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
captain1976 0 #3 May 10, 2010 If a man stands 3 or so feet away from a wall, leaning forward with his hands extended against the wall, he cannot stand up without pushing himself away. I understand that women can.You live more in the few minutes of skydiving than many people live in their lifetime Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiver30960 0 #4 May 11, 2010 Quote Everyone's tongue print is different. Pray to God that the TSA doesn't pick up on this one, or flying will become a whole different kind of strange.... Elvisio "no sir, I will not press my tongue there" Rodriguez Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
captain1976 0 #5 May 11, 2010 I would image the cock itself has unique characteristics. Maybe we could stick it in some kind of machine at the airport and have it scanned You live more in the few minutes of skydiving than many people live in their lifetime Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nutz 0 #6 May 11, 2010 Honest sweetheart, they were just scanning it. "Don't! Get! Eliminated!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d_squared431 0 #7 May 11, 2010 I thought the same thing but that is how my work had it as their fun facts of the week.. i just copied what was there and pasted it here... TPM Sister#130ONTIG#1 I love vodka.I love vodka cause it rhymes with Tuaca~LisaH You having a clean thought is like billyvance having a clean post.iluvtofly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 6 #8 May 11, 2010 I thought that's what those electric air machines in the restrooms were for! No WONDER i get such nasty looks... ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BobMoore 0 #9 May 11, 2010 QuoteDonkeys kill more people per year than plane crashes. Donkeys cause plane crashes?"For you see, an airplane is an airplane. A landing area is a landing area. But a dropzone... a dropzone is the people." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MightyMouse 0 #10 May 11, 2010 Sure they do - have you ever seen a donkey successfully land a plane? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pmags88 0 #11 May 11, 2010 falling coconuts kill 150 people a year in florida Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
agentsmith413 0 #12 May 11, 2010 dolphins and humans are the only 2 species known to have sex for pleasure as well as procreation. my 0.02Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, all used up, and loudly proclaiming: Wow, what a ride! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BobMoore 0 #13 May 11, 2010 "And humans are the only animal that blushes, or needs to" - Mark Twain (I think)"For you see, an airplane is an airplane. A landing area is a landing area. But a dropzone... a dropzone is the people." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jclalor 12 #14 May 11, 2010 QuoteAmericans eat about 100 acres of pizza a yr. More like 100 acres a day. http://www.pizzandgarlicbread.com/pizza-fun-facts.aspx The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. 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 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. 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. Cat's urine glows under a black light. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 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. 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. Butterflies 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. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". Almonds are members of the peach family. There are only four words in the English language which end in "- dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z, hence "Oz." The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites