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Did you know, that 1 out of 4 Americans has appeared on tv?
Did you know, 61% of all hits on the internet are on sex-sites?
Everyday 21 newborn babies will be given to the wrong parents
The average person swallows 8 spiders in a year
Cannabis is the most widely abused drug in the world
The average person laughs 13 times a day
Elvis was originally blond
The average age of first intercourse is 15.3 years old
The average erect penis is 5,2" long - and 4,2" circumcised
Eskimoes use refrigerators to keep food from freezing
41% of all people take people with curly hair less seriously
20% of all females have had at least 1 homosexual experience
Did you know, that there is no such thing as an anti-wrinkle-creme?
This is who we are, this is what we do, this is what it is
- the bare facts of the life we live
This is who we are, this is what we do, this is what it is
These are the facts of the life that we live
This is who we are
Bare facts of the life we live
This is who we are, this is what we do, this is who we are, are, are, are, are...
22% of the time, a pizza will arrive faster that an ambulance in Great Britain
96% of all women have at one time in their life faked an orgasm
3 people die every year, testing if a 9 volt battery works on their tongue
The 'Guinness Book Of Records' holds the record for being the most stolen book in public libraries
Butterflies taste with their feet
5% of the population is gay
The worlds best known word is 'okay', the second most well-known word is 'Coca-Cola'
The giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue
Charles Chaplin once won 3rd prize in a 'Charles Chaplin look-a-like contest'
In 1995 a Japanese trawler sank because a Russian cargo plane dropped a living cow from 30,000 feet
Only one book has been printed in more copies than the Bible - the IKEA-catalogue
This is who we are, this is what we do, this is what it is
- the bare facts of the life we live
This is who we are, this is what we do, this is what it is
These are the facts of the life that we live
This is who we are
The facts of the life we live
This is who we are, this is what we do, this is who we are...
1 cigarette takes away five minutes of a person's life
In 1950 we were 3 billion people on the earth - today we are 6 billion people
(6 billion people, 6 billion)
(time is ticking, ticking, yeah...)
'Donald Duck' was banned in Finland, because he doesn't wear pants
74% of all nudist-females are nudists, because their husbands are nudists
More people die from a champagne cork popping, than from poison spiders
21% of all traffic accidents happen because the driver falls asleep
Did you know that originally a danish guy invented the burglar alarm? - unfortunately it got stolen
If all the veins, arteries and capillaries were chained together, you could go around the world twice and a half. There are more than 60,000 miles (96,558 kilometers) of blood vessels in an adult body.
No joke i have red hair and whenever I go to the dentist for a cavity. He always says i need more Novocaine the any other kid in my family and most of his other patience i always assumed he thought i was lying.
its not just that, they said that enough ppl in Australia need to jump and land a split second after the chinese landed, to send it sideways. plus all the ppl in NA need to jump from high enough that they are all in the air at the time the chinese land, otherwise theres too much weight at the other end. they estimate it will be set out of orbit that tiny amount and that even when the north americans land it will be too late.
if your not joking i have no words for this idiotic statement, so i googled it because i don't want to type out a five page paper.
Cecil replies:
Believe it or not, I'm actually going to answer this ridiculous question. But first we need to have a word.
As you can imagine, I possess phenomenal scholarly resources. I've converted the spare bedroom in my house into a research library containing 16 million volumes, which are dusted twice a day by a team of robed acolytes holding candles. I have instant access via my Apple 380S GT to all the world's data banks. Why, right here on my writing table next to the box of spare quills I have a dog-eared copy of 16,000 Unbelievably Complicated Physics Experiments for the Home and Garden, With Answers, which has helped me out of many a jam.
Despite this wealth of scientific knowledge, the Teeming Millions routinely write in with questions that, in 6,000 years of recorded history, no one has ever asked. As a result, my usual sources of information are useless.
Nonetheless, I try. I've been in contact all week with the Beijing government in an effort to persuade them to get all 1,027,000,000 Chinese (1980 estimate) to jump off chairs. I've pleaded with them that will signficantly advance the cause of science. However, they refuse to cooperate.
