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POST YOUR RANDOM FACTS!!

heres mine....


The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night

A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.


Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-alike contest

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910

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".

Conception happens more in december than in any other month

Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour
 
Coca Cola shuld stayed green how cool wuld that have been
 
:S How can 12 newborns be given to wrong parents
Riley never left the room lol
 
:puke: <----- me drinking green coke lol

I got sent all that in an email, so thought id share :lol:
 
I enjoyed reading it :)
althogh imagine having a baby at 8 years old bloody hell i diddnt even like boys then they were disgusting lool
 
12 newborns get given to the wrong parents daily :shock: :shock: thats a scary fact!!
 
sorry but...

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night

myth

A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why

also a myth. I was gonna investigate this for a project at uni but a quick internet search revealed it to be a myth
 
Apparantly snails live for upto 15 years, how guilty do I feel for all the ones I have accidentally trodden on in the dark!!
 
The worlds youngest mum gave birth at 5 years old (and it's not a hoax.) Disturbingly, she never revealed the identity of the father :shock:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

omg! Is this really true? I hope not
:)

No it's not, thank goodness for me:rotfl: It's just because when the study was done

"Several decades ago, left handedness used to be strongly discouraged in schools, but nowadays this is much less the case. At present, therefore, the proportion of adults who remain left handed is larger among the young than among the old" http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/308/6925/408
 
violet-glow said:
POST YOUR RANDOM FACTS!!

The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before

And actually came about from his son / someone or other saying "Fwendy" like friendy.

My friend just texted me with a random fact that Men's ears don't stop growing...
 

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