I am making a list of some really cool/weird/strange facts and one have any to contribute?

Answer 1

In 2001, St. Patrick's Day was banned in Ireland because of the scare caused by foot and mouth disease.

The "Mexican Hat Dance" is the official dance of Mexico.

A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

Amish people do not believe in the use of aerosal air fresheners.

Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States.

Approximately 1 billion stamps are produced in Australia annually.

Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water.

As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice.

Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.

DC-10, the name of an airplane stands for "Douglas Commercial."

Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make.

Fires onland generally move faster uphill than downhill.

If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London.

In 1907, on New Year's Eve, the original ball that was lowered in Times Square was made of wood and iron and had 100 light bulbs on it.

Anti-American demonstrators protesting in Bangladesh after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks carried posters of Osama bin Laden sitting alongside Bert, a beloved Sesame Street Muppet character.

Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue.

93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.

98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.

Americans on average use about 580 pounds of paper per year per person.

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

Answer 2

Most of the 'facts' above are not true....not always anyway.
How is that for strange fact?

* Only some cats were protected by that law. Think famous cats, like Puxatauny Phil. (OK, not a cat but...you get the idea.)
* Lick elbow? Yes, some can. Check these:
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?ei=UTF-8&fr=slv8-wave&p=lick%20elbow&fr2=tab-web
* Acording to genesis God created animals. The bible does not state what form they started out as. Did he create the buttefly or the caterpillar or both? Same for the egg.
* Chimps are not hornier...they just have 5 times more oportunity :)

Answer 3

I have just answered same Question while ago here is my answer :


*In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.
*It is impossible to lick your elbow
*According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
*Cat urine glows under a black light.
*98% of all Americans feel better about themselves when they flush a toilet.
*Male chimpanzees are 5 times hornier than the average male human.
*A whale's penis is known as a "Dork" !!
*Most polar bears are left-handed.
* Over 3,000 teens start smoking everday.
*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.
*The average McDonald's Big Mac bun has 198 sesame seeds on it.
*Coffee creamer is extremely flammable.Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
*The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter !!
*Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
*In India its cheaper to have sex with a prostitute than it is to buy a condom.
*More than 11,000 people are injured every year trying out new sexual positions.
*The oldest virgin is Sir Isaac Newton who died a virgin at the age of 85.

Answer 4

When you sneeze, air and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over100 mph. During this time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart, contributing to the impossibility of keeping one's eyes open during a sneeze.

Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%

%60 of all people using the Internet, use it for pornography.

In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.

Sex burns 360 calories per hour.

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

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.

A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world's record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.

In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.

It's against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on the back in Georgia/against the law to Play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.

Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.

The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.

One third of all cancers are sun related.

THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two occasions, Miss 'Rita Thunderbird' remained inside the cannon despite a lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed in a gold lamé bikini and on one of the two occasions (1977) Miss Thunderbird remained lodged in the cannon, while her bra was shot across the Thames River.

It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.

Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency.

Answer 5

The drier your skin is the better you conduct static electricity

The worlds oldest rose is located inHildeshiem Cathedral in Germany and is thought to be over 1,000 years old

There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru

The earliest vending machine was made for a church by Herond of Alexandria sometime A.D. It was a holy water dispenser.

In 1867, while Marie Curie was studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, she fainted from hunger

Answer 6

I have two-one cool, the other one sad.
1) More people call in sick the Monday after Superbowl Sunday than on any other day of the year.
2)The two days with the highest incidents of domestic violence are: A) Superbowl Sunday and B) Thanksgiving

Answer 7

-married men change their underwear twice as often as single men

-bill clinton only sent two emails during his presidency (one was to test out the emailing system)


*could you please send me a copy of the list once you have compiled it. I love strange facts!*

Answer 8

According to my friend David, there's nothing worse than the smell of a thong

Answer 9

You can never hurt yourself by playing with your weenis (sp?)
AKA, the skin on the outside of the elbow. No matter what you do to it, it will NEVER hurt.

Answer 10

Birds of a feather stick together. You can catch a bird by putting salt on its' feathers. where there is smoke, there is fire.