SOO... im bored... and i want to know something... its gotta be weird... unique... something i dont know... something fascinating amazing astounding... somthing that is so cool or weird that i would either smile or be amazed in how revolting it is... just the extremes... facts... interesting facts please... or even jokes! the best one gets 10 points!!!
2007-07-14 20:29:48 · 7 answers · asked by Le Zeuddocke 2 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Facetious and abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the correct order.
"Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.
"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Flushable" toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.
1 kg (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.
1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart.
10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
10% of human dry weight comes from bacteria
11% of the world is left-handed.
123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.
2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
25% of a human's bones are in its feet.
259200 people die every day.
315 words in the 1996 Webster's dictionary were mispelled.
4 tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato.
40% of all people who come to a party snoop in your medicine cabinet.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
43.7% of all statistics are made up right on the spot
48% of astronauts experience motion sickness.
52% of Americans drink coffee.
55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball games each year
67 million pounds of pesticides and about 3 million tons of fertilizer are used annually on lawns in the US.
80% of animals on earth are insects.
80% of arrested criminals are male.
In Disney's Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid, which is Disney spelled backward.
84% of a raw apple is water.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
85,000,000 tons of paper are used in the United States each year.
28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
90% of bird species are monogamous; only 3% of animals are.
90% of New York City cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants.
98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
98% of the weight of water is made up from oxygen.
99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.
A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
A "hairbreadth away" is 1/48 of an inch.
A "jiffy" is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second
A "quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A 1.5 oz. milk chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230 calories.
A 10-gallon hat actually only holds about 3/4 gallon.
A 17 year old girl from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th June'66.
A acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell
A blue whales heart only beats nine times per minute.
A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
A broken clock is right at least twice a day.
A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A cat has 4 rows of whiskers.
A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A Cheetah at full speed takes strides of 8 meters.
A cheetah is the fastest animal, clocked in at: 70mph.
A chef's hat is tall and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen. The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head cool.
A Chicago law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.
A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.
A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year.
A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
A healthy (non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
A healthy individual releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a day.
A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.
A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey
A honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. A pound of honey consists of 29,184 drops.
A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
A horse can sleep standing up.
A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
That's all I've got for now. I hope that helps with the boredom.
2007-07-14 21:06:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
A glasswing butterfly:
http://www.37signals.com/svn/images/glasswing02.jpg
A man with his finger in his nose:
http://files.myopera.com/salmondine/files/old_forum_import/eye%20itches.jpg
A foot giving the finger:
http://www3.telus.net/charleslie/FootFuck.jpg
A rabbit and a snake:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=117797&vid=436735&b=2
A one-minute painting:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=628607
An amazing scene in Burma:
http://www.wonderfulinfo.com/amazing/burma.htm
The sound of the Big Bang:
http://encarta.msn.com/media_461543080_1741502444_-1_1/The_Sound_of_the_Big_Bang.html
Muscles:
http://files.myopera.com/philips/blog/_simon_bended.jpg
You've probably seen this already, but I just thought I'd throw it in here, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaLpzhOpjTA&mode=related&search=
Give this one an extra second to open:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4478632727623323561
One fact;
It's estimated that we swallow about 8 spiders in our lifetimes as we sleep.
Good Night:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/graphics/Moon_movie.gif
2007-07-14 20:57:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every single day you, unless you are already bald, will lose as many as 100 strands of hair – that’s 36,500 in a year. This is rather worrying as the average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
A sneeze can blast out of your nose at a speed greater 100 mph
THE ASHES OF THE AVERAGE CREMATED PERSON WEIGHS 9 POUNDS
The human body can survive longer without food than without sleep. While starvation takes a few weeks you would die after about 10 days without sleep.
An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Your heart beats some 37,000,000 times in a year. During your life it’s will beat some two-and-a-half billion times.
Every square inch of your body is populated by an about 32 million bacteria.
Your largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet. If cut into pasta size pieces it would serve four.
85% of your brain is water.
Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.
The largest human organ is the skin, with a surface area of about 25 square feet.
Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.
Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days - almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.
It takes 17 muscles to smile --- 43 to frown.
The average duration of sexual intercourse for humans is 2 minutes. – see pigs
It is impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.
You blink about 84 million times in a year.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop-- even your heart!
40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2 -6 years old.
In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 Metres of nose hair.
Ladies in nudist camps tend to use more makeup than ladies elsewhere.
A team of medical experts in Virginia contends you're more likely to catch the common cold virus by shaking hands than by kissing.
The human tooth has 55 miles of canal in it.
Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
People have legs of slightly different lengths.
The average cough comes out the mouth at 60 mph.
Men / women The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
It is estimated that at any one time, 0.7% of the world's population are drunk.
2007-07-17 07:05:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Baby elephants eat their mothers' dung,so they can get the much needed bacteria into their digestive system for when they get older.
2007-07-14 20:43:48 · answer #4 · answered by Impact 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can add lottry tickets that you didn't win on your taxes.
2007-07-14 20:48:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Baby Koala bears lick the poop out of their mothers rectum. I saw this on the Discovery Channel.
2007-07-14 20:38:40 · answer #6 · answered by overrun_girl 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
want weird? want weirdest?
come to louisiana....you will see sooo much weird that u will be in shock.
2007-07-14 20:37:14 · answer #7 · answered by La'Grange 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