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Post your random and pointless facts here. :)


The Bolivian capital, La Paz is soo far above sea level (12000ft) that theres so little oxygen it can barely support combustion.

Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

Men laugh longer, louder, and more often than women.

Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!

In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

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

Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.

Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'

A snail can sleep for three years.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Those are just some of the ones that I know. :D

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Well I know at least one of those is false. The 57 on heinz ketchup bottles ( and Hienz 57 sauce) has nothing to do with the varieties of pickles. Though the 57 varieties was intended to reflect the range of their product line, at the time they started using the slogan they had over 60 'varieties'. Truth is H.J. Hienz used the number 57 because he thought it was catchy, and that a catchy number has more important than the actual number of products. He was inspired to this by an ad promoting 21 styles of shoes, which he saw on a placard while riding a train in New York.

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Gubs wrote: A snail can sleep for three years.
Hmmm....I must be a snail!
here's some facts.

The old "pop rocks and soda" thing doesn't actually work.

In Japan, police who act badly are punished by having to wear a Hello Kitty armband on their uniform for several days. (ROFL on that one.)

Tycho Brahe died when his bladder popped from his holding his pee for too long.

In France, there is a law that you cannot name a pet pig "Napoleon". (I don't know why, but the name "Napoleon" for a pig somehow rings a bell in my head, and I don't know why. I must b3 g01ng cr4zy.)

In the state of Delaware, whipping is still a punishment used by the state, but is seldom put into use.

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Found some about the human body.'

Pound for pound, the human body produces 5 times more energy than the sun. (Not sure about that one but okay.)

You could cut the brain directly and not feel a thing. (Again, dunno about that one.)

The human heart produces enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet into the air.

You will shed 600,000 particles of skin... in the next hour.

Your hair is almost indestructible, only fire can destroy it.

You also have approximately 100,000 hairs on your head.

One eyelash lasts 150 days.

A sneeze may produce as much speed as a caliden? (or category) five hurricane.

Your brain will continue to send electrical signals, for 37 hours after your death.

I don't think this one is true but i'll post it anyway.
During their periods, women's ring fingers shrink.

If you flattened and unfolded a set of human lungs, they would cover a tennis court.

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Gubs wrote:
A sneeze may produce as much speed as a caliden? (or category) five hurricane.



If you flattened and unfolded a set of human lungs, they would cover a tennis court.
for the hurricane thing, its catergory (I would know all about this, living in Florida, The Plywood State.) :D

and second, the lung thing is incorrect.

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robonightmare wrote: (I don't know why, but the name "Napoleon" for a pig somehow rings a bell in my head, and I don't know why. I must b3 g01ng cr4zy.)
Animal Farm!

Edit: But you’re still going crazy.

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Ohhhhh...that's right! I read that book like two years ago. haha George Orwell's gonna get arrested if he goes to France! :nana:

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robonightmare wrote: Ohhhhh...that's right! I read that book like two years ago. haha George Orwell's gonna get arrested if he goes to France! :nana:
A lot of places online say that Napoleon is César in the French version, but Amazon.fr and several online versions of La ferme des animaux refer to him as Napoléon.

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Gubs wrote: You could cut the brain directly and not feel a thing. (Again, dunno about that one.)
That's legit. The brain itself has no pain receptors. On a side note almost all brain surgery is done while the patient is awake. This is because they need to get feedback from the patient during the procedure, i.e. if the patient is asleep, the surgeon has no idea if something has gone wrong until it's too late. They do, obviously, use local anesthesia to open up the skull and get to the brain.

On another side note, while you brain has no pain receptors, the blood vessels and membranes surrounding it do, which is what is actually hurting when you get a headache.

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robonightmare wrote:
Gubs wrote:
A sneeze may produce as much speed as a caliden? (or category) five hurricane.



If you flattened and unfolded a set of human lungs, they would cover a tennis court.
for the hurricane thing, its catergory (I would know all about this, living in Florida, The Plywood State.) :D

and second, the lung thing is incorrect.
I stole all of those facts from some video. But my doctor brother with like his fancy ass M.D (son of a b****) said that most of them are correct, even the lung one. Possibly bigger.

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If you took all the nerves in a human body and laid them end to end, they would circle the earth 2 and a half times.

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so much, packed into one Ub3r hyper package. like me.

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UBER MAN

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