# Useless fact of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [September 19, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/useless-fact-of-the-day/64702 "2004-09-19T01:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
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america isn’t the name 😉 😛 😜 smilies! smilies! don’t let me study! ---
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1. It would be impossible for eggs to hatch inside your body for any animal. Seeing how the boy peed out the beetles (supposedly) we’re going to assume he ingested (ate) one to begin with. That would mean the beetle and/or it’s eggs would have to survive:[list=1][_]Possible chewing[_]Saliva (dissovles things)[_]Being crushed by the stomach muscles[_]Stomach acids (hydrochloric acid, with a ph of 1. This would dissolve a human hand, and therefore I think we can assume a beetle and/or it’s eggs aswell ;))[\*]The digestive enzymes in the small intestine[/list] and a few other things I can’t remember. The featured a simalr urban ledgend on MythBusters (discovery channel) and conculed the chances of survival are none. 2. My foot is the same size as the distance from wrist to (inside)elbow… I checked! 3. In relative terms, the tounge is the strongest muscle (strenth per pound) but in absolute terms, your bum has the strongest muscle ---
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no person can lick their own elbow… (except the freaky weird ones…) ---
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I swear to god I’ll trout slap each and every one who tried that now :bad: ---
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:lol: ---
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I’ll bet those african people with the really long necks with the rings in them could do it 😛 ---
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A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why… ---
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hahah ---
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Because I’ve never met a duck in a canyon before. Pedum tchh. ---
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Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear. ---
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> [@\_azzy\_](#): > > Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear. That still exists. :pa: ---
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lol. another one reptiles dont drink milk ---
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toilets don’t talk… a year ago my mom came out of the wendy’s bathroom after 7 hours of driving, and she was so sure that the toilet had started talking to her :h: ---
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Rats can’t burp…so don’t feed it carbonated drinks :drool: ---
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[echoing voice]IIIIIIIIIMPLOOOOOOOOSION![/echoing voice] ---
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> [@\_azzy\_](#): > > lol. > > another one > reptiles dont drink milk Well, clearly. I mean, where would they even _get_ the milk? :h: I always thought it was only mammals that drink milk, because of the females producing it and all; I could be wrong. (But I doubt that reptiles make milk. Or fish. Or birds. Or insects. Or anything unmammalian.) ---
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toilets do start talking when they are drunk > Rats can’t burp…so don’t feed it carbonated drinks funniest thing i have heard ---
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> [@kirupa](#): > > Rats can’t burp…so don’t feed it carbonated drinks :drool: It’ll just come out the other end, wouldn’t it? ---
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> [@El\_Thierro](#): > > Pedum tchh. Gahhahahahahaha ---
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horses cannot puke. I heard the duck quack thing before, so it made me curious … and … [http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may98/891481046.Ph.r.html](http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may98/891481046.Ph.r.html) [http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics\_world/duck/duck.htm](http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_world/duck/duck.htm) there is a duck quack echo [Previous page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/useless-fact-of-the-day/64702.md?page=2) [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/useless-fact-of-the-day/64702.md?page=4)