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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
¤ A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
¤ A shrimp's heart is in their head.
¤ People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
¤In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
¤ It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
¤ A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
¤ More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
¤ Rats and horses can't vomit.
¤ The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
¤ If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
¤ If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
¤ If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
¤ Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
¤ Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
¤ If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
¤ In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
¤ The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
¤ Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
¤ A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
¤ 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on > them and photocopying their posterior.
¤ In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
¤ Most lipstick contains fish scales.
¤ Cat's urine glows under a black- light.
¤ Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
¤ Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
Chloe-Elise
28-09-2005, 20:15
Waoh I didn't know your heart stops when you sneeze lol
RealityGap
28-09-2005, 20:20
I am one of the 25% who will not try to lick my elbow!!
CrazyLea
28-09-2005, 20:24
i tried :( but i always do :p
.:Kitz:.
28-09-2005, 20:31
I am one of the 25% who will not try to lick my elbow!! same here lol!
i did not try to lick my elbow!! honest!!
i tried to lick my elbow and couldn't i think a contortionist would be abloe to though!!! did you also know that when you sneeze, you shut your eyes because otherwise, your eyeballs will pop out!
.:SpIcYsPy:.
29-09-2005, 16:05
¤ In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
Shut the.. up.... you're joking me!!!!!!!
*Finds some selotape*
lollymay
29-09-2005, 16:09
wow i never new that one about spiders eww
xXxJessxXx
29-09-2005, 22:30
¤ People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
¤ More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
¤ If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib.
¤ If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
¤ In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
¤ Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
I didnt lick my elbow! Didnt even see that one at the top about it. lol
Who knew sneezing could be so dangerous, making your heart stop, facturing a rib, rupturing blood vessels and making your eyes pop out. (I was otld people say bless you beacsue back in the day it was a sign you had the plage! lol)
i knew the one about the insects but its so ewwwww!
The one about the phone calls is astonishing.lol but my mum read it was a wopping 95% on some facts sheet in the middle of the london docklands a while ago!
some good interesting facts, some i never knew.
By the way is suppressing a sneeze holding it in??? Because i do that all the time. :eek:
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
Nope i cant lick mine!
¤ More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
:eek: I couldnt live without my phone!!
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If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out.
IS that true???
¤¤ Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
:eek: will be keeping an eye on my hubbies reading!!
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In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
:sick: oh my god that is so not a nice thought!
¤ Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
i SO DID!!
xXxJessxXx
29-09-2005, 22:49
:eek: I couldnt live without my phone!!
it includes all the people in africa and places that dont have phones and the poorer people with no eletricity or babies who obivously dont use the phone. lol at first i though it was just like people who didnt like ohoning people, i couldnt beleive it but then when you think about it not a lot of people do use them.
I couldnt live wiht out neither
I did try and lick my elbow, i'm sad and like to try the impossible. The insect thing is true, i've read that before. Apparently the majority of the spiders you swallow in your lifetime crawl into your mouth while your asleep.
-Sings- There was a young lady who swallowed a spider, that wriggled and wriggled and jiggled inside herrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Thats cool chance.
Only 2 flaws in them facts.
It is not impossible to lick you're elbow. There is a website with people licking their elbows. Only reason i commented on this thread was because i was viewing a very similar thread on a forum i go to.
And doctors have stated that you're heart does not stop when you sneeze, it just slows down.
And the reason people say bless you was because years ago in ancient times people believed when you sneezed you're soul left you're body, hence the phrase bless you.
Interesting facts all the same, got any more sexxxy chancy???
Thats cool chance.
Only 2 flaws in them facts.
It is not impossible to lick you're elbow. There is a website with people licking their elbows. Only reason i commented on this thread was because i was viewing a very similar thread on a forum i go to.
And doctors have stated that you're heart does not stop when you sneeze, it just slows down.
And the reason people say bless you was because years ago in ancient times people believed when you sneezed you're soul left you're body, hence the phrase bless you.
Interesting facts all the same, got any more sexxxy chancy???
that the second post i seen where you called chance sexy!!!! is it they way she types??? or are you some strange stalker???? :rotfl: just wandering???
the bless you was from the times of the black death, as when you sneezed it was the start of it and you were going to die.
Ask Chance Debs!!!!!
She is sexxxy though!
the bless you was from the times of the black death, as when you sneezed it was the start of it and you were going to die.
yep sneezing was one ofthe first signs of the plague! thats where the nursery rhyme Ring, a Ring of Roses comes from as well (thought i'd throuw that in as another wird fact!)
Ask Chance Debs!!!!!
She is sexxxy though!
:eek: :confused:
Ask Chance Debs!!!!!
She is sexxxy though!Have you a big fan chancey??!! lol
Have you a big fan chancey??!! lol
looks like it!! :cheer:
OK - I tried to lick my elbow, I couldn't so it doesn't count in the yuck stakes.
~*~Leanne~*~
02-10-2005, 18:13
i won't try to lick my elbow as ive already tried it before and these are cool facts
feelingyellow
02-10-2005, 18:28
¤ In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
so that's what was stuck in my teeth this morning...
so that's what was stuck in my teeth this morning... :sick:
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water..
Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying . It's raining cats and dogs.
There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.
The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, Dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it
would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a thresh hold.
(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.
Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old..
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat..
Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a wake.
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying
people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift.) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer..
And that's the truth...Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !
pinkles14
30-03-2008, 23:17
* A mole can dig a hole 300 feet long in one night.
* The huntsman spider is the only spider with lungs.
* 86 % of the internet is written in english.
* each day your heart beats 100,000 times you breathe 23,000 times and you blink 25,000 times no wonder you are tired when you go to bed.
* The width of your armspan is the same as your height and the length of your foot is the same as the distance from your wrist to your elbow.
di marco
31-03-2008, 23:02
the length of your foot is the same as the distance from your wrist to your elbow.
thats not always true, my foot is a lot shorter than the distance between my wrist and elbow
CrazyLea
31-03-2008, 23:04
Yeah same here.
the length of your foot is the same as the distance from your wrist to your elbow.
thats not always true, my foot is a lot shorter than the distance between my wrist and elbow
That can't be true... I have tiny feet...
Chloe O'brien
01-04-2008, 21:00
No way I would have great big clown feet if that was true :lol:
pinkles14
01-04-2008, 22:28
Only one way to find out measure it.........
I just did and it carnt be ture but i got the facts out of a book my daughter had sorry..
di marco
01-04-2008, 23:40
Only one way to find out measure it.........
I just did and it carnt be ture but i got the facts out of a book my daughter had sorry..
haha i put my foot on my arm thats how i knew it wasnt true! and no worries, id heard that before anyway, but id heard it as if you had smaller feet than the distance between your wrist and elbow then you had poor balance
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