Incredible facts !!!
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Viewpoint is the key, I guess:
When standing on their respective north poles, all the planets in our solar system rotate in a counter-clockwise (anti-clockwise) direction with the exception of Venus, which rotates in a clockwise direction.
BTW, don't you want to know why Barbie's last name is Roberts?
When standing on their respective north poles, all the planets in our solar system rotate in a counter-clockwise (anti-clockwise) direction with the exception of Venus, which rotates in a clockwise direction.
BTW, don't you want to know why Barbie's last name is Roberts?
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magician
Fact: I'm busted (over the aglet ety. and your indictment... true I got too serious
)
Fact: your "facts" rank high in the TRUE intention of this thread... INCREDIBLE
(love the 63.8% fact!... oh and the Arabian horse one!)
Fact: I too am (was) a magician for many years... member of "the Ring" with Doug Henning in Toronto in the late '70s. (not meant to be incredible)
Incredible FACT: a "pair" of pants is called a "pair" because they were originally sold in twos. (That's pretty incredible!)
Fact: I'm busted (over the aglet ety. and your indictment... true I got too serious
)Fact: your "facts" rank high in the TRUE intention of this thread... INCREDIBLE
(love the 63.8% fact!... oh and the Arabian horse one!)
Fact: I too am (was) a magician for many years... member of "the Ring" with Doug Henning in Toronto in the late '70s. (not meant to be incredible)
Incredible FACT: a "pair" of pants is called a "pair" because they were originally sold in twos. (That's pretty incredible!)
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-A cockroach can live w/out it's head for 7 days...it will die because of hunger.
-If coloring was not added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
-Alfred Hitchcock did not have a bellybutton.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
-Only 7% of the population are lefties.
-The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-About 20% of all adults in the US have or have had a cockroach that called
their inner ear canal HOME. They enter while you sleep! This rates a good
10 on the ewwww-yuck scale and right up there with the fact that many of us have eaten a spider in our sleep too!
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
-The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
-The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
-Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns
-During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about six elephants.
-Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
-Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
-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.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
-Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
-Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
-Polar bears are left handed.
-The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
-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.
-Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
-A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
-Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
-On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Bryan
-If coloring was not added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
-Alfred Hitchcock did not have a bellybutton.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
-Only 7% of the population are lefties.
-The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
-About 20% of all adults in the US have or have had a cockroach that called
their inner ear canal HOME. They enter while you sleep! This rates a good
10 on the ewwww-yuck scale and right up there with the fact that many of us have eaten a spider in our sleep too!
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
-The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
-The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
-Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns
-During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food. That's the weight of about six elephants.
-Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
-Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
-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.
-It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
-Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
-Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
-Polar bears are left handed.
-The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
-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.
-Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
-A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
-The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
-Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
-Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
-On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Bryan
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From: Raritan, NJ
Originally posted by flyellow
Is that a total or just on one foot
Is that a total or just on one foot
The truth?
If I have to spend a lot of time proving all these "facts", it's going to get pretty tedious.
Duffer