lol, that was interesting :lol:
No seriously.
actually, according to myth busters, a ducks quack is made up of echos, so nobody can tell the actual thing from the echo.
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womens shirts button on the opposite sides because back a few hundred years ago most women did not dress themselves.
Most people are righty and it was awkward for the help to button them so taylors switched the style and it stuck.
1 A Goldfish’s attention span is three seconds
2 Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons
3 Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water
4 Slugs have 4 noses
5 Camels have 3 eyelids
6 A honey bee can fly at 15mph
7 A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day
8 A bee has 5 eyes
9 The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph
10 Mosquitos are attracted to people who just ate bananas
11 Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp
12 Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backward
13 Cats have over 100 vocal chords
14 Camel’s milk does not curdle
15 All porcupines float in water
WOW! I never knew that! great find
In AIM, you cannot start a Direct Connection with yourself:
Oh yeah? Let me go try it…
i think its the opposite for me…i NEVER eat bananas and i am like the bug magnet…I have so many stories but i wont waste everyones time lol.
F**king, Austria
Yes, a town name that is a swear word. The correct way to actually pronounce the town name is “fooking,” which was founded in the 6th century after a man whose name was Focko. This town has a serious sign-stealing problem, as you can imagine. I guess people just don’t believe it when you tell them, “I’ve been to F**king, Austria!”
oo i have loads of these in my school diary
Your foot is always the same length as the measurement from your wrist to your elbow
That’s in my school diary…
And I never knew why womens buttons were on the wrong side… now I know… howw… er… useful.
Einstiens brain weighed 1375g (fairly normal)
A jiffy is a real unit of time. It is 1/100th of a second!
Yeah, but how much of it did he use… about 2 times more than a normal person. 
Mark Twain was the first author to get a novel published, that was written on a typewriter.
I love useless facts 
- 'Caus to a designer no fact is useless
A good mag for the strange and sometimes “useless” facts is Cabinet. An NY art magazine - very intellectual and interresting (unlike those colourfull pseudo-scientific mags directed to the wide majority )
www.cabinetmagazine.org
Seeing how the boy peed out the beetles
that reminds me… I saw a story on TV where a boy the same age didn’t actually “pee” them out but he had some kind of wound on his… thingy and the flies came outta there… I dunno if it was the same story or not but kinda similar … and that would remove your “digestive statements”
i think its the opposite for me…i NEVER eat bananas and i am like the bug magnet…
Maybe if you ate a banana you’d be bug magnet squared
11 Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp
I find that hard to believe
Raw shrimp are green.
Maybe flamingos hang out at fish shops a lot
Also I think you will find elephants are the only “mammals” that cant jump
U ever seen a snake jump, or a snail or an oyster 
untoasted toast!!!
Um, it wouldn’t be called toast if it was untoasted 
It’d just be bread…
Some facts!:
The numbers on the opposite side of a die always add up to 7.
The average person’s hair grows a combined 55000 inches per month.
The average person has a total of 6 lbs of skin.
The body has 2 -5 million sweat glands.
Snakes fangs fold inward so they dont bite themselves.
For nightvision like an owl you’d need eyes the size of a grapefruit.
THe biggest brain was from a sperm whale… 20 lbs.
Woodpeckers have air cushions in their cranium to protect their head bones.
Tiger shark embryos fight each other while in their mothers womb… the winner gets born.
Most cats are left handed.
A blue whale’s tongue weighs more than 1 elephant.
In Japan, it is illegal to buy or eat rice grown in another country.
There are at least 2 golf balls still on the moon.
The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
Bamboo can grow 3 feet in 24 hours.
Illinois avenue is the most landed on square in Monopoly.
Phew I have tons more but I’m too tired to type them all!
just remembered the rats thread - so maybe this is interesting:
although there are that many rats in NY, only 311 people got bitten by a rat, while in the same year 1519 residents got bitten by another resident of New York.
New Yorkers… what do you expect? :sigh:
Useless ? Utterly ?
ok… Most people cannot touch their nose with their toungs
so if I was in NY I would be better of to have a bunch of pet rats than to have a bunch of friends.
The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
He is also stabbing himself in the head (kind of…)
Illinois avenue is the most landed on square in Monopoly.
Illinois Avenue isn’t even in monopoly! (or is it an american version or something?)
10% of the world’s population lives on an island.
(how do you define island?)
