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donzai
08-12-2012, 12:54 PM
Well do u knw this...

(1) Ants don’t sleep.
(2) Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
(3) A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
(4) The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
(5) A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
(6) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
(7) The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae – “Island of Dogs.”
(8) There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
(9) A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
(10) The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
(11) The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
(12) Cats respond most readily to names that end in an “ee” sound.
(13) A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
(14) Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
(15) Snakes are immune to their own poison.
(16) An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
(17) The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
(18) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
(19) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.
(20) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.
(21) Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
(22) The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
(23) Most lipstick contains fish scales.
(24) The only food that doesn’t spoil is HoneY.
(25) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

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Deathpunch
08-12-2012, 01:04 PM
9. Polecat is also Southern US slang for a skunk.

22. Also, tigers are the largest of cats, growing up to 11 feet in length and up to 670 pounds, making them the third largest land carnivore behind the polar bear and brown bear.

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donzai
08-12-2012, 08:18 PM
9. Polecat is also Southern US slang for a skunk.

22. Also, tigers are the largest of cats, growing up to 11 feet in length and up to 670 pounds, making them the third largest land carnivore behind the polar bear and brown bear.

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Thumbs up to point that cat thing out... Was wondring if some1 actually read these kind of posts.. And analize them.. U did and. ... Nice work...

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Deathpunch
08-13-2012, 12:01 AM
Along the same lines as #18, the Gatling gun was invented by Dr. Richard J. Gatling, a medical doctor.

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donzai
08-13-2012, 12:48 AM
Along the same lines as #18, the Gatling gun was invented by Dr. Richard J. Gatling, a medical doctor.

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Yep indeed it is... Gatling gun was designed by him just to prove that war dnt give benifits to any1 also he wanted to minimize the risk of life lost in battle. As a doctor it was a good act. But guess his invention is now taken as an important donation towards armed sciences..

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Thatkidoverthere
08-13-2012, 04:06 PM
Here are a few more to add to the collection of random facts


1. Lip gloss was first invented by Max Factor in 1928 to make film actors’ lips shiny.
2. In 1911, Bobby Leach, a British-born circus star, became the first man to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive – although he ended up in hospital for 23 weeks. Fifteen years later, he died, after slipping on a piece of orange peel in New Zealand.
3. Britain’s first Indian restaurant opened more than 50 years before the first fish-and-chip restaurant.
4. Rap artist Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs had his first job aged two when he modelled in an ad for Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shops.
5. One year, Elvis Presley paid 91 per cent of his income to the US Internal Revenue Service. However, at one point in the 1960s, The Beatles were even worse off; they paid 100 per cent tax, meaning they were effectively paying to work.
6. Stinky earwax has been hanging around your ear canal for nearly a month before its pickable – which explains the horrid taste.
7. Humans share a third of their DNA with lettuce.
8. Cockroaches fart every fifteen minutes.
9. The average person spends six months of their life on the loo.
10. A rat can swim for 72 hours without stopping.
11. There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
12. Bees can recognize human faces.
13. One in four creatures on this earth is a beetle.
14. Some moths survive by drinking the salty tears of cattle.
15. The chicken in the closest living relative of the tyrannosaurus rex.
16. When the railway was invented, some people believed that anyone travelling more than 12 mph risked mental problems.
17. The common cold will delay a child’s growth for the duration of the cold.
18. The colour green is said to relieve homesickness.
19. You can guess what sex someone is with 95% accuracy by smelling their breath.
20. You can walk on custard if you wanted to, because it will get thick when pressure is applied to it.
21. An office chair will travel seven and a half miles a year.
22. If you try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or tongue, every letter will sound the same.
23. Male marmoset monkeys put on weight in sympathy with their pregnant mates.
24. A one day weather forecast requires 10 billion mathematical calculations.
25. Lindsay Lohan keeps her appendix in a jar in her room.
26. According to a handwriting expert, people with large handwriting have a lot of ambition.
27. One human hair can support 3kg.
28. Vegetarian women are more likely to give birth to baby girls than boys.
29. Some visitors to Las Vegas are so overweight that the emergency services have invested in a special fleet of ambulances equipped with a winch to deal with them. In six months, medics have picked up 75 patients who weighed more than 225kg.
30. Frenchman Michel Lotito has eaten 128 bicycles, 15 supermarket trolleys, 6 chandeliers, 2 beds and 1 pair of skis.

Deathpunch
08-13-2012, 05:11 PM
6. Who would eat it in the first place? Yuck.

13a. 4 in every 6 billion people on this earth is a Beatle.

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Livemau
08-13-2012, 09:02 PM
i accuse you of trolling

Phoenixking
08-13-2012, 09:42 PM
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can
Average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night