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[ilovepolkadots]

i am excited to see this thread revived

did you know one in every five hundred male narwhals will present with a unique genetic characteristic that gives them not ONE magical horn/tusk - but TWO!

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this was supposed to be a cute fact o.O

[Boggart]

Did you know-

that smoking is the leading cause of statistics

[jonahfinn]

did you know that when you're afraid, your ears secrete more ear wax?

Edited by jonahfinn, 04 April 2011 - 08:44 PM.

[anbeezy]

Did you know? Yes I did.

[GeorgeBright]

Did you know some lipstick contains fish scales?

[CuriousOyster]

Did you know that Genetically Engineered strawberries contain anti-freeze protein genes originating from Winter Flounders?
Yummy!

[Mahas]

More than 70 percent of the world’s oxygen supply comes from phytoplankton – tiny marine plants and algae – in the ocean. Every two or three breaths, remember to thank the ocean!

[Narna]

Did you know I'm Asian?

[carrice]

Did you know:
1. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb
2. 2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers
3. By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved

[Mahas]

Did you know:
1. I am annoying.
2. I am annoying.
&
3. I am annoying.

[jonahfinn]

Did you know;
-Before anaesthetics, patients were sedated with opium or made drunk with alcohol before surgery
-Before hospitals became widespread, minor ailments would be dealth with by the barber. For a fee, the barber would slice off warts, pull out teeth and drain the pus from boils.
-Richard the Lionheart (Richard I), a former king of Englang spent so much time in France that he had trouble speaking english
- even though the cheetah is the fastest land creature, they are often so tired after the chase that scavengers are known to step in and steal their prey
-There are actually two north poles. one is the geographic pole, at the most northern point of the planet. The other is the magnetic pole, where compasses point.
-The mast at the top of the Empire State Building was originally going to be used as a docking station for flying ships.
- The fastest muscles in your body are your eyelids

[thorgal]

Did you know that while cow's close there eyes they produce concentrated milk

[onlyme]

[thorgal]

Did you know that the glue on stamps in Israel is kosher

[jonahfinn]

Did you know mother guinea pigs will feed her shit to her babies? It is important that the baby guinea pigs do so as it contains important vitamins.

[grapes]

Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 1 microinch while:-

A red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter.
A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 microinches.
A particle of smog is 100 microinches.
A human hair is 4000 microinches.

[contour]

-The worlds best known word is 'okay', followed by 'Coca Cola'

I have a hard time believing that, i thought it would be like okay, hi or something along the lines

[Royce]

Did you know?
The tongue is the only body muscle that is attached from one end only (don't send corrections about the penis,the penis is not a muscle)

Edited by iHackAlot, 06 April 2011 - 07:56 PM.

[jonahfinn]

-In chinese mythology, the dragon is considered to control the power of water, rather than fire
-The Chinese invented ice crema around 750CE, hundreds of years before it came to Europe. They would mix buffalo, cow and goat milk, and then flavor it with camphor, an insect repellant.
-The first known story of Cinederlla comes from ninth century China
-Montreal. Canada has the world's biggest 'underground' city. Approximately 20mi/32km of tunnels take you between more than 60 apartments, buildings, shops and offices.
-The average person produces around 4pt/2L of saliva every day, which means we swallow 105,668 pt/50, 000L of our own spit during our lifetime

[italkaboutoddthings]

Did you know a whales penis is called a dork?
Did you know because vampires are undead with no blood, they can't have an errection?
Did you know the majority of all humans can't lick there elbow?

[1337hunt3r]

Did you know that goldfish actually have a memory-span of at least 3 months, not 5 seconds?
Did you know that the Great Wall of China cannot be seen from space?
Did you know that the average person does not swallow 8 spiders a year and that it was a myth invented as an example of the absurd things people will believe simply they come across them on the internet?
Did you know that glass is not a liquid but rather an amorphous solid?

[Royce]

-In chinese mythology, the dragon is considered to control the power of water, rather than fire- ironic
-The Chinese invented ice crema around 750CE, hundreds of years before it came to Europe. They would mix buffalo, cow and goat milk, and then flavor it with camphor, an insect repellant.-disgusting
-The first known story of Cinederlla comes from ninth century China- typical chinese beating us to everything, and then isolating themselves
-Montreal. Canada has the world's biggest 'underground' city. Approximately 20mi/32km of tunnels take you between more than 60 apartments, buildings, shops and offices. - is this still true?? even with Japan's growing underground?
-The average person produces around 4pt/2L of saliva every day, which means we swallow 105,668 pt/50, 000L of our own spit during our lifetime

- haha kinda like how much mucus you produce ey?

[1337hunt3r]

Did you know a whales penis is called a dork?
Did you know because vampires are undead with no blood, they can't have an errection?
Did you know the majority of all humans can't lick there elbow?

Did you know that there's a punctuation mark called an apostrophe, which is used in English to indicate possession?
Did you know that no human can have an "errection", and that vampires don't exist?
Did you know that "there" indicates a place while "their" indicates possession?

Grammar Nazi reporting in.

[Royce]

did you know that OMG was officially added to the dictionary?

[jonahfinn]

- haha kinda like how much mucus you produce ey?

lol, someone seems to be a tad racist.

anyway, I recently came back from the U.S. and apparent. .ly their dollar bills have a hidden owl on the front and spider on the back of them.
See if you can find out where they are, my eyes hurt now > .<

Edited by jonahfinn, 06 April 2011 - 08:29 PM.