Tell me something i dont know!

[Burlock]

I though i would start this thread as a kinda "spam thread" with reason.

Basicly post something that you think people dont know about, and they might find it interesting.

Maybe it could be fun like

99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.

or factual

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

The only rule is that you belive the statement to be true for example no staments like

"The queen of the UK is actually a wizard" or "on adverage each person in the US consumes 1 million pinapples"

Maybe if we are lucky we might have fun AND learn something that we can impresses our freinds with down the pub

i dont mind freindly discussion of the statements here but please keep it nice!

here are a few to get us started

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

Sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles (161 km) an hour.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

[Feuerwaffen]

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

[MrHumble]

Liquid Nitrogen turning into Gaseous Nitrogen expands 696.5 times at standard conditions (sealevel and 15 Celsius)

-so is putting LN2 in a closed pepsi bottle a bad idea?...mmm...usually

[Polka]

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.


Q. What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?

A. All invented by women.
ORLY

President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

[Rangu]

A person at the age of 75, have slept approximately 23 years!

A normal day and night is just 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seeconds long! That's why we have leap years to even out the "missing" time!

The worlds youngest parents were eight and nine years old, and from China.

The city of Los Angeles' entire name is "El Pueblo de Nuesta Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porcinucula"! "LA" is a little simpler imo!

King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favourite movie!

[OiSkout]

Death by vending machine can occur, since vending machines are top heavy, they don't have to be tipped over too much to fall.

[Garabaldi]

Female penguins prostitute themselves for stones to build their nests.

[Polka]

Basketball is a famous American sport invented by a Canadian who was working at a YMCA in the U.S. I lol'd

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does. Left lung fails

Cleopatra married two of her brothers. Incest.

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

[Airs0ft_S0ldier11]

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.

At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.

[Brummy]

1,300,000 packs/cups of yoghurt which have not been opened yet are thrown away everyday in England and Wales.