They point out that China is a poor country, and lacks sufficient chairs. Moreover, many of the chairs that are available are of nonuniform height, meaning that even if all the Chinese jumped off at the same time, they'd hit the ground at different times, throwing off the results.
Finally, they point out that discipline among the Chinese people has become lax since the Cultural Revolution, and that many of the participants in the project would likely be distracted when they were supposed to be jumping. The Chinese government suggests that instead of having the entire nation jump off chairs, I should get one representative citizen to jump and multiply the results by 1,027,000,000. I have, needless to say, rejected this solution as grossly inadequate.
The possibility of an actual test thus being remote, I've been forced to work this out on the basis of reason alone, to wit: given that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, when the Chinese get up on their chairs, they'd essentially be pushing the earth down in the process of elevating themselves. Then, when they jumped off, the earth would simultaneously spring back, attracted by the gravitational mass of one billion airborne Chinese, with the result that the Chinese and the earth would meet somewhere in the middle, if you follow me. The upshot of this is that action and reaction would cancel each other out and the earth would remain in orbit.
Just for fun, however — after you've been doing this job for a while you get a pretty unusual notion of what constitutes a good time — suppose 1,000,000,000 Chinese, give or take 27,000,000, were somehow to materialize atop chairs without their having to elevate themselves thereto. And suppose they jumped off.
Having performed feats of mathematics requiring the entire afternoon — sometimes I can't believe the crap I spend my time on — I calculate that the resultant thud in aggregate would be the equivalent of 500 tons of TNT. Not bad, but nowhere near enough to dislocate the earth, which weighs 6 sextillion, 588 quintillion short tons. What would happen if all the Chinese yelled at the top of their lungs I refuse to even discuss.
It's possible for baby elephants to experience PTSD. Just like their human counter parts living through genocide, the baby elephants have seen many of their family members die through poaching. Like humans, the best means of therapy for the elephants is interaction with a foster family that stands in to support them where their deceased family cannot. The rely on older role models to learn about cultural customs and learn survival/ coping skills that allow them to develop properly as elephants.
1. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.
2. Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
3. A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.
4. Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. The Wright brother's invented the airplane.
5. There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.
6. One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
7. The word "set" has the most number of definitions in the English language; 192 Slugs have four noses.
8. Sharks can live up to 100 years.
9. Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.
10. Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
11. About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. everyday.
12. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 Inch wide and 8 Inch thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.
13. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.
14. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency.
15. Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
16. There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
17. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.
18. The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.
19. Octopus have three hearts.
20. If you ate too many carrots, you would turn orange.
21. The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.
22. 1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.
23. The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.
24. Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.
25. Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.
26. Most cats are left pawed.
27. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
28. A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
29. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!
30. Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.
31. An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.
54 percent of bank robberies take place on a Friday
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
Elvis never ever gave an encore
The number of wars fought between countries
That both have at least one McDonald's is zero
Every 5 minutes an area of rain forest
The size of a foot ball field is eliminated
Women who read romance novels
Have sex twice as often as those who don’t
Did you know? That a can of Diet Coke will float in water
While a can of regular Coke will sink
The Muppet Show was banned from TV in Saudi Arabia
Because one of its stars was a pig
Males on average think about sex every 7 seconds
More than 50 percent of the people in the world
Have never made or received a telephone call
Syphilis has risen 500 percent in the last six years in Europe
Why is it that everybody seems to get older except for Cliff Richard?
1 out of 10 girls under 20 is carrying Chlamydia
According to several sources, Dr. Harvey Kellogg
Actually tried to make a cure for masturbation when he made cornflakes
Women are 30 percent more sexually active during a full moon
Indonesia is the country with the highest Scout membership
In every single episode of Seinfeld, there’s a superman
In at least one scene somewhere
If you weighed all the animals in the world
Hens would be 10 percent of the total weight
In Minnesota there’s a law against men having sex with living fish
Jimmy Carter can read 2000 words per minute
Humans and dolphins are the only species
That have sex for pleasure
Danny DeVito is taller than Dolly Parton
It’s possible to attend your own funeral
Because the human brain continues
To send out electrical wave signals
For up to 37 hours following death
