Strange but True .. Wierd Facts

[bart_smastard]

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In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's
nuclear weapons combined.

[bart_smastard]

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picklemonkey is actualy intelligent .. no honnest it's true

[bart_smastard]

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The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

[asdf_admin]

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^^^ haha. i got to try that. she will kill me.

[Lrn]

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the word posh comes from "portside over, starboard home" refering to the side of the boat you would want to be on when traveling to america from europe and back becasue of the amont of sunlight each side would have.

[picklemonkey]

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picklemonkey is actualy intelligent .. no honnest it's true

I can vouch for that. it's in Ripley's... I've seen it.

[nicomax]

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Q. Why does your voice sound so different when you first hear yourself on a tape recording? A: Because you're hearing yourself only via sound waves through the air, whereas normally you also hear yourself via conduction through the solid bones and fleshy tissues of your head. Try plugging up your ears and talking and you won't sound very different to yourself even though you've shut out most of the airwaves, suggesting you hear yourself largely through body conduction. If you want your voice to sound really weird, breathe in some helium gas from a kid's balloon first. Sound travels about three times as fast in helium, pitching your voice up into the Donald Duck register. Soon as you breathe the gas on out of you, normalcy will return.

Always wondered about this... I sound kinda weird on tape.

[johnson3161]

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The crack of a whip comes from a loop traveling along the whip, gaining speed until it reaches the speed of sound and creates a sonic boom

I always thought this was cool cause I can crack a whip.

[remoh]

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look -e all in one post..postwhore IMO

The largest toy distributor in the world is McDonald's.

According to statistics, Australian women are most likely to have sex on the first date.
The word "toast," meaning a wish of good health, started in ancient Rome, where a piece of toasted bread was dropped into wine.

Anyone under the age of 21 who takes out household trash containing even a single empty alcohol beverage container can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol in Missouri.

The alcohol in drinks of either low alcohol content (below 15%) or high alcohol
content (over 30%) tend to be absorbed into the body more slowly.

On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase,"Goodnight, sleep tight."

The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls. When you see a sign "Sheffield - 40 miles" it means it is 40 miles to the city hall of that city sign

You can test for a two way mirror by putting your fingernail on the surface, if there's space between the tip and the image, then its a normal mirror, if not, its two way

The sound you hear when people crack their knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

The WD in WD40 means "water displacement." The 40 in WD40 comes from the 40 attempts at creating this product.

if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you

The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to
exercise naked

[Kamal]

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showoff imo

[petesbeats]

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Chinaman's Knob (Australia)



Must be a small place!

[remoh]

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and how would you know that??

[petesbeats]

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See. Tiny!!

[remoh]

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[threehills]

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60% of your of crap is made up of dead bacteria cells.