IPB

Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register )

 
Reply to this topicStart new topicStart Poll

Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+

> some silly facts

speedieboy
post Sep 19 2004, 12:07 PM
Post #1


nFm [ not leaving ]
**

Group: Full Member
Posts: 56
Joined: 26-June 04
From: sydney,australia
Member No.: 123



If a lobster loses an eye, it will grow a new one.

Albert Einstein married his first cousin.

Nonsmokers dream more than smokers.

Adults average just one nightmare a year.

Las Vegas has more churches per capita than any other U.S. city.

The back of the human hand is the "opisthenar."

About 20% of the world's population are vegetarians.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The are 255 squares on a Scrabble board.

"Horripilation" is the medical term for goosebumps.

Cinderella is known as Zezolla in Italy.

Frogs hop faster than toads.
"If I have to smell another persons' bad breath again, I wish I was in one of those things!!!"
The air around a lightning bolt is 8 times hotter than the surface of the sun.

That George Washington could right English in his right hand and French (I think it was) in his left hand simultaneously on two totally different topics.

That the Aramaic language has the same word for 'day' and 'era'...hence incorrect bible translations "he made the world in one day".

That Leonardo da Vinci's favourite painting was Mona Lisa, "His best work" as he claimed, probably not because of the painting most know and recognise, but because of the work he painted over.

Also, his painting of the Last Supper: count the people and spot the woman and where she is seated. Doesn't this make you wonder even more about what many of us believe 'the Truth'? Or perhaps what the Church has hidden from us at that time?

Also, that the richest banks in the world were actually that owned by the Catholic church. Not only that, but they invented the idea of 'interest' (compound, of course). And that even kings borrowed from their treasury.
Baby seals are called pups, but they're also referred to as "weaners."

Wine is mentioned in every book of the Bible, except for the book of Jonah.

The average American male has seven erections per day.

The White House, and its grounds, takes up 18 acres of land.

One in five people on Earth are Chinese.

In Spain, the TV drama Beverly Hills, 90210 is called Sensation of Living.

According to the official rules of baseball, no umpire may be replaced during a game unless he is injured or becomes ill.

The name for a teddy bear collector is "archtophilist."

The ferret is the third most popular companion mammal behind the dog and cat.

The swimming pool at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida is the largest pool in the continental U.S. It covers half an acre and holds 600,000 gallons of water.

Captain Kangaroo was the first TV network kids show in the United States.

The egg of the typical hen has 7,000 tiny pores in its shell.

Catnip not only has an affect on house cats. It can also affect cougars and lions.

The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1933.

The study of lightning is called "keraunopathology."

User is offlineProfile CardPM
Go to the top of the page
+Quote Post

Reply to this topicTopic OptionsStart new topic
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:
 

Lo-Fi Version Time is now: 2nd July 2025 - 12:47 AM