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The Mud Pit => General => Topic started by: PaulW on February 03, 2009, 03:06:38 PM
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The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
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It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
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One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year
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The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
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Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world
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The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night
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More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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According to tests made at the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems in Washington, D.C., dogs and cats, like people, are either right-handed or left-handed --- that is, they favor either their right or left paws.
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Crocodiles and alligators are surprisingly fast on land. Although they are rapid, they are not agile; so if you ever find yourself chased by one, run in a zigzag line. You'll lose him or her every time.
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Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
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If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
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# Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem, and, with legs dangling, fall asleep
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Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
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A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
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Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
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All of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
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Cat's urine glows under a black light.
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Almonds are members of the peach family.
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The first hard drive available for the Apple ][ had a capacity of 5megabytes
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Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
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On the cartoon show 'The Jetsons', Jane is 33 years old and her daughter Judy is 15.
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The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopics- ilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovol- canoconioses, its plural.
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The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...
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The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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The real name of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady is Edith Fore.
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Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave
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A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge
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n the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time.
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Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle.
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Stalin's left foot had webbed toes, and his left arm is noticeably shorter than his right.
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Swans and Ducks are the only birds with penises.
in fact, the longest bird penis on record belongs to a duck
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Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
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Walt Disney was afraid of mice
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Turtles can breathe through their butts
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Turtles can breathe through their butts
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
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The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
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The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns
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The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid
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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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Your fingernail has the same ingredients as fly poop
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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.o?= When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "Goodnight, sleep tight".
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Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.
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More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
I'm not going to ask how...
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More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
I'm not going to ask how...
Makes ya think though doesn't it :D
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Beleive it or not, this thread just cheered me up!
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And you were sad why??? ???
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what would life be without a bunch of totally useless crap to ponder on. now i something to do until the meeting tonight. ;D
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And you were sad why??? ???
not really sad, but not happy to be inside vice wheeling or snow boarding
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And you were sad why??? ???
not really sad, but not happy to be inside vice wheeling or snow boarding
I read through about 300 of those and picked the real gems to post. It's dumb, but I was bored waiting for work assignments.
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And you were sad why??? ???
not really sad, but not happy to be inside vice wheeling or snow boarding
I read through about 300 of those and picked the real gems to post. It's dumb, but I was bored waiting for work assignments.
thank you, readingthis seems t have killed off someoveractive brain cells
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And you were sad why??? ???
not really sad, but not happy to be inside vice wheeling or snow boarding
I read through about 300 of those and picked the real gems to post. It's dumb, but I was bored waiting for work assignments.
thank you, readingthis seems t have killed off someoveractive brain cells
yea brain cells bad. alright brain, i don't like you, and you don't like me, now let's get through this so I can continue killing you with beer!
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So this went from useless facts to famous Homer Simpson quotes?
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So this went from useless facts to famous Homer Simpson quotes?
sure why not homers quotes are usually useless anyways.
"to start press the any key", "well where's the any key??"
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And you were sad why??? ???
not really sad, but not happy to be inside vice wheeling or snow boarding
I read through about 300 of those and picked the real gems to post. It's dumb, but I was bored waiting for work assignments.
thank you, readingthis seems t have killed off someoveractive brain cells
yea brain cells bad. alright brain, i don't like you, and you don't like me, now let's get through this so I can continue killing you with beer!
Mmmmm.... Beeer....
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To alcohol the cause of and solution to all of lifes problems.
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there are 17000 air planes in the world. at least 4000 of them are in the air at any given time.
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there are 17000 air planes in the world. at least 4000 of them are in the air at any given time.
and one in a river